.PREPARgD EXPRESSLY FOR THE POaT7 "j23&7
SELINSGUOVE.
II. F. Charles nd Aaron Htettler
were in Pliila. last week.
The Reformed re-union at Island
Park was well attended by the
members of the church here. We
learned that the exercises were very j
interesting.
Mrs. K. L. Schroyer returned
from lier visit to Huntingdon and
brought with lier Ktliel Pollmer,
her niece.
Prof. O. C. (tort ner and family I
ut' Mifflin are guests of liis mother.
The Prof is County Bupt of Juni
ata Co.
Mr. Pryor of Baltimore is being
entertained by his uncle, M. A.I
Miller.
Mrs. Boyd Bleoker and daughter, I
ofPhila. are at Grandpa Hlecker's.
G.F. Hunsicker, wife and mother-in-law
of Phila. are visiting their
daughter, Mrs. Ilev. Genseler.
Dr. Luther Peters of l'hila. cir
culated among friends last week.
D. W. Crouse of Norwood, Pa.,
is visiting his brothers and sisters.
Miss Maine lioinig accompanied
Mrs. Milton Romig to Elkhart, Ind.
where they expect to visit friends.
The hying of the corner-stone of
the Lutheran church at Kratzer
ville vas largely attended, Revs.
Pfhieger of Elizabethville and J, J.
Kline, Ph. D. of New Hanover as
sisted Rev. Genszler at the corner
stone laying. Rev. Dr. Ochsen
ford vas also present.
G.W. Burns accompanied Dr.
Yodff to New Berlin last week to
see tie hitter's parents.
Mss Bertha Conrad is visiting
the funily of Geo. Fenstermacher.
La Smith was arrested Satur
dayevening lor fast driving on our
stress. He was fined $3.00 and
coal This is as it should be.
Thre has been entirely too much
recjless driving on our streets.
- A. Richter entertained his par
ent and other relatives recently.
My baby was terribly nick with
th diarrhoea,'1 says J. H. Doak, of
Wuiams, Oregon. "We were unable
toSire him with the doctor's assis
tance, and as a last resort we tried
Ckmberlain'a Colic, Cholera and
Urrhoea Remedy. I am happy to
sif it gave immediate relief aud a
cthplete cure." For sale bv the
idleburg Drug Co.
UNION TOWNSHIP.
DBS. R. Zimmerman spent Sunday
h friends at Shamokin Dam.
Kev. J. G. Martin and wife of
few Columbia spent a week among
ends here.
Jockey Aucker has a new wheel.
Frank Scholl was at home over
nday. He is employed at Sham-
in Dam.
Our boys are getting ready lor
animation day.
A number of heads were under
pter in the canal last Friday niorn-
K, but they were only cabbage
fads.
We hare men that are too busy
attend to their business.
Heartburn.
When the ouanitv of food taken is
bo large or the quality too rich,
fcartburn is likey to follow, and
peciaily so if the digestion has
ben weakened by constipation. Eat
jowly and not too freely of easily
igesiea tood. Masticate the food
koroughly. Let six hours elaimo he
reon meals and when you feel a
uness ana weight in the stomach
ter eating, indicating that you
6 too much. tnUn nna nf (!limn-
Prlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
pd the heartburn may be avoided,
lor sale by The Middlehnrp Dmo-
. - -r r
ton,
FLINTVALLEY.
Michael Hassiaerer. Jonathan
rubb's farmer, has his wheat still
fi shocks in this valley.
J. A. Mover is ditrerintr a well.
oover aud Co. arc doing the work.
f-t. names lsemnlovad makinor n
lurch.
The saw emnloves of (i. A. l?t-
prf are having their oats harvest
iicauon in some ot the oats fields
par Frecburir. Thev will SI 11)11
pt for Nortli'd. County again.
J-lie U. 15. Ebenezer S. S. an'
living singing school with Prof.
m. Mover as taaflhar. flinonncr
ill be Sunday eveninc. Auir. 4th.
