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MIDDLEBU11GH, SNYDER CO., TA., NOVEMBER 15, 1888
NO. 45.
lN COUNTRY.
Chesnutt's Ladies Coats, p.3.
L. nl-AJ IIIIIhIi fttlll sau-
W IIITIIV i . -
V in tlio nun ket.
RroverliiiH appointed TLanks-
r):iy the turkey are roosting
hi your potatoes. They II lie
Co up in price before tLe win-
her.
a political campaign ever
to bo conducted on a more
liouH platform t
iloasant Indian summer-like
weather brings out the wasps
VpioiiH abundance."
Jrty of hunters from Middle
in camping in the Seven
kins this and next week.
week there will be no U'HB
lozen hunting partieH scour-
Seveu mountains for deer.
A. H. Spangler, of Port Roy
nil hemorrhage on the 1st
Vs recovered. Juniata Her-
attending a political meet
Richfield Friday a week, i
.belonging to A. W. Totter
ek and died Saturday morn-
underHigned has iilaced his
the hands of John S. Mciser,
or collection. liins unpaui
tccembor 15th, will be collect
Irding to law.
J. W. Seip.
Specht of Weiker, Union
whilo watching a deer run-
tho seven mountains, nouth
tunnel was surprised by a
ous bear which popped out of
shea within twenty feet of
lie tired two shots at him but
him.
editor of the Post is taking
lecond wook on wiiu li. i.
Mit, l'hares llerman, iteorge
Jacob Musslenian, and Dr.
seller, camping in Lit tle Val
Is week. Any improvement
Post is due to tho extra efforts
toys.
, carbuncles, and other skin
ns indicate that the system is
onng to reject poisonous
and that Ayer's Sarsaparilla
eratively needed. It is the
liable of all blood medicines.
mr tlruggist for it. and take
r.
Lady Godiva must have had
Sunnily lung hair since it coni-
I concealed her lovely person.
! Ayer's Hair Vigor canio into
rh examples are not so rare ns
fly. It not only promotes the
I of the hair, but gives it a
liken texture.
fond men say that lightning
Dually strikes a locomotive
liey run through a thunder
but it has never been known
n them or tho men in the cab.
ictrieity thins out and spreads
f the engine, running off the
nliutg tho track when it
Uie machinery.
! I iet on tho election to wheel
fttution on a wheel barrow tho
was made by Doc. Jacobs,
as. R. Kurtz, your mosthuin
ibe, if the weather is favor-
ko Juhn Runyau'u Christian.
Jrims Progress, wo will takeun
'load of bin" and pull for tho
. Gt ntre Null Jleporter.
ti i' it . ...
iniiig up in table or tho Sny-
iiuity vote at tho recent dec
iiibliHlied last week, tho com
ilroppod in a 3 instead of a 5
inado I lenry Brown's majority
fo liumlred less than it really
no omcial vote gives the fol-
niajoritics :
Harrison and Morton, 8C7 i
h. Atkinson, 105)2 ; Thomas
hunt, 812 j James T. Mitchell,
S. Helfrich, 584 , Henry
552 i Samuel D. Rates. 7C7. :
Witteumyer, 2148 : Henry J.
p;H. E. Miller, 720 jZ. Tay
pbeiling, 025.
The lovers of chestnuts should be
careful and not consume too many
at one time. Elbe Ktoope, nged
thirteen years, of Moon township,
Reaver county, ate a largo quantity
, , t i . 1 1.
one day recently, ana ouring Mid
night she complained of severe pains
about her heart. Before medical aid
could lio reached she was dead.
Death was caused by the too heavy
diet of chestnuts.
A number of hunting parties have
been out in the mountains this year
after deer and in almost every case
have little or no success in getting
venison. Last year was an excep
tional one for hunters in this sec
tion, as they came home with more
game than for years which was, us
is thought by some, due to the deer
being driven here by the mountain
fires in the Alleghany ranges. Cen
tre Jall Jleporter.
For our British cousins wo feel
the sincerest pity. It lias been an
assumption of theirs from time im
memorial that they are the coiieen
t luted essence of governmental and
commercial wisdom, and they have
been specially offensive in their esti
mato of the genius of the American
people. They have been exceeding
ly meddlesome in tho recent cam
paign, and now retire.as they always
have, with their fingers seriously
burnt.
