The Middleburgh post. (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, June 01, 1899, Image 1
I ' IBB ri v, SSKSS Interesting Items. News Told in Brief Paragraphs for Our Readers. rmWTlT lNlnten In IMl n Ml Xew. :aHmiir l'ple or Vim PrlBBt. Union county lias 835 bicycles assessed. The foundation wall for the shoe factory was completed Saturday. Willet Bnyer of Freeburg passed through town Friday of last week. We are willing to print it, it you will only let us know oi it. the AVw. The festival of the mission olass on Saturday evening was well pa tronized. Win. H. Beuvcr and wife spent last week visiting friends at Wil luuusport. W. I. Garmau, the Middleburg shoe man, ami his wile w r I at Fre ntontSunday. Miss Laura Smith of Eliaabeth vllle is visiting her parents at tills plac e since Saturday. About one hundred ovulars from Sunbury took dinner at the Wash ington i louse Sunday Calvin Stetler, the insurance agent, connected Ins office with u 'phone. He is using a desk phone. Col. John K. Robinson of Mif fiintown, factory inspector, was i:i town Tuesday of last week. Mrs. Aif. Btelniuger and sou, 'Tennyson, ol Lewisburg arc Visiting friends in this place this week. John N. BrosiusofMt. Pleasant Mills has taken the preliminary ex amination for the study of law. Our readers will find another in stallment of Rev. Erlentneyer's mar riage record on the inside pages of this week's issue. Lowery Bros.' 10 and 20 cent show will exhibit in Middleburg on Friday, June 2, at '2 and -S P. M. See advertisement in this issue. The editor can tickle the public with B pen; but the public must also occasionally tickle the editor with a subscription. Two years' subscrip tion might tickle him to death. Schoch & Stuhlncckcr have add ed to their line of goods Win, Rod gers Silverware. If JOU need any thing in this lino, do not fail to call upon them and got prices and see the goods. 5-20rat Under a now pension law a wife Of a soldier drawing a pension may make application before a justice of the peace or authorized court, and have halt of said pension set aside for herself and family. You often hoar the question, "What's in a name?" There is at present among the inmates of the ootmty prison at Sunbury, a man named William Peno, charged with druukeuhess and disorderly conduct. The latest railroad news for Ful ton county, is that an engineer corps is surveying a route from Burnt Ca bins up Aughwick Valley to the top of the mountain, where the 'pike crosses from McConnelsburg to Loudon. Nature has given apple orchards a good start, now it remains for agri cultural art to assist in fighting in sect and fungeous pests. American Agriculturist's initial report on the apple outlook suggests a good crop, barring accident. In the report ofthe I3oard of Pub lic Charities lor 1897, we find the following relative loFranklin coun ty's jail and yard : "The cells were not tidy and the yard was used tor keeping pigs." Wonder if the Chambersburg officials got a "divy" from the pigs? MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., A postal card addressd to this of fice will Secure a sample copy ofthe Parr. Charles Boush has secured the position of clerk at the Washington Mouse. A very heavy thunder shower passed over this place on Monday evening , , ... iii . Amandus Sliaiubach has gone to Biirnham where he has secured em ployment. The appeal for the Mercantile Appraisers' tax was held on Thurs day ol last week. Frank S. Kioglo, the piano and organ agent, and wife visited rela tives at Freeburgon Saturday. W, II. Riegel, our county treas urer, who had been at Lewistown, returned home Saturday evening. Middldburg ought to celebrate her centennial anniversary in 1900. We suggest July 1, 1900, as the day. J. K. Stahlneoker and wife were at Adamsburg, the guests of his brother at the .Merchants' Motel over Sunday. The old aqueduct over the Junia ta river, about eight miles east of Newport, is being torn down, having served its purpose. For a good Potato Sprayer, call on Schoch & Stahlneoker. Tiny have an elegant article on hand. Prices reasonable. 