o o flote IHeabs ?f Envelopes TThava a Job lot of note rIeV AM J We bought a large con- 5 slghment of envelope? 5 Having bought so .f , beads on hand. They must go ,ulck. The price will do It. Simple and prices for the ask jj. We furnish them printed (cr less than you can buy them vithaut printing. 5 we secured a rock m f 5 figure. Send frN .oples J J and prices. c? y jrt, Wigllr MKr tad Proprietor. A Family Journal, Devoted U Hew, Scleacc, Art, Political Ecoaony aad Carrtat LHtratan. RattK Oat D' tr Assam, la Adraaca f OL. XXXIX MIDDLEBUEGH SNYDER COUNTY PENNA. JULY 31 1902 NUMBER 30 tlXIDlOCAL LACONICS jST trout season closes to-day. Time " oojeci 1" ll,c -" .fflW WatCIl. jjcniiit'iu is threatened with another kreet oarstrme. A ,mn with a full coal-bin, is by no Uiik a "as Iut to ! a green persimmon. What win a name? One of Chicago's Lpit or oks is named, 0khI. .No, Archie my loy, do not apply to ! r..H ma ova niutimr1 trv n lmr lierk. The summer girl may not get many 1,. tiers, but she watches eagerly for the iiale. Many a girl hfts lovely, soft, white imh because she lets ner nioincr uo the work. The tiiHiert's Sunday school will kiM tli ir nnnua) picnic on Aug. 23 in Pliiwell's grove. When the mosquitoes comes the Healers in canopies iiegm 10 ngure up lihent t protlts. W. II. liipka is engaged in building i. ... ..... i ... ..Kiuii f.tf. t ir IUll OVlTMIOl Hiri ' (inrmiiii 15ro. He Is doing the work at home The 'hristian Endeavor So'iety of a 1 111.11.- I the Lutheran cliurcn win noma ies tivsil on the church lawn, Saturday evening Aug. 2. Those penny ice wagons in Pittsburg which deliver ten pounds of ice to the poor for one cent, is a most commend able charity, though it Le cold. When a man gets home to his wife after a late session he isn't so much in terested in the questions of the day as he is in the questions of the night. Elaborate preparations for next month are being made by the people of Blooinsburg for the proper observ ance of the one hundreth anniversary of the founding of that town. On Saturday evening about 10 o'clock some sneak thieves entered the cellar of I. II. llowersox's confectionery and stole nbout 25 pounds of dried beef. An entrance was gained .through a rear cellar floor. Potatoes are so plentiful In Kansas and Nebraska that they are a drug in the market. In the district known as the Kaw River Valley, in Kansas, the average yield per acre is estimated at 2"0 bushels. The Williamsport Evening News says that they raise potatoes on the South Side so large as to require the aid of a four-foot iron bar to pry them out of the ground. They must be "w hoppers" or this is one. The labor convention at Indianapolis decided against a strjke among the bi tuiuious coal miners and President Mitchell says this action is favorable for the anthracite strikers and predicts their ultimate success. He hopes to raise enough funds from organized la bor throughout the country to support the strikers through an indefinite per iod. Pennsylvania will within the com ing year pay out between $400,000 nnd $"H),XK) for bridges destroyed by floods and the fires in the past six months, as the law compelling the State to re place bridges across navigable streams when they have been destroyed by Hood, Are, etc., is being invoked in many counties. English sparrows have attacked wheat and rye fields In Allegheny county, in such large flocks that the crops have been destroyed. One large field on the Alexander farm, two miles back of Oakmont, lias been so badly damaged that it Is not worth cutting, The sparrows are being shot by the thousands, and yet they appear as plentiful as ever. BARK WANTED. We will -pay the highest cash price for bark delivered in Middleburg. tt. MlDDLKItl KQ LEATII:B MKO CO TO I'll RE A COLD IJf ONE DAT. Take Laxative Ilromo-Qulnlne Tablets All druggists refund the-money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature on each box. 25c Una ud Urinating Hak Devoe Lead and Zlne Paint wear twice as long as lead and oil mixed by hand 11-21-Jy. It's a ticklish job to attempt to get through life on tick. A nick name will cling to a man ev en after be lias won a title. Amandus Shanibach will re-open his blacksmith shop in the near future. Mrs. S. E. Davis uses this means in thanking all those who so kindly as sisted her in her late berevenient. The Evangelical congregation Is hav ing a new Hag-stone walk laid at their church property on the French Flats. Call on A. E. Boles In his new uv inganct hair cutting parlor for your head cleaned with a refrenhing sham poo and a clean towel to each patron on the north side of Market square op posite Central Hotel. Satisfaction guar anteed, tf. An American watched a C'hhiniuan