Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - September 17, 1904 FROM OUR CORPS OF ABLE CORRESPONDENTS CHAPEL Mr. and Mrs. William DENNIS and Mr. and Mrs. John ROBERTS and daughter were the guests of Samuel SCHULTZ on Sunday. Benjamin GRESSLY is spending the week in Reading to serve his appointment as juryman for the September court. Mabel SCHULTZ, of Allentown, who spent a week at the home of her father, Samuel SCHULTZ near Chapel, returned to Allentown. Church services will be held at Chapel tomorrow evening by the Rev. SCHUMAN. Webster, the son of Horatio SCHULTZ, near Hereford, who is employed in Philadelphia, has come home to spend a week's vacation. RED HILL John F. SEASHOLTZ will have sale with Southern Ohio cows at the Red Hill Hotel on Monday, Sept. 26. Geo. WELKER and wife were in Allentown on business on Monday. John F. SEASHOLTZ will have private sale with a carload of Crawford county cows and bulls this afternoon and Monday at the Red Hill hotel. Melvin WELKER returned to F. & M. College on Tuesday. Chas. MOTZ received two carloads of lime. Ralph OFFNER is confined to the house with sickness. KUMRY Amanda, wife of Tighlman FLUCK died on Saturday afternoon. She is survived by a husband and four children and one sister and two grandchildren. She was buried on Wednesday at the St. John's church. Rev. W.U. KISTLER officiated. Frederick HOTTENSEN who was away for some time is home again. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. PROFFE were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Howard DISE on Sunday. Mrs. Henry WEAND and daughter, Katie, spent the week in Lansdale, as guests of Mr. and Mrs. O.S. KRAUSE. KRAUSSDALE Mr. and Mrs. Joseph KRAUSS moved into the tenant house of Mrs. Harrison KRAUSS on Tuesday. Mrs. Aaron CARL, who had been seriously ill, is rapidly recovering. I.Y. KRAUSS has given his barn a new coat of paint this week. CONGO Eugene DREHS filled his silo. John LATSHAW done the work. Our school opened on Monday with 22 scholars enrolled. Miss Addie HOFFMAN is teacher. Those noticed in town over Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. FLEESON, of Philadelphia, Addie RIEGNER and children, of Sassamansville and Mrs. and Mrs. Henry ZERN, of Pleasant Run. Rufus RENNINGER, of Philadelphia, is spending his vacation with his parents Mr. and Mrs. H.H. RENNINGER. STEINSBURG Mr. and Mrs. O.H. ERDMAN left last week for St. Louis to visit his brother-in-law, Charles KEMMERER and family. They expect to take in the exposition and Mr. ERDMAN intends to go from there to the Yellow Stone Park. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis OTT spent Sunday in Allentown. Elmer KRAMMES and Henry GEHO attended the Republican County Convention at Doylestown last Monday. Rev. and Mrs. Samuel JOHNSON, of Marietta, Lancaster county, are here spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Frank KEMMERER. HEREFORD Ellsworth MINNER, spent Saturday and Sunday visiting friends in Allentown. Mrs. D.H. STRUNK spent a few days in Emaus this week. Webster SCHULTZ, of Philadelphia, is under the parental roof. Mr. and Mrs. H. Winslow FEGLEY spent Sunday with J. GERY, of Palm. Our school opened on Monday with an enrollment of 25. Miss Daisy GERY is the teacher. TYLERSPORT Elmer SHELLY moved into H.R. HARTZELL's house on Tuesday. A social and dance was held in KOBER's hall on Saturday evening. Frank CROMAN, of Philadelphia, moved into part of Charles FITZGERALD's house last week. Hiram BRANDT is the first farmer of this vicinity to husk corn for this season. FRUITVILLE Henry DIEHL is building a wagon shed. Abraham SCHULTZ offers his farm for rent. Emma the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. M. KEINERT who was very sick is slowly recovering. Dr. GERY attends the child. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin KASE on Monday. HILL CHURCH The little frame house situated in Washington Township above DOTTERER's mill will be sold at public sale on Oct. 1, as the estate of Rebecca HERB. PLOVER Chickens were stolen from William YEAKEL's place Thursday night about 12 o'clock, he heard them but they got off before he came out. He measured the horse tracks and is sure of the party. If the party will not make satisfaction he will bring suit. MILFORD SQUARE Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. STAUFFER, of Palm, visited the families of Samuel SHELLY and L. MUSSELMAN last Sunday. ZIONSVILLE Charles F. CHRISTMAN erected a new silo, which he is filling at present. David BERKY lost his valuable horse by death on last Tuesday. Henry GEISSINGER and family attended the anniversary of the Mennonite home for the aged at Frederick on last Saturday. A daughter was born on Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs. David BERKY. GRASPED FALLING BOY AND INJURED HIM John, the two year old son, of Robert HULME, assessor of Upland borough, was the victim of a peculiar and serious accident on Tuesday afternoon. The boy was sitting in a chair, watching his mother pare potatoes, when he suddenly fell. His mother endeavored to catch him, but her knife struck him on the hand and inflicted a deep cut. He was taken to a hospital where it was discovered that the ligaments are severed, and that it may be necessary to amputate the injured hand. WOUND FROM HENPECK KILLS AGED WOMAN Aged Mrs. Sarah H. PATTON, wife of John PATTON, a farmer, of Washington, Pa., on Wednesday died in terrible agony from lockjaw. A vicious hen pecked her on the hand a week ago, making a slight abrasion of the skin and tetanus developed. RAISED A PHENOMENAL POTATO F.J. HAHN, the proprietor of the Cherryville Road House, near Allentown while digging potatoes on Tuesday found one 10 1/2 inches in length and 11 3/4 inches around. It weighed 2 pounds and 5 ounces. This is a whopper and the genial proprietor thinks it hard to beat. KILLED TWO WOOD CHUCKS NEAR SIESHOLTZVILLE S.M. KECK, of Allentown, while out hunting woodchucks shot two extra large ones on the farm of Sylvester SHULER, near Siesholtzville, Berks county. The hogs weighed 14 and 16 pounds. WANTS NEW PARSONS TO PREACH IN GERMAN The German Philadelphia Conference of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, at its fall session at Norristown on Tuesday was asked by Dr. HAAS, president of Muhlenberg College, to help the college financially and aid him in the reorganization of the curriculum. Special stress was laid on the study of German, and it was the impression of the conference it would be given preference over Latin and Greek that the young ministers may be able to preach in German as well as English. During the missionary reports Rev. Hans MEYER, of Philadelphia, of the Seaman's Mission, asserted that most of the immigration is undesirable and derogatory, although the German influx is of higher character and more desirable. BEATEN AND ROBBED BY TRAMPS David MOSES, a South Bethlehem Italian, reported at Emaus on Wednesday that he was robbed on a freight train, between Macungie and Emaus, of his money, satchel and coat by two white men and a colored man, and afterwards pushed off the train. When the train left Macungie the three men, who were entire strangers, pounced upon him with clubs and knives and gave him a severe beating as well as cutting two gashes in the face, one about the eye and one on the cheek. After they had robbed him of his money and goods they threw him off the moving train. SOLD CARLOAD OF NEBRASKA HORSES A carload of Nebraska yearling and two-year-old colts brought East by Abram SHELLY, a former Bucks countian, was sold at public sale on Monday at the home of Mr. SHELLY's father, Christian SHELLY, near Milford Square. The animals were well bred and brought good prices, the figures ranging from $28 to $148.