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The ladies of St. Poul’s’ Church
VOLUME »
LOCAL NEWS OF THE
WEEK CONDENSED
Notes of General
Gathered Here and There
Around Town.
BRIEF PERSONAL MENTION
Robinsare here and spring's a-comin',
With baseball bats and bees a-bommio’.
St. Patrick’s Day to-morrow
Next Sunday Palm Sunday.
March is the same old windy
month it ever was.
Mrs, P, B, Gummere, of Haver-
ford, is at Lakewood.
Robins and bluebirds are to be
seen about town, which is indica-
tive of spring’s advent.
‘The young people of the Baptist
church will present a comedy next
‘Thursday evening, March
Mr. Charles Hovell,
dence here agai
‘The church choirs are in active
rehearsal for Easter Sunday, which
is now only two weeks off.
Mrs, J.-F, Staley (nee Warner,
who has been spending a w weeks
at the Lutheran parson
staying with relativesat Haverford.
Miss Bessie Young is visiting in
Baltimore
Mr. Frank Harmstad entertained
e number of his friends at his home
on Walnut avenue, Friday vibe
Haverford College meets
University of _ Pennsylvania te
et in a gym meet at the Col-
friends
* number of Ardmore
era
Gamestore last Saturday night.
Members of the local lodge
Shepherds of Hathlebers paid a visit
on Tuesday 0 g Star
Lodge, of Camden
The High School track team is
entered at the First Regiment
rmory, where it will compete in a
dual meet with Radnor High School
to-day.
A movement toward ascertaining
the feeling in regard to a Iccal Pres
byterian Chuch bas been under
way,
ed y
are arrarging fer their annual
spring supper.
Dr. Anna Kugler,
Arémere, who has been in India as
Coctor and missionary, sailed from |} w
dines
for this
move in two or three weeks. ~
Miss Frances Kaldenbacher re-
ceived a surprise party in honor off
ber tei Ditthday from a number | copie:
Ler fiends last Saturda:
of Lower
chou) closes next
‘The basket ball season
Merion High $
Friday
West Chester High School, on the
local floor.
Mrs, William Clothier,
of Wynnewood, left on Wednesday,
for Palm Beach, Fla.
avenue, is entertaining a house
_patty over Sunday in honor of her
birthday.“ ° ~~~
Dr, and Mrs. C. R, Blackall en-
tertaimd on Thursday evening in
honor of their son, Mr, Lorenz
¢.
Daniel McDonough, who}"
ha very eficient officer at
the - ticket department at, Broa
Street Station, was joted on
Tuesday to the West “Pain|
office, isla
The members of Cassia Lodge,
No. 273, F. and A. M., will atteud
divine service to-morrow evening
at the Matthew Simpson
Church. Pastor Simpson is a mem-
ber of the local lodge,
Mre
mr
Lower Merion played their last
Interest 1
Ard
formerly of
Ardmore, will stort tly take up resi-| As
but nothing definite has re-| Ar
ie
id
formerly of
ay night.
with the game with sublect
s Emma Wolf, of Greenfeld|®
XVII NO. 25
SCHOOL BOARD MEETS
Superintendent Rutt Presents Ro;
for A hb
ound of Schi
ng March 8
ool Directors for
th
ecutive sessio
3:
also of lighting [st
the | fomnasium, sh “sill oe ished
with electricity, from
the basement Arrangement are cing
made for the purchase of a screen for
use with the stereopticon lantern. No
purchase
lantern has yet been ed but tests
of different makes are being made, The
teports made show an encouraging con-
tion of affairs. The following report
Hf attendance was submitted by Super:
m Xcode Rutt:
SUPERINTE ORT
‘OR THE MONTH ENDING
CH 8, 1907.
