H ti ii II ) o n u V. WAOKV8XLLS&. Wand Proprietor. MIDDLEBUKGH, SNYDER CO.. PA, THURSDAY, OCT. 7. 1897. rUPDUBTOCH W8T IS A PBOKSSWE MEWSPAPEB WlWt THE BIT VOL 34. N0.3i). T HEW8 FBI THE COUNTY. STATE AMD Ml T BITS OF MS it Pro M- h? BEIETS 7E0M HOME. Sews of ifiddlecreek Valley, Wore ments of your tVieiuh, W Wttitoi'a and a Hun dred other things you Would Like to Know. Geo. Smith is on the sick jClton Fair is in progress Ik. Bashoar spent several days lokin. eburgh was well represent- Lewisburg Fair last week. rd Rodgers last week niov- Belleville to Franklin Twp. p Clara Spitler and Dora L spent Sunday at New Ber- Moyer, of Selinsgrove, was teat visitor one day last Thomas and Ada Hostennan of, Woodward, Centre county, visited their many friends in town over Sunday. The faithful old hone owned and driven by David Ocker for so many years has been shot on account ( 1 brain fever. Daniel Hunt of Centerville came in to see us last week and placed his name on our list by jMiying a year in advance. II. II. Faust, proprietor ot the Central Hotel at Bcavertown, was a guest at the Washington House Friday evening of lust week. Win. W. Brunner, Miss Helen Davis, Mrs. J. C. Packer, Mrs. A. 11. Trexler and Miss Bucher rode to Middleburgh on their wheels Mon day. I. F. Bilger, Editor of sthe New Berlin Aetra was in town on Mon day evening and employed Geo. F. Grimm as a compositor for his print ing office. For Sale. The old established Merchants' House, 150 rooms, do ing nice business. J urmshed etc., $2500. Address, Merchants' House, aonii Schocn lias been the recipient of a beautiful pitler, wife and sou, Ray e spending a week at Sha- Housewcrth, Esq., of Se- was a caller at this office Stetler returned home from where he hud been work- tore. user will be pleased to meal to all families de- saine. It. puitli, of Mt. Pleasant a caller at this office last week. v Grimm wishes us to the snuirrcls shot last red squirrels. 11a Meiser of Meisenille v (lays in town the guest fSpecht this week. itor Snyder and children, pst week at Lewisburg if her sister Mrs. Hubley. ftlia Yeagcr, of Yeagcr- sister of Dr. C. H. a guest of the Doctor Kegt. P. V. re-union at Port Royal, Juniata Vraday and Friday, Oct. ith, 1897. fie Keiser and Louisa Mifflinburg came over isit Miss Bertha Yeager, f Dr. Brisbin. Gemberling and wife, e, are spending a few r daughter, Mrs. X, the French Flats. iliybeen understood county has no railroad. rwil TV... ,.- the northwestern oorn- ) of more than, one 'rod. 2t Phila., Pa. Bird Adams and Charles Walker of New Berlin were released from juil on Tuesday, the grand ury ha v- ing ignored the bill of indictment against them. The State Department of Agri culture has named Beavertown, Jan. 14th and 15th and Freeburg, Jan. 17th and 18th as places and dates for holding Farmers' Institute. If you want the best and latest style Ranges in the market, you can get just what you want by calling on W. K. Stnhlnccker, opposite the jail at Middleburgh. tf. The Ixxtk accounts and claims of the S. II. Yoder Estate are in my hands and the suae must lx jtaid. After this date all purchases must be paid for in cash. Oct. 5-4t. B. W. YoDKit. No appointment litis lieen made as pastor of the U. B. church at this place. Rev. Buddinger goes to Pine Grove. Rev. (). G. Romig and Rev. Wm. Ijiimey retain their positions. The divorce suit of S. S. Schoch terminated very speedily on Tues day evening. His wife did not ap pear against him and the divorce was speedily granted. Evidently a settlement preceded the trial. A smooth, easy shave, genteel hair cut, or other tousorial work, is al ways obtained at Soles' Earlier Shop, in Wittenmyer's building, opposite Post office. Go to Soles and you will make no mistake, shaving soap, face cream, hair oil and egg-sham poo for sale. A. E. Soles. The November Magazine Num