Our Town , January 28, 1928

OUR TOWN PRICE, THREE CENTS Narberth, Pa., Saturday, January 28, 1928 Vol. XIV. Number 17 GRASS FIRES CALL MEETING ON EVENING CONCERT Old Post Office Building Being SCOUT SPONSORS During the past week the Nar berth Fire Company was called STREET WIDENING IS WELL ATTENDED Moved By Railroad to Stop Hazard IN JOINT MEETING out for three field fires, and one blaze January 21. The latter was Council Seeks Public Opinion The second step in the transfor ed and a four-foot pavement will be Fathers’ Association and the garage of L. J. Smith, Lev Main Line Orchestra Offers mation of the Narberth station was laid along the south side of Haver Troop Committee Con ering Mill road, Cynwyd, at 7.30 on Matter of Vital Program of Familiar taken this week when work was com ford avenue from that point to the fer on Program. A. M., where a truck had caught Interest. Numbers. menced on the removal of Robert steps leading from the platform to fire. The damage, estimated at $300, was covered by insurance. J. Nash's real estate office to a new Essex avenue. PLAN WINTER CAMPING There was no damage at the grass TO MOVE LINE 10 FEET position. The first move was made The building inspector issued a fires. PLAY BACH CONCERT temporary permit for the removal of early this month when the freight This ought to be a big year for There is probably no doubt that station was changed to Wynne- the structure, as its construction is if it were possible to start all over A pleasing program and an ex not in conformance with the build the Narberth Boy Scouts. It will SCHOOL BOARD TO again, all of the streets in the busi cellent attendance marked the sec wood. The Nash office, a wooden struc ing laws. It will eventually give be, if a live interest 011 the part GIVE DENTAL CARE ness center of Narberth would be ond concert of the season, given way when the station improvements of some of Narberth’s big boys can made very much wider because of by the Main Line Orchestra in the ture. has long jutted out into the line of Haverford avenue at the are completed. make it so. the traffic congestion which mod Ardmore Theater Sunday night. The office was put up nearly 15 Every Pupil Will Be Examined corner opposite the post office. It On Monday evening, January ern conditions have brought about. This was the first program ren years ago as a temporary home for By Dentist Employed Anything which can be done now dered by the organization in the lias obstructed the vision of both pe 23, a joint meeting of the Narberth destrians and motorists at this point, the post office, which later took larg for Work. to relieve the congestion of course evening, former concerts being er quarters on Haverford avenue. Fathers’ Association and the increases the desirability of Nar scheduled for Sunday afternoons. and has been considered a grave traffic hazard. When the post office was moved Mr. Troop Committee was held for the FREE CLINIC PROVIDED berth as a business and shopping Miss Maisie Chance, pianist, Nash took possession. center. The thing to be deter was the soloist, playing the fifth The building is being moved sev general discussion of 1928 Scout eral yards west of its present site Last year the Narberth Board of Free dental inspection, with pro mined is whether anything should Brandenburg Concerto of Bach, Trade voted in favor of the remov activities. While winter weather and three solo numbers. In the and four feet south, so as to bring vision for clinical care, has been should be borne. it to the wall of the station build al of the Narberth freight station to curtails the Scout work normally added to the services rendered the be done at this time and, if so, how concerto the trio parts were Wynnewood, so that the tracks on done out of doors, those who have much and by whom the expense played by Miss Chance, Alexan ing proper. When the removal is students by the Narberth School au der Thiedc. violin, and Joseph La completed the corner will be round CONTINUED ON THE EIGHTH PAGE planned for the development of thorities. This was provided for at There was introduced at the De Monaea, flute. The last two the boys through the Scout move the January meeting of the school cember meeting of Council an or named are members of the Phila ment have arranged many inter hoard Friday night. dinance which has already passed delphia Orchestra. FIRE CHIEFS PLAN Dr. Edgar I. Diller, dentist re first reading and which, if finally CHURCH PAGE IS esting things for the boys to do. tained by the Lower Merion school adopted, would provide for setting The program was in distinctly Winter camping is one form of back the property