ADI
Tout . <1513 Ry
High School Enrollment .129
Average Avene jafice 124
Percentay! 93
Number of vise “nade to schools 30
Number of days spent in the office. §
Number of days spent in afic
duties “
Number of day
ply teacher
aught » the sup
CRIPPLED cues WORK
Making U: a ate Which Find
Du Liat the vote of the Hor
of the Merciful Si
dren, 4400 Baltimore avenue,
pig, ave beon working Indust
seful articles, which are now
fe. The list comprises ©
fone, V8 sds cents each; wash rags,
chs le barber cates
of is . $1.50, Mapl
salva d cami tiko mae and om sate
at
go cents box,
to essist the Home wud
lo
0
find will receive prompt ‘tention,
ENDLESS CHAIN REACHES ARDMORE
Pastor
Tre cae prayer chain has reached
Ardmore. Very recently a prominent
dimore family. was made the rec
nt of a postal card which was a link
in an endless chain, ‘Thi
come from a chain started by
ae to ° comply: wih the Abate
postal w:
te ec ‘by a ter rite calamity, while
rich blessings would fall to the
person it the prayer was made
e1 Little attention ws paid
to the postal card in the fai where
@ directions were
1s wae Manded to the pastor
church and he made it th
talle con
ig pra in
and essing “te soe the 9
tives for
‘Swoter com
nature was receive iu Andnore a shor
his time it
“sking that the clin be sentived wn
special prayer made, but the recipient
Promptly 0 tore i up and threw it in the
waste
Delicious Wilbur Buds at The Arcade.
A large field was out Saturday
at the meet of the Radnor Hunt,
riding for many weeks those
were in the sa
ing day. foxes were start:
edt although. none of them lont bis
brash,
~Mr; Joseph Baylis was a visitor
iu Ardmore lost Saturda:
Mr, and Mrs. Daniel Conner, of
Narberth, avnounce gage-
ment of their daughter, Amelia.E.,
to Mr. wie E..Litzenberg, of
Ardmore. wedding will take
place the latter: part of April,
Attend the Bread, Pieand Cake
the in |i
the car, In the hearing at Ardmore re “ the | Hue w ome
he made a conessie that he had made | Aramore Hardware ‘hich fattract the | ba rake ars.
two raids on the soldering metal in the {was made rossi mpany's | FObbed some’ time ago.’a
buildings on the NacEarland Property, purchase of the FA ingular coin
sealing in al about thir dollars’ worth | After months of ome
of mi ld tor court and {en vom ssaing Of muuch, red ae the ous.» Some plated
7 | the ae as imprisonment Jarrangements were broyxht 19 focus ne the aiden “Thou eh
for eighteen etective the transfecring of the lease on the sich the = ns entered. “In addition
‘The card purported | 38-10,
ish
1 2.30 3+ Chri
Danes 08. Point ee | deat rorat son ceo sermon a 248,
Fancoatt : --Forward 10 “ a
. --Forward 10 ‘A BUNCH OF ROSES! | ME. chure
. Steawss --Center 4 |Gomedy Presented at “Hostess Day”? Last Sunday was a day devoted -to
Apple Guard 4 Entertainment. C., Me Simpson taking
Edwards Guard 0
St
jth fame played 0
Tower Merion ai
{ .
oWER mERIOy,
ARDMORE. PA. MARCI 16, 1907
NEW QUARTERS. -- SILVERWARE STOLEN |p
FOR THE POSTOFFICE «. te
John Bunn Goos to a for Steating
mbing ates
ARS jon the carr age drive.
I only one that ie
this
‘amiliar “with
‘Through the untiring Efforts of Me
he inn
J ‘earce, who recently filled the the house.
duty of Acting Postmaster of |S given by the thieves to the upper
the ndinore daring, ve ewe between ors, silverware in the di
third ste The car bed not left the|the resig n of George Reitten: t
re a painter [baugh and the appo
terminal ten minutes befor
P
place, Ardmore will}
than a month nd best {Yeni spoons, and napkin rings formed
c [cquipned post ffi ong. the eb
main ling ween recent
promptly to Sixty-third] Mr. icitin the sideboard, and one drawer of
Brown was arrested half his was found outside the
« minute later when he stepped from
Hose enn
months, but Det
Philade' “i & West Ches
sted hin
iene:
sed by the post office to |! ie silve
£0;
the comnodions quarters facing on Lam
ster pike,
Green of t
ter Traction Co. who
made an effectial plea for
six months the sentence given
present room us
ares
\e new lease covers’a period of ten}
nto Me. Poot hy
year: ; nn: jae of F000. The in father
eas ne a tae als Come late
De Lancey anes st jonelary
5 wie trom the
oe is covered by burg!
