Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-05-27
AAKoNsBURG CRUMBS.

burg, is the guest of Miss Sarah Kline.
Miss X. has recovered the use of her
voice, and is no doubt using 1t to adj
vantage.
Many persons we've to Rebersbure,
Saturday evening and Sunday, attend.
ing the Reformed Chassis, which was in
session there. They report very in
teresting time.
Mr.. Harvey Musser has come home
to keep cool during the hot weather.
Miss Mary Duncan is visiting Mrs.
Forster.
DR.. l.. G. Meyer and family are home.
There seemed to be a family reunion
there, Saturday night, as they, Mr.. &
Mrs. G. NJ. Bower, of Bellefonte, and
Mr. David Meyer II son, of Centre
Hall, were all gathered in the family
nest at once.
Miss Mary Meyer started, last week,
for Illinois. Exdects tospend the sum-
mer there.
Mr.. John Harper, brother of Micha-
ell Harper, is in town. He was form
er Aaronsburg man, but is now from
Monroe, Wis.
Mr.. Henry Wetzel, of Bellefonte and
DR.. Goodman of Logansville, haye been
in town for a few days.
Prof. and Mrs. Meyer have at last
settled in a home by themselves, and
are trying housekeeping in real earnest.
Rev. John Tomlinson will hold no
service in his own charge, next Sab
bath. He goes to fill DR.. Calder's pull
pit at State College.
Miss Annie Ningle has been sick for
a number of weeks, but is about again,
though still looking rather feeble.
The much needed rain came last Sa-
turday. Things look m6ch better, but
more rain is needed. No doubt it will
come too, just at the proper time.
The Lutheran church received q
much needed cleansing, last Monday,
and at the same time the cemetery WAS
pUt ia little better order.
Mss Belle Cronmillcr was unable to
teach, during the greater part of last
week. Opened again on Monday.
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MIFFLTNBURG.-Last week we at
tended the sessions of the Northern
Confer ence, Synod of Central PennSyl-
vania, at Mifflinburg. The sessions con-
tinued for several days, and this gave
us an opportunity, which we fully
improved, of seeing the town. Passing
through town on a train is not seeing
it in any just sense of the word, for you
generally have the most unfavorable
view possible.
1t affords us pleasure to state that we
like Mifflinburg, both in a general sense
and for sundry special reasons; and if
we had 4 real good and complete home
with q paying business down there
we'll, guess we could manage to shift
along.
Mifiinburg is favorably and even
beautifully situated. Built on plain
with just enough slope for good drainage
it has that which gives beauty and
charm to any town-a hill for a back
ground.
The summit of this hill affords one of
the finest views we ever had the plea
sure to enjoy. ThepanOrama that here
spreads out before the enraHtured
vision OF the benolder, is most lovely
it is enchanting. The view from the
hill top in the rear of Mifflinburg is
more beautiful, even, than that from
the top of Nittany mountain, above
Centre Hall. 1t is more extensive and
not so unlform-more variegated. The
changes from forests to cleared lands
are not.so abrupt and harsh. There is
a gentle. gradual blending from the one
to the other. '.a.-
Mifflinburgha3 one of the finest pub.
lie school houses in the state. 1t is
spacious, well arranged, makes q fine
appearance externally, and has q play
ground of several acres. 1t stands as a
proud monument of the public spirit
and liberallty of the citizens of the
town.
The churches too are in harmony
with the school house and educational
interests. TIE Lutheran, Reformed
aid Methodist are good, large, sub
stantial buildings-not to say elegant,
while the Presbyterian is structure of
less pretensions. Altogether the town
is well supplied with churches and it
seems Ito strangely that education
and religion go hand in hand.
The town itself presents striking COM
trasts between Old and New. There
are some very fine residences-homeS
we hope they are in the best sense, with
all the modern improvements in build
ing both for use and beauty bay win
dows, verandahs, high ceilings, veDti-
lation, with those indispensable sur
roundings-beautiful yards, arbors,
evergreens, &c. The neighbOring homes
stead is entirely different. Appearance
would indicate that the inmates have
no abiding home, are not permanently
settled, but stag only for the time being
as a shift. Everything about the en-
tire premises is in accord with this
idea. Dilapidation anu decay here rest
in their native ease.
Mifflinburg has no manufactures,
properly speaking. Her chief industry
consists in making carriages and bug
gies of which about dozen shops turn
out a vast number annually. We visit
ed several of these establishments, were
much pleased with the work, and all
the time ready tn accent a present of a