Frank F. HUBER, of Pennsburg, a clerk in the Farmers' National Bank, yesterday removed a piece of glass from his hand, which was an eighth of an inch long and had been there for one and a half years. He, at that time cut himself with a piece of glass and this portion remained there unknown to him. The wound healed and at times would get sore again, but he could not detect the foreign body until yesterday, when he found it near the surface of the skin about an inch away from the spot where the glass entered the hand.
A freak chicken was hatched by a hen belonging to Mrs. William A. WELKER, of Red Hill. The chick has four legs and four toes on each foot. It is hardy and runs about with the rest of the chicks. It uses all four as dexterously as though it had only two. The hen had a setting of thirteen eggs and twelve, including the one with four legs, were hatched. The freak has aroused the curious and hundreds have already visited the WELKER home to see the odd chick.
The Perkiomen Paper Company of near Pennsburg will shortly install an electric light plant in their mill. Wires will also be run into the adjoining dwelling "The Catharine" and it will be lighted by electricity. The dynamo was received this week. J.G. GEHMAN the electrician of Bally will install the plant.
Rudolf RHUE, the embroidery manufacturer of Telford, whose house and factory was burned down has again started a factory in the Wolf Building, near the Telford Hotel. Mr. RHUE is the only man in this part of the country that can operate a fancy embroidery machine. He sells his product to several New York department stores.
William H. HUNSICKER, of near Allentown, was found dead in a field near his home on Monday evening. He was working alone when death summoned him. His family found him sitting on his knees with his head bent forward. His body was not yet cold when found. Death was due to apoplexy.
Farmer Aaron HAINES of Argus on Sunday lost a horse from choking distemper. This is the fourth horse that died for him in a short space of time from the same disease.
Mrs. George DEISHER, of Rehrertown; Mrs. GUTH and Mrs. M.T.J. OCHS, of Allentown, spent Wednesday with Rev. and Mrs. G.W. LUTZ, of this borough.
Mr. and Mrs. E. WEISS, of Quakertown, on Sunday visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry WEISS, of the Economy Dry Goods Store, Pennsburg.
Mrs. Harry CAULLER, of Newark, N.J., is spending a portion of the week at her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.C. ROEDER's home at East Greenville.
Mr. and Mrs. Abner LACHMAN and children, of East Greenville, visited relatives at Allentown, on Sunday and Monday.
Confectioner George F. ROTH and Baker Edwin E. MILLER, of this borough, attended to some business at Allentown, on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. William MOLL, of near these boroughs visited the former's sister at Allentown, on Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. John LANDIS and Mr. and Mrs. William LEFEVRE and child, of Boyertown, visited the family of Mr. and Mrs. James HOFFMAN, of this borough, on Sunday.
John F. WEYAND puchased the roll top office desk at the sheriff's sale of Lawyer John T. WAGNER's effects, at Norristown, on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin CROUT, of Allentown, visited the family of Mr. and Mrs. James BUCKALEW, of this borough, this week. Mrs. CROUT is a sister to Mrs. BUCKALEW.
E.K. SHANKEL, of this borough, on Thursday made a business trip to Emaus. He sold brick for a new house which is to be built there.
Mr. and Mrs. PERRY, of Clearfield county, spent several days this week with the family of Jonathan P. HILLEGASS, of this borough.
Rev. and Mrs. Warren NICKEL, of Applebachsville, Bucks county, spent several days in the forepart of the week with the latter's parents, Prof. and Mrs. M.N. HUTTEL, of this borough.
Mr. and Mrs. John KEELER, of this borough, spent Saturday and Sunday in Allentown, with relatives.
Rebecca MILLER, of Reading, spent a week with her cousin, Mrs. Howard KRIEBEL, of East Greenville.
Frank, son of John MACK, of near East Greenville, who worked in the East Greenville Foundry, left for Polo, Ill.
