. We »~ ED VOL/V, NO. 52. THE CIRCULATION OF THE WEEKLY BULLETIN EXCE KILLED NEAR RHEEMS Clarence Fasiacht Shot in the Brain by John Zeager. A yery sad accident .occurred at Pleasant Hill on Saturday afternoon when a young lad was accidentally shot ard diad within two the home of Jacob Zeager. During the Y., the thirteen year old John Fasnacht, a neighbor called at the home of the latter to spend the afternoon, While in young Fasnachit rifle lying hodars at afternoon Clarence son of the Kitchen noticed a Flobert ona settee and asked John Zveager, a boy twclve years of age, to show it to him. Jchn, thinking the rifle was unload- ed, started to get it. As he drew it towards him the hammer came in about contact with ‘an ironing and to the horror of the board, four or five boys in the room there was the re- port of a shot. . As soon as the gun was discharged young Fasnacht fell to tle floor, bit he almost immediately arose to his feet and walked over toa window. ‘There he stood for a moment or two and then turning away from it fell unconscious to the floor. Elder about the place were at once sumraoned by the boys and Dr. of Elizabethtown, was sent for. Everything possible was done for the injured lad, but the bullet had entered the. brain at the forehead and he remained in an persons Bryson, unconscious - condition until his death oceurred about two : hors later. Deputy coroner Miller of. Kliza— bethtown, was motified and held an investigation. All“ present united in declaring the shooting accidental. eet Supervisors lilegally Chosen Judge Bechtel of Pottsville, yes- terday handed & down a lengthy oninion concurred in by the éntire court, decreeing that the act of 1905, which provided for the election of three supervisors in townships of the second class, does not apply to that county, because its townships have never been classified. The same would guite likely prove true here in case our townships never been classified, but or net that was ever done, unable to say at presont, had whether we are — Scared at an Auto A son of David was ré- * place with a market wagon drawn by two mules on Monday, when he met “an auto- mobile near Raymend’s smithshop west of Florin, Stoner turning home from this started unhooked and the lines. The mules were ‘captured after run- ning some distance, rehitched to the vehicle and the young The mules on a run, the traces tn Fo young Stoner dropped man drove them home. reer Ae eee Many New Sheds that tobacco acreage this year will exceed a) y- thing eyer attempted heretofore in our Henry Shelly is building a new shed, as Jno. M. Brandt on his of town, = We uaderstand that Mr, Hiestand, the Marietta lumber merchant, sold lumber for fifty sheds in this section, Indications are community, also farm north is iim Stauffer Mennonites Meet Stauffer Mennonites held their Spring meeting on Sunday at at the residence of Jacob Horst, West Donegal, This branch of the Old Mennonites has a surong membership ‘he in and and this meeting was vdry largely attended, A special car loaded with members only, wae run to this piace Sunday. exmaaa—————— Attention Sons of Veterans All members of Lieut, D. H, Nissley Camp, No. 74,8, V., are requested to meet the G, A. R. in the Hall .Sunday morning at 0.80 to attend the Presbyterian churc Those ppss- on services in GIVE MORE VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY PHAN DOES ANY OTHER PAPER ~—BIGGEST 50C WORTH IN THE COUNTY the body is a’ * Next Wednesday's Parade Present indications are that next Wednesday's parade will surpass anything held here for some time. All the organizations and bands beretofore mentioned, will partici- pate and it is quite likely it will H. C. ‘Schock has proy ea success. + been assigned the duties of Chief Marshall and his aids are C. N. Mumma, J. Fred Fenstermacher and Simon R, Snyder. All persons furnishing flowers make them into bouquets and bring same to the Council chamber be u ed for decorating in noon, : The parade will form as follows: Chief Marshall and Aids, Lieut D. H. Nissley Post No. 478, G. A. R., F. of A. Band, John M. Hipple Post G. A. R, of Bainbridge, Lieut, D. H. Nissley Camp No. 74, S. of V,, Washington Camp No. 538, P. O S. of A., Mount Joy Band, Otsego Tribe No. 59, of this place and Sag- wa Tribe, I. O. R. M. of Florin, Newtown Band, .and Friendship Fire Company No. 1. The parade will form at the park and move promptly at one p. m. over this route. West on Main to New Haven, to Marietta, to Kast Main, to Chestnat, countermarch