1 J n . v Pcnn y Telephone; No. 38. Ttli FC3T IHVL-J Tha Oroood Hof kmwhia feusi ness after all. Vtot Paul Eillhardt wu at New Berlin laat week toning pianos. The pension ofDax id Trutt, Se linsgrove, was raiaad from $0 to $8. Edgar W. Custer of Swineford it the new Satanic Majesty at this of fice. . H. 0. Haas, the Fremont land lord, and wife were in Middleburgh last Friday.; Win. K. Miller of Salem, the politician and lawyer, was in Mid dleburgh last week. s Mrs. J. O.Ritter, of Kratzerville, (nee Carrie Steininger), was visiting relatives at this place. Editors Lombard - and Lesher were in town last Friday looking up each other's tricks. II. . Richter, the Selinsgrove surveyor antTcivil engineer, was at the county seat on Saturday. John Benfer and wife, of Adams burg, were the guests of Henry Rtckhart Friday of last week. Mrs. Harry Boyer and Mrs.Ta vid Sholly of Selinsgrove are visiting 0. IL Dunkelbcrger's in Swiueford. The bank was closed on Saturday ou account of the Legislature mak ing Lincoln's birthday a legal holi day. Ouf readers will find a statement of the Tri-ennial valuation ofSnyder i Vnntii m. 4lA itta..!. Mini. rf tl.A l-xi,.c t- '. . . "V. J. S. Meiser, Esq., of Globe Mills was in town Wednesday of last week, lie is settling up the estate of Mary Benfer. George Dreese of Mt. Pleasant Mills was in town last Friday to place his order for sale bills for his sale March 15th. Jolly Isaac Koppenhaver oi Mil lersburg was at our county seat last Friday. He is a wide awake and ever genial fellow. S. H. Hassinger, one ot Beaver township's substantial citizens, was in town on Saturday and made a call at our new office. A full line of tinware can be iound at Schoch and Stahlneckcr's stand. All kinds of repairing promptly attended to. ti. Wanted A farmer with a small family and a two-horse team. Ad dress, W IL Ripka, P. O. Box 28, Globe Mills, Fa In our lastr issue we omitted to note that Elmer Zechman hauled the machinery, etc,, at our moving Mr. Zechman is a clever fellow, has a good team and is always ready to do a good job. We have two little girls 4 and 10 years old to put out on their age, also a boy to put out to learn a trade (saddler trade). Apply to Overseers, Heaver Twp., tf. Beavertown, Pa. A. W. Potter, Esq., one of the .kl . !: n i l r 1 vania. came ud from Selinsgrove last Friday to the county seat on professional ousiness. aia many friends are anxious to see him be come a Judge. February has only 28 days, yet (here are 7 legal holidays during the month. ' They are: Lincoln's birthday, 12th; Election day, 15th; Washington's birthday, 22nd; and the four Sundays. One-fourth of -the mouth eonsists of holidays. Henry Howell, of Freaaonty will uit farming this spring. His health will notpermit continuing his voca tion. The old homestead of Na poleon Brosius where Mr. Howell lives now is owned by Geo. F. Bre ams, Em., tad in taa srr-, P. A. r:-: ria urn just 1 L. J.i. 5ce,W..l taxa. lUDDtDDUESn, OITYDER CO.. FU PIDTV tl F3LITI08 AMD AtJV 'FCUOT TOT GOWEU Squire Brarius, of Fremont, waa a Middlebbrf visitor Mmky. .- Mrs. Harriet Smith is visiting friends at Freeburg this week. Mrs. Joseph Winey of Richfield is visiting at B, H. Custer's in Swine ford. Howard A. Walter, of Paxton- ville, will move to Millmont, Union eounty to farm. Ex-aheriff Middleswarth, of Mc- Clure, was at the county seat between trains on Monday. Rd the advertisement elsewhere in this issue of a man who is want ed by an old reliable firm at f 600 salary. 2t. Here is a question. Can you answer it? If Dick's father was Tom's son, what relation would Dick be to Tom ? Ira C. Schoch, treasurer of the Susquehanna University, Selins grove, was in town Tuesday after noon between trains. Rev. Uhler, the presiding elder of the U. B. church, was the guest of Rev. Boughter over Sunday and after preaching a very good sermon Sunday . morning, he administered the holy communion to the congre gation at this place. J. A. Smith, ot Glolw Mills, will sell his stock and farming im plements on March 4th, and will then move to McVeytown. We regret to lose Mr. Smith as a citizen of Snyder county, but what we lose McVeytown will gam. ,v Attorney C. P. Ulrieh of Selins grove was called to the county seat to transact some legal business last r nday night. Charlev enjoys the distinction ot having u very large and lucrative practice and alxivc all knows how to retain lus clients. , Last Thursday evening a hanging lamp fell to the floor in William Reaver's store room and a serious conflagration was narrowly averted. The heat thrown upward by the lamp caused the 8upMU'ting hook to be burnt loose which caused the trouble. . A smooth, easy shave, genteel hair cut, or other tonsorial work, is al ways obtained at Soles' Barlnr 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-shampoo for sale. A. E. Soles. W. I. Gar man has just