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VOLUME XVII N
O. Al
ARDMORE PA. FEBRUARY 16, 1907
Chronicle.
LOCAL NEWS OF THE
WEEK CONDENSED
Notes of General Interes
Gathered Here and There
Around Town.
BRIEF PERSONAL MENTION
Lent
Washington's Birthday will fu
on next Friday. ruber tha
the banks will be closed om thai
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the
Matthew Simpson Memorial M.
Church will give their annual sup:
per on Thursday evening, Febru-
ary 28.
Me Robert Horsburg, of Spring | i
, has returned from a tri
P
trong North Carolina and is-
gini
Miss Hilda Kemp was one of the
few Ardmore residents to fly the| .ee:
Aaerican flag on Lincoln's Birth-|
ah
day,
The Junior Club will hold a dance
in Merion Title Hall to-night,
Mr, Fred P. Brand, who is now iv
‘Chicago on business for the Autoc:
Company, is expect
The heavy snowfall did not stop
the Haverford pond, | si
the
the skating at
sit has been cleaned off and
pond flooded to make smooth ice.
Rittenhouse Brothers will occupy
of the
the Ardmore-avenue end
building formerly occupied by E. A
ker & Co.
Welcome Star Lod;
ight in the lodge room, in the Mer
jon Title Building. It will be
gala e
~ Church 5
Vinegar Hil 1 continue to be sledding,
resorts.
Mr. and are Joseph Staley, of
Gk
. J., were guests o
Rev. vad. Me
week.
Mr. Herbert Taggart, of Wyo-
ng avenue, entertained a number
of bis friendsat a birthday party on
Friday night of last wee
The third interscholastic gymnas- | his death
tic meet will be held at the Haver-
ford College Gymnasium to-night.
A number of Ardmore people will
attend,
Mr, Joseph Dyson and family will
shortly remove from their Cricket-| .
ayentie home to a residence on
Greenfield avenue.
Both games with the Cheltenham
High School basket ball team with
Lower Merion ha sancelled,
owing to disbanding 0 of the
Chelten team, Wenonah Academy
has also cancelled,its game with the
loc:
als,
rs. William _McClintock and
» who har
New ork ‘ity au nd
‘West Point, have returned home,
t. Valentine's Day was generally
observed in A anor, The force
at the P \s kept very
busy andling the increased mail
ir. E. L. Cornman has been
pole inted professor at Dr, _Alecauders
Vaccine Farm at Marietta, Pa.
Miss Hannah MeGilligan has
ar
ted home shortly.
ge, Order of
Shepherds of Bethlehem, will cele-
brate their third anniversary to-
road, School lane and
he
F, W. Staley is
Real
'PEN PORTRAITS OF THE NOMINEES
| Reviews of the Personalities
dates — Their Public
Social Life.
Mepabt Miidate for Sehoot |
Hy) Mr. Wm. sui is the son of|
tv, W. Wood: as Super
4 sendenk of the Scot ot Cheer Coun
ty from 1860 t those in
ucks County tom veie 5 1p, who
fas since en iaent ed with
ths cient work of Pennsylvania,
| a now resides at West Chester.
Me “woodrt w born in West)
sand attended
he public schools of Chester and
Bucks Counties.
{the
iter spending
ng busines:
Newtown
two yei
Bucks
Prd and for wars he
it Gira "eae
was then in ve print
Philadelphia for s
1e accepted a position mh Wan \-
as purcha:
fi
maker & Brown gent,
where he ed for over te years
vol lost “Ap Fil, whe accepted a
position with Stone &
thier where he now is eng:
ame Aximore wn he
it
ly in 18
No. 9 Athens, avenue, bat ill
few week: to his new home at
pul
with the
s, has’ bee
Y. “ME CoA. of Lower Merion from
the start and is now secretary of the
Board of Director:
CAS W. HUMPHREYS
Repanticns
canaide
‘tate Annennor.
Ae. Humphreys was born in Bryn
Mawr 1 ° in’ wha then
kn mohesle “nd has
iv ved there a te life.
