This being potato harvest time, it may prove interesting to our readers to refer to the several large crops that are being housed in the vicinity of Macungie, Lehigh county, where for the last few years several of the most progressive farmers have laid particular stress upon potato culture, putting out large acreages of them. D.D. and N.D. FRITCH were among the first to plant large tracts with potatoes and they have been very successful. On the FRITCH farm 41 acres were planted with potatoes. About half of these have been housed and the yield is estimated to be about 14,000 bushels. All are of large, nice size and very few have rotted. It is an interesting sight to see the process of taking the potatoes from the ground and follow them to the barns. On the FRITCH field a rotary plow digger drawn by four horses throws out the big tubers, separating them quite cleanly from the ground and stalks. Fourteen pickers gather them with baskets and empty these into bushel crates. Three two-horse wagons follow and haul the potatoes to the barns where they are heaped up in deep layers until sold. They are dug or plowed out of the ground at the rate of three bushels per minute, if there is no unusual delay anywhere. At the other places the work is similarly done. Everything moves along in a systematic way and great quantities of potatoes are handled in a day. C.O. SHIMER had thirty-five acres planted in several tracts. From the 16-field across the Swabia creek he got 5,800 bushels. This average of about 360 bushels per acre is a yield seldom obtained. Mr. SHIMER fertilized with cattle manure and also phosphate. W.O. LICHENWALNER had planted nine and a fourth acres and obtained about 3,500 bushels. Charles LICHTENWALNER's acreage was eleven and he got about 2,500 bushels. Theodore J. BARDER got 3,700 bushels from sixteen acres.
There are others in these parts who had smaller acreages but the yield was generally very good also.
The patrons of the Colebrookdale Railroad, running from Barto to Pottstown will soon have excursion rates between their place and Pottstown. Here-to-fore the regular three cents the mile rate was used. The trolley line between Boyertown and Reading has taken as much of the Pottstown merchants trade away that they took the matter up and presented a petition to Edson J. WEEKS the General Passenger Agent asking for lower rates. The request was granted and when the change takes place it is expected that the round trip rate between Boyertown and Pottstown will be about thirty-five cents while at present it is fifty cents. The Colebrookdale Railroad was built about thirty-five years ago, and efforts had frequently been made to secure excursion rates over the line, which is twelve miles in length, but without success.
Before Judge ENDLICH, of Reading, on Tuesday afternoon John PETERSHEIM, a farmer of Caernarvon township, and John YOST, his farm hand, were tried on the charge of cruelty to animals. It was alleged that the accused wounded some cows that strayed into PETERSHIEM's fields. PETERSHIEM was acquitted, but YOST was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and to undergo a year's imprisonment.
Two highwaymen attempted to hold up a team containing Mr. and Mrs. Christian BENNER, Jr., Herbert OXLEY and Miss Bessie OXLEY, of Norristown, on Tuesday evening, near Gulf Mills. Mr. BENNER cut the animals with the whip and when they plunged ahead and knocked the highwaymen down he drove down the road and escaped. During the excitement Miss OXLEY fainted.
Dr. Jesse Z. HILLEGASS, proprietor, of the Allentown Horse Bazaar will hold a sale by electric light on Thursday evening September 22. He has over two hundred horses which will be offered for sale. One consignment is from New Jersey and another from Kentucky. The latter load has a number of well bred horses and some that will do to go out with to the races by next season.
St. Peter's church, on the mountain, between Siesholtzville and Shimersville, an edifice erected in 1844, and wherein the Lutheran and Reformed congregations worship, will celebrate its sixtieth anniversary on Sunday, September 25, and at the same time have a rededication. The edifice has been generally renovated during the summer. John WETZEL had charge of the carpenter work and NUSS & BRENSINGER did the painting and papering. New pews and other furniture has replaced the old and the church now makes a very nice appearance. At the coming service the pastors, Rev. I.B. RITTER, for the Lutheran, and Rev. O.R. FRANTZ, for the Reformed congregation, and other preachers, will occupy the pulpit. There will be services forenoon, afternoon and evening. There will also be arrangements for the entertainment of guests with refreshments at the church. The public is cordially invited to attend the services.
