Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - August 1, 1903 THE HEAVIEST MAN IN THE STATE Bristol, Bucks county claims the honor of having the the heaviest man in the State. Wilson LIPPENCOTT, a retired farmer, who was weighed this week and tipped the scale at 544 pounds. He gained 50 pounds during the past year. His belt measurement is 7 feet. Mr. LIPPINCOTT is a hearty eater and he thinks there is every possibility of still further development. He is the father of three sons and four daughters all of whom are weighty. BOY HACKED BY BINDER KNIVES John TAYLOR, a farmer's son of York, while riding a horse attached to a binder in the oats field, fell in front of the knives. A leg was broken, an arm nearly severed, and his head terribly gashed. He is in a precarious condition. A YOUNG GIRL BREAKS LEG TWICE The nine-year-old daughter of Thomas KINCAID, of Ardmore, climbed over the wheel of a wagon in front of her home. While on top of the wheel it started and one of her legs was caught in the wheel and broken in two pieces. METTLESOME HORSE KICKS OWNER While Oswin ESHBACH, of Clayton, was leading a horse to graze him, the animal became frisky and kicked Mr. ESHBACH twice in the ribs. No bones were fractured but the unfortunate man was confined to bed for several days. PROMINENT EAST GREENVILLE COUPLE TO BE MARRIED NEXT WEDNESDAY The beautiful home of Dr. and Mrs. Henry BOBB, of East Greenville, will be the scene of a magnificent wedding next Wednesday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, when their only daughter and child, Mary Mabel (picture), will be united in marriage to Jacob Parsons SCHAEFFER (picture), of Shamokin Dam. A large number of relatives and friends have been invited to participate. Miss Ella HERSH, of East Greenville, and Miss MOYER, of Perkasie, will served as bridesmaids and Prof. Wm. LANDIS, of Emaus, will serve as best man. Rev. Calvin M. DELONG, of East Greenville, pastor of the New Goshenhoppen Reformed church, will perform the ceremony. The groom was principal of the East Greenville schools for the past two terms. Immediately after the wedding the happy couple will depart on an extended wedding tour and will be at home at East Greenville, after August seventeenth. FARMER MEETS WITH SURPRISE IN HAULING WHEAT In hauling home his wheat last week, Benjamin KERSCHNER, of Lower Macungie, Lehigh county met with a surprise. The wheat had been cut and shocked for some days. While pitching the sheaves on the wagon which was almost loaded, he discovered a young coon under a shock. He captured it but did not know what to do with it. On the advice of his hired man who was doing the loading, he pitched it on the wagon where his coonship crept under a sheaf. In unloading the racoon was again discovered and captured. He was then secured with a chain and is kept at the home of the farmer as a pet. HOLDS A LUCRATIVE POSITION IN VIRGINIA Tasmaniah ZIEGLER, of Tacoma, West Virginia, formerly of Pennsburg, this week accepted a position with the R.W. Kennedy Company, manufacturers of poplar cigar box lumber of Grafton, West Virginia, at a salary of $1500 a year. Mr. ZIEGLER is a son of Mrs. Jonathan ZIEGLER, of Pennsburg, and he spent the past ten years in the Virginia lumber fields as foreman of Sheip & Vandergrift saw mills at that place. Mr. ZIEGLER understands the lumber business thoroughly. SUCCESSFUL BUTCHERING ESTABLISHMENT During the early part of this week a ten horse-power boiler and a four horse power engine were installed in the butchering establishment of Granville GERHARD, of this borough, for the purposes of running his sausage machines, lard presses and other machinery. The establishment is run to its full capacity and the demand for his products is constantly on the increase. Nothing but choice cattle are slaughtered while his sausages have created such a furor that it is at times impossible to fill all orders. FATHER PLANNED TO BLOW UP FAMILY Franklin L. DREY, of Reading, aged 40, was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of attempting to blow up his house, wife and eight children with dynamite. The accused denies the story although several sticks of the explosive are said to have been found in his possession. AN UNSUCCESSFUL FISHING TRIP A party composed of Oliver SCHANTZ, Albert WELDER and Sorada MILLER, of Pennsburg, Horace ROYER, of East Greenville and Dr. SCHANTZ, of Philadelphia, were off on a fishing trip to Cranberry Lake, N.J., on Saturday. They came back without having caught a single fish. SKIN GRAFTING FOR THE FOURTH TIME Miss Carrie BAUSHER, of Fleetwood, Berks county, whose entire scalp was torn away in a silk mill at that place about a year ago, is able to be about with the aid of crutches. Four times skin has been grafted on her head to close the wounds, and each time the operation was only partly successful. The skin was taken from the arms of fellow-employes, relatives and friends, and they consented to part with more skin to have a fourth operation performed last week. It is now believed that Miss BAUSHER will get entirely well. LARGELY ATTENDED FUNERAL The funeral on Sunday of Abner ROSENBERGER the merchant of Skippack, who died of Brights disease, was the largest ever held at Wentz's church. Mr. ROSENBERGER had his life insured for $1500, and he was also a member of the B.U.H. of F. of Schwenksville from which lodge his widow will get six hundred dollars. TWO BREAK NECK AT SAME PLACE John HAGEY, of Eureka, near Lansdale, missed his footing and fell down a hay schute, landing in the stable below, and breaking his neck while unloading hay in his barn last week. A year ago one of his hired men met with a similar fatal accident at the same place. BOY FALLS FROM TREE AND BREAKS ARM Harry, son of George MOUNTJOY, of Boyertown, while climbing up an apple tree, lost his hold and fell to the ground, about 15 feet below, and broke one of the bones in his wrist. Dr. S.M. TODD dressed the injury.