:fifteenth Anniversary ErlitioJI

Friday, October 11, 1929

Photo by Harry D. Hicharl1~.

Two familiar Narberth Buildings-Upper Picture shows tree-bordered Public School Build-
ings. Lower view shows the attractive Com munity Building, housing the Library, the
American Legion and the Girl Scouts.

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 Volume 16, No.1 Narberth, Pa" Friday, October 11, 1929 Price, Three Cents

Peters, Scott Stars I- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Narberth Leads Entire Nation in

of Second Victory Of Especial Interest
Telephone Development, Bell Co. States
Several articles of historical
Defeat of Darby, 12.0, Indicates and general interest have been
specially written by leaders in Seek Roof Marking Phones Found in 98.5 of the
lVIaroon Is Weak on Scor. the borough on civic, COllll1ltl-
For Air Navigation Borough's Homes, Says
ing Punch. nity, industrial and club activities
for this edition, Our Town's Fif- Narberth may, before 10llg, have a
George Erb.
teenth Anniversary.
THREE SUFFER INJURIES roof marking for aerial navigation.
Though not comprehensi\'C ill
The Guggenheim Fund for the Promo-
GROWTH WAS RECENT
scope these stories may help ill
Lower Merion continued on its win- tion of Aeronautics is endeavoring to
bringing back memories, and, ill With telephones in 98.5 of its homes,
ning way last Saturday by defeating the case of newcomers to the put over a nation-wide identification Narberth's telephone service is more
Darby High School. 12 to 0, at Ard- borough, acquaint them with program, which is being undertaken in
some of the traditions and his- extensive than that to be found in any
more. Captain Perk Scott and his co-operation with the Post Office De-
teammates knew that they had been tory of the community. other town or city in the country, ac-
in a battle before the game was over, J _
partment and the Department of Com- cording to George K. Erb, district
too, for the boys from Delaware merce.
manager for the Bell Company in the
County kept the locals from scoring
every time they entered the ten-yard
Rotarians Hear of A communication from the Guggen- Main Line.
heim interests to Postmaster J. Ber- "Available records do not indicate
line. Both of Lower Merion's touch-
downs came from outside the fiftcen-
Scout Jamboree tram N esper regarding such roof that any other city or town has sur-
yard line, the first one '<l neat right llolarking was turned over to Burgess passed the record established here" he
end run by Tip Peters and the second tBiggest Peace Conference Ever Hl~nry A. Frye by Mr. Nesper. :Mr. said, "and very few localities have'suc-
a pass for twenty-five yards from Held,' Says Speaker Frey had an aerial survey made of the ce~ded in even remotely approaching
!I,I andes to Pennypacker. borough, which showed that the most thIS remarkable development.
Darby brought a well-coached team Isaac Sutton. prominent building from the air was "The figures arc all the more im-
to the Main Line, one that could stop Narberth Hall, the new apartment pressive in view of the fact that the
all of Lower Merion's line assaults "The recent intemational Scout Jal1l- house, on Essex Avenue. The owners greater part of this telephone growth
when danger of scoring was ncar, but boree" was the biggcst peace confer- of this building, when approached by has taken place since 1915. Records
one that was weak on attack. Only ence ever held." Thus spake Scout Ivlr. Frye upon this proposition, were of the company show that on January
one first down was registered by Commissioner J saac Sutton at the agreeable to it. 1, that year, there were only 415 tele-
Coach Stover's lads, and that in the regular monthly mceting on Monday The next step was a letter from the phones in use in Narberth. In 1920
waning moments of the game, when evening of thl' Bala-Cynwyd Narberth Burgess to Arthur Cook as ConJllland.. there were 716, and the number had
the quarterback got away on a fake Rotary Club. I er of t~le Harold ? Speakn~an Pest, increased to 1256 by January 1, 1925.
pass for a sixty-yards run around right The American Scout contingent at suggestmg the LegIOn as a SUItable 01'- On October 1, this year, 1720 instru-
end. Peters and Jones nailed the run- Arrowe Park ncar Liverpool, Eng., ganization to sponsor such a job. ments were in operation here, reflect-
ner on the twenty-yard line, which was divided into troops and \Valter R. Several public-spirited citizens have ing a total gain of 1315, or more than
prevented a score. Lbwer!lf erion, Faries, Scoutma'ster of the Bala-Cyn- signified their readiness to contribute 30(1 per cent. in nearly 15 years.
on the other hand, ran' up a total of wyd troop, was in charge of one of towards such a project and its outcome
nineteen first downs. Captain Scott, these divisions. "The early telephone history of Nar-
rests with the Legion, which will CO~I- berth is interlinked with that of Ard-
Peters and Mandes alternated in "Montgomery County had a vcry ~ider the matter at their meeting 'with- more and vicinity," Mr. Erb explained.
carrying the hall, the first two doing good representation," Mr. Sutton said. 111 the next couple of weeks.
most of the toting, while Keith Parks "On September I, 1885, when the
"\Ve went over with 200 other Scouts A message of appreciation, signcd Ardmore central office was placed in
did a nice bit of signal calling.
and had lots of fun on the boat. The by Colonel Lindbergh, is presented to operation," he said, "only eight tele-
A great deal of credit is due to the
ground felt hard the first few nights in all communities providing aerial id(,I~­ phones received service through the ex-
centre, right end and two halfbacks
camp as there had been a drought and tification. change. At that time there probably
of the visiting team, for their effi-
it was very hot. Then the weather be- was not one telephone in Narberth.
cient and aggressive manner in stop-
came cold and wet and we wadcd Bridge Is Lighted "However, the first instruments were
ping the thrusts of Lower Merion's
through mud most of the time."
off-tackle play, as well as their end Lights shed their radiance on the installed here prior to 1909, for in that
runs. The husky left halfback of the There were 60,000 Scouts in call1p, ~arberth Avenue bridge for the first year the Narberth exchange, located in
Darbyites hit Scott several times, driv- Mr. Sutton pointed out, who repre- time in history on \Vednesday night. the Ardmore central office building,
ing him back, and it takes a mighty sented seventy nations. The Hun- The new fixtures, reposing on top of was opened to provide service to 266
tackle to do that. garian Scouts were ranked first by Mr. the roadway railing at either end of subscribers in this place.
The playing of Tip Peters stood out Sutton for ability in marching aud the bridge, illuminate the footpath in "Narberth continued to be served
during the latter half of the game. His camping, while for marching alone he fine fashion. which had long been through this exchange until January 1,
punting was exceptional at all times, singled out the Canadian, Danish, noted for its blackness. The lights 1927, when arrangements were made
and his cleverness in running back Polish, American and Hungarian were approved several months ago by to handle calls for local subscribers
kicks was spectacular. Tip's first punt Scouts as outstanding. Council and were installed after the through a force of operators and addi-
CONTINUED ON THE LAST PAGE An interesting feature of the en- usual delays by the Philadelphia Elec- tional equipment in the Cynwyd cen-
campment from the American view- tric Company co-operating with the tral office.
Buttons Go Down CONTINUED ON THE LAST PAGID Pennsylvania Railroad. "Originally Narberth was a part of
Buttons in the road to aid in traffic the old Philadelphia Division of the
control were installed yesterday at the Work of Child Health Centres Explained; Bell Telephone Company of Pennsyl-
intersections of Essex and Haverford vania, but about three years ago, dur-
Avenues and at \Vyndale and Essex 3899 Examined During Year at Four Places ing the process of reorganization, the
by George B. Suplee, Superintendent
of Public \Vorks. The measure is one The Community Health and Civic I
This is indicative of the growing ap-
State was divided into four operating ,
units and the Eastern area was created,
of a series of contemplated steps lit Association conducts four Child Health preciation of parents in safe-guarding' Narberth becoming an importan'htown
in that division." .~: .. '
traffic control, and will be given a Centers. The Ardmore and Bryn Mawr their children's health by "keeping thc
trial at these street intersections. Centers open two afternoons a week- well child well," which is the purposc
the \Vcst Manayunk and Oakmont of health centers. Resume Ash Collections
Cen.ters open one afternoon a week. These centers are primarily an edu-
To Hold Home Bake The regular winter collection of
Thrce hundred conferences werc cational project and not infrequently ashes and trash will be resumed next
The Church School of the Baptist
conducted at these centers bet\\cen in the examination of the supposedly week. The schedule will be the same
Church of the Evangel will hold a
September 1, 1928, and Septcmber I, well child are found conditions n.~eding days for the different streets as last
"Home Bake" on Saturday, October
1929, with a total attendance of -1613. medical. surgical, dental or other attl'n- winter. Papers must be kept sepa-
19, at a store at 235 Haverford Ave-
Medical examinations given by the tion, in which case the mother is ad- rate from ashes and placed in a sepa-
nue. The hours of the sale will be
Center physicians during the year 10' vised of the existing condition as re- rate container, in accordance with the
from 9:30 A. :M. to 3 P. M. Those
taled 3899 as compared with 3844 for \'ealed by the examination. She is given new regulations promulgated last
in charge assure prospective custom-
the preceding year. Of this number a written transfer slip to present to spring. Bottles, cans and trash may
ers that "everything is good and home-
made." 503 children under school age wen her family physician, dentist, hospital be placed with ashes, the Superintend-
new registrants at the health centcrs, CONTINUED ON PAGE TWENTY FIVE ent of Public Works states,
 Page Two OUR TOWN Friday, October 11, 1929
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August 1, 1919 And Then-
at 5556 Arch Street, Philadelphia,
stands out as one day of accepted
PROGRESS A Reo, a Selden and some Fords
were added as years rolled by;
opportunity. There was not the
blare of trumpets or the melodies of changes were made to style and type
a brass band you usually find at the body, until today-the Pierce Arrow
head of a procession; but instead, one (shown here), with its practical, plain
faithful "Harry" proceeded to haul and attractive lines typilies the prog-
one load .after another of well- ress made by this Company gener·.
graded and well-manufactured White ally. .
Pine, Yellow Pine and Hardwoods The other photograph shown be·
to the many business friends who had low is of a truck that is probably the
conlidence in the ability of the new only one of its kind in the East. The
organization, and made it possible to standards and horizontal bars are
keep adding stock and customers Aromatic Red Cedar, grown near
until, in the spring of 1920, it be· Green Lane, Pa., brought to Phila-
came necessary to add to the delivery delphia, sawn into slabs, then taken
equipment a special delivery vehicle, to the plant of Edw. A. Carroll &
which, because of its trade name and Co., Belmont Avenue, Barmouth.
ease of getting around, was nick- Here it received a treatment of
named "VIM and VIGOR." "dope" commonly applied to mar-
While this arrangement was par· ble. Letters were marked out, sand
tially satisfactory, it was not attrac- was applied under pressure of com-
tive by any means, and did not meas- pressed air, and the result is only one
ure up to the adopted standards of of the many things that may be done
the proprietors. with Wood.

May 7, 1921, an "Entree" was made at 29 Bala Avenue, where a
lumber business had been conducted some years previously. The pho-
tograph below shows the office as it appeared in 1921. Again the adopted
standards were brought to the fore, a few simple changes were made to
the front (with lumber), chimney was added and you now lind not just an
office, but something a little different, intending to be inviting to the
person as well as to the eye. It is in this bit of architecture that you will
find an increasing supply of information on many of the building prob.
lems that may now be confronting you. It is to be expected that your
Lumber Merchant equip himself to answer the many important questions
relating not only to the building of a new house, but of remodelling or
repairing the one you now occupy.

The SHULL LUMBER COMPANY recognizes that whatever progress has

been made is due to the splendid support tendered by the residents of
Narberth and others.
The Link Between Forest and Home

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 FriJa'Y, October iI, i929
'Our Town' Celebrates Its Fifteenth Birthday Todav
-Narberth Ci...ic Association, Backed by Public-
Spirited Men, Instrumental in Borough's De...elopment
By Robert J. Edgar.
They builded better than they knew
-those good citizens of Narberth Bor-
ough who organized the Narberth
Civic Association in April, 1914.
With a census population of 1700 in
1900 and 2700 in 1910 the Narberth of
1914 was without apartments, with
few paved streets, no electric train
service, no mail delivery, no traffic
problem, few automobiles, many va-
cant lots, many gardens, no parks or
playgrounds and no newspaper.
Narberth had, however, a greater as-
set than these modern improvements
and that was a spirit of good citizen-
ship which made possible its earlier
development.
The organization of the Narberth
Civic Association was directly respon-
sible for the publication of Our Town.
It purchased a tract of fourteen acres
and developed Narbrook Park, starting
the work in 1915, and with these two
projects as a beginning it carried on
for thirteen years until 1929 when the
directors agreed that the baby had
grown up and was able to stand on
its own feet.
This loyal band of good citizens who
believed in Narberth and who gave
their time and thought and energy to
make it a better town and who told
the world about Narberth should be
given proper credit for their work.
The Civic Association with Borough
Founding and Growth
of Holiday House, on
Sabine Avenue, Told
An interesting account of the found·
ing of Holiday House by the Kings
Daughters, aided. by the; ge!1eros.ity of
Miss Mary K. GIbson, IS gIven m the
October number of "The Silver Cross.'
The account follows:
In 1912, Miss Mary K. Gibson, of
Wynnewood, lent the King's Daugh-
ters and Sons of Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania, a piece of property on
Sabine A venue, Narberth. The fifteen·
room stone dwelling was located on a
lot 200 feet front, and 400 feet deep.
The yard was filled with large shade
trees, making it a delightful place for
our summer work.
Several' years later, after she had
seen the nature of our work, Miss Gib-
son offered to give us the property.
The only stipulation that she made was
that an Endowment Fund of $10,000
be raised in the next five years. This
seemed like a large sum of money, but
the King's Daughters worked and
prayed that they might be· able to raise
it and in two and a half years, they
had the money and Miss Gibson gave
them a deed. Many of the first sub-
scribers were Narberth residents.
Our summer work of giving a
twelve-day vacation to needy mothers
and children was carried on here until
1925, when it was thought best to
move Holiday House because the ter-
ritory had been built up and we were
no longer in the country. It was then
that the house in Narberth was con-
verted into an Old Folks' Home and
Holiday House was moved. At this
time both the Old Folks' Home and
Holiday House were made Pennsylva-
nia State Works.
Before the summer of 1926 the
Kings'Daughters purchased the prop-
erty at Valley Forge. It is here that
our Holiday House has been operating
for the past four seasons.
M. E. W. H. M. S. to Meet
The Woman's Home Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will hold its regular monthly
meeting in the church next Thursday
at 2.30 P. M. A large attendance is
desired, according to an announce-
Jllent made this week.
ouR. TOWN
Council, the School Board and the Fire
Company have developed a town and
a community of which they can be
justly proud.
Let us look back and see who they
were; many have passed on, a few have
moved to other towns, but a goodly
number are sti1l with us.
Here is the honor roll of the pioneer
Narberth boosters:
H. Clark Gara, Augustus J. Loos,
George M. Henry, Dr. O. J. Snyder,
A. C. Shand, A. E. Wohlert, W. D.
Smedley, Fletcher 'V. Stites, A. Perry
Redifer, C. Howard McCarter, Henry
Rose, Albert Golze, W. Arthur Cole,
W. S. Horner, E. P. Dold, James Art-
man, John B. Wi1Iiams, Edward S.
Haws, Harry A. Jacobs.
Many columns could be written
about Narberth's progress through the
years, but the march forward really be-
gan in those days of 1914-1915, when
we started to tell the world that we
were here and invited others to join
us. It was the same group of real
boosters who organized and produced
the historical pageant of June, 1914.
In 1918 the patriotic fete was held in
Narbrook Park under Civic Associa-
tion auspices and a large sum raised
for war charities. This under the lead-
ership of Joseph H. Nash.
Flower shows were real events in
the earlier days, the first one being
held in 1915, started and ably finished
by Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher W. Stites.
The Civic Association carried this work
on until apartments, garages, diveways,
golf and other such modern conven-
iences reduced the number of our gar-
dens and made a young metropolis out
of a little town of gardens and homes.
The Civic Association is no more.
The newspaper has been turned over
to its former editor. We have a Cham-
ber of Commerce now. Our streets
are all paved. We have a real play-
ground. Our vacant lots are all built
up. We have grown up. Some of the
old neighborliness has gone, but let us
hope the same spirit of good citizen-
ship wi1l continue to keep Narberth
up to the high standard set by those
of fifteen years ago.
Needlework Guild Plans
Annual Meeting, Oct. 30
Results of the year's work will be
viewed at the annual meeting and ex-
hibition of garments of the Narberth
Branch, Needlework Guild of Amer-
ica, which will be held 2 P. M., Wed-
nesday, October 30, in the Social
Hall of the Narberth Presbyterian
Church. According to the President,
Mrs. A. H. Durboraw, "The twenty-
fifth anniversary of the organization of
the Narberth Branch will be observed
in an unusual way.
Remarkable Growth of Community Library, From Its
Window-Shelf Beginnings, Traced by Former Librarian
By Mrs. Elizabeth K. Wood.
Not so long ago, and it seems less
time than it really is, where now stand
the dispensers of juicy roasts and deli-
cate chops in Dando's store on lower
Forrest Avenue, there gaily, with loy-
alty and optimism, the volunteer libra-
rians of the young Narberth Commu-
nity Library used to serve their turns
in distributing the books of their
rapidly-increasing collection. In this
room, with discarded furniture con-
tributed by interested citizens of the
town, with books acquired by gift and
from rentals of the newer novels, trav-
els and biographies, and with service
supplied by twenty-five volunteer
A Birthday Present
October 7, 1929.
Editor, "Our Town,"
Narberth, Pa.
May I take this opportunity to offer
to the staff of "Our Town" my con-
gratulations upon bringing the paper
to its fifteenth birthday? I am sure
that the Baptist Church of the Evan-
gel joins me in this.
We feel that your paper is interested
in serving the community and to that
end you have always showed the ut-
most courtesy and cordiality toward
our church.
May the future see the continued
growth and good influence of your
contribution to Narberth community
interests.
Very cordially yours,
ROBERT E. KEIGHTON.
Imagination and Hard Work
Put Playground Across
By the Spectator.
The Editor thinks the first appear-
ance of the revamped Our Town
might very well afford a proper occa-
sion to ruminate a bit regarding the
manner in which our playground came
to be, for the information of the new-
comers to Narberth and also to pin a
few plumes on the old-timers whose
cash and courage made the excellent
acquisition possible. Unquestionably,
the achievement is entitled to one of
the bright pages in the Borough book,
as the splendid spirit of it all, together
with the effective community co-op-
eration. should long afford a working
chart for the best manner in which
to bring other local improvements to
pass. There was opposition to it, of
course, but as we look back now we
are rather disposed to believe that
most of it was induced by what might
An Early Editor Describes the Founding of Our
Town, an Experiment in Co-operati...e Journalism"
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By Edward A. Muschamp
The first issue of "Our To,m"-
Number I, Volume I, appeared on
Thursday, October IS, 1914. The pa-
per was established by the Narberth
Civic Association and launched as an
"experiment in co-operative journal-
ism." Mrs. C. R. Blackall-now a res-
ident of Troy, N. Y., was the editor;
W. Arthur Cole, now vice president
and general manager of a well-known
advertising agency in New York city,
was the business manager, and the late
H. C. Gara was advertising manager.
Seven hundred copies of the first num-
ber were printed and thanks to the
loyal support of the citizens of the
Borough, and the enterprising co-opera-
tion of Howard Davis and "Charley"
-whom the older residents of Nar-
berth will remember as the news agent
at the railroad station-that first edi-
tion was completely sold out within a
women, the library made growth suffi-
cient to attract the attention of public-
spirited men and women of the town,
and to establish the fact that here in
its infancy with promise of steady and
vig(orous growth was a prospective
town library.
The history of the library from its
beginning when, as an idea, it origi-
nated in the mind of Mrs. Elizabeth
K. Wood, who had been appointed
chairman of the Literature Committee
of the Women's Club, and who had
outlined the plan as a part of the
work of that department, may be found
in the files of "Our Town," for the
Continued on Page Twenty-two
Page· Three
Narberth, Once ~4!Elfti'~
Founded by Welsb Settled
By Margaret Lambert.
Nestled between two great high-
ways and completely surrounded by
two of the Main Line's wealthiest and
most beautiful residential sections,
Merion and Wynnewood, is Nar-
berth, more modest than its proud
neighbors but charming in its simplic-
ity.
In its beginning, Narberth was a
large plantation owned by a man
named Thomas. When the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad was built through his
property he gave the land for a sta-
tion, which for many years was called
"Elm." He named it this after his
old home in Wales. But near the
center of Narberth there stands a mag-
nificent old elm which residents like
to claim was responsible for the nam-
ing of the town. Whe·n Thomas gave
the land for the station it was with
the understanding that it should al-
ways bear the name "Elm." But this
was not done for the railroad officials
changed the name to Narberth soon
after.
In 1889 a small group of men and
women met to form the village's po-
litical nucleus by organizing the Nar-
Continued on Page Six
have appeared to be the high-pressure
methods of its sponsors in seeking the
unanimous approval of the electorate.
I t was at a time when the ladies .were
still taking their suffrage in poitderous
fashion and many of the men who
were advancing the project reported
some weird encounters with feminine
objections. Nevertheless the women
as a body gave it their wholehearted
support and their local club sent out
Continued on ~age. '!Wenty-Seven
few days after it was printed.
Compared with the "Our Town" of
today that first issue was not very
much of a newspaper, but it marked
the beginning of a much-needed com-
munity medium, and it and subsequent
issues helped materially in carrying to
a successful conclusion the various
community projects that the Civic As-
sociation was then fostering-notably
Narbrook Park. Moreover, those
early issues of "Our Town" furrowed
the ground, so to speak, for many of
the other community improvements
and developments that have come into
being into later years.
Early in 1915 Harry A. Jacobs-who
later served the paper so faithfully as
editor for a number of years, joined
the staff as SUbscription Manager, and
in April of that year Mrs. Blackall,
the editor, finding that her many other
interests and activities would not per-
mit her to continue the work on "Our
Town," resigned, and was succeeded by
W. Arthur Cole and E. A. Muschamp
as joint man1\ging editors.· Miss
Maizie J. Simpson was appointed cash-
ier and continued in that capacity for
a number of years. The next OCtober
-with Volume II, Number I, Mr. Ja-
cobs became the editor, with the fol-
lowing staff of associate editors: Mrs.
C. R. Blackall, Mrs. C. T. Moore, Mrs.
E. C. Stokes, Miss Adah Durbin, Earl
F. Smith, George M. Henry, A. J.
Laos, Henry Rose, W. M. Melchoir,
and O. L. Hampton. And from then
on until "Our Town"· came under its
present management Mr. Jacobs c6"ri-
tinued as editor, serving-as. did... all
his predecessors and all the other·
members of the staff-without compen-
sation.
In its infancy "Our Town" was an
ambitious enough child but not a very
lusty one, and there were many til1l~s
when its editorial parents and relatives
were exceedingly doubtful it if would
survive. But large doses of hard work
-after the regular day's - work was
done-finally pulled it through.
 Page Four OUR TOWN Friday, October 11, 1929