purchased a new "German Politype"shoe re pairing machine, of FrankS. Reigle, who has taken the agency for the machine. Parties interested in a shoe repairing machine should this machine, as it is the best ma chine of its kind on the market W. H. Bower, Agistment Gener al Manager W. V. C. and P. R. R., wife and daughter, Mary, of Cum berland, Maryland; Mrs. Edwin Bower and son of Renova and Mrs. Ft E. Bower and daughter of Lew isburg spent several days during the past week at Mrs. Catherine Bower's of Swineford. Not Invitiq to the Tramph The Bellefonte borough council has decided, that all tramps. ,who come that way will be arrested aud fined. Those who cannot pay the fine will be hobbled with ball and chain and put to work on the streets until his sentence is worked out . '" We still need some old copies ot the Post to complete our files. Examine list elsewhere of copies missing since 1868. : Won't our readers examine the old papers on their earrets to see if thev can smrolv missing numbers. -. No copies oithe Post from 1862 to 1868 are in our possession.'-' These conies will be liberally paid for if sent or brought to this oOoaw -. - ' - I ' Maj. T. 8. Benham representing; J. H. Been and Co. ot Chicago, was in our village on Tuesday. He is correcting the biographical sketches for the publication they have in course of preparation. Last week IL Burns Smith of New Kensington, formerly of this E lace, had a narrow escape from a' otel fire. He is making bis home at one of the hotels in New Ken sington and he and his room mate were awake in time to gather up some of their worldly possessions and travel. A large whole was burnt through the wall as they were escaping. Henry Swartzlander of Buffalo Valley called on us last Friday. Mr. Swartzlander is a progressive farmer aud has tor years lived in Union county, but will move to Mt Pleasant Mills in the Spring ou one of Dr. Nipple's farms. We are sorry that Union county loses such a progressive young man. We wish our friend success on the new place aud welcome him whenever he calls to 8(H) us. At'M) Jio liii New. C. G. Hendricks of Selinsgrove came to town last Friday to take his girl home. He was getting tired of keeping bachelors hall. He dropp ed in to visit our new ouaiters and reiiorUd that the I'hiln. iYc and other Sunday papers would hereaf ter ho sent to town on a freight train, lie lurtr.tr feUa that all the towM aJon-r ths lint would be supplied with Sunday newspapers. Hon. 15. K. Focht cf Lewisburg is again a candidate for a re-nomina tion for Assemblyman, x or three terms already he nas represented the people of Uiiion County ia the Leg islature and he Las Iteeu one of the most prominent figures intluibody. He is already spoken of as a promi nent candiilutw !i;r speaker of the house. He will certainly win in the con iitv n'. v.v trust he may be come the next scukcr Quite a number of peoule of this place were anxious to help the Cuban sufferers. A committee will accept all offerings Thursday and b nday morning aud will forward them. The P. 11. R. Company will carry them free of llmrge to N. Y. City and from there steamship lines will carry them also free of charge to Havana where our Consul Oat eral will see that they are judiciously distributed. The Cubans need pota toes, flour, corn meal, (wheat and corn will be accepted and ground) beans, canned goods, light clothing, bed clothing, quinine and other me dicines, bacon and other necessaries of life. The borough election resulted as follows: Town council, 3 years, D. A. Kern 72; F. S. Reigel 55, S.S. Schoch 54, E. C. Graybill 45, town council 2 years, Aaron Ken- inger 60, N. C.Bachman 44 ; Judge of election, I. II. Bowersox81, Paul Billhardt 51, Inspectors of election, Harry E. Speoht 48, Edwin Charles 44, Aaron Reninger 22, Joseph Cle lan 18; School Director, E. K. Frey man 75, Aaron Stahlnacker 61, G. C. Gntelius 54, W. H. Smith 35; Overseer of the poor, W. W. Wit tenmeyer 80, H. D. Stahlneoksr 39; Assesor, W. C. Snyder 65, W. F. Feese 64; Auditors, Geo. H. Stein inger 98. v , r Compliments for Judgs) H. M. ' IfcOlure. Prompt, Able, Impartial. rrom Uhamtwrsbtn Pnblf Opinion. '. Snyder-Union district, who sat dur ing: Judee Stewart's absence, is still a young man . but well-equipped judge. He made many, admirers here bv hia nramnt dianatch of bunl- niML hi nnwMMH in vrftanintp the points of a case, . hia courtesy to the bar, and h nipftly tU jad ia PA, THURSDAY, Tha Washington Monument. Hightd Monuiitent of Stone AVer Erected. Eearlv in the centurv it wan chv termined to erect in the city of Washington amagnincent monument which should, for all time, be a me morial of the esteem in which the tion held the ureat patriot aiter whom the city was named. A large sum of money was raised by public subscription and in the early sum mer of 1848 the Washington Na tional Monument Society began