Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - June 24, 1905 SALE OF TRACTION ROADS Under a decree of the United States District Court the Lehigh Valley Tractio n system was sold at noon on Tuesday on the front steps of the Court House at Allentown. The Court had fixed the sum of $25,000 to qualify and decreed that the upset price should be $2,000,000 of which 10 per cent had to be paid down. After the conditions of sale were read Mr. HARRITY of Philadelphia offered $2,000,000. No other bids being made the property was knocked down to Mr. HARRITY. An hour later, at the same place, the Slatington line was sold to Mr. HARRITY for the upset price $275,000. Mr. HARRITY bought the properties on behalf of himself, Colonel Harry C. TREXLER and Geo. H. FRAZIER, representing the Reorganization Committee. Last Tuesday for the same people he bought the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley Line for $1,000,000. As was the case last week Mr. FRAZIER, who is in charge of Brown Bros., Philadelphia branch was ready with the certified checks to qualify with the down money. AUTO SCARES HORSE While Frank H. FOX and Andrew T. GRATER, with their families, were returning from Norristown, on Tuesday evening, they met an automobile on the Skippack road near the home of Jacob SOUDER. The horses shied and upset the wagon. The wagon was somewhat broken but the occupants escaped with a few bruises. INJURED BY ACCIDENTAL DISCHAGE OF GUN Samuel BEAN, of Limerick, took his gun along while out watching his cows. In some unexplained manner the gun was accidentally discharged and Mr. BEAN wa seriously injured. AGED WOMAN DISLOCATES WRIST In walking over a slippery board walk on Thursday, Mrs. John LICK, an aged woman of near Niantic, slipped and fell. In trying to save herself she struck her wrist on the walk and dislocated it. SHOOTING MATCH ACCIDENT Jacob FRITZ, of Lebanon, died from a gunshot wound in the hip, inflicted at a shooting match at Avon. William GLOSS, who accidently shot him, is severely ill. CONTRACTOR COMPLETES COUNTY BRIDGE Contractor J.M. SMITH, of Perkiomenville, has finished his part of the work on the new county bridge across the Perkiomen at the East Greenville pumping station. RED MEN MEET IN YORK The Great Sun's Council, Improved Order of Red Men of Pennsylvania convened in the Court House at York day in its fifty-sixth annual session. The Past Sachem's degree was conferred upon 150. The report to be submitted to the Great Council by Thomas K. DONNELLE, Great Chief of Records, will show: Membership at end of last year, 61,053; admitted by adoption, 10,981; by card, 376; reinstated, 525. The losses are represented: By suspensions, 7950; expulsion, 43; withdrawals, 167; died, 587; other causes, 459. This makes the total membership 63,729, divided among 432 tribes a new increase for the last six months of 676 members. The delegate from Goshenhoppen tribe 392, of East Greenville, was Daniel K. DOTTERER. MIDNIGHT PROWLERS AT BALLY A party of mischief doers have again proven to exist in the vicinity of Bally. On Tuesday night about 10.30, they were busy at and about the I.H. BECHTEL estate store, when they smashed the two large panes of glass in the front double door and then entered the garden and destroyed the entire crop of vegetables, such as tomatoes, beans, beets, cabbage. Dr. O.W. BERKY heard the nose going on and arose and struck a light, after which the miscreants fired several shots from a revolver. They did lots of damage all along the road between Bally and Clayton. The BECHTEL's estate and others have sufficient evidence that points to the guilty parties. WILL NOT TEACH IF HE DARE NOT FLOG Rather than give up flogging, which he regards as essential to school boys proper discipline and training, teacher S. Slyde STAPLES of Bangor, Pa. has resigned to go into the railroad business. CONTRACT AWARDED The contract for building the new factory for the Tapestry Mills Company, of Philadelphia, at Sellersville, has been awarded to John McCLAY, of Philadelphia, for $22,700. SUIT WITHDRAWN Henry HALL has withdrawn the suit at Norristown against Elizabeth LEHASKA, teacher, and the Cheltenham School Board, in which he had alleged the teacher cruelly treated his boy. WILSON GUILTY The trial of James WILSON, the self-confessed murderer, of John EBERTS, of Allentown, was brought to a sudden end on Friday last by WILSON's pleading guilty to murder in the second degree. The plea was made for him by his Attorney. WILSON was immediately called for sentence. Judge TREXLER imposed a sentence of twenty years in the Eastern Peniatentiary for shooting EBERT and ten years more for robbing a store, a total of thirty years. By good behavior WILSON can gain eleven years and eleven months, but the remainder will virtually mean a life sentence.