Joseph B. SHELLY, a well known dealer in wagons and agricultural implements, was found dead in bed at his home in Quakertown on Friday morning. Deceased was about 45 years old and was prominently identified with the Mennonite denomination in this section. He leaves a family.
Edwin BREY, of Philadelphia, formerly of Upper Hanover township, died of consumption at the German Hospital, Philadelphia, on Sunday evening at 6.30 o'clock. Mr. BREY was a son of the late Reuben BREY and was never married. His age was 51 years, 1 month and 19 days. About four months ago he came to visit his sister Mrs. Allen MILLER, of Pennsburg, and while here he took sick with typhoid fever, after a seven weeks illness he was removed to the German Hospital where his sickness developed into consumption from which he died. His remains were brought to this borough to the residence of Allen MILLER by Undertaker Clayton H. FRYER on Monday. He is survived by the following brothers and sisters: Reuben, of Red Hill; Monroe, of East Greenville, and Sarah, wife of Allen MILLER, of Pennsburg. The funeral was held on Thursday at the St. Paul's Lutheran church near Red Hill. Services were conducted by the Rev. J.J. KLINE, of Pottstown. Interment on the church cemetery.
Jesse ROTHENBERGER, one of the oldest residents, of Pennsburg, died on Wednesday evening at 5.30 o'clock after a brief illness of several weeks. His death was due to Cholera morbus. His occupation was a drover and he for many years made weekly trips to Berks county to purchase cattle and then drove them to Harleysville and Kulpsville where he disposed of them at public and private sales. Although well advanced in years he was hardy and was able to walk many miles in order to drive his cattle from place to place. He lived to the ripe old age of 76 years, 2 months and 13 days. He is survived by his widow and two children, Amandus, of Allentown and Tillie wife, of Allen J. DRESSLER, of Pennsburg. The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at one o'clock at the Pennsburg Reformed Church. Rev. J.L. ROUSH will officiate.
Eva Leona ALTHOUSE, daughter of Mrs. Mary ALTHOUSE, of East Greenville, died on Saturday evening of a complication of diseases. She was in ill health for the last half year but was able to be up and about until the last few weeks when she was compelled to remain in bed. Her death was hastened on by a weak heart. Her age was 10 years, 11 months and 22 days. She is survived by her mother, one sister Ella, and three step-brothers, Charles WEISS, Frank ALTHOUSE and Howard ALTHOUSE. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 1 o'clock. Services at the New Goshenhoppen Reformed church. Interment on the church cemetery. Rev. Calvin M. DELONG will officiate.
Sarah PETERS, an inmate of the Mennonite House at Frederick, formerly of Philadelphia, died on Monday at the age of 65 years, 5 months and 12 days. She is survived by several sisters who reside in New York. The funeral was in charge of Undertaker Clayton FRYER, of Pennsburg, and was held on Thursday afternoon. Interment was made at the Bertolet Meeting House Cemetery near the home. Rev. GRUBB, of Philadelphia, officiated.
Mrs. Samuel SCHWENK, of Pottstown, died on Monday. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.J. HILLEGASS, of Gilbertsville, and is survived by her husband, her parents, brother Dewitt, of Philadelphia, and sons George and William.
Infant child, the five-months-old daughter of Joseph REPPERT, of Zieglersville, died of convulsions on Sunday. The family had been on a visit to Pennsburg and it seemed all right but in 45 minutes the child was dead. The funeral will be held to-day and interment will be made at Sumneytown.
A nine-year-old daughter of farmer Eugene WILLIAMS, of near Kutztown, stepped upon a rusty nail last week and died Tuesday night of lock-jaw.
Maddened by the heat, a bull at the Friends' Asylum, Frankford, attacked John LUKENS, on Tuesday evening, and gored him to death before anybody could come to the man's assistance. LUKENS was found dead at the feet of the enraged bull, who was bellowing in apparent delight at his bloody work. LUKENS was 63 years old, and it was his duty every night to drive the bull into a box stall and tie him. While doing this on Tuesday evening, the animal, affected by the intense heat, turned upon the old man and butted him against the side of the stall, breaking his ribs and causing other serious injuries. The savage horns penetrated a vital spot and the man was past all help when discovered.
Injuries caused by falling from a barn loft caused the death of Raphael KLING, aged 71 near Macungie.
Edwin F. REITER, Jr., of Hoppenville, and Miss Ida S. KLINE, of the same town, will be married today. The wedding will be a private one only the members of the two families will be present. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. KLINE, of the Hoppenville Hotel, and the groom is a son of merchant Edwin D. REITER, of the same town.
