Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - March 12, 1904 DIRECTORS WILL MEET Prof. J. Horace LANDIS, County Superintendent of Schools, is completing arangements for the first annual meeting of the School Directors Association of Montgomery county, which will be held in the public hall of Daniel KLINE, Limerick Square, Thursday, March 17. The program will be as follows: Morning, at 10 o'clock - Devotional exercises; music; organization. Subjects for discussion - 1. Are We Teaching Too Much in Our Public Schools? by John H. GOTTSCHALK, Esq., Mr. J.S. JONES, Mr. H.M. LESSIG, Mr. Jesse S. KRIEBEL. 2. Is It Feasible to Allow Teachers to visit Other Schools to Observe Methods of Instruction and Discipline? by A.R. PLACE, Esq., Mr. C.H. BEAN, Milton H. WALTERS, Esq., Mr. Irwin FISHER. Afternoon at 1.30 o'clock - 3. Are We Ready for Centralization of Our Rural Schools? by Mr. Enos S. SCHWENK, Mr. Thomas COULSTON, Mr. S.J. GARNER, Mr. Isaac Z. REINER. 4. Should the Physical Condition of Our Schools Be Improved? by Cyrus H. CALEY, Joseph H. JOHNSON, Rev. F.W. LOCKWOOD, Henry I. RITTER. Subjects will be opened for discussion by the Directors named on the program and followed by general discussion. Superintendent LANDIS hopes that all Directors will attend in order that the School Directors' Association of Montgomery county may form a useful and effective organization to the end that a public sentiment in favor of the public schools may be fostered. In the evening Superintendent TRYDEMEIER, of Wilmington, Delaware, will deliver a lecture on "The Functions of a Director." SNITZ TOO MUCH FOR GOATS DIGESTIVE APPARATUS Although he could drink beer and chew tobacco, a pet billy goat belonging to Lewis HEIST, of Reading, was up against it when he ate a peck of dried "apple snitz" and death resulted. SHOT IN THE WRIST DURING A FIGHT During an altercation on Ford street bridge, at Norristown, John BRUSKI was shot in the wrist by a Polander, who escaped. CONSTABLE STOPS FIGHT Constable Clement SCHLICHER, of East Greenville, prevented a fight in an alley in the borough of East Greenville, last Friday evening, in which one of the participants was yielding a revolver. He heard a noise in the alley back of W.O. BIELER's butchering establishment and he walked up the where it came from. He found two hoboes quarrelling. He told them to move on and quit their noise, when one of them raised his arm as though he would strike at Mr. SCHLICHER, when he knocked something out of the man's hand. He heard something drop on the frozen ground and after he had made the men move on, he lit a match and he was amazed to find a thirty-two calibre revolver with five loads in it. He then followed the hoboes but could not come near them any more for they ran after they were relieved of the revolver. FELL INTO MAN HOLE AND WANTS TO SUE BOROUGH James GORDON, a contortionist, threatens to sue the borough of Bridgeport for damages for falling into a hole on the pavement in Bridgeport in trying to avoid a dog fight. In his overture to Town Council for an amicable adjustment of the trouble, he alleges that by the fall he sustained injuries that rendered him unable to accept an offer of $25 a week as a contortionist, and is still aflicted. TROLLEY CONDUCTOR HURT BY FLYING SPARKS William J. HOCH, a trolley conductor on the Allentown and Reading Line met with a painful accident at Kutztown. He went on the rear of the car to put the trolley on the wire, which had come off, and held it while the car was in motion. Firey sparks flew in all directions and some entered his eyes. He was rendered almost totally blind. His sight is improving and he expects in course of a week to resume his duties. TOOK QUININE FOR CANDY Mamie THELEN, a three year old child of Hokendauqua, took a bottle containing quinine pills from a bureau on Saturday and thnking it was candy took 42 grains of the medicine. Several physicians were at once summoned but could not sa ve the childs life. It died in the evening. SELLS ALMOST A THOUSAND PRETZELS A DAY John REICHSTETTER, aged 15, is the champion pretzel seller of Reading, and disposes of from 800 to 1000 every day in the streets. WOMAN DOCTOR DEAD Mrs. Washington LEIDY, of New Hanover Township who was buried on