The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-05-22
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Davis Great Western Show |
MIDDLGBURGH, MAY 26.


Shirts from % cents up to n dol
lar, all wool suits for $500, and the
children's suits formerly advertised
at ~ 90 will be sold for 90 cents. All
goods will be sold hereafter at 3 per
cent. above cost.
II. GUNTzBuRGER.
The members Of the Women's
Mite Society of Midd,eburgh are
making II spccialIcilort to render the
exhibit at their fair next week un-
usually attractive. Fine needle
work, useful and beautiful articles
will be offered for sale, and ice.
cream, cakes and other refreshments
will he served. Don't fail to visit
them when YOU come to Court next
week.
Last Sunday while David Wetzel
and family of Jackson township
were attending Sunday school Mt
Hazlctt's school house, their horse
which was hitched outside broke
hitching post and turned to one side
upset the buggy down steep hill
which scared him and he ran down
into meadow near the church
where he smashed the buggy into
smithcreens. The horse escaped
without injury.
The Grand Army men are going
to put stop to impostors wearing
the Grand Army badge and button.
Men who were not born until after
the war was over have worn the but
ton and imposed upon good people
GA the strength of wearing. it. The
Lei,'sis,'',',a p, ssed stringent law.
@s"liiSt ilifs fssaetie,. .@.,si tho ersrri,
erans OF the order oro eoinp to see
that it is carried ont. The arrest
and punishment of few offenders
will have II very salutary effect.
Judgments aggrcgating to some
thing like fifteen hundred dollars
have been entered against G.. W.
Row of Penn township, and the in
dlcatlons are that he will he unable
to meet them and must go under.
Mr.. Row lost five or six valuable
horses within the last year or So and
has had bad luck otherwise. He
has been an honest, Woodworking
man all his life, and we Join with his
many friends throughout the coun-
ty i'll extending our sympathy, and |
hope his barge may clear itself of |
the sand-bars of financial distress.
There is an unusually bitter con-
test raging between the citizens of !
Middleburgh and the rats and spar
rows which imfcst our town. aud
there is question which will gain
the supremacy, The town is per
fectly alive with rats, which some
suppose were brought here by the
flood last summer, and they eat ev-
under ground, while that
feathered pirate, the sparrow, eats
above ground. The
town council should offer premium
Oh both and have them eXterminat-
ed as far as is in the power of man
TO do.
The dwelling house occupied by
Simon Scip and owned by John
Dock, about } miles northwest of !
lliddleburgh, caught fire on Satur-
lay afternoon last from n defective /
chimney and burned to the ground {
With all its contents, Mrs Seip was [
baking and was at home alone. The q
lanes were first discovered on the
oOf and spread so rapidly that she q
vas unable to save anything but one
hair and several cans Of fruit. There n
vas no insurance on either the house /
Ir the furniture, and Mr.. Seip is left |,
ithout anything but the clothing h
his back. He had purchased the
perty of Mr.. Dock and hoped to E
for 1t with II pension he has
II expecting for years but which ~
uiled to come He is poor, y
st, hardworking man, and we
~ that if the governments tardy 7
will not reach him soon the a
- will extend hand to help
ID his wife to the common o.
NNS les of life. -