putting a dish of rice on a friend's grave, and asked him when he expect ed his friend to come out and eat the rice. "Saniee tiniee," the Chinaman replied ''your friend conieti out and smcllce Hewers you put on." On Sunday while one of Zach Ilow ersox's sons was bringing the cows from the Held be was attacked by a viscioiis dog, owned by the boys grand father, and badly bitten in the muscle of the arm. Dr. Herman was com pelled to put quite a number of stitch es in, in dressing the wound. In every community you will find the chronic kicker, and Aliddlehurg is no exception. Always finding fault with every improvement that is made he walks around and curses his own shaddow for being crooked. So 1 fere's to the kicker, The treacherous kicker, The kicker who never is true; Who always is crying, And never is trying Some good for his town to do. Dr. E.O. Lyte, President of the State Normal Heboid at Millersviile, Pa , is the author of a very successful series ef books in language; Dr. O. W. Hull, Professor of Mathematic, has written an excellent series of mathematic work; Prof. H. Justin Roddy's books on Geog raphy have just been published, and other teachers of this great institution of learning have written works of val ue. , Put a few matches on the surface of water in a basin in such a way that they will form i star, with their heads towards the centre. Thrust a piece of soap pointed at the end Into the water at the center of the star, and you will find that the matches will begin to move away as if they were afraid of the soap. You can coax them back again ny putting a piece or sugar at me center. Judge White, of Indiana county, In his talk to constables' recently, called their attention to the law requiring supervisors to nick the loose stones from the roads, saying it was Import ant that this law should be enforced. fine of ten dollars can be recovered from any supervisor who refuses or neglects his duty. The same law will apply to he neglect of boroughs in al lowing loose stones to remain in the streets. An evidence of the scarcity of farm labor, or possibly a relic of the dark ages, was witnessed on Monday on a farm very close to Millersburg. 1 1 was that of the wife of a young farmer sit ting on a horse nike, raking hay in the broiling sun, .driving with her right hand and operating the rake with her feet, and worst of all carrying in her left arm a helpless little babe. This is not an overdrawn picture, but hxiks like going back to barbarous times. Did you ever see a real happy loafer? If you did he constitutes the exception to the rule. A loafer is an excresence upon the surface of society. Although be may try to delude his selfish soul iuto the belief that "the world owes him a living," and that it must furnish it, yet away down in the depths of bis consciousness he knows that he is a parasite of the meanest sort, unable to command even his own Belf-respect. Labor is the law of the real, successful and happy life, and he who violates that law will certainly pay the penal ty. Notice. To raise good crops and Improve your land use a good bone and slaughter bouse phosphate. Manufactured and sold by R. S. Aucker, Shamokln, Pa. Can be bought direct or from CI. It. Hendricks A Son, Selinsgrove, Pa. Fresh animal bone and slaughter house phosphate from $10 up. High grade commercial phosphate from $1S dowu. 7-ljWt, IT PERSONALSgrJ Bert Rowe, of Millersburg, spent Sunday at Franklin. Foster Eyer, of Nescopec, Is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Showers. Frank 8. Rlegle transacted business at Richfield on Monday. Albert Celnett sent the forej art of this week at Mifltintown. Mrs. West. Pawling spent Saturday with relatives at Selinsgrove. Mr. Joseph llowersox spent Sunday with his daughter at Selinsgrove. William Ayers, of Paxtonville, call ed on his parents in town on Friday. Mrs. J. M. Steeseand son, John, of Orbisonia, are visiting triends in town. Jerome Thompson, of Illontnshiirg, spent Sunday among his friends in town. Joe Hendricks, of Ilookshank, trims- acted business at the County Scat on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kinney, of Frank lin, are entertaining friends from a distance. Miss Maud A. Herman, daughter of Jacob 15. Herman, spent a few days at Sunbury. Miss Doll Hottenstein, of Shamokln Dam, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. P. Scott Ritter. Mr. and Mrs James Ayers are veil ing their daughter, Mrs. II. H. Leitel at MiHlinburg. Mr. C. Moyeraud wife, of Hartleton, are the guests of Mrs. Daniel Rlmads on Market street James Herman, of Edwardsville, is the guest of his brother, Dr. A. J. Her man, of this place. Mrs. P. Rhoads and daughter, of Harrlsburg, are enjoying a