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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1885
Page
3
Camp meeting fills grounds with an estimated 2000 attendees and eleven tents. Local notices advertise farms, real estate sales, new buildings on Penn Street, and a planned Fairview Cemetery with eight acres, iron fence, and orderly lot layout. readers are urged to attend church events and heed hunting and fishing cautions.
Local items note Mr. George Stover visiting near Woodward, residents warning about early squirrel hunting, Henry Keen expanding his horse stable, Mrs. R A Bumiller visiting Mrs H E Duck, oats dwindling as farmers prepare seed, recent heavy rains causing ditch damage, William I Huey visiting Brush Valley, Mr Barber of Mifflinburg buying cows, Oscar Duck relocating a thresher to Brush Valley. An advertisement extols Curtis Carmelite Cordial with expounding testimonial from J A McDonald of Georgetown, Pa, claiming cures and refunds if ineffective.
Rules establish Fairview Cemetery owned by St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Millheim Pa. It governs burial lots pricing supervision visits and conduct with strict rules on grounds use, lot embellishment, payment, and possible amendments by church council.
On July 30 at the Lutheran parsonage in Aaronsburg Rev. M L Dietzler united Allen M Yearick of Aaronsburg and Emma R Hess of Woodward in marriage in a simple ceremony.
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