While Jacob BARTMAN and Charles ERB were returning home to Harleysville, from the residence of Samuel LANDIS, near Lederachville, last Wednesday afternoon, and in making the turn at the turnpike, the horse started off rather suddenly, throwing both occupants out and upsetting the wagon. The horse ran as far as the residence of Rev. Jacob MOYER, where it was halted. Mr. BARTMAN received several ugly bruises, though not serious, while the horse received a pair of badly cut legs. The wagon was almost a total wreck.
Orlando BROWSE, a farmer residing at New Hanover, lost a valuable cow this week by a peculiar accident. The cow fell into a well and was drowned. Mr. BROWSE had just had a well dug in a field near his barn, which was not yet walled. This well was only protected by a covering of some light boards, and over this slight protection a large apple tree had been blown by a storm. The tree had the fruit still hanging on the branches. Mr. BROWSE's brother from Pottstown, was a visitor at the farm the day of the accident. He noticed the slimly protected well and also the cattle grazing in the same field, and remarked to his brother, that it was a dangerous place for the animals. During the day a fine cow that Mr. BROWSE had purchased just a week before for $50 was attracted by the apples and ventured upon the boards in order to get to the lower limbs. Under her heavy weight the floor gave way with a crash and the animal was thrown into the well, the very accident that his brother had prophesied a few hours before. When Mr. BROWSE went to look for his bovines that night he found that his favorite animal was missing and a further search revealed the fact that she had fallen into the well and was dead. Her neck had been broken by the fall and it was with great difficulty that she was removed from the pit.
The John HANCOCK Company, of Philadelphia, contemplates building four large ice dams and a similar number of ice houses along the Hosensack creek, in the vicinity of Hosensack, Lehigh county. The company has secured the necessary property for the building of the dams and houses. The deeds for the properties were on Monday acknowledged in the city of Allentown. Only one of the dams will be erected this fall together with two large ice storage houses on a tract of 47 acres of land, purchased from Daniel N. SCHULTZ and Henry STAUFFER.
Next year one dam is to be built on land purchased from Samuel MILLER, and two on the MECHLING farm, about a half mile above the first dam. The latter three dams will cover about one hundred acres of land. A railroad siding of one and a quarter miles in length will also be built, the surveyors being at work for several days in locating the route. Lumberman Oliver BECK, of Bally, has the contract to furnish the lumber for the building as well as the sills for the siding and he already has a large number of workmen engaged in felling timber from which to cut the necessary lumber. The J.C. HANCOCK Ice Company has four large ice houses and dams along the Perkiomen Creek and yearly pay out a large amount of money as wages.
The congregation of St. Mark's Lutheran church tendered a formal welcome to their new pastor and his wife, Rev. and Mrs. W.U. KISTLER, on Thursday evening. About four hundred persons were present. The pulpit platform was beautified by ferns, palms and many other potted plants along with many bouquets. The services were opened with an anthem by the choir after which the congregation sang, "Peace be Within this Sacred Place." Rev. WAAGE of St. Paul's Lutheran church who had charge of the services led in the devotional services after which he introduced Melvin A. KURTZ, a student at the Mt. Airy Lutheran Seminary, and who is also a son of the congregation. In some very well chosen sentiments he expressed a hearty welcome of the pastor on the part of the congregation. The Sunday-school, the individual and the community at large. Then addresses followed by Rev. C.M. DELONG, Rev. O.S. KRIEBEL and by Rev. O.F. WAAGE.
An anthem having been sung by the choir the Pastor gave an appropriate response expressing his thanks for the many kindnesses rendered. The Doxology and Benediction closed the order of service and reception was given by Rev. and Mrs. KISTLER. After this a grand feast of good things was partaken of by all present.
Jacob C. GODSHALL, of Morwood, has reached the age of sixty-eight years, and is considered a great marksman. During the heavy rains on Wednesday the creeks in his neighborhood were very high and he was out with his gun looking for muskrats. He spied a flock of wild ducks coming towards him and shot six of them. Four were shot on one shot.
