The Democratic advocate., 1884-08-09
Pleasant Valley Items.

Something like a cyclone passed over tb;s
vicinity on the 4th inst, about 3. 80 D. M.
doing great deal of damage. The carriage
house OF Miss Emily V. Devilbiss was blown
down, Samuel Warehime's dairy was moved
several inches from its foundation, the spire
on ST. Matthews Church ut this place was
Deht, and the lantern in front of the church
was twisted off and broken into atoms.
Lemuel Miller lost two valuable heifers from
a tree falling ON them. Frederick II. Myers
lost heavily in timber, about $50 trees being
blown down and twisted off from 10 to 20 feet
above the stump, Geo. Welk and Jesse Hes
son also lost heavily in timber. Fruit trees
suffered heavily; great many were blown
down, while others had their limbs torn off
and the fruit nearly all blown off, The rain
fell IN torrents, accompanied by hail: fences
were leveled to the ground, grain stacks
turned over, and, in fact, nearly everything
IN ITS path suffered more or less damage
James A. Diffenbaugh, Public School Ex-
aminer, and Chas. H. Baughman, visited this
place on the 2nd inst, and, after careful
examination of the public school building,
authorized VIM. Bowers, trustee, to have the
necessary repairs done and make the old
building do again, as the Board could not
possibly erect new building at present, on
account of the shortness of funds. The build
ing will, however, be fitted up with new fur
niture.
The Pleasant Valley Band paraded the
streets and serenaded our quiet little village
on the evening of the 2nd inst. with their new
Instruments, which are of the piston valve and
bell front style.
VIM. Bowers, blacksmith, had barb wire
fence put up alongside his lot on Main street.
+. Il. 4ingling and son are having their mill
dam repaired. Ii. c. Freeman has had his
barn and all the outbuildings painted, which
adds very much to the appearance of his pro-
perty; L. 0. Handy, painter. David E.
Morelock has repaired his dwelling house,
and is now painting it. Henry Brown raised
his new house on the 9th inst.
Mrs. Perry o. Tagg and Mrs. VIM. Fisher
had break down while on their return in a
buggy from Frizellsburg on the 9th inst
Fortunately they had a quiet horse.
Charles, son of Levi Myers, met with an
accident on the 9th inst. by falling against the
sharp corner of a bench, cutting a cash above
his eye u inches long.
VIM. F. Myers has turkey hen that has
been laying regularly every day for the last
six months.
Cider making has again commenced; there
were seven barrels made in the last two days
at F. l.. Yingling & Sons.
Mrs. Lydia Fleagle was taken very i'll last
week while visiting at her daughters Mrs.
Levi Myers, but, under the careful treatment
of DR.. j. S. Marshall, she is now recovering
again very. fast, and will soon be able to be
out Mrs. Fleagle is now in her 82nd year.
The Sabbath School at this place will hold
their annual Home Festival and Celebration
on Saturday, the 9Th of September. There
will be no pains spared in making the occa-
sion pleasant one.
f. Foster Fleagle and wife, son of the late
DR.. Bailey Fleagle, are visiting his mother
MRS. Bailey Fleagle) and friends in this
county, but will shortly return to Harrisburg,
Pa, where they now reside.
John Masonheimer has had new roof put
on his dairy, and the porch at his dwelling
repaired.
fillmore Babylon's separator, drawn by n
traction engine, passed through here on the
lst inst, on its way to H. c. Freeman's. The
shrill whistle of the engine, however, an
nounced its arrival when about mile distant,
and by the time it arrived everybody was out
on the watch for the iron horse.
j. L. Wilmer, his brother and brother-in
law, were here looking after farms; they are
all from Marietta, Pa.
Mrs Lydia A. Frock has double pink ger
aniums that have as many as 48 buuches of
buds and flowers. Who can beat it?