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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1881
Page
3
Community updates include Spigelmyer promotions on rice and sugar, farm and church notices, academy plans at Spring Mills, a cow ordinance issue in Lewisburg, and oblique local anecdotes. Reports cover deaths, auctions, lectures, and two bank deposits totaling $374,459.19, with civic events and school news throughout Centre and Clinton counties.
A letter from Mr. Euitor discusses travels to Ohio and Kansas, noting Central Pennsylvania families, crop prospects in Kansas including a forecast for a record corn crop, and a tornado impact on Emporia and nearby towns. He also covers the temperance movement and recent Supreme Court rulings sustaining prohibition laws.
A Medina butcher finds an eight inch snake in a cow liver while California ranchers kill rattlers nine feet long in Santa Barbara. In Georgia two children kill a seven foot rattler with eighteen rattles. Colorado Texas man drives off rattlers then abandons camp life. A Covington negro is bitten by a large coach whip. A dentist doctor treats a child bitten by a rattlesnake with whisky and recovers. A legendary twenty foot serpent haunts a Rockville area den attracting wary locals.
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