FORE AND AFT UNCLE CY'S COLUMN

Theatregoers are beginning to be-
come a little impatient at the impasse OUR TOWN Women
between the managers and musicians This is a sort of last word to Aunt
in Philadelphia. Talkies in the mean- A Co-operatiye Community News-Magazine, founded in 1914 Cy taken from the shelter of the
time are enjoying a tremendous pa- by the Narberth Ciyic Association, and published eyery Friday at
tronage, but the result eventually will Narberth, Pa., by the
printed page. As soon as I see her
be (this is a guess) that more persons turn to the column I shall have urgent'
witl be bored with the sound pictures LIVINGSTON PUBLISHING COMPANY business with stableman or someone
than would have been the case had else.
PHILIP ATLEE LIVINGSTON, President and General Manager
they been able to vary their amusement From time to time we discuss the
menu with a few good plays and ROBERT MOORE CAMERON, Editor relative merits and demerits of the
inusical shows. This week the hotel THOMAS A. ELWOOD. As<ociate Editor sexes, although, of course, there is no
men entered the roles of peacemakers real argument. I maintain, and am
between the managers-musicians, but Office-258 Haverford Avenue, Narberth prepared to back my contention with
no truce was in sight as this is writ- illustrations, that women haven't as
ten. Telephone-Narberth 2545; if no answer, Ardmore 3100 good balance as men, generally speak-
• * *
Meanwhile the Hedgerow Theatre
mg, that they are apt to be far more
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCb intemperate, and that, with rare excep-
continues its artistic way without any tions, they never develop the depth of
worries about musicians, commercial Entered as :o:.ecoud-elaSH lnatter, Oetoher la, 191·•• at till' llOHl Offi('e at. intdlect of their brothers.
reward or carping reviewers. Narberth, Pn., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
In this matter of balance, whenever
When the Hedgerow Theatre brings a new creed or cult or fad or fancy
its production of "Sweeney" to the Friday, October 11, 1929 crops up, who supports it first, and
Little Theatre in Berwyn next - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ gives it its worthless momentum?
Wednesday all records for first show- 1'lighty women, of course. They are
ings on the Main Line probably will Our Birthday Party the world's great upsetters, always
be broken. For "Sweeney" had its starting off on new tangents from
world premiere only as recently as Today you are an invitcd and welcomc gucst at our hirthday party. which they return in a short time not
October 3 at the Hedgerow Theatre In celebration of our fiftecnth anniversary, "Our Town" has donned the least chagrined by the futility of
in Moylan-Rose Valley, and reaches
the Main Line on October 16-just a ncw dress, and we think rather an attractivc onc, and is asking all Nar- their goose chases. I have often
thought that all a man has to do to
thirteen days later. berth rcsidents to join in the festivities. It was our aim to place a copy achieve sudden wealth is to provide
The authors of "Sweeney" are Bella of thc currcnt issuc of "Our Town" in every home in the horough and some thoroughly useless and ephem-
Cohen and Samuel Spewack, who will its immediate environs. Probably we have missed a few folks (lists are eral fad for women and retire before
be remembered as co-authors of "The not infallible), but we assurc you thc omission was not intentional. the demand drops off suddenly, as it
War Song" and of ·~Poppa." will when some newer fad attracts
"Sweeney" is comedy of a most You're all invited. them. If you want an example of bal-
unusual variety, combining delightful And while we are celehrating, may we express our thanks to those ance, get the average woman driver in
subtlety with an abundance of wit, who are aiding us in the "receiving line." Our appreciation is great and some sort of tricky position in traffic
and never sacrificing an all-pervading I . I . I I. I . I" and see what happens. I know. My
hilarity. As the title does not sug- leart f e It to t Ile aut Ilors 0 f t Ile specJa artlc es w lIC 1 appear m t lIS 1ssue, only accident while driving was a col-
gest, "Sweeney" has its setting in the to the contributors of the many news stories which grace our columns, lis ion with a woman who dashed
Russia of 1921. All of its action is even to the donor of thc four-line "squib" and thc Fircsidc itcm. across in front of lI1e, jammed on her
in the midst of a guerilla war for The co-olleration of the advcrtisers, who madc this cdition l)ossible, brakes and looked perplexed when I
which no reafon is ever found or given, drove into her. Oh my!
aside from numerous petty grievances was so rcsponsive that it was necessary to close the ad forms carly this In the question of temperance, have
existing between the generals of the week. Their support indeed is pleasing. you ever noticed a woman who takes
warring factions. Sweeney's high- W e are a Iso certaI11 . If' I '1 I" to smoking? Before long she lights
powered salesmanship talks in the t lat many nell( s, not contn )utors to t liS 1ssue one cigarette from the glowing spark
midst of the more important business Ill!t who havc <;!leerful1y gi,~cn ~l1uch desire~ assist~nce in the past, also of the one before it, till she becomes a
of war becomes almost hilarious by Wish us well. Our Town recIprocates theIr greetmgs. "chain smoker." She will rock the
contrast-and further sharp contrasts The community newspaper has becomc N arherth's news-magazine. baby .or wash dishes with a cigarette
are present in the tactics of the war- . f d . , , dangling from the corner of her mouth.
ring generals, one a relic of aristoc- New .slze, new eatures, new epartme1!ts rapIdly are hcmg adopted. The I He taste for tobacco is never tempered
racy, the other a former New York old gIves way to the modern; change 1S the rule of the age.
waiter and a former servant to the
I with wisdom as is the average man's.
But-! "Our Town" has changed only in outward appearance and Take the questiO!1 of sport; if she will
aristocrat general. . I '1 f • k 1'1 ". . pla-- golf, she WIll play on all days at
Sweeney is played by Ferd Nofer; 111 ~. few. ot ler detm S 0 general ma .eup. le. pnncII?les~ the maJ?r all hours, neglecting all domestic and
the waiter-general by Walter Hart; polICIes laId down by the founders of thIS commu11lty publIcatIOn, are stIll social duties for the sake of the game
the aristocrat general by \Villiam in effect. Condcnsed in one statement, "Our Town" will stil1 strive every which intrigue~ her. If she would ride
Price; the woman general by Sue week to be an informative and intcresting community publication that a horse, she ~vlll want to spend all ~ay
Platt. The various assorted armies, rId I ' , I f I f '1 ' every day 111 the saddle, hangmg
peasants and secretaries include Alfred ma) Je rea J) (very mem ler 0 t le amI). around the stables confiding in the
Rowe, Albert Comanor, Joe Toulane, Narberth residents will continue to contribute generously to its grooms, forgetting 'that life has other
Carl Reucoff, <Milton Mandell, Ned columns, to criticize its mistakes and omissions, to take it to task or to amcnities besidt:s good horsemanship.
Pyle, Edward Ginsburg, Marshall raise it for ol)inions expresscd on communitv mattcrs' to hold that it is
Gatchell, Harry Bellaver and Helen P • • • J , •
It she plays bridge . . . but here
I d better stop before I lose my sense
Craig. the1r paper and that they, as ~l ma~onty of t~1C board, shaH say how 1t shall of balance, when they become bridge-
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be conducted. As long as thIS att1tude contlllues, "Our Town" shaH grow minded, think it, talk it, eat it, sleep it
Special scenery is now under con- and expand with the community. \iVhcn it ceases-, but we trust that and bore the rest of us with it, may the
struction for the Philadelphia Civic never happens.
Opera Company's opening perform- ,. . ,.
I Lord ke~p. them. Perhaps this intem-
perance IS Just another form of the lack
ance of Prince Igor, at the Academy It s qUIte a happy ])\rthday we re hav1l1g. of balance I have mentioned in the
of Music on October 24. This opera premise.
will be most spectacular, and the elab- I have often heard, though I have
orate Russian ballet under the direc- J ury D uty never met one, that there are profound
tion of Alexandre Gavrilov, with Vera The usual summons to various citizcns to serve on J' uries has been women thinkers. I am sure that in a
Strelska as prima ballerina will be ·I I social sense a woman may rise much
unusual and strikingly beautiful. Gav- sounded. W It 1 each caH to t le solcmn obligation to pass on the inno- higher and sink much lower than a
rilov, who has won fame in all the cence or guilt of our fellows comcs a wave of excuses from those who man. She gives such attention to the
capitals of Europe and especially in cannot or do not want to serve. details of life which we ignore, such a
Petrograd and Moscow for his inter- · d I dl I '" . . transcendental state is quite reasonable
pretations of Russian dance, will be- . I t IS U~l ou Jte y" true t mt many Junes are 1I1competcnt, and If thIS for her. \Vhen it comes to the reflec-
I
sides directing the ballet appear in the IS the case It can be dIrectly traced to the apathy of the public to render tive and imaginative qualities with
leading role, in which part he received such service. which our sex is endowed, she lacks
great acclaim in Covent Garden, Lon- A man whose business rcquires his close pcrsonal attention through- ,t!lcm ill spite of what o!her c~mpensa­
don, under the baton of Sir Thomas
Beecham. The Civic Opera Company out the .day I' has a very legitimate excuse and should consider his duty of tJ011~lsershearemaayf haVreealtnwthelrll pl?-ce.
f '1 b If' I . 1 e ew g onle sClen-
announces that it has added the fol- supportll~g liS ~m1.y a. ove t lat 0 ser~lIlg t 1~ St~te as a Juror; thc tist;;, but they arc deductive and pains-
lowing Russian singers to its roster courts will susta1l1 hm1 111 such a contentIOn. LikeWIse the woman who takmg. great on research and detail,
of names: Anna Sabloukova, Adio performs her own domestic duties, manages her home, and tends to her ~ut l?-ckilW il! the cons~ruct~ve, inven-
Kuznezoff and Vladimir Dubinsky. children but there can bc but few of these in this wealthy scction Thcre tlve, lIuagmatlve or fancifUl Side. They
Louis Dorney, tenor, has been engaged ' <. ". are more necessary than we to keep
to sing the role of Loge in Das Rhein- are, IlOwcver, a great many thoughtful people whose bus1l1ess dutIes can things going; we are neecssary to push
gold on November 21 and the follow- excuse them for a few days and a great many cducatcd womcn who have things forward. I
ing contraltos have signed up with sufficient leisure time to give the State a share. Thcsc pcople should' Of course, on~ cannot.gen~ralize, as
the company: Lydia van Gilder, well- form the backbone of evcry jury.
known contralto of the Chicago Opera
I I hav~ here, w!thout Violating many
Company, and Veronica Sweigert and A 1I"1 )era I ed ' . d' . exceptions, but If you know a woman
ucatlOn, vane. expenence, breadth of VIew, and warm I who distinctly stands out as being
Mae Mackie from among our young human sympathy should enter 1I1tO the make-up of an ideal juror. Un-ll1lisjudged by my cataloging, you must
local artists. fortunately such bodies cannot he hanel-picked and hecause of the defi- admit that s.he is so exceptional a;; to
Philadelphia's *Civic
* *Opera School of ciency of some groups of "Twelve good mcn and true" thcre results a attract notIce for those qualIties
. " f" I. I . b I' wherever she goes
Dance is now open at 1721-1723 Chest- 111ISCarnage 0 JustIce w lie 1 1S oth repre lenslble anel deplorable. Aunt Cy and I have intermediate dis-
nut Street, where classes in all
branches of dancing are being formed.
Echoes
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of the
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News I cussions over matters of this sort, and
although she has never openly agrecd
A special ballet class has been started
and is open to applicants. All pupils
.
Mayor of Reno, Nev., was marned recently. That's height of facts, are so evident that even the
I with me, I know that she does, for the
who qualify will have an opportunity something. flightiness of a female mind could not
of appearing in the performances of
the Philadelphia Civic Opera Com-
* * * contradict them.
pany. All applications should be made others. New $10,000 bill bears the likeness of S. P. Chase. Accept no)
at the above address. A man was fined for kissing a girl in
New York subway.
Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR TOWN Page Five

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Buy In Narberth
foin Our Fire Company

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Narberth, Once ~~Elm," Was Founded by Welsh Settlers; HOWARD L. POGUE

Adjacent Buildings Abound in Historical Interest Howard L. Pogue died early Satur-
day morning in the Presbyterian Hos-
CONTINCED FROM "8E THIRD PAGB pital, Philadelphia, at the age of 60.
Ohio Canal Stamps Delayed Funeral services were held 2 P. M.,
berth Park Association. This organi-
Announcement was made this week
zation met each month to look· after Tuesday, at his late residence, 302
by United States Post Office author-
matters affecting the welfare of the Grayling Avenue, Narberth, and were
ities that the issue date has been de-
town. A detective was employed and attended by many relatives, friends
layed for the Ohio River Canal Stamp
some street lights installed. In 1893 and neighbors. Conducting the serv-
issue. Instead of being available Oc- ices was the Rev. Christian G. Kop-
a committee was chosen to look into
tober 12, the commemorative stamps
the advisability of obtaining a Borough will be on sale October 19 in Cairo, pel, pastor of the Church of the Cove-
charter. This was not granted until III.; Evansburg, Ind.; Louisville, Ky.; nant, Philadelphia, and former minister A ]. N
1898. Cincinnati, 0.; Harmsted and Pitts. of the Narberth M. E. Church. Inter- a
bugh, Pa., and Wheeling, W. Va. The
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Narberth, like much of the surround- local post office will have the stamps
ment was made in St. Paul's Lutheran r
ing territory, was settled by the Welsh for sale a week or ten days later.
Cemetery, Ardmore.
G b
at the time of William Penn and there-
fore possesses a wealth of historic val- Sub-Juniors to Meet
Mr. Pogue is survived by his widow,
a son, Harry, and two daughters, Mrs.
o R e
r
George Fleck and Mrs. Ralph LaRue.
ue. One of the great highways bor- Anllouncement was made this week
dering the Borough is the Old Lan- that the season's first meeting will be o I t
h
caster Road, now known as Montgom- held in Elm Hall, Monday evening at Studies at Villanova
ery Avenue. It is one of the oldest 7.30, by the Sub-Junior Community Peter J. Eidenberg, Jr., of 224 North
in the country, being laid out in 1690. Club of Narberth. A speaker has been Narberth Avenue, has resumed his
d C B
I
In 1770 a new road was built from secur.ed, and an invitation is extended studies in the School of Commerce and
H r
City Line to Lancaster, called Lan- all gIrls between 14 and 18 years of Finance, Villanova College, Villanova, a
caster Pike and now known also as age to attend the meeting. Carrie P
the Lincoln H!ghway. It is bet~een Louise Douglass is president of the
these two hIghways, about eIght b' M'"
Pa. Its first aim is to provide a broad
. and general working knowledge of the
A n
miles from City Hall, that Narberth c1u , Ahce P. agu1t.'e IS vIce pres 1- functions of business and, second, to 1 c
lies.
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dent, Blanche Lodge IS treasurer, and provide for specialization in certain
Dorothy Miller is secretary. business fields. a
R h
On Montgomery Pike on the bor- 0
der of the Borough are found several
buildings of historic interest. The c
D f
Merion Friends' Meeting House, the Mothers' Council Promotes Child Welfare f
oldest house of worship in Pennsylva-
nia, was erected in li:1)5. A coat of in Home and School; Organized Three Years e i
stucco applied early in the nineteenth
century hides its stalwart stone walls.
Inside above the elder's seats, two pegs BY MRS. C. H. WOOLMINGTON \ now is a good time to join. The
S c
e
are pointed out as those upon which
William Penn hung his hat when he
President, Mothers' CounciL Council extends a most cordial invi-
About three years ago there was or- tation to every mother and woman
preached to a Welsh congregation ganized, in Narberth, what is known who is interested in the welfare of
T H C
e
(many of which could not understand
him). as the "Mothers' Council." At the our children to visit the next meeting,
Just across the field on the same side time of its organization there was which will be held October 21. If you
o R J
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of the road stood until recently, the old chosen, as president, a most capable are really interested in being of the
Price (or Rees) homestead, used by woman, Mrs. R. G. Augnst. Under greatest help to your child this is your
B Y b ~.
Lord Cornwallis as his headquarters
during the Revolution, when in this her leadership the Mothers' Council opportunity. Come and join us.
part of the country. grew mightily and interest increased as Officers of the Mothers' Council are:
On the opposite side of the road well as numbers. At the present time Mrs. C. H. Woolmington, president; u o r
a
t
stands another Price mansion, a beau- this body of busy mothers is one of Miss Florence Bishop, vice president;
tiful example of the Pennsylvania Co·
lonial architecture. Here the "horse the most interesting groups to be Mrs. Thomas U. Schock, secretary;
y C e
s
block" of stone steps, used by the found in Narberth.
riders in the early days to mount and The object of the Mothers' Council Robert
Mrs. John H. Patton, treasurer; Mrs.
f.
Nash, chairman Hospitality
dismount from their horses, still stands is to promote Child Welfare in home, Committee; Miss Florence A. Pray, y K F
under the spreading sycamore trees.
These steps were also built in the school, church and community; to Program Committee; Mrs. M. H. i
Colonial period and are contemporane- raise the standards of home life; to Nordblom, Membership Committee; o r
ous with the beautiful old mansion. secure more adequate laws for the Mrs. Paul R. Loos, Publicity Com-
Nearby at the corner of Haverford care and protection of women and mi ttee.
u
c s
and Montgomery Avenues, stands an children. To bring into closer rela-
old blacksmith shop, where, it is said,
Lord Cornwallis had his horses shod tionship the home and the school that
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during the Revolution. The shingle parents and teachers may co-operate r A
roof and the woodwork have been re- intelligently in the training of the
newed for the shop was burned out, child, and to develop between educa-
but the stone walls with the old stone
M n
n
mile post outside the door, stand as tors and the general public such united
they did more than two centuries ago. efforts as will secu~e for every child
R P i
. The General Wayne Inn on Mont- the highest advantages in physical, v
gomery Avenue, almost adjoining the mental, moral and spiritual education. a
Merion Meeting, abounds with his-
torical associations. The Tavern was The Council meets at 8 o'clock on
Battery
d
A e
r
built in 1704 and from that time until the third evening of every school
about twenty-five years ago, it served month and at that time most inter-
as a post office, for long the only one esting programs are furnished. The
Service
1
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a
in the section. The building is well topics discussed are always concerning Car Washing
preserved despite its two 224 years.
When the American army encamped matters in which parents should be and
o Y r
y
around the present intersection of interested and deal directly with the
Meeting House Lane and Montgomery problems of the school and the chil-
Avenue on September 14, 1777, Wash· dren. Simonizing
ington used the Inn as his headquar-
ters, sleeping there over night. Lafay- Every mother in Narberth should 5007 Wynnefield Avenue
ette is alleged to have passed the night belong to this organization and, as Auto Philadelphia
there as well as General Anthony this is the beginning of a lIew year,
Wayne. whose name supplanted the
Inn's former titles of "The \VilIiam Repairing 233 Haverford Avenue
Penn" and "Streeper's Tavern." Narberth
In the early nineteen hundreds there
was another attraction which added to
CHAS.F.EBERT
Narberth's fame and that was the Bel-
mont Driving Park. This race track.
Jobbing
famous in its day, lay in the tract back Carpenter Charles Funk New Victor Records
of Meeting House Lane, which is now
Phone: NARBERTH 4129 E"ery Friday
the scene of a real estate deevlopment. (Founded 1920)
103 Dudley Avenue

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$7}~1~~F:)~·!II- <;~:~;:a~in:~~~e 107 Essex Avenue --._---------
Decorating
New Fall Colors, $1 Each
306 Dudley Ave., Narberth
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PHONE: NARBERTH 2710
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 Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR ,TOWN Page Seven
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Autocar Influences stitutions, And, in a more practical ter than most competing makes, there • ••• d
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way, just the same as the local banks would be justification, because of the

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Values in Narberth provide the Borough govcrnment with factory proximity, in the purchase of
COOK & KOUP
them for Narberth, just the same as it
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cOI1\'cnient facilities, so the Autocar is always assumcd that friendly neigh- A Iterations & Jobbing
By Robert F. Wood. Company provides a ncighborly and bors are bettcr sources of supply than
1059 Montgomery Avenue
"Will you let us know the signifi-l intcrested source for motor trilcks, more disintcrcsted and distant busincss
cance of the Autocar Company to Nar- I Even if Alltocar trucks werc not bet- houses. Phone: NARBERTH 2841·W
w __ •
berth?" That was the requcst of the I
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editor and it seemed to the writer I
when he stated it that it should not
be necessary to explain to thc peoplc
of any community the significance of
having at their gates a manufacturing
establishmcnt employing more than
1000 pcople and enjoying a national
distribution of a quality articlc of high
price. Onc wouldn't have to explain
such things to the inhabitants of thosc
hustling wid-western cities where the

{or tie
automotivc industry is now centered.
The question is, however, a little
more reasonable when one takes into
account that Narberth cxists almost ex-
clusively with reference to the city of
Philadelphia, which provides in its
multiple activities the means of liveli-
hood for practically all Narberth pco-

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pIc, Viewed in that light, the Autocar

rIce
Company or any other non-Philadel-
phia conccrn might be said to have
little significance to thc peoplc of any
1\1 ain Linc community.
Thc Autocar Company has bcen un-
intcrruptedly manufacturing motor ve-
hiclcs on Lancastcr Pike, in Ardmore,
only two miles from Narberth, for
nearly 30 years. During tMat time,
few industrial enterprises have en-
joyed such an unbrokcn period of con-
of
ONE
sistent production, which means that
millions of dollars have been pouring
annually from the Autocar payroll into
thc local communities, benefiting all
tradesmen and materially assisting in
maintaining and advancing local real II
estate values.
I t might be possible to prove that
during the cntire thirty years that the ... ... ... ... With the purchase of
Autocar Company has been established any ~f our Oven Heat Control Gas
in this vicinity, some of its employees
have been residents and taxpayers of Rangl3s, at the regular retail prices, we
Narbcrth, There are manv of them
there now, and if they should all decide will include a Radiant Type Gas Heater
to leave at the samc time, throwing
thcir homcs and rcal estate on thc mar- retailing at $15. This offer holds good
ket for sale, it probably would affect,
tcmporarily at Icast, real estatc values fora
in the Borough. There are Autocar
homes in many parts of the Borough
and the present writer knows of none
which is not owned bv the occupant.
LIMITED TIME ONLY
Thcn, of course, thcrc TS the human
contribution to community lifc which
has been made bv thosc Autocar cm-
ployecs who have comc to Narherth
to live and havc contributed their indi-
vidual portions to thc acti\·ities of thc to
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The Heat Control Gas Range will enable you
do perfect cooking without oven watching.
various churchcs, clubs and othcr in-
Set the regulator at the degree of heat required,
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and your cake, pies or a whole meal will be fin·
ished lIutomatically and just right. You can
·15 Saved ... and have your choice of plain, full enamel or part
cold-weather comfort assured I Take enamel finish. Prices start at $68. Easy payment
advantage of this liberal offer now.
so that you muy huvc not only the terms, too.
ver~' desirable heat control gas runge,
bUI an efficient rudiunt gas heater as The Radiant Type Gas Heater operates on the
well. Should you prefer u healer sdl-
ing ut n,ore thun $15, we will he very principle of thc sun's rays-warms you through
glad 10 allow ~'ou $15 on the higher and through. Instantaneous heat in the morning
priced heuter.
before the furnace gets under way. Extra heat
Ea8Y Term8 of Payment at night when the furnace fire is banked.
Telephone ••. or come in and see the heat control ranges and the heaters

Philadelphia Suburban-Counties
The home that burns our anth-
racite
Gas and Electric CODlpany
I T'S the fincst fuel that a
furnace ever burned and IT'S
REALLY ECONOMICAL. De-
pendable as it always has been, it
brings to your home the heat-com- ArdJ"ore 3500 Wayne 3 Hilltop 233
fort you need.

