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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1879
Page
3
A 1879 line notes an assistant editor named Bumtarr blamed for an error in the Thursday issue titled A Glitiein Journal. The brief item records the correction and placement of responsibility within the newspaper staff.
Local notes report the Union County Agricultural Society fair scheduled for October 1 to 4 1879 with hopeful attendance from Centre County. Wages rise for moulders in Reading, and the Mifflinburg Bank burglary yields only loose change.
The notice records I J Grenoble receiving a new goods stock, plasterer competition among W B Fortney John Wingert and John Miller, a Geor ges Valley picnic and bell-raising next Saturday, and W M Allison & Bro burning a brick kiln at the saw mill near Spring Mills as work begins on a new house next summer.
The Centre County school examinations are scheduled across multiple towns from September 19 to September 30. A special Bellefonte exam on October 2 requires district director recommendations and prior attendance. Applicants must be examined in their intended teaching districts. passing standards rise with a no-issue threshold set at an average of 2.5.
Lewisburg visitors attended C. A. Sturgis wedding and observed family members at the state fair. John shows a new suit after his return. Feathery cleaners offer renovation. Miss Josephine Kaufman visits from Geislingen and plans to return to Philadelphia. The Centre County Fair promises a grand Oct 2 pageant with military companies bands cadets and riders.
Our jovial Shem returns after months away while Mr. Melchor Bierly raises a two pound potato. Peach and grape thefts trouble the area. Closing exercises of the Select School occur Friday evening Sept. 26. Kinney prepares to depart for Kansas. Anon urges charity over quarrel and moral discussion. Ed. notes Wolf's sermon and Christian unity.
Berks and Centre counties announce annual fairs from October 1 to 3 with Union county’s fair on the same dates. Lock Haven Normal School reports fall term enrollment up twenty percent from last year. Clearfield county bears noted, while a Lock Haven group survives a near fatal camping mishap. Pottsville reports Maha noy Plane town in danger of caving in due to Stanton colliery workings. residents flee and prepare to move. York county fair features a wooden locomotive exhibit crafted by Noah r.
County auditors must audit the accounts of poor directors under a new statute. Applicants for relief need no poverty certificates. their personal application suffices for admission to the almshouse or relief. In Springfield, Dr Cyrus B Smith aged 40 Granby Mass killed by lightning at 2 A M while asleep in his garret. house burned. wife found him. two children and two others rescued. Smith was Hamp shire Medical Society president and former assistant surgeon of the 34th Massachusetts Volunteers.
The Union County Fair runs Wednesday through Saturday October 1 to 4 with Chief Marshal A. M. Lawshe and Assistant T. Hublen. Purse events include $30 for under five horses, $40 for over five, and $160 open. Entries close at 10 o clock daily. Judging by a panel led by Fullmer, Rook, Baker and others. Also listed are premium classes for carriage, draft, harness, blood stock, common horses, and cattle breeds with detailed prizes and breed requirements.
Two marriages take place within Millheim and near Linden Hall as Tiane G. Walker wed Kate Smith while Charles A. Sturgis married M. J. Belle. The editor congratulates the couples and thanks the bride for the cake, expressing warm wishes for happiness.
Died on the 31st at Woodward Mrs Elizabeth Harper wife of Thomas Harper aged 71 years 7 months and 4 days a devoted member of the Reformers Church. On the 6th in Bellefonte Roland Dys hes le 6 h ins Pectin Birthday aut.
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