:-y MIDDLtfBXIEQJPOST.
lived
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j war and the war' of the Rebellion. : He
uui ing me auuuuisirnuuu buiccu -a ibmiiui
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Vol. xxxx. May 7, 1903. Number 18
The Council is now considering a proposition
from II. G. Frederick of Millersburg for Water
"Works. The meeting was adjourned Monday
night to Friday night, when the proyosition will
be disjKwed of. ' r
Editor Leshcr of the Selinsgrovc Tirnta may
talk from bis own experience in Selinsgrove. In
Middleburg we discovered that the shoe factory
did the towu more goal in 13 months than a
peevish jwstinaster has in 40 years.
The town Council has imposed upon it the
important duty of providing Water Works. Let
public necessity spur them on to provide this
plant. Get it on as favorable terms as possible,
but get it. What would have happened to our
town last Thursday night if fire had broken out.
The entire town would be in ashes. A small
portion of our insurance money will pay our
water tax.
It is estimated by insurance men that water
works will reduce insurance rates ten per cent, on
three-year insurance and twenty per cent, on one
year insurance. The discount on insurance will
pay the water tax.
Monument to Hon. Ncr Middleswarth.
While the state is appropriating money to
erect monuments in honor of men who attained
only local prominence, we are reminded of the
fact that the State should appropriate money for
a monument to the memory of Hon. Ner Mid
dlcsworth, a gentleman who attained not only
local prominence, but who was known far and
wide in this commonwealth in his day and generation.
In this connection, we might eive a brief
biography of this distinguished gentleman.
It was in the year 1 702 that las parents,
came from New Jersey to make their home on
frontier line which is now in Beaver township,
Snyder County. The pioneers found but few
wagon roads through this section, and were
obliged to cut their way through the forests and
cross deep and dangerous streams without
bridges with indians for neighbors, they cleared
a farm in the wilderness and deer grazed in their
fields in friendly company with their cattle.
Ner Middleswarth, having aceompained his par
ents to their new home when he was about ten
years old.
He was born during the Revolutionary war,
and was five years of age when the Constitution
of the United States was adopted. His existence
dated back to the birth of our country, and pass
ed on through the war of 1812, the Mexican
J. Q. Adams, Jackson, VanBuren, Harrison,
! Tyler, Polk Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchan
an and Lincoln. In 1813, when he was iged
thirty years, Union county was formed, and in
1855, when he was seventy-two years old,
Snyder county wa erected. He passed thiough
two county division campaigns, of which the
erection of Snyder out of Union was the most
, exciting one in which all public men participat
ed . Beavertown was laid out in 1810 when he
was twenty eight ypars old, and he was a resi
dent there in 1827. When he was thirty-two
years old, the war of 1812 with Great Britain
commenced. James Madison was P resident of
the United States, and Simon Snyder was Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania. He raised a company, .
became captain and assigned to the 8th Penn'a
Rifles. In 1814 he raised another company,
became captain, marched to Marcus Hook, where
they were stationed awaiting orders to face ttie
enemy, the regiment being under Col. Uhl, with
Gen. Cadwalder as division commander.
In 1815, after the close of the war, he was
elected to the Legislature of Pennsylvania and
was re-elected thirteen times, serving fourteen
terms, from 1815 to 1841. He was twice elect
ed Speaker of the House. In 1848 he rep
resented his district in the Senate of Pennsyl
vania, filling the unexpired term of Dr. Jncob
Wagenseller, who died after serving two years.
In 1851 he was the Whig nominee for Canal
Commissioner of Pennsylvania, and leceived 487
more votes in Union county than Gen. Irvin,
the nominee for Govenor. This flattering vote
was an evidence of his popularity among the
people who had known him from his infancy.
