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VOLUME XVII NO.
ARDMORE. P
PA. JANUARY 19 » 1907
LOCAL NEWS OF THE ‘KNIGHTS OF DIAMOND
WEEK CONDENSED AT BANQUET BOARD
Interest | Ardmore Baseball Team Holds
Notes of General
Gathered Here and There Reunion at Gruber’s
Around Town. Cafe.
[MANY FRIENDS PRESENT
BRIEF PERSONAL MENTION
n Monday evening the toms steer of
be wae of the Basel
cat
One comfort of lie in the evutry
With which the glad heart may
filled
Is the fact w t potted chi
"4 potted the ay that fe kita,
‘The beautiful snow.
Get out your shovel
© the Township oficial will 2" feast unsurpassed. in ex
catch you if you don't watch o € the
Miss Julia Borden is svjonming
at Auntie City.
Mrs, Schenck, of Ardiw
gone to Fishkill Landing, | 4s presides
| brief resume of th
lew York. |
(their friends did ample justice.”
‘Mr, Lewis Ryan acted, as tonstmaster,
and when
that speeches were
the cigars were
nore ave- | annow
he work of the past sea-
which he declared was_in every way
Miss Sue Goodrich is at Asbury ja more successful than any previous
Park, where she is visiting her) He
A. Goodrich, who is [9 pay
spending the winter at the resort
all expenses and pa:
1¢ placed around the grounds, all but
a sinall defi
‘The Misses McCabe gave a card| Mr. Ry:
party on Weduesday at their home
neaster avenue, ‘Those par-_
ticipating aad «in enjoyable time.
You grace.
tty respon led iu a neat little speech in
he batted a out some good sugges: |
tions to we team from the viewpoint of
ion, ot Nancourer, B.C,
6 P,
for a new |e
OF ERNEST J. DEACON
Wedding at St.
P. E. Church,
Ardmore.
Brilliant
Mar:
RECEPTION AT HAVERFORD
Florence Brooke,
Joh Deacon,
ok place at St.
a ‘hed lore avenue,
jiven
‘The marriage of Mi
f Haverford, and
, which was en
an Empire effect inthe back by long tabs a
of rc
jut lace. Thir sume ince formed
the yoke’and whe short puff sleeves of
| the bodice.
MISS BROOKE BRIDE |
Chronicle.
NOTES | FROM T THE CHURCHES 'PROPERTY VALUATION |
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
ov atominy th te fa tthe Latheres | IN THE COUNTY
church, Rev. F. W. Staley, conducted
the funeral versie he utrett Kitsel | Statistics Showing Amounts/
man, who had been a member of the
si
of Increase and Decrease
in Wards and Townships.
at 10.45,- Sunday school at 2.30 and
Preach by the postor
regular evening service w
7-45... The
will be p receded INTERESTING FIGURES
by the cir Radenvor meeting a
6.45. Preparations ore Bos n, for he Robert Miller, Clerk to the County
Janen's ws rein oh to be as om January Commissioners, bas prepared the fol-
¢ Brotherhood of Andrew? and] iowing statistics of ty val
tat, of te Lanteran Chane towing sta my of property valuation
. . Church between. 1906 a1 5.
The Ladies’ Aid ey of Matthew) The valuation. ons 1906 is $101,925,-
3 Simpson Church gave an enjoyable social |537, while tha for the previous year
im the church parlor or Tuesday evening. | was $93,198,37:
Last Sunday the cengrceetion wes ad] Going into “te tail the present
even
on
by Rev. |valuation and the increase, which is
ho spoke {about $600 000,000, the following is i
League. | terestinj
}¢ Anti-Saloon 1.
A contribution of $49 was taken and wil] The figures mentioned first is this
ith orange carried | be used in furthering the work of this] year's assessed valuation, and the s
a bouquet of roses and lilies of af the valley; league, Tue usual services will be held- ond 3 amount is the increase over last
not the weal shower hou tomorrow— Mr. Boyd's, class at ' 9-45 lyear
newly popular # preaching by Rev. C.M. 1 sinnpeom pewter ‘Ambler nw 6
ee rane. at 10.45; Sunday sco at 2.30; Epwor 1 BW $363,200; $42,650,
an-colored la
of pale rose-colored liberty s: with
it she Wore ;a Neapolitan Pat nme
with roses, and carried a bouquet of the
See tomers aid ie of the valle ley.
Miss Adelaide Nong the mas of
ow white mous: of
honor, was
elaborately inset twit Valen
Lengue si topic; “Our erent
Father’ Conseration, leader, W.