Dr. J. Rein KEELOR, the Veterinary Surgeon of Harleysville, purchased the John CLEMMENS property on West Main Street, Lansdale and will move into it. He will first make extensive alterations to the place. Dr. KEELOR has been a life-long resident of Harleysville, but has a host of friends in Lansdale.
Judge TREXLER of Allentown on Tuesday made a decision ordering the sale of the Allentown and Slatington Electric Railway, a branch of the Lehigh Traction system, in proceedings to foreclose a mortgage of $500,000. The sale is part of the reorganization plan of the Johnson system.
Plumber Victor H. STECKEL of Pennsburg this week contracted with the proprietor of Town and Country for the installation of a steam heating plant for the printing office. Mr. STECKEL will install the heating plant in course of a few weeks.
The woodland near Pennsburg known as STELTZ's Picnic Grove, has been sold by Theobold and Oppenheimer of Philadelphia to Oliver BECK of Bally. Mr. BECK will shortly move his portable saw mill in the grove and cut the timber up into marketable lumber.
At her century-old bake-oven or her ancient spinning wheel Mrs. Enoch ROHRBACH (picture), of Sigmund, although she's 93, and probably the oldest woman in Lehigh county, looks modern and young by contrast. Indeed, for a woman of her advanced years, she is very sprightly, and has lost none of her cunning at either the oven or the wheel. She knows just how to build the fire in the structure of ancient masonry, just how to rake the coals so that they shall be at their best when the loaves are ready for the old Dutch oven, and just how to handle the bread on the long-handled shovel she thrusts through the small oven-door at the front. It's a pleasure for Mrs. ROHRBACH at 93 to bake this sweet bread, of the brick-oven rye brand, which she considers superior to any other; and it's a pleasure for her neighbors to watch her at this and kindred happy tasks, for she is one of the most interesting persons in the county.
Her memory is good. She tells how she, a woman, used to walk barefoot until 50 years ago - a common custom then - for the boy or girl who at that time owned a pair of shoes for summer wear was considered fortunate. Mrs. ROHRBACH says she never wore silk dresses, but when calico was 42 cents a yard and muslin 83 cents, in her youth, she was well satisfied with one calico dress at a time. She has never ridden on a steam or trolley car; is fond of singing the good old songs of "Ye Olden Days," and in all her lifetime she has heard the music of a cornet band but once. She is one of the few women still living in the county who knows how to skillfully operate the spinning wheel, and is able to darn old-fashioned blue stockings made in the old style woolen mills of Berks county.
Edwin E. MILLER, the Pennsburg baker, who had a sick horse in care of Dr. Wm. KRUGER, the Zionsville Veterinary Surgeon, had to engage the services of Sheriff KRAUSE, of Lehigh county, to get possession of the animal after it was cured. It will be remembered that through a runaway accident last week a horse belonging to Dr. KRUGER and hitched to Mr. MILLER's delivery wagon, dropped dead on the street. Mr. MILLER later tried to make a satisfactory settlement for the dead horse, but Dr. KRUGER asked $125 which was more than it was worth. Mr. MILLER had previously inquired about the horse and its value and found out that he was sold at the Allentown Horse Bazaar two years ago for $24, and also that the horse was a sufferer of staggers at times. When Dr. KRUGER asked such an enormous price for the animal he refused to pay it. Later Dr. KRUGER was willing to take $60. Mr. MILLER then paid Dr. KRUGER for medical services on his own animal which was sick and in Dr. KRUGER's stable, but when he wanted to take the horse away Dr. KRUGER objected and said he could not have it until he paid for the dead one. MILLER, then went to Allentown on Monday and secured a lawyer's advice. The next day Sheriff KRAUSE and Mr. MILLER went to Dr. KRUGER's place and the sheriff took the animal away and placed it in the stables at the Zionsville Hotel, where Mr. MILLER later removed the animal. The end of this horse tangle is not yet in sight. A law suit may be the outcome, as Mr. MILLER since had a notice from another Allentown attorney to make settlement in five days.
