The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-05-22
Local News, &c.
Wants clesning-our streets.

Wants clesning-our streets.
Tho next thing TO growl about will
be the heat,
n hot summon is among tho latest
predictions.
Truth Is stranger than fiction, but
there is less of 1t.
An abundant crop of soakcs is pre-
dictod for this year.
A friend in knead-the girl who eau
make good bread.
In re-papering the walls Of room
The old paper should be scraped off.
The Washington House has beon
Improved to the extent Of new roof
q cctcrd.
Mr.. Piper Of Franklin eaught trout,
in the Aiddlecreek, measuring IS inch
es in length.
Fix up brush up, sweep up, clear up,
never give up until the last bit Of filth
is carted away.-Er.
The apple crop prospects in this sec.
ton are not very promising. Many
trees are not blooming.
1t is said that in this State In tho
year 1895 every mouth had frost and
that there was ice in August.
The frst house-fy Of the season is u
perfect copy Of the old insect, full
weight and Of standard sauciness.
Harry Eckbert, Surgical and Me-
chanical Dentist, Selinsgrove. adver-
tises in another column Of this paper.
A little child of Mr.. Piper, of Frank.
lin, upset a cup Of boiling coffee scald-
ing its breast and arms very severely.
Farmers and others having fruit
trees would do well TO give timely at
tention to the pests that destroy the
fruit.
A fashionable belt for the female
waist is called tho Huss band, but most
any other fellow will answer tho same
purpose.
In seventeen million years tho sun
will "forbare to shine," so scientists
tell us: We do not expect to be on
hand when that event occurs.
Read 8. P. Burns Boot & Shoe store
Advertisement in another column OF
this paper, then give him a call and
our word for ityou will bs suited in
every respect.
The fair ofthe Agricultural Society OF
Pennsylvania for this year will be held
in Fairmount Park, at Philadelphia.
1t will commence September 8, and
continue two weeks.
A fellow who don't take The Post
says: "Since the late wet rains set in
the dry weather isn't so dry as it was
and wedgitashun is pullin ahead per-
tickerly ingyuns and pertaters.'
The Hon. Chas. Miller, presented
the following Bills which passed the
House and were sent to the Senate viz:
A bill for tho relief Of Sam'l. F. Sheary,
Of Centreville, solder also for re-
lief Of Daniel Riggle soldier. OF Ads
ANS township also, bill repeating
the Act of 1869 relating to opening and
widening public streets in the borough
of Selinsgrove.
At the last regular Friday evening
meeting of the Middloburg Gospel
Temperance Union the election Of Of.
ficers resulted In the reelection Of all
the old officers, unanimously by a pipa
,Ooe vote the bylaws having been sus'
pended:
John II. Arnold, Pres; y. r. Bower
v. Pres. Miss Alvesta Wetsol Rec.
Sec. John O. Burlington Cor. SEQ. !;
Mrs. Rhoades Treas. Executive Com
mittee d. T. Rhoads, d. Millhouse, H.
Reigle, ]. A. Stahlnecker, @. Dunksl.
berger.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH ny suF.
FocATroS.-Perry Hare Is engaged in
burning lime ct the kilns east of town,
and on Friday last inhaled carbonic
acid gas 10 such an extent a. TO become
entirely helpless and unconscious In
which condition he remained for sev
eral hours notwithstanding medical aid
was promptly procured an tho proper
remedies applied. or lato several per-
sons have becn in like condition at
the kiIns and should admonish those
IN the business 70 exercise greater care.
rorTy = over the elfscts and will per-
hsps y moss vide awake IN The iu-
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