Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg

Town and Country Newspaper
Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA

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Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA

Saturday - March 26, 1904 

BASEBALL CLUB REORGANIZED 

The Pennsburg Athletic Club held a meeting last week and reorganized. Martin KAPP was elected manager and Leo SECHLER treasurer. The following players have signed: Frank FOLK, pitcher; John HUNTER, catcher; Horace SMITH, first base; Andrew STAUFFER, second base; James STEIN, third base; Wm. SNYDER, short stop; William BARR, centre field; Val. TRUMBORE, left field; W. MAWRY, right field. The club has already closed dates with the Marion Club, of Easton; J.E. Madden's Club, of Bethlehem; The Columbia A.A., of Easton; Franklin & Marshall, of Lancaster, and other strong teams in the eastern section of the state. 

OWNS A BROAD AXE MADE IN 1655 

Allen REITER, of near Siesholtzville, is the possessor of a broadaxe stamped with the year 1755. It appears to be of English manufacture and was no doubt brought along by some pioneer who used the implement in felling or dressing trees in Penn's Forests. The axe is not as large as those of later years, and is shaped at the blade so as to be used on right or left hand side by reversing the handle. Mr. REITER treasures the relic very much. 

PEDDLING ILLEGAL IN BUCKS 

Bucks county's special act of 1862, prohibiting peddling, still stands, having been successfully tested by the Bucks County Mercantile Association. E.H. SIMPSON, R.F. FRANCIS, W.D. GRAY, E. ROROPAUGH and W.A. TANTUM have paid fines aggregating $1000 and costs of $199.72 imposed by Justice of the Peace WALL, on May 9, 1903, and sustained by Judge YERKES shortly afterward. The men were convicted of peddling stoves and other kitchen articles. 

UGLY CUT WITH AN AXE 

Edwin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Titus SELL, of near Kutztown, met with a painful accident which will disable him for some time. He was cutting wood and while holding it with his left hand and swinging the axe with his right, the handle of the axe caught in his coat. He missed his aim and the blow struck his left arm, inflicting a painful wound. The sharp instrument severed the blood vessels, tendons and nearly one of the bones near the wrist joint. 

HORSE DIED SUDDENLY 

One of the draft horses used in the team of William F. YOUNG, the Henricks Oil dealer, died suddenly on Tuesday night. During the day he was used in the team and he showed no signs of illness when placed in the stable in the evening. In the morning when Harry STEHLEY the teamster came out in the stable on Wednesday morning he was to find the animal dead. He was amazed valued at $150 and was not insured. 

BURGESS CENSURES BOROUGH COUNCIL 

Burgess RHOADS, of Boyertown, has clearly drawn the lines between him and Council by stating in his annual message to that body: "If you do your business legitimately you will have no trouble with me." 

GIRL BURNED TO DEATH 

Laura J. LONG, the sixteen year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LONG, of Almont, near Tylersport, was fatally burned while taking up ashes and raking the stove at the home of Mr. and Mrs. SUTTON, of Sellersville, where she was employed as a servant. A red hot coal fell from the stove on her dress and set it on fire. Instead of trying to extinguish the fire she ran to a neighbor's house, some distance away. By this time she was all ablaze, caused by the wind fanning the flames. After a great deal of difficulty the fire was extinguished, but not until she had been fatally burned. Her whole body was terribly burned except her feet and face. A doctor was immediately sent for, but owing to the severe roasting of her flesh he could not save her life, and she died the next morning. 

BROUGHT SUIT TO RECOVER INSURANCE MONEY 

Peter V. HOY, proprietor of the Hotel Montgomery, at Norristown, has brought suit against the Union Mutual Insurance Company, of Norristown, for the sum of $1160. He alleges in the statement, which has been filed, that his property was damaged to that extent by a fire on December 16, 1903, which partially destroyed the back building and that although demand has been made, the insurance company has not paid the amount of loss as required by the policy. 

