Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-11-12
SHORT LOCALS.

SHORT LOCALS.
A solid North.
Get the old sleigh ready.
Corn husking is about over.
Plenty-Men who say, 50 / told you so.''
Teachers will soon be happy, instituting.
The Week of Prayer will begin January 4.
Some people report rot in their potatoes
Thanksgiving is looming up with its big
dinner.
What has become of the good old-fash-
ioned ''husking bee i''
Too cool to sit by the river. SO the am =
ateur fisherman says.
Look out for a meteoric shower to-mor-
row Thursday night.
Occasionally flock of wild ducks may be
met on the river.
The politiciah has suspended hand shak-
ing till next year.
Buffers majority in this State is within a
I fraction of $4,000.
Grant is on his way from the Western
States 10 Washington.
There is scarcity of water in town, in
cistern and in well.
Sheriff Walls has a drove of 5S hogs on
his farm in Tuscarora valley.
Friday last was an Indian summer day,
and all Others up to this date.
Selinsgrove Ia, a club whose members
are pledged not to shave for 80 days.
Nunters of wild turkeys near town are not
as successful as they were last year,
The United Christians ha, e bought Dress
ler's church, in Susquehanna township.
J. N. Speel, United States Navy Pay
master, spent last Sabbath in town.
Chew Jackson's Best Sweet Navy To-
bacco. Dec. 4, lS7S-ly.
Congressman Fisher has almost entirely
recovered from the effects of his recent
illness.
Great trot of Is to 90 horses at River
side Park, Nov 20, 1879, at O'Clock P. NJ.
sharp.
1t is said that a lump Of sugar STEPPED in
vinegar and dissolved in the mouth will cure
hiccough
<The caLs walk in the Court House re-
suited IN the accumulation of fund of
1861
{ Mr.. A. II. weidman bought the Weakly
lot, east of the Lutheran parsonage proper
ty, for 81, ,Gee>,
Fishermen believe that eeeis must be
tired waiting on a Hood to carry them down
stream.
The vitality of the wheat is impaired by
the drought, as is evidenced by the yellow
appearance of the leaves.
Bloomfield Presbyterians held festival,
and when the net proceeds were counted
the sum reached $4,000.
when the Presbyterian choir is out of an
organist, T. j. Sherrard, the pastor, sup
plies the place at the instrument.
Will those of orr subscribers who know
themselves to be indebted for subscription,
pay UP, on, or before Court week
William Banks, of Fermanagh township,
stabbed another lot of nice cattle from the
Western Reserve-0hio-last friday
Mrs nostet!er received a severe injury to
a leg, by a COW in the stable Of her sOn-In-
law, Mr.. jacob Beidler, x-Prothonotary.I
1.-The snow on Thursday morning was deep
enough TO track rabbits and boys tracked
them. 1t was the first snow this winter.
"In Oil City drunken wcmen are either
fined $50 or sent to jail for so days, bat
drunken men are treated as in other places.
Rev. ]. }. Hamilton preached in the Lost
Greek Presb, terian Church on Sabbath
morning, and in the Court House on Sab
bath evening.
Walker Township Sabbath-schOol Associ-
alton viii meet at Free Spring school house
next Saturday, at l O'Clock P. N. All are
cordially invited.
CThe Sunday hog committee has been re-
organized, and from now until after butch
ering time is over, it may be seen on the
rounds every far Sunday.
The Harrisburg Telegraph says: All of
the sherif's sales in Cumberland county
were stay ed by reason of an error in the
date when the advertisement was printed.
If the work continues to be employed a.
the present rate, for the period OF another
month, the Lutheran church will be ready
to hold preaching in by the middle of De-
cember.
/Tle-arst children baptized in the new
Presbyterian church we're Ruth Evaline
Parker, daughter of Z. S. and Isabella Par
ker, and Lindsay Rhome, son OF F. +. and
Mary Rohm.
& The first people to join the Presbyterian
Congregation in the new church building
were admitted to membership last Sabbath.
They were Miss Tillie Loudon,. Miss Sarah
Soles, and DIR. Rodgers.S,Aa1A
On Monday the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company changed the time for the running
of a number of trains. For time OF passen-
ger trains see time tabls as published else
where in this paper.
GA young man in Franklin county stoned
a private residence on Halloween. His
friends have not yet completed the job of
picking the shot out of him, and ii is doubt
ful whether they will before he dies"
William Kaufman, aged about % years.
died on SATURDAY, the Sth inst, at the home
OF his father-Philip Kaufiman-in Walker
township. He was buried on Monday in
the Rothfock graveyard in Fermanagh town.
ship.
Tn in Altoona il is not Christmas that