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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1885
Page
3
Spigelmyer's promotes holiday goods and fur caps while ads urge Harter and Kauffman stores. Local items mention juror J F Harter, anti discrimination resolutions, and a Penn township estate sale. Community notices include meetings, entertainments, church activities, and a medical ad presence.
Ed Swartz reports trades and curiosities as locals keep busy with farming, hunting, sausage making, and community events. William Musser returns from the West to stay with Jacob in Brushvalley while others fix mills, sell hogs, and harvest deer, with a singing class, new subscription push, and festive pressures.
Severe wind storm hits the North West and Ontario with high lake waves and shattered breakwater. Omaha reports sixty mph winds causing building damage and trains blocked at the Union Pacific bridge. Central City Nebraska notes partial destruction of the Methodist College. Snow depths range from six inches to four feet with widespread train delays. Winnipeg shows fourteen below zero. A Pittsburgh advertising note promotes McDonald's Liver Pills with a refund offer.
On Monday morning the 7th, at the residence of B. O. Deininger Millheim Mr. Jacob Wolf aged 71 years 11 months and 19 days. Funeral today at one o'clock PM Interment in the Lutheran cemetery Aaronsburg Relatives and friends invited.
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