f , Mi t . OL, 28. MIDDLEBU11GH, SNYDER CO., PA., SEPTEMBER 19, 1889. NO 37. - mm? jl. mm. a - m m r . sy I I IS" IK a I Mil IRC1 roc iiM" coon, as WsofLOOAL INTEREST ourt net week. a l 01 a r L ( Paul BillbarJt ban atarted L.i, rlaM at Adamsburg. Lh0,41.kifor sale at the Pont lf, JIuWieuu'R' ' Latthe Miiaieburtjrb Post Of ,.. -hool bL'H. ulaten, tablet. ;yi ' .linHtrrove Canning factory 0w about one bundreil liamla p heboid ami the ciitor and r'e attending the 0ranRer8 bboUJayR-Ountzberger will dowd doors. new heron for the Middle Vh Band arrived last Friday I the boy are nij'"K M:-" Lrliitle to-day. i ... i niA lilnuuntiiinir. If piUul u v " ,uppoHcd the crop Irom tneee komK Will noi le muienteu uj Vuroulia. the 'Jtb of Stiptembcr thirty n lirr.e hundred thouand wore wuKtered into the Hervico y.cW .Mm. re under obligationa to the L'erH ol tue tnion couuiy r air rtiuplimcntary to their exlnbi Spptember 2t, 25, 26 and 27. Hendiey will sell hia real mm mile HOUth-WCHl of Ad- wrg at 1 o'clock on ThurHdny, Imbcr 19. Should it rain the L ill be held at Adamsburg. Clelan hhot eight grey Bquir- - . 1 . J 1- L-.l hiSiiturnav anu uccoiuijuuiieu nnmiiJ feat of making two xhots that is, killed four nls on two hot. old friend dipt. Win. Hard iinnot live more than a few ind he ban sent word to the 1 Army Poat of Middlcburgh mustered into their order and .lied by them after bin death. InmterH of the county are ted to rend and heed Cnlifor k'h appointment of a day for UK a new road into the hunt utry on Friday, September 27. hunter who intenda to use the hould help to open it. I E To Tax Payers. All taxes rc in my duplicate and not pay the year 1NH8 must be paid on re the lnt of December or I foiled them according to law. C 1 11 A . . II. A omith, uoneeior oi w.u.iwp. I, '89. 3w. uhc ot calomel for deranee- f tho liver ban ruined many foiitititution. ThoHe who, for troublcH, have tried Ayer'a entify to their efficacy in V'1Jj remedvinir the maladv. t injury to the Hyateui. MtouiKhinir how ranidlv the nd debilitated tain Htrentrtb yv when taking Ayer's Sarsa- r or what are called "broken- konstitutions," nothing else ivea bo effective as this power lierfectly safe medicine. fciuH for all in Ladies' Men'a Uuderwear. A full line h' Men's Misses' and Chil- lioMery. A full line of Saxo- other yarns at the lowest ie Dou't forzet to r11 K Office Room. uueral of Simon Erdley at imn on Sunday was the larg Pie county for manv veara f counted at the chuch. h member of the 150th regi- was beloved by all who woineu iron tnwlu fni.l them away before they are P' 1H an error, ami nmna. M to results not expected. mmp condition ih At A in u 'i'h forms on them called e variety of which causes ' "kin diseases. The barn burners are at it in Ju niata county. Laat week four bams went up in smoke and the Commi sioners are offering a reward of $300 for the arrest and conviction of the fire bugs. Vedncmlay, Claua Hprecklea, who is building a large BUgar refinery in Philadelphia, reaffirmed his purpose to fight the sugar trust to the death If he does this, cheaper sugar may be looked for in a few months. Next week being court, farmers will no doubt brinir their iuirs and have them filled with "Shade Moun tain Dew" to provide against frost ed fert, cold shoulders, lung disease and general disabilty. Marks A Eodres retail dealers in pure rye whiskey, can supply their demand. Harry Vernon Whitman, eldest Bon of editor Whitman of the Lew isburg Journal died on September 1st. Harry was a fine young man. a good printer, and a strong support to his father in the newspaper work. We deeply sympathize with our brother in this, his moHt sad berive ment. A young man from the country walked into one of our confectionery stores for some candy one day last week. When asked what kind ho would have ho said "I'll take a penny's worth of those, and a penn v's wort h of t hese, and a penny's worth of them," pointing to the different kinds. A. K. Qift last week traded his farm west of Middlcburgh to Henry Kuster on his farm in Washington township. He in turn traded that farm on a farm located nearOgnllah, Trego