The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-07-31
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W LUCID LOCAL LAC0NICS &

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The trout season closes to-day.
Time is no object to the fellow who
swns his watch.
scranton is threatened with another
rect ear strike.
man with full coal-bin, is by no
means has been.
MANY a political plum has turned
ut TO be a green persimmon.
What is in name? One of Chicago's
,orst crooks is named, Good.
No. Archie my boy, do not apply to
n oculst for an eye opener; try bar
lerk,
The summer girl may not get many
stters. but she watches eagerly for the
Male.
MANY a girl has lovely, soft, white
lands because she lets her mother do
the work.
The Gilbert's Sunday school will
hold their annual picnic on Aug. % in
Howell's grove.
When the mosquitoes comes the
dealers in canopies begin to figure up
the net profits.
W. II. Ripka is engaged in building
an overShot water wheel for /. II.
Gormall 4 Bro. He is doing the work
at home.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
tbe Lutheran church will hold a fes-
tiyal on the church lawn, Saturday
evening Aug. ..
Those penny ice wagons in Pittsburg
which deliver ten pounds Of ice to the
poor for one cent. is most commend
able charity, though it be cold.
When man gets home to his wife
after late session he isn't so much i'll
terested in the questions of the day as
| he is in the questions of the night.
Elaborate preparations for next
month are icing made by the people
of Bloomsburg for the proper observ-
ance of the one hundreth anniversary
of the founding of that town.
On Saturday evening about 10 o'clock
some sneak thieves entered the cellar
of /. H. Bowersox's confectionery and
stole about % pounds of dried beef. An
entrance was gained through a rear
cellar door.
Potatoes are 80 plentiful in Kansas
and Nebraska that they are drug in
the market. In the district known as
the Kaw River Valley, IN Kansas, the
average yield per acre is estimated at
go bushels.
The Williamsport Evening News
says that they raise potatoes on the
South side so large as to require the
and Of folr-foot iron bar to pry them
out of the ground. They must be
''whoppers'' or this is one.
The labor convention at Indianapolis
decided against strike among the bi'
tumious coal miners and President
Mitchell says this action is favorable
for the anthracite strikers and predicts
their ultimate success. He hopes tC
raise enough funds from organized Ia
Dor throughout the country to suppor
the strikers through an indefinite per
iod.
Pennsylvania will within the com
ing year pay out between $500, 900 ant
500, 600 for bridges destroyed by floods
and the fires in the past six months
as the law compelling the State to re
place bridges across navigable streams
when they have been destroyed b!
flood, fire, ETC., is being invoked il
many counties.
English sparrows have attacked
wheat and rye fields in Alleghen!
county, in such large flocks that tn
crops have been destroyed. One larg
field on the Alexander farm, two mile
back of Oakmont, has been so badl,
damaged that it is not worth cutting
The sparows are being shot by tn
thousands, and yet they appear Il
plentiful as ever.
BAPK WANTED.-We will nav til