Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-11-05
LOCAL INTELLIGkN('k,,

Nauohal thanksgiving Day
The Banking House of W. NJ. Lloyd
& Co., of Altoona. suspended at uoon
On last Thursday.
Halloween was not forgotten by the
boys. The results of their pranks we're
visitle the morning after.
Don't leave the farm, young man, if
you have one. 1t may be slow, but if
you take care of it there is nothing so
sure.
Coeolamus Lodge, No. 397 X. of p.
meet every Tuesday evening at !
o'clock, in the Odd Fellows Hall in
this borough.
A spectator went too near perform
ing bear in Mauch Chunk last week,
aud was kn ocked down BY blow from
the paw of the brute.
The Commissioners building, at the
northeast corner of the Court House
Square, is being rapidly pushed for-
ward toward completion.
Last Wednesday and Thursday were
the first foretaste days of winter, and
inclined one to visit Harley & Co.'S to
look for more warm clothing for the
winter They have full supply.
The Altoona Tribune Is in receipt of
present. 1t was porcupine, and for
practical and useful purposes it might
just as well have been an alligator, and
would not have excited the Tribune
people whit more.
The money disturbances have had q
depressing influence on iron ore pros
pectIng in this county. However. there
is perhaps a grain or two Of cOnsola-
ton in the fought, which Is correct as
truth can be, that the ere in the hills
will not spoil.
The old brick of the Belford house,
intended to be worked into the new
building, have been covered by long
shci- to keep of rain aud snow, so that
they may be worked into tie wall dur
ing the anticipated cold weather. Boys
are now busily engaged in cleaning
them of
THE following subjects viii be considered
IT the Teachers Institute: General Man
agenent and Government of Schools, Or
der of Study; Methods OF RecitatioR; Vo-
cal Music Languages Premiership; U s.
History; Arithmetic Geogrsphy f; Physi-
ology ami Hygiene; Object Lesson; Draw
ing; Compulsory Education; Should teach
ers detain Pupils after School to Study
Neglected Lessons!
BREAK N SEWING MACHINE PRICES
Our readers will be interested to
learn that the Florence Company have
responded to the general call for lower
prices for sewing machines, and will
henceforth sell their we'll known and
superior machines at a reduction OF
from 80 to 40 per cent. from former
prices.
In prosperous times Juniata county
did not enjoy the business prosperity
and profits arising from having large
manufacturing establishments within her
limits. Now she does not suffer the
pinching times and poverty that Gem
communities with such establishments
experience or suffer. With few excep
tional debt indiscretions, and they may
he found everywhere and at all times
our community Is sound, financially.
A passing locomotive set fire to &
house Ill Huntingdon last FRIDAY morn
irg about 5 o'clock. Three houses, In
cludine the one in which the fire origi'
mated, we're destroyed. Burning shin
giles were carried onto adjacent house.
by the gale that was blowing at the time
aid a number of roofs were set on hre
The property holders was vigilant Oh
their roofs and extinguished the firei
as fast as they were klndled.
AT HoIlidsysburg, on Monday morn
ing e week, house took fire upstairs
A sick babe had been left in its bed
When the fire was discovered it had 81
far progressed that the upstairs coal'
not be reached by the stairway. Capt
j.. r. McFarlane made an effort to saw
the child, but the fire and smoke drov'
him back. lie, however, nothing daunt
ed. effected an entrance to the room II
which he child lay, from the outside
and amidst smoke and fire reached tn
body of the babe and bore 1t to th
ground out, alas the little mtrta
had been sufiocated before be reached II
SEWING MAcHNEs.-It is not our inten
ton to give the history of the various ma
chimes on exhibition at our last Count
Far, but merely to take up the best on
and speak word in its favor. We refer t
the Grover & Baker Family Sewing Ma
chine. Ii has been long and iavOrabl
known in this 81 ction of the country, AM
we are confident that the Committee VIII
gave the Agent, Mr.. J. b, NJ. Todd, of Pat
tersop: Diploma for the best machine am
the finest executed work, did but an act @
Justice to his well known enterprise. W
predic. an increase of sales for the New