the test ool elf sn offi
approved in a burglar insurance company, but
: No sooner was the ‘st load of anode this seems to have had little effect on
ne vis- | semoved on Weve ty the Hw the Saturday night gentlemen,
Mutchin- twa nt the oui
ra ~NOTES FROM THE CHURCHES
y
Mahon, mm con of workmen in the |
t ease, permitting and the re cones was beau
Mer three field | "the work ph Baptist Church.
sae “ad fou from the foul line, mae by the special ‘sen of the Gov. | Miss 1a Keylor, the choir leader, is
the toss up, the ball went to the | riment and will follow: trai ining a number of the young people
Daten goal al isitors ene it ig the de fro f ancaster | for a junior choir, On Monday afternoon
Pan- a long lobby extend | the adie Aid Saciety was addressed by
My C etn the net of whe bnilding | Mrs. Jones, who Baptist missionary.
pole ll scored efare one to the rea stl left of the are |She gave an intresting and helpful
q fou oil we ti private room of the /oM missionary work,
> ith psn ster. Xety yi vein im The clipping party to be given by the
4 the : throng the et, Jows ¢ money order de-| Christian Endeavor Society will be held
iellowed sity after by anot other from sme the | ier fr the ec at the residence of Dr, H. A. Arnold, on
the foul line, constituted Mer- 1 te Ardinore avenue. "Phe tickets are now.
ion's score for the rst tall, ‘hile the fol sale.
city team rolled up ite windows, whick ‘wan te ‘sed ‘ior + HH. G. Berry, who i
D, Bartlett “threw the first field goal ‘and delivery the s society
camps general
for the plat Soot in the second Tse ‘ Ired and twenty call boxes | deavor servi evening.
round. orton coors for the} will he pliced near these windows, and | ~ The servi will be as fol.
$9 | tocals. hee “replaced toward | Sotlowing the Ii boxes, the locke boues | 88: Brotherhood meeting at 10 o'clock,
the close of the game, ne he had tne nal be as \ wr of | followed by preaching by Rey. West at
th before the day
t
fi
throw one from the floor ro.ds; Sunday schoo 2.30; Christian
¢ | Endeavor at ” east i
concluding service
ii
emonstrated
game a at their | Amy
‘They
The Delancey quintet
‘at the beginning of the
rivals would have to Jook aliv
oe
Paul's Lutheran Church,
tthe Lutheran
ple
the’ installation 0
h
services to-nirtow a
ervice, which room, from resent in usual, but the follow.
dications, will not be long unuse Sima) will be a
‘The fittings will all be iat music is
and there will bg laid dow
wood floor, The walls and ceiling will
he painted a Tight «i ‘The office will
he lighted with chet lights and heated
morn
Weluesday. ‘Thursday and Fs
i
e "on tt
Se sith steam heat.’ "here will he com. [lowing Palm Sunday will be dave fs
Lowe nud wardrobes supplied | Pecial Passion services, and
D. Bar . aks at every connie mento the fr Supper nil be ode
Ketan a P plate glass vind iste faster Sunday. The entire
s shi ci co ide of the Sint | ecoot ‘ill oIso_ participate in
am
ver the s
i Sf vices,
5
coe
to .
finished and ra foe the removal meting mos "i sorsing worsh
oF the office by April 1 Sun
En.
“Hostess Day,” which has become the | Missionary texts for bis morning aud
most popular feature of the Club Cal- }evening talks, In the morning a good
endar of th an : cb of. Mont-_| tiissionary. subscription was received.
he regular monthly Visinene meeting s
of the Epworth League was esday
| night.
