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PRICE THREE C E N T ~Hugh Brown to beHead of Bank

Saturday Morning Dancing Class.Having met wit h mueh successin the past two years , the Com1l1unity Club will again conduct the Saturday morning dancing class.Mothers, please let down the h ems .of the party dresses and tryon theslippers so that the little girls maybe ready for the f i rs t less.on. Watchthe dub news column fo r fu rtherinformation and help to make thiss ea so n t he b ig ge st and best onrecord.

Hugh \ \' . B rown, one of Narberth's best known citizens, meml erof t he Borough Counc il and a wel l1'I:own l'hi!adelphia business man,wl1l be th e h rs t president of t he n cwXarberth \'ational Bank.Mr. Brown was chosen to headt he n ew f inanc ia l institution at ame eting of the stockholders held\iVednesday night . Other officerswcre also elected. Charles E.

Kremer, of Essex avenue and aI'l.liladelphia business man,' will bevice president. The following willcompose the Board of Directors.\;\/illiam C. Alexander, lawyer,Haverford.Frank A. Cabeen, Jr., businessl1Ian, Haverford.James K. Stone. business manSt. Davids. '\-V. A. L. Barker, business manand president of the Board of Commissioners of Lower Merion Township, Cladwyn.William R. Parker, business man

Narberth. '. W. R. D. Hall, city editor, "Pubhc Ledger," presiden t of NarberthBorough Council.A. P. Redifer, business man andmemher of ~ a r b e r t h BoroughCouncil.Dr. Clarence T. Faries, physician,t\arberth.Carl B. \letzger, business manand Burgess of Narberth.Fletcher W. Stites, lawyer, andStacie Senator, Narberth.Ralph S. Dunne, presiden t ofl'\ a.rberth Coal and Bui ld in g Matenal Co. and president of NarberthCivic :\ssociation.Thus it ",i ll bc s ee n t ha t o f the13 officers of t he n ew bank, nine,includ ing the p resi dent and vicepresident, are residents of t\ arberth,and all of t hem a re m or e or. lessactively associated with the inte-restsa nd wel fa re o f the borough.. , \t the Wednesday night meetingVIctor D. Abel, the Philadelph ia

architect. \\'ho is a lso a r es id en t ofNarberth, and who h ad been selected as architect for the new bankbuilding. submitted his design, plansamI general speci ficat ions for thenew structure.The Narberth ?\ ational Bank willo cc up y thc s ite at the corner ofHaverford and Essex avenues, nowoccupied by the garage. Mr. Abel'sp lans cal l for a two-sto ry br ickbuilding of colonial style; the firstf loor to be occupied by the bank andthe second to be divided into officeswhi ch will be r en te d. . The newhome of the bank will be a verya tt rac ti ve hui ld in g and a d ec id edarchitectural a ss et t o the community.\Vithin the next three weeks i t ishop(d that the details of the specifications will have been completed.Estimates wil l then be asked f or t heconstruction of the building, andsoon thereafter the contract wil l b eawarded. Actual construction willbe star ted as soon as possible, andwhi le t he work will go ahead as

fast as weather conditions will permit, t he u nc er ta in ty o f t he lattermakes it impossible at t hi s t ime tofix a dat e for t he completion of thes tructure. The approximate date ofthe opening o f t he n ew b an k wil l beannounced later.

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Referee for Penn.\Vilmer G. Crowell. of :\ ar hcrth. wellkllllWIl athlete alldformer lnanag-er of the :\ arherthhall team, refereed the Pelln-Crsi nu s g am e last S at ur da y. H ealso wil l h e the official at I he h igPenn State game ;";',\'emher ] ; i ,~ r. C ro wel l h as r ef er ee dmany of the higgest games in the

c oun t ry du ri n g the past fewyea rs , a nd w as c al le d t o t he Pa cilic ClIast last seaslln. Fire I'revention vVcek, a national1110vement, will again be observedthis year in : \' ar he rt h. P la ns a reunder wav for a concerted effort beginning ~ I o n d a y o f n ex t week andemling Saturday, in whic h the entire cOl11l1lunity will join.On F ir e P re ve nt io n Day. next

Thursday, there will be special exercises at th e s ch oo l in t he morning,a t whi ch the ne ed f or car e wil l b e(Iemonstrated. l\lcmbers of theNarberth Fire Department, in uniform, wil l call at the h omes in t heborough and wil l d ist r ibu te cardscontaining valuable in format ion onIi re prevention.These cards particularly emphasize the danger of accumulated inflammable waste in the home, andurge that househo lders c le an o uta ny s uc h ref use. Street Commissioner Suplee has announced thathis d ~ p a r t m e n t will co-operate bycollectll1g the rubbish.This will be done, h e s ta te s, atthe f irst of the regular win te r ashcollections, which wil l be made beginning on October J3. The problem of disposal will thus be solved.The mO\ 'ement in Narberth is

under the direction of a C it izen 'sCommittee, appointed this week byBurgess Carl B. ;\Ietzger. The committee is composcd of Dr. Leroy A.King, chairman; l'vlr. A. PerryRedifer, 1\lr. L. I-I. Trotter, !'tIr.Hugh W. Brown, :\1r. Ceo rg e H .Wilson and l\1 r. Philip A. Livingston. Burgess Metzger is ex-officioa member of the committee. Inaddition. everyone in the communitvis considered a part of the conl1nittee t o p1lsh the work.: 'Ir.. \ Perry Rei

b e e n o r g a n i ~ e d on the Daltpn plan Smith, 2b. 0 2 6of education. This plan differs Lehman, 'ab. . 4 0 1 1f d' l' " . W. Mossqlan, cf.. 4 0 0 5-"rom-,or. mary'c a S B ~ r O o m , : p r o c e " ' H,YQekel,p 1'0 1 ,()dureby itsetnphasis. of th e indi-R, Yoeckel,p. '" 0 0 0 0v i d ~ a l t Y p e of illstruetion. Assign- Copples, p. , 2 0 0 0metlts . of ,'work extending over *Barker ,. , 1 0 0 0, . p ~ r j o d s of!l. week toa ,montha re, ~ a d e , instead of th e customary

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. C\'cry-1-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - ;if, afte r f u rth er s tudy of t he p la n one."and careful evaluation of the results obtained from th is group, it LEAGUE CONTEST IN SCHOOLSis found ad\' isahle to make th e A feature of the "Cet-out-the