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VOLUME XVII NO. 23
ARDMORE “PA. M,
MARC TL 2, 1907
LOCAL NEWS OF THE
“WEEK CONDENSED
Notes of General Interest
Gathered Here and There
Around Town.
BRIEF PERSONAL MENTION
‘An ache in the back and a pain in the
head—
hat’s the eciope
of he shiver of cold,
a feeling of ving three bundeed. years
FIRE COMPANY BUSY
Plans for the Now Building Occupying
Attention.
Ard ¢ Com
held its monthly ‘peeling Test “ivaines
day evening i fre house.
‘he trustees of the company report
that Mrs. Seca tae decided not
to carry her suit against the fire com-
pany te higher court, but has paid {ye
costs of the case and the Fire
sel
STH ANNIVERSARY
OF FREE LIBRARY
Fine Program Arranged to
Celebrate the Event on
March 8.
RECEPTION AND SOCIAL
vafalewing out a rul
led since the
“le whic he ores
Comnites are
the
y
Such is the rumor, wh
stan
BEECHWOOD PARK
NEAR ARDMORE
Rival to Willow Grove - is
Being Rushed to Com-
pletion.
of Aires: there
Within three mile:
i
hich has subs
tinted by investigation, to pret
A POPULAR PROJECT
|The _mscting wih took plas
nM
and Prominent Speakers
[lat Masonic Hall.
ty.
we on that
day was one which will
tong. be re
he lot, which ry Ww rogram ered bath by the club
old, has a 55 foot front, has cost the com-| which will incide an informal recep. | the work of { construction m is going forward | members ant all who enjoyed the privi-
A willingness even to do as you're told—| pany ts tion, inasical selections ands eral in- | @8 Fapidly as it. lege of eloquent speakers tell
‘That's the gr ripe, The Bing Committee submitted | teresting guessing conti company, ac an testers in te field of scientific agri-
. plans for the new house and asked that] The event fata on March 8th, and rood Park Company, sent | culture of the ways and means whereby
‘The Afdmore Hardware Com- the company adore them, Weekly meet- Friday evening inthe Reading | agents into the Cobb's Creek region some | eri on the subject may” be ae.
i i i ry & most interesting | Mouths ago, and merous
pany will remove to its new quar- ee teciee woe i he y this is_gommitce * yet te ve oe tracts of land (almost 150 acres) have
ters on March 20, fete” “for the proposed asin, ‘Al | cozy itd is none too large the | bee tale between th wer house
Baseball enthusiasts will regret] ready $2225 has been subscribed for | invitations are limited to the members | Fécently constructed by the Philadelphia
to learn that “Phil” Carney has] this purpose. “i women Club and they each sod Svestern Baltread avd the Burne
ij i ‘The following persons being favor-|have inging one | ©"
signed with the Altoona team for} sorted by the investigating com | test Most of the property purchased lies on
the coming season. ‘ ‘1 no objection being aie Mrs, LN, Knapp, Mrs. Eaingham |thesouth or southwestern side of Cobb's
Prof, Shubert delivered _ his ice by the Perot, a J. A. Stein and Miss Kate | reeks os starting at & point jute wee ~
“ the compan mmpose the ernment com- ao nding and
famous. humorous teense, tel Danie ‘ ise Edwar » pe ate Mrs. A. J. Yeung, Mrs the cotton mill. This was formerly "A. feature he meeting was the
Man of the Ase! areeys. B Miler, Lester Witeerg ‘to B, Thompson and Mrs. D. "tar are | Mily country, aud covered with ev presence of three Stenographers, Mis
audience at the . oy A J. Garvey, |at the ead of the refreshment commit. | Areens and Deechwoods, but grading was
nade it into a
Thursday night
minstrel club is forming i
sous men who a
ion
n
A
requested to tive their names “vol
N W. Cain,
‘The Senior Class of the Lower
Merion High School will give
reception on ‘Tuesday evening,
March
There is a whole volume in the
advertisement of Rittenhouse Bros.
on another page
sley Miller, of St. Paul
Mr. We:
road, returned last week fms tip r
to Pittsburg.
