The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-26
ITEMS of LOCAL INTEREST

Sunday evening, Nov. 8, the
Chapel Sunday School will hold chill
drens day exercises.
Wednesday OF next week. being
the lst of November, quail and rab-
bets may be legally shot.
Jere Bowersox is supplying our
townpeople with superior quality
Of fresh milk every morning.
Miss Annie Stahlnecker, has re-
turned home after prolonged stay
with relatives in Akron, o.,
CD. Manbeck, wife, and baby OF
Akron, Ohio, spent last week with
their many friends in Middleburgh.
Mrs. ]. s. Boob of Mifflinburg left
for home on Tuesday after spending
a week with relatives and friends
here.
Rev. Neff, accompanied by NJ. X.
Hassinger. as delegate, are attend
ing Lutheran Conference in Perry
county this week.
We have not heard of a single
deer being killed by our hunters this
fall. They ought to be ripe" by
this time as the trees are pretty well
stripped of their foliage by the
heavy frosts.
At the annual meeting of the
State Sabbath School Association in
Pittsburg, the report showed that
Pennsylvania leads all other states
in Sunday school work. There are
1862 schools. 139, ,256 teachers and
officers. and /, ,247, 800 scholars, max
ing q grand total of 1856, 1916.
An agent of Barnum's circus has
made the needed arrangements to
quarter during the winter months
three hundred head of horses on one
of the farms of Mr.. Jacob Behney,
near Myerstown. To feed such lot
of animals and to see that they are
properly groomed and taken care of
requires quite force of men.
Don't forget the important land
sale on Saturday, Oct. 90, when the
eight tracts of the Il. A. and Mary
A. Steininger estates, situate J mile
west of Middleburgh, will be sold.
The land is in first class condition
for farming, except about twelve
acres, which is well set with the
best of timber.
REwARD.-On Monday night there
was stolen from the home of the
undersigned in Kratzerville, Pa,
open face, 4oz. silver watch, p. $.
Bartlett movement, double barrel
breech loading shot gut, Richards
make, and 2 coats. A reward of five
dollars is offered for the return of
the same and the apprehension of
the thief. II. A. HERMAN.
We are indebted to "rantin' Joe
Lesher of the Times for the use of
his form" to print our supplement
this week. Joe is never behind in
newspaper courtesies, and the
brother who cannot neighbor with
him certainly walks blindly and in
crooked roads.
For what is the greatest amount
of lumber used? Nine people out of
ten will say for houses and buildings.
1t is doubtful if thirty-fve per cent.
of the lumber output goes into
buildings. The railroads, farmers,
and miscellaneous purposes take
about forty per cent. and the other
twenty per cent goes into boxes.
The estimate is made, says the
Southern Lumbermdn, on the judg-
ment of some of the oldest and best
informed lumberman in the country.
The following formula for preven-
ting the growth of horns on calves
should be tried by those who object
to dehorning: Take 80 parts OF
caustic soda, % parts of kerosene
and % parts of water. Heat the
kerosene and soda together, stirring
vigorously. and then add the water.
Take the calf at from one to three
weeks old, trim away the hair around
the base of the horns, then with a
few drops of the mixture on the cork
which should be of rubber, rub on
one horn and then the other, repeat
ing until three or four applications
are made. BE careful not to allow
the fluid to run down upon the face,