The Pennsylvania Canal was built in 1828
when he wa9 a member of the Legislature, and
the large vote polled for Mr. Middleswarth for
Canal Commissioner induced his party to nomin
ate him for State Treasurer in 1852. His name
was often mentioned as a suitable person to be
elected governor, and he could have secured the
nomination had he desired it. In the year 1853
he was elected a member of the Thirty-third
Congress of the United States, serving with ac
ceptance the term of two years. After the for-
mation of Snyder county, in 1855, he was elect
ed a county auditor with FrancisA. Jr""0 "
and Henry W. Snyder, a son of Gov. Snyder,
popular and leading men of the county. After
serving three years as auditor he was elected, in
1858, an associate judge of the county, serv
ing a full term of five years. He was a public
servant a period of twenty seven years, and if
we add to this the time he served in the war it
will be about thirty years, the period allotted to
one generation of men. He was executor, admin
istrator and guardian for many estates in his
locality which required much of his time, be
sides being frequently consulted in matters of
public and private business, and being a lover of
peace he frequently settled quarrels among the
neighbor, thus preventing many lawsuits.
' His BU'-ocssful career seems the more remark
able wht-u we consider that his schooling must
have ! bet a very limited. When he arrived at
the age of manhood, schools were still kept in
private houses where English and German read
ing were taught . 'This fact is conclusive evi
dence that when he wis a youth, if they had
schools in the locality where he lived, they were
of a very interior ki.il and of short duration, and
according to one authority he never attended
school but six days in his life. Private study
and keeu observation enabled him to secure an
excellent education, and he was a fluent speaker
in the German and English languages, his ad
dress on political and other topics being listeued
to with interest by large .crowds of people. As
a presiding officer he was dignified, and he dis
played a complete mastery of parliamentary
rules. His public position brought him in con
tact with educated and refined people, and he
was a man of polished manners when in the
society of the refined. His appearance and
manner would attract the attention of those not
personally acquainted with him and he would
impress a stranger as being more than an or
dinary man. During his Congressional term he
was elected an honorary member of a number of
literary societies in connection with different
colleges and academies in Pennsylvania. He
would always acknowledge these honors in
neatly and proj)erly worded replies, and he
would also forward useful public documents a
contribution to their libraries. He had an ex
tensive corresponednce with his patrons when
he was a member of Congress, being then
seventy-two years of age with his mental
faculties unimpared, and the family now possess
a number of requests for him to attend to various
businesses in all public department at Washing
ton. Among them are letters from Gov. Porter,
Gov. Curtin, Gov. Miller, of Wisconsin, Judge
Walls, Gov. Pollock, Judge Shindle, Dr. Hot-
tenstine, Samuel Pawling, and many others too
numerous to mention.
His was a busy life from infancy to youth,
from youth to manhood, from manhood to old
age.- He was a living illustration of the
proverb of Solomon: "He that driveth with a
slack? hand becomcth poor, but the hand of the
diligent mkeXhkbr.ii-Irrkcd txteatfie'i'
estate, On which were erected grist, saw and
paper . mills, and distilleries and much of bis
property is still owiied by his descendants.
While he was not a Church member he was a
believer in Christianity, and contributed to the
Lutheran Church at Beavertown, to which sev
eral of his fumily belonged. He died in JujJ
1865, aged eighty-two years, four months and
twenty days, and his wife Christiana passed
away some time before.
Why should the great state of Pennsylvania
not acknowledge the great service of this man
by making an appropriation to erect a suitable
tablet to perpetuate the memory of his distin
guished services ?
Tired Out
I was very poorly and could
hardly set about the bouse. I via
tired out all the time. Tben I tried
AVer's Saruparilla, and It only
took two bottles to make me feel
perfectly well." Mrs. N. S. Swin
ney, Princeton, Mo.
. Tired when you go to
beil, tired when you get
up, tired all the time.
Why? Your Wood is im
pure, that's the reason.
You are . living on the
border line of nerve ex
haustion. Take Ayer's
Sarsaparilla ana be
milnVlit f,nrl ' lt.Ha settle.
Art mr doctor what ha thinks of Avar's
SarsapariUa. Ha araows all about thli frmad
old family medielne. Follow ala edvios and
we wWbesatiined. . ..
1. C Am Co Lowell, Man.
Qalek Arreet
J-A. Gulledgeof Verbena, Ala.
sawtwice in the hospital frem a se
Aere case of piles acusir.fr 2-1 tumors.
