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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