Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-17
SHORT LOcALs.

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Patterson church on next Sabbath evening
At 8 O'Clock.
Presbyterians of Mount Union have de-
cided to add improvements to their church
building.
People that claim to be posted. say, "to
find worms in black bass look along the
backbone of the fish.
The fashionable shoe is pointed. The
comfortable shoe Is the one thai fits the
foot.
john Kess.er, first-rate painter Of this
town, is at Millerstown, Perry county, en-
gagged in painting new hotel.
Mrs. Jacob Kurt, living in Kurtz valley,
Delaware township, died last Friday. Mrs.
Kurtz was aged sSout 65 years.
Children playing with matches burned the
barn of Peter Britcher, in Jackson town. |
ship, Perry county, lew days ago.
Peter Dillman, living in Snyder county,
near the Junia.a county line, has lost three
children by diphtheria within period Of
three weeks.
A man of the world, and close obsefeer
of men and things, remarks ''tts't it is sell
dom that man who takes and pays for
newspaper ever gets swindled."
Mrs. David Sulouff died at the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. Arnold. in Patterson,
on Friday evening at 6 o'clock. lnterment
in Union Cemetery on Sabbath last. She
was aged 81 years.
The Democratic County Committee met
IN town on Saturday. The attendance was
large. Saturday, October lst. WAS fixed as
the day upon which TO hold the primary
election.
Abram viii died on last Friday evening
abou, Z o'clock, of consumption. He was
able to 60 about the house until within
few hours of his death. He was aged about
81. lnterment in Union Cemetery
A destructive storm struck Climbers
burg last Saturday. A number OF private
dwelling houses and business places receiv-
ed severe damage, and the Methodist church
was almost entirely demolished.
A Massachusetts paper says, "Justice was
puzzled over the case of three Lynn boys
who, IN a burst of patriotism on the Fourth
of July, broke into church to ring the
hell. but they have at length been fined SIC
EACH"
The u Sixteeners,' as they are called,
but more properly the graduates of the Sol
diers' Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania, viii
hold the First Annual Reunion at Harris
burg on the oath, 25th and 26th inst.
Some so called temperance people at Cam
bridge City, Indiana, blew up with dyn-
amite the saloon in which liquor had been
sold to their children. They are bad kind
of temperance people.
The Bloomfield .adsocats says: few
weeks ago George Naylor. while piowing IN
field near Losh's run, threw out black
snake nest containing % eggs. Every egg
contained live snake four inches long.
The old snake escaped.
Miss Sarah Kurts Clair died at the resi-
dence of her brother-in-law. Stephen Reho'
in Permanagh township, on Sabbath morn
ing. She was aged 81 years. The disease
of which she died was cancer. interment
in Reno's graveyard
The Lewistown Gazette says, "there are
but few good corn-tieds in Aitfiin county
Another item from the same paper says,
There are SOME young salmon In the river
at this point, and all bass and outline fisher
men ought to learn to distinguish them from
the white chub."
The Altoona Trrtune says: The Hindoos
believe that in the world TO come all drunk
ards are changed into frogs. Guess the
Hinuoos are right. MaLy aud many a time
have We heard thirsty frogs yelling ''more
rum"
Since companies are organized to insure
. an unmarried person a certain sum OF mon
ey in case OF marriage, why not add an
other feature; insure to furnish each un'
married man with wife, and insure to fur
, uish each unmarried woman with husband
Add a matrimonial bureau.
If a father wants his sons to have hrst
class education, he should send them tt
Yale in preference to Harvard. Yale bea
Harvard in the recent boat race, and Is there
fore the best college in which to acquire al
the Learning in the books-NorTistown Her
aid.
Little pitchers have great ears I" Now
then, what's your papa's name, Freddy Z
q :. Dunno" "Don't know your papa
name, Why, what does mamma cali him 2
s.Brute" "A true story .)-HarPer's Ba
# Ear.
# Samuel Speedily and wife brought thei
infant bow, aged lc months, to this plac
is for internient last Saturday. The iunerd
,. took place from the residence o! MIR. Adam
weidman. Mr.. Speedily is native OF thi
), town, but a. the present time is employee
in telegraph office at williamsport, Ly
coming county, as operator.
II George W. Keifer, of Sunbnry, who
/, building the bridge across the river at thi
place, has received the contract for rt
building the hrdge across the river at New
ton Hamilton, Miffiin county. The contrac
rs price is Sl4. $500. X. E. Parker aud con
;, pany, of this place, had bid in' The
~ bid was 5 5,745.O0.
Some days ago Peter Trego, citizen {
y Fayette township, went to the mountain
search for bees. The dav was warm. L
U became overheated, and when he reached
spring in his travels he drank freely. L
he had scarcely taken the water till he WI
It's SEIZED with a chill, from the effects OF whit
es he never recovered. He gradually gre
sicker, and on Wednesday night, the lO
M inst, he died.
This concerning the centennial ceiebr
tiou Of the surrender Of Lord Cornwall