Miss Luverne Osmond enter-
tained a number of friends at her
Washington party last Friday even-
inj
and Mrs, James Griffith, who
were the guests of Mrs. R. R. West,
have returned to Philadelphia.
During the past week street signs
to let the pedestrian know where he
is “at.”
The absence of Professor Surface
from the meeting held by th
Woman's Club on Thursday w.
greatly regretted by the members.
yn Fields celebrated his |;
Mr. Le
twenty-fourth birthday anniversary
last Saturday night by a party at
his residence, in Colonial Block.
Mr. Sydney H.
Mrs. Emma C, Pool, of Rochester,
N. Y., passed away in that city on
Monday, February
Messrs. Quintin C, Mecke, Wil-
liam Boles and William H. Huey
leave early next month for Silver
City, No M.
Mr. John S, Clarke, of the Auto-
car Company, who has been so-
journing at Palm Beach, Fla., for
the past two weeks, returued home| «
early in the week.
Exercises commemorative of the
tooth anniversary of Longfellow's
birth consatated part of the lan-
0a the Ardmore
Sasel 6 on mn Wednesday
Me Morris Clothier, of Wynne-
, has purchased the big Gil-
Tingham estate, near Villanova.
. FJ. Williams and family
Mr.
have removed from Biddle avenue] *
toa new residence on Coulter ave-
nue.
Mr. James Dawson, of Aubrey
avenue, who has been dangerously"
ill, has safely passed
rof. J.D. Speer, of the ‘tien
Seloot, Fecelved a visit from his
father last we
Mr. William H. Russell will re
move from his present residence on-
Cricket avenue, about April 1, to
to the house now occupied by Mr.
W. W. Woodrufi,
temperance movement is
and a number of
ion are
y the voters,
Miss Ethel Stalker, who has been
ill for some time, is recovering.
Mr. Frank Colby wasa visitor in
Ardmore last Sunday.
Pool’s mother, |’,
Sidney Me . J. Logai
Duncan, H. D. Cornman,
€{ Wannop, and Chacles Beavbece
Authority was given mnit~
tee in charge of the new ‘fee ‘ene, con-
ising oe Evan JW. Sm eae,
. F, Whelan, Wil
: Franke wield wollele and receive
a] subscriptions, make all nm con-
tracts and secure ‘ procure the con-
struction of the new fire h
dance with the plans and sp.
tions 2d by the con
pay all debts and demands arising out of
any contract. ‘The soi commit
tee were given the power to ask and re-
ceive sabrerintions in conjunction with
nittee.
We n
lay in March
hold its sa miect-
tien Title Hall, when the
tions of offers for the ensuing
year will take place,
CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Working for fe
Delivery and Planning | ®
or.
gular mmcsieg of the Ardmore
s si
on Friday evening, April 12, and a com
mittee of which Mr, L. C. Manspenny
hai
ing. "The committee held a meets
Weanes sday evening to consider the
co One
the
final arrangements for the ov
of the public q
ci ‘Association is. actively ed
that of securing ‘ree rosa ie
number of ions
circulated through Ardmore for ‘hep
pore of scouring the signatures of all
foters who are in favor of this project.
pure
A very great length of time, sufficient
work has been done to show that all the
residents of Ardmore seem to be heart-
b -
ie will be otis ced 0 pay ore cent per
letter more than they are
to pay, but this excess becon ry
mall proposition when the convenience
a
is sonsiden ed,
the iast meeting of the Civic As-
soci aio m the suggestion was made that
the yesidents of Auinore shout!
rged rchase their cor
Uekets mt the Aedm
=
ments at and around the station,
While the plan has not been in progress | school
importance of the proposed service
his
A set a0
NOTES FROM THE CHURCHES
First Baptist Church.