2c. WwW. ‘Kia wer ho, unt til
‘Mana-
was born in Rox-
vauated. fromthe
High School, and the Law
School of the University of Per syle
nia ant is now practicing law, wi
fees in Philadelphia
Mr Klauder has en an interest
‘nw the affairs of the Towns and has
ui the qualifea the office of
Township Auditor,
J. RANDALL, WILLIAMS
Republican Candidate for School
Mr. Williams has lived
Merion » Towns hip fore over thirty (30)
one * bss «ie own,
has served 0 as
Schoo! “Director and is now wr president
af the Schoo! Board
Mr. Williams is ; Trustee of t
Bryn Mawr Hospital and a director “
the Bryn Mave Tract Co, I
at Haverf
cone »
Mom
VER
Democratic Candidate for Seboot
George Brinton ‘MeClettan Miller, of
Ardmore, an apothecary in the drug
ore of A. J. King, and who has been
fiominated on the’ Democratic ticket
for School Director in Lower Merion
resigned as money o} order ler. in
the Ardmore Post Offi
‘There was a large attendance of!
Red Men at the meeting of Blue
Jacket Tribe on Thursday night.
lentine boxes, placed ina pum-
ber of the school rooms, were t!
centre of attraction for the pupils at
the Ardmore School Iast Thursday,
contents were distributed.
. W. Henry Sutton returned
through Texas and Louisiana, and
at New Orleans boarded the steam
days at
He returns much improved i
health,
d
returned to Ar
Y'by the members of
Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Spaulding
have met with a sad bereavement in
the death of their sister, Mrs. E. T.
Knowlton, of Brewer, Mrs.
Knowlton had an attractive ‘person-
ality, which’endeared her to. many
ople in Ardmore in her frequent
visits
Mr, and M
rs. J. S. Arndt have
dmore afer several
months’ stay in Philadelphia, where
ey had apartments at The Walton.
ral Day’? will be held
the Woman's
ihe, (la in Masonic Hall, on Thurs-
day, February 28. Ask about it.
4 The Lenten Cooking Class will
“he held at st Mary’s Parish House
Thu February 21, 28,
and ve 14, 21, and 28, from
jatog P.M.
“Agriculty
=
°
&
and Careers of
At is he entered the | he had p:
OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LOWER MERION
the Cand
Service and Business
township, has had a career more diver
sified than falls to the average indi
vidual and a record of which his
trends are proud.
was born in Lower Salford town-
Febru:
and
PUBLIC MEETINGS
OF SUPERVISORS!
All Interested to Be
«. Present.
TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 25
The County Commissioners of Mont-
snip, Montgomery county ar, Mot
26, 1864. His father ho fought | gomery cou ye held in the court
throughout the Civil V van was afhouse, i Neristown on Th
staunch Republica, nai
ter the ra
now bears.
When bs parents removed to Aller
town young Geo
public sco rem
ad pa
ed the son al
ral whose nai
to the
cing adventurous tarn os
mind, he made “application edt
necessary medi
a
ical ¢ a
t once sent to the recei
ot lying at N
le | til he was of age, este continued in the
service of Uncle &: in that
rane, and also
historical cities
Ho ly Land. He was present at the
bombardment of Alexandria, Egypt,
and innessed ahs coronation of the
Czar of Moscow, Russia. At the time
of his beware discharge, shortly
Fi
+ his return to Allentown he en-
red a drug store anu applied hime!
ssdously “wo the stady of pliarma
After two years of close
remade application for enlist
8 nthe navy, this time as spotheca
was accordingly examined, found
ial competent, and in October, 1887,
was assigned to the man-ofwar Nip:
sic for a cruise around the worl
The story of his
ventures on that
experiences and
cruise w a
the notable incidents
was that when the wa
aa in the hurricane at can moa in 1889.
his travels around the world he
10k voto phs of hundreds of
re tran
nsferred to lan
tudy he once | §
February 2tst, at 10 A. M. and 2 P.
M.
It expected that the State High-
ay Commissioner will be pre ent at
‘the object of which is
Owing to the fact that no appropri
tion for the expenses. of these me
an be made by the County Com-
's hoped the Supervisors
cr the great importance of
me
t and Tend their support
attending in a body.
and inte
~NOTES FROM THE CHURCHES
First t apts Charen.
ceting, pre
cote ya supper, in the Bap:
tist_ Chure mm
CR. Bla
World's Si
Rome in the spring. has eatisted. the
efforts of some of the scholars belonging
to this church, They will, under bis
repare a opecial exhibit to be
r ae it promises to be
‘The
rey
fe Versus a Hard One;"
| fine such weather as. we
eck:
|WOMEN CLUBBERS
70 ELP FARMERS
County Commissioners Tuvitel Members of “Ardmore Club to
Hold All-Day Meeting in
Masonic Hall.
