The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-11-23
ITEMS ofLOCAL INTEREST

ter, Marion, spent ouuuuy WIN his
brother Allen Shoch, at Shamokin
Pa.
Rev. Neff will preach Thanks
giving sermon in the Lutheran
church on Thursday Nov. 30, at 10
o'clock.
Mrs. j. w. Ruukle and two little
sons of this place, and Mrs Lewis
Miller Of Globe Mills, are visiting
relatives at Watsontown this week.
Mrs. Sheriff Bolender, who.visited
relatives in Akron, O., for several
months, came home on Friday. She
was accompanied by her daughter,
Maggie, who spent the summer at
that place.
The Lutheran congregation has
purchased a small strip of land ad-
joining the church from Samuel
Wittenmyer, and the filling up of
the lot around the church is now in
progress.
Never say mean things about your
neighbor. If you don't like his
mode of living remember that the
world is wide you can let him Sc
verely alone and live on as if no such
persons exist.
Malanchton Walter, of whom we
made mention last week as having
fallen under wagon load of ties and
received such serious injuries that he
could not live, is b,dter and the ply
.sicians have hopes Tor his recovery.
&C. 515 P. o. .. .of..A. will attend
services in the Lut heran church on
Thanksgiving NOR png Nov. 30, at
ten o'clock. All t.. members are
:. requested to meet 1T their hall at
half past nine sharp.
During these hard times the
farmers have the advantage OF most
people. They have work and sup
plies for the winter. A good many
people who left their farms a few
years ago to work in boom towns are
now returning to their old occu-
patton.
The late Judge Orvis of Bellefonte,
was firm believer in the benefits
of life insurance, and in demon
stration of this held policies on his
life to the amount of S13O,0OO, which
is more than is carried by any one
person in this part of Pennsylvania.
FREE FREE {. FREE !--Beauti-
ful oil paintings, size 22X3G, in com
position gold frames, will be given
free to persons buying goods to the
amount of SO between Nov. 20 and
Feb. l, 1898. Come and see them.
"A bargain. Yours Respectfully.
j. w. SwARTz.
A writer says that whenever a
horse driven by him has baked, he
has got out of his carriage, gone TO
the horses forefoot, lifted it from
the ground, and struck the shoe a
few bio ws with stone. He had
never failed to start balky horse
an this very simple way.
A Doylestown exchange says that
fakir is going around the country
and getting away with good many
dollars of the unsuspecting youth in
the following manner: On arriving
at a.town he gets all the boys he can
to sell pictures of the Worlds Fair,
<and requires each one of them to
put up one dollar as a guarantee OF
good faith. He gives them a few
pictures worth about one cent each
and while they are trying to sell them
the fakir disappears with the dollars,
Careless use of matches, such as
carrying them loose in vest pockets,
Letting them lie scattered oven
bureaus, stands, mantle-pieces and
other like places in houses, ware
rooms and workshop is practice SC
common that it is indulged in with
I out regard to the public or private c
safety, Farmers and their employ
ees, who carry loose matches about
their persons, do not know but they
dropped some of these deadly agents
l in the hay and may ignite and ra2c
the building or buildings to the
I ground. Many of the fires charged
\ to incendaries, if traced as the,
\ should be. would be fou nd to have
their origin in the careless use Of