Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - August 27, 1904 SUMNEYTOWN LADY TEACHES PHYSICAL CULTURE AT SEMINARY We are glad to present the picture of Anna S. CRESSMAN (picture), of Sumneytown, in this issue, who is to teach physical culture and other subjects at Perkiomen Seminary the coming year. Miss CRESSMAN is a graduate of the public schools of her native town, of the West Chester State Normal School, class of 1902, and of the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, class of 1904. While in the New Haven School of Gymnastics, Miss CRESSMAN took such studies as anatomy, physiology, physics, histology, German gymnastics, Swedish gymnastics, physiology of exercise, pedagogy, applied anatomy, anthoropemetry, physical diagnosis, first aid to injured, orthopaedics, delsarte and practical work in all sorts of physical exercises, games for women. Miss CRESSMAN also took work in massage and medical gymnastics, together with a course of lectures in the New Haven Dispensary on the curvature of the spine and its prevention and treatment by proper physical exercise and mechanical appliances. This full and complete course in all branches of physical culture for girls will make Miss CRESSMAN a valuable addition to the teaching force of Perkiomen Seminary, where she will have charge of all gymnastic exercises for girls. She will give each girl a thorough physical examination, prescribe special exercises for special needs and carefully direct the physical development of all the girls, just as the physical director of the Seminary will direct the gymnasium work of the young men. Miss CRESSMAN is the accomplished daughter of Jesse S. CRESSMAN, the successful and popular merchant of Sumneytown, where interest in matters educational has always been active and pronounced. Forrest CRESSMAN, an only brother of Miss CRESSMAN, is the celebrated musician and musical composer, who is now studying music in Vienna. FIFTEEN YEARS IN BED Mrs. Anna BRAY, of Pen Argyl, who 15 years ago, determined, for some reason of her own, to spend the remainder of her days in bed, arose Friday for the first time, having tired of her resolution. She had her meals brought to her regularly, and not once did she require the aid of a physician. During her stay in the house the town has made remarkable progress and she was unable to recognize the place she knew as a village of a few hundred inhabitants in the busy town of the present day. In the afternoon she rode in a trolley car for the first time. She says there is too much "hustle and bustle" in the town, and she may again return to bed. PENNSBURG VETERINARIAN GOES TO RED HILL Dr. A.L. BAUM, the veterinary surgeon who recently opened an office at the Pennsburg Hotel, on Thursday changed his headquarters to the Red Hill Hotel, where he will continue to practice his profession. SHOT HIS SON BY ACCIDENT John TREANEY, a resident of McKinley, a village near Ogontz, accidentally shot and perhaps fatally injured his six year old son on Saturday afternoon while handling a revolver which he believed was not loaded. EDITOR DRAWN AS UNITED STATES JUROR Eugene DAMBLY, of Skippack, editor of, the Skippack Transcript, has been drawn on the United States District Court Grand Jury which will begin its labors in Philadelphia on September 19 next. WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS The Reading Board of Health on Monday took up the crusade of Dr. Lawrence FLICK, of Phipps Institute, Philadelphia, and President of the New Haven Sanitarium, against tuberculosis by adopting a rule that hereafter consumption is to be treated as a contagious disease. All cases are to be reported to the Board of Health by Reading physicians and a record kept. Whenever a house occupied by any person suffering from tuberculosis is vacated, either by removal or death, it shall be fumigated and thoroughly cleansed before again being occupied. Reading is one of the first cities in the country to take this advanced position. GROWING COTTON IN BUCKS COUNTY J.M. BENDER, of Point Pleasant, Bucks county, has a row of cotton plants in his garden, quite a novelty in that section. The seed was planted about the first of June and the plants are from three to three and a half feet high.