Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - August 29, 1903 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE MERCANTILE BUSINESS IN ONE TOWN Jacob S. GELLER (picture) has been conducting a mercantile business in the borough of Lansdale for more than a quarter of a century. His first entry in the day book at the Grand Emporium was made July 8, 1878. Mr. GELLER was a resident of Marlborough township in the early seventies and at that time proprietor of the Hoppenville Store. He was born in Skippack township in 1846 and at the age of seventeen he started "huckstering," attending the Philadelphia market. For thirty years Mr. GELLER huckstered in connection with the store business. He served Girard College with butter for twenty-eight years. Mr. GELLER is considered one of the shrewdest business men of his town and he has given the town a store property of which it may well be proud, for the Grand Emporium is considered the most spacious store building in the county outside of the larger towns. He also kept a store at Kulpsville for three years prior to his moving to Lansdale. DESTROYED PROPERTY WILL NOT BE REBUILT The appraisers of the Line Lexington Fire Insurance Company awarded John G. EGOLF, of Philadelphia, $3300, for the three houses recently destroyed at Telford, by the fire on May 28. The property destroyed included a warehouse barn and two wood houses, all of which was insured in said company for $4020. Mr. EGOLF, displeased with the award, decided not to rebuild and he since sold the lot to William BLANK for $775. He thereby received a total of $4075, for the property. Mr. EGOLF had offered the property for sale at $4000, several times before it was destroyed by fire. FOUND RIPE RASPBERRIES NEAR BALLY Charles MILLER, of Red Hill, while driving along the road near Bally, this week, found a raspberry vine containing 46 large raspberries. This is something quite uncommon at this season of the year. WILL BUILD ADDITION TO PANTALOON FACTORY George MELCHIOR, pantaloon manufacturer of Bally, has broken ground to build an addition to his factory. The business has so increased that he must have more room and more help. Mr. MELCHIOR started the business about two years ago, with fifteen hands. At present he employs about sixty and expects to employ some more as soon as he has sufficient room. At the same time he will erect a steam engine to take place of the present gasoline engine. He will also fit the factory with steam pipes for heating purposes. PLOWED UP TWO NESTS OF EGGS Morris STAUFFER, of Bally, while plowing one day last week, turned up a nest of snake eggs. He at once stopped and counted them and found it to be nineteen. He then broke them and found nineteen snakes, each one containing a live snake varying in length from about three to six inches. They were all killed. After plowing about two yards further he plowed up another nest of eggs, and upon examination they proved to be turtle eggs. LOST WATCH FOUND ON STREET Allen G. KRIEBEL, of Hereford, lost his watch one day last week while taking his gasoline engine from Hereford to the Queen of the Valley Farm. The watch was found near the Pennsburg Coal yard by Robert DERR and returned to its owner. FOURTEEN ACRES OF PICKLES Fourteen acres of pickles is a rare sight in this section of the county, but that's what may be seen on the farm of the late Rev. E.H. POHLE, of near North Wales. The POHLE's have a contract with the Philadelphia Pickling Company for all the pickles grown. The crop this year is pronounced a failure owing to the wet weather. In one of the farm buildings may be seen ten or a dozen hogsheads filled with pickles in pickle, getting ready for the pickle-eating public. This product of the farm, as well as the milk, potatoes, &c., goes direct to Philadelphia, where the POHLEs find the demand for their "goods" larger than the supply. BOYS RUN OVER BY A TRAIN Harry DRACE, a fourteen year old Pottstown boy was thrown under a coal train in that borough on Tuesday morning and had his left arm ground off near the elbow. The accident occurred while he was climbing over the coal train which had been lying upon the siding. Suddenly the train pulled out and the shock threw him beneath the wheels. Besides having his arm cut off he was severely bruised and scratched. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT Last Sunday evening, while playing on a wagon in the barn yard, the six-year-old son of Theodore GEHMAN, a farmer west of Macungie, fell into a dung hook. A prong entered his head just over an eye. Dr. J.A. BROBST was hurriedly summoned and attended to the injured lad. He thinks the eye may be saved and finds that so far no very serious results have followed. PURCHASED A PROPERTY AT HEREFORD Mrs. J. JONES, of Philadelphia, purchased the property of Nathaniel HALLMAN, of Hereford for $1800. The sale comprises eighteen acres of land, good house and a barn. Mrs. JONES and her daughter, Helen, were visiting with the family of Jonathan KRAUSS and they were so impressed with that section of the country that they purchased a home. They will move there next Spring. ERECTED AN UP-TO-DATE STONE CRUSHER John JACOB, of Upper Hanover township, has had a stone crusher erected on his farm. The crusher is an up-to-date one and the power is furnished by a gasoline engine. The crusher was started this week and it is Mr. JACOB's intention to run it continuously provided he can sell the stone. He has orders for stone from the supervisors of the township at present and he expects to fill those first. FELL FROM HAY LOFT AND BROKE RIBS Christian KULP, of near Pleasant Run, assisted his son-in-law, Dr. Daniel BICKEL, in thrashing grain one day last week and while throwing sheaves from the loft he slipped and fell to the floor below. When picked up it was found that several ribs were fractured besides being badly bruised. A physician was summoned who attended to his injuries.