. - m A ! " THE POST LA. THE POST rVmphMlrMly a NEWS PAPKH, Inrllip People nt . the People. Kn out mn rw lwy open for the dmeuln of Pl of tntererttoiwpatroun. iVOL. 27. ITEMS of LOCAL INTEREST Read Chesnutt's Bicycles. Another largo invoice of units aU lwool, from $1.00 up nt Gutelius'. H. Oppcnheituer, Sclinsgrovc, will Uko wool in exchango for clothing. Miss May Wittenmyer of Mifllin- lmrg in visiting relatives in thin olaco. MiM Erma McGoe of Union coun- Iv is tho guest of her unclo J. W. rwig. Minn Meriain Orwig has rotui ncd i I. .1 ..: .: row ft several t!tjv in iiiiionK dative in Union county. J. M. Barber of Milllinburg was he guest of his brother Dr. I. Gricr karbrr on Monday. I Mr. Miller of Baltimore, nceoiu- Iiuied by bin wife (nee Laura Dorn) eut Sunday in Middleburgh. You can uow get thirteen 2-eent Imtnge slumps of rost-mastcr (vnrtz for a cent ami a quarter. Geo. Wilt, of Suamokin Ditin, Lured u .Russian Leiither (kp in o river on Saturday-n-wecK tuat tighed 81 pounds. Usyou liko it. Gray ami faded binkem may bo changed to their ltural and even color brown or uk by using Buckingham's Dye. it. l'he "White Loaf Hour. Ask lir dealer for it. Manufactured the Franklin Mills, Middlebrgh, tf. beibert. our Photographer has Le away, ho do not call for pic i s until notified of his return in i paper. (July 80.) tf. C. Oldt, of Beaver Springs, a Lluate of Central Pennsylvania lege, has gone to Put-in-Bay to th school. W. Trout, the wide-awako ed- I of the Lowistown Free. J'renn I our town a pop visit on Wed Pay. r Louisa Cronamiller and her rMiss Ellio Shiudel of Mitllin ;were tlie guests of relatives friends in Middleburgh over llajr. , H. Iiipka of Globe Mills left 'ednesday morning for Deny, piorland county to erect a 300. iivnaeity Buna una lor a l'uis- I company. undersigned will open a so Ifhool in Middleburgh on Mon- LYugust 4. For further pnrtic- liuldiess F. C. Bowersox, Middleburgh, Fa (Sale. A No. 1 top buggy, C, friuake, McAlosterville. Guar- il for two years. For purlieu fll on or address B. II. Cl'WTKll, Swineford, Pa allation. God willing, on reuiug of Sunday, August 3, Lutheran church, Beaver- iRov. I. N. Wetzler will be bi as pastor of the Beavertown I. by Rev. M. B. Lenker of Ly- Iwn, Pa., who w ill also preach Itullution sermon, "el K. Erhart of McClure. i Thursday, July 17, of drop- CI years, 7 mouths and 18 lllo leaves three children, one hi G. W. Erhart, Station Jt this place. He was a high- fined gentleman. Ho was I't Altoonaon Saturday, Rev. of tho M. E. Church, ollici- ee Normal Bchool in Mid- i under the professorship rin tendon t Herman, assis- rof. J. C. Houser of Milroy, 'U Monday morning and its ce far exceeds the expecta- u. Unwardu of fiftv stu- ponded to the first roll-call ttondancehas been increas- day. Free tuition, easy boarding and the skill and a of the instructors is no ucement to soakers after e and we hope all will take hof it. MIDDLEBUHGH, SNYDER CO., PA., JULY 24, We haven't had a pood rnin in thin section for a month and vego tation ia drying up. The weather is cool and autuin-like. Siiisoles. I have just received 2 car-loads of 18 and 21 inch shingles which I will sell at from 5f:J.(H per thousand up. tf. J. P. Keaknh, Beavertown. Bt'n.MMi Lots rou Sale. The un dersigned has twelve building lots for sale, situate in Beavertown, im mediately south of the steam tanne ry. For particulars apply to tf .1. P. Kkahns, Beavertown. Tho Franklin District Sunday School will hold a pie-nic in Gilbert's Grove, one mile north of Middle burgh on Saturday, August 2:. All invited. A. K. Gift has been appointed by County Surveyor Edwards as his deputy. Mr. Gift was county sur veyor of Snyder county, Pa., for nine years, and is said to under stand his business thoroughly. Lurhiftiin, (Xtf.) J'ionetr. Don't be discouraged about that oezema till you have given Ayer's Sarsaparilla a persistent trial. Six bottles of this medicine cured the complaint for George S. Thomas, of Ada, Ohio, when other remedies failed to nfl'ord any relief. A force of men are still searching for the dead at Johnstown, and will continue work all Summer. One day last week three bodies