Saturday was a woman who was known not only in the community in which she lived, but also throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and even in New York State. She was known as one who could cure hydrophobia, and she will be mourned by many who, through her kindly acts were saved from that frightful and agonizing death that follows the dreadful malady-hydrophobia. The cure she administered was known to herself only during her lifetime. Shortly before her death she passed the secret to her eldest and only daughter, in the same manner that she, the eldest daughter of her family, had received it from her mother. The remedy that Mrs. LEIDY employed and which was never known to fail, even in the most virulent cases of hydrophobia that she was called upon to attend, is a secret that has been with the maternal side of her family for many generations, and was in each case handed down to the eldest daughter. The cases of rabies that Mrs. LEIDY cured during her lifetime were many. The patients came from many points in Pennsylvania and New York and all were healed. DEAD MAN HAD MONEY TIED ABOUT HIS LEGS Antiona DELELLO, an Italian who was killed on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad near Pottstown last week had money underneath his clothing. He had $35 in bills tied tightly to his leg. It was also ascertained that he had a trunk neatly packed full of new clothes which he contemplated taking with him to his native country shortly. He wanted to return to visit his wife and children and they are anxiously awaiting his home coming. His body was buried in the Catholic cemetery at Pottstown. SECURED A NEW POSITION IN POTTSTOWN Irwin K. COPE, who has been connected with the Ellis Mills store, at Pottstown for some time, assumed a new position on Monday in the hardware store of J. Fegely & Son. He took Howard W. GILBERT's position as traveling salesman. Mr. COPE formerly was a clerk in Horace ROHN's general store at Perkiomenville. FORFEITED $1000 BAIL Judge ERMENTROUT, at Reading, has signed a decree of distribution of the largest forfeiture of bail that ever took place in Berks county. It is $1,000. Forfeiture of bail is a frequent occurrence, but it seldom amounts to more than several hundred dollars. Over a year ago John WELLBANK was arrested for policy selling. He gave $1,000 bail for court, but was not present when the case was called and his bail was forfeited. John ROURKE, his bondsman, paid the money to District Attorney WAGNER, and Judge ERMENTROUT now makes this distribution: Costs of the suit to recover the money, $18; costs of WELLBANK's arrest, $7; costs in connection with the trial, $32.42. This leaves a balance of $944.58. Half of this goes into the county treasury and the other half, $472.29 to the Berks Law Library Association. CLOTHING FIRM WILL ENLARGE STORE The clothing firm of SHANKWEILER & LEHR, at Seventh and Hamilton streets, Allentown, is making changes and contemplating alteratiens which when finished will make their establishment one of the finest and largest in the Lehigh Valley. The entire front will be torn out and be replaced by modern up-to-date windows with a depth of seven feet. The entire front floor will be lowered so as to place it on a level with Hamilton Street. The basement will be converted into a store room. A large entrance will be placed on Hamilton Street and the others will be closed up. A seven foot vestibule will be a new feature. The store room proper will be extented twelve feet, and numerous other interior improvements will be made. The large awnings on Hamilton and Seventh streets will also be removed. Work will be started this month and when the Messrs. SHANKWEILER and LEHR are finished, they will be better enabled to display their goods to greater advantage. TEACHERS HOME QUARANTINED AT ALLENTOWN Mrs. Horace B. FENSTERMACHER, wife of a teacher in the Skippack grammer school, who had been suffering with a sore throat for several days, was said to be suffering from diphtheria. Her home has been quarantined. SIXTY YEAR OLD WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE Phoebe Ann MAUGER, 60 years old, committed suicide at the home of her brother, Sylvester MAUGER, in Warwick township, Chester county, by taking paris green.