The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-02-16
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We are under obligations to Bro
Lumbard for favors granted the Posi-
last week.
For SALE.-Farm OF 3oacre. For
particulars address Geo. W. Brown
MiddIecreck, Snyder county Pa.
Miss Maud Arnold has returned
home after spending several months
among relatives and friends in the
Buckeye State.
A son of Adam Spangler Of this
place recently sent him jack rabbit
from the West that weighed thirteen
pounds.
Cart. ID. Il. Rhoades and DIR. Shin
del left on Monday morning to at
tend the State G. A. II. Convention
in session at Allentown, this week.
Rev. ID. NJ. Metzgar will preach the
last sermon for the present conference
wear on Saturday evening Feb. Is,
iastead OF on Sunday as per annouce-
msnt
Persons In need of boots and shoes
should patronize home trade-espec-
tally when legitimate goods can be
had at fair prices at Garman's Shoe
Store, Middleburgh.
LosT.-A black kid pnrse on the
street in Middleburgh, Thursday eve
Mug OF last week. Contained about
60 cents. Finder will please return it
to Miss Barbara Shelley, Middleburg.
The lady who exchanged gossaners
in the hall one evening during the
convention and got one with the ini-
tials al. NJ" on the neck>band, VIII
please return it to this Office and get
her own.
We are sorry to learn that our
friend p. NJ. Teats OF Washington
township will move to Warrenton,
Virginia, on the 2sth Of this month,
where he has purchased farm Of
100 acres.
An old saying is, the more snow in
January the more wheat in the COM
ing July. 1t is reasonable to believe
that the better wheatfelds are pro-
tected in the winter the better their
yield will be the next harvest.
Pennsylvanla's population is placed
ut nearly six million. It's population
In 1900 was 434, 1913, and the census of
the United States in that year was
3,929,aA Now the total population
is estimated at about sixty million.
Great Auction Sale Of Boots and
Shoes, Thursday, Friday and Satur-
dap. also evenings. Don't fail to at
tend IL you want bargains, as these
goods must be sold. Beavers Store
Room, Middleburgh, Pa.
STEAD & BoUsH.
Here Is a neat advertisement In the
Somerset Herald which certainly
must have brought in some cash :
"Some men never need money. as
they always have it ; other men al
ways need money, but never have It..
l ain neither ofth above, but want
my books settled up at once"
Next Tuesday is the regular spring
election, or, in other words the an
nual political reunion Cat least Ii
should he so) when honest, intelligent
citizens will not allow political preju-
dice to overrule principle, when the
best men will be selected for munich
pal officers regardless OF party affilia
tions.
WANTED 00.-Any person wish
ing to place from four to five thous>
and dollars on interest on two or
three years from the middle of April,
at 8 per cent, to be secured with first
mortgage. Can be accommodated
with the desired information by call
ing on or addressing the Editor OF the
PosT. Feb. 10, '69. 3w
O for the time when the small boy
sits on the bank Of the creek digging
up the mud with his toes and watch
es the bobbing OF his cork while the
sinners nibble the bait from his fish,
hook. We cannot appreciate health
unless We get sick occasionally
neither can we enjoy Spring until we
hsve passed through winter.
We have had an unusual amount OF
srbw-fall this winter, and the weaths
rAas been SO cold for the last six
weeks that scarcely any OF 1t melted.
In he mountains where the sun cam
n4eaeh It the snow has an average
= AZ Of three feet and over. In sase
n ov sudden thaw accompanied by
TN rMtremendous floods will be the
re We are all tired Of this ''long
anteary winter" even tired OF
see ethe beautiful"
Reorganization of the old Musi.
ca ciation as mentioned in n re-
90 ue of the POST has borne fruit
nfsady 'rns, class which now meets
in the q. b. Church every Wednesday
evening, is nightly growing in size
\nd interst- Rev. Spayd is proving
mself 3 competent Instructor and Is
(Ing excellent work In the advances