The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-05-16

East with new goods.
The Porter Comedy Company
which spent week III Middleburgh
several years ago and gave entertain
ments of extraordinary merit will ap
pear i'll Seebold's Hall every evening
of court week. Change of program
| every evening.
This is the story whispered to us
about n recent occurrence i'll town.
Last Sunday night when certain
young man called the little girl
climbed on his knee and began pok
ing the visitor in the ribs. what
are you doing little one - asked the
caller. "Des pokin. you to see if
you's soft, replied the artless in
FAINT. Sister said YOU was soft's Il
boiled squash The young man
didn't wait to see sister and
vows he'll never call there again.
While i'll Freeburg one day last
week Prof. Meyer very kindly pilot
ed us through his musical college,
giving MS full information as to its
workings, &c, and We must say that
the venerable professor understands
the laudable enterprise he is engaged
in. This college is noted for its
thoroughness and discipline. and
richly deserves the success it is meet
ing with. -Le,ristown Free Press.
The melancholy days have come,
the saddest of the year when the
carpets hung ON the back yard fence,
show the houseclcaning seasons :
here. Meath her sunbonncts shade,
the housewives $ face hath look of
heroic resolve, rs II scheme for II
regular housecleaninG spree, in her
mind begins To rcvulve With Wis
ions of dust and .lop and dirt, which
he hopes to NiNc the slip, the man of
the house digs II can of baits and
starts Oh fishing trip.
In II short time the monotonous
song of the seventeen year locusts
will be heard from morning till night,
repeating over and over again P-h-a-
I-a-o-h. These pests, which make
their visits every seventeen years,
are found this year III almost count
less numbers in gardens and fields.
and wherever the ground is broken.
There is nothing musical about the
song of II locust, and the damage
they do to young trees and shrub
berry is great
A TREE WITH A HIsToRY. The
storm on Saturday blew down Il
willow tree III front of the residence
of DIR. Hottenstine, Shamokin Dam
that had IN interesting history. 1t
grew from II cane carried from BerkS
county by solomon Werling in 1920.
In 1852 old iishermon John Snyder
shot fOX-squirrel from it. 1t lodg-
wv III u lOlh VI lllf iltt ullh IOlll
Price i'll crawling up to get it fell
down and broke his neck. 1t was Il
giant of its species and highly priz-
eel by the family.
On Tuesday we received an invita-
tion to come to Globe Mills and give
n name to strange-looking fish
which had been caught out of Yoder's
dam by Adam Specht with hook and
line few days before. Ex-Sheriff
Bolender and the editor went down
i'll the evening and found it to be n
thoroughbred German Carp, meas
uring Is inches and weighing nearly
three pounds. 1t is undoubtedly
one of the Original" fifteen placed
into Bowers dam by the editor in
1885. They had been received from
the State Fisheries.
The Supreme Court in Philadelphia
on Monday rendered decision in
tle case OF Gere, Platt Johnson, OF
Oswego n. Y, vs,John Unger, which
was originally tried in Berks county.
1t arose out of the transaction of the
notorious Bohemian OatsAssociation
which sold its oats to thousands
of farmers, who gave their notes in
payment the association afterwards
not being able to fulfill its contract
to purchase certain percentage of
the oats raised by the farmers at $40
a bushel. Unger's note of $500 pass
ed into the hands of the plaintiffs
and the Berks Court decided that
Unger need not pay it. This the
supreme Court affirmed. Hundreds
of Others notes probably involving in
all $4,000 awaiting this decision