county, Kansas, owned by Mary and Elias Bailey, formerly of this county. They will move in in the spring. ... . ....... , .,.' .,.... At a swell party in a neighboring town, n young man remarked to one of his lady friends that one of the strange ladies reminded him of n, spoiled negative at the nhoto- grapher's. On being asked to ex plain he snnl it was a eneo of "too much exposure and not enough de velopment.'' Tho lady had crawled too far through her dress. Harter, of the Post, who can pub lish more Dutch in ono column than a Sunday School scholar can read in a week, came Hying to Seliiisgrove, last Monday, to purchase a cheap box of cigars ut the Sheriffs sale. Well, he was favored, by paying $1.50 for a 50 cent box, and then had the pleasant experience of being put otl" tho train at Franklin, for having such skuuky trash in his possession Srtinayrove. Timet. Some people are so devoid of good sense and common decency that they presist in defying the laws in regard to Sunday hunting and have the gall to shoot squirrels within half a mile of town neuily every Sun day. Wo don't object to it if the peo ple will allow it, but there is u chance for somebody to make the half of a $25 fine by reporting the parties. Charles Walter, living with John Cooper of near Selinsgrove, had a remarkable experience on Saturday of last week. He was coming down the steep hill near Henry Shaffer's, three miles north-west of Middle burgh with a three-ton load of lum ber when the lock broke and ho fell under the wagon and one of the hind wheels passed over him at the hip without doing him serious in jury. There is a little trouble in store for It. H. Thomas, tho big granger. He is said to be a great mogul among the grangers, prints their papers, holds their pic-nics, and they pay their tribute to him as though he were a little tin God. It is claim ed that the Granger's pic-uic at Wil liams Grove is not under the aus pices of that organization but is owned, jiud operated by It. II. Thomas, a shrewd financier, and that he realizes over $12,000 each season from it. The Grange is op posed to monopolies and trusts, and if this is not a great big monopoly and trust, at their expense, we are badly mistaken. S. F. Deibcrt, the wide awake Photographer of Freeburg exhibit ed work in town last week which was admitted by all as super-extra. Sammy is improving wonderfully in bis work and is gradually stepping into the front rank of the profession. Jjub$criber$ who owe on their paper are requested to pay u$ a friendly viSit next week during court and deposit Some of their tin. We hate lagging locals and So do you but we are obliged to u$k for what i$ due u$ at thi$ time. We will look for a "roll of honor" of fiftr nameS in next week'S Po$t which will help u$ out. PleaSo don't dis appoint u$ in our expectations $$$$$. Did you ever think that the figure 9, which is now with us in all our dates, has come to stay ! No man, woman or child now liviug will ever date a document without using a 9. It uow stands on the extreme right 188.. Next year it will be third place 1890, and there it will stay for tho next ten years. It will then move up to second place 1900 and rest there for 100 years. An exchange says that every news paper in the State should publish the fact that burnt corn is a sure cure for hog cholera. It was first discovered by the burning of a pile of corn belonging to a distillery at Peoria. It was thrown to the hogs and readily eaten by them. Before that time a number had been dying each day with tho cholera, but the disease immediately disappeared. The remedy is so simple that it can bo easily tried. They say we are bound to believe everything the astronomers tell ua. Their latest one is that our sun, the center of our universe, is a star that is moving at the rate of 20,000 miles an hour through space and drawing all of his planets with him. He is going at this breakneck speed into the constellation Hercules. But Hercules is so far away that the son and his train of followers will not get there for a million years yet. Let us be calm. Boll of Honor. The following persons have