The state journal., 1884-08-16
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Pa, on Thursday.
If you wish to be called sweet and
tender names be politician.
Mrs. Emma Stewart, of New York,
is the guest Of Mrs. T. G. BATHS.
Miss Maggie Douglass is visiting
friends in Altoona.
Miss Aggie Robinson has returned
from Miflio, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Carlyle has been seri-
ously i'll for several days.
The Eighth ward will go solid for
Charles Miller for the Legislature.
The new Odd Fellows Lodge will
be made on next Tuesday evening.
Mr.. George Burton, of Lancaster,
was in this city on Wednesday.
Perhaps the city didn't get left in
the county convention
Brotherly Love Lodge, No. S96,
picnicked at Gettysburg on Wednes-
day.
Miss Lille White and brother
Johnnie, of Tyrone, are the guests OF
Mrs. Elisha Marshall.
Mr.. Gibson, of Reading, Pa, is the
guest ,of Mrs. Josephine l.. Bibb, on
Walnut street.
Miss Price, of Danyille, Pa, is the
guest of Mrs. William White, Black
berry avenue.
Mr.. Benjamin Carter leaves to-
morrow on visit to his former
home, Martinsburg, Va.
Rev. John Price and Mr.. George
Barns, Sr, Of Shippensburg, we're in
the city on Thursday.
Charles Gibson, of Reading, spent
several days in this city as the guest
of Mrs. Josie L. Bibb.
Miss Craig, Of New York, spent
several days in this city as the guest
of Mrs. G. M. Robinson.
Mr.. Guy Bunton, of the Auditor
Generals Department, spent several
days in Philadelphia.
Miss Martha Briscoe has been
spending several days in Williams
port with friends.
Mr.. Alfred Dockins and family, of
Syracuse, n. Y, are on visit to Mrs.
Dockins of Short street
When you promised to deliver
goods you should carry out your
promise q
The !" tall sycamore ofspringdale''
wont have it that he owes lion. A.
J. Herr any unpaid pledges.
Miss Ella Williams, of Wilkes
barre, spent several days in this city
as the guest Of Mrs. J. L. Cumpton.
Mr. Jacob Cumpton has a sunfow
er stalk growing in his yard, which
measures over fourteen feet in height,
Mrs. M. D. Sanders, accompanied
by Miss Thomas, of Carlisle, leaves
to day on an extended trip to New
York City.
Mr.. John White, of Tyrone, will
spend several days in the city as the
guest of Mr.. William Marshall, Pax
ton street.
Rev. Hiram Baker, who his been
spending several weeks in Atlantic
City, passed through this city enroute
to Shippensburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Q, Adams left
Saturday for Emira, N. Y, where
they will spend their summer vaca-
ton.
Mr.. Jacob Compton and family
leave in the morning for New York
where they will spend several weeks
with their son.
Mrs Ellen Marshall, NJ Staunton,
+. Douglas, S. Howard, E. Howard,
and A. Bennett visited Middletown
on Thursday and were the guests Of
Rev. Slater.
Mr.. William Hughes, Harry Clark
and William Harley Of Middletown,
spent few days in the city. The
latter gentleman was q delegate to
the county convention.
The Zion Workers held its
monthly literary exercises on Tues
day evening. The main features of
the evening were the addresses of
Rev. Lawrence Miller, Of this city,
and Rev. Smith, of Baltimore.
A large excursion from up the
Cumberland valley will arrive to-
day. A procession, headed by the
Chief of Police. with several officers
under his command, will act as an
escort. A committee of Councils
will receive the excursionists.
Cut on the Head.
Henry Barnhart, aged G3, was working
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