Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Mongomery County, PA Saturday - September 5, 1903 HEFTY MAN RAN FOR CAR AND DIED Henry BEAN, of Ironbridge, died suddenly in a trolley car at Collegeville, on Saturday morning. Mr. BEAN is 68 years old, weighs about 250 pounds and in his hurry to catch the car he ran a short distance. Soon after he had been seated in the car the conductor noticed that he was ill and when he reached him he found him unconscious. The car was stopped and a physician was summoned, but the man was already dead. Mr. BEAN was known in this and adjoining counties as the "salve man" because of his migrations in peddling a pain reliever. SHOT HIMSELF INSTEAD OF A CAT Prof. Warren H. DETWILER, of Hatboro, accidentally fired a bullet into his forehead while gunning for a cat. He, on Monday morning went out into the yard with a revolver to shoot a cat that was under the porch. It is supposed that in some manner he slipped on the wet boardwalk and the weapon being discharged the bullet entered his forehead. No one saw the accident, and his unconscious body was discovered by his little daughter. He died soon after the accident. CAMPERS AT FINLAND A party of young men from this borough left on Thursday on a week's outing. They pitched their tents on the banks of the Swamp creek, at Finland, and the party is known as the Pennsburg Outing Club. The young men expect a grand time. They are well equipped with fishing tackle, guns and ammunition of all kinds. The members of the club are: Leo SECHLER, Clarence HUNSBERGER, Horace SMITH, Howard TRUMBORE, V.H. STECKEL, Val. TRUMBORE, Martin KAPP, Wm. WELKER, Clement DIEHL, Frank HERSH and Titus RAUDENBUSH. KNIGHTS OF MALTA LODGE TO BE STARTED An effort is being made to start a Knights of Malta Lodge in Pennsburg. William BREY and Charles SCHOENLY have been canvassing the towns and they have had promises of twenty-five who wish to become charter members. As soon as thirty-five names are secured application will be made to the Grand Commandery of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia for a charter. The prospects are that about fifty names will go in as charter members, as many are desirous of joining the order. The lodge will be organized in Pennsburg and will hold its regular meetings in this town. The organizers expect to be able to apply for the charter in the course of a few weeks. MONTGOMERY COUNTY DELEGATES ORGANIZE The delegates of Montgomery county to the Democratic State Convention, held at Harrisburg on Wednesday, organized at the Bolton House and elected Dr. Titus ALBRIGHT, of Telford, Chairman; Wm. SCHALL, Norristown, Committee on Resolutions; D.K. GRABER, Pennsburg, Committee on Permanent Organization, and Charles McAVOY, Norristown, Committee on Credentials. BECHTELSVILLE HOTEL SOLD D.K. BORKEY, of Philadelphia, this week sold the Union House, at Bechtelsville, to George BARTHOLOMEW, of Powder Valley, at private figures. The agreement was signed on Thursday. Mr. BARTHOLOMEW will take possession on April first. A.B. DOTTERER is the present landlord. INJURED IN A MINE George STENGEL, of Bally, Berks county, who is employed at the Reading Iron Company's ore mines at Boyertown, was severely injured shortly before noon on Wednesday. While down the shaft doing some work at the pump a portion of ground fell front overhead striking him on the head and right shoulder, which knocked him off the scaffold and down the shaft into the water, a distance of forty feet. At the same time his lamp went out leaving him in total darkness. Almost unconscious he climbed back some distance, until he reached the cage, he then climbed into it and gave the engineer the signal, who hoisted him to the surface. Mr. STENGEL was by this time unconscious. Dr. J.B. RHOADS was at once summoned who dressed the wounds at his head, after which he was brought to his home in one of P.B. ESHBACH's livery teams. Upon his arrival home Dr. R.Y. LECHNER was summoned, who found that his shoulder blade was broken and fears he is bruised internally. TRIED TO COMMITT SUICIDE BY DROWNING With a twenty-five pound stone tied to his neck, Sebastian GREBE, aged 65, attempted to drown himself in the Schuylkill River, at Reading, on Wednesday. Mrs. William TOBIAS, rowing on the river, saw the old man leap into the water and sink without a struggle. She rowed to shore, called a policeman and took him to the rescue. Together they lifted the old man into the boat and at the police station he was bailed out. He would assign no cause for his attempted suicide. RAISED SECOND CROP OF RASPBERRIES Charles GREULICH, Sr., of East Greenville, raised a second crop of raspberries in his garden. This week he picked them and he found them to be larger than the first crop and in fact larger than any he ever raised on those same bushes. The berries were of the black kind and were very palatable. HIT IN FACE BY BASEBALL BAT Amos, the ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sorado MILLER, of Pennsburg, was this week accidentally hit in the face with a baseball bat while playing ball on the school grounds. His forehead was cut and the wound had to be held together with plaster. LUTHERAN CONGREGATION WILL CELEBRATE ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY The Lutheran congregation of Old Zionsville, Lehigh county, will tomorrow celebrate its 145th anniversary. Rev. Dr. E.F.J. SCHANTZ, of Myerstown, president of the Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania, will occupy the pulpit in the morning. In the afternoon Revs. J.F. LAMBERT, of Catasauqua, and H.J. KUDER, of Siegried will preach. In the evening Revs. M.O. RATH, of Allentown, and G.D. DRUCKENMILLER, of Freemansburg, will officiate. Rev. I.B. RITTER (picture), of Emaus, is the pastor of the church. The church stands in one of the oldest communities of Lehigh county, the Milfords having been settled first of the lands of this county. The road passing the church is the old King's high road from Philadelphia to Macungie, which was laid out during the reign of King George III. The congregation was an offshoot from an old congregation established near Dillinger's in 1734 or 1735. Peter HUETTEL gave the new congregation an acre of his 120-acre tract bought from John BIDGAMAN, in 1757, in which year a log church was built. This gave way to another in 1758. The present brick edifice was erected in 1876. The first church record was opened in 1758 by Rev. Frederick SCHERTLEIN. The first pastor was Rev. SCHAEFFER. Then came Rev. Jacob Friedrich SCHERTLEIN, 1758-60, followed for nine years by Rev. George MEISNER. In 1769 Rev. Jacob VANBUSKIRK became pastor, serving twenty-four years and later three years more to 1800, Rev. G.F. ELLISEN serving in the intermin. Then came in order Revs. I.P.F. KRAMER, Frederick GEISENHAINER, Heinrich HEYER, Isaac ROELLER, Ferdinand PLITT, H. HEINLEY, H.G. STECHER, F.W. MENDSEN, Benjamin GERMAN, Wilhelm GERMAN, A.L. DECHANT, Jacob WOGELBACH, and in 1857 Rev. William RATH, who died July 2, 1889. His son, Rev. M.O. RATH, assisted him after 1877, succeeded to the pastorate and resigned in 1894. Rev. I.B. RITTER succeeded him on September 1 of the same year. The church has 316 members and a Sunday school of 151 members.