to Jacob, to Mount Joy, to Barbara, to Kast Main to Park where the follow- are kindly requested to carly enough to ing programme will be rendered: Music by Forester’s Band, Special Singing, Prayer by Rev: Langley, Singing by Choirs, _ Addr.ss by Rev. A. A, DeLong, Singing by Choirs, Music by the Bands, * Let all assist in making the day a memorable one. Base .Ball Notes Unky Brandt played a nice third base for Lititz on Saturday and P, Frank Scheck was all to the good on the intial sack with Elizabeth. town. . The Inter-County League opered the season on Saturday with three excellent games, all the scores being close. Messrs. Geo. Fach jr, and Jno. KE. Schroll of this place and J. Edga; Thompson of - Marietta, ave official umpires, Columbia downed Mountville 12 to 10, Eliza- bethtown defeated Wrightsville 3 to 1 and Maytown won: from Cor- delia 5 to 4. \ A Large Egg Oné of the largest hen’s eggs ever seen, was brought here by Thomas Gise on Saturday. It measured 812 inches around lengthwise and 6 1 inches around the center. The egg was produced by a Barred Plymouth Rock hens that quite frequently lays* ‘double-yoked sg The on'e shown us was even larger .than an ordinary goose egg. ) “ A Land Office Business The trolley lines throughout the county were all exceptionally busy Saturday. There were 58 cars in use, 37 of whick were doing service on the suburban lines alone and in the evening there were 65 doing duty. ‘The crowds at several of the suburban terminals were simply too large to handle. One local car went to Lancaster with 172 passen- gers registered. Selected Mount Gretna. Major General John F. Wade, commanding the Atlantic division of the army, hag advised the War Department that he has selected Mt, Gretna, Pa., as the site for the proposed manoeuvres in which the Department of the East, and the various Eastérn State-militia organi- zations will participate this year in case Congress make a suitable ap- propriation, : on A Will Baptise on Thursday The Brethren in Christ of the Rapho district, will hold baptismal services at Mastersonville on Thurs- "he work is now progressing. “rank Nissley, proprietor of »MOUNT JOY, PENNA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1906 LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Happenings of the Week Told ina Brief . Yet Iteresting Mannner. Are you going fishing tomorrow? H. E. Ebersole gave . his store a a thorough cleaning yesterday. .Harry Derr, south of town, offers 100 tons of good timothy hay for sale. For Sale Very "Cheap—A cook stove good as new. Apply at this office. .Spend part of your afternoons in one of our hammocks, 5S. B. Bern- the fore- 2"? & Co. ' . Chicken corn soup will be served at Conrad’s evening, restaurant Saturday “Alvin G. Summy is trustee in the estate of Elias Hostetter, late of this borough. Miss Lizzie Baker was ill fora tew days but at this writing has mproved. (I'he F. of A. band will participate in the big parade at Lancaster on Gilmore Day. It is quite likely that the strong Falmouth team will open the season N on Saturday. Wm. Kaston Monroe Kramer's fiesh coat of ‘paint. John Reist is having concrete curbing placed in front of his prop= ty .on Marietta street. beautifying dwelling with a is Since Monday bricklayers receive $7 and helpers $4 per day for exght LS at San Francisco. Vm. H. Gantz is erecting a new board fence and a line of hitching posts at his hotel property. Gas 18 being taken into "the resi- dences of M. M. Leib and William Doyle on South Market street. The frame work of W. B, Det- wiler’s new double house on Mount Joy street, is about ‘completed. Wm, -Lockard is putting: down a concrete pavement, walk and steps for Martin Hiestand on Marietta street. A new time table will go 1nto effect on the P. R. R. Sunday, May 27.. We understand several local trains will be effected. The Men’s Union Prayer Meeting will be held at the home of Chris- tian Shatz cn Friday evening at the toll gate west of town, In a hewn log house built mn 1774, and never repaired except for one new roof, dwells John D. Wittle, in Mount Joy township. Merchant H. E: Ebersole has the foundation 1m position for a spacious new stable in the rear of the prop- erty he recently purchased. The foundation walls of P. Franck Schock’ new dwelling are about completed. Contractor Hamaker is w doing the carpenter work. new elevator is being installed at the Grey Iron Works acd Joseph Brandt fell into same when it was Joes but escaped uninjured. P. Lytle