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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
AARONSBURG.

The mercury has gone up during the
last year. Not quite so cold.
Mrs. Jas. p. Coburn has been quite
sick during the last two weeks. She
is no better at this writing.
Last week while party were hunt
ing in Pine Creek Hollow, Robert
Smith shot bear that dressed 375 pds.
Robert Is dead shot.
A move has been made to have fan
tastic street parade on New Y ears day.
A meeting was held in reference there
to, the result of which has not been
announced.
a military club has been organized,
under the direction of Capt. jack Syl'
Wis. Now look out, ye neighboring
towns, or we will declare war against
you
The German Reformed 5. School will
hold their festival on Christmas eve.
while the Lutheran Sunday School will
hold one on New Years eve.
We had occasion to walk up North
2nd St. the other evening. While
walking along our attention was ar
rested by a distant rumbling noise.
We asked passer-by what it was. A
Skating Rink, q skating rink. Where ?
Down in Frank Weiser's house, up
stairs. Well, well, so Aaronsburg has
a skating rink. Rather near the church,
Frank. ANOTHER.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Letter from Kansas.

Pleasant Valley, Lincoln Co., Kan.
sas, Dec 18th, 1885.
DEAR EDITOR -
AS | seldom see anything in your Jour
nal from this part of Kansas thought
few items from Pleasant Valley
might interest the many readers Of
your worthy paper. The Journal is a
we e3kly visitor at our home, and wei.
come one, because ii always gives US
the news from our old home in Penns
Valley, which we are very desirous to
know. Well, the past year has been n
prosperous one for Kansas, especially
for Lincoln county. Crops of all de.
scriptions we're very good. but especially
the corn crop, which is simply i'm.
mense. / often raised good corn when
| farmed in Penns Valley, but such
corn as we raised here for the last two
years | never did. | wish your Penns
Valley farmers could see the stacks of
corn that are cribbed up and the piles
that lay around the buildings on the
ground covered with snow, and the
millions of bushels that are in the field
nnhusked and covered with snow. Yes,
Mr.. Editor, vouch to say that IL they
would stand on IA certain point on the
prairie where they could have good
view over the valley they would un-
d0ubtedly exclaim, THE half has never
been told" We have had a very nice
fall, the best kind of weather for the
farmer until Dec. 4th when 1t turned
cold very sudden, and on the 9Th
snow fell Of about inches, and on the
11th another one on top and at present
writing it is showing in good earnest.
Verify, winter IS at our doors. Pretty
cold for Kansas. Lincoln county has
improved wonderful in the past year,
hundreds of new buildings have been
erected on the farms. Lincoln Centre,
the county seat had a big boom with q
population of about 1000 of flrst-class
citizens. There were erected in the
past year in the city over 200 buildings,
among them new Methodist church.
There are other churches in the city,
namely, the Presbyterian, the Baptist,
and the Catholic. Lincoln has a court
house, and college, large two-story
school house, 3 general dry goods stores,
4 grocery stores, 2 drug stores,2 hotels,
3 lunch rooms, 2 irst-class hardware
stores, blacksmith shops, lumber
yards first class livery & feed stables.
st-class banks which are doing a
large business; besides about dozen of
lawyers and as many doctors. Land is
in great demand and newcomers arrive
daily. Land is rapidly increasing in
value. Money is plenty and business
hrisk, and we cannot complain of hard
times here. l will give you sketch of
my crops which raised this year. l
raised 100 bushels of wheat, 800 bush.
els of rye, 600 bushels of oats, 100 bush.
els of barley, 20i bushels of potatoes
and 1000 bushels of coin sheled, from
10 acres of ground. and about 1000
bushels under the snow yet. Well,
must close my letter or / weary you.
This leaves us all we'll and in good
cheer. Yours very truly,
2. B. SLOWER.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
COBURN.