L. M. Thompson Bryn Mawr 327 Boulevard 1600

BALA.CYNWYD
Phone CYNWYD 280
 Page Eight
Ursinus Holds Haverford
Scoreless; Booters Win
Followers of the Haverford College
fortunes were disappointed last Satur-
day when Coach Harmon's football
team failed to defeat Ursinus in the
season's opener. Haverford outplayed
Ursinus throughout and should have
scored a touchdown. The inexperience
of the boys prevented them from using
their full strength just when it was
needed most. Captain Howard Mor-
ris played his usual stellar game and
was a demon backing up the line. This
is his first year in this role, and he
has started off with a bang.
Haverford hooters overwhelmed
Western Maryland in a soccer game
at Haverford l..st week by a score of
8 to 1. Richie was the star for Haver-
ford with Longaker close behind him.
Voting Machines Subject
Benjamin H. Ludlow, of Ardmore,
will speak at the Hannah Penn House,
Philadelphia. on Wednesday, October
16, at a meeting of the Repuhlican
Women of Pennsylvania, incorporated.
Senator Frank J. Harris, who intro-
duced the voting machine bill, will
speak on "Pennsylvania should have
voting machines." Tea will be served,
and all Republican women are invited.
THE FUTURE OF GAS
It is estimated by authorities that
the potential market for gas is 25
times present sales. When the past
history of the industry is considered
this claim does not seem exagger-
ated. It is but a few years since gas
was used for lighting alone. It has
been displaced in that field by elec-
tricity. but so fast have its uses in-
creased in the home and in indus-
try that it has forged steadily to
the front rank of American indus-
tries.
At the present time gas is avail-
able to little more than half of our
population. But as more and more
homes and factories are able to take
advantage of gas as fuel, in cook-
ing and heating, pipe lines are ex-
tended and the industry expands
to meet demands.
Every pound is properly re-
cleaned in our yards before
delivery.
Deliveries are prompt, and
carefully executed.
Prices are at the city of
Philadelphia circular rate.
J. J. SKELTON & SON
Bala-Cynwyd, Penna.
Local Phone
CYNWYD 700
OUR TOWN Friday, October 11, 1929
A Familiar Narberth Scene
Photo sho'Ws El1ll Hall, scat of the borough g07/erlIlNellt, h01lle of the Narberth Firc CompallY,
hradljuar/rrs of thc 111 0IllCII'S Commullity Club alld 11Ieetillg place for the Narberth Buildillg alld
Loal1 Associatioll. The building underwellt cOllsiderable rccollstruction last )'rar alld cmergcd as an
at/raethle. 'Well-eljuipped alld c011l1ll0dious h0111e for the <'arious orgalli:::atiolls it housrs.
Junior Circle of Guild Care Should Be Taken .. .. •'* .... .... *' .. '*' ..
dO
to Hold Card Party To the editor of Our Town: ZECKWER·HAHN
American flags should he properly Philadelphia
The Junior Circle of the Narherth put away after using. They should he
Branch of the Needlework Guild wiII rolled and covered and put away where Musical Academy
hold a card party in the Community they wiII not be torn or trampled. 110 \'enrH of Contlnue,l Sueee"" In
'I'rnlnlnA' !'1I1"lelnn"
Building on Friday evening, October I have been in a few places where Graded courses In all depart-
18, at 8 o'clock. I have seen the flags lying around the ments of musleal Instruction un-
der the same distinguished fac-
All juniors and seniors are urged to
help these young people.
floor, in the dirt and people walking!
over them. I
ulty.
l"requent recitals and oppor- .J
For reservations phone to Betty
BowlJlan, Narberth 3753-\\T.
I WILLIAM BLACKLEDGE,
'Vorld \\Tar veteran, Caretaker of
I
tunities for public appearance
while studying.
leOR YEAR DOOK. 'VRITE
FREDElUCK HAHN
Story Hour Tuesday
I COlJlll1unity Building and Play-
ground, Narberth.
prellltlent-Dlrector
.............. - ..
11117 Spruce St. Pennypacker lWII3
.
l\Iothers
Hour" are library
at the invited Tuesday
to the "Story
after- • ~~~-~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_~.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~,
noon at 4 o'clock. The stories which
Miss Church, the librarian, will tell in- Phone, Cynwyd 771
clude "The Story of Columbus,"
"Magic 1\1 ountain," "Boys and Girls
of 1\1 orway" and others by request.
The Richards-Fisher Co.
273-7 Montgomery Avenue, Cynwyd
YOUR FORD DEALER
Announces its Second Birthday as a Member
of your Community
The past two years have made us many friends
-and we appreciate them.
We trust the next year will increase that circle
of friendship through the New Ford II
FAIRNESS TO THE CUSTOMER
HONESTY TO ALL
EXPERT SERVICE
SKILLED MEN
(
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FACTS: We have delivered 500 New Fords
City Phone
since January, 1928-that's 500 enthusiastic
GREENWOOD 7484 boosters!
 Frida,!, October II, 1929 OUR TOWN Page'NiDe
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Schedule For First Half Klrscht 18 136 23 .... '*''* . . . . . . ~ ••••
Kistler .•.•.....••. 10 131 27
of Church Bowling Season Knutzen ••.••.•.•• 29 153 10

October 4, 1929
Koup ..........•..
Laughlin ...••.....
71
59
138
144
22
17
Ye Oddity Shoppe Official
J. Lebo............ 11 139 21
Baptist Battlers vs. Baptist Boosters. MacNlven .. " . ••... 75 141 19
The Gi/t Center 0/ the Main Line
Catholic Colts vs. Lutheran Lions. Maler 75 135 24
Mason .....•...... 81 149 13 inspection station for brakes
Meth. Meteors vs. Meth. Mules. Merkel 12 139 29
Forest and Haverford Aves.
Pres. Pep Boys vs. Pres. Pilots. Miller 18 162 2 Narberth and lights, for Narberth and
October 11, 1929 Miner ..........•.. 14 138 22
Moore .....•...... 21 108 46 ;. Merion, in connection with
Methodist Mules vs. Pres. Pilots. Murray 37 148 14
Methodist Meteors vs. Pres. Pep Boys. Nicholson •........ 60 168 0
State Highway Department
Baptist Boosters vs. Lutheran Lions. Otley .........•... 9 151 11 Gifts of Distinction 1929 motor vehicle code and
Baptist Battlers vs. Catholic Colts. Ousey 10 171 0
Purring ..•........ 83 159 5 Exclusive Juvenile Depart- safety campaign.
October 18, 1929 Reese 57 155 8 ment
Methodist Meteors vs. Lutheran Lions. Reger 18 141 19
Baptist Battlers vs. Pres. Pilots. Rupert Reger 66 162 2 Delicious Home-made
Pres. Pep Boys vs. Catholic Colts. Rei .." 24 159 5 Candy
Baptist Boosters vs. Methodist Mules. Riddle 49 150 12
Riley ...........•. 76 147 14 Greeting Cards
October 25, 1929
Catholic Colts vs. Methodist Mules.
Ripper
Savill .....•.......
50
15
132
168
26
0 Circulating Library
Station Garage
Pres. Pep Boys vs. Baptist Boosters. Selard 74 137 18 Candles A" Hor'Yath
Baptist Battlers vs. Meth. Meteors. H. T. Smedley 75 171 0
Presbyterian Pilots vs. Luth. Lions. W. D. Smedley 84 154 9 Picture Framing
H. Smith 69 145 16 Essex & Haverford Aves.
November 1, 1929 C. Roy Smith 76 157 6
Pres. Pep Boys vs. Baptist Battlers.
Lutheran Lions vs. Methodist Mules.
Spencer ....•.••...
Charles Spencer .:.
24
60
128
148
30
14
.,.
Catholic Colts vs. Presbyterian Pilots. Stringfield ...•..•. 57 145 16 Open Friday Evenings
Meth. Meteors vs. Baptist Boosters. Thomas ..•........ 15 160 4
Titlow .•'..... ..... 49 174 0 Auto Repairing
November 8, 1929 Ward •....•.....•. 45 166 0 Phone Narberth 2882
Baptist Boosters ys. Catholic Colts. Watts 75 145 16
Presbyterian Pilots vs. Meth. Meteors. Weiss .••.......... 66 164 1
Lutheran Lions vs. Baptist Battlers. P '+' '+' Ii up ..

Methodist Mules vs. Pres. Pep Boys.

,November 15, 1929
Lutheran Lions vs. Pres. Pep Boys.
Methodist Mules vs. Baptist Battlers.
Pres. Pilots vs. Baptist Boosters.
Catholic Colts vs. Meth. Meteors.
November 22, 1929
Methodist Meteors vs. Meth. Mules.
Pres. Pep Boys ys. Pres; Pilots.
Catholic Colts vs. Lutheran Lions.
Baptist Battlers vs. Baptist Boosters.
November 29, 1929
Baptist Boosters vs. Lutheran Lions. BIRTHDAYS, wedding days, "Mothers' Days," Christmas-how
Baptist Battlers vs. Catholic Colts.
Methodist Meteors vs. Pres. Pep Boys. many days a year contains of Anniversaries to cherish! "Women's
Methodist Mules vs. Pres. Pilots. days," they might almost be called, for a sentimental attachment to
December 6, 1929 anniversaries seems to be most inherent in the fair sex.
Pres. Pep Boys vs. Catholic Colts.
Baptist Boosters vs. Methodist Mules. But there is one anniversary that lays a strong hold upon a man's
Baptist Battlers vs. Pres. Pilots.
Methodist Meteors vs. Lutheran Lions. heart-the day each year that marks his start in business.
December 13, 1929
Baptist Battlers vs. Meth. Meteors. A business can hecome almost a human heing. and as it grows
Pres. Pilots vs. Lutheran Lions. older its accomplishments grow and its character develops as surely as
Pres. Pep Boys vs. Baptist Boosters.
Catholic Colts vs. Methodist Mules. if it were alive.
December 20, 1929
Catholic Colts vs. Pres. Pilots. This year is the seventh in the Ii fe of our business. There are red-
Meth. Meteors vs. Baptist Boosters. letter days to remember in those seven years-the day we sold our first
Lutheran Lions vs. Methodist Mules.
December 20, 1929 lOO-ton oreler; the delivery date of each new truck; the day we moved
Catholic Colts vs. Pres. Pilots into larger quarters; the day we signed up for Jeddo-Highland coal
Meth. Meteors vs. Baptist Boosters.
Lutheran Lions vs. Methodist Mules. exclusively; the time our Cellar Service Department was formed, and
Baptist Battlers vs. Pres. Pep Boys. recently the day we added heating equipment to our line (automatic
December 27, 1929
Lutheran Lions vs. Baptist Battlers. stokers and heat regulators). Add to these the many other days when
Methodist Mules vs. Pres. Pep Boys. we receive a kind word of approval in the mail, or listen to a speech of
Pres. Pilots vs. Methodist Meteors.
Baptist Boosters vs. Catholic Colts. commendation from a satisfied customer, and you can see that almost
January 3, 1929 every day in the year is an anniversary of some happy occasion for a
Pres. Pilots vs. Baptist Boosters.
Catholic Colts vs. Methodist Meteors. successful, growing business.
Methodist Mules vs. Baptist Battlers.
Lutheran Lions vs. Pres. Pep Boys. We are looking forward with eagerness to the next "cycle of
seven" and the steady growth that lies ahead for the progressive retail
Bowling Handicaps Based coal dealer.
on Last Season's Averages Ralph S. Dunne.
G. Ave. Hdcp.
Albert.. 72 172 6
Ander"on 32 158 6
George Bahb •..... 74 169 o
Bailey .•.•........ 64 166 o
Chapin 15 189 o
Cummer •........•. 14 161 3
Davis 66 150 12
Dempsey 18 142 18
DeHart 15 158 6
Dickie .•.•...•.... 15 161 3
Duncan 27 152 10 i
Durbin............ 66 164 1 "
I !
Ellis 18 168 o ,)
Fitzgerald •....... 9 134 25
Follette •.......... 51 150 12
.:
Follmer .. ..•...••.. 9 132 26
Goodrich ..•....... 71 134 25
Haist.............. 55 146 15
Hause ••.......•.. 41 143 18 Distributors
Haws 67 154 9
Heard.............
Hamer •••••.••..•.
49
17
140 20 Phone Jeddo-Highland Open
136 23
Hoyle ••....•...... 83 149 13
Humphreys •.•.•.. 51 163 2 Narberth 2430 Coal Friday Evenings
Hutchinson •.... • • 9 133 26
C. L. Jenkins 81 143 18
Elmer Jenkins ..•. 88 167 o O'Verbrook to Villano'Va
Ernest Jenkins ... 02 150 12
Keirn ••••..•.•.... '12 152 10
.X;lrk ••••••••••••.
~,
1 169 o
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Merion Title & Trust
Company

RESOURCES $12,000,000
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 Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR TOWN Page Eleven

Se en Hundred and Twenty-two Couples Wed in Three

" •
Years by Dr. Burk at Valley Forge Memortal Chapel
In a period of three years, the Rev.
Dr. W. Herbert Burk, rector of the
Valley Forge Memorial Chapel, has
married 722 couples.
And in that time he has only mar-
ried one divorced person, whose mar-
riage was sanctioned by the bishops
under the laws of the church. Further,
insofar as he has been able to learn,
only six marriages performed in more
than thirty years have ended in di-
vorces.
Valley Forge is not a Gretna Green.
They can't just walk into the chapel
as two, and out again as one. Before
any ceremony is performed the couple
must subscribe their signatures to a
ide~ of establishing a national religious
shrme at Valley Forge, a chapel of
... ., .. .., .
the highest type of architecture; a place
to emphasize the patriotic and religious
questionnaire. None but those who atmospher.~ of Valley Forge, where
approach the solemn service of mar- Washington knelt in the snow to pray,
riage with the most serious thought ofand a repository for relics and objects Narberth's
the covenant into which they are en- that tell of the early history of this
tering "before God and man" are country, and especially of the Valley
granted the privilege of being marriedForge section. LARGEST STORE
in what has been characterized as "one The relics are deposited in the mu-
of the 1110st beautiful churches in Amer-
seum maintained by the Valley Forge
ica." Historical 'Society, founded by Dr.
One of the favorite bits of advice Burk. Dr. Burk won the Philadelphia
which Dr. Burk gives newly-married Civic Award for his accomplishments in
carries about 5000 items
couples is to go home and start a little
building the memorial chapel. He is
menagerie. Not monkeys, cats and now planning the Washington National in stock:
Memorial Church, to cost $10,000,000.
dogs, but "a little bear and forebear."
It was about twenty-five years ago
that Dr. Burk, while rector of St. A man in Kansas married to get out
Hardware, leitchen
John's, of Norristown, conceived the: of jail.
utensils, paints, gllllS,
toys, guns ancl IImmu-

i'
One of the Pioneers • •
nition, oil cloth lind
fabrikoid, flower pots
lind garden imple-
ments, playgrou"cI
John Albrecht, who began his business equipment, including
career 46 years ago, has spent 31 years of that see - saws, s JV i n g 1,
time in this vicinity. At the end of the last slides, etc.
century, he established his nursery in Pencoyd
and began giving special care to cemetery lots
in West Laurel Hill Cemetery and selling pot- Neither in Philadelphia
ted plants, etc., to wholesale stores in Philadel-
phia and vicinity. nor on the Main Line is

In 1913 he bought six acres of nursery there a store better equip-

land on the south side of Montgomery Pike
at Meeting House Lane. In 1921 six addi- peel to serve the needs of
tional acres were purchased across the pike,
along Meeting House Lane; three acres of the average household-
this tract IS now under glass, constituting 'and your attention is re-
the finest greenhouse on the Main Line. The
following year the Primrose Flower Shop spectfully called to the
was opened ,in Ardmore. Additional hold-
ings include 10 acres on State road, Cyn- fact that our prices are
wyd; 17 acres along Mill Creek road, and an
no higher than those of
120-acre farm planted with nursery stock,
five miles from Paoli. any metropolitan store's
Twenty-five steady workers are now. em-
prices.
ployed by John Albrecht Nurseries, and this
number doubles during the planting season.
They take care of orders for .,
Evergreens, trees and shrubs.
Garden plants, flowers and all
seasonable potted plants for
Narberth
home and conservatory.
,------------,--------~ Hardware
Orders are filled for customers as far dis- Company
tant as Philadelphia and Paoli, Germantown
and Lansdowne.
.,
Phone NARBERTH 4177

