0X0- W. WAOBWBELLEE. Editor and Proprietor. MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., PA.. THURSDAY, A UG; 3, 1899. VOL 36. NO. 30. INTERESTING ITEMS. News Told in Brief Paragraphs for Our Readers. PWMMl l'olnter In lx-al Men Ml MwaCMMMBfeNf I'eople Mure or Mma Proinlnrnl. Oharlea Roush and D. F. Stahl necker are down at the river Ashing. The cider mill west of town is rushed to its full capacity at present. James K. Davis, Jr., of Sclins grove was in town several days last week. The notice for the teachers' exam inations will be found in this week's Post. Prof. Killian of Port Royal, the new principal of our schools, was in town this week. Mrs. T.B. Bibighaua of Mifflin burg last week was the guest of relatives in this place. Miss Nora Greene of Lewistown was one of the late arrivals at lied Bridge Grove last week. Your last chance to get sonic ol those "Kute Penny Photos" perhaps will bo Saturday, Aug. 5th. Mrs. W. 11. Ripkaand Mrs. C. K. Graybill were visitors at Beaver town the latter part of last week. The Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany announces the next Seashore ttVAiirnntl nil Thursdav. Aim. MMIi. Mrs. L. G. Yost of Nuremburg witljier two children are the guests of Sheriff Bitter and wife at the county jail Miss Bricker of Ixswistown is spending some time very pleasantly with her sister, Mrs. S. P. Warner, in Franklin. Rev. Josiah Bowersox of Oregon is visiting friends in this county. For thirty years he has Ween a resi dent on the Pacific coast. Oscar N. Lindig, the boss plumb er of Lewisburg and wife were in town over Sunday, tin guests of Chas. H. Walter and wife. John P. Watrenseller of Selins- Lrrove was a visitor in town last Friday and Saturday, the guest of the alitor of the Post and wife. R. G. Bowersox and Miss Kate Bowersox of the faculty of the Indian Training School at Carlisle, were in town one evening last week. Miss Florence Moyer of Freeburg was a guest of the Middleburg camping party at lied Bridge Grove several days the latter part of last week. The low rates offered by the Penn sylvania Railroad Company for ex cursion to the Seashore Thursday, August l()th. should be within the means of all desiring to visit these resorts. The Economical Shoe Emporium of Sunbury, J. G. Chcstmitt, Mana ger, has a new advertisement in this issue. You cau save from 50 to 75 cents on every wir of shoes you buy of him. Our soldier friend and snbscriler, Aaron Renninger of this place has had his pension increased from $8 to $12 per month. We are pleased to Iw able to congratulate him upon this merited raise. If you want your hair cut with out steps or a nice easy shave and a refreshing shampoo, go to A. E. Soles, in the bank building one door east of the Post Office, in room with the drug store. A clean towel to each customer and satisfaction guaranteed. At the Bridge letting Wcdues nay, the Wrought Iron Bridge Com ,nv ni York, throucrh Mr. Drury. .,r.,nf ur0K ;i wanted the con tract to put up the joint county bridge near Kiclitield, tor ami x. o. rerr was awarded the contract for the stone work for $424. Read the advertisement of "Snv- der County marriages" in this issue. Chas. J. Fisher, Esq., ofCatawis sa was a Middleburg visitor last week. Cashier Thompson spent Sunday at Mexico, Juniata Co., with his parents, Harrv Seebpld of Sunbury is spending some time in town the guest of relatives. H. Burns Smith of the New Kens ington National Bank returned home Saturday of last week. The Christian Endeavor social ol the Lutheran church was a brilliant BU0O88S last Friday evening. The Sohnee family of this county, most of whom reside near Fremont, are planning to have a re-union. Dr. J. C. Amig of Lewistown was the guest of his father-in-law, Joseph L. Marks, over Sunday. The campmeeting at Summit Grove Sunday brought a great many people through this place. 1 Penny Photosnreall the rage." Don't you want some? Saturday, Aug. ."), is the last day that we take them. The shoe factory started on Mon day with 26 hands. More will be added from time to time a the work pr igresses. Mrs. T. .1. 