7:30. D'
CENTERVILLfi.
Martin Mover and family of
Middleburg visited 8. C. Dundore
and family Sunday.
Miss Mary J. Reish and grand
children of Milton' were visitors in
town over Sunday.
Master Kmory Mohn of Jersey
Shore is .visiting his grandparents.
R. 1. Knlley and wife visited
Morris Krdlev and family near
Vicksburg.
Prof. F. ('. Bowcrsox delivered a
very interesting sermon on Home
Missions in the V . Evangelical
Church Sunday evening.
P. M. and F. H. Stine and wife
were the guests of the lalter's par
ents near New Berlin Sunday.
L. A. Musser, .). O. Bowersox
and A. H. Stine left f.r Lewistown
Tuesday of last week.
W. K. Sechrist wears a broad
smile its a girl.
Bx-Judgu Bucher and wife of
Lewisburg and Dr. Rookeand wife
ot Winfield took dinner at the Cen
terville House last Thursday.
Levi Bilger residing in Limestone
twp., Union Co., about one and a
half miles north of here died sud
denly Saturday morning. He was
interred Monday in the L. and R.
cemetery. His age was about 70
years.
J. C. Smith a former resident of
this place now of Williamsport spent
several days with relatives here
last week.
C. F. Berger and H. P. Marklc
were home from Laurelton.
Our miller, H. H. Herbster is so
crowded with work that he has to
run his mill day and night.
Some of our people took in the
colored campmeeting at Rand.
PALLAS NEW8
John Teats has completed excav
ating the cellar for his new dwell
ing and the masons are at work on
the wall.
Calvin Bailey intends to take a
trans-continental trip this fall stoj
ping in Colorado with his brother.
The funeral last Sunday was well
attended, deceased being an infant
child of Millard Walter and wife.
Rev. Miller ofliciating.
Last Monday during a heavy
thunder storm which passed over
this locality lietweeu four and five
o'clock the Grubb's church was
twice struck by lightning. One
licit striking the large steeple tear
ing away the northern half of the
dome, shattering the window glass
and frame. Another bolt tore thro
the ceiling burning the paper all
around the room playing the most
curious pranks in following the
painter's brush on the wall pajwr.
Nearly every place in the church
both above and in the basement
shows signs of the lightning's pres
ence, by burns, splintered boards,
torn carpets and oil cloth as well as
torn plaster and displaced bricks.
Iioss is covered by insurance.
When you want a modern, up-to
date physic, try Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. They
are easy to take and pleasant in
effect. Price, 25 cents. Samples free
at The Middleburg Drug Store.
HUMMELVS WHARF.
Dr. Newt. Nipple and wife, who
have lieen visiting their parents, re
turned to their home in Akron, O.
Among those who attended the
corner-stone laying of the new
church at Kratzerville were Irvin
Millhofl and family, Mrs. Frank
Hettriek, Miss Martha Hummel
and Win. Young.
Mrs. Troutman of near Newport
is spending a few weeks with her
parents, John Schoeh and wife.
Mrs. Norton Bower, Miss Katie
Fulkroad and friend of Oriental
were visitors at lx.'1'i Dressler's
Sunday.
Frank Knlley lost a valuable cow
last week.
A child of Geo. Moll is very ill
with the measles.
J. H. Bailey is very ill at this
writing.
Amos C. Gemberling, Penn town
ship's widc-a-wake thresher, is
threshing for a number of farmers
i n this vicinity.
ULLAGES IF
BY 1X3 CORPS OF CORRESPONDENTS' jV IH
-l'j'i'.i'j'
WIN 1 H Mil-..
Sniie people are so nglv that even
the mosquitoes won't bite them.
The Susquehanna with its islands,
the picturesque Mahanoy and the
valleys beyond lend enchantment to
the view.
Mr. Holts worth of Selinsgrove
was on our street oil. ring iresO
jll li'om the lakes.
