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Subject: [PABUCKS-L] News from Pennsburg - December 19, 1903
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 00:30:59 EST
Ref: Town and Country Newspaper
Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA
Saturday - December 19, 1903
IS SUING FOR DIVORCE
Mrs. Diana LICK, of Reading, has brought suit against her husband John M.
LICK, Jr., of near Niantic, to secure a divorce. She claims that he deserted her.
The couple were married at Gilbertsville, and have since been separated but
later fixed up matters and lived together in Schwenksville, Perkiomenville,
Pleasant Run and other places in this vicinity. She is a daughter of Henry FOX,
of Reading, formerly near Pleasant Run. Her husband is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
John LICK, of near Niantic.
HOUSING ICE ALONG THE PERKIOMEN
The owners of ice houses along the Perkiomen Creek are very busy at present
housing the first crop of ice. The J.C. Hancock Company is housing 10 and 12
inch ice at Powder Valley, Palm and Green Lane. Wm. H. BENFIELD, of Hillegass,
is filling his house near East Greenville with ice of similar thickness. Both
started work on Thursday. The ice is as clear as crystal.
FAMILY REUNION NEAR SPINNERSTOWN
A very pleasant family reunion was held on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin SEIBERT, of Lower Milford township, in honor of Mr. SEIBERT's 73rd
birthday anniversary. The children and grand children were all present. After the
usual greeting dinner was served. The following were present:
Mr. and Mrs. M.K. SEIBERT and sons Watson and Howard, of Allentown
Henry Wilson SEIBERT, of South Bethlehem
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin SEIBERT, Ogontz
Mr. and Mrs. E.T. SEIBERT and daughter Velma, Carpenter, Del.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry FINCK, Levin, Bucks county, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham GARIS and daughter Daisy, Point Pleasant, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan CASSEL and son Wilson, Lansdale
Mr. and Mrs. W.A. SMITH, Spinnerstown
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin SMITH, of Spinnerstown
Mr. and Mrs. Charles BOYER and children, Elmer, Charles and Mable,
Spinnerstown
Mrs. Eva HEIDLER, and children, Agnes, Lawrence and Minnie, Spinnerstown
Raymond and Emmerson KREIBLE, Miss Jennie and Mable KRIEBLE, Lansdale
Geo. C. RAWSON, Carpenter, Del.
DAMAGE CASE SETTLED OUT OF COURT
The noted damage case of Henry J. HEVENER, of Sumneytown, against the
American Ice Company, of Philadelphia with property located below Green Lane,
abutting land of Mr. HEVENER, was settled out of court. The case was to be called in
court this week, when the court was informed that it was settled by an
agreement between the parties.
RAT BITE CAUSES PAIN
James SEEDERS, of Pottstown merchant was recently bitten by a rat and this is
now causing him considerable pain. He is now under a physicians care.
FELL DOWN CELLAR STEPS
Mrs. Robert ESHBACH, of Pennsburg, on Tuesday evening fell down the cellar
steps at her home. She luckily escaped serious injury. Besides a number of
painful bruises she was not injured.
NEW ODD FELLOW LODGE
An Odd Fellows lodge will be instituted in Boyertown this evening. GRIM's
lodge rooms have been secured as a regular meeting place. Twenty-two candidates
of that town went to Douglassville several weeks ago and received the
initiatory degree, and these will institute the lodge at 1 p.m. this afternoon. In the
evening the lodge will be formally opened, and about thirty others will be
taken in as charter members. The name Boyertown Lodge I.O.O.F. has been adopted,
and the lodge takes its number of an old lodge that had disbanded. A Reading
degree team will be there to perform the ceremonies of initiation. 'Squire
HEINS, of Douglassville, the District Deputy of Berks county, will have charge of
the ceremonies. The new lodge starts out with bright prospects, and has a good
corps of officers to conduct the lodge at its opening. Prominent among those
who will be charter members of the new lodge are:
Councilman Levi E. LEFEAVER
Ira SHOBER
Councilman Augustus CONRAD
Irwin REIDNAUER
Dr. R.E. LEFEVRE
Wallace Y. REIGNER
John W. LEAVER
Amos THOMPSON
Thos. GOTTSHALL
Ed. REINERT
Oswin JACOBS
John B. HARTMAN
Lawyer Walter B. FREED
and others.
A number of members of the order living there but belonging to lodges
elsewhere, have promised to join the new lodge. The ceremonies this evening will end
with an elaborate banquet in the adjoining hall, which will be prepared by a
local caterer.
A LETTER FROM AN ILLINOIS SUBSCRIBER
Emanuel W. KRAUSS, of Milledgeville, Illinois, a son of George KRAUSS, of
East Greenville, this week sent us a years subscription in advance and tells us
about the crops and weather. He did not forget to tell us that he likes the
paper ever so much and congratulated us upon the manner it is gotten up. He
writes that their summer was awful wet, having lots of rain, but nevertheless they
had good crops. The oats yielded from 40 to 55 bushels to the acre and the
corn from 45 to 70. He says he raised some corn that yielded 75 bushels to the
acre, but it was not all solid corn. They had more or less soft corn which they
fed to the cattle. At present they have very cold weather and lots of snow. On
Sunday morning it was 25 degrees below zero.
NEWSPAPERS SUED UNDER THE MUZZLER
The Allentown evening papers, the Leader, the Chronicle and the Item are the
first to be sued under the muzzler act. The plaintiff is Charles HENRY, of
Danielsville. His grievance is that the Allentown papers printed a story to the
effect that HENRY escaped from a house at Danielsville that had been
quarantined on account of smallpox, that he had come to Allentown via Slatington and
that the Board of Health had issued an order for his arrest. The article was
printed at the request of the Board of Health. The plaintiff claims the
publication was in violation of the muzzler. The newspapers will fight the suits to the
bitter end.
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