were found, one of whom was easily rec ognized and identified. Scarcely a day passes that some portion of a human body is not brought to light. The evils resulting from habitual contiveuesa are many ami aerioiw ; but the use of harsh, drastic purga tives is quite as dangerous. Iu Ayer's Pills, however, the patient has a mild but effective aperient, superior to all others, especially for family use. As this is tho season for ivy poison let us give you a cheap and sure cure. As soon as you discover the poison on your body rub tho parts with wet table salt until tho blisters open. Leave tho salt dry on tho poison and repent the operntion until irrita tion ceases. One or two good rub bings will do tho work. Notice to Tax-payers. Tho un dersigned collector of taxes of Franklin township will be in atten dance at the Commissioner' office to receive and receipt for taxes on Thursday, Friday and Saturday July 21, 25 and 2ti. Austin Gift, Collector Our Troxclville correspondent says that Mrs. Robert Hassing. r has not yet been found. Shortly before h aving she expressed a fear of be ing sent to the Asylum of theiusauo at Danville, and it is thought this caused her to lleo. It is possible that sho could subsist on berries, but suspicion is growing that she is assisted in her concealmout by some person for some obscure purpose Tho stage rou to between McKees i Falls and Middleburgh is growing into wonderful popularity which is all duo to tho gallantry of Mr. Ker stetter who holds the ribbons bohiud the learn of bays. His courtesy and etiquette to tho ladies would distance tho attentions of a Chester field and is so acceptable that fish ing excursions via tho U. S. mail route are becoming very popular. People should not mistake his snowy locks for ugo they are tho fruits of experience, for in grace and gayety ho is but a lad of sixteen. A Louisville man has succeeded in beating a drop-nickel-iu-the slot box. Ho first bored a hole iu tho coin and then fastened to it a small black silk thread. Ho then dropped tho nickel in tho slot as directed by tho sign and drew out tho cigar. Seeing that nothing was stated in tho directions as to how many times ono nickel could bo dropped in, ho drew his nicklo out nnd dropped it in again. ruccoouing tlie second time, ho continued to draw until ho emptied the box. Ho was choered by the crowd until he was arrested. Matrimonial Market. John S. Reiche, Freeburg. Agnes Lenig, James B. Snanglcr, Adainsburg. Alvilda M. Wagner, Newton A. Bowes, Miillinbiirg. ) JenetteB. Genibcrling.Selinsurovo John M. Yortcy, Selinsgrove. ( M. A. Amig, Middleburgh. Jacob Schmelt z, Orient id. J Mary I. Swineford, " J James Bingaman, Penns Creek. (Alice J. Kuhns, Musscr's Valley. The fishing party to Mohantongo spoken of iu last week's Post, re turned Friday evening with quite a nice lot of bass, but the ladies in the party knocked the boots off their husbands iu catching the big ones some of the "finny monsters' weigh ing over two pounds. The Post man and his better two-thirds also joined the party later in the week, and the editor was enabled to per form the extraordinary feat of hook ing, handling, and landing two 1 pound bass at one cast with his nino ounce lly-rod. Barm Bchned. Tlie barn of Jacob Snyder, situate about four miles west of Middleburgh caught lire from the sparks of a locomotive on the railroad on Saturday evening about six o'clock and was burned to the ground with nil its contents, in cluding about 7iit bushels of un threshed wheat, lih) bushels of oats, l(i loads of hay and nearly all his fanning implements, including a harvester, threshing lunching &e. All tlie live stock was gotten out but about 10i chickens. Tho loss is estimated at $5,(M)0. It was in Hurod for 2,(530 $2,100 in the Bea vertown Mutual and M0 ,iu a Bal timoro (vtntpniiy. ' "Should every doe of ever btwd in America be killed to-iuoiTOW," says a St. Louis statistician, "the real loss to tho country would not bo $100. On the contrarv. tho train would be at least $:10,(MM),000 per year. Nations famed for their thrift and economy do not take to dogs. o wonder if it has ever 01 curred to this St. Louis gontbman that the dog is the best and truest friend man has, ami that one -too. dog is worth half a dozen worthless men. Yero all thiiurs removed from us that are not profitable in n monetary sence the world wmiM In inhabited by hogs and misers, and tho St. Louis gentleman would no doubt be happy in the society of hi; chosen associates. The Freeburg (lonr'nr says that B. 1' . 