5-26-3t. Pereival Xerhood, the proprietor oftho Troxt-lvillc Hotel, was at the county swat Friday and secured sta tionery for his place of business. . Mr. Strickler of Band, Union county, has rented filestore room of U. Alfred Schoch and will shortly open a general merchandise business in this place. Send in your dollar cash-in-ad vauce for one years subscription to the Post. You will get the Farm Journal for live years as long as the supply lasts. Send now. if. GeOnre Russel. Cashier of But- sel's Bank at Lewistown, and James Thompson, Ass't Cashier of the Mifflintown Hank on Sunday were the guests of J. X. Thompson, Jr., Cashier of the First National Bank of this place. he IVmisvlvama hailroad lias placed a "round world" ticket on the market. It costs only $r8.", and it includes meals and berth wherever the travel is on the water. The average rate is considerably less than three cents a mile. H. D. Stahlneoker and A. W. Aurand have purchased a dipping machine to clip horses. They offer to clip horses at $1.60 each. Any one desiring to have their horses clipped will do wel! to have these gentlemen do it for thorn tf. A smooth, easy shave, genteel hair cut, or other tonsorial work, is al ways obtained at Soles' Barber Shop, in Bank Buildiug, next door to the Post office. Go to Soles to buy now razors or exchange for old ones. Raxors honed and guaranteed to give satisfaction. A. E. Soles. The cow kicked the bucket over and spilled the milk, and if you do not got the Farm Journal for the balance of 1899 and all of 1900, 1901, 1902 and 1903, nearly five years, just by paying One Dollar for the Post a year ahead, you will be like the cow. W iIip n-imrt mines to the town that if the gun factory had been and other implements must be steam located here, Attorney Pardoe of ed and thoroughly cleaned and the Watsontown would have received shops must at all times be clean and r,oon mm nr ftSVOOO in stock in tidv. In order to secure the enfor- company, simply for locating the plant. Such a tee docs not have a wholesome order to our people who would be only too glad to acoumu-just as is aone ny tne lacwry m late such a sum in a lifetime. i spectors. Court opens on Monday of next week. Help Wanted. All those who desire work in the shoe factory -at this place should hand their names to W. W. Wittenmver without de- lav. Quite a number of nirls and young men will be needed. M. Milliter, the enterprising met (-ant of Kauts, was in townou Mow . .. . . nut. 'ii . miiiim i in in vi iii iiin- ing a busv county seat and he has given Ins subscription tor JfHHj worth of stock in the Main Shoe Co. Limited ofthls place. If Win. H. Whitney, the invent or ot the intnrv tire Arms, ran tree himself from the corporation hack of him, he ran come to this place and get the financial support necessary for him to resume the manufacture of his lire arms. Shoes at Cost. They must go at any price. We would like to got cost tor them, but if we can not they must go lor lrs. Come at once while there is a hetter chance tor sirs. Special bargains in buggy whips and soap. Barber Siuonton. The result ofthe ballot on the Bohool bond question was 107 in favor ol and 21 against lionding the town for $6,500. The bonds shall hear I per rent, and bids for the same will be received by the board at Jacob Gilbert's office up to one o'clock Friday, June 2nd, Farm Journal for the balance of L899and all of 1900, 1901, 1002 and 1903, nearly five years, to ev ery siihseriler who will pay One Dollar a year in advance tor the Post. No better farm paper than the Farm Journal. This offer is only made to a limited number the first who come forward. Editor Lesher of the Selinsgrove limes and his hetter half were Mid dleburg visitors on Sunday after noon and took tea at the Central Hotel. Editor Lesher is a pheno menon wherever you put him. He is willing to praise the devil for a dollar and curse his creator for a much less sum. f Fulton county don't have a railroad within her boundaries, she can at least brag of having water work-. At a special meeting ofthe town council of McConnellsburg held recently, a tract lor build ing waterworks and supplying water to the town was awarded to II. 0. Frederick. Millcrsburir. Pa. Me dia Ledger. H. Harris Bower returned Tues day from Mt. Carmel, where he oompleted the term of school for the last three weeks for the assistant principal. The Mt. Carmel Newt sava of him : "Prof. Bower, in his short month here, hasshown himself to be an instructor of exceptional ability, and ho has endeared himself to such an extent with our people that we would like to have him stay with us." The law recently enacted at Har risburg, regulating barber shops will work qttlte an innovation in the shops all over the State. Under the law it will lie necessary to subject the shaving