oTNME © NEWS TOLD IN BRIEF, Local -Happenings as Reported bygf>ur Many Reporters. Fred Snyder was at Atlantic City on Sunday, John Hossler and wife were at York this week. Eli Carson was at Columbia on Wednesday. El Weaver received a lot of mustang ponies last Saturday. Miss Gertrude Menaugh was at Lan- caster on Wednesday, Saddler Rider transacted business at Elizebethtown, on Monday. H. H. Reider, of Manheim, visitor to town on Wednesday. John Fletcher, of Maytown, has been granted a pension of $12. Ed Gish and wife of Elizabethtown, were visitors to town on Sunday, Ira Early of Campbellstown, was the guest of C. A. Wiley on Sunday. David H. Cooper of Enhaut was the guest of J. D. Easton over Sunday. Jac. S. Carmany, our enterprising merchant, was at Palmyra last Sunday. Mrs—Annie Clark had a new roof put on her dwelling on Wednesday Mrs. Fred Snyder left on Saturday for.a visit to her sister near Lancaster. was a single Mrs. Charles Blessing spent several days with friends at Marietta this week. Miss Mary Carmany left-on Tuesday for Madam Cotta’s College at Lancas- ter. Samuel Groff and lady friend of Mastersonville, were in town on Sun- day. Albert Fike sold a fine porker to Butcher Mumma at Mount Joy on Inesday. kk Mary Carmany was the guest Grace Fisher at Palmyra dur- ast week. Stauffer ays with the family this week. of Reading spent of John s and clocks repaired prompt- ly by Harry Peopple, Mount Joy, and all work guaranteed. Jacob H. Haldeman purchased the Francis Nauman property on Main street on private terms. Lincoln Yellets has secured employ- ment as one of the gang with Samuel Landis’ threshing outfit. Rev. H. M. Miller will baptize a number of persons at the Cove this af- ternoon at three o'clock. Miss Barry Hostetter is = spending Several days at Harrisburg the guest of George Stoll. The watchman’s castle the tool-house and railing along the board walk at the depot were repainted this week. Miss Elizabeth Geyer, after spending several days in town with her parents, left for her home in Philadelphia. Jacob Hostetter, sold his property on Church street to Mr. Stoler, a brother of T. F. Stoler’s of this place. Miss Barry Hostetter of this place ac- companied by Mrs. George Stoll of Harrisburg, left for Altoona and other western cities. F. E. Klugh of this place, employed at Lancaster, had hurt in a turning machine and present off duty. William McGarvey moved his ily and household effects from Market street to the property he recently pur- chased from Christian Shatz on Wood street. Misses Mary Carmany and Grace Fisher were visiting at Annville last week and called on John Hambright and George Reiter, at Lebanon Valley College. The largest cheese in the world is at the Pan-American exhibition. It weighs 1,100 pounds, is 26 inches high, 36 inches in diameter, and wes made out of 5,500 quarts of milk. J. Y. Kline and his force of masons are now employed in Elizabethtown putting up the foundations for seyeral new houses which are being erected by Mr. Hoffman, of that place. her sister Mrs. who is arm at his 1S fam- Emlin F. Buller has just prepared a fine lot of tobacco for housing which he raised in this place. ~~ Some leaves measure 43 inches in length and 25 inches in width. It is ; considered a NOT PROUD oF HIS "HONORS, | Col, Rickey Is Known Chiefly as the Godfather of an Noted Drink, The Result Of frasing. Two sons of Harry HY¥nkle, of Maytown, figured in a driving acqident late Satur- day evening, just this sidfe of Maytown, in which their buggy was cor fe tely wrecked and the young men more + less seriously injured. They were Ph and neck, up the Marietta pike with y oyg man named Seaman, from near D{mneg. < “also in a buggy. Ahead of them a § “distance were Mr, and Mrs, John Grad Ve, ?; abuggy, and just ahead of these latter , 48s Elmer | Garber in a spring wagon. ring the chatter of hoofs Mr. Grady pulled@ose over against the fence and called to M{r. Garber fame; is Some people are born to others achieve it, while celebrity thrust upon a few. Among the ter is Col. Joe Rickey, of Missouri. But instead of feeling proud of the fact that he has given his name to a popular tipple Col. Rickey feels very much aggrieved. “only a few years ago,” he said recently, “I was Col. Rickey, of Missouri, the friend of senators, judges and statesmen and something of an authority on