Reintold. This setvie wil be flowed] BE
by the church worship st 7.45.
Firat Baptist Church
On Monday evening of last week the | 52s.
members of the ai Sunday Sch
5
5 $57,
W $362,255; sirsis
Bridgeport, SW Soon 365 $20,328,
Conshohocken, 1W—$533.675; $18,-
Conshohocken, 2W=$r00915; $16;
3Is.
|
one oatohacken, 3W—$572,625; $25,-)
The cli: . Society | he spec oa the grand stand OF | ang owned over se satin, Conshohocken, 4\V—$385,845; foes.
will give a supper and dance, in bcc r ee, Dy the way, where picture hat w Conshohocken
T. A.B. Hall, Rossmont, Tuesday game is on). oan Sy beens jive bine pe snd he carried Pink East Greenville.
evening, Jaawury 22, Tickets are Sn" pple ina townof tise know Foie, Mice hve Macbeth, Alisa Marion i Semin as
now on sale, | what gon baseball is and are willing to! Brown, Miss Nanna Stages, aise wilde was also el Hunt Pe 0.
siny at heme and wate” good. local Stay and Miss Marie Brooke, They | Joseph 34,030} $1835.
|
. W. Staley, pastor of tl ne ne ‘ould he
authe Church, spent * Toesoy| the elu should rote sutecess-
in Loysville, Pa., in the interests of | fut season next year, jag ‘hon the
the Orphais' Home with which | spent e ot tle season just past.””
he is connected. Young was followed by Messrs,
| William Whelan and Joseph Dyson, who
Pottstowa High School caucelled [orn spoke in an snrcouraging vein aud
their date with Lower Merion High | ise more
School for the basket ball game at| of the “baseball spi the town,
Pottstown last Weduesday. Next to respond was Mr John J. Hughes,
bop ‘ninesa manner at the club, |
home
faepe why
expressed their willingness toa
At the monthly basiness meting ose
of the directors of the Young Men’s| whi
Christian Association, heldon Mor
day, January 13, Mr. Utley Wedge,
of Linwood avenue, was tected a
member of the Boar:
educated
sport and now “hema ood “trticle for
Miss Elizabeth Burwell, Cricket| tier mosey ani iis ap t0 the elu to
venue, was given a surprise party | P*Y
‘Tuesday evening by a number of,
Mr. James yon
redoubiabe rt baseman, greatly
the pleasure of the by giving
1 |several solos which were greatly appre: |
the Christmas entertainment at the | ciated,
Baptist church, Oui
brother of the
ie
Fold friend, “Phil” Carney, was, as
idence and bronght down the
‘Talove's Stable, On Greta ee eee eee nvoaions
avenue, caught fire early Saturday | Mr. Whelan, who has known the talented
evening, The Ard y | ent 1¢ boyhood, declared he
quickly extinguishel the flies ire well reutember the scenes deseribed
before any serious damage was cane song, i ee 8 wl
poo souter plaver got the applause
fr, J. J. Ott, who is sojourning]
in Florida, sent a crate of the Gnest
fruits of that State to a number of
his friends in Ardmore Jast week.
felt that th: tum hid mele «big score
pines present were: President Lewis|*
sow Business Manager Jobn J.
The ¥, M.C. A. basket ball team Rogles Tresaurer George S.-Hugher
will journey to Philadelphia to meet Scoeheper Robert W. Hartley, Secre-
9 | Puilipe, | F 1
North Sixty-third street on Mon- Williaa Mali a nd the following playern
1 Edward Lyooa, Grover Thompson, Phil
wit Carney, Jobn Lynch, William: Gretel
or Richly Peter Salle aghe
<
He!
ac
cu awe Maine Morris Albeny,
J. | Roy Litzenberg, John Driscoll.
pike invited guests were _Mesera John
ips, y
R. Winthrop,
Winthrop, W. Cain, Bartlett, and
Reitenbaugh
m F,Whelan, A.J. Young,
con dwin Hadley.
On Tuesday, Janu: little was said of the active work |
of the cosine scoson, the Plans have
8 P.M, an illustrated “lecture been arranged for some time for even
“Scientific Osster cae in fe greate intrest a these scene
will be deliv
re gowned aitee in ne frocks of
bine chiffon cloth over Hberty satin of
the ae fis ana ‘nme ui broad
bands of the satin and duel e. They
wore ta bie picture he “ei carried
pink Little Miss Coane
Toughead, “ihe Slower irl, .
dainty white lingerie frock und
trimmed with blue, and carried basket
of Bowers
¢ Deacon wasbest man and
de a Hunter Brooke,
J “Wool, HE J
s "Patton
Both the church and the residence of
Mr. nd i Iause Longhend, at Haver-
ford, ption was held. after
te ceremony, were fe elaborately decorated
th greens and ik flowers of different
incipally roses,
Me and. Ms. Deacon will reside at
Vancouver, B.C.
