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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1886
Page
3
Local items highlight rain and cold as Kauffman’s sells overcoats and various goods. Advertisements urge readers to visit J. W. Stover’s for buckwheat flour and oysters while reporting on community events, church notices, and small-town commerce.
The column catalogs town life from weather and coal trade to social visits. It notes F P Barker selling stock to Mr Meyer of Linden Hall and moving to Fowler, the Whitmer mill plans, post office mailbox at the depot, and hopes for money orders. It reports court jurors named, hunting trips, schoolgoers returning, church improvements, and local mischief with a revolver tied to a local mystery.
Farmers plowing and cows sold mark the week while social life centers on a Musser House birthday party for Miss Mary Keen. A road improvement was approved last Thursday and Harvey Wirt hopes for better threshing with the new arrival in his family. Weather hindered the 21st birthday anniversary celebrations and local Democrats report late voting.
James A Decker sells goodwill and fixtures to James Kennelly to run a larger operation. T Benton Ulrich, editor of Centre County Times, visits town and is escorted to the creamery by Wm Pealer. The death of W L Snyder after typhoid fever is announced and his burial noted. Samuel Leitzell’s wagon accident injures him. horse dies. Kintzell and Wealthy Campbell visit from Mifflin County. D F House does creamery lettering. Cyrus Grove hired to teach Decker school following Snyder’s vacancy.
AARONSSURG. 8. Q. Mingle of Williamsport bought the widow s Corman property last Saturday for 490. The Aaronsburg hunting party returned with one deer shot by Clayton White. N W Cronmiller of Bellefonte visited relations. Master Charles Musser returned to school at Lewisburg. Charles N Stover, leading poultry man, ships dressed poultry weekly to New York.
Woodward reports four deer and two bears hunted. Whitmer and Co. of Sunbury visited to buy a timber tract owned by Samuel Motz. no sale yet. Prayer meetings continue nightly at the church. Frank Motz, son of J C Motz, has returned home. ARGENTI.
On the ith inst at the Reformed parsonage in Aaronsburg Z A Yearick united James A Treaster and Sarah E Styers both of Coburn in marriage status newlywed couple of the region with local ties.
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