Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - December 3, 1904 ONE OF THE BUSIEST MEN OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S BUSY SONS Milton H. WALTERS, Esq. (picture). Rudy is the home of one of the most busy and active men of the county. His time is divided among his diversified interests so that he has hardly an idle moment. Born in Marlborough, in 1848 Mr. WALTERS was raised on his father's farm and during his early boyhood years attended the public schools of his native township and later the private schools of his vicinity, Washington Hall, Trappe; and Freeland Seminary, now Ursinus College. At the age of fifteen he became a public school teacher and taught for four consecutive terms in Upper Salford township. When sixteen years of age he was elected Sunday school superintendent and has ever since served in that capacity. At the age of twenty Mr. WALTERS apprenticed himself to learn the milling trade and followed that successfully for sixteen years. Later he engaged in the wholesale clothing business, but followed it only one year. In 1887 Mr. WALTERS bought the ex-Sheriff Rudy farms at Salford station, where he now resides. He immediately turned his attention to farming and has continued at it ever since. Later he acquired more land and for a number of years he has been conducting the farming operation on upwards of 200 acres. In the fall of 1889 his party, the Democratic, honored him by electing him to serve in the Legislature of 1890-1891. Among other official positions, he has served as school director for nineteen years and is at present serving as such, Secretary of the Board of Health for Salford township, Justice of the Peace for eighteen years, Vice Chairman of the Montgomery County School Directors' Association, Standing Committeeman for his district, Treasurer of the Montgomery County Democratic Committee, and one of the managers of the Union Mutual Fire and Storm Insurance Company, of Norristown. In addition to these official positions, Mr. WALTERS is engaged as broker and real estate agent and Life Insurance solicitor. The multifarious duties of the various enterprises in which Mr. WALTERS is engaged and with which he is connected keep him so busily employed that he has hardly a minute that he can call his own, yet with all his duties he is cheerful and pleasant and is ever courteous and showing the civilities of the old school gentleman. Mr. WALTERS has always been a faithful and consistent attendant at church, being a member of St. Paul's Lutheran church of Upper Hanover, where he buried his entire family of his youth, his first wife, one son and one daughter. CELEBRATED GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Robert ESHBACH, of Pennsburg, was celebrated last Friday. Their children and grandchildren tendered them a surprise on the occasion. The aged couple were agreeably surprised when they saw all of their family at their home. The evening proved to be an enjoyable one to all. A splendid dinner was served. Those present were: Hon. Horace ESHBACH, wife and children, of Pennsburg; Mrs. Emma HERSH and children, of Pennsburg; Mr. and Mrs. Daniel U. REED, of Norristown; Mr. and Mrs. C. LEITENBERGER, of Philadelphia, and Miss Ruth ESHBACH, of Pennsburg. SPURNED BAG OF GOLD To get a bag of gold fresh from the Klondike, to think it was coal and refuse to accept it for fear of being a practical joker's victim, and then to find that the bag contained a small fortune, was the experience of L.C. SMITH, a Williamsport produce merchant. Returned to the express office, the sack, an ordinary canvass affair, was tossed into a corner, where it remained until another L.C. SMITH appeared, proved his property and opened the sack. It was full of gold quartz, estimated to be worth $4000 or $5000. While the last named SMITH was en route from the Klondike the sack went astray. Locating it he had it forwarded to Williamsport by express and trusting to luck to recover its valuable contents completed his journey leisurely. The other L.C. SMITH, who lives in Williamsport, refused to accept the shipment, which seemed to be for him. ELECTED PRINCIPAL OF EAST GREENVILLE SCHOOLS The Board of Directors of the East Greenville public schools elected Frank FISTER as Principal of the schools in place of J.C. LANDIS, who recently resigned. Mr. FISTER will take charge of the schools on Monday. Prof. W.E. SHERMAN, of Kutztown, had charge of the school since Mr. LANDIS' resignation, but he also resigned on Wednesday. The balance of the week there was no school, in that room. PENNSBURG WORKMAN'S COAT CAUGHT FIRE The coat of Oliver C. TRUMBORE caught fire on Thursday while he was assisting Wm. B. DIEHL in putting a tin roof on a building. Mr. TRUMBORE had been smoking a pipe and placed it in his pocket before the tobacco was all burned out. The side of his coat and a portion of his trousers were burned ere he could extinguish the fire. ACCEPTED POSITION AS STENOGRAPHER Adam McCLEAN, of McLeans, left on Wednesday for Wilmington, N.J., where he has secured a position as stenographer.