po- litical matters and political move- ments. As time had dealt lightly [ with me I had no right to quarrel | with the world. I am still the friend of statesmen and politicians, and I Mr. Garber failed to hear the warn\ing cry. | The racers missed Mr. Grady’s a very narrow margin and dashed spring wagon. The night was very and Hinkle's excited horse, evidentlly not seeing the wagon until he was too cloke to swerve in his course, jumped with his Yore- feet in the wagon, striking it with sich the world. But am I ever spoken of 3 for those reasons? I fear not. No force that Mr. Garber’s horse and wagon . ’ od} TI am known to fame as the author of were turned completely around and heady | the ‘Rickey,’ and 1 have to be satis . , \ J « < ne - for Marietin, although ne Wagan be | fied with that. There is one consola- a v s c y (le ree : v upset, Ina twinkling the 1p 2 a re 3 | tion in the fact that there are fash- TOY ’ y rere a tangled : : T \ buggy and young men were in a lang . “J ions in drinks. The present popular- nes ) y ik 3 Yi X e were |p . 1 : mass on the turnpike, the young men Ye*® N ity of the Scotch high ball may pos- beneath the buggy and crying to be extri- lose me my reputation and re- cated from their dangerous position. Sea- | ¢y 0 me my former fame. °Tis a man who had cleared the springwagon, consummation devoutly to be wished turned, and he aud Mr, Grady helped the| gop» fallen ones to their feet, They were not; —_ very seriously injured. The boggy was Fooled by dark | think I keep fairly well in toueh with sibly re- the Barber. cranks often get fooled, and make them believe that they are what they want when they are not getting it,” says the Milwaukee Seni “I remember a man I shaved just twice in a town out in the state, He wanted a very close shave, so close, in fact, that he could not feel the beard by rubbing his face either with or against the ‘grain.’ It would take about three-quarters of an hour to ac- complish this, which was far too much spend him for ten cents, orted to stategy. After shav- fully in the usual way, 1 face with alum water, which caused the skin to close over the ends of the hairs, and, rub as he might, he coud feel a hair. Of course, in an hour or when the ef fect of the alum water had worn off, the beard made its appearance, but he did not understard the situation. This is a trick commonly resorted to by barbers with men who want an uns reasonably close slave.” zr “r he completely wrecked. ve resem AR erence Oh How Easy ! Fresh from an eleven inning victory over a lot of country lads that know as much an Bsquimaux knows getting about base ball as about raising bananas, an aggregation from the Cotton Mills and Grey Iron Works at Mount Joy, came to this place last Satur- day and were given a blow that almost put The to business entirely. Ebersole the team out of the team depends on its pitcher, win the game, he having struck out seven- teen men the Saturday before. In the first inning the home team fell on Ehersole’s de- livery and pounded the horsehide wherever they pleased. The game went on until the third i nning with Florin at the bat and three men on bases and the phenomenal (7) Ebersole sending in benders, rain-bows and anything imaginable, C. Hollenbaugh came to bat and drove out a ‘homer,’ scoring four This was teo much for the vis- Harry no 10 on time so 1 res ing ‘him cars: washed his not S0, more runs. itors and they quit, score 12 to 0. more toots about his probabilities of enter- ing the leagues in the future, as he found out that every team he faces is not as easy as Drytown was, eer lens Cities That Remind You of People. According to a Weiter in the July number of Harper's Mageazine, cities, like human beings, hive distinct per- sonalities, are frivolovs, progressive, somber or gay, much after th people lat- PLANS A HUSBAND BOUNTY. Japanese Government Proposes to Reward Girls Who Marry Col= lege Students, Maidens of Japan who succeed in interesting young Japanese students long enough to induce them to get married will be rewarded in the near future with matrimonial dowries by the mikado’s government if the plans of leading Japanese statesmen prove as successful as expected, according to Secretary Yomma, of the Japan- ese consulate in Chicago, reports the Chronicle. What led the secretary to make the announcement as to the prospective