The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-08-31

Kern presented us with las years
apple that was in remarkable state
of preservation. IL was a little
shrunk but its flavor was still per-
feet.
Nettie Cohen has opened n fancy
store in Selinsgrove. She has a fine
lot of goods. Read her advertise
ment in another column and IL she
has anything you need give her a
call.
Charles Steese Of Mifilinburg has
purchased James Beavers butcher.
ing outfit Mt Mifllinburg for 81, 200
and Charles Rudy will hereafter
drive the wagon that supplies the
Middleburgh customers with meat.
Last week ID. i. Uplinger of Mt
Pleasant Mills, presented the PosT
with n small crate of delicious peach
es. He has an abundance of the
same kind left and people wishing
any for canning will do well to ad-
dress him on the subject.
Congress knocked an eye out for
the Sherman silver bill on Monday
by repeating the purchasing clause
by big majority. The silver kings
must now furnish the government
one hundred cents worth of silver
for a dollar
j. III. Rholds was elected delegate
to the National z. o. S. of A. Con
vention, which meets in Chicago in
September. Itmeans free transpor-
tation and other coGrtesies to MIR.
Rhoads and we take this opportunity
to congratulate him on his victory.
A beautiful sarcophagus of Quincy
Granite weighing $500 pounds was
last week placed over the grave OF
Mr. Sanuel KnGucr a. Swergsl.
Union county, by VIM. Meyer, OF
Freeburg, which was purchased by
j. l.. Halfpenpy, administrator OF
the deceased.
VIM. Stahl, the old, reliable phos-
phate dealer of Penns township, de-
sires to inform the people that he
has now on hand and for sale all
kinds of standard phosphate, in
Guiding the famous Ozilized Dis
solved Bone, which has given such
good satisfaction of lates. ears.
The Pennsylvania Railroad shops
in Altoona have been ordered to
work half time until further orders.
Ahe shops are the largest of the
kind in the world, and employ be-
tween 6, 900 and 5000 men. Half the
men will work one week while the
other half will work tho next.
A preacher at Lafayette Ind, is
reported to have about brol-en up
his church the other day by saying
i'll sermon that God made the
earth in six days and then He rest
ed then He made man and rested
again then He made woman, and
since that time neither God nor man
has had rest"
On Thursday afternoon of last
week two-horse load of young folks
from Selinegrove swooped down up
on our town with clatter of hoofs
and toot Of horns, causing q general
stampede OF our citizens to the front
doors. After inviting n number of
young folks from town to a picnic
at the dam they Withdrew and spent
2 Jolly evening on the island.
A. peach grower, whose trees were
attacked by the ''yellows," and who
had lost quite number by the dis
ease, states that he cured the trees
by the use of scraps of iron placed
in the soil around them, his theory
being that the trees were deficient
in iron. After practiciug the iron
treatment he states that the trees
grew vigorously and bore fruit for
years.
Nearly all cook books say pour
boiling water over ripe tomatoes,
then skin them" and at least ninety
in every hundred persons attempt
to peel them in this manner, and
consequently do it with much diff
Guilty and very imperfectly. This is
the proper way to peel tomatoes
Cover them with boiling water half
n minute then lay them in cold wa
ter till they are perfectly cold, when
the skin can be slipped off without
difficulty, leaving the tomatoes un-
broken and as firm as before they
were scalded.