‘The sacrament of the Lord's
follow the regular morning service at th
Baptist ct Ta
dei
ciety
hus appointed the mlsonary connstse
president and chairmen
pal committees of the
Endeavor Sod t the bome of
Mrs, a Be on = Monday a ew
up the constitution and by-l
vention at Rome, is progressing rapidly,
To-morrow’s services : Broth
ndrew and Philip meet y
Chares Bu ler, at 9.30; morning sermon
10.45; Sunday school, at 2.30; Chris.
ten Endeavor,led by Mr.Clifford Arnold,
7.00 ; evening service, preaching by
the pastor, 7.45.
jerhood of
Mr,
1M. E. Church
vices were
held at the
Society w: t success,
The choir, nider the leadership of Mise
wat “slow at the sal hour! St sunday
2.305 Mrs, A. m Sones will
Jead. the Epworth Lea 00,
othe Daty of ‘Testiwony:” evening
at 7-43
St. Pan!'s Lutheran Church.
conducted
be any man
able to stand before te ‘a the days of
thy life.” The storm in the
reduced the astial good attendance,
Mr, Staley will preach both morning
and evening to-morrow.
fervices will be as fellows : ‘terns
morning service, 10.
day school, 2.30; Chriatian Endeavor,
= 7.00; and the concluding seviee, 7.45.
JEWELRY STOLEN
Ls. Clarke's Cott
ast Palm Bo:
THREETR cous furniched or unfure
single or en suite. Apply to
A glee club of mandolins
guitars has been organized in the
jocal Y.M. C. A.
the friends of Mr. Horace Young
will be glad to learn that he is
‘The stork paid two visits this
weels to Aubrey avenue, on Tues-|y
day at the home of d Mr:
W. P. McCormick a baby irl was
brought to brighten their home,
andon Thursday o the home of
Mr, and Mrs, H. L. Drew a bounc-
ing baby boy erived, The little
boy and girl are next-door neigh-
bo
shed, or
rs. Thgodore Sutiwogon, 25 Eanes a
jue (MI: lock)
and
k
News catne to “Andere re early in the
week that Mr, Louis S. Clarke's cottage
eeu entered
theft was kept quiet, in the hope
of capturing the sobbers but no trace of
trinkets stolen were pity prized by Mr
and Mrs, Clarke for their associatio:
‘The robbery was one of the boldest and
bears the stamp of the work of profes-
sionals. .
ti
's Supper will |
of
Tn “der ‘iat the work of dredging an
18 follows : Mr. H, B. Van Horn, ebait-| deepen yo fo the un
=| Mra fen ‘Thompeon and Mi anding exists that the water suppl
ilkes.
of pri
Junior colin °
on
sere
c
eves, who had made a rich baul, Recog js cient
meer ha several thousand do. Sate, Governor Stomrt on Weduesday
lu me and family have been so-|feePpointed Dr, Samuel G. Dixon
‘ State Health Commissioner, The
journing in the South for the pat month ‘
sen cietbar lsu cua, “Prater cinder acispensionaf ite ries, eondrmed
‘heat, Palin Pea <h Tuesday. nig a the seminal by a unanimous vote,
al sident of the Phil-
while the fan érvante were out
si ectemy ot Natural Sciences,
|enioying tie ition of Lake Worth |e ea Co erence te Hath
end many af the) 70%
plate
he park grounds are traversed by the
louble-track third.rail system of the
Phi and Wester
wood expected tocontaia
n addi-
The
¢ power that ris the mill, may be cut
ff at any time. tee be enlarged an
deepened, aad 1 be an ideat place fo
boating... It is Beicwed also that a “shoot
the ete fscontempate,
The park Heit a8 Known at presen,
also comprise the Burns residence,
opposite ihe big fam, This house ie
excellently coustac oal
Gimbers and in mel ‘ot ten 1
tion of sixty years ago. As it is in suc
u
se con}
it being torn’ down, but it will im
biy be weed. for some
ttractions. Some right of
also exercised by
Comspany over
Mr. Burns says that,
to be torn dove,
if sold, the mill i
seo bung are tn the course of con-
ty
artistically finished and dec red
at Con
Toland, has bees) mentioned in’ connec.