ber of The Outlook will oontaiu an article by Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie, founded on the authorized biography of Lord Tennyson by his son, which has just appeared. A notably fine reproduction ofL Watts's famous painting of Tennyson, and other, il lustrations, will aoborapany the ar ticle. ($3 a year, v The Outlook Company, 13' Astor 'Place, New II. P. Beaver, wife and daughter, Bertha, returned from Cammal, where they spent the summer. The former will return again ami the family will remain all winter. William K.Stahlnecker is prepar ed to keep you from freezing this winter. He has on hand a full sup ply of the latest style of Heaters. Call and see his stock opposite the jail. tf. At the Sheriff's sale on Saturday Matilda Reigle Ixtughtthc limestone lot of JohnZiebur for $10. D. A. Kern bought Tracts No. 1 and 2 of Isaac Wagner for $1400. The Jesse Hackeuburg tract was Ixtught by Geo. I. Kline for $355. On Wednesduy morning Attorney Grimm received a notice from the Shamokin Gun Club with the notice nix ut Mr. Grimm shooting eight squirrels, clipped from last week's Pokt. These were red squirrels, gentlemen. Attorney Grimm is not a violator ot the law. We want to inform the public that our stock of winter wraps will be ready for . inspection this week. We will have a full line of the best and cheapest wraps to tie hud. Also a new line of Chinaware. Please give us a call. ,. Ulrich & Ohm an, . Selinsgrovv, Pa. G. C. Dreisbnch, who has been spending most of his time for the. past 18 mouths in and around Mid dleburgh, on Monday started for Georgia and Alabama by vehicle. He left Mt. Pleasant Mills on Mon day morning and is traveling in the interest of the United States View Company. At the S. II. Yoder estate sale on Saturday at Glolie Mills, Sheriff Geo. K. Fagley and Grant Yoder bought the mill for $10,000. Banks Yoder purchased the store property and farm for $3350. Mrs. Anna Hottensteiii bought tract No. 3 for $250. The warehouse was not sold. Tract No. 5 containing 2 acres Mas taught by Dora Yoder for $115. Tract No. G was bought by Sheriff Fegley and Grant Yoder for $55. Emanuel Zechman Itought the iron ore tract for $110. Frank Magce and wife of Mazep W ure the guests of Dr. Orwig this week. Mr. Magce has served as County Commissioner of Union county and was the Democratic chairman over there during the feast of distributing democratic pap and he bellied himself to the lxtsitiou of Storekeeper and Guager at Rcish's Distillery which position he held until the plant was destroyed by fire. He has the reputation of 1h ing the best Storekecjter and Guager in his district. Our account of Constable Loss' adventure with Jno. Swartz, the bear (!) hunter, published in last week's Telegraph, appears in last Sunday's Phila. 2Vw without cred it to this paper, but as a special dis patch to the Pram. This is en couraging, and proves conslusivcly that the Prem has an energetio con tributor at Selinsgrove, one who can tell good interesting, truthful news when' he sees it so reliable and catchy that he- cannot resist, the temptation 'to .steal ' it entire. Mifflinburg- Tdegrqph. J , ui A REMARKABLE STORY. ErjMTtetwe of a Man Who Threat ened to Hhant the Almighty. A few weeks ago a story was pult- lished in a nunilxT of newsp;qx'rs concerning a man residing near In stanter, this Stat', who, it was said, had uttered a threat that lie would sluxtt the Almighty. The story was that the! man had raised his gun and pointed it toward the heavens, and that as he did so he was turned into stone and was unable to move. The story was generally discredited, but according to the Keystone (lazettv, of lk'llefonte, there is some truth in it. The (lazetfe of Friday contains the following in reference to the affair. "Lost week we published a state ment about the Stone Man who de fied the