Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-07
SHORT LOCALS.

Oldish people talk of great drought ii
1896.
Miss Anna Psrker b attending school ii
Pittsburg
The SoIdies' Orphans Schools are axai,
In operation.
Squirrel hunting and oystss eating beg.,
last Thursday.
Russia has considerable of q surplus o
wheat this year.
Now is the time for business men to ad
vestise their fall trade.
Rain. fell at Bedford, and At Scranton
this State, on Friday.
Miss Annie Gray hill has gone to Ph;lsdel
phia to attend school.
Rain fell in number of places in OH,
and New York on Friday.
A number of squirrels were bagged b,
sportsnen on the lst inst.
In some places the Law Is enforced agains
the doctors that fail to register.
The Jacobs House runs q free carriage t.
the railroad for its own guests.
The travelling bear" and his keeper
were in town on Tuesday morning.
The summer is ended, and the business il
rubbing up for fall and winter work.
The new facade of the rive. bridge is
great improvement on the old one.
Elias and C. B. Horning advertise gooc
farm in Lost Greek valley as for sale.
Waterloo and Peru were each refreshed
by E shower of rain on Friday morning.
Court is in full operation but so fal
the attendance has not been large.
The annual reunion of Perry county sol
diers will be held at siillerstown October IL
Benjamin Byers is repairing his house
which adjoins the Presbyterian church prop
erty.
Officer Samuel Lapp Is the man who first
introduced the street sprinkler in Miiflin-
town.
When you come to town call and see Is.
penschade's Store. Fresh goods every
week.
The foot-way to the bridge across the
canal a: this place is being put in state OF
repair.
The dust in Pittsburg ha, hesn kept down
BY the free use of fire engines as street
sprinklers.
Tho Wilson brothers brought another car
load of nice Western horses from the Wes,
on Monday.
The river bridge is safe from all Hood
unless food like that of ls47 sweeps dcwn
the river.
Levi Light, Executor OF Joseph Light,
offers valuable farm in SusQuehanua town.
ship for sale.
John Robson, living in Patterson, offers
a good farm in Milford township for sale at
private sale.
Fashion writer's say the turban made of
black material will be much worn this fall
and winter.
Mrs. Hamlin and daughter started west
on Monday. Mss Nettie will remain in
Ohio TO attend school.
James McAuley, from Fayette township,
was in attendance upon the Grangeis' pic
mic in Cumberland county.
Mr.. Weaver, from Harrisburg, piano and
organ tuner, was in town last week tuning
musical instruments.
Water wes so scarce in Shiprensburg,
county, last week thst the
street sprinkler was discontinued.
The wish, 81 wish it would rair,' was
about 5O,OOO,O0O times every dav
last week. Everybody SO wished.
A Dauphin county man found a living
tortoise, On the under side of which was
carved the well-known name of "Noih."
The town authority of Everett, Bedford
county, have the constable to lock up all
cove that appear on the streets without a
driver.
c. B. Horning has been actively engaged
in making railroad lies among the timber on
the land that he and George Smith bought
of George Jacobs.
There is q law against the building of
fish dams in the river, and there is no use
in citizen directing his efforts to q viola
ton of the law.
When everything was driest, and wher
the dust was deepest, Officer Samuel Lapp
made street sprinkler and sprinkled streets
of the town, last Wednesday.
Ayers Ague Cure should be in every
household in regions where Fever and Ague
prevail 1t should be taken as a preventive
by every resident and traveller in rnalarial
In East and West Providence townships,
Bedford county, squirrels are said to be SO
plenty that their ravages in cornfields are
plainly to be seen.
An exchange remarks "The wrong men
always get rich. 1t is the fellow who has
no money who is always telling how much
good he would do with it if he had it."
OF course they did not have Guiteau to
burn at Buffalo last Saturday, but they
stuffed suit Of old clothes and burned him
in effigy.
The Post G.. A. r. have received new
kettle drums. The drummer boys are Burt
Hinkel, Math Allison, Leo Lemon and Chas.
Cavepy. Mait Crawford and Benny Stine
are the fifers.
Rev. Geo. Bensugh suffered with cold TO
such degree that preaching last Sabbath
was attended with difficulty, and in the
evening preaching was dispensed with in
his church.
The newspapers of ten counties will be
telling the people this week that Bedford
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