Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - November 26, 1904 WOMAN'S CLOTHING AFIRE IN A BUTCHER HOUSE Mrs. Henry R. MUMBAUER, of East Greenville, was on Monday forenoon saved from a horrible death by the prompt action of butcher Emanuel WEISS and his assistant John GEHMAN. The East Greenville butchers slaughtered a porker for Mr. MUMBAUER that morning and Mrs. MUMBAUER was at the butcher house and assisted in the making of the scrapple. When she was standing in front of the butchers furnace stirring the contents her dress caught fire and in an instant she was enveloped in flames. Mr. WEISS and GEHMAN were in the same portion of the building at the time and they quickly came to her assistance. They tore some of the burning clothing from her person and at the same time one of the men turned a stream of water on her from the hose, which quickly extinguished the burning clothing. Luckily, Mrs. MUMBAUER was only slightly burned and the men had their hands only slightly burned. HURT IN RUNAWAY Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. WALT, of Wyncote, were badly injured in a runaway accident Sunday afternoon. The horse became frightened at an automobile at Greenwood avenue and Church road, Wyncote, upset the carriage and dragged both the occupants for quite a distance. Mr. and Mrs. WALT were badly lacerated and bruised about their heads and bodies. No bones were broken. The horse was horribly injured and may have to be killed. Mr. WALT is president of the Jenkintown Trust Company. He was raised at Salfordville and is well known throughout the Perkiomen Valley. He is a brother to Frank K. WALT, of Reading, formerly of Pennsburg. Warrants were issued on Wednesday by a local Magistrate for two well-known New Yorkers, Richard CROKER, Jr., son of the great ex-Tammany chief, and Joseph BUNTING, upon complaint of Henry K. WALT, who alleges that while the Gothsmites were speeding through Wyncote last Sunday afternoon at a steam-engine rate in a "Red Devil," the horse he was driving took freight, upset the carriage and WALT and his wife were badly bruised and lacerated. BIRTHS November 22 - Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry KRIEBEL, of Hereford, a daughter. November 19 - Born to Mr. and Mrs. George STEINMAN, of Chapel, a son. November 21 - To Mr. and Mrs. Victor ROEDER, of Pennsburg, a still born son. November 21 - Born to Mr. and Mrs. Erwin GERY, of Pennsburg, a son. November 21 - Born to Mr. and Mrs. Oswin KLINE, of East Greenville, a son. November 21 - Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry LEISTER, of Argus, a daughter. November 23 - Born to Mr. and Mrs. Augustus ECK, of near Geryville, a daughter. WILL ERECT BRICK YARD AT SHIMERSVILLE Charles SCHUBERT, of Shimersville, owner of the KERN farm at that place, has leased the farm to a party who expects to erect a brickyard on the place. There is an abundant deposit of fine clay suitable for the making of bricks found on the premises. TRAMP IS TAKEN SICK AND DIES IN BARN George DUCKBERGER, a tramp who for many years traveled through Lederachville and at different times lodged in the barns of the kind hearted farmers of that vicinity, on November fifth came to the residence of farmer Samuel LANDIS of that place and asked permission to lay in his barn as he was not feeling well. The permission was granted but DUCKBERGER was removed from the building a corpse ten days later. When the knight of the road asked permission and said he was ill the kind hearted farmer offered to take him in the house and give him a bed to rest in, but DUCKBERGER refused, saying that the barn was good enough. Mr. LANDIS noticed that the man was very sick and so he summoned a physician who administered medicines but despite this fact DUCKBERGER gradually grew worse and last Tuesday he died. He lived to the age of 79 years and 5 months. He was born in Germany. The funeral was held on Thursday of last week at the Lower Salford Mennonite Meeting House at 1.30 o'clock. Interment was made on the church burial grounds. ODD FELLOW'S BANQUET The members of the Pennsburg Lodge No. 449 I.O.O.F., have decided to hold a banquet in the near future, for themselves wives and lady friends. The banquet will be in honor of Henry DIMMIG the aged Treasurer, who has served in that capacity for thirty-three years, and Henry J. SMITH, the Secretary who has served in that capacity for thirty-one years. A committee has been appointed to make the necessary arrangements and it is expected that the banquet will be held in the forepart of the new year. The affair will be a memorable one as the committee is instructed to arrange for a sumptuous repast and to make up an interesting program. LEHIGH COUNTY PROPERTIES SOLD Leon SNYDER of Old Zionsville, sold his homestead in that village and twenty-three acres of ground, to Oscar KUHNS, of Salford Station, for $4500. Mr. KUHNS was raised in this village, but for the past eight years he has been employed as agent for the Perkiomen Railroad at Salford Station. The property situate between Old Zionsville and Shimerville and owned by Edwin KERN and his sister, Mary Ann, was sold to the former's son-in-law, William RUPP, at private figures. There are a number of good dwellings on the place the tract contains about sixty-eight acres. PRAISES SONG SERVICE AND HOME TALENT A visitor from Philadelphia writes the following few lines to the editor of Town and Country relative to the Song Service which was held by the Luther League of the St. Paul's Lutheran congregation, of near Red Hill: Those who were absent from the song service held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church last Sunday evening missed a rare treat. The young people of this congregation dererve a great deal of credit for the fine music they rendered on this occasion. Second to none ever given in this part of the country. The duets and solos both instrumental and in song were exquisite. The Clarionet and violin solos by Howard PFLUEGER and David CROLL prove that these young men possess rare musical abilities. SUPERVISOR ILL AND FEARS BLOOD POISONING Supervisor Jacob M. KURZ, of Upper Hanover township, is ill at his home near Pennsburg, with a peculiar affliction. He has sore legs and hands and is unable to attend to his duties. He claims his illness originated from his working at the stone bridge at Copeland STICHTER's place, near the East Greenville borough line, where the borough runs its sewer or drainage into the small stream which passes under the bridge. He had to work in the poisonous water. The attending physician fears blood poisoning to set in. SHOT MANY OWLS Charles KRAUSS, of Dillingersville shot five large owls. The largest measured forty-eight inches across the wings. He nailed them against the wagon shed of Henry DICE so that passersby could see them.