Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-06-02
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Does your small boy chew and smoke
Lace mitts are wcrn again in all STYLES
The 18th of July vacation draweth near
candidates are counting the prospects.
hSigramites were in demand on Monday
Last week was a grand week for ice cream
The circle Of frog eaters is growing large,
Long-handled japanese fans are fashion
able. '''A' art iasnioh
Nennor's frost has not put in an appear
ance. 'D appear
Ihey have leap-year picnics in som
places.
Scranton lawyers take their exercise q,
bicycles.
The mercury went high up and low dow,
last week.
Cuba Literary Society has not disbaude,
for the summer.
Huntingdon is to have circus and me
nagerie June 10.
There was turn out to catch bass n,
Tuesday morning early.
"Sun-stroke" reaches only such people a
carry overloaded stomachs.
ii no blight appears, the yield of fruit il
Juniata will be satisfactory.
Singing school in Happy Hollow schoo
house every Saturday evening.
Miss Stouffer's house is ready for tn,
brick, but the brick are not ready.
Subscribe for the Sentinel and Republican
as the campaign will soon open.
This, the Centennial year for Sabbath.
schools, will be celebrated on grand scale
The Juniata County Saboath-school Con-
vention next year will be held in this place.
Captain McNitt, from MIfiiin county, was
in town last week, as the guest of Sheriff
Kelly.
Extensive Preparations are making foI
the 4th, in a number of the towns of the
State.
The q. A. r. will hold an encamprent a:
Gettysburg beginning July Is, and ending
July 25.
Dell's Delight, near Hollidaysburg, is the
place where the printers of the Juniata val
ley will picnic next September 4th.
If there is no Heaven and no Hell, how
can there be right and wrongl Ques-
ton submitted to Colonel IngersolI. =
The Sentinel and Republican publishes no
s'sharp cuts" on people in private life.
Send such communications elsewhere.
Irishmen are taking to pass themselves
for Gipsy bands, when they tramp; but :he
eyes, hair and complexion tell the tale.
Dogwood blossoms are plenty, so are cut
worms, and with all that the prediction is
made that the new corn crop will be a large
one. Time viii tell.
John NJ. Pomeroy, of the Cbambersburg
Repository, has been nominated by the Re-
publican county convention of Franklin
county for Assembly.
Theodore Burchfeld, a native of this
equity, has been nominated by the Repub-
leans of Blair county, for Legislature,
jointly, with Mr.. Hewett.
The name of the new train westward
bound, that stops at this place at l:50
O'Clock P. N. of each day, is called the Nj
agara and Chicago express.
Men who have been in the mountains say
that mountain streams are much ircquented
by snakes, and the cause of the snakes
taking to water so early in the season is
found in the great fires that prevailed.
The Sabbath-school Convention was at
tended by many people. In fair weather
there is no finer place TO hold it thar where
it was held, namely, in the Presbyterian
church building near McAlisterville.
The sacrament of the Lords Supper will
be administered in the Lost Creek Preshy-
terian church at McAlisterville next Sab
bath, June 9th. Preparatory services will
begin on Friday evening, June 4th, at eight
O'Clock.
The Huntingdon Journal says: Will En-
veart was taken before the Orbisonia au-
Jhorities for breaking into the thorough
pound - and releasing his hog which had
been penned up. He was found guilty and
{.
The Pennsylvania railroad company have
put on a train, that makes the distance be-
tween Philadelphia and Chicago in twenty
three and a-half hours, leaving Philadel-
phia az O'Clock in the morning. The
train stops at this station at l:i5 P. NJ.
Reuben Caveny, well known TO Juniata
county people, has opened house at At
lantlc City. He names his house " Juniata
Cotiage.'' Juniata people, when they 60 to
the ocean, Ia Atlantic City, will find his
place pleasant place to stop at.
The number OF bass seen, is not as large
as the number seen at this time in the year
last season. If they have not abandoned
the haunts of last year. there are not near
as many in the river as there used TO be.
The bass is mysterious in all its movements.
Auv person of the age of 10 years or up
wards who shall profanely swear may be
fined 81 cents for every oath. In Schuyl-
kill county 1t cost young man Sl6.oe for
swearing on the streets. He refused TO pay,
and has been sent to Jail By Judge Pershing.
Foxes are very destructive to young
lambs in parts OF Beaver and Washington
counties, where shepherds are compelled to
keep close lookout to prevent Reynard
from doing their iiocks great INJURY
Would not that be paradise of place for
a scalper from Juniata or Huntingdon
county
In a number of places they have been
looking up the neglected laws on the ques-
ton of drunkenness and profanity, and have