The golden Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham BENFIELD, of Huffs Church was celebrated on Sunday. The relatives and friends of the aged couple began to arrive early Sunday morning and by eleven o'clock the house and yard were filled with a joyous crowd. A sumptuous dinner was prepared and all enjoyed the repast. The younger element spent the day in games while the older ones related instances which happened in their youth. All had an enjoyable time and before they left they congratulated both Mr. and Mrs. BENFIELD on their happy event and wished them many more bright days of wedded life. The following were present: Seneca BENFIELD and wife, Clayton BENFIELD and wife, Clayton BENFIELD, Mary A. BENFIELD, Abraham BENFIELD, Jr., and wife, Reuben A. MOLL, wife and child, Milton GERHART, wife and three children, J.D. REIFSNYDER, wife and six children, F.N. BENFIELD, Claudie, Eliza N., Minnie, Mary, Irvin, Lillie and Frank BENFIELD, Allen M. FISHER and wife, Edda FISHER, Charles BAUS, Frank MECK, Mary GERHART, Harry H. BENFIELD and wife, H. Winslow FEGLEY, wife and child, Alice MOLL, Annie BEITLER, Christie BEITLER, Mrs. David BITTENBENDER and two children, Lawrence FISHER, Amanda SEISHOLTZ, Mrs. George HOFFMAN, Mrs. Abraham REINERT, Edna MOYER, Mrs. Amanda BAUS, Valentine MOLL, John D. FRONHEISER and wife, Joseph FRONHEISER, wife and three children, Mrs. James CONRAD, William BENFIELD, wife and child, William ROHRBACH, Henry BENFIELD, Oswin BAUS and wife, Jacob BENFIELD and wife, Mrs. Benjamin CARL, Samuel BENFIELD and wife, Mrs. James F. NEALL, Atlantic City, N.J.; Clara MOYER, Annie MOYER, Edwin FOX, Daniel CONRAD, wife and child, Stella CONRAD, Charles KUSER, J.G. WERSTLER, Harry SEIBERT, wife and child, Lizzie BAUS, Henry S. MILLER, wife and two children, Edwin MOYER, Rev. J. Henry LEESER, Obediah FOX and wife, Horatio WESSNER and wife, Aaron BENFIELD and wife, Calvin BEITLER, Jennie REINERT, Edwin FRITCH, wife and two children, Alice REINERT, James BEITLER, August BEITLER, Freddie ROHRBACH, Howard REINERT, wife and two children, Harvey BAUS, wife and five children, Abraham DENNIS, wife and two children, Eugene ROHRBACH, Samuel S. ALTHOUSE, wife and three children, Henry MOYER, wife and child, Rev. O.R. FRANTZ and wife, Rev. A.J. FRANTZ and wife, Cherryville, Northampton County; Samuel S. KRIEBEL and wife, Watson BENFIELD, William EHST, Harrison MOSER and wife, August REINERT, wife and two children, Mary REINERT, Milton GERHART, wife and three children, Oswin SCHANTZ, wife and two children, Allen ERB, Claude ECK, John ROHRBACH, Emma RUPPERT, Daniel RUPPERT, William FO??, wife and child, William WESSNER, Claude WESSNER, Leon ERB and John GLASE and wife.
Jacob S. GELLER (picture) has been conducting a mercantile business in the borough of Lansdale for more than a quarter of a century. His first entry in the day book at the Grand Emporium was made July 8, 1878. Mr. GELLER was a resident of Marlborough township in the early seventies and at that time proprietor of the Hoppenville Store. He was born in Skippack township in 1846 and at the age of seventeen he started "huckstering," attending the Philadelphia market. For thirty years Mr. GELLER huckstered in connection with the store business. He served Girard College with butter for twenty-eight years. Mr. GELLER is considered one of the shrewdest business men of his town and he has given the town a store property of which it may well be proud, for the Grand Emporium is considered the most spacious store building in the county outside of the larger towns. He also kept a store at Kulpsville for three years prior to his moving to Lansdale.
The appraisers of the Line Lexington Fire Insurance Company awarded John G. EGOLF, of Philadelphia, $3300, for the three houses recently destroyed at Telford, by the fire on May 28. The property destroyed included a warehouse barn and two wood houses, all of which was insured in said company for $4020. Mr. EGOLF, displeased with the award, decided not to rebuild and he since sold the lot to William BLANK for $775. He thereby received a total of $4075, for the property. Mr. EGOLF had offered the property for sale at $4000, several times before it was destroyed by fire.
Charles MILLER, of Red Hill, while driving along the road near Bally, this week, found a raspberry vine containing 46 large raspberries. This is something quite uncommon at this season of the year.
George MELCHIOR, pantaloon manufacturer of Bally, has broken ground to build an addition to his factory. The business has so increased that he must have more room and more help. Mr. MELCHIOR started the business about two years ago, with fifteen hands. At present he employs about sixty and expects to employ some more as soon as he has sufficient room. At the same time he will erect a steam engine to take place of the present gasoline engine. He will also fit the factory with steam pipes for heating purposes.