1 homas, a nat ive of Pax ton villi. but for some years a resident of Da vis, Illinois, lias been adiud l'ikI in sano by the authorities of thatnlaen Mr. Thomas ha l been suffering from melancholia for nbout twenty years, ami his tneiids will hear of final mi seating of his intellect with regret. His patient wife has cared for him faithfully all these years alwavs lmv iug faith iu his ultimate recovery to health and this is a sad blow to her yes, a calamity. Poor Frank, mnnv of his former companions and friends will remember him as a ironerous. whole-souled fellow, over readv to do a kindly act when occasion called out his best energies. This calam ity, worse than death, calls forth our deepest sympathy. Farming has its drawbakw. n.1 tho calling is not of tho feather bed variety. Profits aro small and work lasts a irood many hours, ia hard while it last, but it is the lot of tho croat majority of tho h mmiti raco to work for a liviuir s with imui the struggle for oxistauco is severe, and with some it is pitiful. That this strugglo is mado dusnerutn sometimes by unequal conditions, unjust laws and dishonest practices of tho rich and tho stromr. truo j but all those combined cannot in this country of oinorr.niiiiM prevent an industrious ami f 111 vnl man from gaining a livelihood and something more. Ho may not get tho full reward of his iudustrv. but hocau mako a living for his family ami give mom an education and a start in the world, in spite of all the drawbacks, unequal conditions and logai or illegal wrongs. , THE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY-SIX. "StintiM ol.lnoiiiiliit.ih. .. In' fi.r,'i. Ami never lmiii;lif to mln.l . For three weeks vc Lave maintain ed a dignified silence toward the Selinsgrove 7'ri!tu,e, and in spite of this it keeps picking away at us, which makes us think that Hungry Joe is considerable of a hog and doesn't know when he ha-t got enough. Ho is eiidoavering to represent himself as strangling at that Mc Cluro resolution gnat, when, in fact, he is able to swallow a good sized cammel every morning before break fast or he would not take down with a smile the charge that he promised all the county offices for the next twenty years and guve five dollar hand-shakes to school directors in the recent superiutemleiicy contest to liavo tliein vote f. r his man for County Superintendent. That G 4 II I . . a. iv. rcsoiunou vindicating vuu may have been as ill adxised as tlx one condenmiiiLr oil Moonustiel. and we don't caie a continental whether it was or wasn't, your act of flooding the west end of the county with Tritium on that oar ticularweek to injure us and iret subscribers through the actions taken by the McCluro Post w as an act unbecoming a Cln MUu geullo mm an brut her in the craft, am , makes your blublxring about newspaper courtesy" sound liko the devil preaching redemption through faith. Wo have been somewhat aniusei and at tho same time greatly alarm ed at a recent remark made bv von to the effect that you desired no communication with us further than through the columns of your paper. From this we infer that you have again taken to die necu liar notion of picking your com pany like you did in iMTilat New IJloomtield, when you picked out and insulted tlie landlord's daiiLrh ter nnd got kicked out of (he hotel for it. Selali ! Lowell. The late rain was a ben efit to corn and potatoes. Lowell and vicinity was visited by a severe hail storm on last Thursday evening. Plenty of hail stones four inches iu circumfer ence. Our oldest citizens sav thev never saw any tiling like it before. After it was over there was a big demand for window glass as there wero hundreds of them broken. John Romig and Co., gathered a bushel basket full of hail in their yard and made hail cream for all