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VOLUME XVII NO. ARDMORE PA. MARCIL 9, 1907
Early Recollections of Ardmore| assocaion Busy |LOWER MERION N TOWNSHIP __—|_- BASEBALL NOTES | LOCAL NEWS OF THE
By Josiah 8. Pearce eee teeny.” "COMMISSION ENDS FISCAL YEAR|" imeaucoen, “ee WEEK CONDENSED
‘The committee which is 2 rratating ‘The local season in base So we com | ft ,
plane for the smoker of the Civic Assoc voine pron
bison for the Civic Awoci-| Begins Business of New Year With Same Membership, and| si eromdson tay 4, |Notes of General Interest
: Ardmore will have six or seven new! Gathered Here and There
_B, Roberts Remains President Much Work in Hand, ,|olayess. ‘Thompson, Lynch and Gren-
. . fell will be the veterans on the new team, Around Town.
Annual Statement Indicates that the Public Conn, of Narberth, will captain the
* focal we warriors. BRIEF PERSONAL MENTION
‘The opening, by the Pennsylvania Railroad yof the new fine to
West Philadelphia marked an epoch in the history of the city, as well | Tien je working overtime, and, fi
Zoth were advantaged alike, and both alike appre- | preces intsaons aame aus om
ntage, will ike place
‘The locomotives did not then, nor for many after, | wil he of the ki
cross the river into th proper, but drew the vais toa point near | more
Hoes vey Thirty-second and Market streets, from where the cars|. The members of the association are Purse is in Good Condition
wena iltawi across the Fiver by way 0 Starker Street bridge to Eley-|making strenuous efforts to increase the] Carney hasigned with Alton
enth and Market streets by horses Socked in “a string team” of six interest and membership of the s ing $175 « month for his services, 1°) Mr. George Lane is again in Ard-
or sight to cach ee or hss “ Mt ant ie br tes oe pla mcd SALARIES RAISED AND > NEW OFFICES CREATED ty Connie Back. ‘© the Altoona CID) jore after a trip to England.
n the year 1864 the ¢ pot at Eleventh and teeets was me hope at the infor enter Mr. Albert Vick was a visitor in
abandoned, the Bingham House heing erected on the site a short time ing together a large ‘ta 7 . ue members of the Ariinore Athletic] a arrore last week. 7
afterward, and everything was moved to! tsccond ad Marke pieited men of Ardmore, | The ng of the Goard of ‘Town | vious year. The spring inspection of the | Association have been assessed for ¢ buns “ ”
streets, where more -extensive and somewhat expensive buildings a “ i, with united effort, may bring about | ship ‘Commissioners in the’ Mahon nvhip highways has already been deel dollars and there capect to spend| Mr, George Donaldson, of Colo-
rminal accommodations were erected, which served we ‘purpose until Ws rctter consitionsin our tows along many lene Wedn slay ice sme mt and the department asks thar the undredt before the season opens, nial Block, has retired from busi-
ines. the List meeting of the ise k be laid ow
a smoker will be held in Merion | ing March 1 d hi ni
Hall, and an excetlent nt program has | mencing on
been prepared for the time all the reports
t, which
evening, i. April
jom
seen in Ard-
Lee
te
ceumparatively recent years, chen the depot, as it had up to that time
> Broad stree! at nce beeame “Broad |,
Street Station hen for the first time trains awn by locomo-
tives across the river Schuylkill into the very hy cart of the city,
that not very remote period the terminal freight station of the comaitiges were 8 the past
flier in the sear su] Morris Albany will piteh for Cassatt, | ness,
v e of the [and Joe Callinan will work the other end
of the battery for the same team, wk and Mrs. George Boles and
All the members of the Arienore team Russell Boles left yesterday ior
ew suits—gr ue | Alea NJ.
bie es," like the one Tho
‘sported at the close of last
‘te .