Squire Gettig has put down an excel
lent boardwalk from the bridge 10 his
grain house.
The new bell now hangs in the dome
of the church. Ii is IA beauty, and has
IA very fine tone.
Quite a sensation in the "burg" this
week.
Nj. Trumpfheller was in town again
this week.
A merry Christmas and Happy New
Year to you all.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Letter from Missouri

Versailles. Morgan Co, Mo-, Dec. | 4,
1885. To THE EDITOR OF THE JOUR-
NAL:
DEAR SIR-Enclosed please (inG
postal order for uue dollar, for the re-
newal of my subscription for another
year. am well pleased with The Jour
nal. 1t is newsy and neat in it's get
up aud is welcome messenger to my
family. 1t brings the news of our old
home and friends. Mr.. Editor, | was
laughing at you Centre county folks
two weeks ago, that you we're then for
some time shivering with cold and that
winter had set in in earnest so early.
To. day the laugh is on your side, for a
cold waye has at last captured us also
some few days ago. aud this morning
the thermometer registered 6 below
zero. After having such pleasant fall
weather up to within few days, it not
only makes us shiver, but it makes us
hop and dance at the same time to
keep the blood from congealing. But
with plenty of good wood and sausages
We get along fine. We have now eight
inches of snow and it is just commenc-
ing to snow while | am writing these
few lines. This kind Of weather SD
early is very unusual in this county. If
you will allow mel will give very short
history Of the recourses and advantages
of Morgan county. In The first place it's
soil is very good for all kinds of cerials,
apd as a county for feeding and raising
all kinds OF cattle, Morgan Co. stands
i'm the front ranks. Then our mineral
resources. coal, lead, copper, iron, and
beds of caolene for the manufacture of
all kinds of waie, arc unsurpassed i'm
any state. We have one railroad com
ing from the north to our county seat,
veyed from east TO west by way of Yer.
sailles through our county, called the
st Louis and Enporia Kansas road. 1t
will be built without amy doubt, and
will make ore Of the best roads in the
state for tOhage, giving Versailles and
Morgan county first class boom. Now
is the time while la:d is cheap yet, if
any of your many readers or fellow
citizens wish Or desire TO come West
Money invested row within the next
month in Morgan county, Mo, | am
SdIlSutu, Will UpnIIC ltSGlI llS(uO DI
ten years. Coed land improved and
unimproyed, prairie and timber can be
bought from $3.50 10 $4,000 per acre,
according to location. Our climate il
pleasant and healthy, water good and
plenty, to he had At Il nall cost. Yer
sailles, the county seat is lively, busy,
and furnishing town with twelve hun
dred Inhabitants and growing fast.
came here to Versailles 20 years ago.
and never regretted it to this day.
am republican AID always have been.
and every body knows it here because
have been active, yet never had any
| difficulty on account Of my politics.
My Observations dGrimg 1884, while
+ visiting all summer III Centre county
| led me to believe that we have batt e;
order on public occasions than you have
| in the East. There is no trouble here
to get alnpg well. The people a:e So
ci .hlp. j ,lly. and klid hearted. Who.
! speyer Alil, let him come and see fol
himself am very truly yours,
GEO. Ii. STovER,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Neighboring News.
SMITH TOWN.

A Merry Christmas to all.
The snow is nearly all gone.
Henry Keen sold four of his horses
for $3.50.
Peter Zeigler and family, of Penn
Hall, were visiting IN our midst on
Monday.
Judging from the piles of wood J. H.
Frank sawed with his circular saw, it
may be said that he is ready for winter.
JUMBO,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Suitable Present

The Lutheran choir have procured
the valuable services of DR.. J. F. Har-
ter, to accompany them on the cornet
in their anthems to be sung at this
evenings entertainment.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Your old mother,

If the man who runs up to the
printer with the "tTiumphant" news
that be has just found mistake in his
last paper is as ready in detecting his
own mistakes he is indeed to be compli-
mented.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24