Toul
omer)
gomery ¢¢ ved yesterc
inva most delight samnor a8 the Fe
idence of Mrs. Vivian Ingle, on Ard- |
more avenue,
One of the numbers on the progra doll
dy. entitled “A bunch of
anid was given Dy the slowing teib
ladies and gentlemen: Mis
nee, Mis
's team of basket ballers tovk
mn Tuesd: the St,
t. Luke’
Messrs. Hoh hn | “Lene as Lure,
Gordon Smith, Cliff
The siete swas cleve
was great]
cy ren and
1 playe
se take boys ved by the Tange mi
be of Ch into present and sei
tnadet one “fom ‘he vou fine tie first
tat ended $-3 in favor of Lower Mer he ws ses 6 day were: Mrs
Vivian 7 mit
the sas of Mow in] Me ‘aul ee ssa
Ama place on Ss. Luke's Proved Ffvtinger. a
Bad for the nishor They were ae -
a little over confident but they los
B
that, M. Brown, who Wed against} The Bryn Mawr Building ana
Wallace, shot ten points and E. Brown | Loan Association will issue a new rs
made eight. Captain Sparks and Ruge |s { stock next Wednesday,
added five more, oii a total of 23
Secretary Har yee
cretary Hart A BUULDING LOT in Animiore oF tear
— x 647,
single [== by 7, Ardmore,
rebel and improved it, making of
©
or
Brotvetiond
. fering tolls for every rider before again opening
<8: | kept for years by Eno
Jenough gates
Early Recollections of
Ardmore
By Josiah S. Pearce Oo
The Bound of School Direct ha Work Begun on Remodeling |, auriay nigh the residence sed SU eg ing Story or Ardmore we have many times been
Lower Merion Township hel r Jarrested about y N, 1] chi'ge tore er to the Lancaster turnpi ike ut onl
monthly the Ardmore Schoo! |ing of Room in Merion Title ‘Ardmore man, was entere eves | and in relation it ene, properties, Ve ry little Teneo wction ae
buildi Wednesday night in Building, iret silverware and clothe cerning it as b jost important bighway of the village, the town:
meeting was a short one and a we n entrane’ ship, the county ran oss 1 he such it demands m
transaction of ‘ a Fst floor nate than the ca *
LEASED FOR TEN Y
It is fed that the story of the old highway cannot be
wee from preserved Historical cata rad ther than from memory and
tradition, for.it one tim a main artery of the yor ung
fta te a as oth ie eat ‘road ‘about w ich © to much has been said is of ‘the’
matured Pennsyh
Tt was chartere is The Philadelphia and Lancaster Tesppike Road
long before the ti we hen nour reminiscences, or thos he:
liv ving person,can be applied, the date of its
moniea th 0 of Pennsy ‘ivan ig 1
pik
© road of any considerable le eng constructed in Ame
be admissable only that we tell of it as it was almost sixty,
and ‘since.
ony turnpike yeas, by no means, a muacadamized or fclfordizea
road, but it was simply a turnpike, which signified onl
The midd ie of the road, fora
body walked as well as‘
t tu
mt a wa
idth of
about twenty feet, w
he
| composed largely, if not alto wether, “of stones gatlered from the
of the ground which had been dumped on the highway with no idea
that they’ shold be broken into sinaller pieces than those left by the
flood.
The. fifteen feet on either side of the stoned centre of the road
were mich below the grade of the p
for
instead of sidewalks for pedestrians, Taily
the then numerous road cows in the s
skating ponds during the winter, In s
weeds were worn down by travel the sides were called
“summer fos is,” for they were but ordinary dirt r sand were used
only for the purpose of j inj ctf a ite Sinoothnece anal comteet and peo
f great deal of dust into» tardy
‘The writer was one of a ntmnber whe learned to skate on a atrétck
fa
ef ice covering the “side road” on the south side of
iss Emma
id
ing from the store of Miss Emm odrich to Cricket Avenue, oF
as it was then known, from Hunt's Corner to Mud La ere were
then no buitings ont le of the road and consequently no
driving there posite side of the roa
lew
ranted the ‘mnaintenance
fences.
rb: lighter teams in n prefer.
