Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - July 25, 1903 A TEN DAYS CAMP The following members of the Liberty Fire Company, of Allentown, left last Saturday for Zionsville, where they will camp for ten days on the ZIEGLER farm: Frank NONNEMACHER, Jesse ZIEGLER, Christ. THUMM, Jr., George HECKROTH, Julius ECKERT, Wharton WETHEROLD, Wm. OTT, John and Peter GINKINGER, Harvey STERNER and John and Charles WIEDER. Theodore HUFFORT will cook for the camp. The party has leased the farm house for their sleeping and eating quarters. MACUNGIE MAN IS GRANTED A NEW PATENT Horace F. NEUMEYER, of Macungie, had issued another patent, bearing date of July 7, for an adjustable and noiseless ball cock, used at bath tubs and closets. It works automatically and is about the best article for the use intended on the market. Mr. NEUMEYER already has orders for large number and has facilities to turn them out quckily. BIG HAUL OF SUMATRA TOBACCO Thieves entered the cigar factory of Samuel KLAPP, of Richland, Berks county, and stole 800 pounds of Samatra tobacco valued at $2500. PASTOR'S RESIGNATION NOT ACCEPTED The consistories of the Old Goshenhoppen Reformed charge met at Keelor's church last Saturday and refused to accept the resignation of their pastor, Rev. J.L. ROUSH. Previous to the meeting congregational meetings had been held by the Keelor's, Old Goshenhoppen and Sumneytown churches and each of these congregations decided unanimously not to accept the resignation. The consistory of the Pennsburg congregation had circulated a petition against the acceptance of the resignation. This was signed by 157 members. The majority of the consistory of this congregation, armed with the petition, were in attendance at the meeting last Saturday and the meeting was a unit in refusing to accept the resignation of Rev. ROUSH. FELL FROM LOAD OF HAY Henry SHELL one of the foremost farmers of Corning finished haying last Saturday, the last load being a remarkably large and fine one. On the way home the load received a sudden jerk and threw Mr. SHELL, who had been doing the loading, forcibly on the ground. His face is considerably scratched and both wrists were severly strained, otherwise no damages were sustained. WILL START BULL FROG FARM C.W. KEITER, of Kutztown, owns a marshay tract of land which he is now fitting up as a bullfrog farm. He expects to raise the greenbacks in large numbers for market. The pond is being enclosed with a high fence to prevent poaching and incidentally to discourage athletics on the part of restless prisoners. A SNAKE OF STONE AND CRYSTAL J.S. STRUNK, of Bangor, Northampton county, has a petrified snake which he took from a bed of limestone at the Washington Slate Quarry a few days ago. It is 17 inches long and to inches of dark stone, while the rest is of crystal, the backbone of the reptile being visible in the clear crystal. From the same bed of linestone Mr. STRUNK took a petrified clam. SMALLPOX AT NORRISTOWN Mrs. George DEITZ, of Pittsburg, the wife of one of the employes on the new Court House, developed a case of smallpox, on Monday. The house in which the disease made its appearance has been quarantined and the patient removed to the Municipal Hospital, at Chester. HORSE CUT UP BY MOWING MACHINE A horse of Jacob GABLE, near Gablesville, while hitched to a mowing machine with Francis, his son, in charge, became unruly and fell over the tongue and a hind leg came in contact with the knives, cutting arteries and tendons. The animal had to be killed. TALL TIMOTHY Jeremiah SCHULTZ, of Hereford, has a ten acre field of timothy that measures five feet. He brought several stalks to this office that measured five feet eight inches, this is remarkable and hard to beat. MISCREANT STABS HORSE Some unknown person entered the barn of Irwin HOCH, of Maiden Creek, Berks county, and stabbed a valuable roan horse to death. A BIG DAY'S WORK James WENDLING, of near Hereford, picked 160 quarts of raspberries in one day last week. MILK DEALER FINED State Food Inspector R.M. SIMMERS had C.F. GACKENBACH, of Alliance, arrested on a charge of selling adulterated milk. The arrested milk dealer confessed that milk sold to his customers contained preservative, which is composed largely of formaldehyde. GACKENBACH was fined $50 and costs amounting in all to $69.26.