hands. There has been onlv one death reported and that was a chicken for Squire Romig. V. G. agner was called to Hun tingdon county, last week to at tend tho funeral of his brother Abraham. Smith & Ell) have been itnH iiur their old thresher iu first class or der und Smith says they are going to show Snyder count r how to do threshing this season, as they had only been playing before. John Lib reports huckleberries plenty. Ho says ho got about .'12 quarts that is. ho thought so. but when thoy were measured they fell short something like 21 quarts. Iho ravenous animal that was seen in Snook's dam by a party of bath ers could havo been nothing more then tho ghost of E. Peter's doir that was drowned there. They say it looked liko a iloir and thev believe jt was a dog. Ono of tho party says it caugut aim uy ino leg. We can soon see tho country fbiniloil with tiw-hiwii. iu i im I... .L.u.iftr- iug soldiers have filed their claims 1 A 1 1 1 I uuuor uie new act ior pension which tlinv Iiiwm urt W..1I ..iii.il. ..1 T wlwmlit like to see the government pay the Bonner ine money they lent them with interest up to date. U. 10. 1890. Beaveutown. At about 0 o'clock Saturday evening our otherwise quiet village was thoroughly arous ed and turned into a terrible ex citement by the cry of lire. The air was cool ami dry with n slight draught of wind from the northeast. A double-headed freight traiu that had just passed over the S. A L. R. R. threw sparks from an engine up on the roof of Mr. J. G. Snyder's large :Sx1I5 feet with ISxJJO feet wingi frame bank barn about one and a half miles east of town (and 70 foet south from center of R. R. track to nearest point of barn). In a very short time the entire building seemed to be one mass of lire. Mr. S. and son who had just hitched i, horse to drive to town succeeded in getting the live stock and two sets of buggy harness nut. Every thing else was burned, the unthreshed wheat from thirty-six acres, upwards of forty loads of hay, about four hundred bushels of oats, between six and seven hundred bushels shell ed corn, lot of smoked pork, a "Wood" binder, harvester, grass mower, separator, drill, two buggies, wagons, all of las harness, lot of chickens Vc. The loss is about $5,1100, insured for $2,7oo. It, is supposed that the R. R. Co. will sus tain all the damage. Mr. Snyder intends building about seventy-five feet south of the old site as soon as possible. Joseph Middleswarth bought four and ft half acres of land near town from Peter Roun' (shortly before Mr. Itoung'a death) for ?2i'3. A valuable cow belonging to Ed ward Freed was killed by lightning about two weeks ago. Tho animal had been in a field near town, and was found dead iu the morning. Lightning struck the fence near bv John Wetzel, Sr., brightened up the appearance of his house by coat of paint. Thomas 4V Co. shipped a ear load of cows ami calves from this place last week. This was the fust car load of stock ever loaded at this station. Archie Middleswarth bought a live month's old calf that weighed 550 pounds for a beef. John Het- rich thought it to valuable for beef and bought the heifer for $25 am 1 put it on his farm west of town. i ne iron ore mines near town are again being worked to some extent. Huckleberries nre saiil to be very scarce on Shade mountain. blackberries sell at .'cents a quart, and are not very plenty at that. A shower of rain passed over our town last, Thursday evening that was accompanied by quite a lot of hail of every imaginable shapi and size from a buck-shot, to a hull ed walnut. Many window panes were wrecked. Quite a number of our citizens as sisted iu hunting for Mrs. Hassing er at Jacks mountain last week. The necessary officers for the Farmer's Alliance were elected in tho Hall on Monday evening a week. Messrs. Fees, Freed ami Man- beck have received the machinery for their stave mill neai Middlebugli and aro expecting the engine this week. The weather has been unusually cool since the hail storm. Old Mrs. Polly Wiand had a para- letic stroke last Tuesday, since which time she has been very se riously sick, with very little hopo for her recovery. Some rather cheeky