will ‘convert _the property recently vacated by Amos Shickley into a double dwelling. the Exchange Hotel, purchased a 16 1b. snapper of Harry Stoler yesterday — snapper” soup ‘galore Saturday evening. We are in receipt of an invitafion from Geo. W. Atherton, president of State College, to attend the ex- ercises of commencement week from ne 10 to 13, Jlmer Krall, a former residert of this place, quite bis job on . the P. R. R. at Columbia and has mqved to town. Ile is employed at C. Schock’s coal and lumber yards, John w., the four-weeks-old son of John Eberle and wife, died on Friday of cholera infantum, after an illness of a ‘few days. The funeral was held on Sunday after- TD home in| Glen Rook, York. county. Mrs. Minnie Breueman is spend- ing severil days at Pittsburg this week, | Harry Shellenberger of Philadel- phia, spent, Sunday here with his parents. S. B. Bernhari. & Co. give a guaranteed watch for $40 worth of checks. : Clyde Spera, spent Sunday parents, Miss Lillie MeCurdy of May- town, is spending the week here with relatives. \ of* Philadelphia, in town with his Martin Wilge and wife of Brook lyn, N. Y., spent several days iu town last week, : Dr. Brooke of D: spent several days Runk last week. Miss Mazie Shel Washington, D. C,, spend ‘some time. . Ohio, Mrs. Lizzie Adam was the guest of Mrs, mdn on Sunday. I. D. Beneman has from. the city with Spring and Summer st >, 8. Pyle, the crack target shot of Pitteburg his.parents here Saturda Mrs. E. W. Bentzel an er | mother, Mrs, Homperly, were visit- | ing at Harrisburg over Sunday. of Allentown, were guests at the Evangelical parsonage on Sunday. Mrs. Lottie Bear and Miss Edna’ Mrs, are guests #t the home of S. A. Bear. Chas. Dillinger, wife and daugh- ter Maud, and Frank Baker and wife attended a lovefeast at Lancas- ter Sunday. Deputy Coroner B, and wife were guests of friends.at Petersburg on.Sunday. the trip by trolley. They made It will pay you to go to the ‘Mount Joy Bargain Store; if not to buy, to see the excellent assortment of nobby Spring wear. H. C. Schock, wife and daughter Miss Mary, are spending the week at Pittsburg, where the K. of T are conyening, of which Mr, Schock is a member, . Rev, I. E. Runk went to High- spire yesterday where he will con- duct the song services at the Young People’s Cor vention, Wednesday and Thursday. Tuesday, Mrs, James E. Dick of Middle towm, and Mrs, John H, Taylor of Harrisburg, spent Thursday with the family of Burgess J. W. Shrite on Barbara street. Local Life Insurance Paid «The Insurance Press,” a paper published in New York, devoted to life insurance, gives the following 10teresting detalls of insurance paid during the yéar 1905 .in Lancaster Cos The amounts in the different towns in the county are; Bainbridge $2,200; Columbia $9,672; Lancaster $205,225, Manheim, $24,392; Mariet- ta, $4,000; Mount Joy, $17,228; Sal unga, $6,800; Springville, $1,870, The individual payments in amounts of $10,000 and upwards are as fol- lows: P. Frank, Mount Joy, $13,689, Sr m—— 0 Our New Baker larry Garber has opened a bakery in the Schock property on Manheim street where he is baking all kinds of cakes, doughnuts, etc, We derstand he is doing - quite a busi: ness, un- A —— Free Soyvenirs DS THAT ‘OF ANY OTHER MOUNT JOY } FLORIN NOTES. Many Brief Items of Interest Throughout Our Community day here with'his parents. Abram Butzer and family spent | Sunday at Manheim with friends.- | {t |s spent a few days here with friends. Christ Root of Elizabethtown, was a Sunday visitor to our town. . Try the BULLETIN’S adv ertising | columus and see if you don’t get] results. a + Daniel Stark and wife of Eliza— bethtown, spent Sunday here with | friends. and Monday. Rev. Smith, wife and son Ber~ |€ nard of Annville, spent Sunday in 0 town with friends. : John Hambright of Lebanon Val | ley College, spent Sunday with his mother. h here | Peter Kraybill and wife are spend | ing some time with Brooklyn, N. VY. Miss Ada Nissley friends in to | {Pp has gone time with friends. Ammon Fry and wife of Eliza- Mrs Anna Moyer and son Arthur | Whitaker of Déltg . York County, | guests of his parents. S. Dillinger la 12 to 7 score which was largely | Musselman. achstetter and Miss Brandt. runaway occurred in town on | | th Prayer-meeting will be held at| will again endeavor to Pat. Kline of Bellaire, spent Sun | front with a good representation on { man W. B. | some strong team tidn representing Mrs. Growler of Conewago, was | be the best to be | eight directors