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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1885
Page
3
Local items recount camp meeting notices, charity festivals, open markets, and personal news from Millheim Aaronsburg and surrounding towns. Mentions of Rev Dietzler sermons, ice cream fairs, and real estate sales alongside reminders of examinations and school plans.
Last Saturday featured Splendid band music and a Lutheran festival that netted about $100 in gross receipts. J C Meyer of Bellefonte visited family, Harvey Musser returned to Akron, Ella Ivey back in Chester Springs, Maggie Lenker to Lemont for millinery work, and Henry S Gross and PHIL Yearick family were guests of Thos Yearick. Mike Ney aged about 85, born in Lebanon county, died Friday night after a long career in carpet weaving. he was remembered as the county’s oldest citizen.
Smith Town reports a busy week with social events at Aaronsburg and Centre Hall, travel to Bellefonte, and a missing boy found safe. Local workers like Aaronsburg mechanics aided Fosterman and Kreamer while Miss Fairy Shafer prepares to move to Reading for school. The community notes a buggy accident involving Mrs Zeigler and visits from D W Duncan of Sunbury.
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