After doctors and all remedies fail
ed, Buckle n's Arnica Salve quickly
arrested father inflammation and
ouobdhim. It conquers aches and
kills pain. 25c. at Hiddlednrg Driip
Store, ftraybill&Garraan Rich b eld
Dr. J. W. Sampsell Peung Cheek.
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Hate Always Bought
Bean the
Signature of
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MlDDLEBURGH MARKET.
22
14
60
12
4
10
11
12
15
Wheat .......... 72
Rye CO
Corn... 48
Outs,
53
Potatoes 30
Bran perlOO. 1.10
Middlings" 120
Chop 1.20
Flonrterbbl 4.00
Butter
Eggs
Onions
Lard
Tallow
Chickens....
8ide
Shoulder
Ham
Hade Ton Again.
"One or Dr. King's New Life PillB
each nitfht for two wntkB has put
me in nip leei' aiaiu" writes D. H.
are tne best m tbtf .ri"aior liyer.
etomash nod bowels. Purely Tees
table. Ne.'f r griptt. Only 2!o at
aliddleburg Drue tote GraybillA
Garmaa Riclitield Dr. J. W. SjmP
sell Peons Creek.
Court Proclaniatiga. j
at !
iiaina ana rate r. W.
bertlng, W, AiaatTjiS; 1
aereounty, nave Issued tha.f V
data tha Mth day ol Feb. V ,?1 '
dlraatad lor in holding 01 an 53
eoert ol Ooamoa Pi Ma, eogru?,
laar and ttenerel Court of jj?
thePeaee, at MlddlebnryV io?
ftojder, on tha lat Mond
Kotlco Utharaft.ro harai),.?1."
ar,JanleMolthePeaca aud OoLJV
tortha ouaoty ol 8n,d.r,
propar noraonaaiih their roll.
uoua, axauitnnuuuf and othriI '
lodutboMlbtKi hlcli of ii".irI!,
thairaahallpanalu to ba doS !S'
and paraoiii prooutlnK In bthalu T
aonwealtb aval nit any param L2
quired to ! tben and Ibara au.11V'
partlnic without leaT at tbelr N
ara raqnaitad to ba punctual tS "
it tha apuolntad tlw. aaabltl
(man under mr hnil n.i
offloealn Itiddleburgh the d of
KUaWLE'
TTnnouncehent i
A 1 r
I have just received a lot of New Goods.
A Full Line of
V
Men's, Boys' and Children's
to
nn
JO
13
$1.00 tp $15.00;
A Complete Line of Dry Goods
Ginghams, 5c. to 50c. White Goods, 6c. to 25c.
Dress Goods 6c. to $1.25.
Trimming Silks. Silk Waists.
NOTIONS: A full line of Notions. Ladles' Dress Skirts. Etc. .
SHOES: All kinds of Shoes at Reasonable Prices.
" - HATS and CAPS.
--l Watches and Jewelry!-
' Of AH Descriptions.
EVERYBODY INVITED TO COME.
J. . RUNKLE,
MlDDLEBURGH, PA,
GrapcL - 'Display
Suipier.-'Millipry
Opening, Thursday, Fri. and Sat.,
May 7th, 8th and 9th,
At Aurand's
Millinery Store, MlDDLEBURGH, PA(
I Invite everybody In tosee the Grand Display. I will have a
Great Variety of LadlesVHats already trimmed, also headvear for
Children, Misses aiBables.
SHIRT WAISTS, 25c. to $1.65. SILK WAISTS. $2.00 up.
Ribbons, 2c. to 75c. Laces, lc. to 8oc. Appliques, 10c to 80c.
and a lot of other fancy trimmings. ..
Turn-over Collars 5 to 50c. Chenille Curtains, $1.90 to $3.90'
Lace Curtains, 60 to $1.90. Fancy Neck Wear, 15 to $1.90
Embroideries 2 to 65c. Wrappers, 65c. to $1.25
White and Black Underskirts, 90c. to $1.50.
Ladles' Dress Skirts, $ 1 .00 to $6.00. ; Kid gloves, 60c. to $ 1 .00
Handkerchiefs, 6 for 25c. 1 Hose, 3 for 25c.
LADIES' VESTS, 16 different styles
5 cents to 50 cents.
