The Middleburgh post. (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, June 22, 1899, Image 1

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OEO. W. WAQBW8KLLEB.
Editof and Proprietor.
Interesting Items.
News Told in Brief Paragraphs for
Our Readers
Poraonal Polater in UmnI on
erl Mow CHieraln ivpi
or ln PNHiaWt
Don't niiss the Lawn Feteon8at
urday evening.
Rnhpr fiimonton and wife spent
Sunday at Mifflinburg visiting rela-
lives.
Harry Seebold ol Suubury is
spending t hi Rummer with friends'
in Middieburg.
Senator Edwiu M. Hunim 1 was
u Middieburg visitor on Friday
afternoon between trains.
Dr. Lester Schoch oi 8hamokin
has been the guest ol Wends in this
place during the past week.
Mrs. John Bachman has gone to
Williamsport where she will spend
aevwal weeks among friends.
Mrs. Sonee and family of Lewis
burg last week were the guests ol
W. Nevin Engel, the photographer.
VV, W. Wlttenrayer and wife were
in Philadelphia last week buying a
supply of goods and visitingfriends,
A. M. Bowersox audwifeoi Bea
vertown Sunday wer the guests of
her parents, E. Iv. treyman ana
wife.
John Mensch and win
of near
Mifflinburg were the -nests of Hon.
G. Alfred Schoch and wire over
Sunday.
II. Harris Bower was a Lewis
burg visitor last wide and also at
tended the Motz-Brubaker wedding
at Mifflinburg.
A. F. Gilbert of this place, the
great lady's man, attended a picuio
at the aqueduct last Saturday with
some Sehnsgrove people.
Mrs. John W. Walter from lias
singer's obiireli, lias been siek
for some time, but we are pleassd to
hear she is regaining health again.
Editor W. V. Feeseand family ol
Milleistown were the gUCStSof E. K.
Freyman and wile over Sunday.
The editor made the trip OU a wheel.
Miss Lottie Crouse, who hadbeen
attending school at Central Pennsyl
vania College at New Berlin for the
past three months, returned to her
home last week.
Mrs. J. E. Slahlneeker and Mrs.
A. II. Klose last Thursday went to
Snnbury to spend a few days visit
ing Hairy Bateman and J. (. Chest
DUtt and families.
Charles E. Long, Secretary of
the Main Shoe " pany, on Mop
day came over from Catawissa to
assist in locating the machinery in
the new shoe factory.
Send in your dollar cash-iu-ad-vance
for one year's subscription to
the Paw. You will get the Farm
Journal for live years as long as the
supply lasts. Bend now. tf-
A. M. Bowersox of Beaver town
has purchased the store of his father
in that plaee and will go into busi
ness for himself. We wish Meade
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abundant success in his new venture.
The Lutheran Reunion of the
Susquehanna District will be held
at Island Park on the llrd of Au
gust, 1899. Representative men
will be present and deliver addresses.
The stage . which left Freeburg
at 1 o'leoek for this plaee, since
Tuesday of last week leaves at 12:30
in order to make eouneetion with the
train going west on the Suubury &
Lewistown Railroad.
Barber A. E. Soles and wife, II.
R. Biekhart and wife and Mrs. II.
H.Grimm spent Suuday at Mifflin
burg, the former fetir being the
guests of John Soles and the latter
one the guest of Miss Sallie Grimm.
MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO.,
The engine and boiler for theshoe
factory arrived on Monday.
Sheriff Hitter and wife are taking
in the Editorial Excursion to Wash
ington this week.
B. E. Kantz and wile of Sclim
grove wert seen on our streets Sat
urday afternoon.
A flag stone crossing was put down
across Sugar Street between the
bank and the Central Hotel.
The town council has reduced the
borough fax from 3 mills to 'J mills
in view of (lie heavy school tax.
Mrs..!. A. Snyder and family are
spending two weeks with her sister,
Mis. John Hubler, near Lewisburg.