By the Old Meeting House Narberth

230 Haverford Ave.
Montgomery Avenue at Meeting House Lane
NARBERTH 3666
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Week-end Trip to Poconos
.! Mapped by Auto Club
i The Poconos, one of eastern Penn-
sylvania's most alluring scenic regions,
ilj especially attractive du.ring ~ady
aittumn. To supply motorists wIth a
delightful week-end journey the Key-
stone .Automobile .Clut! has mapped
a; tour through thIs pIcturesque sec-
tibn•
.: "Mt. Pocono and its adjacent scenic
wonderlands are not only popular sum-
mer vacation haunts, but are becoming
aU the year round resorts,". says J os-
eph Murphy, supervisor of the Ard-
D!lore branch of the club. "Splendid
fishing and hunting are found here and
the zestful and invigorating climate
vyilt be welcomed by those who enjoy
(xutdoor recreation."
I From Ardmore the to.ur leads north
tbrough Bridgeport, where the ~chuyl­
~ilt River is crossed to Norristown.
:From' hel'"e . national' route 122 is fol-
lowed through Centre Square and
Montgomeryville' ·to Doylestown.
Turnihg left into the Lackawanna
Trail,; marked' as national route 611,
the tourists proceed north through
r.olling .farnlland to Kintnersville.
,"Vind!ng beside the. banks. of the Dela- and lakes and innumerable streams are
ware :the' trail passes through Easton
and Martins Creek to Bangor.
Coritin'uing northward. the t~avelers which the Lackawanna Trail passes, way and it was through this section
drive: through the scel1lc regIOns of reads like a legend. Before the com- also
the Delaware Water Gap section to ing of white settlers to this sect!on troops
'East :Stroudsburg and enter Strouds- in 1725, it was the scene of Indian ter
burg. : .. . tribal councils. The redmen called
S~oudsburg ~
Pocono land of recreation.
the ga~way to th~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Mountains ~
' , . de . . . . '* .. de '* • .....
Twelve Years'
printi~g, experience IS repre-
sent~d in the Narberth Print-
ing.· Cpmpany, . alth~ugh it
was not established here until
August·I,·1928. It's pro-
prietor, Harry H. Hollar, has
turned out, promptly and
satisfactorily. the following
'types of work:
10,000' de luxe copies of
the Garden Nurseries
1929 catalogue;,
business letterheads, en-
. '. velopes, booklets, .circu-
lars, catalogues and post
cards;
wedding announcements
and other social station-
ery;
tickets, programs, sched-
ules, meeting - notice
post cards.
You' w(,;" t go wrong if
you ha'lle your mimeo-
grttphing,. .multigraphing
a~d 'printing done by the
Narberth
Printing Co.
(Ha.rr.y H. Hollar)
109 For~st Ave., Narb.
Phone NARBERTH 2618
..................
OUR TOWN
Blue Ribbon Winner of Bryn Mawr Horse Show
Photo by Harry D. Richards.
Mr. William M. M. Robinson, of Paoli, driving his
five-gaited mare, Suttie Lee, before the Combination Class of the
Bryn Mawr Show.
Th I it "Minisink." It was through Mon-
right on the town's edge. e car y roe County that the terrified survivors
history of Monroe County, through of the Wyoming Massacre made their
that General Sullivan marched his
to avenge the wholesale slaugh-
of the whites.
Northward through Analomink a
SMOOTH STREETS
FOR NARBERTH DRIVERS
In the past few months the Suburban Construction Co.
has repaved several of Narberth's streets with
SUBURBANITE
The Superior Paving Material
The following streets are included:
WYNNEWOOD ROAD
GROVE PLACE
ROCKLAND AVENUE
WYNNEWOOD COURT
Lancaster Avenue Ardmore 2500
.,
Friday. October II. 1929
side trip leads to a paradise for fisher-
men and hunters. The Broadhead. the
Paradise and many other trout streams
are nearby. With the opening of the
hunting season deer and feathered
game are to be found in nearby hil1-
sides. Following the Lackawanna
(
Trail, national route 611. the tour leads
northward through Tannersville, Scot-
run and Swiftwater to Mt. Pocono.
From this central point a side journey
leads east over State route 615 to
Paradise Valley. Westward State
route 115 winds through Pocono Sum-
mit, Stillwaters, Naomi Pines to
Pocono Lake and Blakeslee.
Mt. Pocono, rising 1769 feet above
sea level, is the highest point in this
section. The air is consequently pure,
dry and invigorating and the scenery
(
has all the charm of lofty elevation.
From its green garb in sum,mer the
surrounding forest-clad hillsides
change in autumn to a mass of many
hues in foliage. For the homeward
trip it is suggested that the travelers
use the same routes as on the out-
bound trip as in this way road con-
struction work so prevalent in the fall
can be avoided.
A 75-year-old truck driver in AI·
liance, 0., dropped dead the other day
He was the father of 24 children, 23
by his first wife, and one by his sec·
ond. His second wife was the mothet
of nine children by another marriage,
making 33 children in the family
Peace be to his ashes.
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PriJay, October 11, 1929
22-Mile Daily Walk Was Business Start of
Narberth's Oldest Merchant, Who Recalls
Blin.ard of '88, and Opened Store in '97
How would you like to walk twenty-
two miles a day? That is the distance
the proprietor of Narberth's oldest
store had to traverse each day for six
years, when he carried papers for John
Breen, Gladwyne (or Merion Square),
as you please. Howard E. Davis, one
of the Borough's most esteemed cit-
izens and business men, commenced
his business career in 1887, when he
was 14 years old.
Breen's store was a large old-fash-
ioned one, where you could buy feed
for horses, ice cream, meats, spools of
thread-or what have you? Along
with the general store Breen managed
a paper route, and for six years young
Davis went through this routine: he
walked from Gladwyne to Manayunk
-six miles-to get the papers, and
then walked to Bala-Cynwyd, where
he served thcm, in districts then known
as Black Horse and Merionville.
Mr. Davis rcmembers the blizzard
of 1888, when snow drifted high over
the fences on Montgomery pike-
which was then known as Old Lan-
caster Road. His employer sent him
over from Gladwyne to Ardmore,
where Breen had been unable to serve CX'NTINUED ON FOURTEENTH PAGE
papers for three days, because there . . . . . . . . . . de . . . . . , . , . , . . . , ·
had been no train to Ardmore from
Philadelphia for two days.
Walking on the top crust of the
snow, young Davis served Ardmore
(or Athensville) and vicinity with
three days' papers, and then, on the
fourth day of the blizzard, served 'Vest
Manayunk and Bala-Cynwyd with pa-
pers which by that time had grown to
a four days' accumulation.
DRESSMAKING
Mnkp
lIHRI.I:"
wou:.G WOMEN
dotht'"
SCHOOL
1I1rlloweIJ ""olem
PATTER:"S
whill··
measure. 'Rv€'nlnJ: ('Inlll"pfol
:'·lIfulul'.
Illude
(IJr
and wnnwn. nl·IJ1~ll··
THE BYRD SCHOOL
h"··· 1"'1'!h1.
lOP Chestnut W':l~ 3~~~
OUR TOWN Page Thirteen
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Sparton, Crosley, Amrad, PhUco and Vietor
Radios and Combinations; T elechron Electric
Narberth's most noted pedestrian
had by 1893 covered enough thou-
Clocks-observatory time from your own light
sands of miles and saved enough pen- current; General Electric Appliances: Thor
nies (from $12 a month and board) to
buy a milk route. He served most Ironers and Washers; Conover Dish Washers.
of the thirty houses that were in the
Elm Station district at that time, until
the route grew largcr and prospcrous. -Anything electrical for the home-at the
When an operation for appendicitis
became necessary, Mr. Davis sold the
milk route to George Markle. Later Narberth Electric Shop
on, perhaps because he missed the ex-
ercise, Mr. Davis bought a paper route
from John Booth, and again served,
241 Haverford Avenue Narberth 4182
for a few years, in BaJa-Cynwyd and
West Manayunk.
Meanwhile, in 1897, the Davises
built a house at 111 Forest Avenue,
Narberth, amI ogened the front room
as a shoe store, which Mrs. Davis
tended whenever the little bell on the Free
front door tinkled, announcing a cus-
Deli"ery
tomcr. In thc rcar the milk business
was carried on until it was sold, while
the stablcs for horses were maintained
at the corner of Haverford and Nar- 237 Haverford Avenue, Narberth
berth Avenues, once known as Mar-
kle's corner, and later as W. D. Smed-
Opened December 5, 1925,
Food
The Good Food
SANITARY BARBER
SHOP Better Food
makes ladies' and chil-
dren's hair bobbinb a spe- That's always been our aun. The difference in cost be·
cialty. Open 8 A. M. to
to
mPII
I", 8 P. M. (and until 9
P. M. Saturdays).
41 N. Narberth Avenue
tween the better quality and the poor quality is a mere trifle
in money-and lots of times the slight increase in cost is
offset by our delivery and accommodating service. Think it
L. Kir;cht, Prop.
over . . . .
• +' +' +' +' '+. '+ '+ . . +' . . . . . .
Specials for Friday and Saturday, October 11 and 12
Premier COFFEE, a high- FRESH VEGETABLES
grade product, lb 45c RECEIVED DAILY:
California SWEET PEAS,
Lippincott's Large stuffed
OLIVES, qt 85c
v.. pk 39c
California Sun k i s t
Lippincott's APPLE BUTTER ORANGES,
-a real spread, jar 23c 25c, 35c, 45c, doz.
Legs of Genuine Spring Lamb, lb. 48c
ESP[ciAlL't
Try one of our Fresh Killed Frying Chickens, average Weight,
fiNE
(;.A~MENTS 3 to 3 1-2 lbs., lb. 48c
REPAIRING - REMODELING
FUR WORK A SPECIALTY
1()2 f()RREST AVE
~A~f>E~Ttl For Sunday Morning Breakfast
21«> f3AlA AVE Canadian Bacon with some of our
CYNWYD r-.rt j) Guaranteed Strictly Fresh Eggs
CYNWYD ~LU
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Howard E. Davis Recalls the team of the century reveals How-
ard E. Davis, himself, in baseball garb,
Blizzard of '88-Built Congratulations to
standing beside Joseph Barker, his
Elm Station Store in '97 brother-in-law; Robert Colwell, wbo at ttO ur Town" on its
CONTINUED FROM PAGE THIRTEEN 'that time was proprietor of Narberth's Fifteenth Birthday
coal yard; William Owens, pointing a I
Icy's, because of the modern apartment . Ii (I N I th'
dramattc nger per lapS at ar Jer s
house and stores which he has in re-
..
cent years InuIt on It. I I ) d
progress ; an two sma JOys s an -
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ling knee-Illgh to theIr parents. They
II l t d MOWRER BROTHERS
In 1910 l\fr. Davis purchased from were Gene Davis and BiII Harher, his Carpenters and Builders
Edward Cole the eigar store at 224 pal, who later became town shoe-
Haverford Avenue, where he installed maker, and who is now a lieutenant TELEPHONE, CYNWYD 687
the stock of the Forest Avenue shoe on the Philadelphia police force. In
store. Also purchased from Cole was thc background could be scen blades
the Narherth and Merion paper route, of corn-where the Merion Titlc and
which was served for ten years until Trust Company's Narberth bank now
•
finally it was sold to George Glass- stands. The group in the photograph
pool. were standing in the middle of 'what
Increasing his stock, not only of was then a little used street-the in- ,
shoes, but also of the many other tersection of Narberth and Haverford
cOl1llllodities which l1Iay now he pur- A \'enlles.
chased in his store, ]\[ r. Davis ill 1923
STONIANS
alll'ratiCln, adding- an apartment to the
bru:k building- at 224 Ha\'erford Ave-
IF'
foulld it uecessary to make a $1 (),OOO ,Psychologist to Speak

at rlcn s en ra
d' C t I School
nue, and huildillg- two stores. Con- .. - - - , I !!) .
' ' t 0 expal1(,I I) aVIS
tmulIIg" ., I>USllless
' . OC-1. Joseph
.' Jasti .ow ' J h. D., '." ., an
cupied hoth stores in 1925, making an-/ enllnent Amen:an psychol?g-lSt, who
other alteration costing $4000. formerly occupied the chaIr of psy-
1\1 D ' . I'll t I t I' chology at the University of \OViscon-
• 1', aVIs, IS s 1 a >e ~een a liS '1 ,'11 I e the s leaker of the evening
store, observJIlg longer busmess hours SI l. \\ 1 1 1. f 1 P ,
.
than most men, and \\'Ith the expec- at the. first
. 11IcetlJ1g
' I '0 C t le
I Sarents
I I
'
tatlOn 0 f l1Iany 11I0re years of useful .A.ssocIatlOn
.. of Fnen( I s11 entra '1 c 100d ,
)' 'f
pub IC h e, After hours, he retires t o . 'Overbrook, to I he Ie
1"1 ( next n onI ayI
. apartlllent ahovc thc store. and evenmg- : OctoDlcr J 'to m t le
Ills " sc 100
I I
' . , - g-\'Il1 nasllJ Ill. r. astro\\' IS \\,1( e y
Tl'ads up on a surpnsmg vanetv 01' . I I . I' I n b
books, . kno\\'n, parh.cll ar y 111. t 1l~ oea t y, Y
his daily arttcles on Ke(~pmg Mentally
Mrs. Davis is full of mcmories of
Fit. in The Public Ledgcr. The Asso-
thc days when she. was a shoe store
ciation invites any who are interested
proprietress-and Davis' stilI has, for
to attend this lecture.
that matter, a large stock of shoes.
rubbers. sneakers, etc, de . . de .. .........
As for their son, the manager of
l':arherth's challlpiollship hasehall tea III
is doing- well, thank you, Affable.
keen on all sports and a lIlaster of
many of thclll. the g-enial Gene has
hccn one of the idols t)f Narherth's
sl11all boys for ycars. cevr sincc he For Those
was a YOllthful foot balI, baseball, etc.,
ete., star.
One of the highly interesting and
diverting photographs in the Davis:
familv alhulllS is onc taken just after I
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Who are careful how their
D, blLittlers ;,"\ I 7No}tN "'-
l\.RADIO:~ ~ prescriptions are com-
If ~
COLUMN P pounded, Shea's Drug
SHaHS can express personallty. They
selected with car~
With shoes dlsdNdwlf 81
styled as Bostonians you won't go W1'Ona. StrIa foI
'''you only think.-
you. can play a Store is indicated. bUsiness, sporta and evening wear--.n COl'Iec:G III
h.Orn-youol;lqh~ to IOIli.-wearq-alI comi~ MoIdr f7 to. .~
be out wi~h if:, Prescriptions Called For
~ -selling fi~}{
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY
October 11 and 12

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A II Bostonians
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AT THE STATION
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Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR TOWN

Recreation Board Dependent on Council and School authorized to set apart for use as re~­
reation centers, under the jurisdiction,
Board for Find1Jc;al Support, Committee Report Shows CONTINUED ON P~GJll SIXTIQN

Tlds is section 3 of the ,-cport of tire

c01llmittee of tire RecreatiQ/~ lJorud of tire
Bm'ollgh of Narberth, ~(I;';dl COllcems The Highest-Grade
itself with tire rclatiollS of th4! Recreation
Board to Borol/gh COIl'ldl olld tire baked goods in the Philadelphia
Sclrool Board. section are baked at' White'.
The Act of July 8, 1919, P.L. ?84, Sweet Shop. Why?-Becawe the
in further recognition of t he educatIon-
al importance and value of c()IJllllunity finest ingredients are wed. And
recreation, cxprcssly llrl>vi(lcd that BAZAAR our 14 flavors of d,liciOUJ ice
"any school district sllall havc thc cream continue. attracting· people.
powcr to join with any , • . .bor- and Cake Sale
from Germantown, Overbrook
ough. . . .in equippil1~, opcrating
and maintaining parks, I) Ia.ygrounds, Friday, October 11, 10 and Paoli.
playficlds, gymnasiun!s, IJUO lie bat,hs,
swimming pools and mdl>or recreatIon A. M. to 6 P. M., in
ccntcrs and may appropria1e money
therefo~." I t also provid cd that in vacant store at
WHITE'S
cities and boroughs two llIell1bers of SWEET SHOP
thc Recration Board shall be appointed 235 Haverford Avenue Pastry, Candy, Nuts
from the mcmbership of the School
Board. 219 Haverford Ave., NlIl'b.
Borongh Council, however, has thc
exclusivc power to creatc a ncl to abol-
ish the Rccrcation Hoarel and to as-
s'ign its powcrs and rCS!lClil si bilitics to
anothcr hoely or board, without the
sanction of the School Boa nl. .
Therc is thus creatcd a tnangntar
relationship hetwecn Rccreation Boarel,
School Board and DoroLl~h Council.
Thc Rccreation Board is tIle: ereaturc
of Council in its origin: it is al1icd \,:ith
thc School Board throl1~ll o\-crlapP11lg Walter P. Miesen
mcmbcrship. It is also (Iepcndcnt on
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 ()URTOWN Friday, October II, 1929

Recreation Board Supported act, come under the direction and su-
pervision of the Recreation Board;
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By Council· School Board

~(7~()TI4~
where one is established, just as the
facilities created or contributed by
CONTINUED FROM PAGE FIFTEEN Council are to be so administered.
of th(l Recreation Board, "any lands or To be concluded Tti1:4T~1:9 £~~~()
buildings owned by such . . • bor- .... ,. .. Bala Avenue, one Block South of Cynwyd Railroad Bridge
ough. • . .not dedicated or devoted
to other public use-"

I
Performances 7 and 9 P. M. Today and tomorrow:
Tile Community Building is dedi-
cated and devoted to other public use Program-Week of Oct. 14: "Trial of Mary Dugan"
Twenty
-the library, for example-as well as
to recreation purposes. An arrange·
ment by which Council, through its Years Ago MONDAY and TUESDAY •
I
Property Committee, resumes its ulti·
mate authority over this building, in ~~The Single Standard"
order to protect its use for other than
r~creation purposes, is in no sense in· With Greta Garbo, Nils Asther and Johnny Mack Brown
compatible with the continuing author·
ity of the Recreation Board over the WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
recreation gmunds, and does not pre·
c1ude a further arrangement, like that -in the fall of 1909, Ricklin's ~~Three Passions"
now in effect, by which the Recreation hardware store was founded-
Board exercises authority over the rec· Starring Alice Terry
reational use of the buildings, or those one of the oldest stores now ex·
parts of. it used for recreational pur· FRIDAY and SATURDAY
poses. isting in Narberth.
It seems only necessary to arrive at ~~Pleasure Crazed"
a definite' common understanding of It is still doing business, at
the province and procedure of the two At Saturday Children's Matinee--Come and See
bodies with reference to the matter,
and such an understanding is readily
facilitated by overlapping membership,
, Tile relation of the Recreation Board
the SaIne place, with a com·
plete line of hardware and
house furnishings.
1 -
"KING OF THE KONGO"
II
to tile School Board, as to administra·
tion of recreation facilities in connec·
tion with school property,is equally If we don't have it, ask for
clear~ The Act nowhere gives to the what you want and we'll get
Recr(lation Board any direct authorityy
to enter upon o'r administer any part it.
of the school property. It does au·
thori:ze the school board to "join with
any . . . borough. . . .in equip·
ping operating and maintaining" play· We Deli'/ler
-0 jaunty
grounds, etc., and to appropriate
money therefor. It is for the School
Board to decide whether any play·
one-strap
grounds attached to school propert)'
shall be administered as a part of a
community wide enterprise, in whole
for the
or in part, and under what conditions
RICKLIN'S
It seems clear that the School Board
could entrust the management of the
scboal playground to the Recreation HARDWARE
school girl
Board, during the summer months 01
alter school hours, or it could conduct
such a playground under its direct STORE
management for the use of the com·
munity. The point is that there can
be no conflict of authority in this mat· Opposite Station
ter between the Recreation Board and
the School Board, for the latter has
supreme and final authority over its Phone Narberth 2555
own property.
Contributions made by the School
Board to general community recrea·
tion enterprises, as authorized by the ........................

Milk Makes Muscle The older generation and the younger gener-
ation agree-there's something very whole-
some about the smartness of this shoe. Tht·
layered leather heel. high.cut sides. and
hroatl alligator strap are every hit practical.
as smart. They JlI'ovide the foot proiectio~l
so necessary for a growing girl. This Shoor-
Trt·d is IlIIilt of very substantial leathers-
No other food or drink can take the place tUJl (:ulf or palent Il'uther ••. aizes 2lh to 8
of milk in giving boys and girls sturdy
bones, sound teeth, strong muscles •.. $7.75. In sizes Illh to 2 •.• tan (~alf
and the foundation of lifelOng. only •.. $6.50.
health. Let your child drink a quart -
of Gold Medal Milk every day.

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 Frida" October 11, 1929 , OUR TOWN
Women's Community Club Has Played a Role
of lmporiance in the Borough-A Brief History
By Mrs. N. C. Anderson
The Women's Community Club, like
many other organizations founded by
women, was based on the thought of
service. It began as an outgrowth of a
small committee of women who served
as an auxiliary to the Narberth
Y. M. C. A.
The first meetings as a club were
held in 1916, at which time the club
was federated. Mrs. W. C. Cameron
served as the first president. During
the year of 1917 the thoughts of
American women were on the World
War, and it was along the lines of war
work that the club directed much of
its energies. Mrs. C. P. Fowler, the
president' at this time, ably directed the
Red Cross work in the club's rooms.
Supervision of children's gardens, work
in the Main Line Canning Center, as-
sistance in the Liberty Loan drives,
adoption of a French orphan were
some of the club's activities and
achievements.
By 1919 the club had grown to
eighty-five members and it was then
including a permanent Christmas tree
which was later destroyed by fire. The
Sub-Junior department was organized
about this time.
Having in mind since its forma-
tion the need of a clubhouse to ade-
quately carryon its work, the club pur-
chased in 1926 a lot on Essex Avenue.
which it now owns. The clubhouse is
yet an unfulfilled dream, but the work
goes steadily on and will become a
reality in the near future. This year
the club was hostess {or the third
time to the Montgomery Federation of
Women's Clubs and held its first club
institute.
S1. . ., . .,., . •• •
The last president to serve the club
from its infancy to its years of adoles-
cence, now numbering thirteen, was
Mrs. C. Arley Fanner, and during this
time the classes grew in popularity and
attendance. The Red Cross drive in
the borough was conducted wholly
under the auspices of the club this year
and the membership secured was the
largest ever enrolled.
The "Better Homes in America"
week in April, 1929, was pu~ across by
a club woman, Mrs. Eberhardt Muel-
ler, and her committee, and a large con-
tribution was made to the Crossnore
School in North Carolina, which was
assembled by the Welfare Committee.
Crossnore's appreciation of the gift
was evidenced by their naming a wing
of their school the "Narberth Home
•• .. ... e"! • • -
Pap Seventeen
for Orphan Babies." Mrs. W. Rus-
sell Green, the new president, assumes
her duties October 22.
The club motto, "Co-operation,
progress and service," is evidenced in
its past work, and its membership in
the Federation of \Vomen's Clubs
makes it a unit in the world-wide
movement of womenhood for cultural
development.
------
Believe it or not. A golfer at Wax.
ahachie, Tex., drove a ball extremely
high and it went 90 miles before again
coming to earth. (The ball landed in
an airplane, which was taking off for
a 90-mile flight.)
... ... ...
A Rocnester professor says there are
507 known annoyances in the world
Wonder if there's a place on the list fOI
the dentist who smiles when he sticks
that burr in your teeth?
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J. A. MILL~12
that a written constitution and by-laws
were first assembled and given to the
members. In 1920 the first large event
for the benefit of a clubhouse fund was
ESTABLISHED HIS SHOP IN A BASEMENT AT
given in the form 'of a bazaar which
netted a nucleus of $1200 for the fund. 104Y2 FORREST AVENUE, NARBERTH, IN 1912 - - - - - •
A junior department was formed this
year and a large collection taken for
the Near East Relief.
In 1921 during the presidency of
Mrs. E. C. Batchelor, a board of di- CI. Due to growth of the business, in 1915 he removed to the two-story building
rectors was chosen and a club charter
obtained, the charter signed by all at 246-48 Haverford Avenue, Narberth, once the headquarters of the borough fire
members making them charter mem- company.
bers. A chairman of literature was ap-
pointed and the club library was
opened at this time with eighteen vol-
CI. Further expansion of his business all over the Main Line and vicinity led to Mr.
umes on the shelves. Miller's removal, in 1926, to his present two-story building at 111 FORREST
During the years of 1922 and 1923, AVENUE, NARBERTH, which he erected to enable him to equip his shop for t
M ;,s. Abram Bunn Ross, now president
of ~the Montgomery County Federa-
all branches of sheet metal work and roofing.
tion of Women's Clubs, was at the
t-lub's helm and under her direction CI. In this shop are made skylights, ventilators, cornices, conductors, elbows and
h/many new departments and classes
\) were added. Numbered among them
ornamental work. The establishment is also equipped to do all branches of slate,
t were classes in current events, dra- tile, tin, asbestos roofing and re-roofing, in addition to gutters, spouting, heater
1 matics, legislation and dancing. (In- work and refrigerator repairs.
[I cidentally, Mrs. Ross' views on divorce

,. J were printed in the Evening Bulletin

for April 7, 1923.)
The c1uh had been constantly in-
creasing the scope of its work and
aims and was becoming more of a fac-
CI. In the past few years J. A. Miller has placed the roofing and sheet metal work
on the following Narberth Buildings:
Narherth Public School
tor in the community life. The intro- Merion Title and Trust Company
duction of the Community Christmas
Tree celebration sponsored by the Narherth National Bank
club and of Community Day were in- Narherth Motion Picture Building
strumental in developing closer contact
Narherth Post Office Building
between the town and the club.
Mrs. Harry A. Jacobs, a tireless The White Building (apartment house and stores)
worker in club and civic life, became Narberth Fire House
president following Mrs. Ross and ac-
complished much. The club turned
over the library to the Library Asso- CI. Thesame expert workmanship and dependable service is functioning in private
ciation at this time. A contribution to dwellings-and has been for ,'ears-as your neighbors will tell you.
the borough's street lights was made
by the club in the fall of 1924 and in
January, 1925, the club broadcast its
first radio program over Station WFI.
Two county chairmen were then num-
bered in the club's membership.
, - - - FOR ROOFING AND SHEET METAL WORK ---r
A notable step was made in 1926
when Mrs. Leroy C. Douglass organ-
ized the Mothers' Council, which has
I Call Narberth 2920 _ I
since affiliated with the Parent-Teach-
ers' Association, and accomplished ex-
cellent work in the community. A

I
,! kindergarten
through was also
the efforts madeclub.
of the a reality
planting of many trees at the Nar-
The ~- - - - - - - - - - • • • • - • - - • - - - - - - - • - -- ~ ~ ~ ~ _ SJ
,berth Station was effected by the c1u~II!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~1
 Page Eighteen OUR TOWN Friday, October II, 1929

