The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-08-23
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Z The picnic at Pine Grove church was
{ well attended.
Pine Grove Bethel church is holdingJ
revival meeting with much success.Z
w. j. Roberts has taken the contract
to repair all the school houses in Miller
township.
Messrs John Haldeman and James
Nelson have started creamery near
Thompsontown.
McVeytown, last week had three
alarms of ire. A stable was burned
which was the cause of the other alarms.
Mrs Mary, wife of Henry Derrick, of
Duncannon, died very suddenly on Sun
day morning the l4th inst.
Mr.. Amos Foulk has erected the
frame of a fine two story house, on the
West side of his present residence.
Wilson Lupfer, will sell personal
property at his residence in Bloomfield,
next Saturday at | o'clock, =. Nj.
y Don't neglect to attend the large sale
of Kentucky and Virginia horses at
Loysville, on TUESDAY, August 23rd.
4 The bright light seen south east of
this borough on Friday night was caus.
Mr.. Jacob Clay near Delville.
I A campmeeting will be held by the
I u. B. Church near Eshcol, commencing
on Aug. Goth, Rev. w. o. Wallace, I
preacher in charge.
VIM. Messimer of Centre twp, was
so unfortunate on Monday as to fall in
getting over d fence, dislocating his
shoulder.
A good horse belonging to Mr.. George
Ensminger, dropped down dead while
working on his farm in Centre twp,
( on Monday of last week. -
Foreman & Allen had good horse
sale at Swartz's hotel in Carlisle on
Friday week. Both horses and mules
brought good prices.
A fellow with some wire on, his shoul-
ders pretending to be a telegraph line
repairer has been beating the railroad
Z men.
Mr.. John L. Meyers, of Rye twp,
has opened an Iron ore mine on his
farm that promises to yield any quantity
of good ore.
A young man named George Straw,
residing at Marysville, was taken sick
with malaria on Monday evening and
and died on Saturday. The diseaseI
turned TO brain FEVER. W
The wagon belonging to the Poor
House, broke down on the ridge on
Saturday. A wagon was borrowed from
I Mr.. Sheaffer, in town, to which the
load was transferred.
n The Democratic County Convention
is called for Monday, Sept. 10th, the
delegate elections to be held between the
hours of and @ p. M, on Saturday the
18th of September.
4 The iron ore teams are now busily
hauling away ore from the Centre and
Spring twp, mines. When q rail road
is built hundred tons will go where
one ton goes now.
A hurricane that did considerable
damage passed over Chambersburg and
other portions of Franklin county, on
Saturday week. The damage to the
M. e. Church in Chambersburg was
over 500.
Farmers should remember that they
have no right to dump stones on the
highway without permission from the
supervisor. Stone piles in several in
stances have caused damages which
those farmers could be compelled to pay.
Rev. J. H. Laughlin, of Newville,
I preached very acceptably in the Pres
byterian church in this place on Sunday.
His wife also gave the congregation a
musical treat, as she is sweet singer
and her voice is well cultivated.
Elderberries are not so named because
they ara older than other berries.-
They derived their name from the fact
that an elder of the church first discov-
cred their color by sitting down on ~
bunch of them at a picnic.
= Weare sorry to have to record the
death of Mrs. Maggie Smith wife of
w. III. Smith, of this borough. She
has long been i'll with consumption aud
her death though an affiction for her
husband is gain to her.
There will bea basket picnic in Buck s.
Valley, Aug. 9th 1881, in Bair's woods,
near the Lutheran Church. No huck-
stering allowed as there will be a table
for the benefit of the school. All are
invited to attend with will-filled baskets.
And now that ''bangs' are rapidly GO
ing out of fashion, women who were
silly enough to wear them only begin to
realize what hideous things they were.