QEO. W. WAQBWBKLLBB, Editor and Proprietor. EVERYBODY SHOULD LOGAL NEWS. Names of the People who Vis aed Our Town. WHEN AND WHKItE THEY VISITED SKE W HETHER YOUB NAME IS IX THE COLUMN 8M WH ETH El! 100 KNOW THE PERSONS. Court next week. i . if Haines of Adamsburi had 12 his nension increased rrom ?mo w iht month. Frank D. Rlegle of Wlnfield was a visitor in this place the early part 0 this week. A very heavy shower of rain fell in this place on Monday night and Tuesday morning. C. C. Seebold is erecting a new barn on Ins property occupied by County Treasurer Rlegle. A dividend of four per cent on the Bunbury & LewiBtown railway atook is payable October '1. Miss Millie Soles of Kalamazoo, Mich., is visiting Barber Soles and wite or. West Market str.-et. Mrs. J. C Frain of Millersburg is visiting at the residence ol Prof. Paul BUlhardt in this place. Frank Binoaman, who resides near the Summit Hotel, raised a sweet iwtato that weighs 3 lbs. 3 oz. Azariah Kreeger,the money king of Franklin, and W. W. Ripka were liewistown visitors last Saturday. Daniel Maneval, one of the active republicans of West Perry township, was at the county seat on Monday. M. Millner, the wide-awake mer chant of Kantz, is in the eastern cities this week buying up goods for fall trade. "In His Steps" is the greatest story of the generation. The read ers of the POST never miss the best. Read it in the Post this week. Misses Elisabeth and Gertrude Dunkleberger are spending some time in Philadelphia and New York attending Millinery Openings and purchasing winter goods. The world's births amount to26 792,000 every year, 100,800 every day, 4,'200 every hour, 70 every minute and 1 and a fraction every second. The great success of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diorrhoea Rem edy in the treatment of bowel com plaints has made it standard over the greater part of the civilized world. For sale by all Druggists. If you go to make a fire in the stove that stood unused during the summer, look well to the stove-pipe or flue and see they are all right. You may lose your home by a little carelessness in this matter. Clem. R. Snancler, Who had liccn at Newport News, Va. came home last Week to snend B short vacation There has been so much yellow fever in that vicinity for the last few months that it is a relief to get out of the community, lhe town had been (piarantined for some time. The postoffice department at Washington has decided to suspend the establishment of rural free de livery for the present. Siucf the M becinuinir of the fiscal year, July 1, this service has been established in so many niaces that it has almost exhausted the appropriation for the purpose The Spring Telephone Co., with headquarters at Adarosburg, are promising to extend their lines to Selinsgrove and to Lwisburg and at the rate of One Dollar per month for a phone. A public phone has been placed in the Central Hotel at this place where a talk can be had tor nve cents. MIDDLEBURGH, SNYDER CO., READ THE CONTINUED H. K. Miller, Jr., of Selinsgrove, was at the Court House on Monday. Miss Jennie Fox attended the fu neral of a relative at Catawis u last week. John Wittenniver of Mifflinburg is the guest of Amanda Witteomyer of Franklin. Miss Greene of Lewisburg hist week was the Wittenmyer. guest of the Misses Darnel Bpitler and wne of New Berlin visited their son, Samuel, ill Swineford on Sundav. Daniel StaufferofSelinsgrove last week was a guest of Adam Showers and family in this place. The South Bend (Ind.) Daily lime issued a very creditable Labor Day floral Edition recently. Attorney ('lias. P. Flr'n'li was anions the Selinsgrove citizens at the county scat on Saturday. Geo. Bickhhrt and Isaac Stinn ling killed a ground hog last week that weighed twenty pounds. .1. E. Shinklc, P. C. Madman and S. H. Stroub of Peiuis Creek were at bur county scat on Monday. Pay the printer. He needs his money to pay his hills for paper, ink, labor and his daily bread. P. li. Lenig, wite and daughter of Northumberland visited relatives and friends in town over Sunday. Rev. I). E. McLain has been very ill for the past few davs. We trust a , he will soon be able to be out again. (i. C. Smith and wife of