Some sneak thief on Saturday night entered the yard and shed of Edward LIVEZEY, of Pennsburg, and stole back straps and a wrench from his wagon. He also cut off six nice large grape vines on his grape arbor. Mr. LIVEZEY offers a reward of ten dollars for the arrest and conviction of this maliciously inclined person.
Benjamin RUCKSTOOL, a tinsmith of near Salford, who had a miraculous escape death in a Pottstown mill, several weeks ago, returned to his home last Friday. He is getting along nicely and the chances are that he will only be slightly maimed.
A runaway accident occurred at Bally on Saturday afternoon which might have proved fatal. Dr. O.W. BERKY, accompanied by Mrs. I.H. BECHTEL and son Stanley called at the home of S.B. LATSHAW, near Barto, and as they were ready to leave for home the child got on the buggy first. When Dr. BERKY came out he had something wrapped in paper, at which the horse took fright and tore loose and ran home to Bally at a high speed with the child sitting on the buggy holding fast to the seat. The buggy was slightly damaged but the child escaped without a scratch.
A great forest fire swept over about 25 acres of woodland on the hills south of Huff's Church and consumed everything in its way. The farmers worked hard to extinguish it. Aaron BENFIELD lost some 600 rails mostly new. David HERTZOG lost some fence as did Peter TROLLINGER. There was some nice timber in its way which is badly damaged. A tramp while cooking is supposed to have started the fire.
Seventeen persons were killed and sixty-three injured in a collision on the Pennsylvania Railroad south of Harrisburg at 1.38 o'clock Thursday morning. The wreck was caused by the second section of the Cleveland and Cincinnati express, west-bound, which left Philadelphia at 11.05 p.m., crashing into a wrecked freight train loaded with dynamite.
John J. KNETZ, of East Greenville will leave to-day for Oregon city, Oregon. He expects to remain there for an indefinite period.
A five hundred ton carload of lime placed in the wooden lime bin at the Hillegass & Krauss, coal and lumber yards in Pennsburg, on Monday, in some unaccountable manner began to slack and started a conflagration shortly after dinner. An alarm was at once sent in by phone to Edwin MILLER's bakery next door to the fire house and the fire alarm was sounded. Within five minutes after the alarm was given, the Pennsburg Fire Company with its hose and hook and ladder trucks was on the scene and had a stream of water on the burning building. After an heroic effort on the part of the firemen they succeeded in taking the burning roof from the building for they were then better able to apply water on the lime as well as on the burning sides. The firemen did remarkable good work for the building was only partially damaged, so quickly did they get the fire extinguished. Flames were already pouring out on all sides when the fire was first detected and had the company not responded so quickly and did such excellent work after arriving at the scene it is likely that Pennsburg would have witnessed its largest fire, for thousands of feet of dry lumber was housed close by, and a large frame warehouse stood within fifteen feet of the lime bin. The damage to Hillegass & Krauss will amount to about seventy-five dollars which is not covered by insurance.
Ascending the stairs at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mahlon DeTURCK, of Friedensburg, Oley township, Berks county, where she had been celebrating her 87th birthday anniversary, Mrs. Hannah LEVAN, widow of Daniel LEVAN, lost her balance and fell backward. Her skull was fractured and she died in ten minutes.
A young child of William McFADDEN, of Boyertown, was on Monday morning found dead in bed. Deputy Coroner Wm. H. FOX empanelled the following jury to hold an inquest: L.P.G. FEGLEY, foreman; Henry B. STAUFFER, Theo. S. FEGLEY, F.H. HARTMAN, A.F. SHANER and H.M. BINDER. The verdict was that the child died of natural causes.
While William H. WIEAND of Dillinger was sawing some branches from one of his apple trees this week he had the misfortune of falling off and in some doing struck his head against a limb which broke off and inflicted a gash about an inch and a half long directly above the eye. He was at first unconscious but only for a very short time.