paid their subscription to the Post to the dates opposite their names. Should any mistakes occur in these credits or on your pa per please notify us : J. E. Snyder, March 1, '90 Nathaniel Jordan, Sept. 1, '89 Adam Bubb, Sept. 1, '89 J. M. Hartiiian, Dec. 1, '89 Prof. Win. Moycr. May 1, '90 J. L. Bowersox, May 20, '90 James Swineford. Aug. 20, '90 H. H. Aurand, Nov. 15, '89 G. A. Aurand. Nov. 13, '89 Irvin Fetterolf, Aug. 15, '90 Amos Miller. May 1, '90 B. F. Hollenbacb, May 1, '90 It can be laid down as the com mon law of the laud that a uou-pay-iug subscriber to a newspaper be longs to the scabby, mangy part of the Hock of humanity. He is the mildewed ear in the crop of man hood. He is morally u blotch on his generation. The Lord has stamped him below par base metal i his manhood is counterfeit. He is guilty of the ncttiest. meanest form of robbery. He robs his faithful servant of a hard earned wuge. He robs, like a coward, the man who is afar off. He is mean in little things that kind of meaness that shrinks and shivels up the soul till it is small, light and altogether con temptible. Of this man it is said : "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." "Thou art the small potato in the bin of soci ety." If the soul of such a man should transmigrate and enter into a pig, the pig would slink away in shame, feeling that he ranked amoni? swine as several points below the average level of swinish respecta bility. Unhonored of men, unloved of angels, despised by the printer, is the man who deudbeats on the publisher of the newspaper. There is a great waste of salvation in de vising a scheme for the saving of such souls. Fighting a Screech-owl. A few nights ago a man who had imbibed too freely of corn-nectar, laid himself down on a bench on our public square for a snooze. He en joyed that deep intoxecated slumber which only those who feel it know, when suddenly a screech-owl nerch. ed itself upon one of the horse chest nut trees ui front of the Court house and started up its wierd call of "Eu-hu-hu ! eu-hu-hu." The fellow raised hi head and listened. "Eu-hu-hu ! eu-hu Jm !" "Whatcherwant ?" "Eu-hu-hu 1 eu-hu-hu :" "Who are yer V "Eu-hu-hu 1 eu-hu-hu !" "Now Bay, (hie) who in h 1 nro you anyhow T" "Eu-hu-hu 1 eu-hu-hu !" "I kin lick any shou-of-a-she-cook that "Eu-hu-hu 1 eu-hu-hu !" Shtand up and fight me (hie) like a man. I kin lick" "Eu-hu-hu 1 eu-hu-hu !" "Man, (hie) woman, or devil, you've got ter fight me or shut your d-M "Eu-hu-hu, hu-hu-hu-hu" and the bird, scared at tho unsteady shadow of the man, took wing and Hew over to the hollow tree at the base of Shade mouutin where its family re sides, and congratulated itself no on being "only an owl' Newport Lt tt'f r : For several weeks past a couple of very large fish have been seen in the Juniata. one of which is believed to be some six feet in length and the other somewhat smaller. These monsters are lielieved to be sturgeon that hav corns up with tho liood. So far they jv eluded all efforts to cap ture them. Week-before-last we made men tion of George Lay ton killinga large black snake on Shade mountain. He noticed an unnatural enlargement in one part of the reptile but did not take the pains to investigate. A few days after Jacob Shamoray'x children while out in the woods cauio upon the snake and by the side of it lay a china nest -egg. It is supposed the reptile had swallowed it and in its death throes disgorged it. The followiiig.ainoiig old chestnuts that result in the "sold"' buying the drinks for the crowd is being reviv ed. The man with the sell has a con federate in the crowd with which the victim is talking. He says to the confederate : "I was right about that thing we were talking about." The confederate, as if renewing an old discussion, contradicts this and the victim is asked to decide. Then the schemer says : "What we were talking about is this: What is the exuet meaning of the Germuu sen tence, 'Was willst do haben V The victim, proud of his limited knowl edge of German, says : "What will you have ?" Then the crowd orders the drinks on him. Mr. S. Weis is pupering the prop