News: Items From the Dillsburg Weekly Bulletin, March 24, 1916, Dillsburg, York County, PA

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Items From the Dillsburg Weekly Bulletin, Friday, March 24, 1916

Barn Burned.

Fire, which was evidently of incendiary origin, destroyed the barn, carriage 
shed and corn crib of Rev. U. G. Seifert, near Rossville, shortly after noon, 
Monday.  Mr. Seifert and a son had gone to Mechanicsburg with the team, while 
Mrs. Seifert and another son, aged about fifteen years, who was ill with the 
measles, were at home.  The fire was first seen in the straw mow and neighbors, 
who saw the fire, gathered and got out the automobile and some of the 
implements.  The buildings and their contents, hay, straw, corn, oats, etc., 
were entirely consumed.  Mr. Seifert had only a nominal insurance, the carriage 
house, which was newly erected, was uninsured and other improvements, which 
included a tin roof on the barn, put on not long ago, makes a heavy loss for Mr. 
Seifert.


C. E. Social

A St. Patrick’s Day Social was held at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Porter, last 
Thursday evening, by the Christian Endeavor Society of Monaghan Presbyterian 
Church.  Various games and diversions were engaged in and delicious refreshments 
were served to the guests, who numbered about thirty.


A Farewell Reception

Mr. H. L. Miller and Mr. C. K. Bushey were tendered a reception at the home of 
Mr. Miller, on Saturday evening, by the classes of which they were teachers, in 
St. Paul’s Lutheran Sabbath School.  Mr. Bushey was just recently elected as 
teacher, while Mr. Miller has been teacher of the Women’s Bible Class for a good 
many years.  Both Mr. Miller and Mr. Bushey and their families will leave us, 
Mr. Miller moving to Lemoyne and Mr. Bushey to Camden, N.J.  We very much regret 
to see these folks leave us.  Both these brothers have served on the Church 
Council and the Lutheran Church and Sabbath School will lose some faithful 
laborers for Christ.  The following persons attended:

Mrs. H. E. Rhodes, Mrs. D. A. Kimmel, Mrs. L. A. Arndt, Mrs. Robert McClure, 
Mrs. G. C. Fishel, Mrs. Susan Dick, Miss Sarah Baker, Mrs. Charles Blausser, Mr. 
and Mrs. O. M. Bushman, Mrs. Milton E. Shultz, Mrs. I. J. Seiple, Mrs. H. A. 
Weber, Rev. and Mrs. G. H. Eveler, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Miller, Mrs. George 
Seibert, Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Bushey, Mrs. Clarence Bollinger, Mrs. Jas Mummert, 
Mrs. Edward Bowman, Mrs. Wm. Stouffer, Mrs. Philip Lehmer, Mrs. Peter Spath, 
Mrs. David Wagner, Mrs. Lizzie Bentz, Mrs. James Rupp, Mr. Milton Deardorff, 
Mrs. Lydia Wolf, Mrs. George Harlan, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grove, Mrs. Beatty.


SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

W. A. M. Pease, of Marysville, Pa., visited friends in this vicinity Saturday 
and Sunday.  Mr. Pease had not been in Dillsburg for about five years.  He is 
employed by the Penna. R. R. and has been for quite a number of years.  He paid 
the Editor a call, the first time we have met in more than ten years.

Mr. C. W. Gross, of Gettysburg street, has been ill for several days.

Mr. James H. Floyd has sold his farm in Carroll Township to Tolbert Bitner, of 
Monoghan Township.

Peter F. Brown has sold his small farm, near Dillsburg, to T. J. Hollinger.  The 
sale was effected by the Ira L. Heikes Real Estate and Insurance Agency.

The annual banquet of the Young Men’s Democratic Society, of York, was attended 
by 112 persons, Thursday night.  The speakers were Hon. Byron P. Harrison, of 
Mississippi; Hon. Arthur Dewalt, of Penna.; Hon. Kent E. Keller, of Illinois, 
and Robert S. Bright, of Philadelphia.  All the speakers praised the President.

At the regular meeting of Dillsburg Conclave, No. 306, I. O. H., last Thursday 
evening, Robert P. Smith was elected Treasurer to succeed C. K. Bushey, who 
resigned, on account of leaving Dillsburg.

John Arnold, who had been employed at a laundry in Selins Grove, has resigned, 
and is now working for the Strayer Steam Laundry, in Carlisle.

The Church of God Sunday School at Mt. Pleasant will hold an oyster supper at 
the home of Eli Heiges, Thursday, March 30th.

The will of Mary E. Bitner, of Monaghan township, was admitted to probate 
Wednesday in the office of Register of Wills Bupp.