vast year. ‘Tl
road oceupied the block at Thirt toon and Market streets now occu ST. LUKE'S TEAM WINS coe eel aie oo
pied by the, Wanamaker buikting. |The old sta ’ . Feard show an ccc ie tio
bing, ait unpretentious, an “equally inconvenient. It was a Ni |Mard Fourht Game of Basket Gall closes wit A balance in. the. treneary
sone | ailroad purposes ji t pr evi pus to the bolting of the firs jesults In Deteat of Locals. | incte: “ “
eviv: ices i Mood », the depo
ac in the ety
hy these great evangelists, wrhioge meetings packed the lng to its
J. B. McAfee left carly in
the ek fora Western t1
S| The jrimore felt will be mowed dow:
about fi hundred feet, The grat ‘a. Mr. C. C. Beyer and farsily have
stand a teachers will be repaired, and| returned from a short sojourn at
i re-| Lakewood, N.
Jinstead of a deficit.
A margin of two, the differ I Presider Reber, annual report,
wie nd wenty-2 pave the asket |e emmnerated these facts : the most se are
bal etween uke’s Academy e Commissi of Lower Merio port ee) will be erected
nig eae en gon erm of Lows hr iti ears Dr, HB, Brows fas reuored
accommodations afforded by the railroad company a that Sea ‘eat Friday afternoon, on the; better and miore prosperous condition | made his Baseball is awakening in Glad: his office into new quarters in Cater
time constitute an appropriate Teminncece ot the train service ‘chool floor, to the latter after a| than ever before in its history. {Port as “chairman of the Coimuniitee on} Pop” ering will probably ovanage che | ial Block.
Forties anu fifties, when telegraph and tele nek signal 935 terest The Folice and Fire, The anprooriaion fr 4g itt, W.T Reynolds bes returned
and interlocking devic ees we cosine as neces ities in t eo as the hardest fought this nce gon for fire plage, and $2 asthe weather breaks,the local from Los Angeles, Cal., where shi
tion of cither this o! road or any, other. none of the com, anal_it was only by. the. plucky | rare 8 ie pty am {organization will have its fe hed,
things had ever been dreamed about, with the exception of the tele-| perseverance of the local that moet | The property fn the township. has | OP Tights ‘total appropriation of $15-| hateowed, and sown with grass seed te peer spending the past thee
graph. the game from their strong tivals, risen in value oon, ‘he wal expenitrs of ti “ mons.
plane road “The West Chester” ran east in] | The Wayne hoys showed from the start| | During the past year, real estate has | fartment have amounted to $14.53.
cal passenger |that they were stepping right into the wcrone in valve with the same aston- are we year thirty at Cont ce
F Merion class, and it was nip and aa and & have been insta
¢ finish. The first half ended
6, with the odds for
third, ines arc
siructive of the top surrace,
thet
ious probl
°
is employment for all classes
estes
of extreme poverty are very
sea
‘The articles of incorporation for the .
Ardmore Athletic Association are in the| _ The date for the reception of the
hands ofatorneye at presen, and are Senior Class of the Lower Merion
expected to be completed. within « week | High School is April 12.
wo.
On the old incline
the morning. and west in the afternoon, being the only Io
in e for h
years. Later there] was another tra
Sand called “The and then anothe
the names of the trains being used more to dintinguish the trait
to indi re speail at whieh they traveled, Still later cam wer Merion
Tehening uo ” adv ming “Mowel ‘2 “Hal rrisburg and The secon hualf was a battle royal (let
tie West, but "The W was, to the old-time villa
acme of fava comfort and convenience.
A very ative engine, as compared with those now in us
jously Tew three or four pa Assen coaches, as diminu compar
s anyiber of fre ight or
¢ forties being’ ‘of no
more honses are
»
s Ta
Bat nthe
one oil lamps in the jones ‘ Miss Maude Darlington has re-
district, an altogether
———
the
he seen le nunone wee nclarn | NOTES FROM THE CHURCHES SS"°50 00 ston ie ten
lage, the | hope). By the playing of bath teams |thas been increased abot $3,000,000.00 | “ONT addition: mal fire plugs makes a total Baptist The basket ball game last night
Pent was evident that they meant towork for [over th Prt $5000.00 | oF 6, ‘Three patrohnen resigned, but between DeLancey School and
Wow Jor lover the assessment of three Dt laces mere promptly filed ‘hele veins sonar Lower Merion proved to be an
ts alongs to be commented deci rar to repos me the death Sunes sn the ele srw we | exceedingly lively contest.
o ble and efficient : . . .