Mr. John F. Boyer, fruit tree
agent of Freemont, sold 210.05
worth last week in five days. Mr,
Boyer is a successful agent and his
customers are well pleased with the
trees they got, because he always
delivers good stock and thrifty trees,
and besides that he lias studied
fruit culture so that he is able to
give permauent instructions to his
purchasers how to raise fruit suc
cessfully.
Ira Walter's horse slipped his bri
die while tied to a post in front of
W. II. Beaver's store on Saturday
evening and after testing his spoei
through our street and alleys he land
ed the buggy to which ho was hitch
ed against a tree in front of F. E,
T. 1 f
jjowcr s nouse ana ran as iar as
Franklin where ho was caught,
Broken shafts was all the damage
done the buggy.
George Spangler and Dr. J. W
Orwig made a bet on the general re
suit of tho election of five dollars,
Mr. Spangler lost it and Mr. Orwig
refused to accept tho money. A
r . n i ...
a compromise .ur. npungier onel'oi
to foot the bill for a grand oyste
supper at Mr. Orwig's house. The
event will take place to-night, am
each of tho gentlemen have invitei
a select number of their friends, who
with their ladies, will share in the
treat.
Juniata Conference.
The Juniata Conference of the
Central Pennsylvania Lutheran
Synod will convene at Middleburgh,
Nov. 10, 20, and 21st." The following
is the program :
Subject The Field of Christian La
bor.
MONDAY LVENINO.
u the Home Church, I. P. Nell.
Tuesday morniso.
u the Home Community, C. L. Mc
Connel. TUESDAY AFTERNOON.
With Respect to the Institutions of
the Church, Charitable and Edu
cational, F. L. Bergstresser.
TUESDAY EVEN NO.
Children's Meeting, II. N. Follmer,
G. W. Leisher.
WEDNESDAY MOUNINO.
Home Mission and Church Exten
sion, Philip Graif.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
Communion, J. T. Gladhill.
WEDNESDAY EVENINO.
Foreign Missions, J. R. Dim m, D. D.
The following uamed ministers are
expected to be present who will be
entertained by the following named
families :
Ministers aud Del. Families.
J. C. Mumma, Reuben Dreese
A. 11. i . Fisher, T. 11. Ilarter.
H. N. Follmer, Jere. Crouse.
J. M. Stover, M. Z. Steininger.
J. B. Focht, J. Y. Shindel
F. L. Bergstresser, T. B. Bibigliaus.
J. L. Gladhill,
A. F. Yeager,
A. II. Spangler,
Delegate,
W. D. E. Scott,
G. W. Leisher.
I. P. Neff.
C. L. McConncl,
Philig Graif,
II. F. Long,
J. R. Dimui,
M. Romig,
Delegate,
i Grand Parade
MIDDLEBURGH
We hope our people will illuminate
their houses on Saturday evening.
SATURDAY NIGHT
N0VMBER17,'88.
The Republicans of Middleburgh
and Franklin township extend an in
vitation to tho people of the County
to join with them on Saturday even
ing, in celebrating the election of
Harrison and Morton and the whole
Republican ticket, a grand torch
light parade will take place in which
tho various clubs in tho County will
participate. The town will be hand
somely illuminated and an effort is
being made to make this tho largest
ratification meeting yet held. Promi
nent speakers will be present to ad-
lress the meeting.
. 11. lieaver.
G. Alfred Schoch.
I. G. Barber.
L. M. Moatz.
M. K. Schoch.
C. L. Smith.
D. F. Kcrstettcr.
T. J. Smith.
S. S. Schoch.
Aaron Kern.
C. W. Herman.
S. P. Orwig.
John Moatz.
Roll ok IIonoh. The following
persons have paid their subscription
to tho Post to tho dates opposite
their names. Should any mistakes
occur in these credits or on your pa
per please notify us :
Henry (i. Frock.