who | 8¢ The Outlook is Bright After being dead to the base ball | world for a few years, push to he diamond, The field of Coun Detwiler, the near treet, between properties Miss Goldie Schutte of Reading, | c linton Eby and Dfniel Kramer, | has been secured” convenient in the Saturday w Mount his ams as the G. 1, O,, High School, onrad’s All Stars, Upland, umber of college stars. eld for the of will effect purpose | organization and manage the team { Already about $50 has been ribed and prospects | future are promising, wish to state thats is im- yossible to get into the Inter -County Indiana where she will spend some | Le 0 We igue at present but the idea | forming now, is to make the league | . > |an eight instead of 16 other town, A double-header will be played | years. | the home of Mrs. Fanny Hambright here on Decoration Day. fpmorrow evening. NG lam Hostetter is excav ating for a néw house adjoining the propei= ity of Samuel Young. [0 Church Notes. Rev. L. 0. Weist, formerly past- onl a. tr of the Evangeranl church, after an absence of two weeks, due | and evening on Sunday. | to a spell af sickuess. H. G. Stacks, of Lancaster, spent Swnday here as w Misses Hilda Ritter and Edna Wittle spent Saturday and Suaday visiting friends at Lancaster. . d H. §. Musselman enjoyed a trip |;, to Harrisburg ou Sunday, where he was a guest in the family of his S01. S i'here is a new business corpora- tion in Florin. Irvin Bishop and Frank Weidman have purchased a tandem. : Mrs. Harry Kraybill is unable to be about on account of an injury received by a fall, whereby she dis- located her kuee-cap. 6 a h . . . | ye . si Emanuel Miller of near Manheim | Will baye plenty the entire season ‘ | spent several days in town last week. While here he gave \ nce a new coat of paint. his ‘he Florin base ball team put it all over Newtown on Saturday’ by | due to the effective pitching of Mrs. Elizabeth W alters call ed’on her brother-in law, Peter Walters | at Royalton on Sunday, who was so unfortunate as to break his leg | a few days previous. 8 ] Frank Leibfred and wife, Joseph Leibred, son and daughter, Wm. Rockenstein and Iancaster, spent Sunday nests of Wm, and family of here as Leibfred and family acob Boyer met with a painful actident while playing ball last Tuesday evenings In trying to handle a curve, the sphere hit the end of a finger, breaking it. Jacob will be unable to punch dough for some time. : 0 Rev. Lehman of the U. B. church baptized the following persons at] the Cove on Sunday afternoph the presence of several hundred | spectators : Henry Mumma, Geo. ! Howard, John Haus, Mrs. John in| Tuesday evening but nothing ser- ious resulted. Henry Young's horse frightened at escaping steam [Florin ness, C. Frank, window orn tlie will be in Mount Rev. A. A. DeLong will Rev. ill preach i in hig absence, ONTTED “BRE THREN, Preaching ser vices Sunday nfofn- ing and eveniny by the pastor.- Sun ay schwol at 9 a. 1g CrE. m, unday evening, June 3. a Ice, lce, Ice I am desirous of 00 tons of fine spring water nd as soon as austed, wil have shipped i and will furnish it in any quantity, Vagon through Mount season is upon us. Al rm Scared Burglar N\. attempt was made to rob L Annie Dier The shutter and hoe store of Mrs. ast Friday night. west side of building were opened but when the burglar alarm sounded, the thieves fled. Nothing was taken, Unclaimed Letters. Following is a list of letters un- called for at the Mount Joy post flice, May 23, 1906 : Miss Alice Keener, Mr. Abram H. Shenk, J. Fred Fenstermacher, Post-Master, ep ‘‘At Exchange Hotel” Dr. B, Rubin, ( Joy this him, examination Mice, hours, 11 to 1 and 5 —————— i ee Postponed Sale The public sale at Greider’s Hall was not held on Saturday, NEWS PAPER BY HUN Mount Joy Frank and the diamond | is now being put in condition, | location is undoubtedly the best and most This town, elevated shady place for spectators ad out ef the way to deadheads, It it quite likely that a game will 1 be played here on and the aggregn- Joy will had in the town. the guest of Mrs, H. Ishler Sunday | and will include players from such and a Within a | few days a public meeting will be electing sub- for a bright a six-club or- bethtown, spent Sunday with rela-| ganization in 1907, Marictta being a tive ‘in our village. 