Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - July 2, 1904 ALMOST DROWNED AS A JOKE Sixteen year old Harry SHANKS while bathing in the Schuylkill above the West Conshohocken dam, seized fourteen year old William HASBEN and cried "sink or swim" as he rushed the younger boys who could not swim, into water that was beyond his depth. In vain the boy struggled to recover himself and would have drowned had not a companion sprung in and brought the unfortunate boy to the shore. APPOINTED MEMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY Miss Irma WIEAND, a daughter of Rev. C.S. WIEAND, the founder of Perkiomen Seminary, has been elected a member of the Pottstown High School Faculty. STILL TWO REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS There are two widows of Revolutionary soldiers living. One of these is Rebecca MAYO, now over 90 years old, who resides at New Berne, Va. Stephen MAYO, her husband, had four terms of service in the Revolution, and fought at the battle s of Brandywine and Germantown. She married him in 1834, when he was 77 years of age. The other surviving widow is Esther S. DUNCAN, of Plymouth Union, Vt. The Committee on Pensions of the United States House of Representatives has reported in favor of granting an increase of pension to Mrs. MAYO from $12 to $25 a month. DONATE VALLEY FORGE LAND Mr. and Mrs. I. Heston TODD and Charles M. TODD and family, of Valley Forge, have given a valuable piece of ground to the Washington Memorial Chapel, at Valley Forge, to provide for the extension of the buildings. Upon Mr. TODD's lands are located the only traces remaining of the huts which once gave shelter to the soldiers at Valley Forge. While the plow has long ago removed the marks of the location of all the other troops, the site of the huts of the Rhode Island soldiers has been sacredly kept for 126 years as virgin soil, preserved to the American people by the owners of the land. SAW MILL DESTROYED BY FIRE The people of Finland were aroused from their slumbers on midnight on Monday to discover the saw mill of Milton GERHARD in flames. By the time the fire was discovered it had made so much headway that it could not be gotten under control and the entire mill was destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mystery. The mill had been in operation till sundown after which no one was seen on the premises. The loss is upwards of $1000 on which there is an insurance of only $400. SOONER BE ELECTOR THAN BANKER Joseph BOSLER, of Jenkintown, when selected to represent the Eighth District in the Electoral College of the state said: "I would rather be an elector than a bank director." Mr. BOSLER has been prominent in representing delegates in this county for 25 years, having attended every National Convention during that time, except the one last week, either as delegate or alternate. FARMER BLINDED BY BURSTING GUN While shooting at a large carp in Maiden Creek the gun of Epharim DRIES, a farmer, of Molltown, Berks Conty, exploded in his face and lacerated it terribly. He will lose sight of both eyes.