Phoebe C. Seebold,
J. H. Middles wart h,
Win. Hart man,
Geo. A. Fisher,
J. S. Rhamstine,
W. H. Kline,
John M. Goss,
Henry Yetter,
J. C. Hnckcnburg,
Luther Miller,
Eitui'Tiox or the Skin Cuueu.
Ilruckvlllu, Ontario, ruiiuiUi, iit'cemlier si. lvis,
I have used Brandreth's Pills for
tho past fifteen years, and think
them tho best cathartic am
anti-liifious remedy known. For
some five years I suffered with an
eruption of the skin that gave nie
great pain and annoyance. I tried
different blood remedies, but, al
though gaining strength, the itching
was unrelieved, I finally concluded
to take a thorough course of Bran
dreth's Pills. I took six each night
for four nights, then five, four, three,
two, lessening each time by one, and
then for ono month took one every
night, with tho happy result that
now my skin is perfectly clear and
has been so ever since.
En. Venney.
The Jubilee at Selinsgrove, con
sisted of fire works, loud cheers,
and somo unworthy scamp, without
tho fear of Lord before his eyes, set
Goo. Wngenscllcr's arsenal on fire,
Geo. didn't say bad words, but ho
did say paint her red Prof. Bill,
hardt retreated and others were
scattered Duck, Reg. & Roc. hid
behind tho statute of Gov. Snyder,
and the ghosts of the departed dead
got after him and he landed down at
the Keystone, where Sam. Frainhad
an excellent supper.
S. Benj. Stetler,
Standard Oil Co.
Rev. Short is,
May 1, "89
May 1, '80
Dec. I, '88
June 20, "80
May 1, "HO
Aug. 12. 'H'J
Nov. I, '80
May I, '88
Dec. I. 'hh
April 1, "80
Dec. 1, "8(i
Jan. 1, '80
Dec. 1, '80
July 1, ,80
Lowei.l. The wet weather last
week was tho cause of a good many
of our fanners not finishing husking
corn.
II. M. Ulsh has left for New York.
Ho hopes to bo back again about
Christinas.
W. G. Wagner now occupies his
new store room, with a fine lot of
new and handsome goods.
Amos Snook has been on the sick
list for some time, but at this writ
ing is able to bo around again.
Peter Goss, our old bear tamer, is
making preparations to capture ono
or two just as tho luck may bo.
They report deer plenty in this
part, wo have not heard of any being
captured yet.
Smith &, Erb are making prepara
tions for sawing shingles, tho coming
winter. All in nood of shingles or
lath will nave money by calling on
tho above named firm.
Win, Koch, the painter is doing
some fine work at McClure. He has
employed a painter from Dakota.
The election passod off as usuid.
Cleveland is elected, us we all ezpoct
ed, climbing up the salty polo.
McClure is a bud place to go to see
your sweet heart, and leave your
rubbers ou the porch, as there is al-
nuj Bnuiutt one waicmng to play a
tnck them those evenings. U. No,
TitoxELViu.E. On Sunday Rev
Plleuger with his congregation cele
brated the Lords Supper at this
place.
On Saturday J. E. Feltei olf and
N. M. Middlcswarlh were to Mid-
dleburg to buy a supply of amuui
tion for their next week's hunt in
tho Seven mountains, you may now
look for a good report from them
but if you will ever see it I am not
able to tell.
Sportsmen in this vicinity bag
very little game. Wild turkeys are
unknown in these parts. Pheasants
have no if ockedyet, aud all Ed. can
gather in a itay, is one piney and
two flickers.
On Saturday evening, Fred Ring
annul intended to take his regular
Saturday evening excursion down
the "Letta St rose" to see his be
and dearest girl. After hitching his
father's driving mare "Coly" to his
buggy, he unbridled the beast for
reasons not known to me, win
"Coly" took a notion to play a trii
on r retl, anil hroke loose iroiu linn
and started off for all that was
her till she came to where J'.lon
Snook lives, when she caught In
front shoe and fell, breaking one i
her hind legs, and demolished tin
buggy to such an extent that it n
seiubli's a brush heap more than
anything else. The mare was take
to Isaac Moyer's woods where !. (
MiiMlt swarth ended her siifft iiii;
by a shot from his Winchester.