Merry Christmas
Happy New Year
Last issue for 1885.
SUBSCRIBE for the JOURNAL.
Glass and Queensware at Kauff.
mans.
Tomato Red'' is the latest fash
ionable shade.
Monday and Tues day the weather
was very mild.
The boys were enjoying moon light
coasts last week.
The papers are still telling some
heavy hog yarns.
Hope the New Year will bring
with it better times.
DO not fail to read our Christmas
stories on the outside.
--E. 81. Long took business trip to
Centre Hall on Tuesday.
A whole Army of Lancaster Alma i.
macs at the Journal store.
Lutheran Almanacs, singly and by
the dozen, at the Journal store.
Time Books, both for workmen
and bosses, at the Journal store.
David Scholl's house on North
street is being weatherboarded.
Santa Claus must be about the
busiest man in the world this week.
Notice the changed advertisement
of Deschner's Gun store, Bellefonte.
Two Splendid Show Cases for sale,
cheap. Inquire at the Journal Store.
Read the two interesting letters
from Kansas and Missouri in this is
sue.
There is some talk of Fantastic
parade to take place in town On New
Years day.
Turkeys and chickens shudder at
the idea of big Christmas and New
Year dinners.
1T Is said that fashionable beauties
produce red cheeks by rubbing the face
with Jumps of ice.
The little folks who visit the hol-
iday market are afflicted with "water.
ing of the mouth.'
The neighboring mountains were
made lively this week by parties III
search of Christmas trees.
To furnish sealskin sacques for the
ladies of fashion, 81, l4O seals have
been killed the present season.
Some Of the so called portraits ol
prominent public men printed in the
daily pagers are regular caIicatures.
HIGHEST CASH PRICES paid fol
all kinds of Hides by S. e. Gettig, Co
h ,rn.s Pa. AZ Pm.
Rev. Evans, a former U. b. min
lister of this place, was seen in town on
Monday. Mr.Esans is greatly changed
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
to blty o.

Geo. Mensh, of Millheim, wishes to
give notice that he will have Fresh
Oysters for sale over the holidays.
Persons desiring frst-class oysters will
please apply to him.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
for your

We are informed that DR.. G.. Sum-
ner Musser expects to return from Eu'
rope some time next month. His par
ents as well as his many friecds will
gladly welcome him home.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Your Dear Husband,

Geo. Harter, who occasionally
drives the stage between this point and
Lock Haven, informs us that the river
at that place was unusually high last
Saturday and Sunday, rising to 25 feet.
He could not tell how much above wat
pr mark
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
NO 60 Perm Street

Daniel Hoy, of this place, shipped
about so chickens and turkeys to the
city last week. They must expect to
do some fat living down East over the
HOLIDAYS.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
.A6eCL Father,

There is one thing certain, how
ever, call it malaria or what you may,
and it generally comes without calling,
where i'll health docs exist Siln mons
Liver Regulator will restore it.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
The Journal Store

H. A. Mingle, executor OF the es-
tate of Elizabeth German, late OF
flames township, decd. advertises the
sale of her real estate, to take place at
Aaronsburg, Dec 30th, 'S5, at l O'Clock.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
LOCAL NEWS.
sale REGISTER.

AS-Sdles advertised through this office riu be
inserted under this heading free Of charge.
Dec SOth-A. II. Mingle, Executor of the es.
tate of Elizabeth German, deed,
late of Haines township, real es-
tate.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Your Cousin,

-HandbilIs have been posted up an
nouncing the festival uf the Ladies'
Aid Society of the Ev church, to be
held in the old church at Millheim, on
Friday and Saturday. Dec. 25 and 26.
Oysters, Ice Cream. Cakes, &c, will
constitute the fare.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
A Trial by a Jury.
READ
Their Verdict !!

First Juror-I find 1t the best place to purchase
Christmas presents for my wife and
family.
Second Jiror-I find the assortment OF gifts
suitable for my husband and chill
dren. large and elegant.
Third Jaror-I find there Is no place like 1t to
get a present for my girl-you know.
Fourth Juror-I find others can't compete with
this store at ALL The goods are too
nice and the prices too low.
FIFTH Juror-I find I am always perfectly salts
fed with anything get there.
Sirth Juror-I find have been losing money
by not dealing there.
Seventh Juror-I find their holiday stock full Of
pretty things, irresistible goods'for
ladies.
Eighth Jaror-I find my grandchildren poster
me to death to buy them Christmas
presents at this store.
Ninth juror find no one else has so many
pretty things for little girls.
Tenth. h.Juror-1 find 1t the best place to get nice
presents for the boys.
Eleventh Juror-I find the babies all .crying for
some OF the many nice things to fill
little folks stockings.
ToelfA Jitror-I find I am happy sinceT bought
my Chris mas goods there and all
other customers feel the same way.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Your "LOUer"

Pike county is running full *
bears. The old residents do not Ie-
member year wheh bears were as
thick in Pike ard adjoining counties.
One day last week twelve good sized
bruins were killed and ten are Yet
known to be at large.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Your Turtle DOUe,

AS customary the JOURNAL crew
will take weeks rest over the holi-
days and no papel will be issued from
this Office next week. Customers and
subscribers wishing to settle accounts
will find ''ye editor'' at his post and
very willing to take all he can get.
Your Friend.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24