A. H. Ulsh, of the Franklin Mi li
bit? Co.. is h iviiiLr his houses nainl
and otherwise beautifying his home.-.
An exchange pertinently remarkc
that the thermometer seeing bo mam
degrees conferred last week dropped
about o itselt.
Solomon Oppenheimer, the active
clothing dealer oi Selinsgrove, aud
his son, Lester, were Middieburg
visitors Sunday.
Alter July 1st tin First National
Bank of this nlace will observe tin
Saturday half holiday, eh sing at
noon on these days.
On Thursday evening, June 15,
Rev. 13. E. Gilbert was installed as
j imstor of the Richfield Lutheran
Parish by Rev. S. E. tehsenford.
The Mission Class will hold a
a Lawn Ftteon -lames (i. ('rouse's
law n on Saturday evening, June 21.
Everybody is invited to be present.
Sheriff Ritter took Prisoner Keis
ter to the Eastern Penitentiary in
Philadelphia to serve out the sen
tence imposed upon him by the colirl .
E. .). Albus, one of thi' expert
workmen and stockholders ol the
Main Shoe Co., came down from
Catawissa last week, and in com
pany with the foreman, Mr. Hamp
ton is placing the machinery in the
building this week.
Lewistown proposes having a
grand celebration and parade on the
4th ol July, in which all the bands
in the county will take part, the fes
tivities to wind up in the evening
with an illuminated bicycle parade
and handsome fireworks.
The Adiimsburg Band stopped in
town last Thursday on their way
home from the New Berlin com
mencement where they furnished the
music for the occasion. They are
up to time with their music and
know how to handle their instru
ments. W. 1. Thompson and w ilcof Mex
ico, I'a., Mrs. E. E. Mahan ol
Lewistown and Manila Rumbaugh
of Iowa, last Thursday ami Friday,
were tin- guests of Cashier Thomp
son at the Central Hotel. Mrs.
Thompson is spending some time
with her son here.
Should you wish to improve the
quality of your bread, use the cele
brated Magic Yeast. Nothing like
it for producing a light sweet, nu
tritious loaf of bread. It will re
tain its moisture much longer than
urcaii mauc iroin am owu-i hum
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A smooth, easy shave, genteel hair
cut, or other tonsorial work, is al
ways obtained at Soles' Barber Shop,
in Bank Building, next door to the
Post office. Go to Soles to buy
new razors or exchange for old ones.
Razors honed and guaranteed to give
satisfaction. A. E. Soles.
It may not lie generally known
that persons, who from carelessness
or any other cause, take mail from
the postoftice that lielongs to another
and fail to return the same, are lia
ble to a fine of $500 or one year's
imprisonment. This applies to news
papers thus taken from a postoffice
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us wen as oiner man matter.
The 10th Penusyluanis Regiment
now at Manilla will leave for home
this week. The Snyder Comity lovs
in thi regiment are Anion Kempher
of Selinsgrove and Sergeant S. V.
UJsb of MeClnre.
Shoes atCost. They must go
at any price. We would like to get
cost tor them, but if we cannot they
must go for less. Come at once
while there is a better chance tor
sizes. Special bargains in buggy
whii
d
BaHBER Simonto.n.
William H. Hampton, the fore
man of the Main Shoe Factory ol
ibis plaee last wo k moved liis family
from t latawissa to this plat e and
took up his abode in H. H. Renn -inger's
house in Franklin, lie i
accompanied bv Misses Jennie Fox
and Lydia Nuss, his ward and niece,
who expect to work in the shoe
factory.
A couple living happily together
at Hazleton for ten years have just
discovered that thev have never
been legally married. Ten years ago
they procured a license and thought
that ended the ceremony. During
atrial of a law suit Saturday in was
discovered that they were never
legally married, and that afternoon
they had a wedding in regulation
style.