Ant officer. ‘The force was incensed by two in ode nm Thong te ie Miss Davis, then ew physical in-
earl is looking forward | structor at the public school, gave
to the Easter service, which it is thought fi
; i ia year. her first lessons to the Ardmore
pupils on Tuesday. ;
0 be n by the Chri Endeavor| Mr, George I. Boles, Jr., left last a
Society of F this “wrk at ithe ese of| Friday for a trip to the South and
e, on ‘est,
kept pare
those
and stubborn fight between the contest:
an r s
work in exch departme
core | Commission has-been inere
always | improve
te rhe
a long ie, or “ben tra
ster length than the present "E Ghteen-hour Kiger.”
‘Then the locomotives. were all nam ud of numbered as is] gap T ol
how the custom, The “William Venn,” She "I A, Mutitenberg,” the [ee tescoset by a foul to one. advise comiton, v the bes sein
s nd ai sob |cios ses with a nee a hand ore
n new men, the total number ni
fen patrolmen amd a chief, all “als
f the townshi ,
the township are 5) cauipped. Three hundred and twenty
arrests were made during the year, for-
ins
“Joseph Ritner,” the “Lew others are remembered 20 Shortly after the ee a the second | |
jects of wonder «miration “aoring the early fiftie Some of these round a field goal by s threw the
were without cabs or seats for the enginemen, fe all ci a full sup- | advantage to the visi ors, oH Bartet| m
of wood for fuel, while others carrie oth ‘ood ano al in the | threw {claims 89 ‘or othe! S Twenty-tw .
no wa wot, a wo a oot Te ay’ Depart | 2 os cot Sas wt Say eget Ms Beis Young. od Mi
a was the best kno and most appre 1 by the at~ that time traveling ere | ment under Chairman Sullivan has Been fated im every cas citer a ‘i Tia service commencey Agnes Burt left yesterday for a fort-
id, or, as rybody Ienew him, “Davy” Zell, was the to Baltimore and Wash-
int excellent. Miles of new roads, and m “Vw ammial report of Ch Kei at io will | ‘ve felowed ‘iy the| night's vi
our young idea oF of the pit conic wh ich the players exchanged polite re-| sidewalks have been Iaid and throw teh eport of Chairman Kany | ington.
rag tS department Lower Merion an re-
coniietar 0 J a tran and was
Me was not uniformed, and he did all the work of the train that could | marks about the weather, ete,
done by one man, -\ brakeman appli on irlessel the | gled gallantly for the ball
nor raisi ing a long iron handle o' the in Bartlett had eve cnet 2 ents, in connection with the State
9” assisted in this duty when a Tens stop | ties ava runner. ‘The i Vepartment have been conducted
a top was made, if the passenger leaving the the lad to lead the peck down the floor in {gard t0 sprinkling the roads with |
had T baggage Davy” opened the ‘oot ot ‘ort of paunch be ber th] race for the other goul, He got there |i, and subjecting them to a process |
the body of the ear and booked out the piece designated by the pas-Grat wil the tal woud slam against the called tarvia, with ying results
selected the particular piece to be hooked. backend and jar the hoop: f of
age
next read, The total number of |
connections wich the sewer amounts to | ing service at teas f Mill Creek road, are spending
1702, an increase of two hundred. Dur- - the week in New York.
ing the year the sewer has branched XM. EB. Chureh. i
| Sullivan was nominated by Mr. Smed-] The Ladies' Aid Society of the Mi eth 4 Mrs Byes Enochs left om Mon- :
t church met at the parsonage jay for New Orleans,
sda evening for a reel sont
of the Health and Di
ae and Mrs, Albert D, Kennedy,
g
E
z
ley for the office of vice- pe esident. Both
out in several directions sion tes new
dW
z
. E. S. Dixon are at
senger, who. stood | ays [ON account o' ‘the great use of automo- | 1 Mt Me sac .