the erection of a monument near the banks of the Potomac. The original plan designed by Robert Mills, included a marble pantheon from the center of which arose a marble shaft. It was after wards thought that the simple, un adorned shaft would l)c more suit able for the puqtosc and so the sur rounding temple at the lmsc was omitted. The shall at the base was f." feet wide with walls 15 feet thick. After eight years of work the monument hi'4 hxv. raised to a height of 156 feet. The money then gaveout and tor twenty years nothing whatever was done. In 1877 the Society turned the monument over to the United States govcrnmentund money was appropriated by Congress for its completion. It was found that ou account of of its weak foundation the inonu meut had settled ou one side und was out of plumb. To remedy this a ne w twunuatiou n concrete thir teen feet thick was placed l)cneuth the original foundation. A narrow tuunel wks first d-jg beneath the centre of the ckl foundation and fill ed witli concrete and after this had hardened other tunnels were dug and-! filled in the same way. The work was so skilfully done that the monu ment was not only given a new tin- derpining but its enormous bulk weighing nearly 23,000 tons was brought back to a jM'rfectly vertical position. This task consumed three years and it took five years more to run the walls up to the height original planned ; i. e. 555 f-et. ithm the shaft is a stairway and an elevator and more than a mil- ion of people have ascended to the top to admire the beautiful view of the city and surrounding country. 1 lie interior walls arc adorned with hundreds ot memorial tablets presented by states and societies and by foreign governments. In fact, it is suggestive of Westminster Al bey but here, in honor of one man. For the benefit of those who are contemplating joining the army of argonauts to the Klondike, it is well to note the warning ot the Mining Bulletin of the Pennsylvania State College which says that the total length of all the gulches in the Bri tish Klondike fields which can pos sibly be expected to contain gold in sufficient quantities, to be even min able, is at the very utmost 2,800 miles. The aggregate length of the creeks in which any gold at all has been found is only 600 miles. As suming then that this distance be apportioned to the prospector and miners at 200 feet ot length, the average length which is allowed by the government for the mine, there will then be accommodations for less than l6,000cJaims; neglecting those which have already been appropriat ed by the pioneers and those to be taken up by the men who are now wintering in Juneau, it is evident that there is not much room for the new comers of this spring. ' It is well, therefore, for those who con template starting that they weigh carefully all considerations; At this same rate, the total length of all gulches tributary to the Yukon in tha United States and British pos sessions would accommodate only 800,000 ; claims. Of th latter number more than 70)00 are now nowa.io nave Deen loeaiea. v FEB. 17, 1898. Mimn TO THE PEOPLE'S INTEREST. Mads Tavcribli Imprsssion. From lh Chamberaburg Rgltr. Judge H. M. McClure, of Lewis burg, presided in our courts on ac count of the absence of Judge Stewart who is in Philadelphia, where he delivered an address before the Pennsylvania Sooich Iriuh So ciety lust lhurwluy night Judge McClure presides over the courts of the Union-Snyder district He lias sometimes been called an "accident al judge" as he was elected uuder peculiar circumstances. Judge Hucher had presided ovcrthedistriet which then, 1892, included Mifflin county also, for twenty years, und was regarded as one of the ln-st judges in the state. No Republican lawyer in the three counties could he secured to ruiiugainsthim. Judge McClure, who was then a young lawyer in Suubury, entirely outside of the district, was iaduccd to take the nomination, and was elected. lUlhough he is one of the youngest, le is said to be one of the ablest judges of our state. He has made a ycry favorable impression Ukhi the bar. Duriinr his colleirednvn at o r , Bucknell he was one of she noted athletes of the United States, es pecially as a base ImiII player. A Card of thanks. 