Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-04
City News in Brief

ANppnw J. BRENNAN, ss years ola
was held to await the action ol Wv" ,bs
oner today by Magistrate Pennock, o .,
| accusation of having caused VI tI,e 80 NJ.
| lanes Booth 81 years old, EoS nro 80 ,s,,is.
| ris street, who died yesterday u. w "a &c
| co,ai uospitai Three men were helu g, u
| ,,,stariai witnesses They are Joseph
Weeney, 1853 East York street i,a, rrancls =
| o,,irr os2s Gaul street, and william D.
white. 1851 Chatham street Accol Acc,,. u,i.s :
| 10 the police. the men and Boom stalteN e,,
Saturday morning in an autofnoplle J,.sor
| for a ioyride while driving along Ceual
ntroot near saraeant, Brennan, who the
noIjce saw was driving, swerved the truck
| from the trolley tracks 20 get out OF the t
wav of a car Booth lurched from the
truck his head striking pole
PROF. CARL LOSE, Of the Central state M
Norman School, Lock Haven ,f',l Hr0i' sS,n,
E. Laramy, of the Baston hlgn Scnooi
and Professor Hughes, Of Lehigh Unlver-
sity, will be three Of the prlncipal speak
ers at the intertownship institute at the
Elkins Park High School september -
and Is. More than 100 instructors iron,
Cheltenham and Arlington townships VIII
participate.
A $4,000 swINDLING CHARGE faces
Curley Carter. now in jail mere atter
three-year search that began when ne
Jumped $4,000 bail bond. He was prougnI
here from salt Lake City yesterday py
Detectives Lord and Farrell, VINO maue
two trips West because Carter had escaped
when they arrived at Salt Lake city the
first time. Carter Is accused OF swindllng
a farmer named Hess at YORK, "a
AFTER TWO years effort on the part OF
residents of more than half dozen small
I.lanpTCh. IL IS 10 De
made the point of distribution for several
rural free delivery routes, displacing New
town Square according to semiofhcial re-
port from the Postoffice Department at
Washington. This will result IN more
prompt deliveries Of mail at Brookline, Pen
field, Llanerch Manor and other commune
ties in Haverford township.
MISS ALEXoNA NJ. RoHR, for IL years
teacher of English and literature in the
Friends High School at Moorestown, NJ j"
has been appointed by S. Z. Downs, super
intendent of schools Of Lower Merion' as
principal of the Merton Square School.
AT NEwTOwS tomorrow n special cleo
tion will be held to take action on proposed
bond issue in the amount OF $22,OOO, the
money to be used In the construction Oh
school buildings and increased facilities In
the present buildings. The present indebt.
amounts to only $1,000.
ARCHBISHOP PRENDERGAsT presided
Yesterday at a double jubilee in st. Lud-
wigs Catholic Church, Twenty-eiBhth and
Master streets. which celebrated the twen-
ty-ffth anniversary of the dedlcation OF
the edhce and the completion of quarter
of a century of the rectorship of the Rev.
Bernard Korves
LEWIS SMITH, 80 years old. of 2746
North Hemberger street, conductor on
the Fox Chase trolley line, is in critical
in the Frankford Hospital suffer-
ing from fractured skull. He was in
jured when he leaned out too far and was
struck by n passing northbound car at Ris-
ing Sun avenue and Gilham street yester-
day.
TWO PERSONS, man and n woman,
died in this city yesterday from injuries
suffered in falling downstairs. They are
John O'Brlen, 54 years old, OF 200 South
Seventeenth street, and Mrs. Catherine
Long, So years old, of 141 West Cumberland
street
FOR TwENTY-sIX YEARS Henry
Myers manufactured and sold trunks and
suitcases at 314 North Tenth street. He
lied suddenly yesterday alone in his apart
nents above the trunk store. He was so
OAAs niNhi ~ hiiV"i iSiotANSo' ,
FATAL INJURIES may result from an
accident late last night when Charles
Myers. AZ years old. of 1890 Arch street.
clipped as he stepped from street car at
Hunting Park avenue and York road.
Myers's head struck the curb. He is in a
serious condition at ST. Luke's Hospital.
JOHN CAMPBELL, 80 years old. an
escaped patient of the Philadelphia Hos
1ital, was arrested today by Patrolman
Karl, of the Germantown avenue police sta
ion, on the estate of William j. Straw
bridge, at School lane and Wissahickon
venue. Campbell, when taken before Mag
strate Pennock, in the Germantown police
tation, this morning was recommitted to
he Philadelphia Hospital.
THE SPRUCE STREET Baptist Church
las sold its old building at the southwest
orner of Spruce and Lawrence streets TO
he Rumanan-American congregation for
20 900, of which $4,000 is retained on
The lot is rs feet by 1874 feet
he building was occupied for a time since
was abandoned by the Spruce Street
Baptist Church by the Congregation Beth
iamerrash Hogodol Mirack Ashkenaz.
THE HIGH PRICE of flour has forced
Ienry Wehrheim, for 26 years a successful |
akery proprietor, to go to work for an |
ther baker. He sold out his bakery at 1945 |
'orth Mascher street, where his wife has |
pened delicatessen store.
BURNS FROM cleanup" fire may
esult fatally for 12-year-oId Edwin Blair. |
Willow Grove, whose clothing became |
snited when he set fire TO a pile of rubbish |
olected in the suburban campaign against |
lfantile paralysis. He is in the Arlington
Iemorlal Hospital
lREECE BOWS TO ALLIES;
MAY SOON ENTER WAR