Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1882-11-30

Nov. Goth, 1>S2
Editor Journal -
Enclosed please
find ms annual subscription together
with something for publication in the
Journal, if you see proper
Times are right good in this section.
Our wheat, corn, oats, and potato
crops have all been good and all bring
fair prices except wheat, which is ouey
9j cents to 81 Horses, cattle, sheep
aud hogs are very high. The hay crop
was the most aDardant | ever saw in
Ohio, and good pasture is even yet
plenty at this late season. Farmers are
doing well, financi1ly, aud have every
reason To be satisfied.
Hy tie way. MessrS. Editors, is
Spring Mills Tie Paradise of the World?
We promised our friends in penn's
Valley that as soon as the l.. & I
railroad was completed we would pay
them another visit, but are getting
tired waiting. Is Spring Mills sucn
IA remarkbie business place tina; the r.
II. Co. can get all the traffic wanted with
out extending the road TO its originally
intended terminus? Have not the
farmers west of Spring Mills invested
their money in stock and paid it, and
did they not nave their farms cut up
and injured without receiving the
slightest benefit by tie road, thus far ?
In my estimation it is an imposition
and outrage on tlreSe people.
1t did my very soul good to hear that
old Pennsylvania, my believed native
state, after wandering after strange
gods for twenty-five years, has at last
returned home to the Democratic fold.
Bravo, Old Keystone of the Union |
hope that the solid, sturdy people of
the grand old cOmmOnweallh have bur
led the offensive carcass of poll, icA
boss rale so deeply that it can never be
resurrected until judgement day. Now
for the brave, noble Gen. Hancock for
President in 1884! The Buckeye state
the oldest daughter of the keystone,
viii again lead the van in the coming
battle.
| trust to meet you again. sometime,
and receive that hearty welcome which
a true, big heart can extend to an old
| friend. Wishing you and the JOURNAL
much prosperity, remain,
Truly Yours.
A. @. HICKMAN.
REPLY. Right glad we were TO hear
from our old friend Andy, especially SO
because he sings no doleful song of com
plant, but seems 10 be as happy as a
| bird in June.
Just why our rail road is not COM
pleted, who can tell outside of the pow.
ers that be? There are bosses in raj
road matters as well as iu poll les,
they know all about it, outsiders know
nothing. That the road should bt
completed admits of no question
Penn's Valley badly needs rail roat
connection with Bellefonte, at least
Just now the extention of the road Is
again agitated for thu twentieth slime
What or who is behind the presen
movement we do not know.
Yes indeed, Andy, Spring Mills is ;
right smart place, you can bet your bot
tom dollar on that. Counting its sub
urbs-Coopertown, Penn Hall, Farm
er's Mills, Centre Hall, Millheim ant
Coburn, it is real big place too, ''ant
don't you forget it'', Andy. In shor
Spring Mills is the great commercial
intellectual and educational centre il
this part of Gods great universal do
main. That's conceded.
Andy, had you not better do as ont
of our old farmers once did2 He con
cluded ''to quit farming and then serv,
the Lord"-not seeing his way clea
how he could follow tUo occupations 81
utterly incompatible.
For earnest, old friend Andy, Gui
farming, come home, buy yourself a 10
! and build yourself an house at Sprin
ills, and be-supremely happy.