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136 Years Ago - 1879
    Geo. C. Glass of Penn twp slaughtered a hog last week which weighed 497 pounds.
    S.B. Cox, proprietor of the Keystone Hotel in Selinsgrove has a German Bible nicely illustrated which is more than three hundred years old.
    Samuel Winey of Richfield, realized $1100 from tobacco which he had raised from ten acres last summer.
    There was no green Christmas this year since it commenced snowing on Sunday night and since then, some of our folks have been taking sleigh rides.

100 Years Ago - 1910
    By order of the Snyder County Court, proprietors of licensed hotels within the county are requested to close their bars at 10 pm and keep them closed until 6 am.
    Lawrence Funk of Swineford had quite an exciting experience Thursday evening in attempting to kill a rabbit at the leech house window of the Middleburg Tannery. In the excitement, his foot slipped, precipitating him into the vat, painfully scalding his legs and body, incapacating him from work.
    Saturday morning Dr. Boush of Beavertown hitched his horse to his sleigh apparently alright and drove him about one half mile when the horse became so lame that he had to put it into a nearby stable and had Mr. Stroup take him to see his appointments.
    The Division men on the Sunbury and Lewistown Rail-road have been cut down to half time which means just half pay. This is particularly undesirable at this season especially when most of the men have large families.
75 Years Ago - 1935
    On the Saturday before Christmas, Santa Claus was on the square in Middleburg and gave popcorn balls to all the children. Community singing was held under the direction of Evan P. Hassinger around the Christmas tree.
    The Freeburg P.O.S. of A. are to be commended for showing the right Christmas spirit by placing a large ever-green Christmas tree on the square of that fine town.

35 Years Ago - 1975
    The productive Middleburg High School All Sports Boosters Club will be operating concession stands in the lobby adjacent to the gymnasium for all home winter games this year. Patronage at the stands will benefit all Middleburg High School athletes, both male and female.

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