FEBRUARY
mi
Mon:gome y County
plans for <
y 28th,
bers of
are
all-day meeting on Fel
noun authorities om the subject.
both interesting
i
nd ser
“bring their Tu
Al
As an instance of
with which the members of
ve taken up the idea, one of th
cers in advaneing ar argu
of the meeting said:
“The scarcity of good, fresh eggs,
esent time, should pr
attractive opening
erhaps it requires
sense combined
for fowls, in ord
may pro
ihe small farmer
good on
m
28 THE DATE}!
With characteristic earnestness the An old fra:
the Woman's Club of | Purcha: to
maturing
‘b-
day is designated on the Club
owe!
in- 8 ith a busy ‘hum an
planned | wo
and the Club members will provide
delicious coffee to those who
ancheon.
1 those whe are interested in the
ct
the earnestness | (
re Club
eo
iment in favor
a ihe high prices obtained for them
pr sho sent an
nmi
science, to (tt time," learned thet tea ne or we eet
uci al
Early Recollections of Ardmore
By Josiah S. Pearce
When Philip Goodman removed from
on the old Lancaster road, now ow
us a home and place of busines property adjoining that of
Co: west, which was later purchased by t
tion to the Village, and is now so c i
the Cuthbert property
ned by David Dallas, he ougle
more of separate and distinct proper
house that stood near the centre of the Goodman
ands nodern an nd
vas
tentious residence was erected. A large frame ‘carpenter sho}
extensive shedding for the ‘storage of Fomber and building nateral
e built an ithe place beame at once one of the most active of the
few bus nM ces the old village
Mr. ( Goodman was ta exceptonaly good carpenter and builder,:
Is wel of the best of what were then invariably known as
“bosses,” being an imparter oF instruction to his as well as the.
maker of an honest profit on their labor. nber of jour-
eke cpt a nan
The question has many sides and Kall the fyear round, boarding all of xX
ehases and these will be bandied by orm hi jouse, as was the paual 7
men and women n who a practical of not only Ni trade, but o almost all of by
knowledge of the webct among them Vith Goodman's force the winte
being State Zoologist, Dr. H. A the summers, for in all Seasons ‘the old
face and Miss Myra Lloyd Dock. shi Dp rang with the n noise © made le by tools unknown by and some
Informal i s have been is- oft n by name to modern carpenters. ot “power aa ws, planes
sued a
reqrng the combined efforts of two eir operation, foot-
+ mortising machines, lathes and tread mulls filled the shop
nd the stock sheds with supplies of mouldings,
rked flooring,’ sash, doors, blinds, stair work, etc., during
winter, in order to be realy for ithe spring open.
Many of the old house d near to the village were built by
r. Goodman jours” received ci eight dollars per week, which
when “
i
att not include 1x ‘dyor five wer “and found.” The
subj invited to atend the meet] working hours were then from, sum to sun for the “jours,” and all
tag ‘will in the Masonie the time for the appt , who, w ren regularly indent ‘
Hall, on Ardmore avenue, aid $30.00 per year and board, and pecified in the indenture,
day, February 28th, beginning at dew received one suit of clothing per year, male by Charles Willkie og
1 o'cloc! James P. Cutht ‘
Goodman and her dai hy . i the cost of the cloth and but a
he journeymen w "the shop five evenings each week
until 10 o'clock, during ‘he ‘sy season, for n to fiiteen cents
per hour, ut the a apprentice worked all the ‘ime “onl he was tw
one years of age, when he rece’ s freedom suit, whic
mn dollars, was proved ‘and accepted as a skilled mechanic or jour-
neyman, but was not obliged to join the union. Saturday evenings
were allowed both men and boys * recuperation, and wher
| man ang recuperated all the vile knew abou
well-known builders of this and nearby.