brush to a steam hath every time it is used, while the ra zor used uiion a customer must, be dipped into an aiitisepticsolutionlie- fore being applied to another man s fece. Individual eunsmust be used, as no two persons to lie shaved with with lather from the same cud. A fresh towel will also lie provided for each person shaved. Combs, brushes cement of this law three inspectors uare to be appointed, and it will be their duty to canvass their districts PA.. THURSDAY, COURT HOUSE CHIPS lda Knlrrnl lor Hrrortl. The heirs and legal representa tives of the estate of Philip Rilbish, lite estate dead to Margaret K. llil bish, 80 acres nu the Isle of Que in Penn township. Consideration $12, 000. Win. II. Bobb, Jr., and wife to to Wm. H. Bobb, Sr., house and lot on the Isle of t Juc in the borough of Selinsgrove, for $250. Heir- of Abraham Freed to A. M. Freed, acres and 20 perches in Penn town-hip, for $8,578.75. The heirs of Jacob Haines, de eeased, to John Freed, 85 acre- in Washington township, for $2,000. I.rticr Uriiiitnl. Letters oi administration in the estate of Polly Fetter, deceased, late of Penn twp., to John Fetter. Also in estate of Sophia Hook, late of Franklin twp., to 12. 12. I loir- man ol Paxtonville. MtrrlMa Uiwimm. fE. E. Klingler, Jackson twp. Wcgina M. Snyder, " fH. C.McCIonahnn, Philadelphia. (Alice S. Hoiisor, Port Troverton. Michael A. Bonier, Jack-on twp. Victoria S. hotter, J H. Newt. Nipple, Akrou, . Grace E. Hettrirk, Ilummel'sW. I . 1 1, 1 1 1 i ss I M I (Mil ; ,' Only three districts have reported the bicycle assessments. They are as follows : Penil township, 103 Selinsgrove Borough, 123 Weabmgtou township, 52 Total, 208 Memorial Sermon. The Q. A. B. Post oi this place selected Rev. Joshua Shambach, pastor ofthe Evangelical church to deliver the annual memorial sermon to the Post and the Christian people of the town. I he services too place ill the court house Sunday ev ening, ttevs. ooyer and Mclain assisted in the services, liev. Sham- bach took tor his text the words found in Joshua 4:21, "What mean these Stones?" He made a very apt application of his text to the oc casion and delivered a sermon teem ing with rich thought, good diction, patriotic and Christian sentiment. The parson received many congra tulations on his able sermon. Farmers Have Telephones The Greensburg Argue is author ity for the surprising statement thai fifty per rent, of the tanners in Qreene county have telephones in their houses. 1 he cheap servu causes the general use. Some op timists assert that it will not he over three years before nearly every re sidence will be supplied with a tele phone. Helping the Town. Our new Industry, the cap factory, is bringing many new families to town, which have filled about all the Vacant houses. New buildings must soon lie ereoted to supply the demand. This is the way to build upourtown. Let every citizen have a good word for his home and give the Board of Trade encouragement so we may Be en re more industries, which will keep the old town growing. The above wo clip from the Nor thumberland Preill, This wi 1 1 serve the purpose of showing what indus tries do for a town. Notice to Shoe Factory Sub scribers. By resolution of the Main Shoe Co. Limited, 25 per cent of the amount subscribed is due and pay able, June 1st. The subscribers are requested to pay at once the amount due to W. W. Wittenmyer, Treasurer. JUNE 1, 1899. School Directors' Meeting. The semi-annual meeting of the School Directors' Association of Suvder County will convene in the P.O. S. ot A. Hall, Middlcburgh. Pa., on Tuesday, June 6th, at 1:15 o'eloek P. M. We sinerely trust that this meet ing may excel all former efforts in this direction, and this can be easily accomplished it directors realise that their presence is required and their views should be given on thesubjects presented. No stiff, formal presentation or discussion is expected r desired, but rather an iuformal talk in w llicll the humblest need have no fear ol participating. Lei directors when assembled lor organization on the "'ill ol June urge their board to attend this moot ing and especially impress the new members with their propriety of coming. Let us have a full turn out. The committee presents the i"! lowing programme : 1. A School Director, His Chief Duties and Responsibilities, . F. Sanders, Jacob Hetrick, J. S. Yea rick, Edwattl Fisher, H. IT. Herl- StT. 2. Seven-month form, Geo. Long, Esq., A. II. Klingler, F. P.Kuster, A. M. Aurand, trvin Buyer. 