tion with Beechwoood Park,
A bridge, either suspension or arched,
creek valley and connect
and a boulevard sixty feet
is to extend fiom the
to ise ra ro
is known tht the park {is to be open
ing su
near Ardmore will all be carried out,
DR. DIXONREAPPOINTED
Governor Stuart Recognizes High
His Services.
Depart ‘was established,
go. He has d ‘evo melt ming
to taking the depactinent a success, ani
has had @ business a:lministration, free
political entanglement.
apie the fact that sowe
Commoner
os the elt
a has
iu communities, weet was mo ques:
in the
Senate as to his official
th wood Park |i
the cotton vai itself, vt excellent opportunities
of the farm stats of
Arno!
indication that Beech
T | no
will be anon the inortaat mr id
The Heddo
et {Of Montgom
park grounds | CP
ies:
| sibi
opposition in|
farguerite Harlan, Miss Dorothy Hi
tee and Mr. Sidney Morgan, of the
senior class of the local high school.
The ese YOUN stents seated ata table
front of the
cesbatim, all the speeches of ponte
made, and the following
piled from their notes, is a specimen
of the work of this trio, who stand
ja |the head of their class in the business
The, morning session, which began
was opened by sin
‘Arnal, ‘who has been deeply
interested in the work and one of the
most energetic workers for the success
of this Agricultural Das. She tated
that the object of the
show i eo marta the 3 oun
people of farm
life, amd ts a erry "fo a life of hued
Sraigery in the cities at a paltry oe
clerk ora member of s
tence other ‘rant of business life, The Wor
men’s Club of Montgomery county, as
Mrs. Arnol “will feel satisfiec
with this ‘memorable all-day session if
they have succeeded in iatereating one
person sufficiently in this subject to
ave that person take advantage. of the
offered by some
this State, Mrs.
her address by intro-
Robert C
nold cor
satthew ‘Simpeon Churcllast Suaday,| A ore ducing Mrs ander, the pros
but, owing to im weather,the attendance | wood Park is r ‘really to exist in tl the it of the Women’s Club, who then
was small at all the services. Mr, Saunuel | future is i building going on on the| took charge of the day's program.
Biggard has vesinaes as Teader of the) plateau to the south and early ‘poste The first specker introduced by Mrs.
‘Thursday night class and it has now been | the new power house. ‘This region, Camden was Mrs. Efingham | Perot
combined with the Sunday morning class Peacefal aud anit except for the ‘hues of Mrs. crot's excellent address summed
x Mr, I, N, Boyd. |, resounds with Phe aulvantages offered by the State
the supper li in the church parlor the eit of Tearpenters wiskding their ca ge of Pennsylvania, She described
on Tharady rat by the Ladie shouts of m in a brief ough ey entertaining mane
ner, the work being i
tution in “herticultare, evicntuce, a
fuusbandry, and the other courses that
are pastewary adapted forthe stay of
e tific
tis I ans
peirs rendered an exe
M
= Jent selection in the interval betwee
Mrs. address and the speech by
Moiese ‘A, Reist Rutt superintendent
of the public schools of Lower Merion
Townshi
Professor Rove's subject was “Edi
s and Opportunities
“As the professor an-
ng of his address,
statistics gathered
from "ie cata reports of th
State. were cexceedings
ly inteting. nie devoted part of
his address to showing the great in-
crease in the rural public igh schools
of this State, both in number and effi-
ciency, and parti ieotarly in the counties
ery, Bucks, Delaware, and
Chester, the high schosls of which tale
together, comprise over hal such ine
Sttatons, ia en isylva
a lt
ities offered by these schools
pecially i in those places where
kas been rapid, changing from the third
and second class to schools of the first
class. an interesting nject touched
upon by him toward the close of his re-
marks was the worth in real snoney ret a
public school to
day at the
boy or girl student. An estimate te made
yan atority shows that the value
of a single day is equivalent to $10, and
a parent, in keeping a child out of
jork that could be done
0a day, is ace
girl of over
ing th