HORSE FELL WHILE GOING OVER GUTTER 

Milton NYCE, of Lucon, met with an accident on Sunday while driving over a culvert near the Lederachville chapel. The bridge gave way and the horse broke through which caused him to fall. Mr. NYCE gave an alarm and neighbors assisted him in getting the horse freed. The animal's leg was badly twisted which caused him considerable pain, but luckily no bones were broken. 

THOUGHT MARRIAGE LICENSE WAS ENOUGH 

A young couple of Norristown procured a marriage license in 1896. Thinking that tied the nuptial knot they lived together and in the eight years children have been born. About a week ago they learned their mistake and were married by a baptist minister of Norristown. 

AGED PASTOR TENDERS RESIGNATION 

Rev. F.J. MOHR, who served the St. John's at Richlandtown, and First Reformed church at Quakertown, for about thirty years, handed his resignation to the consistory Saturday. Old age and ill health is the reason that Rev. MOHR took the action he did. 

HORSE KICKS MAN ON THE NOSE 

Abner HANSELL, of Swedeland, had his nose nearly kicked off while cleaning a horse in stable on Tuesday. Seventeen stitches were required to restore the nose to anything like a normal condition. 

STICKPIN IN HER THROAT 80 HOURS 

Three-year-old Eliza WATSON, of South Bethlehm, swallowed a three-inch pearl-headed stickpin on Monday morning and coughed it up Thursday afternoon, after suffering terribly for over 80 hours. 

ENDS LIFE WITH ROPE 

Samuel DELP, proprietor of the Elroy Hotel, Franconia township, this county, committed suicide Saturday morning by hanging himself, in a shed adjoining the hotel stables. Mr. DELP's actions are attributed to melancholia, due to business reverses. He had, however, given no intimation of his intended act. Saturday morning DELP arose, as usual, about 5.30 o'clock, and shortly afterward went to the stable. Failing to return a search was made for him by members of the household with the result that his lifeless body was found hanging to a rope in an obscure corner of the shed. DELP was about 45 years old and is survived by a wife and two children. He was well known about the county, having been in charge of a number of well known hostelries. For a number of years he conducted the West Point Hotel. He has been at Elroy about two years.

PASTOR WILL ASSUME CHARGE MAY FIRST 

Rev. Thomas H. LEINBACH, of Spinnerstown, will preach his first sermon at the St. John's Reformed church at Reading, whose call he recently accepted, on Sunday, May 1st. He will receive $800 and parsonage, rent free. This is $500 less than he received at Spinnerstown and Chestnut Hill. 

BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR TEACHER 

A birthday surprise was tendered to Morris WISLER, of Trumbauersville, in honor of his twenty-first birthday, on Friday evening. He is the teacher of the California school. The evening was pleasantly spent in dancing, after an elaborate lunch. 

ADVERTISED FOR WIFE 

Out of a list of 3500 fair suitors for his hand, his heart and his little store in Highland township near Gettysburg "Squire" Samuel W. HAMMERS has chosen a wife. The remaining 3499 the thrifty "squire" has turned into money by selling their letters in reply to his now famous advertisement for a wife, to a matrimonial agency. He cleared up $50 by the sale. HAMMERS' bride is a Western girl, whom he found among his list of correspondents. Several years ago HAMMERS advertised for a wife with $5000, and since that time he has received from twenty-five to fifty answers daily. He exchanged pictures with those who wrote to him, and the walls of his store room in Highland township are literally papered with the photographs of widows and maidens who wished to be his better half. During the long winter evenings HAMMERS would amuse the loiters in his store by reading to them choice extracts from his love letters, and they would usually agree with him that those written by widows were much more interesting and to the point than those written by the girls. 

A BREINIGSVILLE FAMILY SADLY AFFLICTED 

The family of Jonas SCHWOYER, a wealthy farmer of Breinigsville, Lehigh County is sadly afflicted. On Thursday SCHWOYER died of pneumonia, aged 75 years, and on Sunday night his wife succumbed to the same disease on her 62d birthday anniversary. A widow of a son who died a year ago was stricken with serious illness on Sunday night, and the wife of an only surviving son is near death's door at the Allentown Hospital from an operation. 

