Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - August 20, 1904 A WARNING TO FARMERS "More farmers are ruined today by going on the notes of friends who importune them for favors at public sales than by the failure of crops or the extravagance of their families," declared I.J. PHILLIPS, of Atglen, at the annual picnic of the farmers of North Coventry township, Chester county. Mr. PHILLIPS urged the farmers to cultivate closer relationship with the banks nearest them, and to purchase school board and municipal bonds for use as collateral, rather that giving notes. Fully 2000 persons attended the picnic. THRASHER KILLED William LICHTENWALNER, a farmer aged 42, living near Ziegle's Church, died in the Allentown Hospital on Monday from an accident which occurred while following his work. In backing his engine down the slope behind a barn, one of the wheels struck a stone, this swerved the front truck and Mr. LICHTENWALNER was struck in the stomach by the tongue. The blow caused a rupture of the intestines. The wound was of such a nature that it proved to be beyond the skill of the physicians. CHOIR HAS OUTING The choir of St. Mark's Lutheran church had its annual outing on Wednesday evening. The trip was made to Boyertown in one of the four horse coaches of liveryman MILLER, of East Greenville. A stop was made at Kepler's Hotel. The entire party had a good time. FELL DEAD AT STATION While waiting for a train at the Reading Railway station at Pottstown, on Wednesday, William B. MAUGER, aged 81, dropped dead of heart disease. For almost forty years decease was a railroader and was on the pension list for the past few years. CHILD INJURED IN PLAY Harvey, a five year old son of Henry BAUMAN, while playing in the yard fell against a corner of the house, and nearly tore off an ear. Dr. I.B. YEAKEL was called who inserted four stitches. The child is getting along nicely. PASTORS VACATION Rev. C.S. WIEAND, pastor of Zion's Reformed church, Pottstown, has been granted a month's vacation by the church consistory, to go into effect on Monday. Rev. Mr. WIEAND took no time off on his vacation at all last summer so that he will enjoy his full leave of absence this year by entering on a new field of travel and taking a trip to the Pacific Coast. While he will devote much time to sight-seeing he expects also that his health will be much improved by the journey. He will stop off on his long tour at Chicago, St. Paul, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. He expects to stop for a number of days at the Yellowstone National Park and on his return at St. Louis to take in the Exposition. At Denver he will visit his nephew and at Chicago he will stay with his cousin. During Rev. Mr. WIEAND's absence the church will be closed during the next two Sundays. The Christian Endeavor Society, however, and the Sunday school will continue to meet at the usual hours. Rev. WIEAND is well and favorably known in this vicinity. He was formerly principal of the Perkiomen Seminary and has many friends here. HAS VALUABLE INVENTIONS David S. HIESTAND, operator and electrician, living two miles south of Macungie, is the posessor of two valuable electrical inventions. Mr. HIESTAND received a tempting offer of $6,000 for one of these inventions and recently another firm offered him $10,000 in gold. The gifted young man is not anxious to dispose of his marvels of mechanism on such easy terms. - Kutztown Patriot. EAGLE STEALS GRAPES The people along Neversink mountain, near Reading, have been annoyed by damages done to their vineyards and suspected a hawk as the culprit. On Tuesday Walter FREES, who was on the watch, shot a large bald eagle which was in the act of pouncing upon one of the largest vines. The bird fought furiously when wounded. MAN OF 70 TRIES SUICIDE Despondent because he could not work anymore, Godshalk DELP, aged 70 years, of Lower Salford township took a razor and slashed himself across the abdomen with suicidal intentions. He was halted in his efforts and a physician was called who replaced the protruding vitals and drew the gaping wounds together with more than fifty stitches. TOLL GATE KEEPER ARRESTED Toll gate keeper FRANKE, of Perkiomenville, was arrested last Friday on a charge of impersonating an officer and detaining several young men who had driven through the gate without paying toll. At a hearing all the facts were proven against him and the case was settled. ENORMOUS PICKLE CROP Two thousand and five hundred cucumbers were picked from 111 vines by Mrs. John ENGLE, of South Mountain, and the vines are still blooming and bearing. J.N. OLWEILER, of Elizabethtown, picked 1600 from a garden patch, 12x15 feet. The yield of an acre at this rate would be 387,000. SUFFERED STROKE WHILE PLOWING Menno KLOTZ of the Upper end of Lehigh county, was stricken with apoplexy while plowing in one of his fields on his farm. The stricken man plowed at random all over the field after the attack, and exhausted the horses which were found lying in the furrows in the swamp. AN ANCIENT PIANO Albert STORB, a retired Pottstown business man, is the proud owner of a piano on which he took lessons when a boy. The instrument is 125 years old.