Ex-District Attorney Jacob S. GOTWALTS, a veteran and rugged figure in the Democratic politics of Montgomery County, who voted in both the conventions that nominated TILDEN and PARKER, presided at an enthusiastic meeting of Democrats on Tuesday to organize a club. It was decided to rent rooms and effect a permanent organization next week and wage an earnest campaign for PARKER and DAVIS.
Some miscreant fired a load of shot into the udder of one of farmer William LIDKA's cows at Salford Station. The supposition is that the person did the act intentionally, and if the guilty person will be found out Mr. LIDKA will prosecute him to the full extent of the law.
William DIEROLF, a farmer of Frederick, has finished cutting his corn for this season. He was the first in that section to get through with that work.
There has recently been a vacancy created for the position of tax collector in the Township, of Colebrookdale, Berks County and as a result two applicants sprung up simultaneously for the position. They were Abrahem GEHRET and John HARING. Both applicants were eager for the position and were not sitting down and waiting for the appointment. To the contrary they were out hustling a petition among their friends and both got a large number of signers. Mr. GEHRET's petition contained 233 signatures and Mr. HARING'S 261. The petitions were presented to the Berks county court on Thursday and to the courts surprise one hundred and twenty-five had signed both petitions. These were deducted and after it was done Mr. HARING had 136 signers while Mr. GEHRET had only 108. As a result of having the most signers, Mr. HARING received the appointment.
James TAGERT, of Sassamansville, had the misfortune of having a toe smashed this week. He was working at the Boyertown reservoir when a large stone accidentally fell on his foot and smashed a toe.
The postponed picnic of the St. Paul's Lutheran congregation, of near Red Hill, will be held this afternoon, in the grove near the church. Rev. P.Y. SHELLY, of Phillipsburg, N.J., a brother-in-law of the pastor, Rev. O.F. WAAGE, will make an address at three o'clock.
Warren S. MATTES, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin B. MATTES had the misfortune last Sunday of severely injuring his left foot by getting of the wagon and slipping and the foot catching between the spokes of the wheel.
While John G. KEYSER was out driving last Sunday his horse tread in a nail. The horse is quite lame of it.
Peter A. METZ lost a horse last Saturday by blood poisoning.
Samuel M. MOYER thrashed all his grain last week. Elias T. GRATER did it with his gasoline engine.
Abram H. KRATZ used his gasoline engine to fill the silos of Frank H. FOX.
Wm. KINSEY bought a gasoline engine last week from Abraham DRESHER, of Worcester.
Mrs. Jacob MENSCH is getting a little better.
Horace B. FENSTERMACHER on Tuesday moved from Skippack to Towamensing, into the tenant house of Joseph ALLEBACH.
Albert, the four year old son, of Frank ROHRBACH, of Niantic, who died of summer complaint, was buried on Saturday, at the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
Frank JANSEN purchased the property at present tenanted by Wm. KUHNS, at public sale last Saturday for $250. It was sold by Wm. A. SCHALL.
Aaron EDDINGER has improved his property by placing cement walks about the house.
Henry EDDINGER this week had additional cement walks placed in his yard.
Edward BAUER is suffering from injuries received from a horse's kick, about two years ago.
H.G. HERB will offer 50 head of steers and heifers at public sale this afternoon, at the Schultzville hotel.
The personal property of the late Mrs. John BOOSER will be sold at public sale, next Saturday.
Miss Emma CLEMMER of Allentown, spent several days at home with her parents.
W.A. CLEMMER and daughter Emma were in Boyertown on Monday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. William DENNIS moved to Allentown to their daughter.
Mr. RENNINGER's horse of Congo while delivering calves to Alfred CLEMMER's shied on account of another man's team and ran over a fence into the field.
Mr. and Mrs. Josephus GERHARD and daughter Helen were in Allentown on a visit to their daughter, Rev. and Mrs. E.E. KRESGE.
Herbert SCHUECK has a sore foot.
Ambrose ACKERMAN also has a sore foot.
Two dams will be build, one north of Daniel SCHULTZ's mill and another near Hosensack station. There are plans for two others near the second one, but it is intended to build only two this fall.
Oliver BECK, of Bally, is preparing lumber to build an ice house for the J.C. HANCOCK Ice Company.