FE
3
RECEPTION TO MEN
chats bes
will give « recep" day
evening, enwary 2 aa 8 ‘Felon, a
which Dr. Charles a Seasholes will
deliver his famous lecture, “The Man
With the Pic" Teues bee au recently
of Di
sion of the lecture & Ipdies’ committee
will serve re efreaimen ts. An earnest in-
vitatio xi (0 all men—a special]
invitation is given to strangers in th
community, ‘There will be no seanisson
harged_ nor collection taken.
FITZGERALD,
Thomas Fitzgerald, who fori
ived 0} e, Hav
brought ia nite ane child front
South Rethlebein, where, he was
in the employ of Mfr, ink.
er, president of Jehigh ‘iver:
sity, rd
| Quihlan—a sister of Mrs, ‘Pitager
ald—who was dangerously il
Thi
was found ynconscious in his bed
, having been asphyxiated
from inhalation of gas from a de-
Ry wi ‘iam re
facln Dyson, have accepted the offices| fective burner. His funeral, in
Grave, Ph ead of the State | (¢ representatives of the patons, while|eharge of MeConagby, occtirred
Oyster Commission. All interested) jie yewie Ryan Mr fl J Hagens “Tuesday, from the residence
are invited to attend. and Mr, George S. will attend} of his brother, Senn “Ritagerai,
to the Shsnagenent and Took wlter the| on Prospect ave., Bryn Mawr. 8
Mr, Benjamin Goodwin, Locust | finances,
avenue, was injured about the eyes) | Mr Josieh S. Pearce tins becu
accept 1e presiden ney of the club, vee See
ot yet given his decision.
r The club, newly reorgeizn,w
w. eady for an early seasoi
serious as reported, stbogh eept ne of the strongest, if m
rom work several rgani kind ‘long the Main
oli hie
rs. F. W. Staley, of Ardmore, corward to baving them
visited Glassboro, N. J., last Tues- “h
day ona visit to her son, Mr.Joseph
Staley, who is employed there.
officered by
ess men of th Ne p
. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Early Thursday morning Joseph —
Meany, the to-year-old son of Mr,| Deeds Pretened at Ollce of Recorder at
jes 5.~ Xan]
mt to charles “ Stove lot, $12
Lower Merio1 T. Stovell to
‘art 91
seriously, though 1 not angele
infured, Elwondort J. Hodder, ler, $600,
1m Requiem Mass wats celeb
o| ted at Our Mother of Good Coun.
sel Church, Bryn Mawr, Rey, Jas.
MeDonald, 0.8. _A., being cel-
ebrant; Rev, T. J. Herlihy, 0. 8.
A. deacon, who also preached,
,|and Rev, J. A. Nugent, 0.
sub-deacon. His pall-bearers were
Jobn aud Tansey MeNab
miah English and Dennis, Dough:
erty. Anterment was made at Rt.
e engagement ig announced
et Mine Elizabeth Davis, of Nar-
erth, and Mr, Claud Watson, of
Tylana
c. dewvor 7 o'cloc}
defe
Brotherhood ot Andrew and Paittp to Hoar
Lect
heaot
and it Puip of Se Pes ahr ha from
J
On Tuesday, January 8, Mr.
- | basket hall floor with the best of them,
n | ago
| pcbably besten
ma f
Jenkintown, 1W—$518,100; $3400.
town, 2W—$1,242,445; $128,
ry. Report for the years show wat the
of the cburch were $2,221.57;
Ladies Aid, $504.15; Sosy ‘to
All current expenses
at present. there in nearly feo Xe W.
in the treasury tomeet accruing expenses orristown, 2 —$1,218,460; $94,100.
‘omorrow's services: Brotherhood m Norristown, 4W—$1,391,835; $64,310.
ing at 10 orclock, Jed by Mr, C. ‘aruoldy xem istown, 5W—$688,940; $29,555.
preaching at 10.45 by Rev. R. R. West; ristown, 6W—$683,240; $35,000.
Sunday school at 2.30; Christisn En Norstow eas 7W—$1,186,6753 $18,625.
k—leaddey Mr, Johu San-| Norristown, 8W—$749,920; $52,975.
lerson; evening service, 7.45. eer, owe $45 8.0653 $3140.
