The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-11-23

on Sunday morning, being admins
tered by their popular pastor, Rev.
S. Sidney Kohler of New Berlin.
W. II. Spangler, the druggist of
this place, spent several days visit
ing his parents in Centre county.
Peter klinglcr, pharmacist, of krat-
zerville, attended the drug store in
Mr.. Spanglcr's absence.
Two lamps exploded in the shoe
factory last week. No serious dam
age was done as it was discovered in
time. The cause of the explosion is
thought tobeputting gasolineinstcad
of kerosene into the lamps.
The increase in the price of broom
corn is at present engaging the at
tention of the broom makers. 1t
is said that by January 1st brooms
may be as high as s. a dozen, or
over II cents apiece.-Er.
The ever popular CAROL CLUB
delighted largeand enthusiastic au-
dicnce III Association Hall. The
musical selections were admirably
rendered in both solo and concert
numbcrs.-BOston Traveller.
Rev. III. G. Salem, pastor of the
Lutheran church of Rebersburg, has
resigned and last Sunday morning he
preached his farewell sermon. Rev.
Salem is Il Snyder County boy, hav-
ing been born and raised at Selins-
grove.
A change of time table went into
effect Monday morning on the Sun
bury & Lewistown Division. The
only change in the time of trains is
that the morning train east from
Lewistown comes here at $40 in
stead of S:5S.
Charles F. Specht of Beavertown
was a caller at this Office Thursday
of last week. Mr.. Specht is one of
the progressive young men of Bea-
yer township, and has been for some
time and is yet the trusted clerk of
the Winey Brothers.
A. +. Gilbert is reading law with
his father, and it was thought he
would eventually form a law part
nership with his father, but his ire-
quent trips TO the Governor Snyder
mansion in Selinsgrove leads his
friends to believe that he is contem-
plating partnership of Il different
character.
Owing to there being some errors
in the price paid for ties by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company as
published in the Posi- of last week,
we give the correct price as follows: !:
First-class rock oak and white oak,
fifty cents; second-class, 20 cents;
frst-class chestnut ties, thirty cents;
culled ties, fifteen cents.
The Postoffice Department is ex-
perimenting with a keyless lock for
use on postofiice boxes. If it is a
success it will be placed in all the
Offices and will release a good deal of
money all over the county now held
as deposits for postoflice box keys.
The keyless box is expected to be
very popular.
Some Northumberland county
capitalists are striving to equal the
venture of the men who propose to
make Niagara Falls a big distribut-
ing medium for electrical force.
They contemplate erecting a turbine
wheel in the stream in Brush Val
ley, north of The Shamokin Water
company's dam, and furnishingpow-
er to nearby towns to operate cleo
trio light plants, factories, etc.
A party of hunters in the White
Deer mountains last week shot a
bear weighing 4O1 pounds. The
party consisted of Ammon B. Walt
er of Franklin township, this coun-
ty, Jacob Bingaman, Joel Seller,
Nathaniel Boop, William Wehr,
William Remer, Noah Hoffman,
Jesse Hoffman, Henry Hoffman and
Mr.. Showalter of Union county.
The bear was shot by Jacob Binga-
man, Nathaniel Boop and Noah HoH-
man.