Deity by threatening to shoot his God. The story has Ix-cn generally discredited but Dr. Me- Entirv, of Howard, in order to find out wliat there really was in the story, wrote to the postmaster at Instanter, Pa., and in reply receiv ed two letters which we print lie- low : letter no. 1. , Isstaxtek, Pa., Sept. 21, 1SD7. G. W,McEntire, M. D., Howard, - V Pa , JDcar Sir Your letter of the 18th inst. inquiring as to the truth of the several different rejxirts running through the iiewsptqcrs of our sc tion of the State concerning a farm er licing turned to stone, I will say in reply that a man by the name of Decker, living near here, is rejxtrtcd to have had an cxperienre of that kind, but was in town yesterday looking very jtale and scarcely able to walk, lie denies the allegation but there are different people hen who jtositivcly claim to have seen him, when he was in the jMisitioii as reiKrt"d bv the pa iters. Theseneit- pie say that on aceotint of sonu mysterious iulluenee, they were un able to get close enough to niaki identification complete but thn are lxtsitive he was the man. On the contrary, Decker is very quiet on the subject, and altsolutelv re fuses to discuss it. One thing is very apparent, that Ix-lbrc this was supposed to have happened, he wui a very profane man, but now lie is altogether changed, so much so, that any one having known him Ix forc, would not now recognize him at all Trusting this explanation wil gratify your curiosity, I remain, Very Rcsjtc,tfully, A. C. (il'Kil.KY, Assistant P. M. LETTER XO. 2. Instanter, Pa., Sept. 22, ",7. G. W. McEntire, M. D., Howard, Pa. Dear Doctor As you have re vived my answer to your letter of the 18th inst., I have siiwe learned more concerning the matter you wrote altout. Decker has finally ad mitted that part of the matter said of him is true ; in respect to making the threat and getting his gun and going into the orchard and pointing to the heavens. He says, when be had his gun in position a feeling came over him that would be im possible to describe. The muscles of his body seemed to be paralyzed. He could not ( change his position. I He tried to eall for someone to help him, but could make no sound. Then' was but one jhtsoii at the house, that lx-ing a small Ixtv, and noticing his position, went toward him, but could not get within at least 1 00 feet of him. In regard to anyone trying to build a shed over him, be says that no attempt was made, lie was in the ixtsition two nights and one day. He savs that as long as he lives he will never utter another oath, but will try and serve his Maker to the Itest of his ability, from this time on. He says it was a direct warning from the other world. You im give this publicly in your jtiiK'r, Doctor, as it will lx an accommodation to us, our mail is literally overuii with inquiries. Very truly yours, A. i (Il'Kil.KY, Ass't P. M. Edward Miller Dead. One of the prominent citizens of Middleercek township, viz: Edward Miller, died last Thursday at 1:30 o'clock. Mr. Miller was Ixtrn in Penn township Snyder (then Union) county, March 22, 182i) and is a son of John Miller. Edward Miller lived for a while in Washington township and the IttUnce of his life was spent iu Mid dleercek township.. Geoqp!...Miller of Freeburg, Daniel and Frederick of Kantz and Lewis Miller of Glolie Mills are brothers ami Angeline, Mrs. A. D. KreamcrofSmith Grove is an only sister. For the last three years he has Ixvn troubled with cancer from the effects of which he died ut the age of (iS years, (1 mos. and S days. He was buried on Sun day. Kev. S'hiiable of Salem officiated. COURT HOUSE CHIPS. polit Kiilrrrd lor Krrnrd. .lacoit liiiv aiKt w He tit illuiiii I'roiisc, 2 acres and 1(1 jx-rches in Penn Tu p., for $25. Wm. Itrouse and wife tit II. P. App, same as above, for $25. Alex Itcrtcli and wife to (iusta vus