The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1877-09-20


this season.
Corn topping is what is worrying the
farmer now.
Mifilin county fair at Lewistown, Sept.
25th to the 90 inclusive.
| This is the time for pressing autumn
| leaves and soucr kraut,
The selinssrove Driving Park Associs-
ticn Is 70 be incorporated.
| Daylight is diminishing at tho rate Of
ubout three minutes per day.
The frost will soon be here, and the
lmosqnito will be compelled to stamp his
fleet TO keep warm.
Itis q very proper time to pull smart
xCs4 Or any 0'1w weeds out of the street
The pumpkin pic may now be harvest
3D. In New England this is recorded
among the staples.
The limit Of summer is Friday, Scptem.
bcr 2lst, though this is known as fall
month.
Tho oldest inhabitsnt has proclaimed
khat wo are 10 have very warm weather
the latter part Of this month.
Wm. Cameron, Esq, died Mt his resi-,
dence in Lewisburg, at 1 o'clock Mon
day morning, 10th inst, in his Sith
year. He has been sufferer with
cancer of the face for several years.
Women are said to have stronger ato
tachments than men, as is evinccd in III.
tie things. A man Is often attached to an
old hat but bid you ever know Of wom-
an having an attachment for an old bun.
net ?
The other night an uptown woman
found tho long expected "man under
the bed" 1t was her husband. The
bed was rather high and 50 was he,
and he fell under when he tried to get
in.
They were courting clandestinely
over the fence, and she had Just re.
marked, Eyes love. the eyes are the
windows of the SOUL" when suddenly
the old man closed in on him with
club. and his soul hasen't been able to
see out doors since.
WHEN rHs BLOSSOMS CovER US DARLING.
This is the name Of another Of the pop-
ular Charley Bakers new songs can be
had from any music dealer in the United
States, or from the publisher, F. W. Hell.
NICK, No. 90 West Forth Street, Cincin-
natl. o., by sending 85 cents.
The following named teachers have
been selected to teach the schools of
Sclinsgrove, term beginning October
LIST: William 7. Scharf, Esq, Principal.
Assistants s-sW. ". Houscworth. j. O.
Bakeless, Miss Maggie Erkhert, Miss
Julia Glover, Miss Bella Mc(ilinsy, for
the town building, and Peter r. Hoiler
and Miss Mary Bell for the Isle of Que.
Samuel Hartman of Three Rivers.
Michigan, sends us this news item ::
Daniel Mummer, son of Abraham
Hummer, formerly of Centreville, Sny
der county. Pa, aged Is years, died of
sspinal fever and consumption and was
buried at Pine Plains, Allcgan county,
Mich. LeaveSa wife and five children.
the former daughter of Noah Kratz.
er, formerly of Pcnn's Creek, Snyder
county.--7imes.
The second annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania state association for the
protection of game and fish will be
held at the rooms of the Sportsmen's
association of western Pennsylvania,
No. 80, Fifth avenue Second floor
front), Pittsburg, Pa, on Tuesday af.
ternoon, October, 0, 1877, at two
o'clock. Each society is entitled to
send three delegates. For informa-
ton address Benjamin Il. Dorrance,
recording secretary, Wilkesbarre, Pa.
The Colored Folks Camp Mooting,
which began on. Saturday, near Smith
Grove, was well attended on Sunday,
there being probably some three or
four thousand persons present, COM
prised, principally of white folks.
Very able sermons were preached on
Sunday. As the meeting will last over
next Sunday. the attendance will prob.
ably be larger should the weather
prove favorable. There will be one of
the eminent colored divines present
next Sunday to deliver an address, and
1t would be well worth while for all to
30 and her him,
We understand that DR.. I. r. Swi-
gart has decided to locate permanently
at Bannerville, in Snyder county, for
the practice Of his profession. DR.. s.
is graduate of the Cincinnati College
OF Medicine and Surgery, one of the
best allopathic colleges in the west,
and had considerable practice in the
hospital. Moreover he is young man
Of excellent character and fine judg-
ment, and we have no doubt will soon
become popular, both rs man and
physician, among tho people in that
region. We wish him success. 49, True
Democrat, 18Th, inst.
HERE Tho chilly rains of the past
few days call to mind most sharply
the wintery ways-and the purple leaf