The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-25

The board OF Commissioners will
meet February LIST, to examine nom
ination papers for February election.
ALI nominations should be made ON
or before the 1st of February.
For RENT.-A Country Store
stand, comprising 10 by 80 foot
store room and a seven room dwell
ing-all at $50 per year. The stock
Of merchandise will be sold to the
renter at almost his own figures.
Possession given any time between
now and the first Of April, 1894. II
is a first class country stand. For
particulars call on or address
@. A. MoYKR,
Globe Mills. Pa
M. l. Potter last week moved his
household effects to Bayard, w. Va,
where he has secured the position of
book. keeper for the Buffalo Luru-
Der Co., at a salary of $50 per month
to begin with. Mr.. Potter has been
resident of Snyder county all his
life, and has established for himself
reputation of sopriety, honesty
and uprightness that is of incalcul-
able value, which, coupled with his
intelligence and tact, eminently fits
him for any calling in life. He leav,s
many friends in Middleburgh wIo
join with the PosT in wishing him
abundant success.
Our old friend Col. James X.
Davis, who has been president of
the First National Bank of Selins-
linsgrove ever since it's organization,
resigned on the 10Th, inst, and II.
ID. Schnure was elected in his stead.
The editor has received many kind
words OF encouragement and even
financial assistance from Mr.. DAVIS,
and there are few men who stand
higher in our esteem than he. IA
, ID. Schnr~~A Nc -.,As Ascx IA ~
presidency of the bank, is success
!. ful business man and skilled finan
s cier, and the banks business reputa
o tion and high financial standing will
not be impaired by the change.
Prof. Gilday, who gave an exhibi
bition of the wonders of Thomas A
Edison's phonograph in the U. b
: Church -before-last, is receiv
| ing great deal of favorable com
$ ment on the excellence of his exhi
5 bition, and many are the regrets O
| those Who failed to hear il. It il
= useless to comment on the wonders
: of the phonograph, and when in the
hands of a skilled operator, as i,
, MIR. Gilday, it ranks we'll and ever
surpasses all inventions of this 19tl
r century. Should he come back again
as we hope he will, our people will
be better prepared to appreciate tn,
excellence Of his entertainments.
John w. Clarke's lecture in tn,
Court House, Middleburgh, for the
benefit of Washington Camp, 515 p.
o. S. of A., entitled Hits and Mis-.
ses' was one of the richest literary
treats the people in this county ever
had. 1t hardly seems possible for
an orator to keep an audience inter.
ested for two hours and ten minutes,
but such was actually the case in
this instance, and the people could
! have sat and listened for another
hour without becoming tired. Mr.
Clarke wears well, and it is re-
markable fact that every time the
people hear him they like him bet.
ter. The Camp didn't make much
money but they reaped lots of glory
for having given the oest lecture in
the Court House for ten years.
The department of public instruc-
tion at Harrisburg will ask the next
Legislature to increase the minimum
school term-which is now six
months-to seven. We would not
be guilty of encouraging retrench-
ment in the expenses of our public
schools, but we do not believe that
the people in general would encour-
age an increase in our school term.
Six months in year is about all the
time the struggling farmer can spare
his boys and girls from work, and
we do not see the necessity of add
ing another month during which the
teacher would necessarily have to
content himself with an infant
school of half dozen pupils just to
keep the thing a-going. No; rather
raise the standard of teachers. and