Ladles'. Night Wrappers, 50c. to $1.25. '. . -
Every tl)ii) will te Rod need
' r : " ... ON OPENING DAYS, f
. : EVERY PERSON CORDIALLY INVITED TO COME.
Mrs. R C. Aurand,
Middleburgh, Pa.
Register's Notlcts. j
Nolira la baraby riven that ibr.
named paraona bava filed tliei, AdZ?
Uuardlau and Executora account, iTT
tor'a Office ol Snider County
having bran cert I Bed lo under th.lL
Court, will ba preaented (or (tinBrH'
alloaneeat the Court House in ku7
Mouday, Juua let, ISO, via : "S
1. Flmt and final account of Ql
admlnlatrator ol the eiiute of iiuhTTf
lata ol Vt'aabington twp., dee d. H
Flrat and final account of Ahuia
Risen trlic ol larael Young, late ol u
twp.,doc'd.
a. tint and final account ot John!
Snrvlvlna Executor ol Catluuin. b!t
ol Mldd lab llnrh. deo'd.
4. First and final account of Jani
admlnlatrator ot the ealate of Z
late ol Adam twp , dee'd.
S. Ft rat and final account of i1M
Executor of 1 evi K. Treaater. i.i..r?'
yer twp., dee'd.
. Urat and final account of ,fj
Executor of the eatata ol ropha KJaal
Uraver twp., dee'd.
T Flrit and final account of AINwJ
Beaver twp., dee'd. I
S.
and
Joel
Flrat and final account of BmJ
ulmlnlilnk. .1 luui. i..7'
10. Ftrat and final account ol H,
sox. Exeeutor ot Hachael Bovm n.
Attorney In tact tor the heira and b
kii.. i .i. u 1. 1 ... . .
aeceaeeu.
11. Finland final account AfR l
ecutor ot the estate ot Uarriel riuk
c raaauo wi., uw u.
IS. Ftrft and final account nf 9
drew Trutt, late ot Monroe twp ,di I
18. First and II nal acoou nl of Gasqt
ad ml nlst ralor a U a of t he estate U ua
i i . i . i ...
mho, vi uwrnaa twp.. uec a. I
14. First and partial account of rejr
oeiii Axecutor oi ine esiiie ol UeofRik
UUnl llnlnntBn ilH '
15. First and final account of P I
K i ecutor ot tha estate of Mar; Tak'
Ferry twp , dee'd.
16. First and final account of W. i!
ser, Exeeutor ol the estate of Ultunll
laie oi r ranaiin two., uec a.
IT. First and final account of IW
Oliver T. Hummel, Executors of lis a)
Solomon Hummel, lata ol Mlddleeeti
deo'd. . , , I
Flrrt and final account of e I v
Philio Kousb Exeoutoraof LiiaaAui
Keck, late ol Middleereek twp.,ileei 1
J. U. WlUiJ,h
Mljdlebnrgb, Pa. Hay 3, 1003.
8. First and final account of llainaf
id Samuel Bilger, bxecutorsof uV
Ml Bilger, late ot Middleeteek tsZ
SB
Firs
loial
t M
Ml
of Alddleburg, Pa.
Capital, - $50,000.
Surplus, v- $50,000.
G. Alfred Schoch, Pres.
W. W . WiTTENMYER, Vice Pres.
Jas. G. Thompson, Cashier.
DIRECTOllS
G. Allred Sclioch, W. C. Pomeroy,
. W. Wittenmyer, A. Kreeger,
J. X. Thompson, M. Milliter,
oas. u. Thompson.
Accounts of Individuals, Firms anu
Corporations Solicited.
Orphans' Court Sale of Real
Estate.
Bv virtue ot an order ot Said Court the un
dersigned Administratrix oi Benjamin uincn,
late of Sellns Orove, Snyder county, Pennsyl.
llanla. dee'd.. will sell unon the Dremieea on
Saturday, May vth, 1W8, tua lollowing valuable
real estate, to-wlt :
Tract No. 1. Situate partly In tha Borough ol
Sellns Grove and partly In Fenni Township
and bounded on tna rtortn oy land oi Samuel
Kessler. on the East by land ot la. K. Davuv
D. C. Berirsiremer, John Stauffer and L. O.
Smith, on the South by an alley and the publio
road leading to Salem, and on the VS est by
land of J. O. Ulrlch and others, containing 62
Acres, more or leas, wnereon are erected a
frame dwelling bouse, bank barn and minor
out buildings.