The use of modern all-steel refrigera-
Acquire Large Tract tors with approved insulation would
For Game Preserve go far toward doing away with this
heavy loss, thcy state.
In selecting a refrigerator. one with
Twenty Farms in Chester County neither the minimum or maximum ice
Are Bought by Edward meltage should be chosen, according
to the Leonard Institute. The refrig-
and H. N. Woolman. erator that consumes the most ice is,
naturally, too costly to keep filled and
will not maintain the dcsircd tcmpera-
$200,000 WAS INVOLVED ture of 50 degrees or less, while thc
one that consumcs the least ice prob-
A tract of 2500 acrcs in East N ant- ably has faulty circulation and will
not do its job of keeping the food in
meal Township, Chester County, has perfect state of preservation. A rea-
just been acquired by Edward Wool- sonable rate of ice meltage is essential
man: of Haverford, and Hcnry N. to keeping food good. The ice should
\Voolman, of Ardmore, for conversion never be covered with a blanket or
into a forest rcservation and a game paper to retard its melting.
preserve. More than twenty farms The Chinese are reported to want A Chicago woman wants a divorce English paper. But there should be at
havc bccn asscmblcd into thc tract. wild wcst movics. Lct's scnd thcm all bccause her husband eats crackcrs in Icast a dual control for occupants of
Announcemcnt of thc transaction wc've got. bed.
To Improve Tract Buys Rosemont Site
The proposed improvement of the A lot of two and one-half acres on
entire sixty-acre tract, in Bryn Mawr, Boxwood road, west of Conestoga
acquired a short time ago by Wallace Road, Rosemont, has been sold by
and Warner, architects and developers Mears & Brown for Girard Trust
of Philadelphia, was announced Satur- Company and Wallace & Warner to
an undisclosed purchaser, who will
day. The property is located at State build a residence for his own occu-
and Lafayette Roads, north of Bryn pancy'- This ground is a part of the
Mawr station, and a portion is already new development recently started by
being improved with large residences. Wallace & Warner, and known as
It is part of the old Selden Twitchell Barclay Farms. The lot was held for
estate of 135 acres, which until recently sale at $25,000.
was owned by Carl N. Martin. An
improved township road, connecting
King Alfonso says he would be a
Lafayette Road with State Road, ha5
mechanic in an automobile shop if he
been completed and all development
weren't king. There isn't much differ-
facilities have been installed. The
ence between a king and a bandit aftel
large acreage adjoins the new Phila-
all.
dclphia Country Club, Llewellyn ... ... ...
Farms and the Longmeadow estate.
A mo t or car th a t r e qUlr
. es 110 drl'ver
has been invented, according to an
I the back seat.

was madc on Wednesday by Vol. S·li~~~~~·_~-~-~~~~~i!~~!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!fjl

Hendcrson. of Downingtown, who,
with his son, Everett G. Henderson,
acted for most of the parties to the
sale, which was one of the largest in
reccnt years in that area. The pur-
chase price was about $200,000.
Edward Woolman, a graduate of
Haverford College and a mcmbcr of
thc Statc Forcstry Association, now
Speaking of Growth
rctircd from activc business, was one
of thc principal owners of Woolman
Dairies, which cOlllpany was the oldest
milk distributor in Eastern Pennsyl-
vania. He is a member of the Cen-
When people talk of business growth on
tenary Firms. the Main Line, the case of Cook Brothers
Henry N. Woolman, a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania, is sec- comes to mind. In 1919 the three brothers
retary of the Supplee-Wills Jones Milk started their plumbing, heating and roofing
Company, a director of National Dairy
Products Corporation, a director of In- business at 250 Haverford avenue, Narberth.
tegrity Trust Company, president of
the board of trustees of Eastern State Now, at their large and modern estab-
Pentitentiary, member of the Picker-
ing Hunt Club and the Chester Val- lishment at 104 Essex Avenue, Narberth, and
ley Hunt Club, a trustee of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania and president their branch at Wayne, approximately twen-
of the General Alumni Society of that ty-four employees are required to take care of
University. Mr. Woolman was the
donor of his farm at Valley Forge to the present volume of work.
the University of Pennsylvania for the
removal there of its undergraduate
schools.
Very special attention has been given to
The Vvoolmans being interested in automatic gas water heaters, until today Cook
forestry, hunting and fishing, expect to
make use of their new holdings as a Brothers are mentioned by Philadelphia dis-
forestry reservation and game prcserve. tributors as being able to sell more automatic
Boro Wastes 925 Tons of gas water heaters than the rest of the plumb-
Ice in Year, Survey Shows ing-heating concerns on the Main Line.
Narberth poured 925 tons of melted
ice down the drain pipes of its re- For co-operation of Narberth's resi-
frigerators during the last year without
its housewives getting any good from dents, and the confidence which has made
it. This figure, arrived at by the Leon-
ard Institute of Food Preservation, is growth possible, thanks and good wishes are
the annual ice waste in Narberth due
to faulty refrigeration. It is based on
a survey of ice meltage in Rochester,
at this time extended by
N. Y., showing a per capita waste of
500 pounds of ice. The American pub-
lic is literally pouring water into a
sieve, the water being in the form of
ice and the sieve being the leaky unin-
sulatcd refrigerator that does not keep
out hot air.
The average family should use about
8000 pounds of ice a ycar if the refrig-
erator is wcll insulated and the doors
fit tightly, according to food special-
ists. This provides for keepiug the 104 Essex Avenue, Narberth. Narberth 4040
ice cha:inbcr well filled in winter as
well as summcr. Although the avcr-
age family uses only half this amount, Roofing :: Plumbing :: Heating ..
the survcy at Rochester, a typical
Amcrican city, showcd that an alarm- Sheet Metal Work
ing portion of the ice purchascd is
wastcd each ycar in the averagc homc.
For the nation this involvcs a loss of Our outstanding feature: Quality of materials & 'workmanship
millions of dollars in ice alone, be-
sides the cven greater loss in spoiled
food causcd by the poor refrigeration.
Purchasers of refrigerators too often
consider price alone, say food preser-
vation experts. Like an automobile,
the refrigerator should bc purchascd
on performance as wetl as appearance.
 Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR TOWN Page Nineteen
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Lesley Again Heads Deliveries Increase
The Autocar Company reports a 20
Federation Drive per cent. increase in deliveries of new
Gilfillan Just Noses Out Heckle,
Autocar trucks for the summer months Narberth Baiting Lead in 1929
Haverford Man to Act as Volun of July and August which, reflected in
- earnings for the same period, bring A.B. R. H. O. A. E. G. P.C.
teer Chairman of Main Line the net profits, applicable to common Gilfillan ...................... 134 36 57 58 83 20 35 .4253
Heckle ........................ 127 42 54 59 19 2 38 .4251
Division. stock, for the first eight months of the Fleck .......................... 129 34 51 39 3 2 33 .394
current year up to $14.25 per share, Jeffries ........................ 18 1 7 58 1 1 5 .388
after preferred dividends and Federal Burns .......................... III 26 38 158 17 5 27 .342
CAMPAIGN STARTS 21ST taxes, compared with $5.09 per share Mulligan .................... 118 31 40 65 97 17 38 .339
Humphries ................ 69 18 23 19 27 16 23 .333
for the first eight months of 1928. Masters ...................... 105 28
Robert W. Lesley, of Haverford, 34 37 39 4 29 .323
Babb ............................ 100 18 32 34 40 12 30 .320
again heads the Main Line division George Bernard Shaw says there is Martin ........................
no such thing as a typical American
of the Welfare Federation volunteer Is it possible he hasn't seen any of tht
Harris ........................
Graham ......................
147
87
80
22
15
16
2,
47 233
64
13
48
12
13
39
24
.319
.310
24 8 42 2 28 .300
campaign organization, which will con people who pose for' the illustration in Curvin ........................ 93 23 26 29 3 2 34 .279
duct the Federation's ninth annual vegetable oil advertisements Thomas ....................... 84 18 23 43 1 I 34 .273
Blessing ....................... 16 2
campaign, beginning October 21 and Mrs. Lindbergh * took
* * her turn at thE 4 17 0 I 9 .250
continuing until November 4. controls while flying with her husband
Mr. Lesley, who is well known on from New York to Miami. What's a
I Durbin ........................
Young ........................
Lyons ........................
25
71
29
IS
2 7
17 166
1 30
11
0
9
10
23
.240
.239
5 5 1 14 I 10 .172
the Main Line because of his leader- wife for if she can't help her husband?
sWp projects,
civic yea~ ~ M~n L~e ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
fur manyhas been associated with
- .
the Welfare Federation campaign as a
volunteer chairman for several years
He is a former president of the Com-
munity Health and Civic Association
of Ardmore.
Assisting Mr. Lesley as vice chair-
man will be W. Logan MacCoy, of
Overbrook. Mr. MacCoy also will
serve as chairman of the Main Line
Special Committee, and Miss Joan
Wollaston, executive secretary of the
N ARBERTH HALL
Community Health and Civic Associa-
tion, will act as secretary of the Main
Line division. The Main Line's Newest Apartment
The Main Line campaign division
territory embraces all the section from
the Philadelphia County Line west-
Now Practically Completed
ward to Paoli, including Bala-Cynwyd,
Narberth, Wynnewood, Merion, Ard-
more, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Rose-
n}ont, Wayne, Devon and Paoli, and
the large section lying to the south :=====
of Ardmore and Bryn Mawr, added to
the Main Line division territory this
year.
Of the 122 member agencies of the
Welfare Federation this year, many Sixty apartments to choose from. Rentals,
are located or are carrying on their
activities in the Main Line section
$50 to $85, including gas and refrigeration.
These organizations include the Com- Really a modern suburban home with the
munity Health and Civic Association,
Ardmore; Haverford Community Cen- most complete equipment and a minimum of
tre, Haverford; branches of the Mont- responsibility. • . • Wide court, attrac-
gomery County Boy Scouts, branches
of the Girl Scouts, branch of the Chil- tively landscaped.
dren's Aid Society, convalescent home
maintained by Jefferson Hospital at The interior finish has been given the utmost
Ivycroft, the Cathcart and Richardson
Homes maintained by the Presbyterian
care in order to secure materials having dura-
Hospital at Devon, branch of the bility and beauty. No expense has been
Travelers' Aid Society, branch of the spared to provide facilities in making house-
Babies' Hospital at Llanerch, and the keeping easy, and your home a comfortable
Convalescent Hospital at Broomall.
one.
Several new features of the cam-
paign organization have been devel-
oped by the Welfare Federation this Careful selection of tenants. Private garage
year. These include the organization
of several volunteer committees which on premises.
will as',ist the campaign under the
direction of the Council of Social Management under the supervision of
Agencies, the right arm of the Federa-
tion in the management of agency our office
policy and the dovetailing of agency
work.
These new committees embrace the
formation of a Speakers' Bureau ·Com-
mittee and a Neighborhood Demon-
stration Committee. The Speakers'
Bureau Committee, under the chair- Naturally an early selection affords
manship of Mrs. George H. Straw- the best choice
bridge, of Bala, is organizing a corps
of capable speakers who will be avail-
able when called upon to give social
Robert J. Nash at Narberth Station
work talks before industrial, mercan- Rental Agent
tile, church, school or club groups. In Narberth 4009 and 4010
addition to conducting an intensive
speaking program throughout', the
campaign, the speakers will be avail-
able throughout the year.
 Page Twenty
Bryn Mawr's Freshmen
From Many States
Academic Year Opens With One
Out of Three Applicants
Admitted.
APPOINTMENTS MADE
Bryn Mawr College opened its
forty-fifth academic term on Tuesday
with a freshman class from twenty-
three States. Only one out of three
candidates who was qualified for ad-
mission by passing college entrance
board examinations could be admitted
this year.
Dr. Marion Edwards Park, presi-
dent, has announced the following new
appointments: as associates: Mr. Rob-
ert Elson Turner, from the University
of Pennsylvania, to the French De-
partment; Dr. Ralph Stewart, of Johns
Hopkins University, to the Depart-
partment of Geology; Dr. Enid Glen to
the English Department from Lough-
borough College (Nottingham Uni-
versity, England); Dr. Camillo P.
Merlino to the Department of Italian
from the University of California, and
Miss Madeleine Soubeiran, who since
1927 has been teaching at the Lycee
de jeunes filles at Aix-en Provence, to
the Department of French. As in-
structors, Miss Rose Lucile Anderson
n mathematics; Miss Lillian Ruth
Davidson in German; Miss Eleanor
Alice Rosbach also in German.
Dr. James Lle'wellyn CrenshaJW,
pro~~ ~ Ballou,
Susan Helen p~~~ associate
~e~s~; D~~_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~d~U~U~d~.~9~u~~~~~~d~U~U~U~~~c~~~~U~Q~U~U~~~~~~~~~a~=~~~
profes- Ii
sor of Latin, and Dr. Wilmer Cave
Wright, professor of Greek, have re-
turned from a year's leave of absence
abroad.
Leave of absence for this year with
substitutes as follows have been an-
nounced: Julian S. Duncan, of Hunter
College, will substitute for Dr. Wil-
liam R. Smith in history, and Dr. Mar-
on P. Smith, economics and politics;
Miss Katharine Garvin will substitute
erature; Dr. Eleanor L. Lattimore will
for Dr. Samuel C. Crew in English 1it-
take Dr. Susan M. Kingsbury's place;
Dr. James H. Leuba, psychology, will
be away and his son, Clarence Leuba,
vill fill the position of lecturer; Pren-
ice Duell has been granted leave of
absence to hold the Guggenheim Fel-
lowship in Italy, and in his absence
Dr. Charles H. Morgan will hold the
position of lecturer in archeology.
Enlarge Electric Service
in Delaware Co. Section
Expenditures approximating $310,000
to provide an enlarged and increas-
ingly reliable electric service in Upper
Darby and Haverford Townships are
being made by the Philadelphia Subur-
ban-Counties Gas and Electric Com-
pany. In fact, the program has pro-
gressed to a point where officials of
the company have announced October
10 as the date of completion-when
the Greater Sixty-ninth Street Section
and other residential and business cen-
ters in the twin townships will be
gwen the benefits of the improved
substation and transmission arrange-
ment.
Three major items are involved in
the work of Ilroviding the additional
capacity, as tollows: 12-mile trans-
mission line connecting the Llanerch
and Chester substations, $220,000; ad-
ditional transformer and accessory
equipment at Llanerch substation,
$50,000; new transformer bank and in-
cidental changes at Chester substation,
to provide service to....Llanerch trans-
OUR\TOWN Friday, October 11; 1929
The Llanerch substation furnishes
electric energy to a large part of
Upper Darby and Haveford Town-
ships, including such populous centers
as Greater Sixty-ninth Street, Llan-
The Atlas Company
erch, Highland Park, Observatory INCORPORATED
Hills, Brookline, Manoa, Broomal,
Newtown Square, Beechwood, Pen- •
• • Decorators •
field and South Ardmore.
The territory mentioned, through
••
the Llanerch sub-station, will be pro- S. N. HALL. President.
vided with three important sources of
electrical power, embracing the new 109 North Narberth Avenue Phone: Narberth 3625
line connecting with the Philadelphia
Electric Company system at Chester
and two other lines running direct to House Painting .:. Paperhanging .:. Window Shades
Barbadoes Island, near Norristown.
There is a steam generating plant at Upholstering .:. Furniture Repairing
Barbadoes Island, also a tie-in with Draperies .:. Slip CO'l'ers .:. Linoleums
the Plymouth Meeting substation, Painting and Refinishing of Furniture
which receives its energy direct from Mirrors Resil'/lered .:. Mattresses Rebuilt
the giant hydro-electric plant at Cono-
wingo and steam-generating plants of
the Philadelphia Electric Company. WE ALSO CARRY A LARGE VARIETY OF UNPAINTED
There is also a tie-in at Plymouth FURNITURE AND OF LUCAS PAINTS
Meeting with the Pennsylvania Power
and Light Company, offering addi-
tional safeguards to service continuity.
Through the intersections thus ef-
fected, there will shortly become avail-
able to this territory a power reserve
capable of meeting the fullest possible HEMSTITCHING
present-day needs as well as estimated
demands for a period running well
into the future. Pleating, button covering, hosiery mending;
children's dresses made to order.
For Permanent Women's dresses and other apparel
Satis!action Greeting Cards :: Gifts
BUY A ELM GIFT SHOP
Smedley (Founded eight years ago by Mrs. A. ]. Herrschaft)
B.uilt Home 242 Haverford Avenue Phone Narberth 2510
l Wm. D. & H. T. Smedley I
Open Friday and Saturday E'/Ienings Until 9 o'Clock
Schedule of Montgomery Bus Co., Inc.
Montgomery Avenue Lines Then every 20 minutes until 11.45
P. M. VVynnewood Road Route
Eastbound Then 12.05 A. M., 12.30, 1.00 and Leave Montgomery and Morris
Leaving Anderson and Mont- 2.00 A. M. Aveues, Bryn 1\fawr. for Ardmore.
Wynnewood. Merion and Sixty-Sec-
gomery A venues
Leaving 54th and City Line 5 min- ond and Lancaster Ave.
WEEK DAYS utes later than the above-men- Route follows: East-bound-
Starting at 5.40 A. M. tioned times. Leaving Sixty-second and Lancaster
Then every 20 minutes until 12.00 Leaving Pennsylvania R. R. Sta- Avenues for Bryn Mawr via
Wynnewood and Montgomery Ave-
P. M. midnight. tion in Narbe1·th 19 minutes nues to Bryn Mawr.
Then 12.30 and 1.30 A. M. later than the above-mentioned
times. EASTBOUND
SUNDAYS
WEEKDAYS
Starting at 5.30 A. M. Narberth Short Line Leaving Morris and Montgomery
Then every half-hour until 9.00 Avenues, Bryn Mawr.
A. M. Eastbound Starting 6.00 A. 1\1., 6.30. 7.00, 7.30,
Then 9.20 A. M. and every 20 min- Leaving Pennsylvania R. R. Sta- 8.00, 8.30, 9.00. 10.00, 11.00, 12.00
utes until 12.00 P. M. midnight. P. M.; 1.00. 2.00. 3.00. 4.00, 4.30, 5.00,
tion, Narberth 5.30, 6.00. 6.30. 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30,
Then 12.30 and 1.30 A. M.
9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00 A. M.
Leaving Pennsylvania R. R. Sta- WEEK DAYS
tion in Narberth 7 minutes later Starting at 5.50 A. M. WESTBOUND
than the above-mentioned times. WEEI{DAYS
Leaving 54th Street and City Line Then 6.30, 7.10, 7.50, 8.30, 9.10, Leaving Sixty-second and Lan-
21 minutes later than the above- 9.50, 10.30, 11.10 and 11.50 A. M. caster Avenue:
mentioned timos. Then 12.30 P. M., 1.10, 1.50, 2.30, Starting 6.30 A. M.• 7.00. 7.30, 8.00,
3.10, 3.50, 4.30, 5.10, 5.50, 6.30, 8.30. 9.00, 9.30, 10.30, 11.30, 12.30
Westbound 7.10, 7.50, 8.30, 9.10, 9.50, 10.30, P. 1\[,; 1.30. 2.30, 3.30, 4.30, 5.00, 5.30,
6.00, 6.30, 7.00, 7.30. 8.00. 8.30, 9.00,
11.10 and 11.50 P. M.
Leaving 62d and Lancaster Avenue 9.30, 10.30. 11.30 P. M., 12.30 A. M.
WEEK DAYS Westbound EASTBOUND
SUNDAYS
Starting at 6.00 A. M. Leaving 54th a~~d City Line Leaving Montgomery and Morris
Then 6.25 A. M. and every 20 min- WEEK DAYS Avenues. Bryn Mawr.
utes until 11.45 P. M. Starting at 6.30, 7.30, 8.30, 9.30,
Starting at 6.10 A. M. 10.30. 11.30 A. 1\1.; 12.30 P. M., 1.30,
Then 12.05 A. M., 12.30 A. M., 1.00 Then 6.50, 7.30, 8.10, 8.50, 9.30, 2.30, 3.30. 4.30. 5.30. 6.30, 7.30, 8.30,
and 2.00 A. M. 9.30, 10.30, 11.30 P. M.
lo.tO, 10.50 and 11.30 A. M.
SUNDAYS WESTBOUND
Then 12.10 P. M., 12.50, 1.30, 2.10, Leaving Sixty-second and Lan-
Starting at 6.00 A. M. 2.50, 3.30; 4.10, 4.50, 5.30, 6.11), caster Avenue.
Then 6.25 A. M., 6.55, 7.25, 7.55, 6.50, 7.30, 8.10, 8.50, 9.30, 10.10, Starting at 7.00 A. M., 8.00. 9.00,
8.25 A. M., 8.55, 9.25, then 9.45 10.50 and 11.30 P. M. 10.00, 11.00. 12.00 P. M.; 1.00. 2.00,
3.00. 4.00, 5.00. 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00,
A. M. And 12.30 A. M. 10.00. 11.00. 12.00 A. M.
FOR INFORMATION ON OTHER SCHEDULES, PHONE'BRYN MAWR 1280-1281
 Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR TOWN
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Page Twenty-one
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OPENING OF TEA ROOM of wholesome foods. The foods,
dairy and farm products, are also
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Main Line Concerns Are Interested
in the Valley 'Forge. sold at retail.
GeneJoal NotlOce- Classl1led Advertisements will be charged only
to residents of the Matn Line whose names
Four Main Line concerns have An interesting feature of the new
appear In the telephone dIrectory; to persons maintaining an account with . co-operated in the opening of the tea room is the Brookmead display
us, or to regular SUbscribers to eIther THE MAIN LINER, OUR TOWN, or
NEWS OF BALA-CYNWYD. new Valley Forge Tea Room, at of the electrically operated cow.
172 7 Sansom street, Philadelphia. This cow munches fodder in a most
Rates-Minimum
10 cents a I1ne In each paper; 25
charge, 35c in one paper;
cents a line In all three.
75 cents In all three, Av- They are the Brookmead Daries at realistic manner and its milk is con-
erage of five words to the line. No blackfaced type used.
, \-\fayne, Great Valley Mills at Paoli, v~rted into b~ltt~r. ice c:eam, dairy •
Deadllone for InseJ·t,·ons- Classified advetlsements will be
accepted up to WedneSday, 5
the Church Farm Scbool at Glen! dIshes, furl1lshmg chIldren and
o'clock for OUR TOWN or all three papers; Thursday, 1 o'clock, for THE Loch and the Pennsylvania Natural adults witlI energy for their daily
MAIN LINER; Thursday, 5 o'clock for NEWS OF BALA-CYNWYD. Farm Products Company. tasks.
In this charming green room with
Phone Your Ads to ARDMORE 3100 gay chintz hangings, real health Preparing For Bazaar
foods are served. Rich "iced" cream, The Ladies' Aid Societv of the Nar-
the samc as is served at the Brok- I berth M cthodist Episcop~1 Church are
Rooms for Rent Apartments For Rent 1l1lcad Dairy Bungalow at Wayne, preparing' for their allllual bazaar
natural Guernsey milk and cream, which will bc hcld at Elm Hall Oil Dc-
.An/)l\IORJ'~-Se\·eral \'ery deslr:tl>le AnUl\lOHg-I'~xclusl\'e ncw a"artmcllt,
ronnu.. \vith or \vithout pl'j"atc hath. a l'II1N. HUrl hath. H. IJ. Heinhnl<1,.127 cottage cheese and buttermilk, all cCll1ber 7.
.\Ieals olltiona!. Strictly prh·:tte falll- COli Iter A \·c. Phone Ard. 10:19- It. frOI1l the Brookmead Dairies; real
.il~·. Luxurlous"llOmc. Phone Arrlmore (ohIO-II)
101iS. health foods made from the flours
H;;",\TI-,,'\--;R"iCe:-:':tC::u:"Ot"if;:eu"'I"1~c:-,--;f"'II"'r=-n;-ls7.h"":::e':>d-::-:ro:-:o=-=n::-1::-s,- I An U:\I 0 n I';-A l"/;Y I e ('011 rt, I 26 A rg~'1 e and ccreals of the Great Valley
husint~~x people, Phone C~"Jl\\·yd :142 Hd., d('~il'ahlt~ :-nnnl1 :-;uil(', l'uiLahle Mills, and country sausage and
after 6 P. 1\[. (lO-lR) fen'" tecu'lIpl":--, huxillC'}O::-- JIlall 01" "'Ulnal1.
l"URNISHED HOOll1- Gentleman or I'!loll" An!. lllliS. scrapple from the Church Farm Announcement
huslness wOlllan. Telephone Narberth School. togcther with other farm
ARIlMORE-a roolllS alld hath; .) '·1l1S.
4161. ltf) and hat h, furniHhl'd or ullfurni:-;hed, products. make a choice assortment
dc>drahle lo('alioll. ('alt A'·d. 1015-.J.
Board and Room Wanted (ohIO-II) ~ ~ ~ ~
YOUNt: JIlAN-17 Years of I1l-;"e, desires
and board. 'Vrite uQ." eare of
"OOlll
Our Town. Dogs and Pets
PI';IU;IA" KIT'rENS, flllly Iledig-I'eed, It affords me great pleasure to
Real' Estate for Rent very lille alld healthful, Jig-hl sih'ers; The MARKLE MAN
inform yOIl that I have been ap.
~L):-:O browil tahhieH, I~ea:-;onable.
H. 1\1.
CY~V"YD-Ne\\', ~l to 5 beclroOnlt-l, 2 and Caley, 22!1 1\1t. Prospect Avenue, Nc\v- pointed distributor of
:1 haths, g:trage, $75 to $115. Phone ark. 1'> ••1. (ohIO-I])
('~'Ilw~'d 1017. (obl0-]]) 1'. _
Says-
lItODI':HATE HENTAL to desirable ten- COLLa; I'lJl'l'I1~S, 5 months, tinest LA YOLA MODES, Inc.
ants - semi-detached; newly-reno- )led" Bellhavcn and Sunn~'hank blood
\'ated house; southern exposure; 8 :;trains, males, $25; females, $20. Con- of NEW YORK
rooms and bath (5 bedrooms), large cO"dia Kennels, Thornton, }'a. Phone
~·ard. North side, Narberth. Apply 'Westtown IOOO-R-2. (obl0-11) In the city of Bagdad lived
Durbin & Howard, 31 N. Narberth Ave. Hakeen, the wise one. And Stylists of Youthful Frocks for
Phone Narberth 3843. (tfob)
many people went to him for Miss and Matron
Garage for Rent counsel, which he gave freely
GARAGE for rent, 216 Forest Avenue, to all, asking nothing in re- From the time I received my
$9 month. Narberth 3711. (to
turn. first consignment of these Smart
Help Wanted Frocks, I have been enthused.
<.; I nlr-I~or general hOUHe\Vork; no There came to him a young
laundry; sleep in; 4 In family. Nar- Every Frock (no two alike) is an
herth 459-J. man who had spent much but
HOUsg'VORK-·General. Girl to assi;;t. got little, and said: "Tell Authentic New Fall and Winter
sleep in. Apply 27 'V. Lancaster Ave., me, wise one, what shall .I
Ardmore. (obl0-11) 1929·1930 Fashion
do to receive the most for
t:IHJ~l·'or pastry shop and tea
room. Apl)ly 27 W. Lancastel' Ave.• that which I spend?" The Utmost in Style, But
Ardmore. (obl011) Moderate in Price
Hakeen answered: "A
Situations Wanted thing that is bought or sold I would be pleased to have you
COLOHI~D GIRJ~Deslres da~' work ill has no value unless it con-
Narherth or Cyn w~·d. Calt Stev"nson call to see them and note their
3252. tains that which cannot be
Beauty of Style, Quality of Fab-
bought or sold. Look for the
Miscellaneous priceless ingredient." ric, Colorings and Workmanship.
GOOD NEWS FOR MOTHERS-Play I am sure you will be delighted
School for pre-school age wilt open "But what is the priceless
:\Ionday, October 14, at 37 Narbrook with the many Flattering and Dis-
ingredient?" asked the young
ParI" Narherth, under direction of l\frs. man. tinctive Modes
Cora Dothard Brown, graduate teacher
of long experience, assisted by lI1iss
Estelle Palmquist. R:ttes reasonable. Spoke the wise one: "My Suitable for
For further particul:trs call Narberth son, the priceless ingredient
2448 or Narberth 2717. (obi 0-25) All Occasions
of every product is the honor
FHENCH TUTORING by experienced
lad~' teacher. Write Mlle. L., care and integrity of him who A selection from La Yola
Box 9, Bala-Cynwyd. (10-12) makes it. Consider his name Frocks affords yOIl an opportunity
PIANO 'I.'UNEH in your own to\\"u co"ts before you buy."
much Jess. Send postal. Q. Ubertl, to Dress Correctly yet Economic-
:115 Hampden Ave. (Lf.) ally.
In buying a new home or
making repairs to your old
For Sale one, yotl are invited to con- Hoping to have the pleasure of
(.( 'RO WOOD-Wood for sale. 'William sider the Markle Man, whose
Foot. Phone Cynwyd 984. (ob12-6) seeing you soon, I am,
f.'lJRD TOUHING, I.;ssex coach. J. E. reputation is based on the
- 1MeCorlde, 419 Hamilton Road. R. D. honor and integrity with
Gladwyne, Pa. (obl0-11) Sincerely Yours,
which he builds. Markle
VUH SALE-Heo one-ton trllck. A-I
homes have the priceless in-
('on<1itlon. Ardmore Laundrl'. Phone
Ardmore 923. (oblO-ll) ST. MARY'S gredient.
AReO HEATI.;H, No. 320-W. Phone
e~'nwytl 1255-J. (ohl0-11) LAUNDRY, Mrs. Suzanne
l\IA1\ItTIU; FOR SALI~-Well-rolled
"Ollll)ost or fresh stable manure. 01'- Inc. Joret Gill
dpl·~ .shOUld he plneed no\\r; delivered Phone 175-Ardmore George R. Markle
when wanted. Phone Narberth 2811.
216 Dudley Avenue

