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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1881
Page
3
The Hlitthein Journal issue dated Thursday February 3 1981 features editors and proprietors Deininger and Bumiller. It presents local notices and community briefs from the Hlitthein area.
Local items include election tickets printed at the Journal office, notices of church conferences at York and Lock Haven, estate administrations, and real estate sales. With ads for a foundry worker, a Coburn hotel for sale, and a large community notice about a Millheim German Evening School program of German and Pennsylvania Dutch performances.
A letter from Tomas Ferrarthorn in Galeton Valley Montana describes the region as rich and rapidly developing. He notes cattle and sheep farming, irrigation differences east and west, high grain yields, and local prices. The writer invites John Kerstetter to visit, mentions local wages, and advertises a livestock sale and local businesses.
In Charlestown on January 29 Bessie Werts a 22 year old resident of Prosperity area was murdered while returning home Two suspects Spearman and Fair confessed and were jailed A mob lynched Spearman and Fair escaped then was recaptured and hanged near Prosperity The inquest ruled death by choking and other outrages by the two assailants
The fragment records deaths and ages across several towns including LeWi Franklin New Berlin Miflinburg Logansville Penn Francis Smith and Penn Township. Notable ages include 74 74 5 4 1 7 and 8 months with dates around late October November and January 1881. Francis Smith born Oct 6 1801 died after fifty years in Centre county.
Local note records J. B. Crawford leaving his school and taking a counter-hopper job at Duncan and Son's store. The item also mentions grain shipments from Nittany Valley and price notes at Spring Mills. Religious meetings are announced in Georges Valley with Rev. W. E. Fisher and Rev. J. B. Akers delivering sermons amid sleighing crowds.
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