The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-05
MIDDLEBURGH SNYDER co, PA, OCTOBER s. 1893

ine MIL vi Drlck Tor the new bank
building was lighted on Sunday
night at half past twelve, and will
be finished about Saturday.
j. W. Runkle of the firm of Run.
kle " Walter, accompanied by his
wife, left on Monday for the eastern
cities to buy their fall stock of goods.
School directors and teachers OF
Franklin township are requested TO
meet at Franklin school house on
Saturday, Oct. 7tb, at . o'clock, p. m.
j. B. ENTERLINE, Pres.
The weekly statement Of the pen
sion officers show that the total
number of claims now pending is
70O,279. The total number of cases
rejected during last week was 1917
and those allowed 1,77l.
A citizen may vote who has not
been registered provided he can
prove his residence, but he must
have paid state or county tax that
was assessed within two years. Oc-
tober 7th is the last day on which
tax can be paid.
III aSan owes you bill and can
not pay it, don't crowd him. If he
is honest and deserving, help him.
If you sue him, other men inay fol-
low your example and crowd him TO
the wall, when little breathing
time will enable him to get through
successfully. This is time for men
to help each other.
Autumn is in sight. The song OF
tho cricket, cool nights, squirrel
shooting and dying off vegetation
are sure precursors of the setting in
OF the autumnal season. Soon the
foliage Of tho mountains will take
on every hue, and our forests look
as beautiful as flower garden.
Then viii come bleak winter, and it,
too, will have its charms.
The whipping post has been re-
yiyed in Delaware. On Saturday
nine negroes and three white men
were lashed by the sheriff at New
castle and his arm was well tired
when he got through with the Job.
All the criminals were convicted OF
larceny, and besides the whipping
will be confined in prison for diff
ferent periods according to the
grade of offence.
The cheapest property to-day in
America is timber land. It's advance
has not been rapid since the panics
during the seventies. The demand
for wood pulp, the wanton destruc-
ton by fire of our forests, the in-
crease in our population and many
other causes all are tending to make
timber more valuable. If you own
woodland anywhere, hang on to it,
if you have to live on acorns and
water.
Winter, according to DR.. Ira
Hicks, will begin with storms of
more or less severity about the mid
die of November, and march will
prolong it at the last. We may rea
sonably say that wo expect upon the
whole, hard winter" He adds a
word of advice : "We candidly think
that the man who begins early and
prepares well for u disagreeable and
hard winter will have no regrets,
but eau Sc for rejoicing.
The famous 'Boonastiel" letters,
by the editor of the Middleburgh
Posr, have been printed in hand
some volume. They are written in
Pennsylvania Dutch, and many
have been widely copied. The book
contains about $50 of BoonastiePs
productions and costs only S1.5
You get hundred dollars worth oI
amusing reading out of it, and two
hundred dollars in the moral con
tanned in the letters. 49, Centre Hal
Reporter.
Francis Murphy, the great TEN
perance advocate, says drunkenness
is on the decrease in this country
He attributes this in great meas
ure to the fact that men have fouut
out that they cannot succeed in bus
mess in these days of eager competi
ton without having all their menta
|, resource at command, and that in
diligence in that which intoxicate
impairs mental vigor. Busines
men have come to the conclusion
NOT only that they must not drinl