llcrtch, for lot No. Hi, situati in Freeburg, for $5(10. Susanna Hoiitz to Mary Iloutz, for 2W ft. by Ki5 ft. in eastern part of lot No. 5, Mover's addition, in Frcoburg, for $4(M). David F. Botdorf and wife to G. A. Botdorf, release deil of 100 acres in Washington Twp., for $;. Mary M. Wilt to G. A. Botdorf, 100 acres iu Washington township, for $(100. Marring Lima. "Hearts Fluttering with Demj bions." The following marriage li censes have been granted since our lost publication : f Levi Hoffman, Perry'Twp., Cora Seaman, Juniata Co. f J. F. Zechman, FranklinTwp., Sarah Keiche, Washington " D. K. Gemlierling, Dauphin Co., Amelia T. Fisher, " " Jno. A. Roush, Nanticoke, Nettie Paige, " Al l'rlTte Hal. The farm of the late Dr. T. B. Bibighaus, dee'd, situate East of Middleburgh about one mile is of fered at private sale. For further particulars inquire of Mrs. Emma Bibighaus, Executrix, Mifflinburg, Penn'a. 8-26-tf, Bean Soap. Thcmcmltcrs of dipt. ('. S. Davis Post, No. 148, G. A. 11., will hold a Beau Snip and Camp Fire on the Base Bull Ground, Selinsgrove, Oct. 7th, day ami evening. Speeches will U made by a numlx-r of Comrades. A hospital Fly has Ixrn secured from the state for the occasion. No pains will be spared to make this tin enjoyable time. Evervlxxlv will Ik- welcome. Come and spend the day with us. A special invitation is ex tended to all the Grand Armv Posts, Union Veteran legions, .Sins of Veterans, and every old soldier in this or adjoining countv. dune with your family and sjm ikI the dav with the old Veterans. A plate of soup, tin of coffee and crackers, 10c. The Winterstoen Case- An order of court has been made by Judge Ikeler, of Columbia iitun ty, for a stecial session of 2 weeks, Iteginiiing Tuesday, Ootolx-r 2(5, for which 48 traverse jurors have Urn summoned. The Wallcr-Winter-stceu-Kiiorr dynamite sc will then lie re-tried by Judge Eriiientrout, of Heading, who has written Judge Ikeler that he would come. Judge Jeremiah O. Lyons of Mif flintown presided at our court Wed nesday while Judge ('rouse's castf was on trial. The Y. P. S. C. E. of the He formed church will hold an Echo Meeting on Saturday evening. The other societies of the town will at tend. A phone has lxrn placed in the Post printing otlicc and those de siring work at short notice can place orders by Mire. Any news occur ring Tuesday night may be phoned to us early Wednesday morning. "That the richest, and largest de posits of gold that the earth has ev er produced up to the present time have Ih'i ii found in the Ahisk:i Klondyke country is now an es tablished fact. We call your at tention to the advertisement of the Alaska Klondyke Cold Mining Co. in another column." 10-7-fini. The American Protective Tariff licaguc has just issued another ami very complete edition of our Tariff laws. The volume of Ml pago, gives the ollicial text of the Dinglcv Tariff; complete comparison of the Dingley anil Wilson law ; and, in dex to all articles covered by the new Tariff. The Ixtok will lx- of great value for reference and for answering nil questions regarding the Tariff question. It w ill lx'seni to any address for twenty-five cents. Ask for document No. 27, and ad dress The American Tariff licaguc, 13."i West 2:5rd Street, New York. During the past week there was entered ujxm the marriage license dix'ket the name (tf a man 22 years of age to lte married to a little girl only 1 4 years of age. The girl has the consent (tf her parents. The man makes an "x" instead of sign ing his name. Would this not seem to indicate that we need a law preventing children from getting married? A man so totally ignor ant that he cannot write his name married to a little girl not yet out of short dresses ! The clerk of the Orplians' court had no authority to refuse a license.
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