1 'i ter of Lewistown and Mr. and Mrs. Peter ol Virginia last week were the guests of Attorney Jacob Gilbert. Attorney Chas. P. Llrieh and wife of Selinsgrove are enjoying a visit to some of Mrs. Ulrich's rela tives at Genesee, N. Y. It is estimated that John P. Buy er of Mt. Pleasant Mills lost $6000 on his peach crop by the destructive storm of the 20th of July. Mrs. Horace Allemon and Mrs. M. L. Kreeger of Selinsgrove spent several days in town last week and colled on the camping party. The Hcpner farm at Fremont was sold at public sale to Charles Basslerof Freeburg, tor 14610. The purchaser is very well pleased. Jerome Krdley and W. II. Rip ka are weatherboarding the western! of the editor's bouse and the east end of C. C. Seebold'a house on Market St. At the Blister estate sale in Jack son township, Saturday, W. D. Bil- ger of kantz louglit the old home stead for $1120 and Catharine M. Foltz bought the 130 acre tract for 81720. Persons going to Seashore on Pennsylvania Railroad Excursion Thursday, August 10th, may go to Atlantic City without transfer at Philadelphia by taking the Delaware River Bridge route. The second series of tombstone Inscriptions ol Adams township ap pears in this issue. They will lc continued from week to week, the districts following in alphabetical order, until we have the record of every burying ground in Snyder County. An exchange says : "Businessmen expect the newsiwper to boom the town, and thus indirectly boom the business men. That being true, the business men should do all possible to help the ncwsiper. Good news papers represent the spirit of a town and its people. Wanted. The editor of the Port desires to obtain in every dis trict of Snyder County a representa tive to canvass the district for the sale of "Snyder County Marriages, 1835-99." Lileral commissions will Ik; allowed and exclusive right to the territory assigned to active parties will be assured. Apply at once as first applicants will be given preference, other things being equal. See the list of picnics and festi vals on the -1th page of this issue and decide which one you will attend. Shorn AT COST. They must go at any price. We would like to get cost for them, but if we can not they must go for less. Come at once while there is a better chance for sizes. Special bargains in buggy whips and soap. Barber Simonton. William .. Kulm, of Sbaiuokin Dam, chairman of the Democratic Standing ( Sommittee ofSnyder coun ty has fixed Saturday, August '2P, as the date for the election of dele gates tothecounty convention, which will be held at Middleburg on Aug. 31. The convention will nominate an associate judge, sheriff, county treasurer, two commissioners and two auditors. Prof. A. A. Killian of Lebanon, Pa., formerly principal of Airy View Academy and supervisory principal of the High School of Port Royal, has been selected as the head ol the Middleburg public schools. The professor is a pedagogue of excellent attainments and culture. Middle burg is to be congratulated u se curing the services of such an able and talented young teacher to manage her schools. -Miffliittown Ivwuve. In the year 1815, four townships were in the assessment in what is uow Snyder County, namely, Beav er, Centre, Mahantongo and Penn. The assessors were as follows : John Smith for Centre; Peter Gorman for Mahantongo; Henry Swart z for Bea ver and John Bosslerior Penn. The rate of tax was 11 cents on each $100 on Real Estate; on horses bV, bn cows So, on occupation from lOo to 60c. The assessors were required to make a record or register of all the children between 5 and 12 years whose parents were unable to pay the school tax. The board of com missioners were Philip MoseS, Fred Gutelius and James Dale. The county seat was at MifHinburg. Students Attending Normal. Shoe Factory News. Orders are now on hand for about one hundred eases. ... i ii- Six cutters anil seventeen lames are now at work and more will Ik taken in a few days. The addition al he lo ui consist ot men. laoies r ' and boys. The forelady is Miss Jennie Gif fen. Her sister. Lizzie Qiffen. is also here. James Miller, an experienced cut ter of Cata wi tea, has a place at the bench. More experience 1 help will arrive this week from Catawissa. Everything bids fair to a success ful manufacturing plant. 1 Quarterly Conference. The fourth quarterly conference of the U. B. Church, will be held in New Berlin U. B. church on Satur day, Aug. 6th. Rev. M. H. Jones, of Sunbury, will officiate Business session at 2 P. M. English preach ing at 10 A. M. Sunday morning at which time Communion will also lx' served. German Preaching and Communion at 2 P. M. in Iluni mel'i Church and English Preaching at Middlebbrg at 7::)0 P. M. All are invited. A Poisonous Sting. On Monday evening while Sam uel Hare was making preparations to raise a kitchen, which lie will move about a mile west ot town where lie is erecting a house, he came in contact with a bumble-bee's nest. One of the lees stung him in the top of his head. The stinger hit an artery which rendered him unconscious. By the timely sum moning of a physician he was soon on a fair way to recovery. Attinger, F. II., Aucker, Reuben, Arlxurast, J.W., Mt. 1 Biinraman. L. ( '.. 