The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-13
COUNTY CULLlNGS.
Breezy Items Picked up Here
and There about the Coun-
ty and Noted tor Your
Enlightenment.

! iuslcal So'lcSe opens May ''''
The pension of Samuel S. Boyer,
of Fremont, has been increased from
Sl2 to Sl7 month.
j. G. Lesher, Esq, of the Selins-
grove Times, attended the u. S. Dis
trict Court last week as juror.
n. f. Stuck whohad been employ
ed rs an an attendant in the insane
asylum at Harrisburg, came home
on Saturday.
j. j. Mitchell and wife bought
another lot adjoining theirs in kre-
amer from S. r. Hilbish and wife of
Selinsgrove recently.
George Schocl', the well known
farmer and grain dealer OF Selins-
grove, who had been housed several
weeks with the grippe, isagain able
to be about.
Rev. Schoch, the pastor, has
served the Lutheran Congregation at
New Berlin, with entire satisfaction,
for eight years and has just entered
upon his ninth year.
The Adamsburg Band screnaded
the new landlord On Friday evening
and were treated to aneXcellcnt sup
per in return. Mr.. Stahlnecker in
tends to make aconsidcrablcnumbcr
of improvements to thchotel.
The concert to be held by the Sc
iinsgrovc Military Band will be
given in the opera house, Thursday
evening, April Doth. 1t will be Il
rare musical treat. Posters giving
particulars will shortly appear.
A charter has been granted by
the State Department to the Sellns-
grove Electric Light, Heat and
Power Company, which is composed
of Senator Ed. NJ. Hummcl, A. w.
Potter, G. =. Ulrich, 5. Wcis and }.
Howard UlSh.
There is a vacancy in the Office of
the Justice of the Peace in Monroe
township. Nathan Stetlcr isspoken
of As Il candidate for the appoint
ment. Mr.. Stellcris school teach
er by profession and iswellqualitied
for the office.
A three and Il one foot vein of
clay was recently discovered near
Beavertown, and now Il Shamokin
party is negotiating for the lease of
the land, and if terms can bearrang-
ed, will erect aplant to prepare the
clay tormarket.
Jacob Reichcnbach and wife of
Perry township are well preserved
couple, aged 50 and SO years. Mrs.
Il. attends to her own household
duties and the milking of a COW.
They have enjoyed matrimonial re-
lations for nearly sixty years.
A Sunday school has been or
ganized at Pine church in West
Perry township-J. NJ. Basom, SUI
perintendent; Peter Graybill, Assist
ant; E. f. Snyder, Secretary; Jacob
Basom, Treasurer; Grace Snyder
and Rhoda Gravbill, Librarians.
Tine Frccburg Silver Cornct
Band has organized for the season of
1899, under the following officers:
Leader, VIM. +. Brown; President,
Geo. W. Woodling; Vice President,
Thee. +. Coy; Secretary, Arthur
Glass; Treasurer, William lloutz.
Henry &. Boyer, Ptoutz Valley
has moved on the Backus farm at
Alinc. \ few days before moving
Il son aged Is yearsdrove to attend
spelling bee, the horse runaway and
the boy had a leg fractured. He is
confined to his room to give the
broken leg time to heal.
Contractor and builder, Fred
Row Of Sellnsgrove has secured the
contract for the erection of Prof.
George +. Fishers residence. MIR.
Row is skilled and experienced
mechanic and is fully competent to
execute in satisfactory manner any
work entrusted to his care.
b. +. Rau, who lived on Hon.
q. Alfred Schoch's farm near Nicks-
burg Union Co., for number of