character went into A. B. Specht's store on Friday afternoon, and iu tho ab sence of Mr. and Mrs. Speeht took a adies gold watch out of the show- ase. The party had better return it. as Mr. S. thinks ho knows who has it. Mrs. Ben Smith of Elkhart, Ind.. is visiting friends in town. John A. Rearich has purchased a new hydraulic cider press, ami is now prepnred to accommodate per sons having apples which aro a very scarce article. Franklin, N not nn "Orifim." II wear no-inllnr." II Ki'tt'f lliHlffl H lWIII-. Ami never nnlil mil. iKiurHiiliHMl rlnnliil 11 Iivmi SulMTlilloii tl.Ni 11 yenr. Co.ilo'w- NO. '29 Siiamokin Dv. Colored camp meeting iu Clement's Park is in full blast and crowds of curiosity-seekers throng the grounds every Sunday who me greeted with ad ni- tions that would make the Prophets of Baal take to their heels. Let me illustrate : "Dis am do place an npportutiity to hub your souls washed in do hi ml ob ile Lam. Come a-runuin' or you may missde washer double-jointed California pea-nuts only live cents hack for the ferry hclohcd. dis may be de la-t opportunity ; do Lawd in his mighty anger come and 1 oil' under a mountain of ice-cream only ten cents-do Gooil JJook says do wicket shall be cast into a huriiiu' right here, right here's where ,ou get your ice cold lemonade made 2o degrees below the north pole ami only live ecu-deakeus, pass de hat and admonish de lookers-on to chuck in dair dimes an quartan for free sabatiou while .lo bred'reli sing "IJoll on de Gospel Chaariot !" Quito a number are taking in the :! :'" : 1 1 excursion to Atlan- fieCiiv and Cape May. via the llead in r.i In m I. Cli niehl s in II hands are having u pic nic ut lluiiniiels Wharf, Satur day. 1 ' v NNl I: i II I I . --As our village lias li 1 been represented tlilouglit the coin iins of fl(. 1,,ST f,. soiiiotinn here yon are again. Tlie c;ike widk Was Well -iff, nde.l by all. young, old, lame, blind and halt-will, in fact, it was a general turnout Had there be li church announced in place of the cake-walk tho half would havo had the same ' t.iVllsc iAo Ji.ni liCU liio i,'.iU sent for them for the groat supper. Cakewalks, festivals, and tin like for the benefit of building up Christ's Kingdom ! It is just this inn nut shell: Build churches to the honor of God ami get the I e il to pay for them. Miss Clara Weader was bitten by a copper-head snake last Thursday while turning grass. She had been very sick from its effects, but she is on a fair way again. Our Sunday School is prospering under the supervision of Win. Heeter and C. A. Smith Superinten dents. J. O. (loss is going to work to-day again at the saw mill in Big Valley. Miss Tudy (Joss left to-day for Middleburgh to attend school. Iteiiben Baker lost a valuable black horse last week. He hail brain feaver. I'M. Rothrock has come home, ami I understand he intends working at his trade which is gun smithing. Ed. is a good mechanic und moder ate in his charges. Give him a call. Howard I'eter ami Win. I lei ter have rigged up a threshing machine ami engine ami intend doing thresh ing iu this section. Amos Snook is building a new house. H. J. Peter built a new summer house all but the door. We had a heavy hail storm here last Friday breaking a good many window lights as well as demolish ing garden vegetables ami corn. It is reported at some places the hail lay thick und as large as three inch es in circumferance. J. (). Gosse's peach orchard is in a tine condition at present out no peaches yet for two years. Have patience. XlNor. Miss Fannie Bowersox has re turned from Lowistown. Al. Dobson, residing two miles west of Middleburgh has been grant ed a pension of $S per month ami an arrearage of $100. Mr. Dobson has been confined to his bed for thirteen years, and this tardy assis tance from the government conies iu time of great need, but is only it drop in the bucket of what ho should have. A number of brother soldiers havo been working hard for years to secure justice for this gentleman, among whom is our townsman, Capt. D. T. Rhoads, who deserves special mention iu this connection. thin mil, n 'V ... 0
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