Mrs. Nora Raisbeck ROEDER, a bride of three weeks, died on Tuesday evening, at the home of her father-in-law, Henry C. ROEDER, of East Greenville, after an illness of five days, with penumonia and peritonitis. She contracted a cold the week before while watching a base ball game in which her husband, Charles H. ROEDER, was the pitcher. The young couple were married in New York City, on Saturday, April 15, just three weeks prior to her death. She was 21 years old and was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. H. ?. RAISBECK, of Coplay. Mr. RAISBECK was formerly captain of Jay GOULD's steam yacht, Atlanta. At the Atlas Cement Mills, at Coplay, he is the personal representative of George J. GOULD. Since their marriage the couple has resided in East Greenville, with Mr. ROEDER's parents.
James GERHART, of Pennsburg, who is in the employ of D.K. GRABER, met with a painful accident last Friday while delivering three horses to Conshohocken buyers. He rode one and led the other two and all went well until a short distance below Norristown, when the horse which he rode reared and tossed him off. Mr. GERHART was painfully bruised at his leg, so much so that he could not walk. He was taken to Norristown and brought to his home on Saturday morning. He is now slowly improving and is again able to walk with the aid of a cane.
There were six scholars from the Upper Hanover School District who passed the examination successfully before County Superintendent LANDIS, when he examined them at Green Lane, a short time ago. They were: Florence SASSAMAN, of Palm school, average 76.69; Amanda BOYER, Church School, 73.61; Elsie CONRAD, Palm, 73.46; William H. KECK, Church School, 74.46; Frank FENNEL, Carl's School, 91, and Elmer ROTHENBERGER, Klinesville School, 75.53.
Rev. F.F. GABEL, of Philadelphia, will preach in the Mennonite Church at Bally tomorrow morning, and in Boyertown in the afternoon, in the absence of the regular pastor, Rev. A.S. SHELLY. The latter holds communion services in the Allentown Mission in the morning and has services at Zionsville in the afternoon.
Edward LIVEZEY of Pennsburg this week started work on excavating a place in the New Goshenhoppen Park for the purpose of making a pond. He uses a scoop to take the loose ground out. The driveway in the Park is also being graveled.
Nearly 90 years of age, Richard SMITH, of Trexlertown, walked 10 miles from Pottstown to Pine to visit his old friend, Aaron ROHRBACH the last survivor of the Mexican War in that section.
Samuel HAMM, a farmer of near Albany, has a cow which gave birth to a freak calf, which has no eyes. The calf is otherwise a monster and the owner says it will weigh 200 pounds before it is four weeks old.
Snakes are out in Lehigh, and according to the declaration of Joel HOFFMAN, of Siesholtzville, Berks County, one big black snake in particular is a living bootjack. HOFFMAN limped into Red Lion on Saturday with one boot off and one boot on. He asserted that he had tried to kick what he thought was a stick out of the path when he was suddenly tripped up. Recovering his scattered senses he found that a seven-foot black snake had coiled half its little sinuosity around his left boot and the other half around a small pine tree. HOFFMAN tried to yank his foot loose and the boot came off. Terrified by his experience he fled. A party of doubters went in search of the snake, but after it had gone a short distance it met a breathless runner, who inquired if there was a preacher in the crowd, as he wanted to take the pledge. Being cross-examined, he deposed that he had seen a black snake crossing the hills, carrying what appeared to be a section of stovepipe. No further confirmation of HOFFMAN's story being desired, the doubters turned back.
The body of William STRONG, aged 55 years, a blacksmith, of Kennett Square, was found, Monday in a shed at the MORRIS nurseries, near West Chester, where he had been sleeping with a number of tramps for several nights. STRONG disappeared from his home several days ago. When it was found he was dead, in the morning all the tramps immediately disappeared. Coroner TROUTMAN rendered a decision of death from natural causes.
Deputy Factory Inspector Gus EGOLF, of Norristown, has notified all the justices of the peace in Montgomery and Bucks counties not to issue permits for children to work in factories until the justices receive the proper legal forms under the new child labor law. The factories in the vicinity of Norristown experience great difficulty in getting employes, and it is feared that the new law will increase the difficulty.