Tract No. 81tuate In Penna Townshln. said
ooui.tr and State, and bounded on the North by
land of Samuel J, Ulrlch, on tha East by land
ol J. U, Uirien, on the South by land ol Hiram
t'lrlob. and on tbe West by oublio road, and
contain! rut Ten icrea. mora or leas, wnereon
are erected no buildings, it being farming land.
Tbasa two tract a will ba gold together as
whole and not by the acre- They will be sold
subject to two mortgages the amount ol which
mortgairra win do maaa cnown on we nay
ol toe sale, i - .
8le will open at 1 o'clock P. st, when the
conditions of tbe sale will be mad known,
I KATIE L. TJLRICH, Administratrix, o.
Cha. P. TJutica, Attorney for Istate. . -A.
B. Keck, Auetioneer.
Sick Headache ?
Food doesn't digest well?
Appetite poor? Bowels
constipated? Tongue coated?
It's your liver! Ayer's Pills
are liver pills; they cure dys
pepsia, biliousness.
.' . 25c.. All dragglst.
Want yonr moustache or beard
brown or rich black? Than uaa
EUCXIKCHAM'SDYE
se era, a. pnuaanw, a a. a. Hu. a Co., nmmlm, a.H.
a beautiful I
rrtlVltere
1. AnDimi-i . t. Rna '
of John U- Herrolu, lave c Moom s
dee'd., elected to be taken undo Ia)t
emptionlaw. j
S. ADoralscment of Katie L Dildi
of Benjamin UlricB, la:e of Seliaan
deceased, elected to be tukrn iak
exemption law.
a. Annrainemtnt of Anna Houm. nY
George Houaer. late of Oliuoman tn-i
elected to ba taken Under tbJ iMIaa
taw.
4. ADoralsementof Sarnb Sa aoav i
of Daniel bassaman, Sr., late of Jko
decrau, elected to be taken unactat
euiptton law.
8. Appraisement of I'aclicl Walla
AOam It. Waiter, late ot Krunkltn nv
elected to be taken under the IM
law.
6. ADDraiseinent of Marv E. Trow,1
Jsmea S. Troup, late of ferry tup
ed to be taken under tbe $&o exeatta
7. ADDratsement of Elizabeth Bore'
of Henry Boyer, late ot Jackson loiak
ceased, elected to be taken unueintk
emption law. I
Prothonotary's Accosk
VI r 1 Rn.l -f tntt tka
1 I I PI 1 1 V. IIUI.I VVWUU UbU. .
coinmlltee oi oamuel svune, ir., a n
O. M. SlIIDu.
Ulddleburg, Pa., May 2, 1903.
KANTZ.
Farmers are busy sowinc
and gettig ready to plant cot
Mrs. Abigal Arbogast led I
Pleasant Mills Sunday to tf
few weeks, I
Mr. Harvey W. Ku(
dauehter,1' Kuth, of Bnslol
are -spending several weeks
part of the Keystone State
their many friends.
Daniel Gaugler, wife and
ter of Shamokin Dam accoi
bvMrs. Jonathan Newman i
die were the guests oi J.
man's Sunday.
W. A. Sphnee of Sclinee
town Monday.
Miss Lottie Hornbergerj
Meiserville is working at
Mease's. I
Mrs. A. F. Schnee wK
Lcra, are spending several
Mt. Pleasant Mills this we,
Daniel H. Wildt and A
edatEvendale Sunday, j
Thomas Bickle of AnA,
spending several days at,
Mr. Bickle is engaged in
ing business at that place, j
Quite number of our K
working for the P. B- M
Pawling. . j
J.O. Holtzapple is very b
ing up the addition to toe,
dwelling. j
Uali on A- B. Bol In W"!
ing and hair cutting P""L
hetwl cleaned with a
poo and a clean towel to e
on the north side of Ma"
posite Central Hotel. batH
anteed.