Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-08-03


The thermometer did right brave'
ly last week.
"A general picnic Is to be held near
MadisoDbure next Saturday.
Lock Haven sports an Old Maids
Literary society. Good idea
Pine Station camp meeting COM
meIrces Wednesday, August 23rd.
A good town property, at private
sale. Inquire at this Office. If
And will there be no Sunday
School picnics In these parts this sum
mers
The West Branch camp meeting al
Wayne station will begin on the 18th
inst. and continue ten days.
The Centr County Pomona Grange
will meet at Centre Hall, Wednesday
August 9th.
Charley $tafsis, of Lewisburg,
smiling ana pleasant as usual, was here
over Sunday.
The attention of heirs and other
interested parties is directed to the
long list of Registers notices in anoth-
er column.
The Democrats Of Clinton county
hold their delegate elections next Sat-
urday, and the connty convention will
meet on Wednesday following.
Nearly the whole of the western
wall of Musser s. Smiths Hardware
building is pa pered with the large and
attractive show-bills of the coming
menagerie and circus.
The administrators of Adam Ter
. by, deceased, will offer some valuable
property at public sale on Saturday Aug
9th. See notice IN an other column
aud sale bills. Is
Northumberland county has thirty
two prisoners in Jail at this tine, while
Centre county has but one, which
amake majority in favor of Northum-
berland of thirty-one.
Mr.. John Wilson OF Half Moon
township has wheat field that is ex-
pected to yield thirty bushels to the a.
ere. Good farming and phosphate did
it.
The finest display of monuments
and head stones ever made in Centre
County can now be seen at the old
Millheim Marble Works. Material and
work are the best, prices the cheapest.
"A York county man sports corn
stalk already over eleven feet high, but
there are plenty of stalks in Penn's Val
ley whose tops couldn't be touched by
a six foot man standing On the back of
the biggest horse.
S. x. Sankey g Co., have rented
the store building and shops Of the late
John D. Foote, deceased, as a place of
business. Sam has fixed up and fur
nished the store in best style, for an
office, and the old place will soon re-
sound with the hum of industry and
business.
The Millheim e. Band elected the
following as its officers for the ensuing
year last Monday evening: D. I. Brown
President; John W. Foote, Secretary
and R. A. Bumiller, Treasurer. Sever
al new members were admitted into the
band, Dfilling all the vacant instru-
ments.
John Fl. Frank brought two wheat
heads into our Office that measure eight
inches in length, each. John did not
say how long the ent ire. stalks were,
but the usual scale Of foot TO an
inch would make them eight feet. At
least we do not feel authorized to sire tch
them any longer.
The Evangelical campmeeting on
Mifhinburg circuit will be held at
Swengle station, beginning Aug. 10th.
Boarding will be provided at reasonable
rates. There will be excursion tickets.
8. SMITH,
Pastor.
inventors and Patentees-
should send for instructions, reason
able terms, references, &C., to Edison
Brothers, Solicitors Of Patents, Wash
ington, D. q. who furnish the same
toithom charge. Edison Brothers is q
well known and successful firm of large
experience, having been established in
1866. II
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