acada— Sun- ersville for lit- 8 job at ga, is the fe, is the guest rood. F Kraybill’s beration. ily of Har- ys in town. r town folks on Sunday. s that wcre hriived heme wife of Me- ests of the for- nday. gs, now of Phi- Harry Ray- has charge of Ph in this place Mr, Good. in need of any r address Harry Mount Joy. ot ferkaufa vit cca [ere drooka shana het feel dafore. d to say that Elmer jas secured a good P. R. R. interlock- r, and Engle Mumma hy for Williavmson, ending their vacation bright purchas- THE WEEKLY BULLETIN Death of a Well-Known Resident, James B. Schlegemilch, a highly respected resident of Mount Joy, died on Sunday afternoon at 3.55 o’lock, after a long illness, death being due to stomach trouble. Mr. Schlegemilch was a blacksmith, having learned his trade with Har- vey Ramond. He carried on the business in Mount Joy, for twenty years, during which time he amassed a comfortable fortune, C'wing to ill-health he retired from business about a year ago. Deceased is sur- vivied by his wife, who was Miss FLORIN, PENNA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1902. OF GENERAL INTEREST Many Interesting Local Notes From all Over the County. Septober ! Squirrels are free. De bovera mocha wider hoy. Grumbara sin marick vatich wol- fel un go diflish grose, Prof. Chas. L. Arnold, who resig- ned the Mt, Joy principalship about six years ago, was appointed head of the commerical department of Green- sburg high school at a good salary last June: but when Erie offered him Anna Wittle, of Florin, before mar. riage, and one daughter, Miss Clara Three sisters, Mrs. John Longe- necker, of Rosemont ; Mrs Leonard Frank ; of near Mount Joy , Mrs. John Raymond, of Florin,and four brothers, Leonard, William, and Joseph, of Ohio. and Henry, of Florin, also surived. Mr Schlegel- milch was a member of the Mount Joy Trinity Lntheran Church, as) well as President of the Mount Joy Hall Associatton, a..d a member of! Otsego I'ribe No. 59, I. O. R. M.;| Cove Lodge, No. 301, and Mount Joy Lodge, No. 277, I. O. O. PF. The funeral will be held this after- | noon atef. 80 o'clock from his late residenc 2 and at 2 o'clock at the Lutheran church, with interment int ount Joy cemetery. ie ‘Jackolantern’’ Makes Trouble. But for the prompt action of the Freindship Fire Company, of Mount Joy, a serious fire might have re- sulted in that borough on Sunday morning. Some boys were playing with a lanteran made of a pumpkin, | in the wood shed in the rear of Bow. man’s store. A pile of shavings was set on fire and the small shed and chicken house were completely | destroyed. The fire company was on the scene promptly and prevent. | the flames from spreading. SEs Leaving for {ncinnatti. Having dispos Ee: his hotel prop- erty at Mount Joy, John H. Dierolf has degd ok an additional fq will dis the same kind of position at $1,500 a year, he aceepted, of course. Edith J. Alexander, of Donegal, is on her way to Palo Alto, Cal., to enter Stanford University as a stu- dent, She is a Millersville graduate of ’99. On the route she will spend a few days at each of the most noted scenic points in the Rocky Mountain region. cl meni Florin Wins Two. The Florin base ball team went to Corawall on Monday and defeat ed the team at that place by the close score of 5 to 0. Although the Cornwallers played a good game, they were defeated and died hard. Batteries, Henry and Hollenbaugh and Warner and Rodgers. Henry, striking out eleven men was a feat- ure of the game, Runs a 0 Hits Errors 9 2 3 3 Florin Cornwall In the afternoon Florin went Bis- mark and also defeated the Bis- markers 14 to 4, and had they played with a little more ginger in the first inning it would have been another shutout. Florin played a good all around game, the features being Henury’s pitching, having ten strikeouts to his eredit ; Barnhart's work at short and Frank in center field and the heavy hitting of ‘‘Honest John” Hendrix. Runs Hits Errors 14 21 2 4 6 5 Ienry and Hollenbaugh Florin Bismark Batterie Cr———— tM eee cosets me Tobacco News. J. B. Stewart, of the Department of Agrieniture, Bureas of soils, is superintending the harvesting of the crop of covergrown tobacco at the State Experimental plant on the farm of Dr. - H. M. Alexander. Mr. Stewart reports that this crop of tobacco is as fine as thal grown any- where; that the texture of the leaf is a fine, and that the weight will be fully up to the ayerage, IIe also states that the averag™ weight per | acre, of cover-gro a tobacco is | from 1,200.1: 7 ° =inds per acre | of raw towacco aud “about 1,000] pounds per acre of cured or sweated tobacco. This tobacco is not har | vested in the ordinary way, but is removed and hung up each leaf sep arately, A week ago the three ground or sand leaves were removed | from each plant. The leaves from | four rows are laid in piles and’ carried out in baskets, This work | is done by men, but when it has been taken to the shed, girls hang it on “Snow” lath, seventy leaves to the lath and hung up to cure. On| Wednesday the first picking or ag 1t is termed, of ripe The ripe leaves | priming, leayes was made. are not always on the bottom of the stalk, but are taken froia any part’ of the plant, wherever they may appear. Mr. Stewart expects to re- main until about September 10, by which time he expects the bulk of the crop to be housed. Raising to- bacco in this manner costs about $100 per acre. re Qe eset Old Friend and Printer. Our old friend D. 5. Myers, former resident of this community, dropped into our office on Friday. Mr. Myers for some years has been a resident of Middletown, where Lie has a lucrative position in the tube mills. He is an old print- er,and some years ago he established the Denver Press, at Denver, this county, one of our most valued ex- On account of failing eye- of that since a changes. sight Mr. Myers disposed paper in the spring of 1893, which time he has nat hean MOUNT JOY BOROUGH. Happenings of the Week Told in a Brief Yet Interesting Manner. A dance was held in the Hall last evening. Mrs Wagner returned home from Hillsdale on Moaday. [rank Gramm moved his family to Philadelphia last week. For sale-A good second hand heater. Inquire at this office. 