Johu- sonbure, who have been visiting his parents at this place, have returned home. Carbon Seebold, proprietor of the Washington House, spent several days in the coal regions the early part of the week. The bottler's license of this place was transferred to Sylvester Bowen last week. Mr. Bowen will operate the bottling works for all it is worth. An effort is being made to raise money for the purchase of a bell on the new school building. The sum of 094.50 had been raised on Moii- lay already. Mrs. M. S. Campbell of Chicago is visiting Aaron Kciiningcr and Mrs. Thoe. Hosterinan m this place. She called at this office Monday and paid hersubscriptionto Jan. 1, 1901. One dollar will bring yon hap piness every week for a year and every month tor live years. l on touch the button bv sending the Post a dollar and we will do the rest. Those who have not yet started to read the religious story "In His Steps now running on the inside pages ot the Post should do so at once. 1 Ins little story has done more good than any other that has leen written for years. If vou want your hair cut with out steps or a nice easy shave and a refreshing shampoo, (TO to A. E. Soles, in the bank building one door east of the Post Office, in room with the dnur store. A clean towel to each customer and satisfaction guar anteed. The public schools ofthis borough opened on Monday with Prof. A. A. Killian, I' nncipal ; frot. Julwin Charles, teacher of the intermediate, and Prof. Geo. W. Hassi nger, teach er ot the primary school. INinety- six minus were enrolled in the three a a schools the first day. One dollar will pay lor one year's subscription to the Post if paid in advance either as a new subscriber or as an old one whopreviouly pays unhis aTea races. In addition to that, we will send your name to the "Farm Journal" for a copy of that I interesting paper for almost five I years in me Dargain. STORY, "11 BTW WHICH APPEARS II THE INSIDE PAGES OF THE POST. TATTERED BATTLE FLAG OF THE FIGHTING TENTH PENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT To be Carried in the Dewey Parade in New York. . Pi. Winer has a sweet potato on exhibition that weighs 3 pounds. James YanZandt caught twenty bass, eight sun fish and one bass on Monday. Some people have so muoji respert for the truth that they keep at a fair distance from it. A movement is on foot to start a night school in this borough. We hope a number of our young people who are deprived of the benefits de rived from attending day school will join hands and spend some of the evening hours in pleasure and profit. We give our usual reminder this week to those who are in arrears to come in to the office next week when they come to court to pay up. If they are not coming themselves, they can send it with some one who is coining to court. This notice is not intended for those who have paid 1 1 1 to date or in advance. The Editor of the Post and wife on Saturday returned from their ex tended tour through the great West. The distance covered was aliout 5000 miles having visited Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. The large part of lhe details of the trip have already been published in the Pokt. Mrs. M. E. Shuman of Franklin reports that she has a cabbage head that weighs 9 J pounds and measures 25 inches in eircu inference. She has a sweet potato that measures IS inches in circumference and a sum mer ratnlKi apple that measures 13 inches in circumference. These are certainly very large specimens of the vegetable kingdom and are hard to beat If any of our readers can beat this record we will le glad to hear of it. On Monday Belleville Smith of this place, the candidate for County Treasurer on the Republican ticket, handed the editor of the POST a year's subscription to the Post sent to him by Peter D. lienter, ot lia ton, New Mexico. Mr. Beufcr for merly resided at Paxtonville, but he now holds a very lucrative position on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. The writer says there is some probability of the P. R. R. Co. and his company making a com bination for the purpose of having a through fast train from ocean to ocean. This is certainly a feature that would be appreciated by the