The state journal., 1884-12-27
NEIGHBOKHoOD NOTES.
a Few Happenings Clipped or CONDENSED
from Nearby Exchanges.

from Nearby EXchanSes.
The Shippensburg News does not be
lieve that the contractors of the South
Pennsylvania railroad have had orders
to excavate the tunnels for sing track.
The council Of Chambersburg has made
an arrangement with their gas company
to burn their street lamps all night
twenty one nights in month. The gas
company takes all care ofthe lamps, lights
them and puts them out again.
a little daughter Of James Bumbaugh,
who resides at Mount Holly Springs, while
playing about the stove on Monday even
ing, accidentally upset a pot of boiling
water and was badly scalded from her
shoulders to her feet. Her injuries are
very painful.
Mr.. George Murray, who died recently
in Carlisle, was many years ago an OIL
Ger in Carlisle Infantry and one OF the
few survivors of the celebrated ''Buck
Shot War"
Financial affairs at the FIRST National
Bank of Shippensburg will open auspici-
ously with the New Year. it having de-
clared a semi-annual dividend OF four
per cent.
The employees of the Taylor Manufac-
turing company at Chambersburg pre-
sented Superintendent Taylor with an
elegant silver service as a mark of their
regard.
On Tuesday, Messrs. Craig, Nelson q
Co., of Chambersburg, gave each of
their forty employees a substantial
Christmas gift in the shape of load OF
wood
Hon. w. F. Sadler, who had been
cor;r,,g Ill of hic rpSi1pupn in Car.
| Isle for several weeks, is convalesing
ana uIumare rv66vefy. I0',a ear -an--e early
1t is reported that Rev. w. Blanding
will tender his resignation as pastor Of
| the Newport Lutheran church, on Sun
day morning, and will preach his fare
well sermon on Sunday, JAM 4, he has
concluded to accept the call of the Lock
| Haven Lutheran church.
Upper Dauphin.
| LykenS Register.
The recent action of Lykens township
school board in equalizing schools Nos. 4
and has created a good deal of dissatis-
faction on the part of citizens residing in
that portion Of the district affected by
the change.
Rt. Rev. Nelson S. Rulison, D. D., as
sistant bishop of Central Pennsylvania
Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
| Church, made an official visitation to this
parish on Sunday last. In the morning
he officiated at Williamstown, and at the
close of the service the rite Of confrma-
ton was administered to class Of nine.
S 3. Romberger, administrator of the
estate of Adam Messersmith, deceased,
of Elizabethville, on Saturday last dis
posed of the real estate of said deceased,
as follows: The mansion house and lot
of Mrs. Messersmith, for $500; an acre
and forty-fye perches of land in Eliza
bethville TO William Messersmth, for
| $3.50; building lotin Elizabethville to Adam
| Fauver, for $55 !; twelve acres of noun
tain land in Jackson township, to Jacob
Row of Matterstown, for 500.
The new church of the Evangelical
Association at Wiconisco was dedicated
on Sunday last. Bishop Dubs, of Cleve'
land, Ohio, Rev. A. NJ. Stirk, presiding
elder, and Rev. A. NJ. Sampsel, of Viii,
Jamestown, assisted the pastor, Rev. J. S.
Oberholtzer. Bishop Dubs preached
morning and evening, A Sunday school
service was also held ia the afternoon.
Nine hundred dollars WIs the amount of
money necessary to nc the present re-
quirements, and the subscriptions and
collections slightly exceeded this sum.
Lykens Valley Coal Trade.
Amount of coal transported over the
Summit Branch railroad for the week end
ing Saturday, Dec. 30, compared with
corresponding period last year: