Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-10

An arrival of new goods at Hsrley's.
Last Thursday brought out the osercoats.
New York State apples in market, in town,
Huntingdon vii enjoy circus next Sat.
urday.
Keep your boys of the streets at night,
for their good.
Huntingdon had telephone concert last
Thursday evening.
They call the storm of last Thursday the
EguinOciial storm.
Harley has bought in STOCK of Clothing
at shrunken prices.
Lewistown had a Telephone concert on
Saturday evening.
The voting population of this borough is
twenty less than last year.
John Beshoar shot wild turkey not Iar
from Evendale, last week.
What does Ii mean when such shy bird
Is a pheasant visits town 2
A partridge or two Found their way TO the
court house yard last week.
The late rain ciouded the waters and put
al end 10 bess fishing for time.
The Surplus population of towns are look
ing up places in the rural districts
Considerable damage was done to fences
across streams by the rain last Thursday.
The aggregate weight Of four wild tur-
KEYS shot BY a hunter last week was twelve
pounds.
Cumberland county farmers are organizing
20 stop hunting and iuui.criminate roaming
over their farms.
Here ana there, in this county, corn has
been husked. The yield is quite COM
mon one as TO quantity.
A lookout is kept up for the wheat fly,
which in the past six or eight years has
shortened the yield OF wheat SO much.
worm is reported as at work cutting off
the new wheat stalks below the surface OF
the ground, in fields in Tuscarora valley.
Partridges paid flying visit to Hunting
don last week. What does II mean when
the partridge and pheasant go inte towns.
..Send us wives" is the pi.eous plea that
comes from Washington Territory, and nat
uraily the question arises, a" Whose wives
shall we send ~
The heavy rain last Thursday brought
large quantities of corn down the % run !"
south of town, from Daniel Sieber's farm.
About seventy bushels were swept away.
The PenEyblkers or Pennypickers held a
Centennial family ret union in Perkimen
valley. Montgomery county, last week.
Twelve hundred of the family were present.
The rain last week flooded the streams in
Tuscarora valley, and did great damage to
fences. Patton, Sterrett, ellison and others
in Spruce Hill township lost many panels of
fence.
eSamuel Stickney, Of Waterloo, Iowa,
Rugged girl so hard that & revolver in his
pocket was discharged, seriously woHnding
ii boy who was passing the gate where the
zlair stood"
Some weeks ago the roof was burned off
"a portion of the Patent Office at Washing
fon. last Thursdays rain did more dam
age 10 the building than the FIRE because Of
It's rooi1ess condition.
The managers Of Sabbath-schoeis in
Great Britain, ard in the United States,
have ISSUED call for uniueTsaf prayer for
ou OCloVCi ~,
and Monday, 29, 1917.
Berks county commissioners are strict
party men. They refuse the use of the
EOur--house for any public meetings OF out
side political parties, confining the privilege
10 the Republican and Democratic parties
only
Squabbles, an old bachelor, shows his
stockings, which he has just darned, to a
maiden lady, who contemporary remarks,
Pretty good for a man darner." Where
upon Squabbles reJoined, 80 Yes, good
enough Tor a woman, darn herr
A number of genuine iull-grown western
>,rasshoppers have been found in Heds ad-
accent to Carlisle, and now the community
has nearly got itself TO believe that they are
but the advance guard or line of the ap-
proach of swarms of grasshoppers such as
devastated the fields OF the western people.
The Democracy has its eyes set two WAYS.
In its platform adopted at Harrisburg II at
.e,apts to conciliate the strikers by adopt
ing an anti-corporation resolutions in its
nomination of officers it attempts TO con-
ciiiate corporations by nominating such well
known corporation men as Mr.. Schell and
NJ. Noyes.
Post Master General Key has issued a
circular to the public, inviting all who are
acquainted with irregularities on the part Of
post masters to send an account of the
irregularity to Chief Special Agent, Post
Ufhce Department, Washington, d. C., so
that Investigation may be instituted.
"In 1873, Mr.. Deckar, of Centre county,
found grain of wheat in package of cof-
lee that he had bought at his village store.
lie planted that single grain and this fall he
threshed txenty-nine bushels. 1t is awhile
wheat, very large in the grain, and weighs
'sixty-six pounds to the bushel. Mr.. Deck
ar calls it the coffee wheat He sowed
sixteen acres this fall-all from single
grain in four years ago."
"Mrs. Burley, of Tyrone, was badly
frightened few evenings ago, and she had
lust cause to faint on the instant. She
went 20 q closet ia her house for the pur-
pose OF procuring some article Of clothing
stored therein, and knowing exactly where
to lay her hand upon it, she did not take
light with her. The feelings Of the lady
can be imagined when, in reaching into the
dark closet, her hand came in contact with
mans face. She ran quickly away to give
an alarm, and the individual made his es-
cspe.''