A friend, after making swine close
observations, says that it takes only
about five minutes to get married.
A few crying babies ic church
can make more nni-c than the
preacher, but the impression for
good will not be eo lasting.
)n Monday evening of last week
lightning struck a telephone pole
near Henry Hoot's residence and
made it necessary to substitute a new
pole.
Oats harvest is about over and
the crop i ghort this ear.
We are living in an age of pro
gress, they used to open boil- lv aj
plying a poultice hut now a man
scares at a flash of lightning and
the boil opens and the cure is per
manent. Our Overseers of the Poor will
have trouble as some of the tax
payers as well as some of the pau
pers are not pleased with the low
tax of this year.
8. B. Overholtzer passed through
town with a load of new potatoes.
Minnie F.yer of Selinsgrove and
Mamie Bock of New York City are
the guests of Maria W. Dundore
and are reveling in our fresh air and
pure mountain water and boat rid
ind on the Susquehanna.
Geo. Neitz has returned from the
timber tracts where he worked for
the last 00 days.
July is gone and we hope the in
tense heat with it; and as the wind
blows over the oats stubble now we"
look for cool nights.
Some of young gents spend their
Saturday evenings in Selinsgrove;
towu girls are pretty but they may.
The heavy showers of last Fri
day morning were a welcome sur
prise. The corn crop looks exceptionally
good and our farmers are elated.
Early apples are scarce and late
ones will be few.
HOFPBR
W. H. Grimm was seen here
Friday.
Miss Maggie Sanders of Nor
thumberland was visiting friends
last week.
Jerome Marshall of Northum
berland was visiting his aunt last
week.
"Through the months of June and
July our babv was teething and took
a running off of the bowels and sick
ness of the stomach, "says O. P. M.
Holliday, of Deuiing, Ind. "His
bowels would move from five to eight
times a day. I bad a bottle of Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarr
hoea Remedy in the house and gave
him four drops in a teaspoonful of
water and u'ot bettor at once.'1 For
sale by the Middleburg DrngCo.
Ceuterville
Rev. Schoch preached here Sun
day morning.
Elmer Zechman is making his
rounds with his new threshing ma
chine. He bus almost more to do
than he is able. Elmer seems to
understand his business.
The huckleberry teams can lie
seen going through town on their
way to Lewfoburg where they en
deavor to dispose of them.
Milt Walter was stopped on his
way home Friday evening near Jas.
M. Bingaman's on the public high
way by a man whom he did not
know. No one was hurt.
Florence Markley and Stella
Hartley visited friends near Zion
church over Sunday.
We are desirous of seeing the new
road law carried out for at some
places it is highlv necessary to re
move the obstructions. We hope
the supervisors will attend to their
duties.
Prof. Anderson will deliver a
free Temperance lecture Thursday
evening in the Evangelical church.
Amnion Kline aud family visited
Elias Hartman Sunday.
Rev. Auraud was hurl in some
way one day last week.
8S9YDER GOUHT
r
PORT IREVORTON
Miss Lizzie Keller of Sun bury
mingled with relatives during the
week.
Win. Schrawder, who is employ
ed at Lewisburg, is enjoying home
luxuries.
Chester Nipple, -on of Dr. J. t .
and Mrs. Nipple, formerly of town
but now of Suubury, -pent several
days w ith hisuousiu, Frank looser.
J. C. SehaclK r and wife siiellt
Sunday at Suubury visiting their
sons, Albert, Edwin, John, Benja
min and Jacob and returned home
accompanied by their grandson,
Clayton Schaeiier.
N. T. Dundore and wife and Mi
Minnie Eyer passed through town
Sunday.
CO. Gaugler of Selinsgrove was
in town Monday.
Mrs. John McAllister of Steelton
is visiting her grand fat her, Levi
Woe idling.
Mrs. Jackson Bickel of Mclvees
paid relatives a visit Sunday.
Daniel Krebbs and daughter of
Dundore were in town during the
past week.
