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Newspaper
Valley Vigilant
Location
Saint Johns, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1905
Page
2
The Vigilant discusses winter starvation among game and birds caused by forest fires, snow, and food shortages. It urges farmers to feed wildlife with scattered grain and brush heaps to sustain populations and aid pest control.
Friday reports Albert Yeager visiting Wilkes Barre with the Yeager clan and Miss Cassie Yeager listed as sick. The Yeager party, including Alice George and Christian Yeager, enjoyed a ride to Dorrance then attended a gathering at Abe and Mrs Kensey home. Other notes mention Edna Betterly, Miss Yeager, and Drifter. Hannah Yeager of Drifton and Harry Mason visit the Yeagers. a Conngham man drove to take his lady friend for a drive but left alone.
The column catalogs social visits and travels including H I Golder and family in Lime Ridge, Washington inauguration attendees, and a list of Nescopeck residents visiting Danville and Berwick. It notes Evangelical church meetings, a 54th birthday party, local gossip on residents moving away, and humorous items about local inventions and hog catchers.
Quakake Frederick Shinkey and Harry W. Neeb of Weissport visited Edward Gerhard. A new road over Spring Mountain was requested by J. J. Gerhard after filing a court petition. Local health issues include grippe and whooping cough affecting schools, with directives for sick children to stay home.
Reports from Rock Glen and Hazleton area residents mention out-of-town sales, attendance at events, and local ailments. Andrew Lehr served as a Hazleton caller while D. J. Stahr did business at Mt. Grove. Mrs. E Phillips visited near Danville. A Crouse recovered after neuralgia. George Wannamaker prized a grandfather’s clock from Lehight county. The article also notes a Shappy party for Mrs. August Crouse, garden seed price outlook, and a theory about dairy butter production via an electrical process. A dangerous hydrophobic billy goat in Springfield caused a panic, injuring Harry Zabor sky before being killed.
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