Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - August 5, 1905 WANTS HEAVY DAMAGES Charles FREAS has brought an action in trespass against the Empire Steel and Iron Company, of Reading, to secure compensation for injuries he sustained while at work at the plant of the company, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant company. FREAS was engaged last February in hauling cinder from the plant to the dumping ground when the engine hauling the cars was derailed and FREAS was thrown down the bank, the molten cinder being hurled upon him and inicting severe burns from which he has, he claims, suffered permanent injuries. To reimburse him for these injuries he asks $20,000. SENTENCED 67 TIMES Bob MOOR, aged 70 years, of Pittsburg, was on Sunday morning sentenced in the police court for stealing a pair of shoes on display in front of a store and offering to sell them. The sentence imposed was 90 days and it was the 67th time MOOR was sentenced. NEARLY LOST LIFE TO SAVE COMPANION While swimming in a dam near Lancaster, on Sunday, Jacob SHENK, aged 12 years was seized with cramps and was drowned. His companion, Walter REIMER, went to assist the drowning boy and almost met the same fate. WOODMEN MEET The Log-Rolling Association of the Modern Woodmen of Central Pennsylvania held their great annual pic-nic at Reading yesterday. Between 4000 and 5000 visitors were present and more than 3500 uniformed woodmen participated in the parade which was one of the features of the meeting. FEAR HYDROPHOBIA A mad dog made a raid through the Schuylkill valley, near Pottsville, and bit several cows which have since developed rabies and were shot. A large number of dogs were also bitten and a regular epidemic of hydrophobia is feared. CHILD DRANK CAUSTIC SODA The 18 months old child of James BONNER, of Reading accidentally took up a cup containing a solution of caustic soda and drank the contents. The child is in a critical state. NEW PHONE COMPANY ORGANIZED Residents of Nockamixon, Bucks county, have organized a new telephone company, known as the Nockamixon Telephone Company, with an exchange at Revere. BOYS SHOT AT FOR CROSSING FIELD While taking a short cut across a field Charles and Howard STALEY, John McFARLAND and Norman RIKER, of Conshohocken, were shot at by a farmer. ENGAGING SNAP SHOTS Mrs. Angline DYSON, of Philadelphia, is spending a month in this section, visiting her son, Joseph B. DYSON and other relatives and friends. Herbert J. HERTZOG, of South Bethlehem, spent Saturday and Sunday with J.B. DYSON and family of near this borough. Miss Mariam DYSON, stenographer in the office of J.P. Hale JENKINS, Norristown, is spending a vacation of two weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.B. DYSON, of near this borough. John KULP, the wheelwright of this borough moved to Lansdale, on Monday. Roland BENNER, formerly clerk in the general store of J.S. HOTTLE, of this borough, has entered the employ of John F. WEYAND of the Pennsburg Carriage Bazaar. William SCHOENLY and Mrs. Chas. F. SCHOENLY, of this borough, are spending the week with friends at Phoenixville, Mt. Penn and Reading. Mrs. Rev. H.A. WELKER and daughter, of Bluffton, Ind., are visiting relatives and friends at Red Hill. Wm. GRIEMER who taught a school near Skippack the past term, has been elected for the coming term to teach the school near Wm. BUCK, in Marlborough township. D.K. DOTTERER, former teacher of the Grammer school of East Greenville, has engaged to teach the Hoppenville school. Rev. C.E. SANDT, of Allentown, will preach at St. Paul's Lutheran church tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. James BUCKALEW and children, Evelyn and James, of this borough, spent Sunday with relatives at Allentown. William GRIESAMER, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday with his family in this borough. Rev. and Mrs. Thomas R. HERSH and daughter, of Sharon Wis., are spending a few weeks with relatives and friends in this vicinity. George DIMMIG, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday with Henry DIMMIG, of near this borough. F.K. WALT, of Reading, formerly of this borough, is spending a few weeks in his former home. Clarence SUMMERS, of this borough, while painting last Saturday, fell from a ladder and spilled a kettle of paint over himself. He escaped without injury. E.J. WIEDER, of this borough, made a business trip to Royersford on Thursday. John U. HENDRICKS, of Schwenksville, candidate for the Democratic nomination for County Commissioner, made a call on some of his many friends in this borough on Wednesday.