The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-17

Bowers grove on Saturday August
%, and festival on the evening of
the same day. All invited
Farmers of Snyder Co., before
buying your phosphate for fall seed
ing, send for my prices and con-
ditions. / am selling Walton n
Whann Co.'S. pure bone frtilizers-
the best and cheapest ever sold.
9-15. JAcoD CRAMER, Middleburgh.
Picnics are numerous; thirty years |
ago they were unknown in their
present form in the rural districts of
this State. The Germans in cities
had basket picnics on Sunday long
ago, rs well for amusement, rs for
the chance to breathe the fresh air.
We take pleasure in calling atten-
ton to the advertisement of the
Franklin and Marshall Academy,
Lancaster, Pa. Parents having
children who they wish TO prepare
for college will find this desirable
school.
II. b. McWilliams has purchased
VIM. Snyder's house and lot on the
French Flats and will build an ad-
dition to the house and add to the
size of the lot. We are glad to have
Tom thus permanently locate with
us as he is n royal good fellow and n
desirable citizen.
Curtin Bowersox, with his two
threshing rigs, last week threshed at
fifteen barns. He has about l40
barns to thresh this fall and it is
J keeping him "a-humping." He in
forms u.s. that oats is turning out
well, but wheat falls a little short of
expectations. -
The dainty Chimney swallows
that summer here will ere long pre-
pare for their flight southwark.
They go earlier than most of our
feathered summer visitors, for they
have a longer journey to make, their
migration being to the West Indies
and Central America.
s. G. Weik of York, Pa, formerly
proprietor of the Beavertown Match
Factory, spent few days in this
county this week and favored the
PosT with friendly call on We'd
nesday. He is still in the match
business as foreman in the York
Diamond Match factory.
George Aumiller died suddenly at
the home of his son, Michael Au-
miller, on Monday morning, aged
about 20 years. The funeral took
place on Wednesday, interment be-
ing made near Pardee, Union Co.,
the deceased's home.-Adamsbrg
Herdld
A witty writer has observed, with
much truth, that every man is, in a
sense, three different men. In the
first place, he is the man he thinks
himself to be in the second place,
he is a man other persons think him
to be and, finally, he is the man
that he really is.
Capt. G.. w. Skinner, candidate
for Congress in this district against
Hon. l.. Il. Atk 1son, was this week
appointed pension agent at Pitts
burg. Cap has many friends
throughout this section of Pennsyl-
vania, who rejoice in his victory over
a portion of the spoils.
Anthony Rowland, hotel keeper
at Ashland, Pa, after suffering for
several months from what he sup
posed TO be cramps, on Saturday
night vomited live carpet snake
nine inches long and as thick as a
lead-pencil. Drinking from spring
at night is probably how the snake
got in his stomach.
A canvass of the Pennsylvania
railroad shops and the railroad di-
visions is now being taken to ascer-
tail the nurlber and names of en-
ployes who want to go to the worlds
fair on the companys free excursion.
The only expense connected with
the trip will be the lodging in Chica-
go which the company will secure
for $3.50 day. This privilege of
going under these conditions will be
extended to employees, their wives,
any members of their immediate
families dependent upon them for
support.