It is reported that the dams which the J.C. HANCOCK Ice Company will erect above Daniel SCHULTZ's mill will increase the water power of his mill fifty per cent.
Reuben ROEDER, of this place exchanged some woodland with the J.C. HANCOCK Ice Company on other land which benefits him considerable.
George SHOEMAKER has returned home and now attends school.
The Xray machine in the office of Dr. BENNER is in splendid working order and has treated many patients already. He will not be at home on Sundays, but can be seen at his Philadelphia office.
Samuel HUGHES quite recently received a fine upright piano for his parlors at the Zieglerville hotel.
Frank SCHWENK, of Schwenksville, has sale of cattle about every Monday. H.H. FAUST, of Frederick, also has numerous sales at the Perkiomen Hotel, Schwenksville.
A.E. BORTZ agent pro tem at Schwenksville, for three months this summer, has been relieved by the regular agent G.M. CARL and will resume charge of Zieglerville station on Tuesday. Fred BAUMAN, agent pro tem, will return to Schwenksville as operator.
Mr. and Mrs. J.B. CLEMENS attended the anniversary at the Mennonite Home Frederick on Saturday.
D.S. ZERN sold thirteen cows at GODSHALL's hotel on Tuesday at an average of $51.
Levi MUSSELMAN traded horses with Harry HARTZEL on Wednesday.
Alvin GODSHALL, an employee of Chestnut Hill Park, was in town over Sunday.
Samuel SCHULER and Misses Maggie SCHULER and Edna SCHULER visited relatives at Reading from Saturday until Monday.
Mrs. Jessiah CRESSMAN and friend Laura, of near Rittersville, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Allen GRACELY.
Jacob WALLACH, of Boyertown, received a carload of fine horses at this station, on Sunday night. He had disposed of the entire lot at private sale at the public house of N.H. LEESER, before Monday noon.
Chas. CONRAD and wife, of near Pennsburg, were the guests of his brother Allen and family, at this place.
H.H. SCHULTZ unloaded two cars of stock and Henry SCHELL one car during this week.
Miss Ella LESHER who was employed with N.H. LEESER for several weeks, returned home.
Mrs. WALLACE, a boarder at the hotel here for several weeks, returned to her home in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Wm. HOFFMAN and grand-daughter, Minnie, spent Tuesday with Joseph HOFFMAN and family, at Fruitville.
Our school has opened on Monday and has 38 pupils enrolled. Ida MESCHTER, is the teacher.
George M. DIEHL, of Philadelphia, and David B. DIEHL, of Clayton, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M.M. GERY.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel GREGORY and grand-daughter were the guests of Misses Amelia and Sarah WIEGNER, of Chapel.
Albert MOLL, of Huffs Church is thrashing grain for the farmers in our neighborhood with his gasoline engine.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. GERY and daughter Sallie were the guests of Alvin ALBITZ and family, at Chapel.
Constable M.M. GERY and Jacob M. GERY were in Reading, attending court.
The school opened on Monday with twelve scholars. Miss Sallie MOLL is the teacher.
Mr. and Mrs. John A. SNYDER and daughter, Iva, of Landis Store, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. M.M. GERY.
Constable M.M. GERY was at Bally, on official business.
Constable W.H.H. HEIL, of Upper Milford, was here on business.
Titus COVELY, of Emaus, was the guests of David G. COVELY and family.
G. Henry HILDEBRAND and Eugene DENGLER, accompanied by their wives, spent last Wednesday and Thursday at Atlantic City.
The bay horse of Henry LANDIS, which figured in a runaway Monday of last week, was killed on Saturday at KLINE's hotel.
Mrs. Elizabeth HORNING, of Cleveland, O., visited her brother, Dr. R.K. KEELER and family, Sunday.
Rev. Frank GABEL, of Philadelphia, will hold services in the chapel on Sunday evening at 7.15 o'clock.
David H. CASSEL and Rein FREED are attending the West Chester State Normal School this season.
Thomas WOOD and wife, of Philadelphia, visited the family of Joseph M. CASSEL on Sunday.
William and Annie KEYSER, of Lansdale, spent Sunday with Reuben KEYSER and family.