erty he recently purchased of Col. Simpson, preparatory to moving in to it. Mr. Weis in the seventeen years he has resided in this place has given a practical exaiuplo of what honest dealing and strict at tention to business can accomplish. When he first came here ho opened a little Notion and Fancy goods store in the room now occupied by the post-office, he moved into larger rooms from time to time as his bus iness grew, until in 1883 )w purchas ed the old Schnure & Davis comer and erected a large and commod ious brick building, sinco then used as a store, in addition to this he erected a pleasant brick houso on south market street, which ho has occupied as a residence, und now has become the owner of the Simp son corner, which is unquestionably one of the finest residences in our town. Mr. Weis has well merited his success in business. It would be a good thing for our town if we had more such lueu.SeliiMyrove Tribune. Providence in a Flood. HE "NEVER SNOWED" Oil SOtfOHT TO KIND. Old Hilly 11. wax tioii limn. Anil licaron was Ills gold : Kr, bolnif rrry aavlng nmn. t( cininw hp fctvpd hl rouI. But pvt-fi In thU. he tiiwl to unv, 'One rnn't tuo rarvfu Im ; And he anif with a fervor unniwiiiiiiM, Tin glad Bulvntlon'a frw." lint thn 'lumnii nf Rrnif." hi hail to own. Koiiulrrd imod, hnril-t'iirnml gM ; Ami hp took tPTi ppwi, iim wi-II Imhihiip TIip rVhPMl of llii- folil. 'Hi' a niililrman f the im-m-liiTi-rlcd. "our Christ Ian Hnithi-r H." And Hilly kiiiIUhI a hp niiblct nine. And Kut liU own m-w frpp I tu I'lafH-mi.ttiiff next, old Hilly told lluw Heaven had ifrai loim been, Yea. even Imek lu the dark ilnyit when lie waurt niao of sin. "I n htilldlu' a barn on my river furm All I tliimhad." he wild : "I d run out o' bonrdH. an'wa.i niilln' hand On nothln' but corn bread. i tell e, tirrthrrln. that I felt blue. Short o' tlmla-r and eindi, Ami thoiu'lit I'd died when the biinki then bust. And flooded nil my uinxli. Ilill tlii- inl wan uien lful to me. And nt rlirtit through the rift The tide had made In the river hank A ItimheM-iift a. inn. "Plenty f lioardawaH then- fur the b.irn. Ami mi ti.i ;ui a rlnvw. And a Imri o' pork n . suiiuil unci nueel Ah any one ever seen. Then I hud bread and meat lor the inen. And they worked Willi a will. While I thanked (1ml, uln.il tieen Rood to nit. And I'm n-doln' It nMII." A slirlll vuki-1 .HlHter cried "lllevi the lj.nl ' The whole eliuw cried "Amen !" lint .' keen-eyed man Imikfil at Hilly II. In u Ihniightfiil way. and then Ankeil. Ilrothiir II.. did mi ever heal Who loot that raft and load ' And Hilly wiped his eyes anil Hal. I. "Hrelherln, I never kunweil !" Innocence on the Bampaoe. When the State Editorial Association vis ited Cape May in June, it was just a little while before the watering places opened for the summer cam paign, and, as a consequence the Cape May sharkis were as hungry for money as are hcl-hug in a il- serted house forhuinau blood. The nearly deviled the life out of some of us for the "stuff," and among us was Joe Lesher of the Selinsgrove ''inns. We all wished for the sharks to run against something and they did. It was Joe Lesher, and this is the way it happened. Joe was standing in the corridor of the hotel Stockton and a porter approached him. "Are you Mr. Lesher .'" "Yessir," said Joe as he gave his white style an extra tilt on the back of his head. "Any charges J" "Eighty live cents," modestly re plied the porter. "Thunderatid lightning ! Eighty five cents ! Why didn't you make it a dollar and eighty-live cents. I'm built of money. Here's ten cents. Now, dang you, get out !" Ami it came to pass that the por ter, after he saw Joe, was glad to get ten cents. Lowell. J. J. Mattel u has been trying his new cider press and says it is all O. K. His prices for making cider is nothing but good friendship. A. A. ltomig took u trip to Mc Cluro last week in the butcher wag onthe first time for a month. The G. A. It. boys report having had a good time at Gettysburg. Some had un idea thero were more soldiers there than in the army of the Potomac. Any persons having fat cattle for sale will find a buyer