When ready walked forward to the crgine and directed win ‘ron bile “and the wear and tea" of these | va conta we by meet a tice Pinehurst, N.C
he en ngineer Whe ere to Stoy f it was necessary to convey this bet pack hb at the opposite | machines on the rns it is estima ue is ome i conse a sews -| speech, on Me uae “ seo rented
in ormation to the engineer when ¢ he train was running “Davy” called coy sei seeing forthe bait where it wes] ¢d ta it costs $10,000 m ain | 8 the th ire pa ng oe to Mrs, Simpson, the retiring president, 1, J, Enos, ofthe Autocar Com-
out or orsign from the front platform, for bell ropes, baggage masters lost gst the feet and Timbs of the the highways. lay | ashing the ae ee eee eal a beaut candelabra, Retgsiments pousink on Thursday for St. Louis s!
e e _" omnes a sewer has cost , and | were served, and those pre “
r brakes were all alike unknown to the crew of the “West Ches- Hiner vet an al . me on ay ee ee nn ee Me iaale [este se resent Next Friday is “Hostess Day” .
“th ling of th fi t al bs the {long links, so | subi sing “Grouting, | shooting Dx coming ted. It is xd as this would increase the] On Suudey evening last Rev. the monthly calendar of the .
he coupling of the cars was ¢flected by he use long links, so |¢™! " passing, sh ng, suocolin . ' es
that te sant cat be more easily, if ev 2 corn foray 7 ae, ir fund scoring, all at the same time, He svagested that at fan be | &t f the system. An agreement Simpson directed attention to the he bers will
dl he start be ma the sewer system of Narberth prayer chain’ fad which the residence of -
asi
was the high scorer again having pitched | formed for the pare “ tach, parks, | * ve ntertained at
‘e in nine more field goals in this contest. |the township will their care | comes an the local system was | exte tended t to Ardmore in the shape of] Mrs, Vivian Ingle, on Ard
. nue.
always attending & art were t pleasa
h to a cal « some
ary, too. {and maintenan wer Merion Township communications to different people, one | aye;
the passengers. ‘The care were heate by stoves,
é
ar, a
33
+s, fo ar, it be 7 Kaldenbacher a dun is a qu
Hgte al by ¢ ndles, fou to a eae si mien Et ree ee aeac yet fallow, he wee cgeeeds| which. should rec reful attention oil nd te Borg ss aad ther ofi-| a postal andthe other a etter fora prayer bei he State Health
» liek ment while the. . ‘ine. the ‘a ingly nxares ve. [He wo wuld gallop up to| The highs in this vicinity should be | i! fa ¥ lay night. |for a particular cause, and ests for} Dr. Dixon, the State Health Com-
the lig lig hing cat panen nel iat he train has runing, poker an lan tn ron some wd 6 thy 3 preset ae ‘ten| The system is working very satisfactor- | prayers from the friends of ue recipieate, missioner, whose home is neat here, °
shovel ie ng as the end the bral in “ ms out which he carried Ke h him mean ‘gallop ee to Lower * Prompt i n along this ily and the pi tt of the oor tucorene Sire cals calamities for failure to. cane’ the role of a fireman on
T 7 fare from Atvessville to the it was a quarter, oft iberty- A the ial ee al ta tne i «sone the new High- | Ment neve amounted 40 a Tide over) keep up fhe endless . Wednesday and saved some valu- :
& " d y uarter, y= | Hee the nets in the second baile] way Committee nie permitted t0 go} $20 Mr. Simpson expressed his opiuion that MM from the fi hich
fip, and to I Hownan’s Be idge all of which were at'all times | tied the sss 0 [Phe report of the Finance C the scheme a dev ved, to| able papers from the flames whicl ,
ea “ares which “Davy” collected, and was noted for never missing |" fim longer, the con improvement) ay andes He Finance Commitee 8 devioed, is repugnant (| broke out in the engineering bureau
ve ee a ot Loe ever at nace oe snioutes the csitors| will be greatly inere: wa was handed to- the members, with ligion and common sense. Recipients| (4 + ae cartment in the Capitol,
are. Free pa: : were almo uke 10 ec, S nods 27), and nearly everv-| Tye Police and Fire Come has short preamble by President Roberts. of these communications were re practically Ds ipitol. °
avy" ” did ee have the same ef ef fect as they y have Ne err oe on his att KIM Jone excellent. work. mber ot | They show a remarkably healthy con- wien calamity to obey their! \fiss Bessie Erickson is the guest
: al itio ehests, This, ia the paster’s opinion,
was many “years later before they were sold at any yy suburban station. | ia tale sn et ‘ie a pac a chp is $438,000. Against this a cash he superstitions 5 the [this week of Miss Kate Clevenger,
ct, the : 08 old at 6 ease fatce 8 than he .
