Mittheim Journal Editors and Staff Listing
The Mittheim Journal dated Thursday January 1, 1880 lists B. O. Deininger as editor and R. A. Bumiller as assistant editor.
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1880
Page
3
The Mittheim Journal dated Thursday January 1, 1880 lists B. O. Deininger as editor and R. A. Bumiller as assistant editor.
The Millheim community thanks readers and notes joy and brisk commerce. Public notices cover school enrollments, teacher names Zerby VanOrmer Eisenhuth, and a December festival with Rev Tomlinson. The Centre County Teachers Institute in Bellefonte featured Dr. Schaeffer and Miss Smith with lectures on pedagogy and music, concluding with praise for benefit to local schools.
The piece urges self improvement and moral purpose as the new year begins, contrasting wealth with intellectual and moral growth. It reports Madisonburg’s Musical Convention progress, large attendance, and daily rudiments sessions, plus a closing concert on Jan 3 1880 and free lodging for visiting singers.
Christmas brought scant cold and limited snow while public schools closed briefly for vacations. Community notes cover travels, births, weddings, social events, a schoolhouse festival with gifts and a wine scene, local sales ads, sermons for January, and a double wedding in Kelley township with a Mennonite ceremony followed by a banquet and band serenade.
Two wedding notices from Rebersburg dated the 25th alt mark the marriages of William of Sugar Valley to Jane Royer and Newton Weber to Annie Crouse. Rev. Urand officiated the first ceremony and Rev. Mandis the second. Both brides and grooms are listed as residents of Rebersburg.
Negs near Penn Hall report Jacob Nees aged 63. Ryakick in Georges Valley dies of diphtheria. daughter of George and Mary Kearick aged 6.
Market page lists weekly corrected items including wheat flour buckwheat bran and shorts plaster cement Timothy flax and cloverseed with prices noted for Chestnut and other staples. Several garbled lines obscure some entries but core items include dried apples peaches coal and stove components with price marks such as five 50 and five 75 dollars.
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