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BLOOMING GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNALS
1980 - 1989

 

1980        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 1

Christley Heim by Ephrim Shafer Page 4
Dr. Frederick Haller by Jay W. Page 7
Early Settlement by Ruben D. Ulmer Page 12
The Old Blooming Grove Church, (poem by Lewis Franklin Koch) Page 14
Apple Butter Boiling in Shafer Memorial grove by Blanche Page 16
The Susquehanna Baptist Union of German Baptist Churches by Charles B. Heim Page 18

 

1981        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 2

The museum: Today’s Treasure House by Paul G. Gilmore Page 4
The Harmony Society --- The Harmonists --- The Economies by Charles B. Heim Page 9
 Ephriam Shafer by Horace Shafer Page 22
Early Blooming Grove by Joseph H. McMinn Page 24

 

1982        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 3 

The Organ by Margie Hartman Page 4
Excerpts from “Westward Bound” by Melvin J. Heim and Mary Heim Bilsing Page 5
Aunt Sabina Ulmer ---- Last of the 5th Generation by Sabina Ulmer Page 18

Lycoming County’s “Great Hail Storm” reprinted from the Williamsport Sun, July 16, 1951 

Page 21
Horse Insurance Company Page 24

 

1983        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 4

J. Harold Shafer Page 4
Cost of Museum Page 6
The Literary Society of Balls Mills, by Paul G. Gilmore Page 7
The David E. Lehman Store Page16
The Factory School in Hepburn Township, by Clarence E. Mutchler Page 17
Congregation Put to Sleep – from the Sun Gazette Page 21
Excerpts from “Western Bound”, by Melvin J. Heim and Mary Heim Bilsing Page 22
A letter from Nebraska, by Arthur W. Heim Page 34
The Balls Mills Naval Academy Page 36

 

1984        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 5

Historical Sketch of Warrensville Page 4

Warrensville, in the Eighteen Nineties and Early Nineteen Hundreds, by Mark T. Milnor  and  William E. Derone

Page 12
Eldred Township – Lloyd’s History, 1929 Page 18
Warrensville Debating  Society Page 19
Excerpts from “Westward Bound”, by Melvin J. Heim and Mary Heim Bilsing Page 21

 

1985        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 6

The Walking Purchase Hoax of 1737, by Robert A. Heim Page 4
The 1817 Emigration from Moehringen, by Rev Traugott Scheytt of Moehringen Page 7

Report from the Bulletin of the Evangelical Congregation of  Wurttemberg, by Traugott Scheytt,  Pastor

Page 10
Do you know? Page11
A Letter, by Michael Stiedle Page 12
The Largest County Page 13
Excerpts from "Westward Bound" Page 14

 

1986        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 7

Rose Valley, Gamble Township, PA, by Karl J. Ely Page 4

History of the Family of Jacob and Margaret (Heim) Ulmer by Miriam Ulmer Lovell and Howard Ulmer

Page 5

Program of the Dedication of the Bronze Tablet at the Blooming Grove Dunkard Meeting House

Page 8
The Sandstone Marker by Thomas Shafer Page 9
Scofield Hollow by Roscoe Heim Page 10
When Electricity was Extended to rural America including Blooming Grove by Karl Ely Page 11
The Bounty Fund by Paul G. Gilmore Page 14
Pleasant Valley by Edith L. Wright Page 18

 

1987        VOLUME 1            NUMBER  8

The First Decade, by David J. Heim ll Page 4
The Blooming Grove Mutual Fire Insurance Co., by Cordelia Heim Mutchler Page 7
A Son  of Blooming Grove, by Larry Waltz Page 12
 A Blooming Grove Tribute, by Karl J. Ely and Anne Keely Page 15
Dr. Adam, by Levi J. Ulmer Page 17
Memorials and Gifts Page 25

 

1988        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 9

As Our President Observes Our Society by Karl Ely  
Listing of All Articles Printed in The Journals From 1978 – 1987 Page 1
A History of Klump’s School, by R. Kenneth Heim Page 4
Centennial Celebration, Souvenir Program Page 25
Picture of Muncy Normal School 1893 Page 29
Schools Then and Now, by J. H. Mc Minn Page 30
Poems Learned in School, by Elizabeth Heim Ely Page 33

 

1989        VOLUME 1            NUMBER 10

Forward Page 1
A Tribute to Dr. Paul Gilmore, by Mary Ulmer and Arlene Hafer Page 2

Thomas J. Schaefer (1859-1895) Pioneer Missionary to South Dakota by Dr. Thomas J.  S. Heim

Page 4
Boyhood Memories, by J. Roscoe Heim Page 9
The Blooming Grove Colony, by Donald F. Durnbaugh Page 12
Mary Sabina Ulmer Heim Page 18

Hepburn  Township’s Largest Factory, The Crescent Iron and Nail Factory by Jill Kilburn

Page 19
A letter from  a Reader  Page 22

Poems - Food for Thought, A Place to Sit and Remember, On the Lighter Side The Little Gate to God

Page 24