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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1881
Page
3
A miscellany from the Journal includes store notices on scrap pictures and cheap rice, local rain and harvest notes, multiple regional travels to Gettysburg, and health advertisements for Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. It reports on a horse injury, a Pennsylvania National Guard camp near Saltsburg, and a burned Lock Haven paper mill with rebuilding plans.
A statement from the author denies circulating a report that J. H. Reifsnyder would be deputy if nominated and elected sheriff. The author says no promise was made and that Reifsnyder would not accept the deputyship if offered, calling the reports unfounded.
A reader recalls a neglected Penns Creek graveyard with Rev. James Martin’s tomb and pleads for an iron fence. The item also promotes the Farmers' Supply Store in Bellefonte led by Col. Shorthidge, boarding-house details at a toll gate, and community letters from Lock Haven and Guthrie County with crop and weather notes from Herman Witthauer.
The amended acts set hunting dates for deer and rabbits, restrict trout and certain birds, and require hook and line for bass and pike. Penalties apply for violations. Sunday hunting forbidden. nets and traps banned for protected species. Notable local items include a prison murder report and a note on Rev. John F. Adams.
A Winona special reports Paul Weld, a Swiss emigrant in Eagle Creek valley, was driven insane by crop failure and homesickness. He and his wife and two children were found dead in the home and three other children mortally wounded. a revolver lay on the scene. One boy may recover as investigators note the impact of years of hardship on mental health.
Susan Gottwald aged 79 8 8 died July 17 at her son Rev W H Gotwalds home in Milton Pa tribute to a widow mother of eleven with three sons in ministry one in medical field one in Union Army and four in mission life in the west several daughters and other children left Mora. Also notices of Mrs Sarah Stover Wm Emerick and Mrs Mary Bower with ages and dates of death. Funeral sermon cited from Rev 14 13 and hymn verses provided.
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