T. H. Bogai and wife visited D.
Si Krebbs and family at Dundore
and returned home accompanied by
Miss Frances Krebbs, a cousin of
Mrs. Bogar of Herndon.
Perry Rofhermel and family and
Wm. Arnold and family wen' the
guests ol J. S. Wise and family ot
Dundore, Sunday.
Mr. Holtzapple and wife of K urtz
ipent Sunday in town.
Miss Annie Martin of Wilkes
Barre, aud John Michael, wife and
daughter of Milton are spending the
week at Geo. Daubert's.
Barber Neitz has gone to Miltou
to accept a position there.
Miss Lizzie Hoffman of Scranton
and sister, Mrs. Harry Boyer of
Selinsgrove are spending the week
witii Win. Boyer and wife.
Clarence Lenig of Milton spent
Sunday with his mother.
Wm. Boyer paid his daughter,
Mrs. (i. C. Faust of Suubury a
visit Sunday.
Rev. A. H. Zolnard of Lykens
held communion services in the (J.
B. church Sunday morning and de
livered an eloquent sermon Sunday
evening.
Mrs. L. F, Charles, Mrs. Lucetta
Shaffer, Jno. Snoke and Albert Neitz
are on the sick list and A. W. Auck
er, P. C. Shambach and William
Schrawder arc on the retired list.
Wm. Lenig of Clark's Ferry spent
Sunday with one of the town's fairest.
C. W. Knights, our honorable
commissioner, is faking in the sights
at Buffalo.
Hair Splits
"I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor
for thirty years. It is elegant for
a hair dressing and for keeping the
hair from splitting at the ends."
J. A. Gruenenfelder, Crantfork, III.
Hair-splitting splits
friendships. If the hair
splitting is done on your
own head, it loses friends
for you, for every hair of
your head is a friend.
Ayer's Hair Vigor in
advance will prevent the
splitting. If the splitting
has begun, it will stop it.
11.00 bttlle. All dniKCMn.
If your dmintliit cannot MPplj yoii,
Mnd us one dmlur nnl wn will fxprrHH
you a bottle. He mire unil cive the name
of your nearest exprrsy ofllce, AddrcM,
J. C. A VKK CO., Lowell, Mans.
A DrllPBtr PoalttOB.
"It wns very embarratifng," said
Mr. Btormiagton Barnes. "Very em
bCTMMing indeed. I fe;ir the lady
thought me rudo; but rather than bii
suspected of egotism I ket silence."
"What has happened?"
"Our hostess asked me who is the
greatest living actor. How could I
avoid misinforming her without ap
pearing to indulge in self-praise?"
Washington Star.
Wh'ST BBAVBK.
There is still gome wheat stand
ing in the fields. Persons who
have threshed are not allowed till
price for w heat that has been taken
to the mill on account of dampness,
The base ball game at McCbire
Saturday, lietweeU MeClure and
Beavertowu, resulted in score of III I
to '.l in favor of Met lure.
Miss Viola Steely has accented n
po-ilion at t
Lewistown.
her new llelil
Rev. Gill
lie slocking lactorv in
She lelt Tuesday I'm
ol' labor.
and family of Banner-
villr have picked and sold to I y
and Son at Crossgrove 0110 1 1 of
huckleberries this season, and the
are still picking.
It took six men aud two hovs tn
get Rohisotl Middles worth ami Abi
Holshue to understand v;ho weir
talked of as being catulidutes at our
next primary election. My advice
gentlemen is this, be a cashsuhsi rib
er to the Middleburg Post and you
will he po-ted in all the latest new -of
the county.
( has. Houser speii! a week with
hi- mother ni Met 'lure, alter the
death of his father, then returned In
hi- home at Lew i-tow n last week.
Edward Hughes, Foster Tn li
ter and Grandmother Treaster spent
part of Sunday with some of their
Lowell friends, Bruce Wagner
was a visitor also.
K.KEAMER.
