The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-02

on visit.
Foreman Burns of the Seliesgrove
Times was here over Sunday doing
press ,cork.
There are young men who devote
more thoughts to the choice of n
necktie than they do to the choice of
profession.
The Middleburgh Band has been
engaged to furnish the music for the
Soldiers Encampment at Lewis
town.
If you want to buy the best Piano,
Organ, or Sewing Machine for the
least money, go to G. G. Seebold,
Middleburgh, Pa.
G. c. Seebold sold from his Office
in Middleburgh eleven new and i'm
proved White Sewing Machines dur
ing the month of July.
Have you ever seen child try to
pick up four apples with its two lit
tie hands Mt once, and spill at least
two of them? Men are constantly
trying the same game, with the same
success.
j. A. and NJ. A. Yetter, Admins
traitors of Henry Yetter, late of
West Beaver township, decd, will
expose to Public Sale ON Saturday
August Is, the personal property OF
said decedent.
Our exchanges from other coun-
ties are complimenting the merchants
of Snyder County for organizing a
protective association, and encour'
age IA like action on the part of theii
local merchants.
A dog poisoner in Lewistown in
trying to kill dogs, let the poison
get in the way of two cows, one be
longing to BENJAMIN Hoyle and ths
other to Samuel Miller, and the ami
mails died in great agony.
| We are authorized to caution
a certain Paxtonville man agains,
the nefarious custom of visiting hen
coops and wood-piles with sheet
wrapped around him. He is threat
ened with load of No. 2 shot.
/. We are authorized to announc,
that the 2d Annual Snyder County
Harvest Home picnic will be held il
Bowers Grove, mile west of Middle
burgh on Wednesday August Is
Full particulars next week.
The Annual Central Pennsylvani,
Grange Picnic will be held in the
Old Fort Woods near Centre Hall
on September 1s, 10, and 90. Hereto
fore the picnic was held on Nittan,
Mountain directly above Centre Hall
| The Evangelical church of Middle
burgh will hold festival in See
bold's Hall on Thursday, Friday anG
Saturday evenings, August 9th, 1Otl
and 18th. Refreshments of all kinds
will be provided and cordial inva
tion is extended to the public to at
tend.
The Miss Adele Carleton Dramatic
Company is in Adamsburg this
week. They will produce Lady
Audleys Secret, " tonight, Farmer
Daughter" Friday night, and "Ten
Nights-in-a- -Bar-room,' Sat. night
They are a good troupe and deserve
"A liberal patronage.
II. II. Reigle and Joe. Cleland who
have been doing mason work al
Shamokin for month or so, spent
Sunday at home returning on Mon
day. They report work brisk and
wages good. They, in company with
another mason, have taken the con
tract to build cellar walls for eigh
teen houses near Shamokin, which
will keep them employed the greater
part of this summer.
Sugar now sells at cents foi
granulated. For years past grocery.
men have been selling sugar for the
same price as they paid for it, which
has caused many failures. The plan
has been to sell sugar at or even be.
low cost, and put the profit on some.
thing else. This is all wrong. Let
sugar yield fair profit, and some
other goods can be reduced-this
plan will prove beneficial to all par.
ties. An effort is being made by both
the Wholesale and retail dealers OF
Philadelphia to correct this evil, and
we hope they may succeed.