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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1886
Page
3
Local items report improvements, new business, and one bank planned for Mill Hall. Posts note lectures, school reports, a bridge fire, and a Kansas emigration letter from J A Bright. Also advertised are plaster, liniment, flour, and a barber shop move plus community happenings.
Cal Weaver planned a trip to Snyder Co and bought a horse. Frank Tomlinson returned from Duboise Pennsylvania and may settle here. A social at Minnie Schaffer’s last Thursday drew many young people. Robt. Smith left town to live with his brother Charles then plans a Kansas trip around the 18th. Prof Johnson of the Baptist University Lewisburg preached at Rev Deitaler’s Lutheran church. audience pleased with the discourse. Dr Edward Shoemaker arrived with a medical bag ready for pills and visits his uncle Dr. E. J. Deshler. Several moves occurred last week with Lewis Mench and Geo Stover taking new homes and others moving about April 1. L. D. Kurtz moves to Mifflinburg. J. Hi. Musser and Jacob Reed relocate thereafter. ANOTHER
Mr Wm Bierly heads to New Berlin to attend school. David Shafer moves into Mrs Houtz's home. J K Moyer converts an old store into a dwelling for a laborer.Saturday exhibition well attended. scholars praised for parts. P C Weidemyer travels to Lock Haven. Hazel works on Jos Shafer's farm in Nittany Valley. George Miller remains sick and missed. Harvey Hauck moves to L B Stoyer's east of town. John Guiser of Nittany visits William. L L Beck returns from Florida to help in store. Schools closed. mixed views on teaching. J J Ocker owns a fine pony. MacDonald's Liver Pills ad promotes relief from dullness and headaches.
J H Frank plowed this spring while farmers sowed clover seed last week. John Kimport broke ground for a new house and bought Henry Keens lime kiln. Five young men left town for other parts. Miss Mary Harshbarger returned from Nittany Valley. The Kern brothers arrived safe at Freeport Illinois to meet two brothers.
Last Friday Capt. W O Van Valin is appointed storekeeper in this district and to oversee N W Eby s distillery which resumes April 1. J B Ard of Pine Grove Mills visits his brother Dr W P Ard. Mrs C W Hosterman and son Theodore visit Snyder county. Robi Wolfe closes space by telephone to home. Rumor of a vigilance committee circulates after main street commotion. Druggist W E George reports J A McDonald of Reedsville praising Blood Purifier curing erysipelas after three bottles. McDonald s Great Blood Purifier touted for scrofula skin diseases and all blood disorders. 75 cents a bottle. Philadelphia sold by J Eisenhuth Millheim.
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