visit in town with relatives. Mrs. W. H. Rlpka, we are pleased to state, is convalescing after a- three weeks siege of malaria. John Arbogast, clerk at the Key stone hotel, Selinsgrove, spent Sunday in town with his parents. Amnion Schoch, one of Rlooms- burg's successful business men, was seen in town on Saturday. Mrs. Henrv Soles, of Lew istown, is visiting her son, A. E. Soles and fane ily, on West Market street. Miss Annie Rlpka, of Sunbury, is spending her summer vacation with her parents on the trench Hats. Miss Olive Wetzel, who is staying at Sunbury, is spending her vacation un der the parental roof at Swineford. Mrs. Thomas McWilliams ami son Cecil, of McVeytown, are visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Van Zant. Williant Snyder spent Saturday eve ning at Centreville, where he played in the baud of that place for a festival. Mrs. Dr. Dcckart, of Richfield, and Master Cieorge Shelley, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ri- ka. Mr. William Troutman, one of Meis- erville's successful cattle dealers, while In town last Thursday made us a busi ness call. George anil Reuben Relchenbach and John lleintelnian, nil of Pallas, were guests of the Willis family over Sunday. Thomas Hoaternian and daughter, Harriet, and A. W. Aurand, spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Hosterinan, at Woodward. Dr. Hasslnger and family, George Hasslngerand wife, Ammon Ilashor and family and Miss Lizzie Ripka, are among those from town who are in at tendance at the U. 11. campmectlng at Elizabethville. Mrs. Mary E. Showers and daugh ters, Miss Maud and Mrs. W. H. Spangler, and Master Russel J., return ed on Suturday after spending several days very pleasantly with the formers sister, Mrs. William Eyer, at Nescopec. Miss Bessie Crouse, who has been making her home in Philadelphia for the past twelve years, arrived In town on Saturday where she will spend some time yisiting her brothers, James and William Crouse, Miss Bert Wlttenmeyer left on Fri day for Lewlstown, where she spent the night with her sister. On Satur day she, In company with Mrs. Green, left for Asbury Park where they will I spend about three weeks. G. C. Stuck and family entertained several young people from K reamer on Sunday. W..W. Rhoads, of McAlisterville, stepped in to see us while in town on Tuesday. Sephares Gembcrling ami son, of near Selinsgrove, were noticed in town on Tuesday. Editor Lesbcr, of the Times, was noticed in town one day the latter part of last week. Ex-AsseK-iate Judge Crouse, of Selins grove, is gending the week in town with his sons. Clem Stettler, who Is employed at Pittsburg, is enjoying his vacation un der the parental roof in town. Miss Alice Smith, daughter of ('has. Smith, of near Pittsburg, Is the guest of Prof, and Mrs. F. llowersox. M. Luther Wagenseller, representing a Philadelphia wholesale house, called on our business people on Friday. Mr. John Howell, a former resident of this place, but. now of Sunbury, spent Sunday with friends in t"wn. Rev. Cooper and family, of Maple hill, spent Sunday at Swineford, the guests of Mrs. Coopers parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. If. Fish. They left Mon day for Kli.abethville where they will attend campmeeting. Jonathan Relchenbach, who had the contract for the mason work at the Lepley bridge, in Spring township, completed his work on Saturday. He stopped in town a few hours while en rout for his home. By the way Jonathan will be one of our new County Commissioners. Misses Marion Schoch, Maud Runk el, Maud Custer, Eva Stcnniugcr and Phebe Renniiiger, ami Messrs. Roy Stettler, Luther Moatz, Lee Winey and Lloyd Bowersox enjoyed a straw ride'to tVeeburg last Thursday even ing. They were chapsroncd by Mis OertnH'f DunVltcj(jpr. , Harry A. Grimm, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Grimm, and Miss Bertha, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Erd- ley, were quietly married at the home of the brides parents on Saturday eve ning by Rev. Diehl. The Post, joins with their many friends in wishing the young couple a prosperous life. Mother Makes Heroic Rescue. A gas stove exploded in the kitchen of A. J. McCirdy's home at Sunbury one day last week, destroyed three buildings and almost caused the deaths of two children who were heroically rescued bv their mother. When the blaze wns at its height Mrs. McCurdy rushed throuirh the Haines into the house and up the stairway to the sec ond lloor, where her two children were sleeping. (rasping Raymond, aged s, by the band and lifting her H-nionths-ohl babe in her arms, she attempted to light her way through the thick smoke down the stairway. She was compelled to retrace her