The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-27

were the guests of David kerstetter
this week.
Lewis Z. Pawling of Selinsgrove
shipped two carloads Of potatoes to
Philadelphia.
Peter Garman of Mt. Pleasant
Mills was prominent visitor at the
county seat Monday.
I want to buy one 2nd handed en-
gine, 10 to 20 horse power, also a
one horse truck wagon. Write,
| A. II. ULsH, Middleburg, Pa.
III. d. Stahlnecker and A. W.
Aurand have purchased a clipping
machine to clip horses. They offer
to clip horses at $3.50 each. Any
one desiring to have their horses
clipped will do wei! to have these
gentlemen do it for them. tt.
Hon. G. Alfred Schoch, w. W
Wittenmyer and A. II. Ulsh, the
soliciting committee for thenew shoe
factory, were at Catawissa on Satur-
day to examine the plant of the Main
Shoe Company at that place. They
were well pleased with the condl-
tions.
Prof. ID. S. Boyer of Freeburg
has sent to the Snyder County His
torical Society a copy of the Penn
sylrania Reporter published at Har-
risburg Mar. 2, 1888, a copy of the
Middleburg Posi- under date OF
April Is, 1880. These are valu-
. able relics and those persons who
have any old newspapers should fol-
low Prof. Boyer's example.
The DanvilIe Mews says that the
executors of the late Ira L. Clement
! recently sold nearly 1000 acres Of
timber land along the Loyalsock
i Creek, in Lycoming and Sullivan
counties, to the Emory Lumber Co.
u of Williamsport for s6S,000. The
S sale is one of the largest that has
= been made in the lumber market for
years, and is the subject of much
e talk among the dealers.
e AT Court on Thursday there will
: be petition presented to the court
to have side path commissioners ap'
E pointed for Snyder County and te
f lay a tax on bicycles for thepurpos'
$ of constructing side paths for BIZ
i cycles s1ong the public highways ii
h the county. The idea ;sa good ont
and should have the sanction Of ev'
cry rider and owner of wheel il
il the county.
~ The Ms,cs Item of this place ha
,r again changed hands. Sheriff Rite
Il has bought it and will enter tn
Journalistic profession. The nam
has been changed to the Snyde
a County Ne,cs and it will be run as
o; Q; Republican paper. Snyder Count.
II has had superabundance of Repub
er lican newspaper, but since thesheril
Is thinks otherwise, we welcome hin
to the ranks of the profession and ex
De tend to him the hand of fraterna
re courtesy.
ne In 1897, branch of the Amerl
at can Investors Co. of New York wa
T. established in Sunbury, with owe
twenty members. Thecompany ha
one of the get-rich-quick schemes
F. working something along the build
4. ing and loan association lines. Th
t. company, after securing somethin
"a like $4,000 from the people c
pv Sunbury, now seems to be anothe
he of those swindling operations wheT
the investors get the experience an
somebody else the cash.
49, The following were guests at til
. Z Washington House on Sunday: Ge
~ M. Howell, Edwin S. Burg, Joh
y, Taggart, Gilt. Meyer, Roy T. Hol
~, ~ w. Il. Bright, f. S, Fisher, W. .
~ Bloom, /. N. Renner, H.C. Hawle..
y William Tayler, G. B. Kerstette
Walter c. johnson, S. H. Bur-
lir Northumberland E. ]. Hook, Sh'
H. mokin; J. G. Mitchell, Frank Kin!
'p. New Berlin; c. c. Savery, H.
he Grissinger, Geo. Heider, Ira Heide
ny Will B. Nipple, Miss Emma Wo
ps. germuth, Miss Ethel Marsh, Selin
We grove; c. A. Miller, Salem; J. ]