Russell KEELER and Harry WAMPOLE entered Perkiomen Seminary Monday.
The S.S. DELP farm, in this township, will be sold by the Sheriff on September 21.
H.H. FAUST had a fair cow sale at the Green Tree hotel on Monday.
C.W. MARKLEY is making extensive improvements on his newly purchased property.
Miss Emma WEIDA, of Topton, spent several days with her nephew, Dr. G.A. WEIDA.
Frank SLEMMER who for a number of years worked in the Green Tree creamery has left and gone to Mr. FISHER at Quakertown, to which place he moved on Tuesday. Mr. KEYSER from Obelisk is his successor.
N.A. SEASHOLTZ has returned from St. Louis well pleased with the exposition.
Frank BRUNST and family were visiting at Berwyn on Sunday.
Howard MOORE who has summer complaint is slowly improving.
Mrs. James FAUST has a large tomato which weighs about two pounds. It was raised on good Republican soil.
David KULP, of Washington, was the guest of Frank BRUNST last week.
N.A. SEASHOLTZ will have public sale of fine cows in the near future.
Robert BROOKE, of near this place, has peaches for sale.
Mr. and Mrs. W.B. FRICK, made a trip to Baltimore and Washington this week. They went by boat from Philadelphia. They expect to return home today and will take up their residence at Pottstown, which they recently furnished.
Mr. and Mrs. William DENNIS and Mr. and Mrs. John ROBERTS and daughter were the guests of Samuel SCHULTZ on Sunday.
Benjamin GRESSLY is spending the week in Reading to serve his appointment as juryman for the September court.
Mabel SCHULTZ, of Allentown, who spent a week at the home of her father, Samuel SCHULTZ near Chapel, returned to Allentown.
Church services will be held at Chapel tomorrow evening by the Rev. SCHUMAN.
Webster, the son of Horatio SCHULTZ, near Hereford, who is employed in Philadelphia, has come home to spend a week's vacation.
John F. SEASHOLTZ will have sale with Southern Ohio cows at the Red Hill Hotel on Monday, Sept. 26.
Geo. WELKER and wife were in Allentown on business on Monday.
John F. SEASHOLTZ will have private sale with a carload of Crawford county cows and bulls this afternoon and Monday at the Red Hill hotel.
Melvin WELKER returned to F. & M. College on Tuesday.
Chas. MOTZ received two carloads of lime.
Ralph OFFNER is confined to the house with sickness.
Amanda, wife of Tighlman FLUCK died on Saturday afternoon. She is survived by a husband and four children and one sister and two grandchildren. She was buried on Wednesday at the St. John's church. Rev. W.U. KISTLER officiated.
Frederick HOTTENSEN who was away for some time is home again.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. PROFFE were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Howard DISE on Sunday.
Mrs. Henry WEAND and daughter, Katie, spent the week in Lansdale, as guests of Mr. and Mrs. O.S. KRAUSE.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph KRAUSS moved into the tenant house of Mrs. Harrison KRAUSS on Tuesday.
Mrs. Aaron CARL, who had been seriously ill, is rapidly recovering.
I.Y. KRAUSS has given his barn a new coat of paint this week.
Eugene DREHS filled his silo. John LATSHAW done the work.
Our school opened on Monday with 22 scholars enrolled. Miss Addie HOFFMAN is teacher.
Those noticed in town over Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. FLEESON, of Philadelphia, Addie RIEGNER and children, of Sassamansville and Mrs. and Mrs. Henry ZERN, of Pleasant Run.
Rufus RENNINGER, of Philadelphia, is spending his vacation with his parents Mr. and Mrs. H.H. RENNINGER.
Mr. and Mrs. O.H. ERDMAN left last week for St. Louis to visit his brother-in-law, Charles KEMMERER and family. They expect to take in the exposition and Mr. ERDMAN intends to go from there to the Yellow Stone Park.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis OTT spent Sunday in Allentown.
Elmer KRAMMES and Henry GEHO attended the Republican County Convention at Doylestown last Monday.
Rev. and Mrs. Samuel JOHNSON, of Marietta, Lancaster county, are here spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Frank KEMMERER.