John Deitrich and Frank Her
man drove to Kratzerville Sunday
afternoon to witness the corner
stone laying of the lew Lutheran
church.
Miss Lsora Smith and Mrs. W .
II. Gordon spent a day very pleas
antly with a fishing party at
Schocll's dam last week.
James (i. Snyder transacted busi
ness at the county seat one day last
week.
Quite a number of our young
folks attended the festival at Erd
ley's church Saturday evening.
Chas. Herman and Kcnier Au
miller, who have been working in
Norfh'd. Co., returned home.
Thomas Iiandis of Union ( 'o. vis
ited his parents over Sunday.
Peter Albert and wife of Selins
grove visited N. C. Gutelius ami
amily Saturday.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
SALEM.
Moiris Knlley visited his daugh
ter, Mrs. ( has. Krh.
Mrs. (ieo. Miller of Freehiirg
and Then. Row end family of
K reamer spent Saturday at the
home of Matilda Fisher.
C. H. Woodruff arrived Monday
.from a trip to London, England.
Mrs. J. K. Mover was entertaiped
I by her sister, Mrs. Louisa Snyder,
Saturday.
Misses Annie Gemberling, Kath
lerineand Edith Witiner attended the
Reformed Reunion at Island Park,
Thursday.
Quite a number of our people
tended the corner-stone laying
at-
K ratzerville Sunday.
MEXICAN SONGSTRESS HONORED
Austrian Emperor Remembers Her No
ble Aet of Years Ago.
Vienna, July 29. Emperor Francis
Joseph has forwarded a generous clft
to Senora Concha Mendec, the Mexi
can Rongatress, on the occasion of her
80th birthday.
After Kmpcror Maxlmllllnn had been
shot and EmpresH Carlolta had goui
Insane, the audience at a Mexican
theatre called upon Mendcz to slug a
song, vllllfylng thorn, but she cried
out "No, I shall not vllllfy the dead
and the unhappy," and a hush fell
upon the house.
The incident Is recalled In connec
tion with the gift.
Missouri Out For Roosevelt.
KaiiHiis City, Mo.. July 26. Fifty
prominent Kansas City Republicans
have organized a 1904 Theodore Roose
velt Club. Its purposes are these:
To secure the nomination of Vice
President Roosevelt for president In
the Republican national convent ion In
1!)04; to havu this convention held In
Convention Hall in Kansas City, anil
to have Missouri present a solid Roose
velt delegation in the convention.
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
CIfuum and lcKOttf ttx hair,
l'rumutd a lniurlnrit PDWttJi
Movar NHS to Hrsturo Off
Hair to Ita youthful Coler.
Cun iralp ! '-' nr m.lu,.
0p, ant' 1 1 Ml aMJnjglJjJ
A WEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED.
We dnri-iay, July 24.
The Commercial Law league oponcd
'Its seventh annual convention a' Put-
In Hay. .. yesterday.
The United Itine Workers of Amer
I lea will make an effort to organize all
' West Virginia miners.
Contracts were let yesterday fr tho
new road which gives the, Wabash a
Pittsburg entrain e.
Russia's wheat crop is reported al
most ruined as a result of the drouth
over there.
Sarah Knapp, 7S. ninl William
Whit. B0, eloped from the Bing
haiuton. New York, almshouse yester
day The sixteenth annual convention ot
the Brotherhood ot St. Andrew, an
organization of the Episcopal Church,
will be held Id Detroit, beginning to
day. Thursday. July 2f.
w. Morgan Shusterleft Washington.
P C . yesterday for the Philippines,
with a revise ! copy of the tariff
Edgar W Abbott, professor of lan
guages at Butler University, Indians
was drowned while bathing . Bterdsy,
Secretary Root is at his Biuunn r res
Idence, Southampton, L. I., for a throe
weeks' vacation.
Tho Federal grand Jury was called
into session at New York yesterday to
Investigate the affairs of the Seventh
National bank.
