Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - July 4, 1903 WEST FOR 53 YEARS Mrs. Lena ROSENBERGER, who formerly resided at Salford, this county, went to Flora, Illinois in 1850 and has not been in this section of the country since she left. She is spending a week with her nephew, Mr. John W. MARKLEY, of Jeffersonville. Mrs. ROSENBERGER is delighted with the many useful improvements made in this section during the past half century. She claims we are in advance of the Illinois people in extent of trolley road, railroads and the like but about autimobiles, it is still a question which state is in advance, but she is inclined to think Illinois, for automobile riding was a common occurrence to her before she came East. Mrs. ROSENBERGER is about eighty years old and made the entire trip alone. She will return to St. Louis, Mo., in the latter part of the summer to visit her daughter there. Mrs. ROSENBERGER was the mother of four school teachers. Mrs. ROSENBERGER's sister, Mrs. Lydia MARKLEY, of Creamery, is also spending the week with Mr. John W. MARKLEY and family of Jeffersonville. RETURNED FROM COLORADO Register of Wills, H.A. GROFF, of Salford, has returned from Colorado. He has visited various places while on his trip of business, passing St. Louis going west, the Mississippi was ten miles wide and freight cars standing in water up to the roof was a common sight. He ascended Pikes Peak, visited Crippie Creek and had his photograph taken at Balance Rock. He remembered his office force by presenting each with a gold stick pin containing precious stones. PASTOR RESIGNS After preaching a very instructive and well prepared sermon to the congregation of the Pennsburg Reformed church last Sunday, the pastor, Rev. J.L. ROUSH, tendered his resignation to the surprise and consternation of many of the assembled audience. Rev. ROUSH was educated at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, and was ordained and installed at the Old Goshenhoppen church on July 13, 1890, as assistant to Rev. A.L. DECHANT. At the retirement of active service of Rev. DECHANT, in 1894, Rev. ROUSH was elected regular pastor and served the major portion of the charge very acceptably ever since. The charge is composed of the following congregations: Old Goshenhoppen, Sumneytown, Keelors and Pennsburg. On Saturday the reconstruction Committe of Goshenhoppen Classis met in the Pennsburg church to confer with commissioners from all the congregations of the Old Goshenhoppen charge, the Sassaman's congregation of the Boyertown charge and the Huber's congregation of the Zionsville charge, with a view of reconstructing the several charges. At this meeting several members of the Pennsburg congregation complained that the services of Rev. ROUSH were no longer acceptable and this led to the resignation. The consistories of the four congregations will meet at Keelor's church on Saturday, July 18, to act on the resignation of their pastor. BIRTHDAY PARTY A grand birthday party was given in honor of Hattie, the twelve year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham J. SELL, at their home near Niantic, on Monday evening. The following were present: Mr. and Mrs. Abraham J. SELL, Mrs. James HUBER, Mrs. Mahlon BAUMAN, Mrs. Reuben BENDER, Hattie SELL, Annie SELL, Hannah SELL, Ida ERB, Jennie ???der, Elsie CLEAVER, Lizzie DIEHL, Jennie HUBER, Susan LINSENBIGLER, Gertrude BENDER, Jennie FOX, Mantana TAGLIEBER, Mamie FOX, Verda FOX, May STEYER, Lizzie JACOB, Flossie BIDDING, Jennie GEISINGER, Lizzie GEISINGER, Annie GEISINGER, Alice FEGLEY, Edna KAHLER, Lizlie HIMMELWRIGHT, Hannah SNYDER, Mamie TOUGHELL, Laura WALTERS, Virginia WALTERS, Chester SELL, John BERNHARD, John YERGER, Charles BAUMAN, Harvey HUBER, Norman HUBER, Wilson SCHANELY, Robert THOMPSON, Aaron SNYDER, Claude KAHLER, Jesse HUBER, Irwin GAUGLER, Will SELL.