traveling public to be able to get a fast train to go from New York to San Francisco. PA THURSDAY, THAT'S. That the man who does his fight tig in his mind always conies out vicl urius. r T!iut it is poor policy for a busi ness man to wait for the Sheriff to attend to his advertising. Thai it does not matter how worth less a man is lie can always find some woman willing to marry him. That many a man who would shrink from (along a purse for pro fit will steal a character lor pleasure. That the young fellows in Mid dlcluirg can now wear a "blled shirt without getting hot under tin collar. That it is awful to contemplafc that we grow to resemble the sort ol food we eat, especially when we an fond of small potatoes. That Gen. Jacob C'oxey, who led the tramp army to Washington fivi years ago, hasbeoomea zinc mining magnate at Joplin, Mo. He ha? struck it rich and says his fortune ii made. That pretty maidens from every state and territory in the I nion, in cluding Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, will be on exhibition during the National Export Exposi tion in Philadelphia. That the other .lay a young lady in Middleburg was asked the ques tion, "Why do you girls always kiss each other when you meet?" "lie cause we wish to do unto others us we would have the boys do unto us," she replied. That one of the shortest w ills ev er recorded in Franklin county was that written by the late Dorothy Pit tinger of Antrim township, which was recorded last week by Recorder Kennedy. It reads : "Abraham Pit tinger is to have everything after I am dead." The signature followed in English and German. That two fellows not a hundred miles from Middleburg, loved the same girl, and she loved the two ; being unable to decide between them she proposed they fight it out, and recently accordingly the prize fight was had and the girl was the star looker-on with some other friends of the fighters They were Ixrth se verely bruise I from the pommeling and the one becoming the loser, the girl took the arm of the victor, and saying "Good boy," Mike," walked off with him. ' SEPT. 28, 1899. COURT HOUSE CHIPS Di-imI I no r. il lor Hrriinl. A. 1). and G. I. Kramer, admin istrators, to.M. L Miller, 101 acres in Middlecreek twp., for (3950, II. P. App to Mrs. Mary Ellen Lesher, lot of r 1 1 1 1 I on High St., Selinsgrove, for 100. ( '. E. Aucker, 46H) sq. feet in Union twp., for 50. Charles Erdley and wife to Mrs, Annie M. Maurer ami Mrs. Mamie Hilbish, unit claim deed. Lot No. 1 7 in New Berlin anil the undivided one-sixth of a tract of Hi acres in Jackson tup., lor $100. Will PrabatiHl. The lust will and testament ol Daniel Oldt, late ol Jackson town ship, deceased, was probated by lieg ister Willis on Monday ofthis week. The instrument was signed .lime S, 1897 in the presence of .1. T. Smith, Ira B. licbkieher mid Homer Smith. All the real estate, being a farm ot 110 acres in Jackson twp. and all tin' personal property is bequeathed to his widow, Sandi Oldt, ami then it becomes the legacy of Margaret, wile of John Peter Voder. The ex ecutor is .1. P. i otter. Mnrrill:' LiMMMMk I John M. George, Troxelvillc, j Anna M. Kreps, Adams Twp. J. F. Snook, Middlecreek, Emma J. Kline, Met 'lure. Shooting Stars. Almost every night numbers of meteors can in; seen .shooting about the sky and beautiful streaks of light mark their paths. According to many tiic display will be remark able this jear, Astronomers say that November 1."., 1899, will be re markable fiir the reason that the heavens w ill then lie alilac with a magnificent shower of stars, but they point out that a similar display of celestial fireworks regularly oc curs every thirty-three years, and there is no reason tor supposing thai the spectacle in 1899 will he more glorious or omnious than it was in 1833 and 1806. Not Many that Way. Samuel Fetters, a miller by trade and a Democrat in politics, Jiving in Chester count v, in Chester Valley, sent the pension office at Washing ton word to have bis name stricken from the pension roll because he is in irooil In .dili and can make bis own living. The pension oftiei tnougni nun crazy and sent an em ploye to learn definitely about liim Potters was found to be able to