steps. Then, appearing at the second-story window, the brave woman dropped the boy, who landed safely In the arms of men below. Mrs. McCurdy, with her babe Has- e 1 to her breast, leaped ami was caught by several men. 1 he woman s eye brows and hair were singed. Old Copies of the Post Wanted. While the Hubserilx'rs of the Post are hunting up their old newspapers, they might look for the copies of the Post that are missing from our files. We will pay liberally for a copy of each of the following dates: July K, Sept. 6, 18G9; Apr. 0, Oct. 13, 187'J; Jan. 20, 1871; Apr. 17, 187:1; Nov. 4, Dec. 23, 1875; Mar. 7, 1878; May 15, 187(1; March 10, May 5, 1871; April 2d. 1883; Mar. 27, June 12, Oct. 30, 1884; Sept. 17, Dec. 3, 10, 17,24, 1885 ; Jan. 28 May B, Oct. 18, Dec. 23, 1881!; Dec. 2i, 1878. tf. At Private Sale. The undersigned oilers at private sale a farm, on the public road leading from Fremont to Richfield. Containing about 80 acres, in a high state of culti vation, also about 20 acres of good tim ber land. Good buildings, fruit trees and water on the farm. For particulars address, J. W. Stkivkk, Aua. 20. Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pa. MARRIED. On Julv 27. by Rev. John B. Focht, at Selinsgrove, Albert Kllngle and Florence Helder both of Selinsgrove. Death of Element Musser. Iiast Wednesday evening, Mr. Ele ment Musser, who lived with his son, William, about two and one-half miles from Middleburg, sucumbed to death after sullering about four months with catarrh of the stomache. Mr. Musser joined the Evangelical church alsmt 4' years ago and was an ardent and active worker until the time of his sickness, which compelled him to take his bed. He was a kind father and a man in whom all placed implicit confidence and will be greatly missed by the community In which he lived. He is survived by live children Amanda, Jane, Adam, William and Aaron who mourn their loss of a kind and indulgent father. The funeral was held from his lute home on Saturday morning and was largely attended. I n terment in the Salem church cemetery. Aged lis years uud S months. His wife precceded him to the grave about !i years. Maki ni False Statements. A young man by the name of II. u. SliaH'erv of William-port, gave the Williaiusport Sun a false statement of the marriage of a young couple in that city ami the muiic was published in that paper. It was a serious joke, for the young man as the Sun had him ar rested, although I hey did not press the suit he had to pay the costs. Anyone making a false statement to a newspa per ami securing its publication is lia ble to prosecution. An act of June .", lS'.i.'!, provides a heavy penalty for the oll'ense. It is as follows; "Any person who wilfully states, delivery or trans mits by any means whatever to the manager, editor, publisher or reporter of any newspaper, magazine, publica tion, periodical or serial lor publication therein any libelous statement concern ing any person or corporation, ami thereby secures the actual publication of the same, Is hereby declared guilty of a uiisdeuieauor, and upon conviction I oliull be sentenced to pay a flni tint Deeding Ave hundred dollars, and un dergo imprisonment not exceeding two years, or either, or both, at the discre tion of the court." Hit; Mine Resumes. The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company last Thursday resumed oper ations at its No. 12 mine, between Pottsville and Maueh Chunk, one of the largest collieries in the region. The move of the company was unexpected. No. 12 breaker is a very modern plant and has connected with it an up-to-datejig house, by which the slate i; picked from the coal and the sizes as sorted all by machinery ami washing process, whereby ten men or Uivs can do the work that requires from one hundred to two hundred hands at oth er breakers. There has been no special demon stration by the idle workmen and there Is likely to be none, as there have been so many arrests in this vicinity recent ly that the lawless spirit is pretty well broken. This is the nearest approach to the actual complete operation of a collierv that has vet been made any where since the big strike commenced, and it may lead to the starting of one of the other of this company's collieries within a few days full-handed. The Cow to Have. A Heardstown lad is credited with saying that his father has a very re markable cow. He said that the cow has a particular fondness for apples, and that on one occasion, after she had gotten into a neighbor's orchard and eat all the apples she wanted, his mother milked her, churned the milk, lihd got three quarts of good apple but ter. On another occasion the cow ate oil the tail of an old rooster that roost ed in the