The Philadelphia Ztntes says:
"Colonel Harry E. Davis, the well
known coal operator of' Suubury,
w ho was head and front oi the Wol
verton boom for the Democratic su
preme justice nomination, will prc
bablybethe Democratic candidate
for Congress next year in the seven
leenth district, w hich is composed of
Northumberland, Montour, Sullivan
and Columbia counties. Congress
man Polk, it is understood, will not
enter the field for another term.
Editor holier of the Wonderful
Selinsgrove limes was at the county
seal Saturday afternoon. Lesheris
happy now. The Democrats agreed
to accept the 7mes again as an of
ficial organ. When the question
w as put to a vote, three of the com
mittee voted to take poor Joe hack
and one voted against the proposi
tion. The other members of the com
mittee did not vote. If the others
had voted Joe would have been
knocked out by about '2" to 3.
Resoution of Thanks
At a regular meeting ol G. W.
Ryan Post No. 364 (. A. 1!., the
Following resolution was passed
thanking the Middieburg Baud and
Drum Corps for the music furnished
on Memorial Day, and P. ). S. of
A. and different Sunday schools for
their assistance and Prof. I'1. C.
Bowersox, J. A. Snyder, Rev. Yoder,
;. C. Gutelius and A. Dunkel
berger for their able and patriotic
addresses.
H. R, Tobias, Adj't.
Saved from a Watery Grave.
Aaron Moyer, of Chapman, Sny
der County, B man up in the seven
ty's, saved two babies from drown
ing one day last week. A woman,
pushing two babies in a carriage,
Stopped in front ol Mr. Mover's
house leaving the carriage at the
rate. A trust of wind started the
carriage and headed it for the canal.
Just as the carriage struck the water
the old gentleman caught it in time
to save the little tots from a watery
grave. Fell from a Mulberry Tree
On Saturday afternoon Charlie
Botteiger, a little son of W. H.
Hotteiger of Heister Valley, was
climbing a mulberry tree to eat mul
berries. His bold slipped and he
fell to the ground and had his skull
i fractured.
PA., THURSDAY,
JOHN RKITZ DEAD.
He was a County Commis
sioner Six Years.
John Reitz, one of the well-known
uJtlsens of Franklin township, died
la.t Fridav night at the age ol al
most iit years. He was liorii July
IS, 1883, and when only seven
yeai ; of age, w as left an orphan by
the early death of his lather and
mother. He was consequently taken
to raise by Jacob Bolcmlcr, father
oi Ex-County Treasurer Clms. Bo
lebder. He grew to manhood and
Sept. 24, IN"7 was married by Rev.
J, P. Shiudcl to Eiizalieth Renning
er, daughter ol John and Relieccn
( Witlemuyt i ) Reuuinger. He was
I wice elected Commissioner ot Sny
der Cou n tv, serving his first term
with John Uoinig and Henry N.
Wetzel from I S7'J to 1SS2 and se
ond with Henry N'. Wetzel and John
M. Mover from 1882 to 18.S5.
He was ih lather of two ehil
dren, a son and a daughter :
I, J. Frank Ibitz, who married
Martha Smith, with whom be has
one child.
"J. Lillie 1'-, born .1 line I ", 1 r7.
married Prof. Jerome Erdley, May
15. 1888 i Rev. S. p. Orwig, oftieb
ating) with whom she has live chil
dren, Estella kilizabeth, i rim, John,
Clark and an infant daughter, not
not Vet named.
Mr. Reitz spent most of his life
on the homestead one mile cast ol
town, where he died. He has al
ways been a consistent member ol
the Lutheran church at this place
attending services us long as be was
able to be aliout. The Itinera I took
place on Tuesday morning at 0:30
from his late residence in Franklin
township, his pastor, Rev. 1 . E.
McLain officiating.
H. L. Ilebebranci.
H. L. Hebebrand ol Ueveland,
( )hio, died lust week. He w ill be
remembered by the citizens ol this
place as the huslmnd ol Mi Alice
Maude Arnold. Thev were married
by Rev. 8. P. Orwig May 9, 1888.