The yearly business meeting of the Lower Salford Alumni was held in Alumni Hall, Harleysville, and the following officers were elected: President, Harry C. ALDERFER; vice president, Enos WAMPOLE; recording secretary, Sallie N. MOYER; corresponding secretary, Allen M. NICE; treasurer, Abram A. PRICE; editor, Francis W. WACK; associate editors, Sallie N. MOYER, George C. ALDERFER, Harvey M. ALDERFER, Allen M. NICE.
An unknown boy, about 16 years of age, who had followed the Barnum & Bailey circus several days, was instantly killed at 3 o'clock Sunday morning on the Perkiomen Railroad, near Allentown. He had worked at the lemonade stand. When the circus left town he boarded the last section. While the train was passing Chestnut Street in the Jersey Central yards the boy in moving about fell between the cars and rolled to the track, almost the entire train passing over his body. The body as was taken to Undertaker BURKHOLDER's morgue was in a horrible condition. The head and two arms and one hand were cut off and the upper and lower sections of his trunk, made by the passage of the carwheels, hung together simply by shreds. Chief George SMITH, of Allentown, notified the Brooklyn police to make a search for the boy's relatives. The name of the boy is unknown, he going by the name of "Kid" at the circus. Coroner SCHEIRER investigated but found an inqest unnecessary.
August BELMONT is said to have increased his wealth by from $12,000,000 to $16,000,000 last year. This is something more than $1,000,000 a month, and any man who finds his stock of this world's goods piling up on such a scale as that is liable to have some attention paid to him, even in a district that has its ROCKEFELLERs and MORGANs.
The Committee of the East Pennsylvania Mennonite Conference, appointed at the session of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ, held in Allentown last October, to acquire a site for an Orphans' Home and Home for Aged People, has purchased the property of Mrs. Aquilla GEISINGER at Centre Valley, near Quakertown. The price paid for the farm is $6000 and contains 85 acres. The committee appointed at the conference to purchase the site consisted of Wm. GEHMAN, W. GEHMAN, L.B. TAYLOR, H.B. MUSSELMAN and J.G. SHERMON. The sale was consummated through Deputy Prothonotary Squire Wm. H. SNYDER. The new owners cannot have possession of the new site until April 1, 1906, when the lease of the tenant, John SPERLING, expires, but will have access to the property at all times to make plans for the building for the home.
Albert B. RITTER, of Pennsburg who is a student at the Michigan Veterinary College and who spent his vacation at home, left on Monday for Cambridge, Ohio, where he will assist one of his instructors in the practice of Veterinary medicine. He may in fall enter the Veterinary College at Toronto, Canada.
Dr. A.L. BAUM, the veterinary surgeon of Pennsburg recently had the Delaware and Atlantic Telephone put in his residence. The doctor was almost compelled to do this as many of the patrons of his extensive practice rely entirely on telephone communication. His number is IW.
Thieves entered the home of Mrs. Annie KEMP, of Reading, on Thursday and carried off $50 worth of silverware, dropping $150 worth more in their flight. The missing articles were gifts of her great grandmother.
Dr. J.N. JACOBS, of Lansdale, president of the Montgomery National Bank, of Norristown, has returned from a trip to Japan, the Philippines and Hawaii.
I.M. MOLL, the photographer of Norristown, recently purchased a small farm near Finland and located there permanently. He will continue the photographic business, making a specialty of exterior views. He will also continue the business of framing pictures, regilding and mat making. Mr. MOLL is well known in this vicinity, having done work for many residents during his 20 years experience. He resides on the rural free delivery route No. 1, from the Red Hill postoffice.
Joseph H. LONG of Milroy, Pa., purchased the stock of the Emaus Hotel, Emaus, and expects to take charge by June 5. Mr. CRAMMER, the present landlord, is undecided as to what business he will follow.
Miss Sallie SCHIFFERT elocution teacher of Old Zionsville, will give a recital in the Emaus High School Hall in the forepart of June with her scholars in that town.
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