: a place the hse dca tte ei thetler Mpped the Dell wpa andi fel | has eon smal, but this TON Sand hens are the pat “ ern Ti the ourdoe | greene Gillis, of the Antorer
being simulta sor to this time some few of the other stations |unough the hoops every material in well things stand. These are the prin ieee, aubmiacive heart, Bir, Simpe| company: accompanied by sever
rough the hoop. crease in the number of offers. Stee cipal receipts: acu taxes (6 mills] of # loving, submissive heart, Mr. Simp- oficial made a record-breaking
ower Merion was now ~ foals by this | jiehting bh on $1 ed the prompt consignment of "
were selling tickets to Athensville, but none were veer printed reading
t Arde
in an opposite direction. The writer bonght the first ticket sold a as been increased and
D. le
ill
S119 87 6) $r.st2s6i sewer ents <
vs this character to the waste 10 New York City yesterday.
$t45: 449.65 ‘The to-
youe
inerea
inore station from Mrs, Charl Hes ler, who was the first ‘ticket pure Bra Y “ll a “contin ne | i saccipts ec : Fave amounted t. The: start was made at 5 A. M. and
it Bryn Maw ht ‘i and was taken up by ¢ the slate on he root | vard we es i ST $123.85 7203 ne expen aa ‘To-morrow the regular services will be| New York was reached long before
Teter K. - Stine at that time ‘snr oft & Paoli train west iio, k's nt fouled and to all th fire compries i the 108M | gees: Highs y Department, oes order: Meeting ofthe combined lass the earliest lunch hour
the fore! Mr. Stin ow sainteabe ‘ting the fh the din, curomed | “BP for their servict ‘ Police and Fe, § 1682954; Health os at 9.30 x % followed by ti
NNesistant Road Master ‘at Broad Street Station, and is just rounding ith the [S8Ste" has proven a marked Success) Deainage, Soo7687. The outstanding [Service at 10.45; Sunday sc eal at 23oi|__ Many of our citizens have already
out a forty years’ service in the employ of the railroad company. sony conditions of she town- Epwont Lene a 7.00 evening service [ridden over the elevated railroad in
; " . F better. The large num. | ‘XS for 1906 are $7,103.04, and there g d r i
The freight traffic over the old State road i is remenbered. a s being home, y ommeetios with the sys- | © # cash balance in the treasur; y of $3 45- Philadelphia and like the improve
very light, as we would say at this time. Only aite n of Twentyeve per cent, (30407, Mr. GC Anderson the secre- 8. Pat Lutheran Churel ment very much, °
the road by the present great corporation dic ad th $ mse ot sume ay seconts of the game, jon in the sewer tax rate, which | + Was commended upon the excel- . Roland Bi d ea
rover ions of consequence. A few trains in each tret daily, com-| The details: si eae ane ee ect January 1,| Feat manner in whicl iis report was| 484 the Lenten season, bing oland Brown was tendered a
sed of ach smaller cars than e now and reducki FM] crepared and for his general good ser. {St Autet in all the churches, and the post ostal surprise yesterday. by
only half the name Lower Merion, Position: Points.