1 hereby tender my thanks to those who gave me their suitiMirt in the Iwrougli election for school di rector. Although defeated, yet . I am still for the lest interests of the town. W. II. Smith. Sale Bills. The Post printing office is pre pared to kwp up its reputation for handsome .Sale Posters. We are adding new features this season and would advi.se those who' want attrac tive Sale Posters to visit this office More plaiting an order. Moving Notice. All jhtsoim having business with this office please remember that we have moved our quarters from David Ocker's building to the new build ing on the Bunk lot near the county jail where we shall lie pleased to greet our many friends and patrons. tf. OLD COPIES WANTED. In order to complete our files we want the following named issues of the Post: July 8, Sept. 16, 1869; Oct. 6, 13, 1870; Jan. 26, 1871; Apr. 17, 1873 ; Nov. 4, Dec. 23, 1875; June 15, 1876: Mar. 7 and July 25, 1878; May 15, 1879; Feb. 17, Mar. 10, 1881; Apr. 23, 1883; Mar. 27, June 12, Aug. 7 aud Oct 30, 1884; Sept 17, 1885; Jan. 28, May 6, Oct 28, Dec. 9, 16, 23, 1886; Dec. 29, 1887. Any of our readers having copies of the above issues will confer a favor by letting us know. Such copies in good condition will com mand a fair price. tf. For Sale. A Southwest Mis souri stock farm ; one thousand and fifteen acres; all in one body ; 400 acres in the prairie ; more than 500 acres in cultivation ; 1,000 acres tillable and all smooth, rich land ; neither rocky nor hilly ; an inex haustible supply of the best of spring water; eight dwellings ; if desired, the tract can be divided into six or eight good farms; the one thousand and fifteen acres all together makes one of the finest stock farms in the Southwest. It is located in the great Ozark Fruit Belt ot Southwest Mis souri. , If taken now this farm can be bought lor Nineteen Dollars per asre. For plat and full description address the owner A. B. Lovan, Springfield, Missouri. 2t VOL. 35. NO. 7. Evangelist Romig and Mil lord will hold a stereoptical lecture aud entertainment in the Lutheran church at Adamsburg on Friday evening, Feb. 18. All are invited come and bebenefited. A collection will lie made to pavexpenscs. Come and sjH!iid the evening profitably. Two-thirds of the inhabitants of Ciil have starved to death. Ouly one-third of the people are living. The teop!e of this vicinity should send something. A committee of the Christian Endeavor Society will forward all the clothing and victuals that you can afford to give. Briny them to the Lutheran church Thurs day afternoon or Friday morning. 1 he Art Exhibition to lie lrivcu on the 22 of February by the Pri mary department of the Lutheran cluirch of Middleburg promises to Ik ol more than usual interest Tin program will consist of "America" by a full chorus from the Primary department. Sextette, .Stlos, Male tiuartettes, (Quintettes, Addresses on the Boyhood and Public life nf Washington, Reading and Recita tions, Song by six young ladies en titled "Our 'Dime Song" . The I uulie arc uivih-d tube present and enjoy these exercises. After the program the audience will Ik; taken to the Ijecture room of the church and given the privelege of making a selection from 50 of the most bean -tifull productions of art. An exchange prints the followint; curious item : Tie a string about a yard Jong to a common door' kev. I hen take the string in the riirht hand and hold it so that the kev will clear the floor four or five inches. If you can bald the key steady enough it will begin toswing back and forth in a straight line. lict another person take your left hand iu his, and the motion of the key will change from the pendulum like swing to a circular swing. It u third htsoii will place his hand on the shoulder of the second person the key will stop. 1 ry it, and ex plain it if you can. At a wedding in Dauphin county, the tin horn und store box liddlt musicians turned out in force iiml had a good time in all kinds of dis orderly conduct on the streets and while they were enjoying themselves iu that way and annoying all the neighborhood and particularly the guests at the wedding the father of the bride had a young man to go among the calithumpiaus to take names. He took about 40 names of the screnadcrs, aud the ucxt day had them all before a 'squire on Un charge of disorderly conduct. They all stepped up to the Captain's desk the desk, and each paid a tine and costs. It was a profitablcday' work for the 'squre, and the horn and store box musicians have gone out of business there. Ex. The very readable series of papers which Edward Everett Hale is writ ing for The Outlook continues to groty in interest That printed in the February Magazine Number deals with Lowell'B life and friend ships in college, and contains some examples of his poetic work when he was one ot the editors of -'Harv-ardiana." Dr. Hale in this install ment tells the true story of Lowell's suspension from college just Ixdore his graduation, about which for many years absurd and absolutely unfounded stories have beencirculat ed. The true cause of the suspen sion was simply and solely young Lowell's lack ot regularity iu th attendance upon the college chapel exercises. ($3 a ; year. The Out- , look Company, 13 Astor Place, New York.) MARRIF.D. In New Berlin, at the residence of A. L. Erdley, Feb, 12th, by Rev. S. Sidney Kohlcr, Samuel Weiden myer and; Miss Gertrude How ell, both of Paxtonville, Pa.
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