Ellsworth MINNER, spent Saturday and Sunday visiting friends in Allentown.
Mrs. D.H. STRUNK spent a few days in Emaus this week.
Webster SCHULTZ, of Philadelphia, is under the parental roof.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Winslow FEGLEY spent Sunday with J. GERY, of Palm.
Our school opened on Monday with an enrollment of 25. Miss Daisy GERY is the teacher.
Elmer SHELLY moved into H.R. HARTZELL's house on Tuesday.
A social and dance was held in KOBER's hall on Saturday evening.
Frank CROMAN, of Philadelphia, moved into part of Charles FITZGERALD's house last week.
Hiram BRANDT is the first farmer of this vicinity to husk corn for this season.
Henry DIEHL is building a wagon shed.
Abraham SCHULTZ offers his farm for rent.
Emma the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. M. KEINERT who was very sick is slowly recovering. Dr. GERY attends the child.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin KASE on Monday.
The little frame house situated in Washington Township above DOTTERER's mill will be sold at public sale on Oct. 1, as the estate of Rebecca HERB.
Chickens were stolen from William YEAKEL's place Thursday night about 12 o'clock, he heard them but they got off before he came out. He measured the horse tracks and is sure of the party. If the party will not make satisfaction he will bring suit.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry S. STAUFFER, of Palm, visited the families of Samuel SHELLY and L. MUSSELMAN last Sunday.
Charles F. CHRISTMAN erected a new silo, which he is filling at present.
David BERKY lost his valuable horse by death on last Tuesday.
Henry GEISSINGER and family attended the anniversary of the Mennonite home for the aged at Frederick on last Saturday.
A daughter was born on Wednesday to Mr. and Mrs. David BERKY.
John, the two year old son, of Robert HULME, assessor of Upland borough, was the victim of a peculiar and serious accident on Tuesday afternoon. The boy was sitting in a chair, watching his mother pare potatoes, when he suddenly fell. His mother endeavored to catch him, but her knife struck him on the hand and inflicted a deep cut. He was taken to a hospital where it was discovered that the ligaments are severed, and that it may be necessary to amputate the injured hand.
Aged Mrs. Sarah H. PATTON, wife of John PATTON, a farmer, of Washington, Pa., on Wednesday died in terrible agony from lockjaw. A vicious hen pecked her on the hand a week ago, making a slight abrasion of the skin and tetanus developed.
F.J. HAHN, the proprietor of the Cherryville Road House, near Allentown while digging potatoes on Tuesday found one 10 1/2 inches in length and 11 3/4 inches around. It weighed 2 pounds and 5 ounces. This is a whopper and the genial proprietor thinks it hard to beat.
S.M. KECK, of Allentown, while out hunting woodchucks shot two extra large ones on the farm of Sylvester SHULER, near Siesholtzville, Berks county. The hogs weighed 14 and 16 pounds.
The German Philadelphia Conference of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, at its fall session at Norristown on Tuesday was asked by Dr. HAAS, president of Muhlenberg College, to help the college financially and aid him in the reorganization of the curriculum. Special stress was laid on the study of German, and it was the impression of the conference it would be given preference over Latin and Greek that the young ministers may be able to preach in German as well as English. During the missionary reports Rev. Hans MEYER, of Philadelphia, of the Seaman's Mission, asserted that most of the immigration is undesirable and derogatory, although the German influx is of higher character and more desirable.
David MOSES, a South Bethlehem Italian, reported at Emaus on Wednesday that he was robbed on a freight train, between Macungie and Emaus, of his money, satchel and coat by two white men and a colored man, and afterwards pushed off the train. When the train left Macungie the three men, who were entire strangers, pounced upon him with clubs and knives and gave him a severe beating as well as cutting two gashes in the face, one about the eye and one on the cheek. After they had robbed him of his money and goods they threw him off the moving train.
A carload of Nebraska yearling and two-year-old colts brought East by Abram SHELLY, a former Bucks countian, was sold at public sale on Monday at the home of Mr. SHELLY's father, Christian SHELLY, near Milford Square. The animals were well bred and brought good prices, the figures ranging from $28 to $148.
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