The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-30
10WNArO COUNTRY.
Weather-cool and pleasant.

The grey-squirrel crop is reported
exceedingly slim.
Miss Clyde Dorm left on Tuesday
morning for Baltimore to visit her
sister Mrs. Miller.
Our town council is urging the
work of repairing our pavements
with good results.
James p. Smith and his son Glenn
of Millersburg, spent Sunday at
home in Middleburgh
Miss Ella Smith of Cleveland, o.,
is here on visit-the guest of her
uncle, John =. Smith.
H. Oppenheimer's clothing store,
Selinsgrove, will be closed on Sept.
9th and 18th, being Jewish holidays.
We have several thousand old
newspapers in the printing Office
which we will sell at five cents per
dozen.
One of the "nut-crackers' has
asked us for the answer to our last
weeks plank question. We don't
know it-thats why we asked.
To THE NUT CRAcKERs.-I have a
piece of cardboard which is Sinches
square. cut it to make IS
square inches. How do | doit!
An immense crowd attended
camp-meeting at Pallas last Sunday
Some fifty buggies passed through
our town en- route for the ground.
Note special announcement of
new goods in G.. G. Gutelius' adv.
Cal. is always on time in styles, and
though he may not always be right,
he is never left.
ID. X. Haas has had score of
hands Mt work for several weeks
draining his farm west of Middle
burgh. Dan knows what belongs to
make farm fruitful and multiply" "
The girl who can put good square
patch on pair of pantaloons may
not be us accomplished as one who
can embroider and work green worst
ed dogs on n blue ground, but will
be far more useful at the head of a
large family.
Persons who pasture their cattle
on the railroad may be benefited to
know that they are liable for DANA
ges to the Company for any acci-
dents that may result from such tres
passing on their grounds. To sue
the Company for cattle killed by
them is simply out of the question.
The town Council has erected
seven new street lamps in town this
week, which are judiciously distrib-
uted through town and make it
quite pleasant on our streets these
dark nights. Another one was re-
Gently erected ut the turn of the
road to Franklin. This was raised
by subscription.
Conductor Downes says that the
train which conveyed the G.. A. II.
boys home over the S. & l.. road
from the encampment last Friday
night was the most orderly excur-
sion he ever took over any line.
This is creditable to our boys,
and shows that they know how,
when, and where to have their fun.
A new serial story of exceptional
power and interest has just been
commenced in the Detroit weekly
free Press. The story is entitled
Behind Closed Doors" and was
written by Annie Katherine Green,
the auther of the famous 'Leaven-
worth case" The Press will be sent
to any address for three months for
20 cents.
Beavertown has an one armed man
III the person of Simon Specht, Il
nephew of Moses Specht, who was Il
gallant soldier, n member of Gov.
Beavorsregiment the listh, and who
lost his arm in the service, and who
IL the equal of any man in the county
as hunter, and it is a caution to
See him bait hook with an an gle
worm. Simon says that he has
learned OF truth that necessity is
the mother of invention" and that a
man can learn to do almost anything
he is compelled to. And we have an
idea that Sim.is about right. Tribune