.Mule YWU'Ucr .John A. desires o
me to ask U.No whet her there is any
land lor sale in West Beaver, near
Lowell or Banuerville, John is
tired of teaming. 1 e says lie would
then go to raising oats and big po
tatoes. The Republican boys and youths
of this town and vicinity held a grand
ratification meeting on Saturday
evening, in honor of the ictory their
fathers won on the sixth. The meet
ing was culled to order by Prof. A.
W. Musser, who kindled such a fire
of patriotism by his address that it
was resolved to have a torch-light
parade. The parade, headed by a
hastily organized drum corps, inarch
ed through all tho principal streets,
with the Hag of the nation floating
overhead, and numerous appropriate
banners were held up to the gaze of
our Democratic friends, which did
not give them the best of feelings,
and made some of them wish for
rotten eggs.
Albert Gill has come back to
our town again, and our beauti
ful girls, and tho homely ones too,
say welcome Al.
Tho turkeys evidently know that
Thanksgiving is approaching at a
lively rate. They are taking a high
er limb almost every night, and if
they keep on flopping up they will
soon be out our reach.
Cai.ieoknia Joe.
Fkanklin Twp. Taxes. Notice is
hereby given that all taxes outstand
ing for the year 1887 must bo paid
by tho first of December, or thoy
will be collected according to law.
Gkoiiok Scuambach, Col.
Don't fail to come to Middleburgh
on Saturday night.
Come and see the Torch light
'arade which will take place in Mid-
leburgh on Saturday night.
(Maud Smith, operator at Carbon-
lale, and his mother of Selinsgrove,
were in town over Sunday.
Hoffa's majority in Northumber-
and county was only 100. This al
ows Bates a clean majority in this
listrict of nearly thirteen hundred.
who would have thought it T
Matuimonial Market. The follow
ing marriage licenses have been
granted by the clerk of the Orphans'
Court of Snyder county during the
ast week :
Edward O. Stahl, Union twp.
'( SusannaS. StautlVr, "
JW. F. Hughs, Penn twp.
(I Minnie E. Schoch, "
J Elmer E. Greiner, Monroe twp.
( Laura S. Pontius,
tNoah A. Wise, Kreamer.
) Mary J. Minich, Freeburg.
tWm. P Fetter. Jackson twp.
fSalhcU. I inch,
S James C. Downn, Decatur twp.
'Emma E. Lc( lenahcn,
The newspaper borrower is one
who continually sponges on his
neighbor. In many cases he spong
es ou the good will of the publisher
until tho hitter's patience was ex
hausted, aud the supply cut off, but
cheek abundant and inquisitiveness
prominent, he changes base, and asks
his neighbor, in many cases just as
poor, but economical and sober, to
furnish him with the news. Three
cents . a wouk is t x much for his
purse.
The White Sewing Machine Com
nanv. of Cleveland, Ohio, has been
awarded a Silver Medal, the highest
and only award for tin1 Best Family
Machine at the great Centennial Ex
hibit at Cincinnati, and this in com
petition with the Singer, New Hotiu
and Domestic Sewing Machines,
One Hundred Days of Solid Compi
titiou, in one of the greatest contest
ever held in this country and befor
a jury of intelligent mechanical ex
perts, the White is pronounced Tin
Best. Most Durable and Complet
Sewing Machine made. This is
great victory for t lie "White lain
no itoulit will aihl much to its prcs
ent popularity I. For sale by C. (
Seebold .Middleburgh, i'a., who is
the authorized representative of this
celebrated machine, and wilt tak
pleasure in practically demons) rat
ing to you that the WHITE IS
KING !
If vou would buy the best BUY
THE WHITE.
Weather prophets, wise and oth
erwise, are shooting off their con
jectures as to what kind of wcatln
is to come between this time am
next Spring, hoiiu.1 consult the as
licet of t he planets and stars, some
with downcast eyes explore the sur
face of the earth and see how anthills
and miiskrat houses are built, some
anxiously examine the entrails of
animals, some inspect the husks of
cornstalks, some look at the plum
age of the birds, some traverse for
ests to note the abundance or scarc
ity of mast or nuts, some carefully
scan fences and bushes and high
tree tops to see where the hornet
with his business end had built his
Summer residence, and some
"KIiiiIsIkiih III !ivis,sl;;u.s III tlicrillililluf ln'mikx,
Ami hIhiih III Htiiiii-s, mill sljrus IiicwoIIiIiik."