Morris STAUFFER, of Bally, while plowing one day last week, turned up a nest of snake eggs. He at once stopped and counted them and found it to be nineteen. He then broke them and found nineteen snakes, each one containing a live snake varying in length from about three to six inches. They were all killed. After plowing about two yards further he plowed up another nest of eggs, and upon examination they proved to be turtle eggs.
Allen G. KRIEBEL, of Hereford, lost his watch one day last week while taking his gasoline engine from Hereford to the Queen of the Valley Farm. The watch was found near the Pennsburg Coal yard by Robert DERR and returned to its owner.
Fourteen acres of pickles is a rare sight in this section of the county, but that's what may be seen on the farm of the late Rev. E.H. POHLE, of near North Wales. The POHLE's have a contract with the Philadelphia Pickling Company for all the pickles grown. The crop this year is pronounced a failure owing to the wet weather. In one of the farm buildings may be seen ten or a dozen hogsheads filled with pickles in pickle, getting ready for the pickle-eating public. This product of the farm, as well as the milk, potatoes, &c., goes direct to Philadelphia, where the POHLEs find the demand for their "goods" larger than the supply.
Harry DRACE, a fourteen year old Pottstown boy was thrown under a coal train in that borough on Tuesday morning and had his left arm ground off near the elbow. The accident occurred while he was climbing over the coal train which had been lying upon the siding. Suddenly the train pulled out and the shock threw him beneath the wheels. Besides having his arm cut off he was severely bruised and scratched.
Last Sunday evening, while playing on a wagon in the barn yard, the six-year-old son of Theodore GEHMAN, a farmer west of Macungie, fell into a dung hook. A prong entered his head just over an eye. Dr. J.A. BROBST was hurriedly summoned and attended to the injured lad. He thinks the eye may be saved and finds that so far no very serious results have followed.
Mrs. J. JONES, of Philadelphia, purchased the property of Nathaniel HALLMAN, of Hereford for $1800. The sale comprises eighteen acres of land, good house and a barn. Mrs. JONES and her daughter, Helen, were visiting with the family of Jonathan KRAUSS and they were so impressed with that section of the country that they purchased a home. They will move there next Spring.
John JACOB, of Upper Hanover township, has had a stone crusher erected on his farm. The crusher is an up-to-date one and the power is furnished by a gasoline engine. The crusher was started this week and it is Mr. JACOB's intention to run it continuously provided he can sell the stone. He has orders for stone from the supervisors of the township at present and he expects to fill those first.
Christian KULP, of near Pleasant Run, assisted his son-in-law, Dr. Daniel BICKEL, in thrashing grain one day last week and while throwing sheaves from the loft he slipped and fell to the floor below. When picked up it was found that several ribs were fractured besides being badly bruised. A physician was summoned who attended to his injuries.
James BAKER, of Allentown, one of the party of campers located near the Minnehaha mills in Upper Hanover township, met with a painful accident one day last week. He was barefooted and walked in the grass near the tent when he tread into a broken bottle. He cut an ugly gash in his foot and for several days he did not have much use of the member.
Alderman E.F. OCHS, of Allentown, left last Thursday for parts unknown. He was a member of the printing firm of E.F. OCHS & Bro., of Nos. 525-527 Chestnut street, of that city. The printing business has been seized by his creditors since his departure.
Wenz BARR, residing near Emmaus, fell 30 feet into an abandoned ore mine on the flats in Lower Macungie, Saturday night. He broke an arm, a leg and several ribs, and is in a critical condition.
Amandus DELONG, an old and respected citizen of Vera Cruz, who was working at the Donaldson pipe foundry, Emaus, for many years, met with a very painful accident on Saturday. His work at the foundry was to feed a crusher and just as he had shoveled some material into the hopper he noticed a horse shoe in the stones and being afraid it might break the machinery he reached in to dislodge it. The fore finger of his left hand was caught and almost twisted from the hand and the next finger is badly smashed. Luckily the jar of the machinery caused by the horse shoe tore the belt or his whole arm might have been wrenched out of its socket.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church of Ridge Valley will hold its annual lawn fete on Saturday evening, September 5. The fete will be held on the lawn of B.F. CRESSMAN. Robert ROSS, of Philadelphia, has been engaged to furnish the music for the occasion. A good time is anticipated.
Thirty persons were injured on Sunday night on the toboggan slide in Chestnut Hill Park. One of the cars came to a sudden stop near the bottom of the slide and nine heavily loaded cars, one after another, bumped into the leader, while hundreds of scared and excited people looked on unable to aid the imperiled riders. None of the injured passengers are in a serious condition.
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