Forward 8
re now i
frequently
less ere an stifficient load for Bartlett, on fh Brett j vices for the year, ta catcrae oe church follows we on many friends in honor of tis
te motive to draw. sy “anat | Keldenbacher...Fo 6| The suit of Bown Totes ees ‘omorrow evening Mise Bus,
wall locomouve to Tr S, sen ‘shih were monte canal ne en townahipe is cst w |, Tenort from the township solicitor, sortane alveer fron ie eighteeuth birthday
hroats lousted just a8 when they were drawn from the wa Norton.. 4 ; me Rowland Evans, shows a te statis é Phi ced
net uns feature of the ot: time sume ‘ot the roy ere "aie thet bss en wo deretition on of legal affairs and suits pendi sing, “The Sunda yh is prepai The iage is announced of
chase by the present owners, were unk! £1 coves uring f satistactory co ican This concluded service for Bester in the ines ot ‘he Mr. award ‘Twaddell and Miss
. flags, signal caps ad the tunerons Sine tr accessories of vail the business of this session and a is Board of Church Extension. Nettie Ritter last Wednesday.
roading. The tenders of all the engines were tilied high with wood, id with ‘nes toe term had expired President Roberts | pea qenaty ftemorial services were Their friends and neighbors at
yt 7 ° eo) tr" yerts
itch as saved we Tra into proper lengths at all the water stations, = Beara members for their ate aesitanc® | gave charge of the mesting over to Mle Hatiran who wal supcrinentent of tke] Sugartown, Pa., gave them a re-
. er was a von during his term, President Roberts the 8 lent o » Pa.,
wate stn v the bo “s ne ite San ion “te wont be wood 3 and ae ‘d his repor And ere a “te of 7: Board, o rimary ‘tepertinent for fifty-five veers ception and serenade on their return
" that the clection of of jor \
by m: power, with “saw and buck,” an + pumped by horse me foals i. his te the “ousting year might be considered. sree lives . we ia \
power. : the i hway Committee. | Xominations ‘or president and vice- ‘Mrs.
Jac Sr whose children are now graunlparents, residing “8)'The appropriation at the begining of | preaident were called ory and Me Sut tothe pup pupils nie the pomer
near tha inher’ old home at Bryn Mawr, is remembs ea a aving otal 0 the year for oo cot was $43, | ivan nominated Mr. Algernon ‘Te services tontnor
had charge of the wood and water stations at okt W hite blal ‘The Ui bon School boys do not play en fo ove yan additional fare | ex s for president of the Board ma Ne lows: Brotherhood meeting at to o'clock, |lived.
‘hae hae story is wont to repeat itself, ¢ . . home again until the afternoon gam Beo00, candidat inanit mousy elected fotiowea by the preaci ~ g :
sion lation na tthe oat er important ig mater Bef ite te entune High Schoo! on | is wef sum von the onion ‘Te ‘ficers at once asstmed their dic |ro.4gs Sunday school at. Announceinent noticed bave
; sl a Friday, March 15. made to the Commit
High eceived of the marriage of Mr.
the fact that 0 ew and somewhat mysterious Pivtastelphi hia & W. oe alance of ‘sya The cost Ge eorge F. Robinsot ee Miss
thas Railroad ave located the executive ofces of that company 0 roads last year was reduce Beale T, Wh
almost the exact spot 10 which we have referred as being the most| Rey, E,W. ftaley spent Tee bout $2.00 a mile over the cost of the| AM ofdinance fixing the efor ie T. Whitaker of Philadel :
2
ties, and the session srs in the| Endeavor at 7.005 couctating service
form of the usual meeting, at
45.
g
i wortant of the Hemme Coma y's loc Hall, . amo fie the previons years rest 1907 at six mills on the de tla, seu Miss Alice’ Lyons, of Cousho-| Phia, on Wednesday, March 6... Mr.
We dhe sonal itself is Sut afew fect destane irom the original line of dyin Harrisburg, in S15] oad =r he es w ears resurtacing) ing’ the special taxes of Acts of 1903|hgcken, is the guest of Mise Jul Robinson holds an important pos
i Philadelphia and Calunbia Railroad, Loy sville Sea ome. | about $100 per mile more than he pre ‘Continued on third page. kley tion with the Autocar Company.