take care of himself and his name was .stricken from the pension roll. lb is considered a curiosity among tin old soldiers. A Pleasant Reception. Last week about sixty friends at tended the birthday party given to Win. Holler of Kansas, who was visiting at Michael Kcrstettcr's near Holler. The refreshments were abundantly supplied and carefully prepared by Mrs. Shotsberger and lier mother for the occasion. Most excellent music was furnished by the Railey Brothers. The evening was very pleasantly Spent, Mr. Hoffer and wife left for their Kan sas home on Wednesday ot this week. An Ohio preacher has invented a new kind ot collection hox lor church use, into which a dollar, a half dollar or a quarter will tall, without making any noise, on a pad ded cushion; a nickel, however, dropped in the slot rings a Ml, while a penny or a trousr button fires off a nun, attracting the atten tion of the entire congregation to the embarrassed and economical giver. VOL 36. NO. 38. WANTED! For the United States Volun teer Army. AIIEE-HOPIEP MRS ill' (l(K)p i ll Vll ACTER THETKH.M of SERVICE IS FOll TIIEl'EIUOp KNPIM1.IINE 30, 1901. Applicants for enlistment must be tween the ages of eighteen and thirty live years, ol' good character and habits, ahlc-hodicd, and In e from disease. Persons who are iv.l phy sically perfeel will In- rejected, and it will be a waste of time lor those' Knowing themselves to lie unsound to apply. Married men w ill no! be nli.-tcd except upon the approval ol a re gimental commander. No per-oii under eighteen years of age will be enlisted or r. ulisted; am I minors I ict ween the agi ol eighteen and twenty-one will Wol be enlisted or reonlisted without the written consent of father, onlv sur viving parent, or legally appointed guai dian. All soldi rs receive from tin Gov ernment (in addition to their pay) ration-, clothing, bedding, medicines, and medical attendance, believer a soldier is honorably discharged at the expiration ot bis ubstmeiit, oroiinceount of disability not caused by bis own misconduct, his travel pay is ample to carry him to the place ol enlistment . For further information see large posters. These enlistments will be for the 17th U. Si V. infantry, Recruiting Office at National Hotel, Lewistown, Pa., Sept. 29, 1899. II. F. Ehi.e, Lieut. 47th Inf. Medical Examiner, Dr. Hunter. -Peel Your Fruit. All fruits with skins on should be washed and peeled before eating especially fruits exposed on the streets, and where dust and flies can have iccess tothcin, Few are aware ot the danger of food contamination bv flies. They aregreat scavengers, and arc not at all ehoicy as to what they cat, nor where they step. They pass at one bound from an infectious carcass, a foul ulcer, or a mass ol diseased sputum or linking tilth to the apple, pear or peach with dirty proboscis, run over it, and contamintc it. Hence all such fruit should be first w ashed and dried and then pared if possible. Even f ood to lie i ked ought, for cleanliness sake, to be washed ifcooked with the skins on. Ridge Picnic. The mass picnic was held the Jod inst. in the grove adjoining the St. John's church, West Heaver by St. John and St. Luke Sunday schools. F. (j. Snook, F. G. Ooss, Superin tendents, Mrs. Mary Shultz, Laura Laker, Supts. Primary Dept., Annie Wieder, Lizzie Miller, organists, all of former school ; W. F. Ulsh, Supt., Miss Mollic Smith, organist ol the latter. Exercises: Music by Troxelvillc Band and singing alter nately by the schools, prayer, Win. Ilceter: addrcs.-cs, Ncvs. CD. Zwie- er, H. lb Spahn and Prof. Wm. Moyer; Benediction, Lev. Zweier. After the dinner hour the Band and .Solomon Steiningcr's Orchestra en tertained the assemblage, it beiiiirthe last and largest ol its kind held in the county this year. Enough money has been sul Beribed by the people of Sunbury to warrant the beginning of work tor the erection of a free bridge across the river at that place to the Snyder county side. The business men of 8unbury think the increased amount of trade that the town will secure through this enterprise will more than pay the cost. J . rTW8,s in. 1796: 11 Your VVfrrnr. n cro S -1 1 Htart .
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