KEYSTONE LAUNDRY SOLD 

The fixtures of the Keystone Laundry of East Greenville, were sold by H.H. TRUMBORE, of Quakertown to the Troy Laundry Company, of Allentown. The new firm took possession this week. 

REPUBLICANS CONVENE 

The Republican County Convention was held on Tuesday at the Opera House, Norristown. The regular business was transacted and after the slated candidates for delegate were elected by matter of form, the leaders took up the rest of the time by delivering speeches. The convention was assembled for two objects, the election of nine delegates to represent the county at the State Convention at Harrisburg and the endorsement of Judge A.S. SWARTZ as a candidate for Judge on the Supreme bensch. The convention was called to order at 10 o'clock by County Chairman I.P. KNIPE. After the usual preliminaries had been completed the following names were placed in nomination as State delegates, and elected by acclamation: Walter F. CHILDS, Norristown; Jacob EHST, Douglass, West; Thomas B. HARPER, Jenkintown; A.H. HENDRICKS, Pottstown; B.F. HEVENER, Lower Merion; Ralph KIBBLEHOUSE, Gwynedd; James KILPATRICK, Bridgeport; John M. KUHN, West Telford; N.H. LARZELERE, Norristown. The following committe on resolutions was appointed by Chairman KNIPE: O.F. LENHARDT, Norristown; F.G. HOBSON, Collegeville; A.R. PLACE, Lansdale; A.L. SHOMO, Royersford; Jos. F. FOULKE, Ambler; George SULLIVAN, Lower Merion; I.N. COOKE, Pottstown; Edwin LONSDALE, Springfield; H.W. HALLOWELL, Moreland. The committee later submitted a set of resolutions. 

WELL ATTENDED HORSE SALE 

The horse sale of D.K. GRABER, held at the Keely House, East Greenville, on Tuesday was well attended. He sold twenty-five head at an average price of a little over $150. The highest price horse was sold to a Mr. HALL, of Philadelphia, for $291. 

BIG PRICE AT SALE 

At a public sale of personal property of Isaac LANDIS, deceased, at Gratersford, Saturday afternoon, articles commanded big prices. Flower glasses were sold as high as $6 a piece; a spinning wheel was knocked off for $2.25; a Perkiomen railroad bond sold at $1,140; 5 shares Rich avenue Farmes' Market, Philadelphia, at $149 1/2 a share; one share Royersford Trust Company stock, $57 1/2; cream pitcher, $2; case of drawers, $18; desk, $12.25; bed spreads, from $5 up to $36.50; towels from 40 cents us to $3.50 a piece; cups and saucers, from 60 cents to $1.50 per piece. In fact everything offered realized high prices. The sale was conducted by auctioneer Theo. M. MOYER, of Lower Salford township. 

PROPERTY ON FOURTH STREET SOLD 

The property No. 211 Fourth Street, of the late Caroline KNEULE, of Pennsburg, was on Monday sold at private sale by the Executrix Carrie LONG, to Nathaniel REED, of Red Hill, for $1550. The property was offered at public sale on Saturday but was only bid up to $1525. 

ACCUSED PERKASIE PHYSICIAN CLAIMS INNOCENCE 

Dr. N.B. WILLIAMS the Perkasie physician accused of malpractice claims he is innocent of the charge. He says he never saw Miss CRESSMAN, of Quakertown and in all probability some person was taken to her and introduced as "Dr. Williams." 

FIRST RAILROAD RIDE AT 78 YEARS 

Mrs. Catharine PLUMM, of Catasauqua, celebrated her 78 birthday anniversary last week by taking her first ride on a railroad. She went from Allentown to Harrisburg and was delighted with the trip. 

NEW BLACKSMITH FOR PENNSBURG 

Joshua KULP, of Philadelphia, has leased the blacksmith shop of H.C. WICKERT, of Pennsburg, and will start the business there on April 4. John KEELER the present tenant will open a blacksmith shop on his lot on Main street near the Pennsburg Toll-gate.

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