The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-23
Brief Items.


Chestnuts will soon be bursting.
Centre twp, Schools commence about
the Goth of October.
ICorn cutting and fall plowing are now
being pushed forward.
Several of our citizens visited the
State Fair last week.
See advertisements of valuable Real
Estate for sale in this paper.
Forty-two excursion tickets for Phila-
delphia were sold at Newport last week.
For a lot of late Colorado papers our
thanks are rendered to G. M. Wagner, a
former resident of this place.
Mr.. Thos. Reeder sends us two pota-
toes that grew on one stalk, the two
weighing five pounds and quarter.
4 1he county horticultural and indus
fffal society opened its first exhibition
at York on Wednesday under favorable
auspices.
Prof. J. H. Kurzenknabe, of Harris
burg, has over 100 schola rs in his music
class at Markelville, this county.
Six jurors who failed to put in an
appearance when wanted in the Luzerne
county court on Monday were each
fined $50.
The real estate of Daniel Cless was
sold on the 18th inst, by A. B. Clouser,
Assignee, to Samuel Comp, ST., for the
sum of ST 1880.
Go to Harry McClintock's sale on
next Saturday at one o'clock p. M.
Household furniture, new harness, bug
gy and town property will be sold.
On Thursday morning at an early
hour some tramps broke into the bar
room of Strasbaugh's hotel in Marys-
vile, but were scared away with but
little plunder.
The Airy View Sabbath School pur-
pose holding basket picnic in Lights
woods, on SATURDAY, September 9th.
Address by Mr.. George Barnett and ].
Richey. All are invited.
J. G. RAMsDELL, lib Chestnut St.,
Philadelphia, will send to any of our
lady readers = on receipt of address -
copy of the October Metropolitan"
Fashion Paper, gratis.
The Second District Sunday School
Association of Perry County will meet
in convention at Mount Zion Lutheran
Church, on Wednesday September oath,
at 10 o'clock A. M.
w. w. M CLURE, sec.
II Our worthy street commissioner, Mr..
Jesse Powell, has been greatly improv-
ing the streets the past week, by gather
ing up the rolling stones, filling up some
low places in the piking, and fixing the
bridges at the crossings.
The furnace at Duncannon is to be
put into working order. 1t will cost
probably $25,000, and five months time
to get it ready for work. All the iron
business is now in a very prosperous
condition.
A Fort Wayne paper says the remains
of body destined for Bloomfield, Pa,
were put off at this place Saturday night
because decomposition had SO far ad-
vanced. They were buried by undertaken
Peltier in Underwood.
| Judging by the letters we have receiv-
ed, there must be quite number of per-
sons in this and Dauphin county who
have bought lots in "Christy City,
They all seem to be sadly disappointed
in their investment, and anxious to tell
what they know.
On opening the eschool house at Baily's
on Sunday a week it was found that the
library of the Sunday School had been
robbed of about two dozen books, some
time during the previous week. This
has happened several times before dur
ing the year past.
The following named persons have
been appointed by the School Directors
to teach the schools in this borough, the
ensuing term: = Geo. Barnett, jr., the
high school, Samuel Shaver, second
school, Miss Ella M. Burn, the primary.
The schools opened to-day, (Mondayl.
Shermansdale has had shooting
scrape, young man named Shearer
having committed the deed,and a young
man named Drawbaugh being the one
hit Shearer says he shot only to scare
the parties who were in boat, and did
not intend to hurt any one. No arrest
has been made, and perhaps there will
be none, as the injury was only slight.
Tom Moore, Esq, editor of the Juniata
Nescs, at Port Royal, had narrow es-
cape from death or terrible injury on
Wednesday evening. In trying to get
on moving train, he lost his footing,