The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-06-21

crowded out THIS week.
Mrs. II. II. Leitzell of ATillheim, is
visiting her parents in this place.
Mrs. T. B. Mcwilliams went to
McVeytown on Tuesday to spend
some time.
Willet Hosterman sold his bakery
to Mr.. Eshelman who has taken pos
session.
Prof. Paul Billhart was at Will
Transport on Wednesday evening at
tending the Masonic Lodge Meeting.
Misses Lille Spaid and Mabel
Grimm are visiting friends atSelins-
grove this week.
Mrs. Banks Dreese and Mrs. Jos.
Dreese of Adamsburg spent Sunday
in Swineford with relatives.
Miss Lulu Huntly, who has many
acquaintance in this county, was
last Thursday married at her home in
Driftwood, to 7. II. Williams of Mt.
Carmel. Her sister was married to
a Chicago gentleman on the same oc-
casion.
The Union county Democrats
nominated the following ticket (:
Congress, Cyrus Hoffa Assembly,
Francis f.. Brown Sheriff, Robert
Weirick delegates to State Con-
vention, Samuel w. Johnson and ii.
T.. Spyker. Judge HofIa will not ac-
cept.
On Saturday morning, wreck oc-
Cured below Sudbury which result
ed in fourteen cars being piled up
on heap. Coal covered the north
bound track to the depth OF three
or four feet. All trains were delay
ed and baggage and passengers
were transferred.
J Rev. r. r. yeatcs :" Of Es.pis lfi:l.
Pa, preached at Hassingers church
on Sunday morning and in the Mid
dleburgh Lutheran church In the
evening. The Reverend carefully
avoided any display of high sounding
terms and preached good practical
sermon from st. Matthew S:25-26.
S. S. Schoch had the body of his
late wife exhumed from Hassinger's 5
cemetery and removed to his lot in
the Middlebprgh cemetery Monday
/ evening. The casket was in fair
/ state of preservation. A cross and
wreath of natural flowers on the lid
of the casket which had been buried
with her seemed to be perfecly natu-
raj except that they were withered.
, "MIsTAKEN SOULS VINO DREAM OF
BLISS. The following marriage Ii
censes have been granted since our
last publication
Newton Wetzel, New Berlin,
Emma Nj. Snyder,
JJohn w. Boyer, Penn Twp,
Emma j. Dunkelberger, Freeburg.
IH. III. Hassinger, Sunbury,
iMertie Smith, Middleburgh.
Ira II. Clement, the owner of the
ferry-boats at Sunbury, believes in
high tariff while the Northumber-
land bridge can not be used. Huck-
sters must pay Sl.5O now for services
which before cost Sl.00. 1t is strange
too, that the round trip passenger
fare to Northumberland is five cents,
one half the former rate. But then
there is the electric railway.
l, Hon. j. G.. Weiser, of Snyder Co.,
one of the commission appointed to
mark the location of old Indian forts
in the State has been in this vicinity
and located Ft. McCord at VIM.
Bossarts, Ft. Loudon near the will
age of that name, TT. Mcdowell at
Bridgeport and Ft. Steel at White
church, near Lehmasters. The
whole commission will visit these
points later on.-Franklin RepOsi-
tory.
On last Thursday the mail train
West ran into the work train, West
of Mcclure. The work train had the
right of the track and the employees
of mail train should have received
orders to that effect, but, as they
had none, the collision followed.
Fortunately, the engineers discover
ed the trains approaching them.
They reversed their engines. 1t was
Just in time to save a great many lives,
but too late to avoid the crash Of the
engines into each other. The cow
catcher and the whole front part Of
both engines were crushed and
broken.