dollars, in addition to hampering
ond ‘essening his or her chances of re-
reiving an eskuation ‘tn which de
cons their future wel
ofeeanr Ruts aliress a fol
ed and in a large measure suplemented
by an interesting ave Insiructive sales
by Mr. J. L, Rosenbery, a graduate
of the agricultural “Sa ot Comet
Universi sehose 0 topic wi ial
Gro}
ig. The i Nea set font in his
that it is not
* the thought
PER
ol
‘study and education, but rather to ofier’
a
ton raised
conduct,
(Continued on fourth page)
HELD ALL-DAY MEETING
‘Thursday was a big day for the Wo- ||
man's Club of Montgomery count,
“AGRICULTURAL DAY” Early Recollections of Ardmore
A GREAT SUCCESS
Members of Woman’s ch|
By Josiah S. Pearce
The grade of the new line bale by the ceusytvania Railroad
Company from m Athensville to West Philadelphia uch that
emp uld be, and iene a ily were, draped. down to the
ic yard by gravity, wi a self-appointed br. akeman i
nly
then Pernisibe for Sta Litzenberg a
Lindsay, the White Hall yards, to open “hee witches, push the
in track and drop them down, controlled only by. the
tbe ‘akes, to he head of the yard, which was
istance east of what is now Forticth street.
the head on we er ste uiieh was then about in rear of the
residence ceo son warner, Lindsay was obliged 2 draw
his cars » Athonsvale ‘by hs e power. A favorite diversion for
the boys ot the period was to “i ride down on a draft of these « cars sand
walk back.
The casual reference made to the roadbed of he old inclined
plane route in oui cepted as at al shoving
the differe: now in railroa bail c struc-
for the reason that the cheapest constructed trolley line operated
is infinitely superior in every way to this old
¢ have referred elsewhere t
overiead bridges and steep grades. In this
of place to state that the old maps of
n distinct cw the road between ‘th
village and tie head, & “the planes. inting for this crooked-
ss engincers in charge of the ‘oad in the late forties
gave a me opi that when the ri “the devil was
interested i in its location to such ent ie “femporatily t Tans-
ferred himself into a big snake and ‘eriggled himself from Philadel-
phia to Columbi
The fact that neither ties nor ballast w
tion,
were used in
tion of the old lin scarcely be comprehended by
tion, who fail to tundersta and how the rails sould
degree of firmness ¢
limestone blocks
and from wycve to eightee:
ressed. They were buted in
wien cicles were ritte ai
ike il the chai
he construc-
thi his ge
the 2 proand. about three feet apart
n them to receive plugs 0
whic!
s to carry the rails, the spikes through
th fe driven i into the wooden plugs. Th ea the
wei oeseln ¢ keys of iron before referred t
ing
to hold the rails ia place by being driven sigh “trough ‘the chair
on either side. These keys required daily 01 ily attention
to Keep then in lace so that morning and "evening a
called “a key driver,” traversed his section of the
the way” by tightening these keys with a hamme
Patrick McBride, then the owner ot the property at White Hall
hia an ay
repairman,
road, “maintaining
now owned and occupied by the Phi is ie p n Railws
Company as offices, is remembered y dri Se for many yea
yn the sect mieten White [all and ‘thon, While in the
periorm ance of his duty he was struc a locomotive, near the
est end of his s
1 th structed entirely of wood,
d
the cseingers oF lengthwise, pieces being covered with flat i ‘ron about
inches in width by half an inch i it thickness and fastened with
spikes, spon whieh, the car mil ed. "Drop rails” did the work
af the pre hile nknown, Every
tos ru
2 ing Carried the. toys, ‘of his Sitch, Which the opened
t his convenience. Co ow catchers , oF dug across
the railroad ‘on pour sides of all gi sings, were intended to
feep road ¢ xrays from trespassing on the right of way,
but "hey i ino bly serve their purpose, » particularly during
the nig’ hen accidents to both trains and animals were of
ice Secu
‘The road was 5 used as a highway for Pedestrians, a a fairly good
path being worn either between the rails or them, ‘where
gyerybody wi 10 chose to d walked in comparative security.
