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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1887
Page
3
Community roundup with health notices sickness in residents, deaths of Mrs. Neff and Mr. Faust, business visits by J. W. Snook and others, church services, school updates, local trades and sales, property concerns, and early spring improvements. Also notes on fire risks, road work, and local industry shipments.
Bellefonte resident N W Cronmiller was down for a few days. A quiet wedding occurred at J Willis Musser's Boneville house attended by locals including Miss Nora Bower and a Mr Bailey. Subscription schools opened with Emma Edmonds teaching and Mary Duncan starting a new session. Farmers prepare fields as weather favors seeding and geese signal coming cold. Local trades shift as William Bierly moves cigarmaking to Kreamersville. Snyder Miller sells shoemaking to open a confectionery and barber shop. New barn plans, lime stacks, and grazing improvements appear as townspeople go about spring tasks.
John Weick returns to town after a year in Spring Mills. Lutheran Sunday school reorganization details appear flawed with misread names. The Reformed Sunday school reorganized last week. Death of the last of three notable raccoons reported with a Pennsylvania Dutch epitaph. A local boy reportedly hanged himself, prompting concern over theft and despair among youth.
Three fourths of a mile west a steam sawmill is being erected. Names mentioned include Willie and Fisher Motz visiting parents, Philip Leister moving to a property bought from John Lose, Frank Guiswite visiting, Miss Jennie Walter going to Bellefonte, and N. W. Eby selling forty gallons of whiskey last week, crediting the Journal ad and old rye quality. Also an ad for Kennedy remedy and a testimonial from E. D. Parsons of Rochester.
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