The many friends ol Mrs. Hebe
brand in this county will bo grieved
to learn of the sad bereavement.
Edward Stimeling.
The funeral of Fdward Stimeling
look plaee last Thursi ly Irom his
late home in Doodlctown. Services
were held in the old Hassinger
church. Interment in the adjoin
ing cemetery. Rev. S. B. Bonghter
officiated.
Opportunity Not Lacking.
Merchants in small towns are con
stantly complaining ol a lack ol op
portunity, says Profitable Advertis
ing, yet it is j ut such localities that
the greatest opportunities in the
World to make hits are found. Take
a town where a weekly newspaper
regularly serves the population with
the latest news, and then suppose
Borne enterprising grocer, dry goods
dealer, clothier or other business
man should suddenly commence to
advertise in metropolitan style
whv, it would create a mild sensa
tion. His store would be visited by
hundreds who never before had
patronized him.
Dull storekeepers with dull busi
nees methods are often responsible
for dull times. Bright men, with
business tact and a faith in advertis
ing, make good times. fame.
The Secret ot His Success.
John Wanamakcr has just made
a contract with the New York Jour
iuxI f or a page of advertisement six
days each week for one year for
$250,000, and still some people
wonder if it pays to advertise.
JUNE
22. im
KILLED BY THE CARS.
Wednesday afternoon David Dor
man, aged about fourteen years, a
oii ot Henry F. Donna n, who lives
about thrcc-tourths ol a mile west ol
W'eikert, wis killed by the east
bound passenger train.
David was watching cow s, close
to his home. It is supposed the hoy
was sitting oil the track and had
either htl leu asleep or been affected
by the sun. lOuyineci W in. Park--
says he dh not see him, while the
fireman, J. A. Wiuegardcn, saw him
jut a he was struck lv the engine.
The boy's head was severed Irom
his body and the lett arm and leg
Were terribly mangled. The train
halted and backed to where the ac
cident occurred; the remain- were
gathered up and, by renocst ol the
latin r, brought to this place an 1 de
livered to Undertakers Ivatherinan
and Hart muii, who prepared tbeni
for burial. The parent - have the
sympathy oi the entire community.
We are told the Railroad a mpiiny
arc defraying the funeral expenses.
Mimnibury jimen,
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Memorial Record Presented.
( )n Sunday evening the in morial
record of the Lutheran church was
presented to the congregation nl a
special service. This record was
compiled and prepared by our towns
man, Calvin Stctler, and presented
to the said congregation, It is a neat
volume containing t' history of the
Lutheran church, Sunday school,
doling People's Societies ol Chris
tian Endeavor, Ladies' MitcSoeiety,
the names of the persons w ho con
tributed money toward the erection
of the new buildiug,aud much other
valuable information and data wlueli
in after years w ill be of much valin
to the posterity ol the present nieiu
bcrs of the e! urch. The presentation
address was delivered ly Prof. F.
( '. Bowersox who in his able and
ph asing manner said many tilings
that will linger long in the hearts of
the hearers. The address was ably
responded to by Rev. I . L.
McLain Mr. Stctlc r lias the thanks
of the entire congregation for the re
cord and for the toil and acrilice
necessary to prepare such 11 record.
. . .
A Hint to CommissionerB
The bicycle commissioners ol this
county might profitably ndopi a sys
tem which i meeting w ith much up
proval in other counties, viz: 1 sing
a mat aluminum hand lor marking
wheels which have been registered
and on which the regular tax of one
dollar has been paid. There is a
disposition on the pari of some of
the owners ot wheels to avoid this
tax and by the adoption ol some such
method as this a great deal of trou
ble can lie obviated ami complica
tions avoided. As soon as a rider
pays bis tax he receives the hand,
which will be bright and of a hand
some design, and on which will be
set forth the fact that the wheel i
registered and the registry number
will be stamped on the hand. All
wheels that do not have thi hand
attached will be likely to get their
owners in trouble, because oi the fact
that no tax has been paid on the
same.