I
(ohI2-6)
I,'OR SALE l1prig'ht plano, exeellent Builder
(,olHlitlon, $150. Phone C~'nll'rd U8. NARBERTH, PA.
(obl0-1I) Narberth National Bank
~ ~ PHONE NARBERTH 2324
Lost and Found Buckwheat Coal Blower Building of
LOST-Sunday, bracelet, sterling sil\'er, and Thermostat
, Narberth
,<>"pl)hlres eolored stones. Hewnl"ll.
3686-.1. -New, $50- NARBERTH 2490 I' E"ening b'"
./ Appointment
LOST-Septembel' IS, boy's goid-rllll-
med spectacles. "'R"indl~' notlf~' Don- Phone HILLTOP 1185-W J
aId McConnell. Narberth 3954-R Ijj;;;;lJ=l~):;ti=ilI::ll~~=n:;:lJ;;;U;;~n::lJ;::il=I~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ ~.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 Page Twenty.two OUR TOWN FriddY, October 11, 1929

volunteer librarian, Mrs. Wood, now men and women; a motion picture en-
Growth of Library Traced serves as chairman of the Administra-
Open House Feature tertainment for everybody, 7 to R.30
by Former Librarian tion Committee. of ty' Celebration of P. M., closing the day with a family
The systel~ of renting books, which 75th Anniversary night in the swimming pool, 8.30 to 10
Continued From Page Three was the one on which the library was P. M. Spectators are welcome at all
weekly articles and items written to organized, has been changed only to The Young'Men's Christian Associ- events, afternoon and evening.
stimulate interest in the library and make it apply to the very newest ones, ation of Philadelphia will, during the ... ~ '* ,..,
to foster it development re a print d as the aim of the library is to make week of October 8 to 12, have its Sev-
d' I s ' B a '" e h aII 'Its serVices' . as f ree as POSSI) '11 e to enty-fifth Jubilee, in comemoration of
recor. 111 t lat paper. eg1l1n1l1g Wit the people. its Seventy-lith Anniversary. The Y.
the eighteen books purchased from the •
$30 contributed by the \V nen's Club I fhe present Board of Trustees,
and distributed from a wi~ldow sill in which was organized when the library
!\I. C. A. in Ardmore is one of the
twenty operating units of the Phila-
the bungalow-home of Mrs Wood on moved into its present quarters in delphia association. The local associa-
tion, which is now known as the Main
Avon Road, which has sin~e been' de-I 1926, had as its first president Miss Line Christian Association, became Sign of Best Mea/s
molished to make room for the Merion Anna MacKea g ,. of Dudley Avenue, part of the Philadelphia Association in
Title and Trust Building the collection and on her retirement elected Rev. 1919. The Lancaster Avenue building,
has now grown to a ;ermanent one Robe~t ~. ~eight~n: of Avon Road, which is occupied by this department, Questionnaires
was erected in 1907.
of 7500 books and aims to serve all who IS stili ItS presldll1g officer. Other
The Main Line branch of the as.;o- Number 5
classes of readers, and to correlate members of the board are drawn from ciation at 116 VV. Lancaster Avcnuc,
with the work of the 'ch 01 . the the former volunteer staff and from Ardmore, as a part of the anniversar.v
SOS1l1 " 'h hI" WHY is Bradley's con-
reference and supplementary reading cItizens ot ~ e boroug '. n addition program, is making- a special offer ((l
of the pupils. the S.chool Board apPolllt~ a rep~e- all members of the family during the sidered one of the best
TI li f . sentatlve of that body, thiS year ItS period of vVednesdny. October 9, 7 meat markets in this vi-
le rst source 0 II1come ~ther dcleg-ate being Mrs. Harvey Monks, P. 1\1., to Satnrday, October 12, 10 cinity?
P. 1\1. The entire family, including
than• that of rentals and occaSIOnal • 11 e COUllel'1'IS represen t e d I)y J 0 I111
W 1'1 father, mother. and single sons and Ans. : Because for over
gifts
. came from
., the School Board 111 R . 1-1 a II an(I CI arence K ae ber. It was daughters mav avail themselves of the half a cen~ury it has
19. 26 when Its directors voted to con- Mr. Kaeber who so understood the bene!its of nieillbership, use of gym-
stood for dcnendability
nasium, swimming- pool aud shower
tnbute . $500 for the purpose . of . pur- nee d s 0 f th e 1'1 I )rary an d presen t e d baths for 75 day,; for 75 dimes. Other of meats and delivery of
chaslllg
. books on the. reqUIred
. readlllg th em t 0 t le i l l1 C ounci'1 th a t tlla t
>oroug spec;al arrangements based on the meats to Philadelphia's
lIst of the school children. ThIS pro- b d t d t . t th t numeral 75. effecting a substantial
gram of the School Board, the first 0 ~ vo e 0 appropna e . e amoun most discrimitlating con-
. d" h I I'b h d reqUIred to cover the salanes of the saving to those taking advantage of
rea I 111 Icatlon t at t le I rary a f . I t ff them are being worked out for this noisseurs.
. . f II' .. new pro esslOna sa. period only.
won a pOSitIOn 0 PU) IC recogl1ltlon A d't I th
has been repeated annually. Without . n so I. may 'e seen lOW .e Saturday, October 12, wiII b(' (b- Call Rittenhouse 7070 and
. I I'l Id I . I I hbrary, startlllg from a smaH contn- served as Open House with :1 special
It t Ie I )rary wou )e senous y lan- . . program of activities during the day. find out for yourself. We
d' dAb I . butlon, on January 31, 1921, unaIded
Icape . t a out t Ie sa~e tune by anv person of wealth, has devel- At 10.30 in the morning there will be shall be glad to open a charge
there came another very tangIble and I d' d . d d h d a boy's water frolic; at 2.30 P. :M.
gratifying offer. The trustees of the ~pe I an eqUlppe.. an ouse. a games and races for boys in the "'.1'1'\- account. Trucks deliver Brad·
Y • 1\"'L C• A • W h 0 h a d a Iways provi'd e d lIbrary capable of glVlllg to the entire nasium; 4 to 5 P. M., water polo and ley Market Co. meat twice
'b .h h d I commumty, . sc h 00 I c h'ld
I ren an d a d u Its a swimming meet between boys aNI
th e room for the lI rary Wit eat a n . · . girls; 5 to 6 P. M. a life saving dem- daily to your neighbors-Why
· ht fi . I I bb d I . hbrary service as complete as IS found
I Ig , rst 111 t 1e 0 y an t len 111 h .I. h I' . . f onstration in the pool. From 7 to 10 not to you?
th . d ff f anyw ere Wit 1111 t e ImitatIOns 0 a P. M., the bowling alleys aud billianl
e gymnasIUm, ~la e an 0 er 0 a comparatively sma)) population. tables will be open without charge to
permi1nent home 111 the new Commu-
nity Building which was to be built on
the publie playground. Into this
building the library moved in May,
1926.
The new furniture, most of which
was bought when the library moved
in to its new quarters, came as a re-
:-ponse to the only public appeal for
funds which the library has ever made,
and was so prompt and substantial as
to enhearten the workers and to make
it possible to furnish the room with as
complete an equipment of shelves,
desks, tables and chairs as is seldom
found in so small a library.
In January of this year, just eight,
years to a day, the library was obliged I IS exclusive, but not
to discontinue its former volunteer
staff whose loyalty and enthusiasm had I
developed it to its present degree, that
it might increase its opening hours to
expenSIve. There IS a
include not only longer, afternoons,
but also the evenings. The former
Munsingwear Model
H. B.' WALL for every figure, for
Plumbing .:. Heatl71u
Gas Fitting
100 Forest Avenu. every . taste, for every
Phone: Narberth 3652·M

MUNSIl'LG age.
vrweiiT
~AUFFMAN RA IAT R
SlIIlLDS fND IN~UAIS
Transform
Unsightly
Radiators
Into helollful. eo•._
..Indow .eah or
01. f U I fumltur.,
75% less expense
for cleaning
100% impro 1fement Patricia Elizabeth Shop
in appearance!
Phona Pann". '''70 '0' Eat/mata Narberth Theatre Building Narberth 2898
BUILDING EOUIPMENT CO. lac.
L 1228 IUCUSl STREET
1Ii=~==V"ll Vu. 1l1l..... lIu)u.===:1!I
Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR TOWN Page Twenty.three

YOU CAN GET IT AT

NARBERTH'S OLDEST STORE

Howard E. Davis owes his

claim to being proprietor of
Narberth's oldest store to
these circumstances
In 1893 he served milk in Nar- Whether it be an ice cream soda, a watch, alarm clock, note
berth, when Elm Station's homes
were only about thirty in number. book, blotting paper, pen, ink, pencil, Dennison's goods, cigars,
(Among them: William Owens,
Alex Simpson, A. H. Mueller, tobacco, tennis shoes, the latest books, school supplies, Whitman's
John Ketcham, T. L. Trotter,
L. H. Trotter, Frank Prescott,
William Mullineaux, Messrs. Hat-
or Schellenberger's chocolates, newspapers or magazines, you may
jies, Belfield, etc.)
depend on us for it•
. In 1897-thirty-two years ago-
he built his house at III Forest
Avenue, in which Mrs. Davis and Over thirty years of business in Narberth have enabled us to
he maintained their shoe store.
There, shoes were not only sold, judge the needs of the residents of Our Town, and our aim has
but repaired. There were a few
other stores in the borough, but
always been to supply that need.
none of them are maintained by
their original proprietors today. It is well known that our store is headquarters for smokers.
In 191o-still years before half
the borough's inhabitants lived Our stocks of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes are renowned on the
here-Mr. Davis purchased the
cigar store at 224 Haverford Main Line for their freshness.
Avenue. Since then his history
is one of expansion of store space In addition to being the most versatile supply house in the Bor-
and increase in variety of mer-
chandise and number of em- ough, our store's congenial atmosphere makes it a veritable Town
ployees.
Todar Narberth's oldest Forum, a meeting place where you are sure of a chat with your
store is also one of its most
modern-with shel."es and friends.
soda fountain equipped and
filled with the latest of com·
modities for which rou mar
htt'Ye need. You tire in'Yited
to make DtWis' Store rour
rende{'Yous.