Joseph R Hlxson, general eastern
nsent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St, Paul railroad, died at Ins home In
Elizabeth, N i . yesterday, aged 60.
Abdul llamld's beautiful enemy.
Princess llai Hanem, wife of All
Nourl Bey, consul general f"r Turkey
in Rotterdam, has escaped from Con
stantinople. Friday. Jcly 26.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
city of Winnipeg with 1100,000 for a
free public library, Which lias been
accepted by the city council.
w E. Bamuelson, of Provo, rth,
broke thw world's unpaced mile btcycls
record last night, riding the distance
In 1.58 2 S
Superintendent of Philadelphia's
Mint Henry K. Boyer is seriously til
of typhoid fever at his country home
in Lower Providence, Montgomery
county.
Operations have been begun on the
proposed ship canal between St. Pe
tersburg ami the White Sea.
The Colburn family offer a reward
of ffiOO for the finding of Mr. Col
burn's body.
Earl Spencer, chancellor of the Vic
toria University, yesterday severely
criticised Dr. Koch's theory to the ef
fect that human beings were Immune
from contagion from tuberculous cat
tle. Saturday, July 27.
Knights Templars will ask Preet
deut McKlnley to visit their enc&mp
uiei.t next month at Louisville.
Minister Wu Ting Fang says he has
no knowledge of the fact that his coun
try Intends to recall him.
Signer Francesco Crlspi, who has
been dangerously 111 for sereral days,
seems to be weakening gradually.
Voorhees, a pitcher for the Atlantic
City baseball club, was left $60,000 b;
the death of an aunt.
Governor stone has reappointed Dr.
J. L. Forwood, of Chester, a member
of the state quarantine board.
Mayor Ashbridge has returned tc
Philadelphia, after a two weeks' va
cation, during which his whereabouts
ware unknown even to the newspa
pers. Monday, July 29.
Thnre were nine deaths from the
heat In Citu Innatl yesterday, while
Louisville hail three.
Surrounded by a brilliant rortoge
and In the presence of the diplomatic
corps. President Romana opened th
Peruvian congress yesterday,
The Denver National Live Stock As
soclatlnn has Issued a warnlriu against
hasty acceptance of the Koch tubercu
losis theory
Pressed glassware factories of the
American Flint Class Manufacturers'
Association started up today, giving
work to 20.000 men.
High telephone rates in Chicago, 111.,
has caused court proceedings against
the Chicago Telephone company by
the Illinois ManufuctuMTb Assuefa
tlon.
Congressman W. H, Oraham, Alle
gheny; ir. N. C. Scbaeffer, Lancaster;
Edward llallcy, Harrisburg, and Sena
tor William P. Snyder. Sprlnir City,
have hern named as Pennsylvania's
State Capital commissioners,
Tuesday, July 30.
Paul Alexis, the novelist, I" dead, in
Paris.
Mormonlsm is reported to be making
rapid strides in Germany,
The Lyons Mediterranean railroad
has purchased a number of American
locomotives.
Henry L. Wilson, the T'nlted States
Minister to Chili, will be tendered an
elaborate banquet by Chilian 'riends.
San' Francisco is having a sixteen
weeks season of grand opera under the
direction of Profrssor Stelndorf,
Congressman Burk, of Philadelphia,
gave the leopard he received as a
friendly token from India to the
Zoological ('.aniens.
President L. F. Iirec, Coneral Man
ager Potter and other official! of the
Baltimore and Ohio left Baltimore yes
ferday for a third Inspection trip over
the rosd.
Threshers Smashed Liquor Joint.
Wichita, Kan . July 30. -Eight
threshing machine crews reached the
town of Colwlch, in this county, Sun
duy. and because they could not got
liquor on ncoount of Sunday law they
smashed five "Joints'' and wrecked a
number of town pumps. The citizens
organized a pnrty tr, cutis" their arrest,
but the threshers made them retreat.
The rioting was resumed yesterday
when the citizens again tiled to arrest
the threshers but again they had to
give up.