Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-04-28
SHORT LOCALS.

Court.
Blossoms.
White plug hats.
Moonlight rambles.
A love of a bonnet.
Ugh, House cleaning.
Ascension dav, May o.
Huntington children hafe mumps.
Keep flannel on one month longer.
There are fifteen lawyers in Mifiiintown.
Altoona is TO have big circus, May 9TH.
Farmers are preparing their corn ground.
Altoona is to have 500 new houses this
year.
City people arc looking out their summer
routes.
The health Of Rev. E. Z. Berry is i'm
proving.
The Band was out for toot the other
evening.
Politicians are getting ready to go to
Chicago.
Shad have been caught in :hc river at
Newport.
Many people about town will plant pota-
toes this spring.
There are few cases Of chills and fever
in the community.
Potato bugs are turned up in the potato
ground of last year.
The prospect for a large crop of wheat in
this county is good.
Huntingdon Presbytery meets in June, In
Milroy, Miiiliu county.
The Democracy are having lively time
over Tilden and the barrel.
City people listen for the tixz of the soda
fountain, and grow thirsty.
A refreshing rain set in on Saturday.
Good for oats and cloverseed.
There will be services in the brick Pres
byterian church next Sabbath.
Hogs have got the better of the law and
run at large to suit themselves.
Kesrney is out of the House Of Correc-
tion on Il writ of habeas corpus.
The Big Spring Presbytery of the U. z.
Church met in Mexico last week.
A festival was held in the NJ. Z. church
on Friday and Saturday evenings.
The enforcement of the tramp act saved
Cumberland county $4,000 last year.
The Mlffin county soldiers will hold their
fourth reunion at Mi!roy, June 10, 1880.
The Mcyeytown Presbyterian Sabbath
school have added a cornet to their choir.
David Watts expects to plant and cult
vate tobacco on the shares for E. s. Doty.
New men have been taken into the Clear
field region to take the place OF the strikers.
And now iron ore has been turned up on
the farm of DIR. Atkinson in Walker town
ship.
The Lindsays are preparing 10 build a
brick house on their farm in Milford town
ship.
Read of the dreadful doings of cyclone
in Missouri, as published elsewhere in this
issue.
Kob,rt McNeen advertiscs number of
pieces of valuable real estate. See adver-
tisement.
II, I..h II Dael-..r txla txa
struck with paralysis; it another gentleman
named Packer.
Exchanges report earcs among the Young
chickens. Hope the disease will not be-
come general.
lieve that he will be nominated at Chicago
by acclamation.
Unseated lands will be sold by the Trea-
surer of Perry county for taxes, at Bloom
field, June II, 1880.
C. &. Roper cut finger of with draw
ing knife, in Mentgomery's shop IN Lewis
town, few days ago.
al tNCudhSS SAY - thS hheiahNh"it 49,
have come, the saddest of the year-the
days of house-cleaning
A Huntingdon man named Paul has i'm
proved the fruit jar top, and obtained
patent for his improvement.
The people who attended the U. p Pres
bytery at Mexico, last week, are represent
ed as being solid set of people.
The "Comins Young Man," will be the
subject of Col. McClure's lecture in Lewis
town on the evening Of the 29th.
Miss LYDIA StOufier is about to build a
brick house at the intersection of Patterson
street and McAlistsrville road.
Isaac Mertz, whose house was destroyed
BY the great storm in Missouri, has a num-
Der of acquaintances in this county.
The custodian of the sacramental wine Of
an Altoona church got drunk on wine that
was intended for communion purposes.
Ed. Davis, the enterprising nursery-mau
was busy several days last week in town,
seeing to the proper delivery of trees.
Robert Pannebaker, James Kiser and Har-
~ Hallcr are at work excavating for the
foundation of A. II. Weidman's house.
1t is no uncommon thing for the mailbag
to be missed at this station. There is evil
IDENTIFY something wrong with the cat ;her.
Communion services in the Lutheran
church on next Sabbath a week. Prepara-
tory services on Saturday evening previous.
Homer D. Cope, of New York, will lee
ture on Damon and Pythias, in the Lewis
town Court House, on the evening of May
., lSse,
The Democratic State Convention meets
to-day "wednesday at Harrisburg. "Some-
body bet on the bob-tsil nag, somebody bet
on the bay"
There is talk OF rcyiving the Selins-
grove and North Rranch Rair0ad Let il