0. K. Greenwalt, m: yusiness trip to Lancaster on Labor Day. Elijah Wallace sold his bay horse to Sylvester Dearbeck, this week. John Engle returned after a plea- sant visit to his sister at Titusville. Harry Hildebrandt, has cccepted a position as reporter on local a paper. (Clarence Stoll is spending the week with his parents on Donegal street. Mrs. Gifford DeLong and three children are spending the week at Maytown. John H. Buohl’s employes roofed the property of D. U. Stoner Tuesday. . re- on Lewis Grogg’s dwelling will wear a tin roof after today. John Buohl did the work. H. C. Schock and family and Mrs. Minnie Breneman arrived home from Mount Gretna. Harry Barnhart, wife and daugh- ter, are visiting John Hamaker on Marietta street. Joseph Keller and wife of Done- gal Springs, were at Williams Grove on Sunday. Palmyra will be here on day and try conclusions with local base ball team. Elmer Crall, moved from the Schock property in this place to Columbia on Tuesday. Al Martin jr., who holds a credi- table position at York, paid his father a visit on Sunday. Miss Jessie Meshey and Mrs Simon Menaugh, spent a week at Colg the guests of Miss Laving Satur—- the For a oe A854 \ . | / ’ 1 bi 50 CENTS A YEAR East Donegal letms John Boyer is quarrying stone for I. Book. Lonis Hartman, of Royersford is visiting Jacob Musser. J. Thomas FHiestand will go to .daytown High school this fall. John Mumma, of Rock Point, spant part of last week at Atlantic City. A number here of the young folks around will attend Manor Camp next Sunday. Aaron Kaylor, who has been sub- ject to hemorrhages for several weeks is improving slowly. J. B. Miller and family, H. S. Beates and family . drove (fornwall,last Sunday. and to The tobacco crop aboat here will not be a heavy one, but good quality and clear of fleas and worms. The colored camp at Mumma’s grove Sunday was attended by small crowd on account of Hillsdale camp. Mrs Maggie Strickler will not go ¢> Elias Lindemuth’s until October, having agreed to stay at Oaniel Ylusser’s another month. Max Gile, of Lancaster, has moved into the tenant house at Books’ mill and will take charge of the creamery about the middle of next month, The catch gate at Hiestand’s hill is once more without a keeper, the old gentleman having left on Wed. nesday. He says he would rather leave than face starvation. ie yma Salunga Notes William Malehorn is on the sick list, Mrs A. M. Garber is spending a week at Ephrata. Miss Mabel Kupp has returned to her home in Steelton. Mrs A. B. Hershey is sojnrning at Central Manor, this week. Miss Elizabeth Whittle spent Monday witigA. M. Garber and family. 3 A number of our folks attended pmpmeeting at Contral Manor last day. ublie schools of our town- ned on Monday with a good nee. Baker sold his property to Habecker of Silver Springs ration $2750. A. B. Hershey and daughter Misses Malehorn spent gday a ky Springs. bout seven’ e in our cans a RHEEMS STATION. What Transpires in the Busy Villagé West of Here The well at warehouse is 125 foet deep and has a gcod supply of water Coke has taken the place of coal at the lime kilns and gives entire satisfaction, Amos C, Friday threshed 810 bushels of wheat in eight hours for ’, K. Landis. Herman Gipe wears a long * smile since Phursday, on account of the arrivab of a son. Aaron Groff received a carload of fine slate to be used for roofing purs poses on Tuesday. Rev. Daniel Eshleman’s ten-year: old son was severely kicked by a horse last Saturday evening. Rumor has it that a livery stable and a German Baptist church will locate here ers another locust year: Benjamin Lefover, a former resi- dent of this place, was in town sev= eral days last week calling on old acquaintances. The Colebrook road from Anchor to Farmer’s blacksmith shop is bew ing macadamized. Leander Groff has the contract to deliver the stone, At a recent meeting of the school board, Miss Lydia Buckwalter wag appointed teacher of the Rheems school. She was in town Saturday viewing the new structure. imi ———— The News of Newtown. John Shenk lost a valuable hog one day last week. Mrs. Wm. Fogie visited friends’ at Mount Joy last week. William Fogie is nursing a badly sprained ankle since last week. Rufus Hipple returned home after” a visit to friends at Lancaster. We are sorry to say that Miss Susan Rhoads has registered on the’ sick list. Abram Gamber has recovered from an attack of malaria and may again be seen about town, Walter Divit had quite a smash up while returning home from Co- lumbia lust Monday. No one was injured, we are glad to say. One of our citizens said that he’ was so sure he saw a “spook” the’ other night, that hz would stand on a pile cf bibles up to the moon and swear to it. wen LA Fi Landisville Gleanings Miss Edith Kacy left yesterds on an extended westarn trip The public schog district on M, term.
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