The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-11-25
Henry r. Bickhart has been j
for the past week.

Henry r. Bickhart has been ill1
for the past week.
Now is the time to advertise your
special holiday bargains.
The best fed turkeys in the barn
yard are wearing that worried look.
Some of our farmers are very
much back with their corn husk-
ing.
New Goods, Latest Styles of
Winter Millinery. l.. Dunkel-
berger.
Ladies' Kid Gloves with dou bic
towed stitchings in all the latest
colors at l.. Dunkelberger's.
b. +. Arbogast, one of Perry
county's ardent Republicans, was
Middlcburgh visitor on Monday.
The Best Thing to do. Wait and
see my line of Winter Hats before
buying elsewhere, you will not re-
gret it. l.. Dunkelberger.
. If the wife could only cook as
well as her husbands mother, and
the husband could buy the wife as
fine trocks as her father did, matri-
mony would be a bowling success.
We would appreciate an early re-
port of all weddings, deaths, births
and other items of interest that oc-
cur in the different townships. Make
it your business to help make the
Posi- live local paper.
We learn that w. A. Arbogast
will occupy Marburger's corner in
the spring with his store. Mr.. Mar
burger will remove the small build-
ing now used by f. Taylor as .
rns4araant t--pssA-es,ss., ,ss,-. ,-ivare resi-
dence on that portion of his lot.-
Tribune.
What kind of a man do the people
of Snyder county want in the next
Legislature? Formulate your ideas
into platform and compete for the
PosT's prizes for a Reform plat
form. The best one we will adopt
and see how many candidates are
willing to obligate themselves for
genuine reform.
We have just learned here that
while cunning for rabbits last week,
near Port Trcvcrton, Calvin Arnold
and son Edwin shot each other.
Edwin came oft with very little
harm, but in the case OF the father
blood poisoning had set in and may
develop into something serious.-
Courier.
While a freight train was passing
the tower mile below Mapleton on
Monday morning of last week the
fireman threw piece Of slate off the
engine. 1t struck A. Martia Fisher
on the left temple and fractured his
skull. Mr.. Fisher, who is track
hand, had been on duty at the tower
watching tor danger from land
slide in wet weather. He was taken
to his home in MapIeton uncon-
scious, and died on Wednesday even
ing following at 8 o'clock. He was
46 years old and had wife and
three children. w. ID. McDougall
of Harrisburg is the name of the p.
r. II. fireman who threw off the
piece of slate from his engine that
killed Mr.. Fisher of Mapleton. He
feels very sorry for bis act.
Mr.. Geo. Il. Kepner's Snyder
county cattle sale came off on sched-
ule time, on Saturday last at Mid
dleburg. Prices were fair; S4.25
per hundred pounds was the highest
at which figure q fine steers were
struck off to Mr.. Garman of Rich
field, this county. The balance
were sold at prices ranging from
$4.2O down to 1885 per hundred.
The sale was held at the Eagle Ho-
tel at the railroad station, w. s.
Arbogast, formerly OF the Jacobs
House, Mifiiintown. He proved
fully able to accommodate the large
crowd in attendance. Mr.. Kepner
expects to continue on in the line Of
cattle sales, and will in the near flu
ture have another, OF which due mo-
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