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Pa. letters THE of the been VOLUME UI KUTZTOWN, PA., THURSDAY, AUG. 5, 1926 No. 11 ktate of %r .ed to hav- -t the KRONINGER REUNION BERKS DETOURS LEGION PLANS OUTING BUSINESS OUTLOOK GOOD |re re- UGHTNING GIVES ^sarce, The seventh annual reunion of the Detours in Berks county maintained SPOHN PREPARING Hoch-Balthaser Post, Xo. 480, In the basic figures underlying BOROUGH WUl HIRE led ad- Kroninger Family will take place in at present are: American Legion, Kutztown, at its business and financial conditions is WOMAN RAD SCARE the Kutztown Park, Kutztown, Sun Robesonia-Bernville — Best route, TO REBUILD BARN ' monthly meeting Monday evening, de found very little to warrant undue day, Aug. 29, 1926, to which all the Bernville road from Reading via cided to hold an outing for the mem alarm as to the outlok. Consider ADDITIONAL POLICE members and friends are cordially in Schuylkill avenue bridge. Optipnal bers and their families at Kutz's able loose talk has been indulged in 1 itors. Strikes During Severe Storm vited. The Grimville Band has been route. Wernersville, Hain's Church, l Mill, Sunday afternoon, Aug. 29. The and sentiment developed that the ley. engaged. A program has been ar past State Hill Orchards to State Hill. Carpentering and Masonry Con idea of holding a big public picnic for promise of the future is not so good More Protection Needed For While Mrs. Yoder and Children ranged by the committee to be ren Blue March, Mt. Pleasant. left on tracts -Already -Assigned — the benefit of the Legion was aban as was indicated the first part of this Week of the Fair Secretary dered in the afternoon promptly at Bernville road; or Pottsville Pike to doned. Arrangements are being year.. It is difficult to conclude that Were Alone—Knocks Switches 2 o'clock, as follows: Mohrsville ,to Centerport, left at store made through F. B. Willis, proprie we are facing this year any major ringer, Thank Firemen and Neighbors. Turns Over $25 in Fines Re Berks Invocation. Rev. George W. Friteh; to Bernville. tor of the local motion picture thea reaction. nd Telephone From Walls hymn, "America," family; opening Wyomissing-State Hill—lôad from Loss Heavy tres, for the running of special reels It may be possible that by the third ceived From Squire ters of recitation, "Our Flag," Miss Margaret Sinking Spring to State Hill suggest appropriate to the legion's work, the quarter of the year business will have "ie ab- tanted Boger; recitation^ Herman Klofiz: ed; no detour recommended by the proceeds to be added to the legion's slowed up, but industrial leaders have fMv<. II. B. Yoder was given a ter- piano solo. Miss Frances Rahn: State Highway Department. treasury. fortified themselves fully, and the The borough chief of police was in recitation. Miss Daisy M. Kroninger; Black Bear-Yellow House — Best Struck by a bolt of liehtning, the policy being pursued is a warrant Ibie scare Friday evening. A severe large hay and grain shed filled with structed to hire additional patrolmen iiectrical storm was at its height vocal and instrumental music, Luther route via Douglassville. REPUBLICANS TO HOLD RALLY against undue disturbance of prices for service during Fair week, ac Friteh and Miss Florence Friteh; Kutztown - Krumsville - Kempton— hay and Avheat, on the farm of Wil or conditions. With credit undoubt when a bolt struck her home. First liam O. Spohn. near Krumsville. was IN KUTZTOWX PARK AUG. 28 cording to a motion passed by the it struck a tree in the yard and from recitation, George Friteh, jr.. histor For points north and west of Krums edly sound too much importance town council of this borough at its ical address. Rev. George Friteh: ville, Pottsville Pike to Hamburg, destroyed. Heroic assistant? by should not be atached to the disturb there it entered the attic, passing to neighbors and the KAtzto^Wn Fire Saturday, Aug. 28, has been decid August meeting Monday evening. second floor, where it followed business meeting; closing hymn, thence to Lenhartsville and Krums ed upon for the Republican rally in ance in the stock market. A number Report wa_ made by the chairman "Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me." family; ville is suggested. For points east, Company saved all the jjjj_ier build of stocks had reached too high a ra. the electric wires, tearing out the ings on the farm, as well as the live Kutztown Park, to be held by the of the tire und police committee that switches in two rooms. Under the benediction. use state road marked detour. Women's Council of Kutztown. This level and a natural readjustment was the order for fire hose had been ; f. t. a. The