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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1879
Page
3
A mix of community updates includes visits and deaths, new property sales, hunting and sleigh making news, a school report, hotel changes, a railroad sale notice, local philanthropy, and a detailed Lebanon prison execution account.
The local items report rain affecting area agriculture, M. Bingman opening a shop and promising work, I J Grenoble selling low priced ladies coats, Samuel Crawford repairing roads, D C Keller and Co shipping livestock, a new steam saw mill near Jacob McCoels in operation, and J A Jacobs Wort announcing a tailor shop move to Musser Smiths building Millheim.
A Penns Valley brief notes seminary turned weaver shop, health updates on Mrs. Fulmer and others, visits by Mrs. Murray, hunter trips, road conditions to Lutheran church, return of Messrs. Stover, and local business chatter about the Journal Book Store and Millheim Marble Works offering monuments and headstones at valued prices.
A Reading baker estimates the city consumes about 9,000,000 loaves of bread annually. He notes wheat flour provides the best nutrition with standard composition. The note includes a quip about clothing fasteners and a Pittsburgh mills restart after water shortage. The Lake Erie potato crop remains heavy as digging continues and a Bucks County shirt factory reports 300 dozen produced in the first week.
Three couples wed recently in Bellefonte Jacksonville and Girard. John I. Markis and Jennie Rossman wed at Bellefonte. George N. Wolf and Kate Lutz tied the knot at Jacksonville. Foster S. Wolf and Emma Adamson married near Aaronsboro Centre County. The Wolf couple plan housekeeping in Girard house formerly of K H Lawton.
Fragmentary price list shows veal and wheat figures, corn and buckwheat notes, butter and jams costs. Mentions cement per bushel and ground pine, with scattered amounts and unit markers. The readable items indicate a local market listing with multiple commodity prices and measurements.
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