Beininger and Bumiller Editorial Note
The fiftheim Journal lists Beininger and Bumiller as editors and proprietors for the January 5, 1882 issue. This printed masthead identifies the publication leadership and ownership.
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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1882
Page
3
The fiftheim Journal lists Beininger and Bumiller as editors and proprietors for the January 5, 1882 issue. This printed masthead identifies the publication leadership and ownership.
The town notes a bright Christmas with sunshine and mild holiday weather. Court sent five prisoners to the western penitentiary, while local reports mention church repairs, property trades, and a mix of social happenings. Recovered news covers storms, rains, and growing community commerce along with minor mischief and charity.
The piece urges sober reflection on past deeds and future duties, urging readers to improve personal character, family, church, and community. It notes thanks to Rev. J. Benson Akers and his wife for a Christmas gift and promotes Prof. Kurzenknabe’s forthcoming convention with a music program.
At Lock Haven last Friday Jas Cotter of Sugar Run aged about 50 was buried alive when a ditch sides caved in during pipe laying. He was alone at work and body recovered after about seven hours. In Franklin Pa a deathbed miracle is claimed as Rev B Loyd reports his wife cured by prayer after six months in bed.
Afternoon program notes a convention with sessions including Grand Chorus Class Drill, Question Box, Remette Drill and Solo Singing, Voice Culture. Reading of Minutes appears, followed by 9.30 Grand Chorus Class Drill and 30 Question Box.
Concert program lists singing and prayer roll call reading minutes followed by choir and drill performances. Features quartet and solo singing, instrumental music by orchestra, and a question box session continuing through late morning.
The program notes show a grand chorus class drill concert practice scheduled at 11 45 focusing on sight singing exercises and vocal technique between drills led by the music department.
The Bartholmei heirs, seventy nine in number, met at the First Ward Mission School house and appointed Allen Bartholmei of Altoona and Samuel Z. Smith of Erie as delegates with full power to transact all business for them in the old world and pursue their fortune.
Marriages recorded in Aaronsburg, Brush Valley, Madisonburg, Robesburg, Potters Mills, Snyder County, and nearby areas. Couples include John F. Heckman and Rebecca Smith, John H. Showers and Mary A. Long, William Musser and Susan L. Smith, R K Roush and Perie C. Shafer, W W McCormic and Laura E McCloskey, Samuel Nerhood and Catharine Herman, James L. Kerstetter and Annie Hoy.
Corrected and munged OCR lists various grain products including wheat, corn, oats, barley, timothy seed, clover seed, butter, milk, veal, pork, and coal market note at C Burn. The fragmentary text shows pricing or product mentions with many garbled words.
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