The walk nor trespass
was in those days as unknown as it was considered
ow omnipresent notice of. ‘warning “ot to
on the railroad”
necessary.
al stations on the new line, east of Athensville, were,
ort time, only Overbrook, then called City Lin and later
y Avenues and vies tonville, Fifty-second "Street. ‘Wynne.
wood wa: addition to this muinber,. a w
which was, tater, dian ged to Fortieth Street.
was made a stop trains, continuing as a flag stati ion until
all the stations cast of Pasli were mat ir stops. aie mean-
time the name had peer han; to N. rier when station
was erected and the place sv ted 1 bid for recognition among
the best of the | main tine sta’
hed show the same Hime and has been one
ich h bjec
Gir , Powelton Aj
al been, but are not, thet patronage ha ving been absorbed | by. West
Philadelphia, which’ has become almost a great railroad centre
itself, and Fifty-second Strect, which maybe said to be a grea
rai ilro: “i elev: eee in
building of the. new fine brought to the village a consider-
able ain to its population in the
ne hom were Irishmen.
few
byes, ane not one of tl ‘ives of sunny Italy ha
the construction. “Noa the
ae ore, at a premium, while further ev
mich in & vidence, on e largest and least ornate of which was
bi ie prope! ty 1 won owned | by ther Shortridge, east
Mr.
fore the stations were locate e ang while the
s, points on the line were de! ated as “Jones’S
Owes 1 Wynnewoo d Public School), “The bi ig Enibank-
Between Ww. 'ynnewood and Narberth), “The Dump” (on the
southesst side of the e embankment), phere, in addition to the shanty,
a good-sized pond was maintained wards a8 3 swi
3 “Sullivan's cue”
‘and “the straight between the bridges” (east
of which names are atl in use by some of the
of Wnmeon ie fon
ra
29%
3
ming. and. ‘hating pools for the boy “ot “the per
eth),
(east of Nar
s.
f this line ocenpied considerably over two
years, which seemingly Tong tine is accounted for by the fact that
and rock was removed by ho
every pound of ¢: rth a
Steam shovels, hy gines, steam drills
part in he at that time, “great vinvderta aking of Daitieo Never aniles
of
othe ‘vilening saad racking and other recent improve.
ments of this gre zhw: of
to notice asa
hal ntury
too gecent ate to entitle ¢
Mt a ing suffici say that in wn
eminecnce|
ou
red by our writing the Mrovtts | “iqrente eae and best
Town from. the trifiing seeds m by the men of sexenty
go, whercin the horse has’ give the acme of loc
motive construction, and the cars of our “otefaters to ‘the Tucaric
ance ei Julian contort a nd convenience
of Cani | Commis sioners ‘and, “Superintendents of Pub-
Wor Mee Fnesperin skied i in the management of such
enter fy yea Shas s ted as the brains of the road the
t of America’s fntellect, Song and found, asfit has been, in the
brightest and most progressive nien who have alorned the present
any rece jing a
Ine of these, ai é great est of them all, Mr. Alexander J.
Cassatt, has died in thle wnidee of a career of unparalleled ined
since these writings .
were be;
09: uted Roxt wow)
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