The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-02
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
We need rain badly.

We need rain badly.
Harrisburg has a curiosity in the
shape of two-legged dog.
Hope is germ; Faith, the bios
som; and Charity, the fruit.
The days are beginning to show a
slight falling off in their lengths.
G. G. Seebold wholesaled in the
month of July in his White territory
40 Machines. '....
Christ's Sunday School Of Nc
Clure will picnic near town on Sat
urday, August %. All invited.
Mrs. Z. G. Aurand left on Monday
evening to visit her father who re-
sides in Michigan and who is at the
point of death.
The Middleburgh Cornet Band is
hard to beat, and certainly leads the
Bands in the Central part of the
State.-SelinsgrOve Tribune.
LosT.-A black and red barred
breakfast shawl ,near Middleburgh
on July 4. The finder will please
leave it with M. Y. Steininger.
John Wittenmyer and L. NJ. Moatz,
agents for the heirs of Benjamin
Wittenmyer, decd, will make sale OF
the real estate of said decedent on
Saturday August "a.
4 John p. Smith while fishing in
b Meiser's Dam last week hooked a
n pound bass that had died from the
\ effects of tish-hook which was lodg-
y ed in his gills. There was about
a eight feet of line to it.
q W. f. Walter returned to Akron,
:. o., on Monday evening after spend
ing several weeks with friends here.
'#He was accompanied by Miss Ella
Bolender who will spend few weeks
IA with friends in that thriving little
city.
n Chloride of lime is an infallible pre-
4 ventive for rats, as they flee from its
odor as from pestilence. 1t should
= be thrown down their holes and
spread about wherever they would
M be likely to come, and should be re-
newed once fortnight.
# The Millheim Centennial was Al
immense affair last week. 1t is esti
mated that 5000 people were in the
town. Millheim used to have very
unsavory reputation so far as inc
briefly was concerned, but we learn
that very little drunkenness was seer
on that day for the reason that Mill
helm enjoys prohibition.
The state supreme court the other
day passed upon case of II tax-col
lector being appointed by the com,
missioners, and decided that tax col
lectors are to be elected, as provided
in the act of June 25, 1885. That the
tax collectors appointed by the
county commissioners are without
powers, would seem to be the case
Erom this decision of the supreme
court.
The Bear Meadows, in Centre
Co., familiarly known to the hunts
men in this section, is to have rail
road built to it and be shorn of its
Valuable timber. A New York firm
Went q Naugle, have purchased six
Thousand acres of woodland, which
includes the meadows, and will build
p narrow gauge road from Linden
Hall to the tract. The consideration
was $500 per acre, and the length OF
fhe road will be about four miles.
A dog-collar agency, calling itself
German Electric Belt Company
appeared in Middleburgh on Sunday
With the intention of supplying our
people with their truck but after q
little canvass the boss found some.
hing that displeased him, when he
enounced the town in the most
irulent terms, casting insults right
lnd left, drubbing the town as 'rot.
en-" They left ON Monday morning,
vidently convinced that this town
ldnt t hold the amount of fools to
pstify their staying. Had he re-
pained day or so he would NO
pubt have found some one in the
Fotten town" to keep the flies off OF
m and dress him up to resemble a
cked-up fragment of q phantom
ilroad wreck. A wink is as good
nod to blind iack-ass.