0 r ' Binganun, Ira V., Bolctulcr, John J., Bahucv, Michael, Bolig, F. J., Jr., Crouse, Lottie. Charles, Jennie, Berr, I-. C, Brdlev, Win., Erdley, G. A., F.wing, T. A., Fisher, II. P.. Fetterolf, V. ., Fisher, C. K., Freed, I. J., Qarman, A. M., Ml Gift, R. W., Gitl, Maude, Graybill, Hoyt, ( (emberling, II. A., Graybill, Elda, Heintjdcman, W. J Heimbach, '. U., Hendricks, Hebcr, Hornberger, W. A., Hornberger, II. S., Harner, Ed. P., I assinger, !. W., Herbster, W. II., Herbster, .) . ('., Herrold, J.C. Herrold, J. A., Hassinger, J. W.. Herman, Milton, Harding, W.A., Mt Herman, Maud, Kreitzer, J. II., Keller, J. I., Klingler, Win., Musser, A. W., Miller, Lizzie, Mover, A. B., Portaline, H. E, Uomig, William, Romig, Clyiuer, Roush, P. I. Rothrook, Eva, Row, 1). P., Ripka, W. , Rauoh, Chas,, Reichenbach, ( leo., Romiff. Kstella, Schroyer, Alvin, Shambach, Elmer, Smith, II. W., Snook, J. P., Smith, John, Seaman, Frank, SjM'cht, Clara, Shellenberger, J. G., Stuck, Xevin, Bchaeffer, J. A., Scholl, Howard, Tl.arp, E. W W agner, L. ( '., Walker, W. E., Wagner, Ira ( i., Winey, Annie, Walter, Louisa, Weader, II. R., Woodruff, C. H., Youngmon, Esta, Zimmerman. Win ( hapmaii. Dundore. asant Mills. Pcnns !reek. Middles worth. Middleburg. Kantz. Selinsgrove. M iddleburg. Port Treverton. Paxtonville. Kantz. Globs Mills. Heaver Syrings. Shamokin Dam, Troxolville. Salem. 1 leavertown. . Pleasant Mills. 1 'axtouville, Paxtonville. Paxtonville. Salem. I 'axtonvillc. ,, ICrcamer. Middleburg. Selinsgrove. Richfield. Richfield. Ikixtonville. Middleburg. Met 'lure. Renter. ( lliapman. Hoffer. Benvertown. Selinsgrove. . Pleasant Mills. Middleburg. Holler. Beavertown. Salem. Beavertown. Middlecreek. ( !hapman. Meiserville. Middleburg. Beaver Springs. K reamer, Middleburg. K reamer, Middleburg. Middleburg. Shadel. ivr Springs. K reamer. Middleburg. Sel in-grovc. Middlecreek. Middleburg. K reamer. 1 leavertown. Millerstown. Mt. Pleasant Mills. Shaniukin Hani. 1 mndore. Selinsgrove. Middlecreek. Beavertown. McClure. Richfield. Middleburg, Troxelvillc. Salem. Beaver Springs. Paxtonville. Be Entertainment. On Saturday evening, Aug. 12, on entertainment will be given in P. O. S. of A. Hall by twenty of Middleburg's bright young girls ; the order of exercise will be Drills, Pantomimes, Roses and several se lections by Miss Shelly, underwhose direction the entertainment will lie given and who is also teaching a class of young people in the arts of ot Elocution. Coed music will le given and all are invited. Admis sion 10 cents. 9a.3t Why Women are Nervous. British Medical News, The frequent oases ot nervous prostration or utter collapse of the System under which women "go all to pieces," as the saying is, have caused much thought and investiga tion on the part of physicians. Certain inorganic substances are well known to cause various forms of nervous diseases which are readily traced to the poisons producing them. Further research leads to the belief that alum is a prevailing cause for so-called nervous prostration, for the symptoms it produces on the nervous system alter its absorption into the blood are very remarkable indeed. Experimentsphysiologically made upon animals by Orfila, Pro fessors I bins Mayer, Paul Sciin and others, show thai alum frequently produces no visible symptoms for many days after its introduction in to the body. Then follow loss ol appetite and other alimentary dis turbances, and finally a serious pros tration ot the whole nervous system, foe most prominent physicians now believe that "rervoii- prostration" and many affections ol the nerves from which both men and women suffer are caused by the continued absorption of alum into the system. It is probable that many medical men arc unaware of the extent to which salts of alumina may he in troduced into tin' body, being under th.e impression that the use of alum iii bread is prohibited. Alum, how ever, is still used scrruptitiously to sonic extent to whiten bread, and very largely in making cheap kinds of baking powder. In families where baking powder is generally used great care should be exercised to procure only those brands mode from cream ol tartar. The alum powders may generally be distinguished by the lower price at w hich they are sold. Focht s Stolen Grip Found. The Thief and the Valuables Had Dis appeared, However. The mystery surrounding the rob bery of ex-Representative B. F Focht, editor ofthe Lewisburg Sat urday News, while he was a guest at the Lafayette Hotel, Philadel phia, on the night of duly 7, when a valise containing a lot of valuables was stolen, was cleared tip by De tective Rice, of the hotel, Wednes day. Rice received information thai a valise had been left at the Windsor Hotel, at Atlantic ( 'it v, by a man who had remained one night and dis appeared on the following morning without paying his