husband bounty bill was the pub- lished account of the lecture in which Prof. Starr, of the University of Chi- eago, made the sensational state- ment before his class in anthropol- ogy that the marvelous advance of the Japanese in the learning and civ- ilization of th: western countries had proved too rapid and was making them the victims of an epidemic of brain fever that threatened their ex- tinction as a nation. “Statistics show that students in Japan are affected more by eye trou bles from overstudy than by brain fever,” said Secretary Yomma. “It is true that our young men very studious, but our young women are not expected to be scholars. They are encouraged in the cultivation of feminine graces and charms, and it is becoming a fad with some of our statesmen to advocate a liberal mar riage bounty for the maiden who proves herself sufficiently fascinating to cause a young man at college to forsake his books long enough to get married.” DEFECTIVE DINING T TABLES. are They Give 1 Man No Chance to Cross is Legs—Complaint of an Epicure, “I have discovered a very great de- fect in the architecture of the dining table,” remarked an epicure the oth- er day to New Orleans Times-Demo- crat man, “and the defeet is univer- sal. T have found in my time but very few tables built after my ideal, and it seems to me that some man in- terested in matters of this sort ought to start a revolution these Jines. When I sit down to a meal I want to rest. Eating and resting ought to go togéther., Restfulness at meal time, absolute comfort at the table and good food of the whole-~ some kind are thinge that will come along A Horribly Mangled Corpse Found. At about 4:30 o’clock Thursday Pennsylvania Railroad Track Steinberger found the horribly corpse of a man lying on the eastbound track about a mile and a half west of Bainbridge. The body was completely in two and the parts were badly cut and crushed. The victim of the accident was judged to be a a man about thirty-five years of age, five feet six inches tall and of a stocky build. The body was attired in dark clothes, of character that would stamp him as a me- chanic. He had a sandy mustache, brown and gray mixed hair. There was nothing in the dead man’s clothes to lead to an identification, and it is not known how the accident happened. The track walker took the body to Collins’ Station and Deputy Coroner S. S. Steffy, of Baing bridge, held an inquest. The body is in charge of Undertaker Hawthorne, of Bain- bridge. about us, and produce a: vivid impres- ee eee : tr re s who slap ay morning | Walker mutilated sions on tl. cago are cordial good fel Salem or Annapolis is mg htioned a vision is invoked of mittentd ahd ker- chiefed old ladies drinking tea from a and dishes of rare Nanking. New York is theresplendent wifeof a banker, push. ing her noisy way in the world Ngd daz- zling foreign courts with hdr dia- monds, much to the disgust of passe Mistress Boston. rt Yt Sle Apple Butter While You Wait. Boiling apple butter while you wait \. latest in Berks county, and it is predicted that in a few years the old time apple stirr- ings will be a thing of the past. munities are now patronizing a machine, which not only grinds up the fruit and makes the cider, but boils the apple butter, the whole process consuming minutes. —— ree Lady’s Frightful Fall. Miss Harriet P, Watson, a widely-known middle-aged lady, and daughter of the late Dr. Nathan Watson, met with a accident at her home, at Millbank, in East Donegai township on Monday afternoon. Miss watson was seated in a rocker on the wide veranda in front of her residence, and as she rocked the chair, unnoticed, gradu- ally worked to the edge of the porch. Sud- denly the chair overturned, Miss Watson turning a complete somersaultand alighting on her head at the foot of the stone steps, cresent-shaped gash She ee Ae Church Chronicle. serious every Sunday evening at 7 p. m. by the pas- John Boehm on alternate eve- nm. tor and Rev. nings. Epworth League at 6 p bath School at 9 a. m., Amos Risser Super- Class meeting Sunday morning at 10 a. Prayer-meeting Tnursday 7 p. m. Rev. Wayne Channell pastor, Rev. John Poehm assistant pastor. a - A Large Rabbitry. rabbits on Sab- intendent, m. cutting a ragged, en- tirely across her moved into the house, Dr. G. Maytown, summoned, and given the necessary attention. gteatly