‘ Nor n, 1OW—$1,781,305; $131,-
1
lale—$1,141,755; $4850.
Site 141,755; $48,680,
IW $1297 835) $10,825,
High Schoo! Boys 0 Dateat | Potends Conte North wales 7 Suto
—$3
Pottstown, West West. 2503 $62,-
strenuous or minute bette on |,
Friday Atiermoon the Lower Merion High
School basket ball five cleaned up the
Friends Cement tea
Pottstown, 2W—$o60,550; $o3« O40.
ill and Lawrenceville,
Royersford, Wo Sa734 110; $25,175.
Royersford, 3W—$.
Royersford, 4W—$:
240; $15,460.
203,020; $11,180.
Schwenkville—$220860; $2775.
and jabs,to say nothing of Sipping, were
not hidden from the
Friends were penalized several “times,
netting the school team fro1 oa uderton- 53.965; $70,945.
| the foul line, rappe—$222,75
5 $2
Captain Bartlett was the aeuiee (and Wes Conshohocken, 1W—$192,340;
only) sueunt ver scoring in the first hulf, |$1520.
jking eleven poiut and tl three in the| West Conshohocken, 3W—$141,120;
6c Miller made eight Prints $
ou four goals from the floor, and E, Bart-| . West sate sos
lett threw another, Kaldenbacher tad bington—$6,711,230;
missed. | Cheltenham—$o,184,3.
Franconia—$1,002,515; $250
Limerick $1, 218,095; $27,160,
Lower | Gwynedd—$1, 1 763; $34,°
ie
1, although, like Arnold, he
was left off the tally sheet,
‘Phe local team Played together ia 8
surprising goo: wed
that they can old the
"owe Merion—$14,203,155; $3,036,-
cir piace oe the |
Tower Providence—$903,110; $13,-
. -
The battle line: ss
er Merion, Positions Points . pea 885
Bartlett, Capt. Forward 14 $328.35
aldenbach “ ° 7
Miller Centre 8 3
Gi Plymor th—$r, 506, 7103
E, Bartlett Guard 5061
Arnold . ° Q Soringheld~S3 S057 ons $174,710.
_ Towamencin—$6; ; $64,670.
‘tout * 2 Upper Dab teen karo
js “Positions, “Bei Jpper Gwyne
Frente Conta, Positions. “Pointe. | Upper 3 Terion--$1 866 850; $izbe cos
Ser Forward Q Whitemarsh—$2,565,785; $55,135.
Whit 100}
Twin (So) Centre 2 | Wes Prarie s
wnith Sard 2 $6065,
. " ‘The following are the districts in
Noble (Iewin) ' ©. jwhich there has been a decrease, the
a figures showing the decrease:
legeville—$39,275; $36:
tal 1
Beton a MacGill, Score: |“
Norhiown, BW Sin $8750.
Final 24-10. 5
inal se07e—24-10"|. Royersford, 2W—$453,260; $21
West Conhahocker 2W—$265,570;
th of James Ingle. - $1610.
Douglass $56. Be Sy 5
‘Mr. James Ingle, faiher of Prof
G yeoes ingle, faiber of Frederick sons
fessor
Vivian Ingle, died ou Mouday afternoon
at the Ingle residence on Ardmore av
nue. Mr. Ingle ba J been a sufferer from
paralysis for year was attended by
a nurse fora year oat A. short tim
he contracted the arp, and this
eat
funeral took Blnce on Thursd
_ R. West conducted
the house and Towamencin—$632,420;
Pato ‘ctr, where the ntereet ree Hanover—$687,555; $5890.
was wn a . Provides Bee S335 208; $46,
BOARDPRS WANTE 2 D—Apply 16}
tr
Hatheld township, ‘see a $25,535.
| Early Recollections of Ardmore
By Josiah S, Pearce
dona lot the has been made to the fact that phe ogtheran Churc
stan is ona lot
Kugh
r, in other words, that the grou don tS the eprom
Kugle: flea and "helore the old farm was *
. e prese wan! erected on this lot by Mr. C. Ander:
Warner in the year 1873, when the cong eregation ‘abandoned the old
building, which stood i in the | casera corner
nto its new church home. ‘The rt
trastees very properly decided a permit the very old school buiing
‘ain. It is still standing and may be said to be almost an object
of reverence, and it will become more and inore a hallowed place as the
years go by.