Space does permit Hodaq
Goods We merely nuie presence the
that place as the depot Of Holiday traffic pleasure
and
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to caLL Ut

USE Prof. Wright's Indian Vege-
table Waters for Liver, Kidney. Stom-
ach and Worms. Sold by all dealers.
Price 25cts, scots, and $1.0O per box.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24


TRTTMS Morocco sizes and an
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TlTT TT ROW ITS In tle
4O1AL1 DOATlC with Smells 'N-
FANCY TOWELS AHs A.:
GENTS MUFFLERS & sS sts s SGe:'t In S The sR s s @ sq
TREE ORNAMENTS @ @Rsatt s pS.sI SKELETONS apS cheap Call in time
SILK H1s e nfSs ass stock toDe found
PROMENADE SATCHELS As osna nRsa saSss sss " can be
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Your D0rLinS Wife,

DIR. F. F. Wetzel, on North street,
met with painful accident last Mou-
day morning, while unloading heavy
scaldlng trough. The trough slipped
from bis hands and fell on one of his
legs, so badly bruising it, that he is
unable to walk.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
Your AfectiOnate Children

The untidy, dirty appearance of a
grizzly beard should never be allowed.
Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers
will readily change their color to a
brown or black, at discretion, and thus
keep up your reputation for neatness
and good looks,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24

The Journal store Is a regular ba
Ear for holiday goods. If you don't be
lieve it come and see.
You lUiW Come
Mr.. Sam. Diehl, of Aaronsburg'
returned from his Colorado trip on
Tuesday, hale aud hearty.
TO MitLheim
FIVE AND Six CENTS CASH paid
for Heavy Hides at A. J. llarter's cur
rier shop, Penn street. Bring them in.
Some time
Don't suffer with Indigestion, use
Baxtpr's Mandrake Bitters.
For sale by j. Spigelmyer, and ID. 5.
Kaufman u Co.
During the
The Christmas entertainment of
the Lutheran Sunday school Tonight.
It will be an exceptionally pleasant af-
fair.
Holiday Season.
BE good unto your enemies; buy
your mother-in-law an 'Odcrless' ket-
tie, and save her many burn ana
scald.
Of course You lOiD:
Some of the brick for Musser u
Smiths new hardware building on
Main street are being hauled to the
ground.
And Don't you Forget
DO not forget that good Will to-
ward men" means to make all about
you happy by your tempered speech and
charitable and friendly deeds.
to caU 0t
USE Prof. Wright's Indian Vege-
table Waters for Liver, Kidney. Stom-
ach and Worms. Sold by all dealers.
Price 25cts, scots, and $1.0O per box.
The Journal Store
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
OF course You UiU:

Some of the brick for MusSer u
Smiths new hardware building on
Main street are being hauled to the
ground.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24

BE good unto your enemies; buy
your mother-in-law an 'Odcrless' ket-
tie, and save her many a burn and
Scald,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24
.And Don't you FORGET

DO not forget that good Will to-
ward menn means to make all about
you happy by your tempered speech and
charitable and friendly deeds.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-12-24

year Tie people are learning LDdC IL is
better to confer pleasure upon others
than to make gain life's object and
haye gold for ones god. 1t is wonder
full how little courtesies aud remem
brances brighten the hearts and homes
and many shadow that rests over al
most every life is chased away by the
effect Of loying gifts. ''It is more
blessed to give than to receive"
Married, al Solomon City, Dec. 9Th
1885, by Rev. NJ. III. Stolz, Mr.. Alfred
V. Wolf of Minneapolis, Ottawa Co.
Kansas. to Miss Linn Kern, of Chicago
Illinois. We understand that Mr.
Wolf is one of the employees of the
Minneapolis Messenger. We extend
fraternal greetings TO the young couple
on embarking in the marriage state and
trust their bark may glide peacefully
through this Lille until they attain an
haven beyond the river. Solomon
Sentinel,
The groom. Mr.. Alfred V. Wolf, is
the older brother of Mrs. B. o. Dein
niger, of this place, and has been in the
West for many years. The printers OF
the Sentinel in extending their congrat.
ulations refer to the young couple,
which expression may be correct as fan
as the hearts and minds of the newl,
welded are concerned but, as to year,
the Sentinel missed the mark consider
ably, Mr.. Wolf having in fact been re-
garded as a confirmed bachelor fol
some time by his relatives.
If you want to make someone q
present of a Silk Dress, or Il fine Suit
or al Overcoat, don't fail to give us /
trial, before purchasing elsewhere.
d. s. Kaufman q Co.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Farm Notes.

