News: Items From the People's Register, October 23, 1896, Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA Contributed and transcribed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Abby Bowman Copyright 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/franklin/ _______________________________________________ Items From the People's Register, Chambersburg, PA, October 23, 1896 PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS Mrs. J. H. Mitten, of Greencastle, continues to improve in health. Mrs. Annie E. Scott, is on a visit to her sister Mrs. John Beaver, Altoona, Pa. Harry W. Hefflebower and wife, Middlespring, are on a driving trip to Perry county. Tom J. Stumbaugh formerly of town, is now manager of the Shawnee, Oklahome, Daily Capital. Mr. Harry H. Myers, Pen Mar, will close Hotel imperial this week and move to Chambersburg. Mrs. Mary Lerch left for York last Saturday morning on a visit to her daughter Mrs. S. A. Gallatine. Andrew Eiker has had an operation for cataract performed upon his eyes. His recovery of sight is hoped for. Mrs. Catherine Crowe, of Kekuna, Wisconsin, visited friends in Sunbeam, last week after an absence of thirty-two years. Mrs. Kate Knepper, of Mont Alto, was eighty-one years old on the 15th inst., and celebrated the event by walking to Mt. Zion to church, a distance of one mile. Rev. B. I. Behney has been returned to the Church of God at Shippensburg for the third year by the Eldership, which was held at Elizabethtown, closing Tuesday night. Miss Mary Mengel is back from a visit to her mother, in Reading. Miss Mengel has been greatly missed by her many friends and patrons of Greenawalt's drug store. Miss Belle Snively, Greencastle, has entered Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia, to become a trained nurse. Mrs. Rebecca Mort, of Shade Gap, is on a six weeks' visit to her sister, Mrs. Cowan, near McConnellsburg. R. S. McElwain, teacher of the male second grammer school in this place, and Dr. J. M. Kuhn, junior partner of the drug firm of Kuhn & Co., Mercersberg, are both ill, but are improving slowly. Mrs. D. W. Trout, of McConnellsburg, is on a visit to friends in this place. Mrs. H. B. Craig of Welsh Run, is spending a week with her daughter, Mrs. Ira Shoemaker. Plumber S. Guyer Etter and family have returned from a visit of a few days to friends in Johnstown. Mrs. Clarence Chritzman of Welsh Run, is spending some time with her brother, Dr. Mac Flickinger, at the old home near Fannettsburg. John Jones of Everett, who graduated from Mercersburg College last spring, has entered Dickinson Law School, Carlisle. Director of Poor L. C. Martin and Treasurer S. Miller Shillito are attending the state convention of poor directors at Altoona this week. Mrs. Matilda Noll, Greencastle, and Mrs. Mary E. Cline, Bunker Hill, W. Va., are the guest of Samuel Noll, East Franklin street. Prof. Robert Maurice Sherrard, whose critical illness in Pittsburg was mentioned in the REGISTER last week, is now reported as very slowly recovering. Clarkson Starlipper, who moved from Welsh Run to Shippensburg some months ago, has purchased one of John Hosfeld's houses on Normal Avenue, south of Orange street. Proprietor Geo. Lackhove, of the McAfee House, Mercersburg, and his family, spent several days of the past week with friends in Hagerstown. Miss Rebecca Seibert, of Mercersburg, is visiting the family of her brother, J. P. Seibert in Fannettsburg. Prof Stauffer, of Hagerstown, was in Mercersburg between trains on Friday. He will again organize a class in dancing for the fall and winter months. Jno R. Grove, this place, H. H. Seibert, Palmira, and Mrs. Nissly, Hummelstown, left Friady for Forreon(?), Mexico, where they will erect milling machinery for Aug. Wolf & Co. Joseph P. Ranney, Esq., formerly of the Washington hotel, has rented Mrs. Rosalie Senseny's house, on east Market street, and with his mother and sisters gone to housekeeping there. Mrs. A. Pollack, York, who is just home from Europe, is visiting her father, A. Reineman, Esq. Mrs. Shock, Selinsgrove, is the guest of the family of her brother Rev. E. H. Leisenring. Miss Letitia Jeffries, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, is among friends in this her former home. Mr. Lemuel Frye, Meddletown, Vermont, has been visiting friends in town and nearby. Rev. H. R. Schenck on Saturday made an address at the re-dedication of the Presbyterian church at Dickinson, Cumberland Co. Mr. W. Bronson Orr, left this morning for Princeton to attend the aesquicentennial celebration there. Miss Gillen, East Queen street, gave a whist party on Friday evening in honor of her guest, Miss Krebs of Clearfield. Miss Mary E. L. Hayman has come in from Mont Alto, Lanston, to spend the Winter. Mrs. Rosalie Senseny and daughter Miss Jeanne are visiting at the Claremont House, Claremont. Mrs. Catharine Minehart, Pleasant Hall, who had been visiting her son, Thos. Z. Minehart, Esq., of this place has returned to her home. Rev. Isaiah Sprenkle, Roadside, has gone on a pleasure trip through the west. His visit will cover a period of two months and will extend as far west as Colorado. Mrs. L. A. Shoemaker, Philadelphia, is visiting Mrs. A. M. Greenawalt, East Queen street. Geo. Thrush, of the firm of Thrush & Stough, carriage builders, Shippensburg, while in Waynesboro a few days ago was taken very sick and it was necessary to take him home. He is now improving. Miss Frances E. Collins, who has been visiting in Lancaster and Columbia has returned home much pleased and benefited by her visit. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shover and daughter Nora, of west Market street are visiting in Easton and Philadelphia. Mrs. Elizabeth McCune and daughter Lillie of Shippensburg, went to Rouserville on Friday and remained until Monday, the guests of Miss Mary McCune, who is teaching there. W. E. Guthrie, formerly of this place, now superintendent of the Hagerstown electric light plant, has accepted the position of superintendent of the electric light plant, at Norwalk, Connecicut [sic]. Mr. George L. Sollenberger, of Antrim township, has entered the West Chester State Normal School as a student. J. f. Lininger, Bridgeport, Conn., is visiting his father in Marion. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Beaver, of Clay Hill, are being congratulated for the advent of a nice little girl baby recently added to the family. This is the first child. Mrs. Beaver is at present spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. Ocker, of Marion. Mother and child are doing well. Mr. Paul Summers, of Shady Grove, made a trip to Harrisburg recently and secured a position as traveling salesman, or agent, for a Buffalo, N.Y. book house through its general agents, Torrence & Curil. He has not yet selected his territory, but will do so shortly and leave to perform his duties. Rev. Dr. H. Lewis Baugher, Gettysburg, will likely go to Baltimore to accept a call. St. Paul's Lutheran congregation will vote on his name on Wednesday, Oct. 28. Chas. A. Mitchell, who undertook the job of umpiring in the Cumberland Valley League last season, is announced as the manager of the Roanoke team for 1897. They think his umpiring in the Virginia League in 1895 was superior and anticipate this of is qualifications as a manager. Mr. Harry Johnston, a former town boy but now of Altoona, is visiting among friends in town. Albert Livingstone, of Dickinson College, Carlisle, visited friends in town the past week, and stopped at the Washington.