All these substances of things
hoped for and evidences of things
not seen are matter of faith, if not
of superstition, but nevertheless
they are believed by a number of
good people ; and are but verifica
tions of the adage that "many peo
ple are of many minds."
While wo willingly agree that oth
ers shall indulge their weatherwise
whims, wo claim tho privilege of se
lecting among tho many conjectures
of the coming Winter, according to
tho eclectic system, one that prom
ises to bo as good as many others
and ono if carefully observed, that
will in time prove its correctness or
incorrectness. It is the one wo
card advanced a cm pie years ago
by Mr. Solomon Strauser, aged
about 00 years. He affirmed that.
luring his experience, running
through a period of near a century,
he found that about six weeks f 1
owing All Saints Day all Souls Day
the first and second days of No
member were characterized by tin
same kind of weather as was the
weather on those two days. He
would have been willing to hae
made affidavit to the fact, had he
been required to verify his belief.
and by so doing made what he be-
ieved to be legal proof of his asser
tions. Now this matter don t trouble
us much, inasmuch as, no matter
low or what we guess about the
inning weather, we have been oblig
ed to take it as it comes ; but w e in
line to the opinion that Solly St ran -
sel's outlook of the weather ou its
lomestretch is about us sensible as
any of the other ones we have noted.
By the way the weather was fair
on tho 1st aud 2d instant All Saints
and All Souls Days. But what of
the weather until about the middle
of December? The curious ob
server can note it.
The English consumption of w heat
per year is 200,000,(iM) bushels. The
annual production of wheat in Eug
land will average from 75,01 10, HDD t
Mil, (M Ml, ODD bushels. It is an ill wind
that blows no one some good. The
mericau farmers in the northwest
have long suffered the hardships
that follow a low price in wheat.
Nearly all the margin of profit has
been consumed in clcvatorand trans
portation charges. If the English
wheat crop this year really sustains
the estimates that hare been mudo it
will be a season of rejoicing for the
American wheat grower.
The mischief of voracious novel
reading is really much more like the
mischief of draui-drinkiiig than ap
pears at first sight. It tends to
make all other literary nourishment
intolerable, just as dram-drinking
tends to make all true food i 1 1 1 1 -1
able, and tosilpersede food by drink.
The voracious novel-reader of to-day .
as we have said, rejects Scott, be
cause Scott's novels contain so much
good food that it is not mere story
telling. The genuine novel reader detest
what he calls tame stories, stories in
which the interests is not exagirerat
ed aud piled up ten times as high as
the interests of ordinary life. He
wants always to be feeling a thrill of
excitement running through his ner
ves always, to be living in imagina
tiou through the concentrated cs
sence of the perils of a hundred ad
venturous lives, instead of (oiling
calmly through the ordinary hopes
and fears of one. No state of mind
can be more unwholesome, because
none is more calculated todivert the
energies from the sor( of quiet tasks
to which they should be habitually
applied, and to keep them stretched
on (he tender-hooks of expection,
waiting for a sort of strain which is
never likely to occur, and if it did
occur, would certainly not, find a
man's energies any the better pre
pared for it for having been worn oui
previously with a lomr series of im
airinury excitements. The Imlii. of
draui-driiikiiig, it is said, 1 u 1 , t
fatty degredat ion of the heart, i. e..
excessive fattening round the heart,
and weak action of the heart in con
sequence. So, too, the habit, of ex
citing novel reading lead to fat ly de
generation of the literary mind. i. e..
to an unhealthy audspasiuotic act ion
of the imagination, and a general
weakening of the power of entering
thoroughly into tho solid interests
of real life. So far us we know, the
only effective euro for (his habit of
literary drum-drinking a cure not
always forth coming is a moral
shock of some kind which exposes
tho hollowncss of all these unreal
interests, aud makes them appear as
artificial and melodramatic us they
actually are. That, however, is a
cure which is an extremely painful
one, almost cruel in its disillusioniz
ing power London Spectator.
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