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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1886
Page
3
Local notes report trades, promotions, and repairs from Millheim and surrounds. Rev. Hengst leaves for Loganville. Peters sawmill bridge rebuilt. Burdock plants and seeds sell. a P. O. postmaster appointment and a grain-yard collapse headline a busy bulletin of community life with family health, sales, and town plans.
Welcome Robin Bluebird and Pewit to the district as residents and events unfold. A chapel concert at the new Reformed church drew a good crowd last Friday. Frank Weaver has a new east end home while Geo W Kister and J Willis Musser shifted residences nearby. Mrs Ney has returned to town and lives on Tannery Hill with Frank Weiser occupying part of her house.
The article notes the Snydertown Lutheran church wedding of Miss Mary Emerick and Samuel Martin with bridesmaids and groomsmen, while Mr. and Mrs. Bartley of Bellefonte visit, P. B. Stover and family travel from here to Bellefonte, and J. H. Frank buys three colonies of wees in Brushvalley.
A Lewisbury Chronicle attack criticizes sensational reports from coal regions claiming a mock communion in a Millersburg hotel ended with a death. The paper refutes the tale saying no such event occurred and condemns the reporter for blasphemous fabrication.
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