‘ugh staned centre for which "he toll was ae
ence to the ged and
collected. me
In the Slopes | beoween. pe sides and the centre the ‘Sccumulation
ei loose stone: of w were as large as buckets, were deposited
in heaps a8 as they were eather from the pike from time fo, time by ‘th
in
tekeepers oF kindly-dispos
later 2a fliey | were “nappt “0 or broken = ie Sater waa “then
gather -y to being again Spread 0 as. the
Slcighing senso opened where, in a few year sey ame ‘saffcieitly
travel-worn and
‘0 be again gathered up-a
ever-present ‘roaisie
en
red
vite or mixed with a Suceendine coat of freshly-
brok
ie loose stones was a practice that was carefully
observe Sto proscented but never completed, the gatherer being
oblig. ote a landmark at eventide when he quit for the dai lay, $0
to start in
In
hai oe morning he could have a faint idea of where with
s effort to go over his section, if not to complete
t ex!
his wicelban Trow
his j
€ were then no automobiles running and no speed limit notices
posted. neither were there e orname ental township policemen em
revent speedin, een all sore the latter two. would have
been of no mi ors ‘use than the ve to-da: ir the condition of. the road
Tmt the speed of every wheeling thing.
the seventic ies The Lancast er Avenue Improvement Com-
pany poring the jot the charter, the physical
control of the old highway as far west as “Paoli, at once thoroughly
i it the beautifal driveway we now
Ta the early days, as in fhe later, the tolgate abonnded ‘dbnox-
sly, but: somewhat differs here were tively few
cross-roads
all fit to travel, so th; ers \ rive either throu;
gates or the mud hile now, swith the abundance o
streets and cal few parallel rons to the "rurnpikes at
ari gh the
moved tro its posi
bstruction more than a few feet, it all the years of o
it was faithfully stented feed r years by Benny Mel an
¢ drivers and booked all the dod ‘lgers. He has b nde ad many years
pnd numeroys keepers ase ave succeeded him at this gate. Later a bar
was, lo est opposite the readi
Grant as keeper.
it has for years heer
n Mr. C.
lodge, a fact enonstted daily during the Wieyele crate, when
ne S with exalt, ‘shou Clemens iad no love for, were of frequent
occurrence... Ther e at this ti time who. can
recall thehalo of satisfaction tint ihomiated the old man’s countenan ide
when he played havoe with a century run by closing the sate and eol-
i
many-years a gate was maintained at ‘the old stone house
recente torn down by Messrs. Warner and Enochs, where it was faith-
“| fully looked after by Casper Whiteman, a most popular old man, and
later by his son, Davis, The latter, after removing from the old house,
was for a long; time keeper of the Rosemont gate, His is son-in-t aw,
Josenh Kerrigan, was his sticcessor and one of the latest keepers of
* Remhuigton’s Holiow, opposite St. Charley Borromee College, City /
hho| Line, and Anderson Sullender’s Gates, were all subject to change with-
out notice fo any point between Wynnewood School House and Heston-
ville, the gates occupying not exactly “any old place,” but ‘any new place
withont notice to the toll payers. Another gate at about Fortieth street,
or any other absence from his post of duty, was removed only when the
city took over the road and abolished the taking of toll. We have not
been able to recall additional stopping places of this character, but have
mentioned enough to prove our assertion that there were at all times
Places along the old road were coinmonly designated
knew’ so
and so, directions thus given were always considered as sufficiently Iucid
farms and residences described as being
I's gate were satis-
as being above or below soeand-so’s gate and, as everybody
Lower ‘erton seeeseeeeCenter *
5
Points | Thompson
rd s
Ri
Wallace ward 6
ee io -
ge Total cei D WANTED
home floor and aber eid the suey St. Luke's - Pos. Poi MAN AND. wre NT BOA Ade for all purposes. Villages,
to 205 Arustrong (M,Browu) Forward 10 | gsizests si terms, We J. me ot above Casper Whiteman’s gate ao below ‘McDaniel’
Score BrOWN veeeseccsseeesForward “8 factorily definite,
¢ fact that the gates were three
Tow ‘lifferent to-day, when the Vilage
“ iles distant. from each other.
ante preliminary to closiug the oe eo WAN ani
Season, yesterday afteruoon, with|Sale this afternoon in the Free Pe Bare opps Can Geel 3° ro RENT A TEN. (OOM, HOUSE wih houses are all numbered!
. : vewepoenneee ~~ convenience sable preferred. ~ oi
- She Bight Shoo! basketball ten, [Library Room. A nice sortie se. o| = adie, BR 1 eee pts
at Ardmore. cf good things will be on sale, weecees 1 Total . Avenue, Ardwort Continued next weak.) .
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