prostrated, Miss Watson no other injuries. ——— ent A Mild Winter. Farmers in this district are not worrying about the rise in the price of coal nor are looking well to their woodpiles. They sure the winter is going to be mild that precautions against extreme cold be unnecessary. These predictions based on the fact that the hornets are build- ing their nests close to tf8ground. Old farmers say this ij a never failing gign of a warm winter With little or no snow. When the nests ade built only on” stout trees, high from the ground and close to the trunk, then the following winter will be a rough one and there will be plenty of SNOW. There ¢ 500 the farm of Miller, These have been raised It is proposed to was re- re now over A. Harter, her injuries Although sustained forehead. of Tree, within last three months. ten times as many. The main breeding house measures 24 by 110 feet. The will be sent to the New York market sale, have furs Aree More Room For Rifle Range. The Mount Gretna Rifle Range will enlarged next year to four times its present size. It will be increased from 60 to 250 acres in dimensions, and the from 600 to 1000 yards. also in contemplation, Milton Grove Hotel Sold. Charles H. Zeller, be are and will are real estate Hotel, owned by A. G. Balmer, to El. Wea~ ver, Mr, Weaver will take charge spring. i A special ‘Pentecostal Service” I —— Pp ——— A Snake Surprised Him. Last Friday Clayton, son of Isaac 8. Wit- man, of near Milton Grove, had quite a surprise. He was chopping wood and in splitting one of the largest pieces he came across a black snake, which was huddled together in a hollow part of the log. The snake made its way out and was about to escape when Clayton with a well-directed stroke with the axe dispatched it. The snake measured full two feet, on Sunday evening. Rev. Everybody is welcome, EE to Aaron R. Landis, on Tuesday. banner patch. -~ one on the back and call new acquaint- | ances by their Christian names. When | | Some com- | rN... mend themselves to most men. L_ have what I_ hobby. TI always legs under the table. Most I believe. And why not? It is a comfortable position. It enables one to sit more erect, too. I do not know what etiquette says about one’s legs and feet during meal time, but T suppose it goes no further than to suggest that they should be kept un- der the table, which is correct, I ween. But I insist that among my inalienable rights is the right to cross my legs, and to cross them under the mahogany at that if it pleases me to do so and adds to my comfort. “And yet it is a fact that one rare- ly enjoys this gracious privilege be- i cause of the awkward, grotesque and unhappy architecture of the dining table. The tables ought to be differ- call a want to may mealtime cross my men do, ; roomier, : ninety : 2h Sa mpl ie e aus if it pleased him to do so. Methodist Episcopal Chnreh—Preachibg | nht qo it, Sennett and Co., at Green | the | for | largest range A large arsenal is: agent of Mount Joy Borough, sold the Milton Grove in the will be held in the M. E. church holocaust. Wayne | Channell will preach. Everybody ! The license for the Bainbridge hotel | was transferred from Henry G. Demmy | or steal, perhaps?” ently made. They ought to be so that a fellow would have in which to cross his Of if one dees not want to cross at meal times one need so the change could do no Spe ac Worse, one's legs | harm.” | REFURNISHING WINDSOR. ——— | The'0id Furniture in the Castle Will \ He Burned to Prevent Its Cireulation, » to clear out furniture and Vindsor castle and replace Having in been on the bonfire some- intends old je His ¥oe a oood ty I of the 1\ sea { fittings bt them with = old re his own. this idents have signs of a he precincts of the eastle, any chairs view lookout fo “where in for in pasi times, when and tables and other articles therein were condeyned, it was the practice to have they burned, says Modern | Society. The object | pieces of furniture queen’s monog ‘of this was to prevent stamped with the from being let loose, as it wel, and so allowed to drift into the hinds and thence into the ppssession of persons tp them, but willing any price to be able 1 articles in their s a wasteful ex- tand the There ams of brokers, having no right | to pay almost i to display such roy { own houses. It we pedient, but one need of such a have been so many of roy- al gifts and discarded articles being found in shops and stcres that some { means of prevention ar: quite necess But up to the present time | sary. | there have been no indications of a car unders precaution. irstances —— a He Was a “Bigamist. “What brought you here, my poor { man 2” inquired the prison visitor. “Well, lady,” replied the prisoner, | “I guess my trouble started \from at- tending too many weddin’s.” “Ah! You learned to drink there, “No, lady; I was always t bride« groom.’ "~Tit-Bits. ‘ MOUNT Joy ITEMS. The News of our Neighboring Borough in a Condensed Form, Miss Clara Ricker is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Harry Leedom yesterday attended the Middletown Fair. John W* McGinnes and wife was at the Middletown Fair yesterday. Miss May Killian left yesterday on a visit to friends in Harrisburg. Sylvester Dearbeck and wife, were at the Middletown Fair yesterday. Miss Bess Stehman is attending Madam Cotta’s College at Lancaster, Misses Caroline Schock returned to Maryland College at Lutherville, Md. Miss Felty, of Philadelphia, visited her sister, Mrs. Wayne Channel last week. The public schools of the town opened last Monday with a large at- tendance. Mrs. Barbara Hemperly will next Thursday sell a lot of furniture at public gale. Abraham Haines and Jacob Ocker left last Tuesday for the Pan-Ameri- can Exposition. Milton Stehman a short distance east of town fell off a straw stack and broke his right arm. Mrs. John M. Brandt and son Owen returned home Monday from the Pan- American Exposition. Mrs, Abraham L. Kolp yesterday returned home from a visit to ker daughter at Harrisburg, Benjamin H. Greider of Rheems was one of the judges of poultry, at the Middletown Fair, this week. Mrs. Mary Kberle, of Harrisburg, who has been the guest of Mrs. Martin Greider, left for her home yesterday. John E. Longenecker the extensive tobacco packer of this place, a few days ago, cold 1400 cases of last year’s packing. Samuel Rinehart and wife Misses Anna Blensinger and Frances Fach, attended the Middletown fair last Wednesday. The Peter Haldeman farm, near Risser’s meeting house, in Mount Joy township, will be offered at public sale, next Thursday. Unmovable Christians will be the theme of Rev. A R, King’s subject, Sada In ATi UW Rivaugeisul duurch next Sunday morning. Mrs. A. L. Clay, who had been spending the summer with the family of Dr. J.J. Newpher, has ret. ned to her home in Norfolk, Va. The County Commissioners at noon to-day, will open sealed proposals for the erection of an inter-county bridge, across the Conewago creek. A party was held last Saturday eve- ning, at the residence of Daniel Forry near Newton, which was attended by a large number of young people, Mrs. Saliie Fry, of Manheim, died last Sunday morning, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John F. Smith, 525 West Chestnut street, siancaster. Christian L. Nissley of Florin, will leave next Monday, on an extended trip to Canada. He will algo visit the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo. Among the divorees granted by the court last Saturday, was that of Sadie Rodkey, of Marietta, from John Reod- key, on the ground of eruel treatment Mrs. Frank Roland and son Charlie, of Philadelphis, who have been the guests of the family of John W. Roland, left for their howe last Wed- needay. Miss Grace Holwager and Miss Edna Kriner, of Philadelphia, spent the week, at Columbia, visiting Miss Hol wager’s aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs Peter Mauer. John and Allen Nissley, of Florin, who were at the Pan-American Expo- sition, at Buffalo, saw President Me Kinley, last Friday, a short time be- fore he was shot. Constable Peck, of Marietta, in his report to the court, last Monday, re- turned the town council of Marietta borough, for not keeping thegstreets in good condition. Mrs, Elizabeth Myers, returned home last Tuesday, after spending five months, in Baltimore, with her son Clayton Myers, an extensive druggist of the city, I'he game was not p on account of a dispat Tuvitations h#ve jhed nouncing\ the wedding © Donaven nd Miss Mary | Tuesday, September 17, at) of the bride'in this borough, Owen Brandt of this place, wi at the Pan American Exposition) Friday, saw President MecKinl§ after he we~ shot, as he was bein carried away on the stretcher. Elmer Bard