Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - May 20, 1905 THE PENNSBURG HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT WAS HELD LAST NIGHT Picture: Leroy HILLEGASS, Mamie HEVENER, Horace ESCHBACH, Oscar MARSTELLER, Florence TRUMBORE, Alice YOUNG, Howard SCHANTZ, Clarence SUMMERS, Howard YOUNG. DENOUNCED MEN WHO GIVE PENNIES Rev. Geo. W. GENTZLER, of the First Lutheran Church, Selinsgrove, formerly of Pennsburg, in his sermon Sunday denounced the practice of men changing a nickel Saturday nights for Sunday church collections. He remarked that some men pray "thy kingdom come" every night and then allow poolrooms and dens of vice to flourish. Mr. GENTZLER also scored members for negligence of mission work and said the lives of some church members are living lies. FRIGHTFULLY BURNED While casting at the Kutztown Foundry and Machine Works, hot iron accidentally ran into the right shoe of Jarius SANDER, the foreman of the molding department. The flesh on Mr. SANDER's foot was burned clean to the bone. The right leg was roasted to a crisp from the knee to the ankle. Mr. SANDER suffered excruciating pain, and the shoe could not be removed until the injured man put his foot into a bucket of cold water. The stocking was burned from the foot, and the odor of burned flesh could be scented over the entire molding department. Mr. SAUDER is doing well under the circumstances, but will not be able to follow his work for some time. FELL ON SAW IN SAW MILL James F. HOLLENBACH, 33 years of age, who conducts a saw mill and cider press on the Jordan Creek about one mile from Pleasant Corner, fell on the large rip saw in his mill on Wednesday morning. Mr. HOLLENBACH had set the saw in motion and stumbling on a board fell on the rapidly revolving tool. Mr. HOLLENBACH fell on his right side and struck the saw with his right leg. The member was nearly severed. In falling he tried to guard himself with his right arm and in so doing this member was nearly cut off near the elbow. He was removed to the Allentown Hospital. DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES The Democrats of the county assembled in the Opera House at Norristown on Tuesday morning and elected ten delegates to attend the State Convention at Harrisburg, on Wednesday next. Chairman Charles D. McAVOY called the convention to order at 10.15 a.m. and the roll call was next in order, which showed that almost every district in the county was represented, Mr. McAVOY then stated the object of the convention. The following list of delegates were then nominated: Harvey CHRISTMAN, Limerick; John J. CONNELLY, Lower Merion; John J. McCORMICK, Bridgeport; Edwin B. FAUT, Marlborough; George W. LUTZ, Ambler; Thomas KINDREGAN, Conshohocken; Lyman B. REIFSNYDER, Pottstown; William SATTERTHWAITE, Horsham; Thomas V. SMITH, Norristown; Oliver WOLF, Telford; Charles Q. HILLEGASS, Pennsburg; and Charles AULL, of Lower Merion. The balloting then began and lasted an hour and a half. The result as computed by the secretaries J.J. KANE and John GOULDY was: CHRISTMAN 134, CONNELLY 127, McCORMICK 134, FAUT 95, LUTZ 132, KINDREGAN 127, REIFSNYDER 131, SATTERTHWAITE 110, SMITH 132, WOLF 11, HILLEGASS 113, AULL 5. A motion to adjourn was then made and carried. PASTOR ACCEPTS A CALL Rev. Charles DABB, the newly elected pastor for the Sumneytown Lutheran charge has accepted the call. He read his acceptance to the congregation at Keelor's church last Sunday. Tomorrow morning he will preach at Sumneytown when he will also read it to that congregation. He will be ordained in the latter part of June. NARROWLY ESCAPED BEING BURNED TO DEATH Ruth, the eighteen months old child of Elsie KOCH, of Bowers, Berks county, last Friday afternoon narrowly escaped from being burned to death while playing with a match in its mothers' bed-room, at the home of William D. RENNINGER, of Pennsburg, where she is visiting. The mother had placed the child in bed for its afternoon nap and was attending to some household duties in the lower part of the house, when she heard the child utter a shrill cry. She hurried to the child's room and was amazed to see it standing there with its dress ablaze. She promptly extinguished the flames by smothering them with a rug, but not before the child was already painfully burned on its abdomen and ear. The dress had been burned from her body at her abdomen where the match evidently ignited the dress first. It appears that the child awoke after its usual nap and crawled out of bed made its way to a table upon which was a match receiver, which by the way contained an only match, secured this and started to play on the floor. The match in some manner ignited and caused the fire. Had the chld ignited the bedding instead of its dress it is quite likely that the house would have been destroyed for the child would not then have screamed as it did when the fire was on its person. A physician was summoned who attended to the tots injuries. He found her abdomen and one ear badly blistered. HORSES RUN AWAY WITH LOAD OF FURNITURE While Oscar SCHAFFER of Dillinger was hauling household goods from Allentown for Charles KLINE of Zionsville on Wednesday, his horses got frightened at a trolley car and became unmanageable and ran away. Mr. SCHAFFER was on the wagon but owing to a poor foot hold was unable to control them and fell from the wagon injuring himself quite severely. In their mad plunge the horses got to the side of the road where one of the wheels struck a trolley pole with such severity that a charged wire was torn off and fell to the ground. The wagon was badly broken as was also a stove which was loaded on the wagon but the furniture was not damaged at all. Mr. SCHAFFER blames the Trolley Company for the disaster as one of their cars was closely following him without giving any warning of its approach and even did not stop when the horses started to run away until they saw Mr. SCHAFFER fall off. After having the wagon repaired at a nearby blacksmith shop Mr. SCHAFFER continued his journey home.