Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-09-03

fhpHip>tbi"Hh
m.k,r. and Presbyterian Policy To-
x.rl The Indians in i7GS-Ti,e Tax
tang F. sers-Tho Th"mFSons
II, eody puts their - best oib and tuck.
nou. and -ire the faces Of the children
r.,,rs Washing when strange company is
.,,s,tei. and lhat i Just What Thompson
.,., Sit last Wednesday, for on that day il
,xe.rstin that strange company wolid
,-r.,- n the midst q. sad arc nd the hos
,.,,s village, to the number Of several
sv,irvd people. Ii that is not why rhomp-
.,,tuxn looked SO neat AID trim, from the
r---g.st baby up to the Oldest Of the fam
sr then il must be an exception to the
- -.-.4-.y he one of the tiiie.t of
the STATE in its every day lie.
The hospitality aud good cheer OF lis peo-
- ~ becoming a subject of widespread
.ns-s. Ths members Of, aud the visitors
a ;he late Sabblih-schoo. convention are
,a7st done taking OF the hospitality Of
tie tow.
Ips-..,. cement 10 religious, literary
and .4bbath-schcol assemb.ageS is
secuEly divided with the encouragement
.stit sives 70 social movements and as
,z-bfzs thai /. s no easy task TO tell TO a
a. MY TO which Il gives the preference.
-J,7o-Jliran does II end pine over
4sEOrld, or grow Hilarious over its plea
sa-e. or lis good .kings, bat he takes it as
Z 61i. 4. and so with lheYeople of Thomp-
e. assembllges that are not im-
ERA. meet with It's social and hespitable
h70-.
Twas social assembly that convened at
T.1- COW n III 18th OF August, and
Il glE Oh. .ae graces Of the people Of the
y,l,v-a picnic. 1t was NEST pleasant
Z, and was conducted under the au-
s-les Of = nIanag gement that was headed by
E.P. Taompson. 4, was held in grove
ai tees At least oae hundred years old,
s.-is,y OAKS, and by the side of clear
r-slm, cool, deer, dark shade, cool, clear
Euer, large crowd, a large platform, the
5vs Ct str.-.- -usic BY the Miller band from
Lglsaster city with all that, why shouldn't
Il be happy. and the hours tiy like so many
-z-tes Il was a place where the hour
III not Ike q da-, but where IT, houi
Esssi Ike mILdte. How many hundred
slFle were there has not been told, but
1l1y we're there. Some talked, some pay
zrcrgquet, aai some danced.
People were there from many different
y'l5ss. Many on Miinin We're there; a
= - .ly be mentioned: Henry Schoil
Il wife, Washington North Gad wife, DIR.
lli.:5n and wife and Miss Bell Mathers,
sobett Parker, John S. Graybill and
:zrrhter. r.s,rict attorney Jacobs, Her
1al North, Miss Beckie North, Mr.. and
N. Lions, Mr.. and Mrs. Showers, and
Eiss Watt., Benjamin Wagner and Miss
lou Grubb, I. D. MARKS, E. S. Doty,
i, and Miss Beckie Doty, Editor Garman
q he Tribune, John mcMeen, Luke Davis,
Professor Hudson and wife, Washington
ECAlis'- .ad wife and daughter, DR. Banks,
l-eqy-..as Thompson and Miss Ella Thomp-
VI, Isaac HcAiistef and wife, Captain ".
tiy, John ". Muthersbsugh, Jefferson Mid
t.sh, Jud Elder, Miss Net.ie Hamlin,
Lett .ames K. Kelly and wife, Esquire
lssens, Theodore Thompson, Mrs. W. G.
IhoUrsoa, ". 2. Thompson and wife and
ca1sdiers, Nathan Keely, Levi Myers, Jacot
h-Eamcl, Is5ael Tennis, D.. Arnold, DR..
bFub5, Alton Adams, Mss Lizzie Adams
5ssrge H>lpoacb, Harry Moore, Jay G
Neiser. James McAr,ey, and several hun
srsi others.
II the evening the grounds were lit VI
Tier The fashion Of camp and bush meet
ng', and the festivities continued into tnt
lgat 1t was an occasion long to be re
ae15ered. Boys and iris we're there, who
VII scatter of into different parts of the
Void, and City, sixty, aad seventy years
t'er lis date will tax of the picnic a
!llnpsontogn on the 27th day of August
-1's, ard thev viii be asked, and wha
- u : pace was
THoaPsoSTowN 2"
imagine them telling it: The place wa
%I "gt-sh! yes, when2 Now We have It
"aeTer was laid out L. any one. The frs
S'uefs had Oridle path running parable
'A The r'ver-course, nearly due east an'
's' Settler Jack IN the hills about Eas
lad a path leading to the river, tina
'A'td the path first mentioned at righ
s'es at a certain place. Settlers over II
* lion Of Van Vert ard the Wake
a = had path that angled across the hill
7'ersec:ed the cross maths just men
-'lsd. After IT, the paths becam
''1as. rian named Thompson owned th
-.e intersection of the roads; fiv
'i - TAere they intersect there ar
.olnts or corners. A store was started
'-iu vas built, lot now and then was sol
g one or the other of the roads tha
--ie - "a 5, and the place was calle
-a'psoltown, in honor of the Thompso
-. .''l! and that is the way the place wa
Lid out.
tu'a'psontown has fifty to SEVENTH fv
U-' IN It. On cle Of the five corner
eiy Il Wickersham have Z store, on ar
~ 1ef D. G. Halteman has a store, on ar
hlhr Benner, Coz. dealer, has an o.
y, ahd the two re, aiming corners are OF
. f'e' 'y priF1.e houses. In the square
1'e Corners stands tall pole, up whic
A, s run on stat and patriotic occasion
0ne end of the town is a snug little ston
nn' used by the U. P. congregatic,
oing sas put Up oy . eongregstio