The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-05-25


convenience.
An exchange wants the gamf law
amended so that book agents can be
legally killed from September ist TO
October lst spring poets from
March lst to July LIST and scdndal-
mongers at any time.
PLAIN SEwINo.-Mrs. Geo. O. Smith,
Beavertowu, takes this methSd of
informing her many friends thdt she
is prepared to do all kinds of plain
sewing, and solicits share OF the
public patronage.
A grand festival will be held in the
Town Hall, New Berlin, Pa, May
y, %, x 30. Ice cream and bther
refreahments will be served. The
ladies and friends of the L. b. church
will welcome you. Everybody is
cordially invited to attend. Pro
cocds for the benefit of the church.
COMMITTEE.
The Glen Union Lumber Co,
Glen Union, Clinton county, Pa.
want twenty-five good, practical
teamsters and wood choppers.
Wages paid according to the mans
ability aud usefulness. - to SI.25
per day and board. Men who drink
rum and get drunk need not apply.
G. X. SOBER, Gen. Supt.
During the burning of the house
of J.G Grouse, Esq .on Monday after
noon, Jacob Steininger, living on
the adjoining farm, made very
narrow escape from death. He was
on the roof battling with the flames
when he felt it sinking and JUMPED,
nor did he leave the roof any too
soon, for hs had Just landed on ts,e,
ground whom IL caved III ~ ~
During the storm Of Tuesday af-
ternoon the large tent belonging to
Samuel Bowen, erected at the east
end of Main street for the use of the
Ladies Aid Society of the Reformed
church for the purpose of holding u
festival was blown down. Nearly
everything had been removed before
the storm came upon it. The dam
age to tent is very slight.
Nal. Dreese of Kansas, and David
Rauch, wife and daughter of Leba-
non, have been circulating among
Snyder county relatives for the past
week, renewing old acquaintances
and forming new ones. Mr.. Dreese
has not been here since he left about
thirteen years ago, at which time he
was a small boy and has now grown
to full manhood and finds many
changes on the playground of his
childhood.
The Port Royal Times says Rev.
A. II. Spangler, pastor of the First
English Lutheran Church of Brad
dock, Pa, agreeably surprised his
Port Royal friends by suddenly
dropping in on them last Wednes-
day evening and was accorded
hearty greeting at the hands of his
many friends here. He was looking
remarkably well and his fine appear
auce was subject of remark. He
and his family like their new home
very much.
DR.. A. NJ. Smith of Adamsburg,
who has just returned from an ex-
tended tour through the western
States, called on us yeterday and
reported the Snyder county people
in and about Newton, Kansas, happy
and contented, with prospects for n
good harvest. On his way east he
stopped at Chicago to SEQ the fair,
and while it is not yet complete, says
it is almost beyond description, The
reports circulated about the oxtor-
tionate rates charged by the hotels
and fair management he says is all
bosh. There are plenty of places
where good accommodation can be
had at $3.50 per day. and for the
small sum of thirty cents one can go
by boat to the grounds and return,
n distance OF from live to eight miles
according 10 the location of the yisi-
tor, while the fare by rail is lower
STILL He further stated that the
general admission OF fifty cents ON
titles the visitor to SEQ all the oShib.
its, This of course does not include
the side shows, which are quito nu-
morous, but even these can be seepl
for q small fee,