Other Topics
Updated 05/21/2023
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"Do not lend your (news)paper and cheat the printer. People who do not pay for the papers they have read have the hardest kind of time trying to get to Heaven." - Schuylkill County Herald, Friday, March 19, 1880.
"The proprietor of the St. Elmo Hotel has a chicken which has attained the remarkable age of 14 years." - Reading Daily Eagle, Friday, April 23, 1880.
"Auburn has an old lady 94 years of age who is able to read and sew without glasses." - Pinegrove Herald, May 1880.
"George Hoffmaster, of Auburn, who is insane wandered away from home. He was seen in town on Monday. His friends are after him." - Pinegrove Herald, Friday, June 24, 1881.
"On Tuesday Mr. Charles H. Krammes made a narrow escape from serious if not fatal injuries, while engaged at work in Auburn. He filled his pipe to have a smoke, and had in the same pocket with his tobacco some cartridges, one of which got into his pipe, but it did not remain there long. After smoking a very short time the cartridge exploded shattering the pipe into pieces, but fortunately did not injure him." - Pinegrove Herald, Friday, November 18, 1881.
"TAKEN TO THE ASYLUM - The oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Mengel, about 2 miles south of town was removed to the state asylum at Harrisburg by county officials. The boy was kept in a store box from childhood." -Reading Eagle, February 12, 1896
"AN AUBURN ELOPEMENT - It is Thought That a Married Man Has Eloped with Another Man's Wife. Auburn is excited over an elopement. Samuel Heck, a married man who has a wife and five children, has disappeared, and the wife of Abraham Wildermuth, a coal train conductor, is also missing. When her husband returned home from work on Saturday he found her missing. About $45 in cash and all his clothing are missing. A thorough search was made but neither of the parties could be found.
Later it was learned that Heck had gone to Schuylkill Haven and hired a team. He then drove back to Auburn and, after loading up some of the woman's effects, drove to a near-by railroad station. Mrs. Wildermuth is a woman of large build and good appearance. Mr. Heck is 5 feet 4 inches in height, weighs about 115 pounds. He has sandy hair, parted in the middle." - An undated and non-sourced news article...possibly circa 1890s when Abraham Wildermuth is believed to have served as a conductor on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad at Auburn." - an undated and non-sourced news article which can be found on the website findagrave.com under the interment of Samuel Heck in Auburn, Schuylkill County, PA. Samuel Heck was born on April 30, 1862 in Schuylkill County, PA. He was the son of Abraham R. Heck and Elizabeth K. Fisher Heck. He was a brother of Benjamin Heck, Catharine Heck Sowers, Elisabeth Heck, John F. Heck, Mary Heck Mellon and Sarah F. Heck Hassler. He was a husband of Sophia E. Mengel Heck. He was stated to have had five children according to the above-cited newspaper article, but the website findagrave.com only lists four of those children. They are Alice M. Heck Morgan, Eva May Heck Koch, Frank Mengel Heck and John Frank Heck. However, two siblings obituaries list a (Charlotte?) "Lottie" (Ball) Bowen as a sister; and findagrave.com has the following notation on her page: "Wife of Joseph Bowman. Adopted daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Thomas) Ball. Believed to be the daughter of Samuel and Sophia (Mengel) Heck." Samuel is listed as having died in Allentown, Lehigh County, PA. He is cited as having been interred within the St. John's Church Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Auburn, Schuylkill County, PA; however, there is no physical evidence, nor burial or church records, to support that information. |
The Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania genealogy which was published in 1916 contained a biography of Auburn-area resident Horace D. Lindermuth who was instrumental in organizing the political Progressive Party. Within the biography it states that prior two-term U.S. President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt publicly recognized Horace's contributions to the political party during a speech he gave while visiting Auburn, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in October of 1914.
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