DAVIS'
224 Ha'llerford A'IIenue, Narberth .. Phone: Narberth 4035

.
 Page Twenty.fc:,ur OUR TOWN Friday, October 11, 1929
J\Irs:~. ~: Shc~lcr and --Mrs. ].-. M·I W~lfar~·-Federation wise on two occasions.
?:'he FIRESIDE Bacr
Mrs Stuart Wciss, of Hampden Avc-
nuc, visitcd hcr sister in Lansdale, Pa.•
Drive Will Begin Soon The game was only a few minutes
old when Johnson, fleet halfback for
(By "E")
this week. the Orange and Black, got away on
Mrs. Henry A. Smith, of 21 Wind-
sor A vcnue, en tertained her bridge Dr. Herbert 1'. 1\1 achan, of Dover,
0., stoppcd herc while en routc to an end run for about twenty yards and
club Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Ber-
nard ]. Youngblouth, of Buffalo, form- \Vashington to attend the National the first touchdown of the game.
erly of Narbcrth. The guests included Dcntal Convcntion. He was thc guest Coach Mattis sent in all of his sec-
Miss Jane A. l\lorris. Mrs. John J. for a few hours of Miss Annc C. ond team during the final quarter and
Cabrey. ~I rs. \ViIliam G. Torchiana, Compton, of \ Voodbinc . A venuc.
Glen Nor followed by making their
Miss J anc A. ~.1 orris, 11 rs. F. \V. E. 1\1 iss Helen Staley, of Essex Avc-
Stedcm, l\hs. John A. Bordcn and nuc, was hostcss to the membcrs of first threat on the local's goal line.
l\lrs. Clarcncc \V. Mastcrs. hCI- sorority, Phi Tau Dclta, and a few They failed to score, however, when
Mrs. Cathcrine Bcrgen, of Occan additional gucsts, Tucsday cI·cning. the game ended in the midst of a pass-
Parkway, Brooklyn, is visiting her The gucsts werc the :M isses Ruth ing attack which had not yet reached
daughtcr, Mrs. T. F. Dwyer, of 101 Hopkins, Bctty Coneys, Mildrcd
Evans, I'olly ~I itchell, Alice Maguirc, the twenty-yard line.
(irayling A venuc. l\1 rs. Dwyer's
daughter, J\I iss l~ita Dwycr, has cn- Virginia aJJ(1 Carrie Louise Douglas, Thc Junior High plays Darby ]un-
tcred thc Frcshman class of J\I an- Lois Reinhart, Bctty 1\1 agarity. Pcggy ior High today on thc Scnior High
wood Collcgc in Scranton. . Ben-y, Ray \Vilson, Pcg Odiorne. grounds.
Dr. and Mrs. LcRoy A. King arc Helcn Bottoms, ~Iary Ramscy and
cntertainiug a housc party at their homc J\I yrtlc Schipf.
on Shirlcy Road, for the wcek-cnd Columbus Day Saturday
\Vorld Scries gamcs. Their gucsts arc
Dr. and ]\1 rs. \V. A. Houscman, J\I r. Nofer and Price Excel in
Tomorrow, Columbus Day. thc usual
one delivcry of Saturday's mail will
and 111 rs. William Bcll and Mr. and ~Beyond the Horizon' in thc Littlc Thcatrc and would do
l\1 rs. John Elliott, all of Bcavcr Falls, sonw conspicuous advertising he hc madc by thc Narherth Post Office,
Pol. ought to hc ablc to cstablish a hcad- according to Postmaster ]. Bertram
l\1 r. and Mrs. Ebcrhardt l\I ucllcr, of Thc Hcdgcrow Thcatre C\)mpany quarters for theatre partics that arc
Esscx Avcnuc, wcrc on a motor trip prescntcd Eugcnc O'Ncill's "Beyond hlockcd hI' the situation in Philadel- Nespcr. Holiday ma;1 collections will
to Virginia this wcck. thc Ilorizon" at the Littlc Theatn', phia. If ilcdgcrow continucs to pro- hc made at 6 :\. ]\f. and 3 P. M., and
l\lr. H. C. Fcnno, of 600 Esst·x Avc- Bcrwyn, on \Vcdncsday night beforc ducc a standard of cxccllcncc likc thc post officc will he closcd bl'tween
nuc, was in I ndianapolis, Ind., t his a mcagcr housc ancl gavc onc of thc \Vcdnesday cvening's there should he 9:30 :\. 1\f. and 4:30 1'. M. Hauks arc
wcck attcnding thc Insurance Con\'cn- hcst pcrformanccs that I havc cvcr no til'kl'ts left se\'eral da\'s heforc each dllt' to C(·lehratc Saturday as a nat'onal
tion. Mrs. Fcnno is visiting in Schncc- sccn this company prt'scn!. performancl'. - legal holiday.
tach-. N. Y. Thc play itsclf is not a happy onc. F. l\r. S.
:\nnouncclncnt was receivcd hcrc of Hohcrt Mayo. a poctic farmcr hoy,
thc marriagc of 1\I iss l\f argaret Birds- makes thc mistake of marrying his
all Fowlcr, daughtcr of Mr. and l\1 rs. hrothcr Andrcw's swcethcart, Ruth
HJ
unior igh Crushes Mr. Shcarer apparently thought the
shipbuilding people were a bunch of
C1arcncc Parks Fowlcr, of Evanston, ,\tkins. Andrew, in dcspair, announces Glen Nor 2ds, 33-0 lambs.
III.. formcrh' of 0iarbcrth. and 1\1r. his intcntion of taking thc sea voyagc
John Oakes 'Hobcrts on Tuesday, Scp- prcviously planncd I)\' Robert with an Lowcr?lT crion Junior High School ~~~~I:::lQQS:S~
tcmbcr 24. in the city of Chicago. 1\lr. unclc. Captain Dick Scott. His father, start cd its foothall season off with a
and Mrs. Robcrts will he at homc aftcr Jamcs 1\layo, dcnounccs him for ncg- dccidcd victory OI'cr (ilcn Nor High
Deccmbcr 15 at thc Orrington Hotcl, Iccting" the farm and· casts him off. School second team last week at the Miss Zentmayer's
Evanston, III. From tlwrc on tragcdy crecps in till
Mrs. Joscph H. :\1 illcr. 426 Havcr- the last sccne witnesscs Rohert's Scnior High School field. Ardmorc.
ford Avenuc, has as hcr gucst ?II rs. dcath and the promisc that Andrew Thc final scorc of 33 to 0 was sur-
Kindergarten
Elcanor T. Ellsworth, of Altoona, who will marry Ruth. It is not a plcasant prisingly plcasing to thc Junior High
formerl\' li\'l~d on 10na Avcnuc, Nar- pla~" ,.. coach.s Open
bcrth. ' . I'crd Nofer, as Rohcrt, and \"111Iam I
c..
Mr. and :\Irs. E. H. Cockrill, 215 Price as Andrcw werc the outstand-I Ryan, Shippcn, Johnson and Talley October 1, 1929
Hampdcn Avenue, spcnt a rcccnt ing actors of tl!c piccc, both hcin.g figured in the tOllchdowns that wcre
weck-cnd in Scranton. ncarly faultlcss m the case of thclr madc Johnson making two. Ca»tain 125 Windsor Avenue
:\1 astcr lohn Alhcrt King, son of Dr. pcrformance. Dudley Vaughan as '"
and l\1 rs. 'I.e Roy A. King, is a cadct Ruth gavc an excellent portrayal of Boh laylor accuunted for two extra
at thc Larson Long 1\1 ilitary Acadcmy, thc part and was well cast. Harry points by crashing- ofT-tacklc for the NARBERTH 2619.W
Nell' Bloomfield, 1'01. Bcllaver, in .tht: role of Jamcs ~Iayo, neccssary yardage. Ryan did Ekc-
~Ir. and 1\lrs. Stanley E. Haigh, 319 ga\'c a convmcmg performancc. Ap-
N. Narbcrth Avcnuc, arc planning to parcntly hc has much more of a flair
spend this weck-end at thcir cottagc for heing a farmcr than hcing a Chi-
in Avalon. cago "hard guy." ";altcr Hart provcd
AI rs. John Albrccht, Jr., of :\1 aple- his I'crsatility hy playing hoth Cap-I
wood Avcnuc, was hostess to thc tain Dick and Dr. Fawcctt. Jcan
~ h1IITHE
p~ -I BANKING INSTITUTION 1-~
MAIN LINEII~ ~
mcmbcrs of hcr hridge club \Vcdncs- Sweidel as :\Irs. :\1011'0. 1\liriam Phil-
dOlI' cvcning. lips as 1\1 rs. Atkins a'nd Jasper Dccter
~Ir. \Valton l\1. \\'cntz, of \Vaync as Ben, thc hircd man, wcrc all good.
avcnue, is on a busincss trip in 51. J\I iss Phillips movcd hcr ultra-modcrn
Louis, Mo. whcel chair around too nlllch and dis-
l\lrs. \V. D. Smedley. of Hampden tractcd attcntion from the dialoguc.
Avcnuc. and l\lrs. \Villiam Durbin with Dcctcr makcs almost as exccllcnt a
:\1 rs. Durbin's voung daughter. Vir- farm hand as hc did a princc.
ginia, arc spen;!ing scvcral days at If:\1 anagcr Fricd would pnt more
The Battering Ram to
thcir cottagc in Capc 1\1 ay. I comfortahlc scats and less smoky hcat
l\1 rs. J. Raymond Sharp, of \\'ood-
sidc Avenuc, was among thc gucsts 011- 1
_ an Income Without' Work
thc luncheon which 1\1 rs. Edwin 1'01-/
lock, of Overbrook, ga\'e \Vedncsday
BESSIE V. HICKS
aftcrnoon.
lVlrs. C. Alfrcd I'ccncy, 217 Elm School of Expression This week a deposit-next week a deposit-and
Tcrrace. attendcd lht, York (I'a.) Fair the next-and the next-and the next-
this wcck. PUBLIC SPEAKING
J\liss Ruth Mae Chancy. 211 N. DRAMATIC ART
!lowman A vt'nuc, l\1 crion, has rcturncd VOCABULARY ENGLISH Regular deposits in our Savings Fund will soon
to her homc aftcr spcnding thc sum-
mcr in Capc !llav, N. J. Plays-Radio Broadcasting-Diploma
accumulate an extra, unneeded sum of money. Wise
Mr. and ~Irs: Hcnry Albrecht, of Classes Now Forming
:\1 aplcwood Avcnue, had scveral gucsts Special Courses for Children investment of this sum will bring an income and an
from N cw York last wcck-end.
Mr. Arthur J. Davis, of Lan"ing'l CATALOGUE ON REQUEST increase in value.
1\1 iCh.". who w~s .in scco~1(1 l!lacc this 1714 Chestnut Street
wcck m the ~ atlOnal AIr lour, was
thc gucst of his brother. !II r. Gco:ge Phone Rittenhouse 7653 Each week, deposit some sum, keep depositing-
Fcarson Davis, l\'arherth, for a tCII' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~:;~~~
hours Tucsday cvcning. The f1icrs ; and keep buying good securities. You can't beat this
hopped ofT \Vcdncsday morning aftcr
spcnding thc night in Philadclphia, for battering ram. Eventually, a comfortable, permanent
Richmond, Va. ..\n ."nhorn!.' olft'rlll" of Iwrf.·.'t
Mr. and 1\1 rs. William B. Goodall, 11\'1111: HI)('c·irnf"IIH (rout nllr ";fJ:lniu
I"urms. r i", II t 1)' callt>.) ul.. h·luf.:
income will be yours. But start sQ'V;ng with us-now!
108 Dudlcl' Avcnuc, havc returned Allthltll'H," now lu-II1'; ",110\\' .. lit tho
from 10 da\'s' stav at the Marlhorough Bakw.n Locomotive Bu Bing
in Atlantic' City. ' Broad & Spring Garden Sta.
Miss Muricl Covingtoll, of Chcstcr,
was the wcek-cnd gucst of !II rs. JOSePh' Royal Oak Boxwood THE-MERION·TITLE
~·TRUST·COMPANY
H. :-Jash. 431 Anthwyn Road. . Farms
1\1 rs. Martha Bloom, of Shirlcy Tel"llhoJltl I'Olllllr ala:l
Road, entertained at a buffet supper I Prices range from 75c to $2500
Sunday evcning, and at a lunchcon and I
Weare alao ahowinll an excep-
OF • ARDMORE.
bridge Saturday afternoon. Her gucsts ' tional group of RhoJodenJrona.
at the lattcr includcd 1\1 rs. (\. Perry I
w. cordi•.lly Invito you to inspect those
Rcdifer, Sr" Mrs.. J. R. Bohcl.l, Mrs.
Charles Brown, MISS MaryDavls, ¥~"f
I
brautiful plpnts w:thout anv ob:lgn ion to
bu';. A, k for Mr. S. M. Cornott. G-neral
n"l{er.
PENNSYLVANIA
]. W. Scofield,' Mrs. R. M. Brenhelser;'[ NARBERTH 6ALA- CYNVVYD
 Friday, October 11, 1929 OUR TOWN Page Twenty-five

Child Health Centres Scholarship Awarded Emergency Hospital Service

The Main Line School of Music, 'Word has been received from the Bryn _Mawr Hospital that acci-
CONTINUED FROM THE FffiST PAGE Ardmore, announces that the follow-
dent cases are increasing at an alarming rate: nearly every day shows
or other agency to which she has I:een ing- scholarships in piano tor this sea- an increase over the day previous.
I
refer~e.d for !1tt~ntion by the center son have been awarded to Grace
During the month of September four hundred and fi fty-two patients
physIcIan. Slglllficant, are these fi g -, L' 1 I berg- Stonehurst· Ag-nes Hege-
ures for the past year s health center n ( e .' " J
were treated in the accident dispensary, or a daily average of slightly
work in that a total of 376 children ncr, PhIladelphia; Albert Eg-olf, Nar-
I
(more than one per day throu,ghout the berth, and Margaret Heisler, Arcl- more than fifteen cases a day, while the average for January of this year
year) we,:e refer:ed for at~entlOn n~C,es- Illore, and in the 'cello department to was only six, with a total of two hundred and four for the entire l!1onth.
sary to m~provll1g phY~lcal conditIOn 1 Phyllis Cogg-in, Hig-hland I'ark,
of. these children. Of tills number,
were referred to physicians, 21 to den-
2491 \ \'hen it is taken into consideration that Bryn :\1awl' Hospital dnes
not serve an industrial community, it is hard to helieve that so many
tists; ,74 to hospitals and 12 to other K. of C. Ball Monday accidents occur. Although the greater majority of the cases treated at
agencIes. PI T A H f B 1\1 I Bryn Mawr can he traced to automohiles, falls also contribute largely to
In the field of health protection, the 11 Ip . art. 0 . ryn l awr, aIH
public schools, health centers and de- Albert ]. Becker, of 212 Forest the total number of cases.
partl"nents of health arc assuming their Avenue, Narberth, arc serving' on the It is becoming a proble111 that is being discussed hy hospital execu-
proportionate responsibility for the committee of the annual Knights of tives all over the cotlntr.\', especially where this ~\'ork is all donc without
pr?tection ?f chi!dren against di'pI~~h- Columbus chari tv hall which will be cost to the patients, as it is at Bryn i\Jawr.
ena. In hne wIth the responslblhty '. .
the association assumes for the welfare held Monday evenll1g IJ1 the ballroom This sen-jee which is so often criticized is one of the greatcst drains
of the pre-school group, toxin-antitoxin of the Bellevue-Stratford, Both are on the hospital for. with the cxception of. a few voluntary donations, no
is given at the child health centers past chairmen of the Philadelphia revenue is receivcd from this department, while the cost to the hospital
throughout tl~e year and t\yic~ during Chapter of the Knights of Columbus,
the year (sprIng al~d fall) ScllIc,k tests Pr ceeds of the affair viII be used is exceedingly large. It is estimated that every case treated in tIl(' acci-
are made to detenl1lne the effectIVeness ' 0 \ . dent dispensary costs the hospital from Ii ve to fi fteen dollars.
of the immunization treatments. to defray the expenses of the annual Since moving into the new building an interne has heen stati01wd in
Policies for the conduct of these Thanksgiving- dinner in all the or- the department twenty-four hours a day, even having his living ((uarters
child health centers bear the endorse- phanages of the archdiocese, and also only a few feet from the emergency operating room, while a supervisor
ment of the Medical Advisory COIll- the annual llrphans' outing.
mitee, which is composed of ,official amI two student nurses are on duty during the day with one student
representation from the Main L i n e . • nurse on all night.
Medical Society, the East Delaware Guild Annual Meetmg It is hard for the average person to grasp the reason for such a high
County M,edical So~iety and, the T;v~n'l The annual meeting of the Ardmore cost per patient, hut when one considers the thoroughness of each exami-
tv-first ,;t., ard Mechcal Socletv, ] 111 la- B I f I N II k G 'II 'II nation and the large number of cases which have to he X-rayed, the
delphia. . ranc l O t le j ee( ewor' til ( WI
These centers are supported through be held N ovel11ber 6. The Guild meets laboratory tests, medicines, dressings and supplies, not to mention the
the Main Line Branch, No.1, and every Wednesday, 10 to 4, at the Par- expenses piled up hy patients kept in the observation ward until a correct
Bala-Cyn.wyd Branch, of the S: E, ish House of St. Mary's Church on diagnosis of the case can he made. Then again in many cases the patient
Penna. Chapter AmerIcan Red Cross
and the V/elfare Federation, repre- Ardmore Avenue, Ardmore. often returns for redressings.

l)eopl~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

l~:~t~~rJt~f~t;'~1~ii~;~f~tfi~IiAAfO~M~~'
senting hee will gifts of the

through continued help and that of

public and other agencies, the co-oper-
ation and guidance of the medical pro-
fession, service of our nursing staff,
constant assistance of faithful volun-
teer workers and the intelligent co-
operation of parents.
wOI-th seeing!
1200-Piece Harmonica Band.
Penn State College freshmen
wOI-th heal-in,!
have been organized into the largest
harmonica band in the world, it is
said. Each of the 1200 new students
wOI-th havi ng !
has obtained a mouth organ and the
cheer leaders and music instructors I and a thi.-d' o'f a million '
are teaching them to play the instru-, ,

ments as a part of the Freshman

'N eek program for creating class
spirit and friendliness. The 1200-
piece band is expected to be ready
for its first public appearance at the
first football game Saturday. Is it any wonder everybody wants a Sparton! Sales have increased
~r:s'='Mr'l~ 80 phenomeuully that in one year Srartonjumped from 67tb to
3rd place in the radio industry. Am sales are going right ahead
The NATIONAL iu this city every day.
SCHOOL of ELOCUTION It's no accideut. The ne", Sparton Equasonne embodies the
and ORATORY
Public Speaking greatest achievements in radjo engineering. It is the acknowl·
55th Story Telling
Oramatle Art Model 301
edged standurd of perfection iurawo. It brings tonal fidelity-
Year TencllerH' CourHeH Complete ."ith ",be. clearness of reception- facc.to·face realism- uodreamed of un-
Onnelng
Plays, Recitals, Broadcasting
ready 1o inarall til today. To hear it is to say that Sparton really is ttRadio's
8274.50
Diplomas and Degrees or exquleile beauty and Richest Voice."
Individual or Class Instruction rich in lODe all • rare
Special Classes for Children old cello ••• We'll gladl)' demonslrate the new Sporton in our showrooms or at your

I
Other SpartoD ModelM own home. Ther.,'s a Sparton model to fit your pocketbook and terms to
8179.50 to 8795
DORA ADELE SHOEMAKER Term., to .ult your con- suit yonr convenience.
4012 Chestnut Street
I ...enience.
E'Very MOllday Night from 8:30 to 9:30