enlisted at Lancaster on Tuesday and will do duty for Uncle Sam for three more years. He will be sent to the Columbus bar. racks within a week or ten days. The grand jury last Tuesday re turned a true bill, against Join H Dierolf and Mary Dierolf, of this place, for receiving stolen goods, on a charge preferred by Simon P. Heilig, of Hummelstown, Ephraim Baker and his son Frederie Baker last Wednesday, purchased the coal and lumber yard of A. N. Cassel & Son, formerly managed by Addison Flowers. Frederic Baker will conduet the business angd will take charge of it in a few days. John H. Stoll, the ticket agent at this place, if at Toronto, Canada, at- tending the tenth annual convention of the International Association of the Ticket Agents, He will also visit Niagara Falls and the Buffalo Fixposi tion, before he returns home. John H. Buohl’s hardware and stove store, was broken into) Wednes" day night and about $500 worth of goods were stolen, consisting mostly of guns, revolvers, cutlery, &ec. Amn.’ entrance was effected by breakipe open a side window. The burg/lars were not heard by Mr. Buo¥kil, nor John Sechroll, who lives aln7ag side of where the entrance vas effected, Efforts are being mage to apprehend the robbers. Bad blood seemp: to be boiling in the breasts of quite/ a number of Ww and colored “people of the tower the result irs a fight at frequen tervals. Juast Saturday ovening a most disgraceful scene took place at the corp.er of Westy Main and Mane heim streets, whiclf was kept up for several hours, during which time pist.olse were discharged quite freely. The outcoms has been a nuniber lawsuits and counter lawsuits: C stable Fissel was busy the fore par the week in making a large numbel of arrests. The principal parties oe the suits are Clarence Craley, Howard Yellets, Harry Morton, Joseph Brandt and others. The charges are assault and battery, carrying concealed dead ly weapons, &c. Beveral cases were heard before '8quire Zgsller last Wed. nezday evening, when the cases were continued for a further hearing, the time for which has not yet been se A Big City Show in Mount Joy Ha on Friday, September 20, Long Brothers’ Pawnee Bill a May Lillie’s big city show,’ Mandaline of Fort Reno” will appear in Mount Joy Hall on Friday evening, SBeptem- ber 20. This is one of the big aramat- ic organizations of the present season, and only consents to play in Mt, Joy on account of an open date between Harrisburg and Lancaster. A more perfect and complete theatrical organ ization than ‘Mandaline of Fort Reno’ has perhaps never before been seen ‘here. The company carries all scenery nroperties and effects, besides having ah a ting cast of twenty-three people and a number of genuine Indians. ‘WMadaline of Fort Reno’ is not a senftional play but a charming love romsyice of the far west cleyerly acted by a company of Metropolitan players The paesentation here will be given presinely as at Reading, Lancaster and Philadelphia. 1t is a play that ladies and children will enjoy and which de- lights all kinds of people. Arrang e- ments for the sale of seats in advance have been made with Yoffe & Gaffin, who will be pleased to furnish all in= formation desired. meee Re —— A Curlous Find, A farmer residing a short distance west of town, found in his field turkey nest with a double egg in it Each egg is perfectly formed onky they are joined together as if it wene one egg. Mr, Calan was offered good price for his egg curiosity but h refused it, becanse he intends f{ hatch out a double turkey from Martin Young, a former resident of | Marietta, but for some time an in-| mate at the county almshouse, was killed by the cars last Saturday after | noon, at the cut off. Rev. A. R. King will give a lecture in the United Evangelical church, on Monday evening, October 14th, on “'A | the Far West Really is.” The Mount Joy basebal! team last Satarday defeated the Mariotta Nine* Trip Through the Far West or What in this place, by a “PP to & strange find. emis wi r— Sumptuously Enterfained, From the Hummelstown Sun. Mrs. Wm, Karmany suf entertained, during the ps "her niece, Miss Mary Kars { Florin, Miss Mary Smith. of ‘and Miss Katie Aughenbach, nom. ences AQP eerste. It is rumored that a new ‘pany will be organized in town, on account of th rates charged by the p!
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