3. Proper and Improper Uses ci the State Appropriation, CM, Ar bogast, John Kamer, J. A. Snyder, John S. Uioe, rvin Qraybill, Faithfully yours, F. ( '. BOWGBSOX, Supt, Mrs. Robert B. Hummel. The wife ol Itober! B. Hummel, who had been ill for sometime with consumption at the residence of her father, Aariah Kierger, in Frank lin, died on Friday evening at (J o'clock, aged almost forty years. She leaves u husband, an only sou, a father, niothi r and a number of brothers and sisters to mourn her loss. Of her brothers there are M. L, Kreeger a miller of Seliusgrove; J. II. Kreeger, Assistant Cashier ol Hie Middleburg Kank; William Kreeger oi Kalamazo, Mich. Ofher Bisters Burving there are ( 'lara, wife ofChas. K. Fisher of Williamsport; I lattio, wile ot Ira E. Fish of Mib lersburg; Gertrude, wife of H, Bcrte Kowe ot Millersburg. The funeral services were held on Tuesday morn ing at the residence of her father in Franklin, conducted by Bev. I. E. McLain, pastor d the Lutheran church ol this place. The corpse and the friends ot the deceased were conveyed by train to Selinsgrove, and the interment took place at Hum mol's private cemetery in Monroe township. The bereaved friends have the sympathy of their many friends in this. -ad hour of their al- Bicton. . How Doodletown was Named. About 40 yean ago when there were only two or three houses where Doodletown now is, the town receiv ed its nresent name. A woman in one of the houses did so much sing- inir that old Peter Deckard, now de ceased, father ot Reuben Deckaad gave it the name Doodletown and the name will probably always stick to that locality. A Progressive Spirit. From LowlKbunt News. Editor Wngensoller has put out a handsome industrial and anniversary editon of the Middleburg Post. It marks the progressive spirit of the editor, the town and the pajx-r, and is a credit to all concerned. We wish the institution continued success. VOL. 36. NO. 22. A GREAT OFFER,: Parrri Journal Frorn How to De- f cember, 1903 Noarlv fr 4 Five Years. By special arrangement mnd with the publishers oi the Farm f t Joornai. we arc enabled to of- '. $ fer that paper to every sub- $ i Bcriber who pays for the Post r ;. one year ahead, for only $1.00, f. , botli papers Ibr the price of ours ; J only ; our pape r one J ear and C . tin- Fahm JoL'UNAL from now I, ! to Decemlier, 1003, nearly five jT ; years. The FAHM JOURNAL is I; 11 ...in i i r- iiii i in i I'siaoiisuotiimpcr, ciiov- iug great Kpularity, our ol the U-sl ami most useful farm ia- - ")j pers published. v ! fley 1 his otter should brae- j - cepted without delay. if Susquehanna University Commencement. Sati khay, Jcm: 3tlD. i 7::''" P. M, The Inter-Society Prize I debate will take place. Si nha v, June Ith. 1 10:30 A, M. Ilaecalaiirentc Sermon by M. Sheeleigh, I . I .. "I Fort Washington, Pa, 7:30 P.M. Address to the Young Men's Christian Association. MuNlMY, Ji nk 5th. 10:30 A. M. Meeting of the Hoard ot I i rectors. 2:00 P. M. Meeting of the Hoard ol Directors, 7:30 P. M. Class-Day Exercises in the pcra I louse. Ti t.si. v, June 6th. 0:00 A. M. Business Mu ting of the Theological A liinmi, 9:00 P. M, Meeting ofthe Hoard of I i rectors. 10:00 A. M. I rradtiating Exercises ol the rhcological I k'partment. 11:00 A. M. Addiv.-s to Theological Class by II. C. Haithcox, I. I )., Abih lie, Kansas. 2:00 P. M. Meeting ( the Board ol Directors. 7:30 P. M. Address to Alumni of the I heological I )epnrtmenf E. H. Killinger, .. M., of Trenton, . J. 0:00 P. M. Philo Heception. !:()( P. M. ( lio Anniversary. Wednesday, June T i m. 0:00 A. M. Business Meeting of the ( 'ollegiat'j Alumni. 0:00 A. M. Meeting ol the Board ol Directors. . 10:00 A. M. Annual Junior Prize Oratorical Contest 12:30 P. M. Annual Alumni Ban quet, 2:00 P. M. Meeting ol the Hoard of 1 h rectors. 7:3o P. M. Address to College Alumni by Rev. J. I. Stone cypher, Hartleton, Pa. ,S:)( P. M. Alumni Poem by Rev. L. T. Snyder, A. M.,'()rrs town, Pa. 8:30 P. M. Entertainment of Glee, Mandolin and Guitar ( 'Iubs in Opera House. Thubsday, Junk 8th. 10:00 A. M. The Fifth Annual Commencement, The Conferring of Degrees. The Dismission of Students. If vou nav vour subscription one year in advance you can got the Post for only oae dollar. It you arc in arrears vou can pay up your arrear ages and one dollar extra for one year in advance. Then you will jret the Farm Journal nve years free. tf. .i.':":