stall with her and the next morning In place of giving milk she gave a gallon and a half of the finest kind of cocktail. The River Coal Industry. Cieoge Hartlein, secretary of the Unit ed Mine Workers Union, went to Herndon to Investigate the river min ing industry. One contractor there is shipping from seven to ten carloads of coal daily. He pays each man $1.55 a dav for his labor, and it costs him 30 y - . cents additional to load It on the cars, The contractor geta an exorbitant price for the coal and is reaping, large returns through the industry; It was the mission of Hartleiu's at Herndon to persuade the nieu to cease scooping as it hurts the miners' cause. Rev. S. E. Davis Dead. S. E. Davis, an United Ev. Rev. minister, died at his home at Aline last week of a com plication of diseases. He has filled the ministry for a period of 42yearsand at one time preached at Middleburg and Port Treverton, resig ning at the latter place on account of sickness. He was about (IS years of age and leaves a wife to mourn. Interment at F.limsport last Saturday. Repetition of the Red Sunsets. The prediction is that this year we are to have a repetition of the myster ious, red sunsets that puzzled so many people in lss;i, which were at that lime attributed by scientists to volcan ic dust in the atmosphere. It was in November ami litvcmhcrof that year that an extraordinary lurid glow In the western sky after sunset was seen in all parts of the world. The great volcanic eruption of Krakatoa had oc enred on August 27 and the theory of volcanic dust causing the phenomenal sunsets received general support; and later positive evidence was adduced that during the prevaleii f red sun sets dust of this character was present in the atmosphere in parts ,,r Knrope. As this has been a year of volcanic disturbances a reappearance of t he phe nomenon is looked for, and observers have already seen indications of this character in the Adirondack region of New York slate, where on recent eve nings a beaut it'll! rose colored aureole rested on each mountain peak in the neighborhood of Lake Placid. Vast torn Clop. Preliminary returns t- the statisti cian of the department of agriculture on the acreai;e of eor:i planted indicate an increase of uhont -'vi2n,uiM) aen-, of ." ! per cent., on the area harvested last year. Of the twi-nt.v-li ve states ami territories with l,nn),mMi acres or upward in com harvested last year. Iowa, Nebraska and Michigan report n tauroao of 1 ester" t'eunuj-l-. nla, Indiana, Virginia and Louisiana, 2per cent.; Georgia, Arkansas, Wis consin and Missouri :! per cent.; Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi and Indian terri tory, 4 per cent.-. Kansas, Kentucky and Tcnnessiv, " per cent.; North Carolina, i per cent.; Texas, 7 per cent.; Alabama, s per cent.; Minneso ta, ! per cent ., and South Dakota and Oklahoma, 1 1 per cent. The average condition of the growing crop on July 1st was s7.", as compared with si .:! on July 1, I'.mk); 8:i..") at the corresponding date in 1!nhi, ami a ten-year average of s!i.2. The condition in Illinois was PI; in Iowa, Nebraska ami Indiana, '.Hi; in Kansas mid Oklahoma, W; in Missouri 102; in ( hio, S7, and in Texas, 41. The crop this year will be enormous. The present estimate is 2l V,'yi'd,Mio bush els. Dates of Fairs This Fall. The Department of Agriculture has issued a bulletin having a list of the county and local agricultural associa tions, and a list of the fairs to be held this year. The State fair will be held at Lancaster on September l'i-l'.i; Orangers' picnic, Williams' !rove, August 2-1-2P; Dauphin fair at Middle town, September !i-12; Carlisle fair, September 30, October 3d; Juniata at Port Royal, September 10-12; Lebanon, September 3-1; Perry at Newport, Scjh teinber Hi-P.i; York, October ii-10; Mitl li ti County at Lewistown, October l-"-17; Hanover, September M-l!i; North umberland at Milton, September 30, October 3d. Marriage Licenses. J. Hcmibach, Muldlccrecki (.Com A. Stcicingcr, Middlccreek. f Harry A. Grimm, Middleburg, I Bertha M. Erdley, Middlcbuig. Snyder County Choir Convention. The 15th annual choir convention will be held on the old church grounds near Freeburg, Saturday, Aug. Kith, 1!K2. The "Choir Leader" containing the choruses for the day can lie had now for rchearcal at 7 cents per copy. W.M. Moykk, Prts., Freeburg, Pa. Fewer Gallon t Wear I.onRrr. You can paint a building with fewer gallons of Devoe Lead and Zinc than with Mixed paints, and It will wear twice as long as lead and oil mixed by hand. .tf. ipa ma t mud Warm Mlki Cll Laxative Bromo-Quiiilne Tablets cur a cold in a day. No cure, no pay. Prio . 25 cents. tf
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