n Good-
places “serve
journey ‘work under Pp
ome of whom are for-
is ooh that the old fetlows are “out of the hurley
of ithe ea ar of grace 1907. With wage:
aioe
Good i nan,
got Pe
preach ing the ¢ ul work Feat ‘icted to forty-four hours, an ee
Es 7.45 a lies the prof ‘Ott Being |unions and. str ‘hes and nd walking dclegates controlling +
MB. Chureh, to accomp fish what others fal in everything connected with the business these men a the time when
Epworth League eld an interests sccm ig. Where are te crowds | there were no such precarious conditions autachin Xo hoe and
1g servies last Sunday ing. ‘The sally inclined boys and eins barn building would surely realise that there were w things
topie for discussion wee who come to” our schools “each day under the sun, and in their way of thinking ‘he things were
Work Among the Fr a Why ‘not apply ibeir science to this)not remarkable f anything excepting their new
South.” The pastor, Rev. asy way of earning. oe money, and, A iver the death of Mr. Goodman, ve bieh occurred 1879, when
son, who led this meeti at the same ti ne the weary ‘
is sons, all of whom were carpen
— : : “p west’ | fou had attained the age
wei occasion, A portrait of abate housewife ‘sup with eggs of un-| of manhood, they built ant for a short time peated a large steam
tern slides and formed the subcct for with the ard | doubted walt ‘nd of an appetizing} saw and planing mill on Portion of their father’s property,
many inter i tectures he deliv ver the speaker's table | Appearan car the site of the prese waste fen of Mr. C. H. Browning. This x
afte ard in this country. One ot To How many have ever| ‘This is only one of the many bene-} mill wa: ie first steam-power ‘nill of any considerable Proportions
these, “eating mostly y to Samos, wa pes fits to be derived from taking up the|in the village, a ‘a a large and very profitable’ business, ‘for ‘
| delivered in B ‘wyn Methodist esses by Mr. I. Ny | subject scientifically These ° ad supilied a a pressing demand for mill work of all kinds at a time when
Ephcopal Chusch March 12185 for | Bord and the Pastor, nd Ai execliont| brome arger veins wil be pre-|facilities for obtaining manufactured building material were not bY
the benefit of that churel e also |singing of Mrs. Hyd id the Misses |sented in ing debate at the /any means commensurate with the demands of a booming village.
gave other interesting talks, some of | Harkins, of Pade , the service was | meeting, ‘ihc promises to ‘be one of | But the sale of the property _grrought the destruction of the industry,
them beiore private audiences, on the | made exceedingly attractive. the gest ever held by the Club. as well as the removal oe re family, from the old home, The land
Main a, be had charge oi ‘oh aeune | P nie ee ist Sunday even evenings —— became of too great value to be heid as a singl gle tract, when i
je gun: | Past sion rely divided and sub- sive et to-day is ot the most thickly
i" Ko ian Bape ie ae the cnt eee . LOWER MERION LOSES settled as well rettiest s of tl e new village.
seams Exposition, wh norte news the Thaw ice | ageal Team Worsted by Lads. tomy) ap Fotr of aie hirer ohn Hi th, abet and
ite in Stat Tne: He isa “pt cap-| The regular servis City Training School Philip, Junior, i ent of Atglen ‘este ‘Cou " whe = he has
of the Sons of Veteran as follows: Morning class, jorn ‘The Lower Merion High-Central been busines sy Geor ve Ww Aber of we the
eli th orit nnd: Peto anual ‘Schoo! 1 game last 0 as a mem|
sie beers ‘at he min ity " : vom acd the exueted S| nual strom on the Toner Merion firm of Cons & Clothier, ‘of Nar rth, was largely Giterested.4 in
i ite on tse on . hia wri oor resulted as was expected in pat that lace i in in ite carly days, ei William, a twin bro ther of
an aspirant for membership of the pauls tathsren Church. victory for the, ‘visitors, score, _ 23, youngest of
is
Schoo! Board of Lower Merion to
ship.
EDMON
Declines Mom
ne Edmond L. Powers, of Bryn
who was vomited by the
Democrats for School Director, de-
clines the honor in the following let-
ter:
To the Editor of The Ardmore Chron-
icle.
Please be kind enough to announce
in the ext iss “ot your valuable ba
jer that I am positively and emphat-
ically not a candid late for School Di
rector. T appreciate the contdence te.
sed in ms, but owing to
pressure it will be impo: she fer me
pol
business
a “Su y morning Rev. BW.
couducted the installation of
er, deacons and trustees elected st the
ceting of
ure
excellent urusie of the cho
Services to-morrow: Brotherhood meeting
morning service, led by pastor,
0.30; Sunday school, 2.30; Christian
Bhleavor, 7.005 evening sermon, 7 45.