1
-(.:'atalogue Evergreen 5824
~~~uuu~~u~ oyer Station WIP, Philadelphia. ~
"IT'V" Casper & his Spartoll Ambassadors
~.. NEW SPARTON

S~1~I~~
EQUASONNE
Kelleher & Thomas Acknolvledged as
tllc standtlrd ofper-
fectiol& in radio
COlltraetors & Bllilders
Cement Work & Maso"ry
""",';UH EA R .- N C; IS- -8 ELI E V I N G ••
NARBERTH DEALERS
5362 Arlington St., Phila., Pa, ROBERT LITTLER, Jr., 709 Montgomery Avenue-NARBERTH 2336
NARBERTH ELECTRIC SHOP, 243 Haverford Avenue-NARBERTH 4182
Phone: Greenwood 4788
I J. RICHARD SHRYOCK CO., 5007 Wynnefield Avenue, Philadelphia
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Page Twenty-six OUR TOWN Friday, October 11, 1929

All SlIints Church
Wynnewood. Pa.
Bllptist Church. of the .~,,"ngell
Robert E. Kelghton, Mmlster.
The Presbyter;"n Church I ducted by Mrs. A. S. Digby.
Rev. John Van Ness, M. A. Minister. 7:00 P. M.-Three Endeavor Soci-
Rector, Rev. Gibson Bell. Sunday, October 13: M . ' eties. The Juniors wil be led by
8:00 A. M.-Holy Communion. 9:45 A. M.-Church School for all. eetlllgs for .October 13: Miss Dempster, the Intermedi-
11:00 A. M.-Morning prayer and ser- 10:00 A. M.-First meeting of the new 9:45 A. M.-Blble S~hool. The after- ates by Miss Furber and the
mono Anthem: "0 Lord Our Men's Class under the leadership math of a gl~rlous Ral~y Dav,. Seniors by John Havlick.
Governor."-Gadsby. of Prof. Rittenhouse Neisser of 11 :00 A. M.-Mormng worship. Brtef 7:45 P. M.-Evening worship. Ser-
Te Deum-Stainer, B-flat. Crozer Seminary. ' sermon from the text "We mon theme: "Grace More
Jubilate-Stanford, B-flat. 11 :00 A. M.-Morning worship. Ser- Would S~e Jesus,". followed by Abundant Than Sin."
h h S h I mon' "The Purpose of Chris- the pubhc reception of new
10: 00 A. M .-C ur~ c 00. . 'M" " members and the celebration of Next Wednesday evening at the Pray-
8:30 P. M.-Evenmg prayer and ser-, 7'30 ptianM IsEslons: h' S the Lord's Supper. er Meeting the message will be
mono . . .- vemng wors Ip. er- .. brought by the gifted Bible stu-
mon: "Modern Challenges to 11:00 A. M.-~he Jumor Church con-

Rev. Cletus A. Senft, Pastor.

I
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church . ~~~~~~n II-The Spiritual Chal- ===~~~~~===~=~~~~~~======~~~
The Open Forum at the close of the ,....--------------------------"\
dent, Mr. Elmer H. Gillespie.

Sunday, October 13: service was most .successful last

9:45 A. M.-Bible School.
11 :00 A. M.-The service. Theme:
"The Value of the Present."
6:45 P. 1f.-Luther Leagues.
7:45 P. M.-The Vesper service.
Theme: "Sinners in the Hands
of an Angry God."-Jonathan
Edwards.
Friday, 4:15-Catechism Class.
Friday, 7:00-0rchestra rehearsal.
Friday 8:00-Choir rehearsal.
, souls?
Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. Samuel MacAdams, Minister.
Sunday, October 13:
9:45 A. M.-Sunday School.
11 :00 A. M.-Morning worship and
week. -:r:he questlon.s tha~ may
he.lp us 111, our c~mslderatlan of
this week s tOPiC are: How
sh~lI we think C?f God? Is the
umverse me.c1.1amcal or per~onal?
Has the spiritual ~I!Y reahty or
power? Is the spiritual concep- Benew those vacation
tion ,of life gaining or lo~ing in
man s thought? . What IS the
message of rehglOn to t.hc: de-
friendships ...Voice visits
feated, sorrowful and IIIJured
Wednesday, October 16:
are easy to make •••
8:00 P. M.-Prayer service.
This service wi! he led by the
Deacons.

Sermon, "The Missionary I m- First Church of Christ, Scientist

perative."
TELEPHONE
6:45 P. M.-Epworth League Devo-
tional Meeting.
Athens and Linwood Avenues,
Ardmore.
11 :00 A. M.-Sunday services.
7:45 P. M.-Evening worship and 11 :00 A. M.-Sunday School.
.. . lor a Thrill
Sermon, "The Pre-eminence of 8:00 P. !\1.-Evening service.
Christ." Wednesday evening testimonial
\Vednesday Evening, 7:30-Prepara- meeting at 8:00 o'clock.
tory Members' Class. Reading room, 19 West Lancaster
Wednesday Evening, 8:00-Prayer and Avenue, open week days from 10:30
Praise Service. to 4:30 o'clock; Wednesday evening
Thursday, 2.30-The Woman's Home from 9 :00 to 9 :45 o'clock.
Missionary Society will meet at The subject for the Bible lesson ser-
the church. A large attendance mon for Sunday, October 13, is "Are Who'. WhoP Look in the Telephone Directory
is desired. Sin, Disease and Death Rea17"

NARBERTH BUILDING and LOAN ASSOCIATION

Started Business March, 1907
Has matured 31 series, aggregating over a
million dollars
Resources over a million dollars
Earns 88-10%
Over 14,000 shares in force
Both short and long tenn series
Every six months-March and September
Meets first Thursday evening each month
At Elm Hall-Narberth 7 to 9
OFFICERS DIRECTORS
President
Howard C. Fritsch, Real Estate
William D. Smedley, W. D. & H. T. Smedley, Builders
Edwin P. Dold, Landers, Frary and Clark
Vice President
William B. Kraft, Assistant Comptroller, Penna. R. R. Co. Carl B. Metzger, President Narberth National Bank
Daniel Leitch, Treasurer, Merion Title and Trust Co.
Secretary
Thomas C. Trotter, Jr., Trotter Bros., Insurance Edward C. Griswold, Corbin Cabinet Lock Co.
John S. Ketcham, Ketcham & McQuade, Builders
Treasurer
William S. Howard, Durbin & Howard, Real Estate George M. Dando, Grocer
Horace T. Smedley, W. D. & H. T. Smedley, Builders
Solicitor
Fletcher W. Stites, Attorney-at-Law A. Perry Redifer, Jr., S. S. Redifer & Co., Lasts

You can take stock in the September Series at

the next Meeting-No"ember 7-
by paying three months

t
 Friday. October 11. 1929 OUR TOWN Page TweDty.sev~

h C . auspices. The post office was over- same time, their flutter took another
Imagination and Har d W ork P ut 0 ver t e ·ommumty whelmed. More than $2000 was spent direction. and their eyes bulged large
Playground, f~ A Bright Page in the Borough Book" in publicity and mail matter. All this in their heads. They were beholding
had to come out of private funds, of a defective ballot! The School Board
CONTINUED FRO». THE l.'HIRD PAGE thing, except public "necessities." course. The thing ought to be done,. was being granted the proper author-
its quota of "literature" to the 1500 Some day we will try to write on how said its sponsors, and they proceeded ity and not Council, as should have
to make sure it would be done. Ora- been the case. The County Commis-
voters whose aid was sought to put wrong we think that viewpoint is in a tors were developing from all quar- sioners (and others) had made a stu-
the bond issue through. town like this. We don't want to call ters. Meetings galore were tumbling pid mistake. The election would be a
all our Councilmen to be merely clerks
* * * over each other. Telephones were fluke! And this was the day of such
who shall confine their initiative and
Shortly after the Government re- enterprise busy reporting names of those 'o,;ho e:-pectations. . Ah, barren. aga,in aJ.1d
to streets, sewers and ser- had objections. Voters were struttll1g IlItter loss, wIth some chOIce alr-spltt-
turned the railroads to their owners, geants. Those things can pretty near-
witlt a new-found distinction as zeal- ting anathemas for all politicians of all
our Pennsylvania put on the market ly take care of themselves. Neither ous proponents beseiged them. for sup- ~egrees. ~evertheless, the votiJw con-
about thirty substantial pieces of real should we accept a tax reduction as port. It was one grand old riot while tlllued durmg the day. It was Just as
estate which they had been holding the best evidence of skilful adminis-
tration. That attitude upset the play-
it lasted and then came the big day. well to get an accurate expression of
for years in anticipation of future de- ground plan at the beginning, but the * * * public opinion. It is also an interest-
velopmen ts. I t was a period of lean bond issue finally got on its way. Yes, then came the big dav, a beau- !ng commentaryy that only one voter
tiful day, the sun resplendent and the 111 the rank and file noted th~ error,
exchequers and ready money seemed Meanwhile, the railroad had to have
world at peace in the lap of glorious ~ncl tha~ was a woman, who dIscerned
to be the most important tbing in all some assurance that ollr folks meant autullln hues. Soft winds blew and all It a halt hour before the polls closed.
the world. Among the parcels was the business. What, then, to do but for nature seemed to be kindly to the aus- .In that half hour everybody learned
citizens to buy the plot and make it
tract now occupied by the playground. available to the Borough at cost. The picious cause which should be served. It. The final score was five Ayes for
] t had represented about seven acres, hat was passed around and the down Out of their couch long before their ever~ No. It was .the rmost numerous
not including two street beds running money quickly paid. The railroad wonted time, eager to be the first to electIon ever held In Na,:berth. I tall
from Windsor Avenue to Haverford acted as big as it is. The price was formally approve the project they had ~ad t9 be done over agalll the follow-
Avenue. There were no restrictions cut to $22,000 for the entire acreage so valiantly espoused, marched to the IIIg I' ebruary, when the score was 8
on the land, as it was destined for and. final settlement postponed to cor- polls a stalwart host of earnest men. to I.
This was their pet and as such they
railroad use, and many were the mis- respond with the decision on the bond
givings for the day when it would be issue. (Who won't give $75,000 for esteemed it much. They caressed their * '" *
And that's how it happened to be,
occupied by track trestles, coal hoppers the land today?) ballots with a devotion which belonged with a great deal left unsaid, but we
and other such-like things. Conse- to moonlight nights. They proceeded have already overwritten our space and
Then came the ballyhoo to put the to read its every word. They fluttered
quently, on the very first day when the honds over. To judge by the multi- must needs leave out some valuable
property was put up for sale civic tudinous mail sacks of persuasion with a sense of superb service ren- sidelights which should be recorded for
consciousness became very much alert, which went out, there appeared to be dered. They were happy in their flut- a proper appreciation of the whole
as the opportunity presented itself for a great fear and trembling that the tering. But, suddenly, and all at the wholesome venture.
Narberth to abate a g-Iaring nuisance issue would be defated. Everyone who
and to acquire for itself a spacious expressed any dissension was made the
outdoor center, a playground and a recipient of a particularly personal
ball field, a public park, the last large 1>lea. The school children all wore
IInbuilt area in the domain of the Bor- hadges and ribbons beseeching for "a
ough. It took a fair share of imag-ina- thousand ayes and no nos." Every
tion, of course, to see a pretty place organized activity in the Borough was
On duty day and night
rise alit of the wretched dump that called upon to publicly approve the
was there, a veritable pest-hole. foul plan with a special letter under its own A staff of experts, 28 in number, have
with odors, freqllen tly all fire and
swarming with cat-like rats. but the permanent quarters in the institution
necessarv vision abounded all abollt and are subject to rail at any moment,
liS, and illeetings were underway prac- Unusual Values in
tically overnight.
Christmas Cards wherever they rr.ay be needed.
. * * *
Naturally, the road quickly led to
Council. \V. R. D. Hall, now dead, at 35c and $1
was President. He Was a capable di- a dozen OLIVER H. BAIR COMPANY
rector. Council, he said, would not ap- M. A. BAIR, Presidellt
prove or disapprove. It would make BIDE-A-WEE GIFT SHOP FllNERAL DIRECTORS
the legislative machinery available to 136 South 15th St.
the people. The purchase meant a Bell, RITtenholl.e I 'i~l 1820 Chel'tnut Street Keystl»le, Race 1110
bond issue. Council wOllld not orig-
Philadelphia, Pa.
inate of itself a bond issue for any-

l HOWARD C. FRITSCH ! The Reward of Perseverance

i Justice of the Peace '(.
REAL ESTATE
I Fire Insurance-Best Companies ~
Phone 4049-W llili Haverford Ave. •

Persew~rance on the
part of Columbus, in
YO U CaD buy it cheaper at
MITCHELL'S whose honor October
FINEST QUALITY 12 has been set aside
WHOLESALE PRICES
RUMP as a legal holiday, re-
STEAK sulted in the dis-
CiiiiCK c
ROAST covery of a new
S.o~amb Ib world.
PiNBONE
ROAST Persev~rance n
~fll¥tx.:¥ SHEDDER CRABS
Maarice River Cove OJatefl, SOcGla•• Jar building a savings ac-
MITCHELL'S MARKET, Inc. count will be reward-
10 .rc 12 S. Delaware Ave., Philadelphia
Establl.hed 41 roan. At tho Fomo.
ed by financial inde-
pendence in later life
Agnes Reifsnyder
TEACHER OF SINGING, COACH. Member -a goal well worth
of faculty of Beaver College, Director
Reifsnyder-Sibley Chorus. Director New the striving I
Century Club and Treble ClefChoruses,
Wilmington, Delaware.
~Iarguerlte Sibley
TEACHER OF SINGING, SIGIiT-SINGINO.
McDonough-Cheve method. PIANO.
children and adult beginners especially.
John M. Williams system used. Home
instruction. Write for circular.
NARBERTH NATIONAL BANK
STfJDIO, 1626 Spruce St. Member of Federal Reser'Ye System
Philadelphia Pennypa.,ker 3853
OPEN FRIDAY EVENINGS FROM 7 UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK

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 Page Twenty-eight OUR TOWN PriJa'Y, October 11, 1929
Rotarians Hear of Where William Penn Worshiped Lower Merion Boys
Scout Jamboree
CONTINUED FROM THE FmST PAGE
Carry Fame Afar
point, according to Mr. Sutton, was Maroon Alumni Starring on
the parade and dance of 1000 Scotch Many College Elevens;
Scouts in kilts to the music of the bag-
pipes. II. Four at Haverford.

Scoutmaster Faries, of the Bala-

Cynwyd troop, which is one of the IHOW LEAGUES FARED
<}Idest in the county, pointed out that BY THE OBSERVER
Rala-Cynwyd literally led all the
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United States at the Jamboree. This i Lower Merion was well represented
came about since David l\IcVickar and /' on the college gridirons of the country
Walter Fricke, of the Bala-Cynwyd
troop, champion buglers, always I last Saturday.
Jack Miller was one of the stars on
the Drexel team which lost a N.
tough
marched at the head of the American game to St. Johns of Brooklyn, Y.
contingent. Alan Cook, captain of the Maroon
Side trips to points of interest in here two years ago, starred on the La-
England, Ireland and Wales were fayette
field goal teamfrom
as tackle, and and
placement kicked twoa
made by Scoutmaster Faries and his '/ points after touch((own. Cook is a
bovs. Among them were visits to the , sophomore at the Easton college.
towns
• of Bala and Cynwyd III 'va Ies,
. \IT l\1erl'on Friends' Meetin!!
" Jv Avenue. which was
on Montgomer "B u sc
d" Kohilla a ted a S tOrst
I _str'm g
I erected in 1695. A coat of stucco added early in the nineteenth quarterback at Annapolis as Navy
where many pictures were taken al1l a I f I 1 '11'
century hides the stone wal sot 1C lUI e mg. T . I
wo !)cgs are pomtce' dO'''lled a West Virgl'nia eleven ill easy
relic brought home in the f arm 0 f a fashion.
chip of stone from the Church of St, out within upon which vVilliam Penn is said to have hung his hat Paul Dohan has made the team at
Asaph, Bata. whcn he preached to a vVelsh congregation, many of whol11 could Ca rn e II no the line
. I
Intimate details of the trip from the not understand him. Captain "Eggs" Morris, Dothard,
I Litchfield
on theand Jones are first eleven,
string
boys' point of view were given by
Thomas Bowes, of Trevor Lane, Cyn-
wyd, a memher of the Rala-Cynwyd
Maroon Scores 12 to 0
b
Recent History. of
~O T
I men
and Ozzie Smith is a sub on the Ur-
' RId sinus College team.
Haverford College

Scout contingent. Victory Over Dar y ur own e ate If Bob Elmore is Ca member
I' I of Cthe
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CONTINUED FROM THE FIRST PAGE
I r~shman team at
How Narherth's Communitv paper I olmas, ~nd 1I10wery, Juunue I'aulk and
it~de" m, t le ar-
N eedIework GUI·Id L·ISt S went for sixty-five yards to roll over "Onr Town," came to be founded . and at BudtheMIller are on oftheAlabama.
Uni,'ersity freshman squad
Its Garment Distribution the Darby goal line, Several times its early career is describl'd by ohe of Gene ~uel! is a first string ta~kle at
he placed his punts so well that they . " the UnIversIty of Pennsylvallla, ai-
I
The directors and members of the were downed on the enemy goa I line Its founders and early eclttors In an ar-" t, ho,ugh out at present with an ankle
!lJarberth Branch of the Needlework or within a few yards 0 f it. T wlce · ticle elsewhere in this issue. This InJury. I >I< >I< >I<

Guild of America collected in 1928 he brought back the Darby punts for story is concerned with the paper's Race in Interac.
2706 new garments which were dis- thirty or more yards and in most in- history from then until the present. The Inter-Academic League opened
tributed as follows: American Legion, stances made substantial gains. \\Then Harry A. Jacobs, who had its season last Friday with the teams
96;
B 1 Ardmore Visiting Nurse, 176; Scott was very ctependable when running somewhat true to expectations
a >y H qspl.'t a I, LI a~lerc I1, 90'
.' Bryn yardage was needed through the line. edited the paper for several years, re- I'll tile Illatter of vI'ctorl'es alJl! defeats.
Mawr HospItal SOCIal SerVIce, 1 1 4 ; . " signed in March, 1921, Philip Atlee Haverford School chalked up their first
Children's Aid, Norristown, 88; Holi- He took an awful beatmg dunng the Livingston, then an undergraduate at victory by defeating Friends' Central
day House, Valley Forge, 120; Home game, but stood up well in spite of an Penn, was appointed editor by the of Overbrook, 12 to 7. \Vatt and
for Aged, Narberth, 50; Kounaroc!< injury to his elbow. His finesse in Civic Association. 11r. Livingston took Truitt were the heroes of the Haver-
Training Sc~ool, Virg~nia, ~O; Amen- backing UI> the line on defense has not ford squad and Cavanaugh was the one
can OncologiC, 62; CIlIldren s Country . . . . charge of the paper as a part-time who scored for the Friends' Central
\Veek Association, 48; Hahnemann left hllll durmg vacatIOn and he IS as project until his graduation from the team.
Hospital, Social Service, 50; Helping deadly as ever. University in 1923. Episcopal Academy, one of the
I-land Rescue Mission, 120; Home for AI. lfandes' return to the lineup strongest teams in the suburbs, easily
Aged and Infirm Color~d Persons, 84; helped the team considerably. AI I n the fall of that year, Mr. Living- defeated Germantown Academy, 19 to
Home Missionary Society, 64; Kens- '" I stan established the News of Bala- 6. Bud Freihofer, Episcopal's leading
ington Neighborhood Hbuse, 66; made ~ome nice gams dunng t le game, Cynwyd, I n April. 1925, he purchased threat, scored all the touchdowns for
Keeler Home, 64; Lutheran Settle-. and hIS forward pass to Pennypacker the :'fain Liner at Ardmore. For the his team, at one time racing thirty-
ment House, 90; Mariners' Church, 20; I' was good for a touchdown. five yards around end for the distance.
~f. E. Orphanage, 114; Motl!ers' As- l\r~Laughlin made several nice past five years Thomas A. Elwood has Montgomery School held Chestnut
been substitute editor of the pape~, Hill to a tie score, 0 to 0, at \Vynne-
House, 66; P~nnsYI~ania
'istance Fund 36' Moyamensmg Soup
Hospital, So- tackles of th~
ball ca~ner
' I
before
cl'al Ser"I'ce, 98', Presbvteriatl Home reached the Ime of scnmmage. l\f c s C I Aid' t
~e
acting as relief man during vacations wood. Pleasant, the husky fullback of
d'd s 111e 'VOII
J
for Aged, Bala, 66; Salvati?n Army, work in the last two games is the best and at other seasons of the year. oac 1 line
derful rnoplunging,
s cam, butI was 0
unable_
64; Seaman:s Chur~h Instltu~~..ltmg [16; tackling Lower l\Icrion has had in About two years ago Robert M. to get the ball over for a score.
St. Vincent s HospItal, 52; \
Nurse, 96; \"estern Temporary
H several vears, The line looked good Cameron entered the organization, Penn Charter defeated Germantown
ISO' \Vomen's Hospital, 50; Homeo form on e ,'
defense, but not so we II on 0 ff ense. succeeding to the editorial desk on Friends, 13 to 6. >I< >I< >I<

Inc~rable, 48; Florence Crittenton Several times they permitted oppo- October 1st o~ last year. Mr. E~wood, Abington Looks Good.
I-lome, 50; Children's Hosp,ital. 56; nents to sift through to nail the ball at the same tllne, was made editor of In the Suburban League Abington.
I~rivate C:ases , 15.8; Presbytenan Hos- carrier.
pltal, SOCIal SerVice, 74. ,
This tendency will have to be the "News," Cheltenham and Lower Merion won
II .
HELEN BAIRD CALDWELL, eradicated before L. M. meets son,le At present 1\1 r, Cameron is in charge t lelr games. . .
-122 Elmwood, Ave., Secretary. 10f the stronger elevens, or t Iley WI II of the news desk at the Mam " Lmer, Radnor Upperon Darby
Fridayplayed and Haverford a 6 to 6 tie High With
have a tough time of it. and also handles some of the Narberth I was held to a 0 to 0 tie by Glen-Nor
Tickets to Banquet Going 'Coach Adam is fast rounding the news. Mr. Elwood, the Bala-Cynwyd This was a surprise as Haverford
team into condition for the Chelten- editor, works from the Narberth office, looked strong'er than the Glenolden
WeII; Capacity Limited ham galllf.' tOll1orrow at Ardmore. having recently moved to the borongh teaNm. . t d'd 1 t 10 k 0 str Ilg
. . . orns own I 10 0 S a
Captain Scott, Tip Peters and \Var- from Bala, and IS adverllsmg manager losing to Overbrook High School by
Tickets for the biggest sporting ren Lockwood were injured in the and associate editor of "Our Town." I a 12 to 6 count. Ralston scored a "-
event of the year in Narberth, the Darby game, but it is possible that The paper was purchased by Mr. touchdown for Norris.town, but Deem \..
1 II I A t
base >a lanCJuet on coer b 24 ,are all of them will be in the Cheltenham Llvmgston . . from the Narberth CIVIC " looked backfield.
\Vhite the best bet m the' Blue and
reported going fast so it behooves all tuss. Lockwood's place can be filled Association in 1927 upon its disband- Cheltenham had a hard time beat-
those who wish to attend this annual by Pennypacker, but it will be diffi- ment. As sale owner of "Our Town" ing Media 7 to 0.
event to get their cards of admittance cut to replace either Scott or Peters since that time, he has enrJeav'Jred to Abington walked alVay \.:ith .'\....bler,
without delay. if they are unable to 1>la v • Chclten- tl " , 'I 46 to O.
Davis' store or any official of the 11alll brl'llgs a veterall tealll J
to Ard- carry I . I out Ile. I same
I CIVIC
I ' pnnclp
f I es Lansdowne raised
ld' its C own I I' stock
H' con-
w lIC 1 were all lown >y ItS OUlll ers' siderably by ho mg at 10 IC Igll to
baseball club will provide the neces- more, one that will give the Maroon a a tie score. It looks as if the 511h-
sary pasteboards in return for two and busy afternoon. A more varied pass-
one half dollars of the coin of the ing attack mixed in with the ball
• . ffi
Beggars m 0 ng
l
. urban tangle will be mostly Lans-
I
downe, Abington and Lower Merion,
I
rea m. carrying of Peters and Scott must be Housewives who are bothered with with the odds on Abington again this
Th k
e spea ers ' comml'tt e e is making used if Lower Merion is to success- beggars arc requested ?
to call the police
.
season.. I
Lower Menon looked strong III . spots
strenuous endeavors to sign up Foxx,l fully ward off the bids of their re- at Ardmore _0, an~ an ot,ficer wllI be and also weak. at times in the victory
Dykes, Simmons and Cochrane, of the mauling opponents for suburban sent to the scene IIllmel!Jately. If a over Darby High. They have the po-
champion Athletics, for duty at the supremacy. I
description can be furnished the tential powe~ if they can only use it
speakers' table. I
chances are good of the vagrant being when the gOlllg counts.
Seating capacity of Elm Hall is Iim- locked up. A veritable epidemic of R' I I' d
ited to about two hundred so get your the matter of dress, but don't seem to t lel~1 las s,:armel recent y ovtr Ie some of Baltimore's juvenile flagpole
The girls have a lot of latitude in I I I I tl I
Iva contestants comp ame that
tic'kets early and avoid disappointment. employ much longitude. sectIOn, particularly over week-ends. J sitters were really only liars.
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Chinese Flowering Crabs and Other
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We can fill all of your garden reqUIre-
ments-

SHADE TREES
Norway and Silver Maples, Ash, Birch
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Japanese Flowering Cherries, Apricots,
Peaches, Plums, Chinese and American
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Magnolias, and Flowering Dogwood. Shidare-Higall. j,rpallese IVcepillg or Roseblld
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from the daintiest white to
rich billes, deep pllrples and
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ROCK GARDEN
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Sedllms, dwarf phlox and iris.
Fine assortmellt.
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TVe offer for all sorts of lalld-
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.. Rhododendrons, Hybrid and na- A ::,deas alld small flowerillg plallts 011 sale ill fro lit of ollr
tive. office dllrillg Sprillg bloomillg seasoll.
MalliS Floril11lllda is a prolific. light pillk flonwillg Crab. Kalmia and Daphne.
Lilacs, French and common.
Weigelia, Deutzia, Altheas, Hy-
drangeas, Laburnum, Mockorange,
Snowberry, Cotoneaster and others.

GROUND COVER PLANTS HEDGES

Pachysandra terminalis, A juga, Vinca Minor and Vinca For hedging we offer Golden, Regal and Standard Privet
Major. as well as excellent English Boxwood, Pyracanthus, Bar-
berry and Hawthorne.

," Let lIS estimate on your planting Visit ollr nurseries at YOllr con-
needs. Ollr representative will be venience and let liS show you ollr
glad to call at YOllr home. Simply stock. T he main office is located on
telephone Narberth 3796. Montgomery A venue, Narberth.

The Garden Nurseries

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Autocar Trucks In Narberth

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FAITHFUL AuTOCARS, owned by the Borough, call regularly at every

house in Narberth to collect ashes and rubbish. They are also constantly
enlployed in street and sewer nlaintenance, economically perfornling those tasks
which the taxpayers expect the local authorities to care for promptly and well.

ANOTHER AUTOCAR, owned by the Fire Department, stands reliably ready

at the Fire Station to answer every alarm. Through winter snows and in summer
storms it has for years been carrying the nlen and the apparatus to any spot
where they were urgently needed.

Ralph S. Dunne, the coal man, has always depended on Autocar Trucks-he
owns a fleet of thenl-to nlaintain that unusual service for which the Narberth
Coal Company is known far beyond the bounds of the Borough.

As in Narberth, so in thousands of cities and towns throughout the entire coun-

try, Autocar Trucks are providing economically and reliably nlany of the essen-
tial hauling services that nlodern life denlands.

Autocar Trucks
THE AUTOCAR COMPANY, ARDMORE, PA. ESTABLISHED 1897

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 ORIENTAL FLOWERING TREES
Our Collection of Japanese Cherries~
Chinese Flowering Crabs and Other
Ornamental Trees is InternationalIg
FAMOUS
We can fill all of your garden reqUIre-
ments-

SHADE TREES
Norway and Silver Maples, Ash, Birch
and Elm.

Persica-Dollble Flowerillg Peach. Call be
had ill white. pillk or red.
ORNAMENTAL TREES
] apanese Flowering Cherries, Apricots,
Peaches, Plums, Chinese and American
Flowering Crabs, white, pink and purple
Magnolias, and Flowering Dogwood. Shidare-Hip,a". Japallese ll'ccpillp, or Rosel",d
Cherry-P)'ramidal form.

PERENNIALS
Select from 0111' stock of hardy
plants any 1·ariety yOIl desire
from the daintiest n,hite to
'1 rich billes, deep pllrples and
yellows.

ROCK GARDEN
PLANTS
Sedums, dwarf phlox alld /TIS.
Fille assorl1l1ellt.

EVERGREENS
IV e offer for all sorts of land·
scape work, a complete line of
IJllality el'CTgreens, including
}1II1ipers, T axus, Arborvitaes,
Retinosporas and the beautiful
alld rare Cryptomeria.

EVERGREEN ANlJ
DEDICUOUS SHRUBS
Azaleas from brilliant red, rich
pm-pies to pale pink and white.
Rhododendrons, Hybrid and na· Azaleas alld smal! jlowerillg plallts 011 sale ill frollt of ollr
tive. office dllrillg Sprillg bloomillg seasoll.
MaillS Floribll"da is a prolific. light pillk jlon'erillg Crab. Kalmia and Daphne.
Lilacs, French and common.
Weigclia, Deutzia, Altheas, Hy.
drangeas, Laburnum, Mockotange,
Snowberr}" Cotoneaster and others.

GROUND COVER PLANTS HEDGES

Pachysandra terminalis, Ajuga, Vinca Minor and Vinca For hedging we offer Golden, Regal and Standard Privet
Major. as well as excellent English Boxwood, Pyracanthus, Bar-
berry and Hawthorne.

r: Let liS estimate on YOllr planting Visit our nurseries at your con-
needs. Ollr representative will be "enience and let us show yOll ollr
glad to call at your home. Simply stock. T he main office is located on
telephone Narberth 3796. Montgomery A,'enue, Narberth.

The Garden Nurseries

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Autocar Trucks In Narberth

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FAITHFUL AUTOCARS, owned by the Borough, call regularly at every

house in Narberth to collect ashes and rubbish. They are also constantly
enlployed in street and sewer nlaintenance, economically perfornling those tasks
which the taxpayers expect the local authorities to care for promptly and well.

ANOTHER AUTOCAR, owned by the Fire Department, stands reliably ready

at the Fire Station to answer every alarnl. Through winter snows and in sunlmer
storms it has for years been carrying the men and the apparatus to any spot
where they were urgently needed.

Ralph S. Dunne, the coal Ulan, has always depended on Autocar Trucks-he
owns a fleet of thenl-to maintain that unusual service for which the Narberth
Coal COlnpany is known far beyond the bounds of the Borough.

As in Narberth, so in thousands of cities and towns throughout the entire coun-

try, Autocar Trucks are providing econonlically and reliably Inany of the essen-
tial hauling services that nlodern life denlands.

Autocar Trucks
THE AUTOCAR COMPANY, ARDMORE, PA. ESTABLISHED 1897