any years, or, in fact, until within a comparatively recent
perio, St Paul's, or the “Dutch pare ‘h,” as it was everywhe: re Kno wn,
only house of worship o: denomination in or near to the
village, while the churchyard, now w aeeatie enlarged and known 2 the
uuthers emetery, was and is yct the only burial place in the imm
Tiare neighbor 1001
The hi History of the old church has been written and pre: by
successive pastors, and
the congregations, of a century or more ago have been
on a
its story o1 hat portion of
he eas! i Heaton of the oldest
tell ie . bos ion of
would therefore be Pree ey ohh e attempt such a
of a few facts from
thes ayritings and sermons appears To be warranted,
7 rch was not organized until about the year 1760, al though
it had bee en determined about five yea to that time “to build a
house of worship where the Word and Sicraents might be admunis-
d «utheran forms and custom
tered according to
On October 17th, 1765, three mate infant were baptized, the rite
being administered and the record o de by Rev, Voight, who w
at the time, paner rot S Michael 's Church in Germantor
in some private house, the records
showing tha ‘the Tittle ‘ing now stat nin ing was not ‘com pleted and
dy. e subsequent to thal
hu:
id German record book
vine Rie Horn, Goodman,
nberg. A number of these
Fiafiman and Litzen
te
actuates © church~ goers of a century and a half later, as they show
collections “lifted” ranging from one to nine shillings, or from thirteen
cents to a dollar and seventeen cen nts.
ater recards/contain the names of many familiar to the villoge
of to-day, amen ich the names of Stadelman and Goodman appect
more freque in any others, although Mowrer, Soper “Hothnan,
Litzenberg and a
‘tow others appear with frequency.
n the year 1763, on September 3d, John Hughes bought at
Sheriffs sale shay “sh ‘and three-quarter acres of land,
days he sold to William Stadelman, Frederick Grow, Stephe
property at the time a dwelling house, which
which the Purchases ‘agreed to keep “for such use as long as the san
and moon endurt
eres of ‘ground immediately surrounding the house were to be
| retained for burial purposes, but temainde ler could be sald. It
was sold, and after years of cenice a Sine er farm it is now Lin-
ood Avenue and Argyle oad, property sold and selling Ot seven
thourand I dollars, or more,
the first church was built upon a portion of the reserved
land. It’was a very plain log structure, but it served the i conaregaucn
for more than thirty years as. a church home, during which tim
all the male members of the cong eregation had been enrolled among
the" ‘men of ’76” in of the countr;
erected and was used
ouse, the old records showing that t Hogs
Knox, William Stadelman, Matthias Hoffman, ial and
others aided in the un der aking “by hauling the area and other
kinds of labor.” In 1800 a ston ne church was built in front of a1
connected with the school house, when preaching in the English ian
guage be;
any years the struggling church was unable tg maintain a
past butt was supplied as best they could afford, the oa eng
recularly filled for over wo, sas by Rev. Horatio Gated Jon
w f the cower Merion | Baptist Charch.
0 the © reco rds Show that el s communed, the only
g Mr. Charis gle. who from that time to
the ‘hour. of his feathe vnever elaxed his effor the success of the
old church, In 1833 the last building relerret 0 ‘as tom aw:
n May 14th of that year the corner-stoni building which
immediately preceded the ‘preent strc was vb “wth appropriate
ceremoni ovember church was
Sedat, when the name of st ‘Pacts. Litheran Ghar was officially
given t
In a Apa, 1844, a small adkition to the grounds was purchased and
a house at once built upon the new lot for the use of dhe ton, which
is still standing. It was built ty “Sacab Latch, Jacob Si
William Sibley and Lewis V aren who at that time. ‘er stituted the
rustees, All the ¢ latter named were personally known
to the writer who, as uindertaker, laid all of them in the “old cemetery
adjoining the church,
n 1852 the parsonage sat standing was erected during | the pastor~
of the “rate William D. t has a home for a
number of his Swccessos, bat is sae releguied re the fear, a much a
pretentious and comfortable substitute for it having been recently
purchased adjoining the new chur
What a story could and shor wild. te written orl men, who,
pastors, have lived and almost al have died during at the years of the
le of this old church, The records give names and dates very imper=
fectly during the frst hundred years © its existence, but enough is
Sateen to tel the successors of the record- Keepers SoH of trial and
y life of the church, . From these recorls we
i Title igterence to the Godly men of
season to keep afloat a ship
ned wih disaster, but it is not for
to write of them what they have written of each other. | Sch writing
1 eck, Rev. Timothy.
ins, Rev. a fie Ste
Matancthon Coover are possibly best remembered of all who ave fed
CARRS ANT “Ciper Pace ts $3750.
tinued on forth
‘(Continued on second page.)