lines 10 feet on classical vein, the only composers NEW DEPARTMENT BETTER PROTECTION district, will make an examination of sport, an instruction that has every student at the local schools, each side of Essex, Forrest and approaching the modern school Narberth avenues between Hav being Grieg and Debussy. Com gained great favor. But the prob and will advise treatment where nec Narberth Congregations Join Discuss Territory Coverage at essary. In cases where the parents erford and Windsor avenues. The positions of Gluck, Haydn, Bach in Series of Historical Meeting With Smith lem is to find a suitable place, passage of that ordinance would and Weber made up the re are unable to pay for treatment, and Articles. and Warnock. within hiking distance, where the consent to clinical services, these mean that no buildings of any mainder of the program. needed accommodations can be character could be projected be The concert was opened by will be provided free with a 2 5 -cent This week “Our Town" com Plans for auxiliary protection had. To look into this matter, and charge for materials. yond the newly-established line Gluck's Petite Suite de Ballet, find out whether or not such a and that ultimately those streets consisting of shortened versions of mences the publication of a fea by nearby fire companies of com The dental work will he done place can be provided for our Mondays in the clinics at the Lower could be widened. This ordi four of his familiar numbers, ar ture which, it is hoped, will be munities whose own companies Narberth Troop, a committee was nance is based upon the Chestnut ranged to suit the limitations of a Merion High School. Decision to come a permanent part of the are already out answering alarms, appointed by Chairman Greene. institute this service was made after street ordinance of the City of small orchestra. Haydn’s D Ma paper—an entire page devoted en were discussed at a meeting of the Messrs. Snyder, Krauskof and Philadelphia, which has been in jor Symphony No. 2 was repre the school physician called attention tirely to Narberth churches. chiefs of Lower Merion and Nar Schroeder cheerfully accepted the to many cases of serious dental operation for many years and sented by parts of the Adagio and job. Menuetto movements. On this page each week will be berth fire companies, held Tues trouble among the pupils. with which many local people are familiar. Played with Accuracy. printed historical and informative day night in the township build Another job of real value to the A delegation of the Mothers’ boys was successfully handled by Council attended the meeting and In view of the fact that the pas Adolph Vogel, the conductor, material relating to our local ing at Ardmore. Mr. Greene—flood lights for the offered their co-operation in school sage of such an ordinance would read the compositions with excel church buildings and congrega A. D. Warnock, new chairman grounds around the Scout house. problems. They suggested that vitally affect several important lent tempi, and the orchestra tions. The plan is to inform the of the township police and fire The arrangements are all made, teachers be asked to attend the properties and might in the fu- played with accuracy and balance, residents of the community of the committee, called the chiefs to and it won't be long now until on meetings of the council, and this ture lead to considerable addi limited only by the slight inaccur facilities for worship offered in gether for a talk-fest with Police meeting nights the flood lights the board agreed to arrange. tional public expense, it is a sub acies of the individual players, all and near their own town. Superintendent Charles P. Smith will make possible outdoor work The offer of A. E. Wohlert to ject of interest to all the taxpay amateur musicians. and to greet two newcomers, Chief plant trees on the school playground ers of the Borough. This ordi The outline of the series calls a nd play. The orchestra gave capable ac- Horace Heaps, 0 f the West Mana- Next Friday evening our hoys was accepted with thanks by the nance has been introduced prin companiment to the three soloists in for a description of the church yunk Fire Company, and William go to Ardmore for competitive board. The planting will be similar cipally to determine the state of the concerto. The rhythm which home of each of the eight denom L. Hor n u g, chief of the Bala- tests with the Ardmore Scouts. to that given the borough by Mr. public opinion on this matter and only Bach can impart, and the rich inations found in Narberth and its Cynwyd Fire Company.

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