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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1887
Page
3
Subscriptions and pro tips fill the festive pages with ads for candy, cigars, and Christmas goods. Local progress includes street improvements, church festivals, lectures, and a fatal shooting accident near Penn Hall casting a pall over the community.
Local readers report J C Rote and family visiting Mrs Simon Rote. Frank Tomlinson moves to Lock Haven to work in a tannery. Wim Booth relocates to Boalsburg for carriage work. Christmas plans and Sunday School singing are tied to the upcoming festival. The slate roof on the new church is completed and another church rumor arises.
Shamokin correspondent shares local color about orders for yellow pine timber from Adam Gutschall, donkey named Bloss, and railroad gossip. Nearby prospecting, hunting, courting tales, school plans, and seasonal remarks fill a rambling community page with residents like Jeff Swanger, Jos Cantner, William Rhoads, and Miss Burd.
Farmers work full time at ploughing led by J H W Frank who pulls stumps with six horses. Visitors include Miss Agnes Bierly from near Rebersburg and Mrs Ada Singhizer from Altoona staying with Mrs Emma Kimport. A Sunday Grit circulation rise noted and a local pickpocket incident involving W F Smith at Millheim.
A party of hunters vacationed in the Seven Mauntaina area while Mr. Keller bought cattle nearby. Citizens visited Lock Haven for a murder trial, Guiswite & Co. prepared a new saw mill on their newly acquired woodland, and Willis Cole visited friends locally. Nathan Haugh lost a horse. Jerry Brumgard hauls farm implements to a new Jared Haines property. Moyer mill repairs progress. Gramley and Gephart buy cows in Nittany Valley, returning with seven head. A stranger was welcomed at D D Royer’s, and Dan revels in a recent event.
The notice lists coal types and prices such as Large Egg coal and Chestnut coal, plus flour varieties including Red Wheat Whi Roller Flour and Common Flour with salt. Rye-weight ground plaster is offered at 9.00 per ton, along with a small stove description and a stocked coal order.
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