0C— Charles Carson is oa duty again | cupied that pulpit both “morning” oceupy wife and child! the pulpit of the Eyangelical church lat Reading, Sunday, Boehm In the even- will be led by C. Boyce. Children’s Day exercises avill be held Prayer— meeting this evening and choir prac tice Friday evening. mforming the’ general public that I have housed this supply 18 ex~ Jey and da ily, including Sunday i Let me haye your order now as the Yours for busi- Advmay23- iraduate Optician week. If you have trouble with your eyes better see free, to 9. | call by phone or postal will receive prompt attention, It, will Tue PEOPLE'S PAPER’ *ADPVERTISING MEDIUM TN “TION—THR PATRONAGE IS © 50 CENTS A YEA DRED OBITUARY NOTES | Many of Our Friends Have Gone to the Great Beyond. Mrs. Samuel Shaffner i home in Manleim aged 33 vars, Francis White, aged 62 years, died at Manheim on Saturday. Deceased was a veteran ‘schoo! teacher of Rapho township. : MISS ESTHER BILLET Miss Kstner Billet died at the home of Clinton Kaylor, in Mount Joy township, on Wednesday morn- ing at seveen.o’clock,*in her eight— lieth year. Some time ago she was stricken with paralysis. and two weeks ago she fell after arising from bed and fractured two ribs. This accident superinduced tetanus, which was the Jmmediate cause of her death. Deceased waa a native of Mount Joy townghip, and was a member of the Evangelical chursh. The funeral was held on Friday morning with services at Green Tree Meeting House. Interment was made in ghe Florin Cemetery, Revs, D. M. Esideman and S. S, Shearer, of the German Baptist lel, officiated. the cil- of a ith an » MRS. ELIZABEH GROSH After suffering from a paralytic stroke since Wednesday, May 9, Mrs. Elizabeth Grosh, relist of the late Benamin Grosh, ' died at her residence in Milton Grove, Thurs day morning, aged eighty-four She was born at Running near Elizabethtown, ang when quite young she moved Milton Grove, where she hag since, She"is survived J and four daughters {3uosh. merchant and Mrs, Simon. L. of Milton Grove; Mrs ey, of Elizabethtown; Eby; of Topeka, Kas E. Lindemuth, of Ha is also survived |} grandchildren: and grandchildren, as alg Eli Foster, of near and one sister, Mrs near Deodate. Hig place Sunday mor ton Grove cliurch, the Milton Grove mn Y Pump, NEW Frank Fletcher an of Nehemiah Haines Peter Greenawalt ice | ors at the home ( Sunday. Christian Mnmm paid a visit to Joh: and returned to his Preaching servic] in the church in KL charge. Services Sunday June 3 in * The Cornet Bay a festival on the Saturday evenin] served and evel come. Admissi Last week th¢ finished the wo; town by phone much to the sa The phonais | Peter Risser, v paying the cuf Edward A this place, dig Friday morni on Sunday a J noon in the g He was six| days old. ce. 1% the of the A frost v 8. H, Tr Miss Em Reuben D; Mrs. R. guests on 8. H. with Aan ' Samue| his fri Ja with Jol proba Mig terta Duff A 501 from a railroad engine and threw now take, place at 6.45 on Monday, May 28. 1 | Oscar Young off the wagon. The The Executive commit- M tee of the Y. M. C. A. will positive- ly sell everything. rn peg neon, with interment in the Henry berle cemetery. : ne of the largest and finest con- crete pavements in the town) is the one on the east side of Jacob street 3 —— recently put down by Hector Henery Deeds Transferred * for Geo, Brown sr, Geo. BroWn jr, Jacob E. Koyer to Jacob IL is aldo. having a concrete pavement Shenk, property in laid on the opposite of the street. $1,852.60, : Tandsome souvenirs will be given | young mar esc aped with bruises ——————— away free to the public at Zeller’s and the (eam was captured before restaurant and ice. cream parlors any further damage. next Wednesday, -Decoration Day, | day morning and will ‘immerce a number of applicants in the after= noon’ in a meadow near the residence of D, B. Wolgemith, near’ Union Square, uniforms will please appear in ‘them, Runaway Yesterday Xi Zook, of Donegal Springs, ‘was loading malt 78% Alois Bube’s yesterday morning hen his two- horse team ran away. The were stopped near the P. bridge on Market st damage was dd One Day Earlier . . . . We kindly request our advertis- The P. R. R. through Supt, Mc'| ers and correspondents to send in all Caleb, sent a $1,000 check to the communications a day earlier than Harrieburg Hospital on May 11, the | usual néxt week, as our publication Mount, Joy anniversary of thie fatal railroad |day falls on, May 80, we will issue nf wreck east of that city. one day earlier, T uesday evening. [® SERN, | SSu———— th horses’ R. R, efore any. » Mra. Henry Beamesderfer of Manheim, is dead at the age of G6 years. tig . » Py
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