Luther
ized by the
ato 05
ENJOYABLE PARTY
Miss Susie Carter entertained a
number ot her friends last Saturday
party Bien at her ome on
The rooms were
in red and white and
gala colors the guests
made the best use of Shei Ge for se
tin the congregation | p:
. team holds third
| ic eau
i ont
| The first
tors from the
tas
the basket immediately after th
itors’ failure to score on a foul,
the score tw9 to three,
shot by C:
team i the lead for the Rest and o
time during the
th
exe | C- Ander:
othe contest was a ive.
e end ia ¢ game,
fe. |she re
tally was made by the vis-
foul line and this one
r
“an accurate
n Bartlet pat the local
contest at this is
he
e family, are dea
izabeth—the only survivor
a the home of ir.
er
8) of his generation is yet a reside
n Warner. She is the oldest resident, and, for he Be
the most active, for she is ninety years of age and is yet “hale
hearty. ” diet early recollections at ‘Ardmore and of tite days when
eived “ a evenpenny bit,” or twelve and a bal f cents, per
tor services rendered Would add an interesting ¢
The ge of Athensvillgy to which
some reference been made i in our ir area ng stor:
the one on Montgomery avenue w owner
Thomas S. The cmp pson. Je
that of Edwin S.
| to oe - ter avent
est recollections of it go
5 o back to the time when Obadiah
Ww inday was ‘he owner and occupier.
the civil war he resided in a small frame house which stoo
Montgomery avenue front of the lot, for then there was no road on
| the Coulter avenue front of the place, the old line of the rai
msttting itsoundary When tl
on the contest
old i el
pushing the score along to 4-3 ii vas opened the junction with “
2 this tine to eer Into crek Howes, (To of the monk gen: High Selools Savor. |The crema exactly opposite the rear of the Nv i or
Yours very truly able games played were “shadows; of hort duration, provements on the old place, in sition io the dwelling house, wi
Far tabsvialal ive csoclnrc ins Sa Hall from the floor by the ‘Stanual ee a small frame stable with a shed annex, the entire lot being te
Bro Mawr Pa Fa, lath, Beet Bretean and Mey Arthur Godlres seting them back second place, by Obadiah as a truck patch or garden, . ITe and his family occupied
It is to be regretted that Mr. Pow- | carrie tise Ethe I, ce te and e they were scl kept for the| the dwelling until the year 1862, when he died. Some time later Y
fers id ot remain in the field as, i Me bavid piss Tahal: Beickett and cemainder of the the place was sold to Mr. Thomas ‘Thompson, Sr often the frame (
formed the dities of ths inportan|“mysterons packages” Those preent| Against thsi strong opponents in house rt away and the large sqttare stone nlansion, no
fi * were: Mi ui this gam: Lower Merion boys | esence oth s son, was built near to the site of the old Wilday home-
office, i. stea
His work om the Board of Townsi Harriet Bre shade an excelent showing and kep
commissioners was of the kind which | head, Sia fe Prickett, Miss Heten|the score down better than they an-| ‘There are not many now living who remem © r Mr. Wilday, but
the taxpayers like. Simps sae iSiin is Mar-| ticipated, Bartlett, Miller, and Kald-]the few who can do so must recall the old m entricities, and
jon Goatren “Mis h enbacher exhibited some clever work | in doing so. will not fail to remember those of hi ‘ife, Betsy, who
Mise Sua ing and getting possession off Was quite as well known in the village as was h er his and pos-
A «1. | Anna Barnard, an 8 v
Hon, John B, Robinson, in his} .¢-, Nessrs, Thomas Powell, I, E Bartlett was the boy to sly ‘nore favorably known, "The old man was a very modest and
Media Ledger, of Saturday, hale
the Hi ‘VY. Cooper over
the coals for his recent’ actions
<{mnd utterances in the I
Kopretentatives | at Harrisburg.
He concludes by sayi
mach regret his adc, and as
a fri jend of his, and one of his
o3
election, cannot reconcile: his
titude with loyalty to his pledges,
is party or his former
known political sagacity.”
louse of
Kuen, Lawrence Stein, David Bartlett,
dwin Bartlett, John Miller, Clifford
Arnold, Thomas Bolster, Chandier
Barnard, and Arthur Godfrey.
The plans f
house of the
ave been c
nul lds are already being
r the erection of one of
the finest club bonses in Eastern
Pennsylvania,
aud Country Club hi
leted, 9
ie new elub|*t
West Chester Golt b
hustle the ball
dribble ites. down
Nort ton, besides spoi ne se
r the city boys,
nade all the penalties count for Low-
Merion, Te Toca Jad 5 mx
opportunit thei Se
being anxious the
cause of wasting shout at of the’
chances. D, Bartlett, as customa
was high scorer, having tossed in
of the nix-ups and
gym,
veri
vas the player who
ii
A a
ny |in 1873, leaving no male isu, so that years ago the narye.9
n im
‘iring person, harmless ae inoffensive, bat with
Sone ‘things that not altogethe
aus efforts to convince Pes " ouse that sh renew best what
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From the fifties to the tiny ne of , .
th