bill. He regis tered under the name of E. E. hair banks. A bundle of papers found in the grip was addressed to Editor Focht. The valuables were missing. The thief entered Fneht's room while he was III dinner. )n the next day the thief went to the hotel at Atlantic City, and his disappear ance from the hostelry was not noted until ten days after he had gone. Mrs. Sarab Moyer Sergeant Wolfe's Company. Evening Excursion Train. An excursion train will be run from Sunbury on the S. iv- L. road on Thursday, August 3d. Luther Reunion. Train leaving Sunbury at about 6 o'clock P. M., and runn ing as far as McClure. Tickets sold at one fare late. Thus passengers can go to the Reunion in the morn- i ingand get back in the evening. Sergeant William H. Wolfe de sires to inform the public that he is highly pleased with the result of the announcement to raise a company ol National Guards. He is receiving letters and postal cards from every section of Snyder County, as well as :i number from the adjoining county. The roll already contains the names of 45 men. The old Sergeant says that hi- memory is called back to 1861 and isii'2, when old Snyder responded so patriotically to thecal! of President Lincoln for Volunteers to protect the Flag and Nation. Lit tle Snyder was well represented in our Civil War, and has the honor to have her name placed among the counties in the suite which furnished the largest per centage of vol unteers. She was represented in all the heavy and important battles of the Rebellion, and many of brave comrades were left to Bleep upon the historic battlefields in the sunny south-land, but their self-sacrificing deeds o! patriotic devotion, will live on as longas the Republic endures. The Sergeant expects to call his recruits together, August 26, There will be about L32 men on the roll, out of which the necessary 55 will be selected. Sergeant Wolfe deserves the thanks of our people for his ef forts to have our county represented in the National Guards. IrUnme. n Saturday mor 1111111! manv relii- tivi - and friends followed the re mains oi Mrs. Sarah Moyer lo their Inst resting place, she Imvirgdepart cd this life on Wednesday of lasl week. The immediate cause of death was a cancerous afleotinu ol the stomach. Sarah, widow ol the late Philip Mover, deceased, died July 19, 18U9, at the home ol her daughter, Mrs. Jacob A. Wilt. She was a daughter ol' Dr. Frederick Troon; was born September Ith, 1828, in Upper Malianoy town-hip, North umberland county, Pa.; was enll- firmed a member ofthe Evangelical Lutheran church, April 25, 1841, by Rev. T. It, rlempsing, She was married to Philip Mover, March 1848, by Rev. Rudolph Dinger. Her husband died January 18, isii-j. Mrs. Moyer was an unassuming Christian lady, an indulgent mother, and was generally respected in the community, Ten children and twenty-three grandchildren survive her. The funeral services were conduct ed by Rev. W. A. Haas. The ,,b sequies were directed by J. Howard Arbogast. Pall bearers; Rolandlis Sipo, Geo. P, Miller, Elias Shot. bcrger, S. (i. Ililhish and P. S. Riegle. Interment inFairview Cem etery, Freeburg. Courier, t Kind Words from Rev. Boyer A i, t. i:town, July 28. Editor Post : I have received the papers you sent me, as requested, and in return desire to thank yon heartily tor same. I have given a copy of your paper to a number of my friends, who have always look upon our little town as a back mini ber, and now, I am proud to sav, they have changed their opinion, aud congratulated me on having such a wide-awake newspaper as the "Post" to represent Snyder county. May such tavorahle ominous continue where ever your paper Is read. Yours Respectfully, W. H. BoYEB, Joseph Graybill. Joseph Graybill, an old resilient of West Perry township, departed this life July ' 2n, 1899. The de ceased has lived long in that neigh borhood, and was well-to-do. He was a member of the Mennonitc church. H is wife preceded him to the spirit world last winter. Two sons, Menno and Allen, still sur vive him. He was buried in the cemetery of the Mennonite church west of town, where a large Dumber of relatives and friends met to pay the last sail rites. He was in the eightieth year of his age. Teachers Elected. The Selinsgrove school board i . i.i t ii , . i elected me loiiowiugniimed teaeiiers for the ensuing term: Principal, Prof. R. L. Schroyer; Ass't, Prin., Wi A. Moyer; Grammar School, C. O. Gaugler. Ass't. GramniarSchool, Miss Lydial lsher; Secondary School, Miss Jennie Miller; Primary School, Miss Delia Burnt; Ass't. Primary School, Miss Anna Rover; Island Grammar, Sumner Smyser; Island Primary, D. L. Gemberling. i 4 Dtfnm 1 V 4. 1 V.
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