The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-25

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broke upon the peaceful slumbers
ofour still more peaceful citizens.
last Tuesday night, the gallant Doc.
Amig, who rests his limbs in one of
Landlord Smiths best rooms on the
corner, was aroused and carried
away by the unhappy excitement of
the hour, which smashed his pleas
ant dreams into evanescent and
"smithereens," and rushed up town
forgetting his shirt. A collected
friend pointed out to the excited
doctor bis painful situation and he
returned for his garment. He
fought the fire like horse.
That veteran Sam. Bowen is as
nimble as cat yet with his sixty
years of an active and rigorous life
back of him. When the fire broke
out last week in town at midnight
no one expected Sam. to be on hand
for he lives fully one mile away
across the Flats, but one of the
very first men to reach the scene of
confagration was the popular auc-
tioneer and no one did more heroic
or valiant service in conquering the
flames. Sam. would make good
fire marshall and the town should
have modern system for fighting
fires. Will our citizens longer con.
tinue to court the risk of having our
beautiful homes laid in ashes before
the fiercely driven fame of west
ern wind!
| A coaching party from this place
started Wednesday morning for a
four days trip to Lewisburg, Penns
Cave and return. They intended
going by way Of Middleburg. Sci.
insgrove, etc, but when about two
lmiles this side of Middlebure, the
inorses frightened at an approaching
hand car and turning suddenly over
turned the carriage, throwing the
party out. Misses Florence Penne-
baker and Harriet Parker and II. U.
Jacob were injured, the injuries
consisting mainly of bruises. The
traces fortunately broke and freed
the horses, else a moie serious acci-
dent might have happened.-Len-
isto,on Sentinel.
Lawyer Jay G.. Weiser, is this
week making an overland trip with
a spanking team of two roadsters
and carriage, to New Bloomfield
and Newport, Perry county, the
county where nearly all the lawyers
have been locked up for misbe-
havior. Jay will have to look out.
He is accompanied by the Misses
Bolender and at Mahantonga, his
parental homestead, his sister, Miss
Weiser, also joined the gay party.
Jay expects to be gone about week
and with the charming society he
has we wonder whether he returns
before September to take up the
fighting life of the barrister, who
argues for living.
Shade Mountain is now the Mecca
for the berry hunter. The huckle-
berry crop up there is said to be a
very prolific one this season, and dali
ly teams pass through Middleburgh.
returning from the mountain where
the people have been in quest of the
dainty little pellets, which make
such delicious pies. In the old days
when the PosT was edited by Jere
Grouse we remembered reading a
statement in it one summer that ten
thousand bushels of berries had
been gathered on the mountain that
year, and every year when the crop
is at all OF an unusual character in
yield, many hundreds of bushels are
taken off. There are several springs
OF the finest water in the world on
Shade Mountain, water fltering
through sand rocks. It is absolute
ly pure and would drive the aristo-
cratic gout out of the worst victim
1t requires the bravest courage and
the sternest resolution to weather a
days toll up there. but thousands
of our citizens have gone there in
the past, in search Of pleasure and
OF berries, and have gotten what
they sought. We do not now recol-
lect of ever having heard of any one
being fatally hurt by rattlesnakes on
the mountain although every year
specimens Of the reptiles are killed
but they seem to be harmless indi-
viduala of their race