Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - April 15, 1905 STRANGER WAS A THIEF Oscar SCHAFFER, a farmer residing near Dillinger, was neatly robbed on Thursday night by a stranger, who he met on the road while driving to his home from Macungie. He met a young man who was fairly well dressed at Macungie and he told him his tale of woe to the effect that he had been at a Reading hospital, ill with appendicitis, was only discharged there three weeks ago and was now seeking work. As Mr. SCHAFFER was in need of help on his farm he told him that he could secure work with him and should accompany him to his home. The trip was made to Mr. SCHAFFER's farm, and as the stranger was so sincere and on account of the story of being at the hospital so recently, Mr. SCHAFFER allowed him to sleep in the lower portion of the house instead of in the barn. He also left a lighted lantern with the stranger. At about eleven o'clock they retired and all seemed well. Yesterday morning when Mr. SCHAFFER came down stairs he found that the stranger had taken "French leave." Upon closer investigation he also found that his watch, razor and other smaller articles were missing. The stranger had evidently ransacked the lower part of the house soon after they had retired, for he had also been in the cellar and had put away a large lot of the eatables before he left. The culprit was about 32 years of age, wore a black mustache, black derby hat and was a fluent talker. Mr. SCHAFFER now thinks he was lucky that he was not robbed on the carriage while making the trip from Macungie, as the stranger there saw him pay a bill and that he had a large roll of notes on his person. OPENING OF SPRING TERM AT PERKIOMEN SEMINARY The Spring term at Perkiomen Seminary opened on Tuesday, April 4, with the largest attendance in the history of the school. About fifty new students enrolled the first day and at least thirty more have applied for admission. The main building, together with the old building is full. Thirty-five students are rooming in the new gymnasium, and between fifteen and twenty are obliged to room in private houses near the school building and board at the building. Every available space is occupied. About twenty classes are conducted every day, including all the subjects which are required for entrance into any of our best colleges and all the subjects which are required to graduate from any of our best Normal schools, together with all the common English branches necessary for county examination. This makes it possible to accommodate students to classify them perfectly and to give them just exactly the studies which they will need and want. Four new teachers have been added to the regular Faculty, together with a number of assistant teachers, Oswin FRANTZ, of Cressman; George LAND, of Millersville, Pa.; Paul RUPP, of Lancaster, Pa.; and Simon G. HUBER, of Quakertown. Mr. FRANTZ, who is a graduate of Perkiomen Seminary and a Senior at Franklin & Marshall, teaches Mathematics. Mr. LAND the son of the Rev. Mr. LAND, of Millersville, also a Senior in Franklin & Marshall, teaches Latin and Algebra. Paul RUPP is the son of the late Dr. RUPP of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed church at Lancaster. Mr. RUPP is a student in the Theological Seminary at Lancaster and teaches Greek and German. Simon G. HUBER, a former student of Perkiomen Seminary, a graduate of West Chester Normal school and Ursinus College, and for a number of years Principal of the Coatesville schools, teaches Arithmetic, Grammar, Algebra and Psychology. The new gymnasium is now practically completed. The building is one of the finest and one of the most complete structures of its kind connected with any Private Secondary school in Pennsylvania. The main gymnasium room is large and well lighted and well ventilated and is equipped with the most approved apparatus, such as ladder, a horse, horizontal bars, parallel bars, chest weight, traveling rings, dumb bells and clubs. The basement has been fitted up with lockers and shower-baths. A space has also been set aside for a ball cage. Quite a number of candidates have reported for the track team. There has been an unusually large number of candidates for the base ball team. The base ball season promises to be one of unusual interest and success, games having been scheduled with the following schools: West Chester Normal School, Bethlehem Preparatory School, Moravian College, Ursinus College, second team, and others. An unusually interesting course of lectures and sermons have been arranged for the Spring term. Among the speakers who have either promised sermons, or who are expected to deliver lectures before the students during the spring term are the following: Rev. A.S. SHELLY, Bally; Dr. J.A.W. HAAS, President of Muhlenberg College, Allentown; Dr. D.W. EBBERT, President of Ursinus College, Collegeville; Dr. G.W. RICHARDS, Professor of Church History in the Reformed Theological Seminary, Lancaster; Prof. W.A. KLINE, Professor of Latin, Ursinus College, Collegeville: Dr. N.C. SCHAFFER, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Harrisburg; Dr. M.C. BRUMBAUGH, Professor of Pedagogy in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Prof. H.A. GARFIELD, son of the late President James A. GARFIELD, Princeton, N.J.; Prof. Felix Emanuel SCHELLING, A.H. Phd., Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Professor W.W. GREEN, teacher of Voice Culture, New York City. The Senior or graduating class is the largest in the history of the school. It numbers forty-six. Among the colleges and Universities to which the graduates expect to go are the following: Muhlenberg, Lehigh, Lafayette, State, Medico-Chirurgical, Jefferson Medical, Princeton, Cornell, Oberlin and others. NERVY THIEF STOLE A DOGS MUZZLE A nervy thief stole the muzzle from a dog belonging to Gas Superintendent Lewis CRAMER, of Pottstown.