W. NJ. Singerly, the prosperous
owner and editor of the Philadelphia
Record, cultivates a COW which gives
eighty one pounds of milk day.
Jere AIlis of Isinours, Mimi, writes
the Breeders Gazetta that his herd Of
Holsteins came through the winter in
excellent form. Since last June, 1884,
Mr. Allis' COW Fatsnitza, (2,723), not
yet six years old, has given l,l04
pounds of milk She is now milking
forty pounds a day,
Mr.. Charles H. Erwin, Painted Post,
n. Y, is credited with the accidental
discovery of what his successful expert
ence leads him to regard as a Remedy
for Cabbage Worms-namely, sprink-
ling them during the heat of a sunny
day with water as near ice.cold as can be
procured. This caused the green pests
to "let go, curl up, roll to the ground
and die, while the plants looked all the
tresber for the application.
In setting out raspberry plants do not
bury too deeply; red varieties as a rule
are more particular in this respect than
the blackcaps. but care must be taken
with all kinds. Do not delay the oper
alton until growth begins as IN such
cases the plants that if not killed ont
right linger along very unsatisfactory,
and an entire season is lost in conse-
auence. Touch the novelties lightly,
and let the main crop consist of such
sterling kinds as Cuthbert for red,
Gregg for black, and perhaps Skaters
Colossal for purple.
Pythagoras forbade his disciples eat
ing beans, the ancient historian tells
us. Not so restrictive as TO regimen,
however, are some Of the gastronomic
reformers of modern times. Halls
Journal of Health advocates their more
general use, as being more wholesome,
nutritious and economical than any
other single article of food in the world,
and SAYS "a quart of beans, costing 10
cents, will furnish family of five per-
sons with food for day" Concerning
tastes there should be no disputing.
But we do hope our esteemed cotem-
porary will not say anything more about
that lust now. Those beans are al
ready being served on many tables,
three or four times week, and there
NAV be too much economy practiced in
this particular.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Flower Seeds Worth Their Weight
in Gold.

From an Interview with Pittsburg Florist
Just now the fashionable rage is for
loose flowers, roses, carnations, lilies
of the valley, hyacinths. These are
scattered promiscuously over the table
at swell dinner parties, and have a most
pleasing effect. The latest develop
ment in roses is the Bennett tea rose.
1t was reared by an English horticul-
turist, and is the popular flower in the
east now. This rose is of a deep Grim
son hue, something similar to the Jack"
rose. 1t Is certainly beautiful flower,
and they are snatched up eagerly in
New York at 81 per bud. A bouquet
of Bennett roses, You can well under
stand, represents quite an investment.
The Marshall Neil rose is still a prime
favorite; it sells for twenty-five cents.
The pearl, pretty yellow rose, brings
Is cents, and the Duke Of Connaught,
a fine dark red rose, commands thirty
five cents. Lilies are worth thirty cents,
camelias fifteen cents and carnations
FIVE cents. have received word that
two of the leading florists of New York
City have packages Of rare seeds locked
up in vaults of the Safe Deposit Com
pany here which are worth four times
their weight gold.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-06-04
Literary Centennial.

AS we are going through an epoch of
centennials it might be we'll to notice
the fact that it is just 100 years since
Amarican literature took its first start
after the revolution. The first book
published on this continent after the
peace with Great Britain was "Wstts's
Psalms, (" edited by Joel Barlow, which
was issued in Hartford in 1885. Barlow
was then thirty. He was native of
Connecticut, and had studied at Yale,
where in ITS he delivered poem, en-
titled the Prospect of Peace" His
poetic talents had already attracted
notice and this led the clergy tore
quest that he should prepare an edition
OF Watts for public worship. He also
edited weekly paper in Hartford called
the American Mercury, but afterward
added law to literature. He had how
ever. already contemplated what he con
sidered his great poem, "The Column
bad" This was not completed until
the lapse of twenty years, but its incep-
ton was given in the Vision oil
Columbus" which was published the
wear our government was formed.