The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-08-11
A treasury statement shows there

DO0uS unueT Tie SOSeihihc"s P~Pi
ular loan will be allotted. All per-
sons offering to take $4,000 or less
will receive bonds. The first ship
ment of the new bonds was made on
Tuesday.
The school directors of Beaver
township have elected the following
named teachers for the ensuing term: ::
Beavertown Grammar, E. f.. Wetz-
ell; Intermediate, Irwin j. Freed /;
Secondary, J. A. Aigler; Primary,
A. W. Musser; Dresses, II. +.
Reinhard, and Bulbs, john ".
Hassinger.
If YOU read an advertisement to
the effect that a certain firm in some
distant city will sell YOU an elegant
ly tinted portrait of the battleship
Maine for Sl.O0-said engraving
approved by the United States gov
ernment-don't bite. They will
send yon two-cent revenue stamp,
and you'll have no one but yourself
to blame for your stupidity.
The four Sunday Schoolsat Trox-
elville, this county, will hold their
annual picnic in J. g. Movers grove
near Troxelville, August Goth, be-
ing Saturday Il week. The Troxel-
vile band and well-known speakers
will be present to inspire and edity
those who gather at that time and
place. A cordial invitation is eX-
tended to every person to attend.
An old engineer explains why a
locomotive is like Il woman, and is
called "she." They wear Il jacket,
apron, have shoes, hose, ana drag a
train behind; they have a lap, need
guides, ride wheels, will not turn
out for pedestrians sometimes foam
and refuse to work they attract
the men sometimesact very contrary
and always take man to manage
them.
Ministers and officials empowered
to perform marriage service should
bear in mind that the revenue law
requires that a ten-cent sample at
fixed to all marriage certificates.
Failure to stamp the certificate in
valids, in the eyes of the revenue
law at least, the marriage. In ad-
diiion, the officiating parsonage,
clergyman or magistrate, who thus
fails to observe the law, is liableto u
fine of 5000.
How would our military and
naval commanders iiScto bercward-
cd for their gallantry as were those
of o!ucn times. General Stark, for
instance, after the ba of Benning-
ton, was presented by Congress with
"two els Of Blue and one o. yellow
cloth 10 make him Il coat, and half
II dozen shirts Of Dutch linen. "
And he was chargedwithingutitule
when he complained that Congress
had overlooked the matter Of giving
him cambric with which to make
the cuIis.
An endless chain starting with
four friends, each contributing Il
dime and pcrsuading four Of his
friends to do likewise, then each OF
the sixteen including four of hi,
friends to keep the good work going
and so on up to the twentieth geo
metrical progression, would make
| the last contribution to Red Society
fund slOS,l2S,92l, All
the contributions added together
would amount to more than Sl44,
000,OO0,000.
There seems to bc a plethora OF
nightshirts at Camp Thomas. A
volunteer says in a letter to West
ern paper If the Kansas womel,
want to do something forthc twenty
first let them send their best wishes,
but beg Of them by all means tc
keep their nightshirts at home. A
real soldier has less nse for night
shirts and umbrellas than a brown
pig has for moustache. We would
be compelled to wash nightshirts
and we are full up on fatigue and
police duty already"
Under the provisions of the act
August %, 1864, citizens Of Penn.
oyl,.pi, in military service con GAS,