The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1879-05-15
Local News, &c.

Set your hens now, u tney Will
All nature looks beautiful again.
The show windows Look real nobby.
Keep an eye open for the 'tatcr-bug.'
Vegetation fairly leaps out Of the
earth.
Tickling the earth with hoe is now
in order.
Assertion day comes this year or
the 22l inst.
The genial weather is bringing out
Croquet players.
The hills are arraying themselves in
their spring garb.
A large sponge is the handicst thing
for watering plants.
Charley Steininger, son Of Ellis, cap.
tured four halfgrown red foxes last
Friday.
Plum, cherry and peach trees are in
full bloom and present grand ap-
pearance.
From present indications it is
thought the Legislature will linger in
the lap Of summer.
Look out for damp cellars, for in that
way comes on rheumatism, colds, ie
vcrs, diphtheria and death.
Extensive preparations are making
at Minllnburg for proper observance
OF Decoration day--May 80.
ERRAr,. advertisement of Shn",
Sale in last issue should have .ead
Daniel instead of David Boyer.
The humble Bumblebcc singeIh ali
the day lis he gathers honey from the
flowers ard rosy posies-Shakespear.
Commencement exercises ut New
Berlin Seminary Nay ~, 81, June .
and 3. The Mlliinburg Band furnish
es the music.
The leaves aud blossoms are coming
out rapidly, and in II few more days the
.sir will he fragrant with the odor OF
sweet flowers.
The season for pealing bark il now
at hand, and the owners of wood lots
are now kept busy getting tho bark
ready for market.
Holders of Northern Pacific railroad
bonds will find them worthless after
May 30, if they fail to exchange them
before that date for preferred stock.
This is the season of the year when
considerate old fathers will see that the
front gates are newly hung and the
hinges oiled, preparatory for the sum
mer campaign.
STEAM SAW MILL.--Some parties
have purchased timber leave Of John
Hare, north town, and will shortly
put in running order Steam Saw
mill.
The free use of paint and white wash
has beaUtiied our town toa greater
extent, this Spring, than usual. The
sanitary condition of our town is No.
1, and our physicians must so to the
country for patients.
Our exchanges are full of warning
TO little girls against an immoderate
amount ofrope jumping. Quito num-
Der Of deaths are reported from differ.
ent sections of the country, the result
OF too violent exercise at this sport.
On Monday last John Kramer drove
TO Wittenmyers Store with n lot of pro.
duce and as he was about TO alight the
wheel of his buggy gave way and spill
ed dozen eggs on tho ground com
pleteIy demolishiug the whole lot.
Persons who have studied their hab>
its begin to look upon tho English
sparrows rs nuisances. In the garden
they prefer the tender plants rather
than tho insects and do much injury
in this way. They are quarrelsome,
unclsanly and noisy.
Tho White Sewing Machine Cons
psny have been Offering live, active
Agents $500 90 a year,
That proves that tho White is tho
best selling Machine now offered the
public. somo soallawag agents rep
resenting other machines have been
circulating that the White WAS sold Il
its agents for $500
That follow who Is spelling for some
ono on whom no can try his muscle
can DO accommodated by leaving hi
card naming his seconds and deposi'
ting 10e ~ forfeiture NJ this office
naming 4 d&y Tor mooling aodays fron
date Of doposit--wo have authority 10
state that Joo Dwyor who thrashed ~
lioii IL twelve rounds tho other day
and JON Mnco. Joo CbbNrn, Goss nm,
ulher suoh lu,nIuArles win hold them'
selsos IN vsadlnss1 70 accommodate
tkef jt|su ratAsf shsn he ahoula spoil
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