by calling on or addressing A. A. ltomig & Co., Lowell. Cash price will be paid for good stock. The Union pic-nicat the St. John's church was a failure last Saturday on account of the wet weather. Big preparations had been made. H. M. Ulsh says he bus appointed W. H. Knepp as assistant in the veterinary business. Good appoint ment. Andy says he can beat all that kind of prop hauling the Shamokin Dam scribe reports about Builey, and then says he is only iVoing half what he should do to make it pay the boss. U. No. Our Public Schools. En. Post. Comment is rife on our public school work just now. The reason can bo assigned to tho fact that our school directors are just now selecting the teachers for our winter terms, and I write Huh to ad monish them to be care in this work. The standard of teachers is being unconsciously raised liv tlm examinations of County Superinten dent Herman, and many hopeful ones aro being rejected upon un questionable grounds of right "Your humble servant was one of them, and though I felt sore at lirst ami threatened dire veneanee uiwm l.i- oflicial head, a sober second thought convinced me that it was all for the best. I failed in getting a certifi cate. Why? Because my knowl edge in two important branches was deficient. Had I been granted n certificate, the school would have ln en the sufferer. As it is, I am confident that teachers are graded entirely on their merits ami ul,i...t. ed to a test equal if not more severe than those of other counties where higher salaries are paid. liaise tho standard of teachers and the price will follow. You generally pay the world over for what you get, and when this canker worm of public favor is rooted out of our public school system our teachers will be paid the salaries their abilities com mand in othcrcounties if they are refused it here. Let directors therefore take care of the rtarartir of Hie teachers they select. Their ability is gaged by their certificate. Do this work well and the public schools of Sny der county will reach a standard of perfection that will recoiimu.ti.. teachers to any part of the State, wnic.i ih the earnest wish of rnur most obedient servant and well-wisher. A Dis.wi'oisTK.ii Applicant. (ii.oiu: Mills. Oh Thursday, tin 12th, inst., Simon Erdley departed this life. Mr. Krdley was seriously ill since May suffering from paraly sis and disorder of the brain. He leaves a widow and six children to mourn their loss. On Sunday his remains were taken to the cemetery at Zeiber's church by the (i. A. ll. He was aged .Vl years and 9 months. His funeral was the largest that has been in this community fur a niim ber uf years. Hi v. Haas officiated. On Thursday morning an infant child of John and Maine l'.ci gt r died. A number of our men have been to Gettysburg during the past week. They are giving glowing account of what took place. The bridge that was taken away by the June Hood is nearly finished Mr. Deitrich, the i tractor, is do ing a good job. The cuke-walk held by the band on Saturday evening, was not a great success, financially. On Friday tho teachers' examiiiu tion was held in this district. All made the ritlle, as far as we know. Our gunners are death on the squirrels. The farmers are not yet all dune sowiug. Hons. Owing to our going to press one day earlier this week we could not give TaJmage's sermon. A grand festival and chicken soup will be held at Smithgrove, Pa., Saturday afternoon and evening, Sept. 21st, for the benefit of the church. No preventing Providence, we will re-open our church at Puxtonville, Oct. 27th. Bev. H. B. Hartzler, D. D., and others will be present to officiate. All are invited to meet with us on this occasion. Pastohs. pojopun oil o ifostmti .woipi oti p,i.v 9jf -Hitjo.nl jvtus puti sopis Jj.)inl) : )(oiii pjo aiU uj aui.vatiati navm-aow.vi aio oj pa.HipjJBJJU.X -SU4))HlI )H0)ll puw T!ia)H(ins 'spooit ejioip jo jj.iopt AY.3U 0-1.1VJ V p.tllOdo pUlf Hl OJ H.Coq pun uotti joj uuoi3 n; Huiwh paaa oas oi rtHtAi' no.t ji ''bj 'q4nqo(PP!w 'sn'Pinb'O'O 1 D V 1 - r m . ' ...... - - . nM,.e
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