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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1881
Page
3
A string of local items notes meetings of the Building & Loan Association next Monday, a springtime organ tour, bargains at Bellefonte and Millheim stores, raft activity on the West Branch, sewing machines, fishing rights, and various ads. Burglary near Harter home reported with missing cash but no chase. Weather, town council actions, and moral notes on economy and paying debts wrap the column.
Dr. Higbee the new state superintendent orders teachers' certificates pulled for re examination before reissue. City teachers with state certificates must refresh in key subjects to renew credentials. The rigid state process may force months of study for renewal and wider teaching restrictions. In other news a Maror Crine child died after a shooting incident involving a revolver, and the Lovett malpractice trial concluded with a $2,500 verdict for improper treatment of a broken arm.
A Canadian goose story from Toronto Globe describes a farmer finding his bird frozen in a hole after a snow melt. Tyrone reports Locomotive 148 exploded at the Clearfield line, damaging the depot, tannery, Ward house, sparking injuries to multiple people, with the engineer unhurt and cause unknown.
Administrator Hines settles the estate of Jacob Nietzen in Bell township, noting three daughters each receive $1,000 and three pots of buried treasure beneath the kitchen hearth. The treasure, including coins, is estimated near 10,000 dollars, previously unknown to the family. The deceased suffered a sixty pound tumor on his leg for thirty years.
An 1870s style advertisement promises rapid weight gain and cure for chronic diseases using a new method and B. B. Dispensary in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It also promotes Ayers Catarrhetic Pills as the best vegetable purgative for families, digestion, and weak constitutions, sold by all dealers.
On March 22 1881 at the home of Thésp as Weaver a ceremony was performed by Rev D P Kuine uniting Emanuel E Shaffer of Logansville Clinton county and Emma E Ruwe of Booneville Clinton Co in marriage.
In Sugar Valley on March 25 1881 Solomon Knorr aged 74 years 9 months 4 days. On the 31st at Spring Mills Mary Larissa Grenoble wife of John A Grenoble daughter of Henry Krumrine aged 27 years 4 months 5 days.
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