Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-09-14
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Rev. Mr.. Ross spent Sabbath in town.
Buttermilk as drink is q great favorits
among dyspeptics.
The potato bug has been starved out thi,
season; so it is said.
Senator Charles H. Smiley was over from
Bloomfield on Saturday.
! The public schools were not opened lasi
week because of the heat.
Water hauling was the order of business
for many families last week.
"The Mennonites of Lancaster county
pray daily for the President
Few buckwheat cakes this winter, tht
crop of buckwheat being failure
The Large hotel at Cresson is to be en-
larged 10 double its size next year.
Professor David Wilson, of Airy View
Academy, was in town on Saturday.
Professor Schuyler, Of Lewistown Acad.
emy, spent part of Saturday in town.
Rev. George Benaugh preached up at Or.
bisonia, Huntingdon county, on Sabbath.
The smoke was so thick last Friday thai
precious iitt,e sunshine game through it.
Huntingdon Presbytery will meet al
Spruce Creek, Tuesday, October 4, 1881.
McVeytown has an Old Maids CLUB, and
that is as good as an Old Bachelors Club.
Look, when the birds fly high there will
be no rain that day. That is said to be a
sign.
W. &. Coldren, of Walker township, has
gone to attend the Lock Haven Normal
School,
An Si-pound salmon was caught with a
rod ana line on Friday in the Susquehannd
river near Harrisburg.
There wifi be a cake walk and dance in
Kinsloe's wood in Walker township, Sep
tember IS, 1881. All are invited.
Major Nevin, of Delaware county, spent
several days with his friends in town with
in the past week.
Rev. J. J. Hamilton preached in Lost
Creek Presbyterian church at McAl;ster-
vile last Sabbath.
Nettie Wright, daughter of Perry Wright,
cslored, had the misfortune to tramp on an
upright nail, and injure a foot quite severely.
Alas. there will be no big pumpkins and
turnips to greet the eye at the county fairs
this fail.
There are 80 500 names on the pay-rclls
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. So
1t is said.
1t is said that Col. Mcclure, of the Phila-
delphia Times, contemplates entering the
lecture field.
A proprietor in Miffiin county has changed
the named of his furnace from that OF Ma
tlds TO that of Lucy.
Miss Kate Gallagher, who has been on a
visit to her brother James, in Bureau county.
Illinois, has returned
Jackson Magruder, citizen of Walker
township, has been sufferer with a telon
on a finger on his right hand.
Officer Ssmuel Lapp has retired the street
sprinkler There was not enough pay to
warrant him in keeping it up.
C. B. Horning and George Smith bought
about six acres of woodland from Emanuel
Meyer, to straighten boundary line.
A Chester county man wants 10 eat fifty
yards Of eels, provided some one will wager
that he cannot eat that number Of yards.
Kurtz Kaufman, a citizen of Fermanagh
township, has over two hundred Bushels OF
potatoes. They grew on ten acres of land.
Before camp meeting time, people said,
when camp meetings open it will rain; but
that prediction failed. How about fair
timel
The people that attended the printers
picnic at Bedford oil speak highly OF the
musical performance of the McVeytown
band.
An infallible remedy for Fever and Aguc
is Ayers Ague Cure. Wholly vegetable
and containing no quinine, it is harmless
and sure.
John Musser, a citizen of Walker town
ship, fell from buck-wagon few days ago
aid broke shoulder bone. DR.. Smith set
the broken bone.
Miss Minnie McAlister, who has been to
McAlisterville quite a while this summer
has returned to the home of her uncle, J.
III. McAlister, in this place.
"Mc Alisterville Soldiers Orphans School
has the credit of having more Of its grsdu-
ates in useful and honorable positions, than
any of the other orphan school,"
Many people refrain from eating bass.
They propose to wait till the cold weather
works out the worms that are said to trou-
bic the fish at this time in the year.
The Huntingdon GiOte says: Matt Nc
Ateer was arrested in Altoona the other
day aud fined $40 and costs for selling in
surance policies without license.
The heated term received a cooling on
Sabbath night. By Monday morning it was
so cool that a number of people looked up
their under-clothipg and put them on.
Potatoes yield at the rate of twenty TO
thirty bushels on an average per acre. II a
man has a quarter of an acre Of ground in
potatoes he may get five to six bushels from
it.
Last Wednesday and Thursday, it is said,
were the warmest days in nine years. The
Thermometer on Wednesday in this place
stood at log, and on Thursday at 102 in the
shade.
An exchange says: "A worm resembling
the ordinary corn grub worm has made its
appearance and is running grass fields. Its
presence is detected by spots of brown grass
that looks as if scorched."
Misses Hall Parker, Grace Graybill, and
Kate Parker are learning horseback riding,