officers of the clan are as fol stock and many implements. The not unsound. Commercial bankers Boor li_rht in the living room a hole loss i.s estimated at $10,000. partly was agreed upon by the officers, who filled. The secretary reported that l-6t in the carpet was found and the floor lows: President, John Kroninger, Others Xearby met at the home of Susan H. Kauf- | have bpen disbursing credit in a eon- $25 in fines had been turned over to Emaus; vice-president, Howard ?latington-Palmerton — Three and covered by insurance. The bolt boards at that point were splintered. : man Saturday- evening. The rally will servative way. Inventories are in him by John W. Rhode, justice of s Thence it passed to the telephone Kroninger, Kutztown; treasurer), five-tenths ' mil_. in length, over stone struck at 4.in p. m. with a terrific be held at 7.30 p. m. and the general general reasonable. The backward the peace, the fines having been im fol- wires and then to the ground. Theodore J. Kroninger, and secretary, and earth roa*_s, condition, fair. Le crash, the rain falling in sheets, in the washing out roads and fields. public is invited. A regular meeting season in the agricultural districts is posed by the Squire for various in- >unty, Mra. Voder was alone with her Irvin D. Kroninger. Kr.tztown, R. D. highton borough, fair condition. of the council will be held at the resi given some concern, but we have seen . fractions of the law, three of $5 and 1; historian, Rev. George W. Friteh, Mr. Spohn and his son-in-law, Her llowed children at the time. Her husband is McAdoo borough, two miles in bor dence of Susan Kaufman Friday eve this happen before and good crops one ot" $10. |g. 21, Macungie. I ough. bert J. Schlenker, wêre at the win Jry be atendiag summer school at Columbia ning, Aug. 6, at 8 o'clock. prevail in spite of such conditions. University. She realized the bolt had Frackville-Gilberton — Two and dows watching the storm, when there Gutter Improvements Fish- was a blinding flash and a moment To sum up, there ie no c_tuse for |ch, a struck the house. When she went Mrs. Helen Snyder Christ, accom one-tenth miles over earth and ma William E. Myers, accompanied by The highv\-y committee, Mr. Seig- [Berks for the electric light switch, she found panied by several friends, enjoyed a cadam roads, in fair condition. St. later flames burst from the shed. alarm and the ordinary cautious pro fried, chairman, reported that the June Donning hats and raincoats they his mother, brother-in-law and sister, it not in its place. Of course, the week's trip through the Shenandoah Clair borough, 1.8 miles, in fair con of Bethlehem, went to Philadelphia to cedure of business should be followed gutter on Main Street from the bridge house was thrown into darkness and Valley. dition. rushed to the barn and began the to the railroad property had been work of saving livestocl,. Two horses visit an aunt of Mr. Myers, who is with assurances of reasonable and there was an odor of something quite ill. proper results. completed, and that work was now burnt. When she went to the phone were freed from their halters and in progress on the catch basin front she could not use it. driven from the barn and the mem ing Mr. Baer's property on Main SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF THIS DISTRICT TO bers of the family worked frantically Street. The committee also reported Goes for Neighbor to push out of the doomed structure CHILDREN OF TOPTON ORPHANS' HOME that digging was under way on the In the pouring rain Mrs. Yoder as many implements as possible. lower end of Greenwich Street so as w went for her neighbor, Mrs. Hettie HOLD UNION PICNIC IN KUTZTOWN PARK Xeighhors Help TO BE ENTERTAINED AT KUTZTOWN FAIR to install the necessary pipe lines. Karto, who came to her assistance at Alvin F. Buck and Herbert C. Kist Mr. Bear reported that he was not once. With a lantern they went ler, immediate neighbors of the Spohn in a position to complete the pipe through the house learning what Fifth Annual Event Set for Coming Saturday—Fine Programs for family, were first to arrive and with line, until after a grade on this road damage had been done. The plaster Will Be Admitted Free to All Shows of the Carnival Company On bed had been determined. The curb, Forenoon and Afternoon—More Than 1,000 Members and their aid many of the most valuable ing in one room had been thrown farm implements were dragged to the Midway—Vaudeville Program in Front of Grand Stand pavement and gutter should be raised down a large hole torn out where the Friends Expected to Attend—Committees Busy safety.

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