The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-07-20

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els Cheap Cash Store, Swineford Pa.
FoR SALE.-Seven fine English
Beagle hound pups, four months old.
They are first-class stock, and will
be sold cheap. A. w. ENGLE.
Beavertown, Pa.
The Legislature has made Satur-
day afternoon a legil holiday. All
notes, drafts, or checks payable on
must be presented at the
bank before II o'clock.
On Sunday, July %, the corner
stone of St. Marks Evan. Lutheran
church at Germantown, Mifllin Co,
will be laid. Services are to be at
10 II. IN. and 2 p. m.
Mrs. Samuel Farnsworth of SAN
bury, in fit of despondency caused
by IA misunderstanding she had with
her husband on Monday evening,
drank twelve drachms of laudanum
from the effects of which she died in
great agony on Tuesday noon.
SECOND HEAVY REUNION. The an
nual reunion of the Second Penna.
Vet. Heavy Artillery 0l2th p. W
will be held at Watsontown, Pa,
August 2sth and 10Th, 1898. All sur
vivors of the regiment arerequested
to attend Send name and address
for particulars to Lew. G. Fosnot,
Watsontown, Pa.
The growth of Buclinell Univer.
sity, the past year, has been phe-
nomenal. The attendance in college
was 1lS. and the total attendance in
all departments was about $40. Ii
next years increased attendance is
commensurate with this, the total
number of students will foot about
'z9R svhsR tbs yasr closes. i
Levi Gelnett Of Aline, who has
been in the insurance business for
the last six years, has Joined hands
with Elmer Il, Snyder Of Selins-
grove, and the firm is rapidly pick
ing up Il large patronage. A trip
through Juninta county n short
time ago resulted in writing up
thirty-fve thousand dollars worth of
risks in single week.
We are informed that Editor T.
III. Harter, OF the Middleburgh PosT,
is putting his series of Pennsylvan-
in dialect articles in book form. As
treasures of a dialect that is fast be-
coming extinct, they are exceedingly
valuable, and we are glad to note
that they are being put in permanent
shape-LewiSburg Chronicle.
Carbon Seebold was on Tuesday
evening awarded the contract for
furnishing from 100000 to 10000
brick for the construction of the new
bank block to be erected next sum,
mer. Mr.. Seebold will open n new
yard on land leased Of John Meyer,
and Waldo Stuck and Mr. Orndt ol
Stroubtown have taken the contract
to manufacture them.
The saw mill on trout run Leon
ing Go. Pa. operated by VIM. Boyer,
and Calvin Bowersox of Troxelville,
Snyder Co. as foreman, was de
stroyed by fire on Thursday night
July 18th at one o'clock. The cause
of the fire is unknown as is also The
loss, but there was no insurance Oh
the plant. The mill has only beer
run month.
Gov. Pattison has appointed Ben
iamin Chambers, of Chambersburg
jay G. Weiser, NIiddleburgh G
Dallas Albert, Latrobe Henry NJ
Nj. Richards, Reading, and Sheldor
Reynolds, Wilkes Barre, to inquire
and examine into the propriety o.
erecting tablets, &c, to mark tn,
location of the forts erected by
the settlers of Pennsylvania priol
to 1888 for defense against the In
dians.
FEsTIvAL.-The Ladies Aid So
cietv of the Evangelical church a
Centerville will hold n festival OF
Saturday evening July29 Ice ecrerm
cakes and all the delicacies of tn,
season will be served in undance
The proceeds of the festival are t.
be used for rebuilding and repairing
the Evangelical church at said place
All are cordially invited to come anC
have nice time and assist a worth,
object. BY order of
! LADIES AID SOCIETY