In other portions ofthe State some
trouble has arisen in protecting the
side oaths from beintr used bv horse-
men and teamsters, and bicycle h-
ice have Ih'cii orirnnizeu to nrcvent
the spoiling of the paths by persons
having no right to use tbeni and en
force the penalties provided in case
of damage to the path.
D. A. Kern, Isaac and Harrison
Mover went to Swift Run for trout
last Thursday. They hilled to re
port their catch to us and hence we
presume they did not get sick eat
ing the finny tribe.
VOL. 36. NO. 25.
COUNTY CULLINGS.
News of Interetf Gathered Front Various
Sources.
A. W. A ticker of Port Trcverton
h a s accepted a clerkship with
Brosius I (ros. ::t Suubury.
blorencc f I eider, o! Selinsgrove,
was admitted to the Mary M. Pack
er Hospital Thursday morning.
i Jonathan Krcighbuuui is remodeb
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mg iu Mioe siorc ui riciuoiu, aim
w ill soon have things in good shape.
V. . 'I nomas ol K reamer in
tends to ship another carload of fresh
cow-in the near (iittiri1 to Newark,
New Jersey.
1 he town council of Selinsgrove
has provided Ibr placing three huu
dred tons o! crushed lime store on
the streets this season. The work is
being done by Jacob Tharp.
Tl nlv sure witv to judge the
future is by the inist. Vc want our
paper to be judu d that wav. Ask
th v, ho lor years have used our
advertising columns if the results
haven't been right.
The new Selinsgrove school hoard
organized by electing H. L, I'hiliiis,
Presidi nt; A. A. ( 'onrnd, Treasurer;
and II. J. I nek, Si cretnrv. 1 avid
Sholly entered the hoard as the new
member, to succeed Ira ( '. Schoch.
J. P. Voder of near Globe. Mills
Was bitten ly a copperhead snake or
the top of his hand while loading
bark on his timber tract on Monday
iiffernoon of Irsl week. Medical aid
was attended to al ..nee, and. ut this
writing, he is on a lair w ay to recov
ery. The little dan fhter, Knthryn, oi
Mr. and Mr-. W. L. Busslei of Free
burg, came mar drowning i:: n uih
ol water on Friday ol lust week-.
The little tot walked m ar the tub
and lie fore her liiothi r could avoid
it he li'll headlong into the tub,
but wa- rescued before anything
serious happened. A little girl aud
n big tubol water is hardly a healthy
combination.
'I he Perry township school board
has organized by the election ot
Jonathan Reichcuhuch of Shadel,
President; Irvin Buyer of Fremont,
Secretary; and Thomas S. Arhocast
ol r reinout, I reusurcr. The re
maining members ol the Ixiard are
Jacob, Shaffer ol Oriental, Samuel
Spotis of Meiserville, and J. P.
Wcndt of Aline. The hoard thinks
of building an addition to the school
house al Mine and grading the
school.
The Salem correspondent to the
Iribunc says: "A. W. Potter, Esq.,
pascd through Salem on his wav to
( 'otirt. His many friends in i'enn
township would like to boo him
elevated to the Judgeship of this
judicial district. Mr. Potter's com
manding appearance, hi- quick and
judicial mind, and his masterly ex
position of the law, together with
Ids long and varied experience as a
lawyer, his great attainments, his
dignified presence and social quali
ties, eminently qualify him for that
important and elevated station, and
thai his election thereto would give
the Bench a strong lawyer, an up
right judge, aud a man who on all
questions would be guided lv the
absolute and eternal principles of
justice.
Union County Suicide
Amos Baker, an old and respected
citizen ot White Deer township, Un
ion county, committed suicide on
Saturday morning, by hanging him
self in his barn. The deceased was
about seventy years of age, owned a
farm and was well-to-do. He was
respected by bis neighbors aud no
cause is assigned lor his rash act.