Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03
10 Miflin County Fair. Last
Thursday,

thursday,
The State is the mother. and the
counties of Miffiin and Juniata are
sisters. Juniata, being the younger,
was driven to use good deal of per-
suaslve argument, and a good deal
OF argument not persuasive, be
fore the elder sister gave consent
that Miffiintown should become the
county seat for the valleys that lay
between Shade and Tuscarora noun
tains. The consent was ratified bv
an act of Legislature establishing
Juniata county in 1881.
Whatever degree of estrangement
or coolness that was caused by the
movement of separation. has been
forgotten, and the children have fully
determined that the relationship of
kinfolks shall be recognized and kept
up; which was ebundantly evidenced
last Thursday by one hundred Juni-
alta cousins going to Lewistown to
attend the Mifflin county fair. The
manner of going was by the speedy
way of travel by rail. Many were
the regrets that no smooth wagon
and carriage roads unite the two
counties
When the Juniata people debouch-
ed from the cars onto the streets of
Lewistown, it was plainly evident to
the slowest observer that something
unusual was going on, for the streets
were lined with people
1t is an important advantage that
Lewistown has over Miffiin, that all
who attend her fair must pass through
town Here fully one-half of the
number of people who attend fairs
need not enter town to get TO the
fair ground
One hundred people from Juniata
sprlnkled the crowd on The streets
quite plainly, and even out among
the crowd of 5000 people at the fair
Juniata was plainly visible.
To get TO our fair, one angles off
ny picturesque scenery, by the road
along the river, toward the southwest;
to get to their fair, the road angles
off circuitously by Kishicoquillas
creek, and an Episcopal graveyard to-
ward the southeast.
So appreciative of the wants and
requirements of our Mifiin county
cousins have our people become, that
the methods of conveyance to and
from their fair was not neglected.
Jacob Sulouff filed the programme
just there by having a couple of car
riages on the ground to see that they
did not do too much walking. In
one of his carriages going to the
ground We met ex-Sheriff Loudon
and daughter, Miss Jane LoulOn,
and had just exchanged compliment
airy expressions with the Sheriff over
the comfortable drive in prospect,
when the carriage was signaled by
an aged lady of about 300 pounds
weight who was chaperon to young
lady of about the same size and
weight. The carriage stopped, and a
fash of the mind told us that the
compliments as to comfortable seats
had been wasted on the desert air.
The next best thing to do was to re-
cognize the courtesies due to the bet
ter side of the human family, which
we did by vacating a seat inside, and
taking one outside with John Heck.
who was running the carriage. 1t
seemed but step or two ont to the
ENTRANCE
to the fair ground, where Senator
Waream was enjoying himself selling
tickets to his constituents, and agri-
cultural friends. You pass the
GATE,
and are not so favorably impressed
as when you enter the grounds of
Riverside Park here Instead of a
grove OF trees to pass through and a
well Of water to refresh by; patch
of stuhted corn stalks on the right,
and hillock or track embankment
on the left, greet the eye and i'm
press one unfavorably, which can
not be got rid of till stop is made
and look taken from a point near
the Judges stand From that point
on the ground, the enclosure presents
its admirable qualities, which are
many. Riverside Park shows well,
viewed from any point. The poor
est impression received of it is from
a point near where the stock are
watered, being near the southwest
corner of the enclosure The Lewis
town Association must have taken |
the plan OF Riverside Park to fashion
their grounds after, for the plans are
alike
THE EXHIBITION
WIS as good as the late one at River
81 lie Park; and of course Juniata /
was glad to congratulate her sister
on SO creditable a display. They |
us in display of carriages,
which Showers & Scholl might easily
have prevented They had a few
more chickens, a couple of larger
pumpkins, and that IN about all the
material difference in the two exhibi
tions as far as articles on exhibition |
go. The
PEOPLE