Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-15
SHORT LOCALS.

Ane NJ u. conference meets This
week at Lock Haven.
A number of citizens complained
OF sore throat last week.
A potato thief was caught in Csss
township, Huntingdon county.
Young men in Lewistown have
organized a self-improvement club"
Comlng-The dirty days of house.
cleaning.
FOR RENT-A good house. suit.
able for a small family. Call at this
Office.
George W. Wilson will open new
store IN the j, B. NJ. Todd room. in
Patterson.
MIR. Lyons was away to Perry
county attending the funeral of a
sister last week.
Jacob Adams, Of Walker township.
was prostrated with heart disease
some days ago.
Plow shares of all kinds made at
the Miiilintown Foundry.
He was an awful man that said
three women can keep a secret if two
are dead and the third is mute.
The past winter has lifted the roots
OF great deal of clover, and injured
wheat that stands in certain kinds OF
soil
Farmers in Perry county are quiet
ly looking around for a clue to catch
smoke house thieves, that seem to be
plenty.
John Graybill talks of building a
number of dwelling houses on Water
street, near his furniture business
place.
A full line of Cooking Stoves at
McClintic's, Odd Fellows Hall.
r. W. Whitmer, son of Mrs. Whit
mer of this town, died at his home
at Goshen, Indiana, last Friday, of
heart disease.
The weather sign of Mr.. Showers
at the beginning OF the month indi
Gated variable weather, and SO the
weather has been.
An exchange truly remarks: You
can't eat enough in a week to last you
a year; and You can't advertise on
that plan, either
John Nangle, of Todd township,
Huntingdon county, recently trapped
two offers, the skins of which he sold
for thirty dollars.
Holman of the Mifflintown Foun-
dry is agent for the Wizard chilled
pillow. Call
Exchanges are recording the ad-
vent of grasshoppers. 1t does seem
a little early for the grasshopper. A
fish story would be, perhaps, more
seasonable.
The sweat starts on the holders of
graveyard insurance policies when
told that the amount of the policy
can be collected by the respective
companies
This is a goddess country. A man
WAS arrested for kneeling and pray
ing aloud on Broadway He might
have stood up and sworn with impu-
nity.-Puck.
DR.. L. T. Atkinson and wife re-
turned from winters sojourn at the
Arkansas Hot Springs, last Friday
evening On Saturday evening the
Post, with the Band serenaded them,
in appreciation of their safe return.
Everything in the Tinware line at
very reasonable prices at McClintics,
Odd Fellows Hall.
Servant girls in New York are form
ing a protective league. 1t is sup
posed their object is to have eight
afternoons a week out and twenty
four hours ON Sunday, and be per-
mitted to entertain their numerous
male cousins in the parlor.-N0rr's'
torn Herald
Down in Petersburg, Va, a court
room full of spectators was cleared
by a witness. The witness was asked
where he had recently been living.
He stated that during the past eight
weeks he had been acting as steward
at the smallpox hospital at Rich
mond.
The Orbisonia Dispatch is respon-
sible for the following blue bird item !:
A subscriber informs us, that last fall
a farmer in Clay township hung a
hollow gourd in his wagon shed. In
the month of February of the pres
ent year blue birds built a nest in it
and Matched. This is very extraor-
dinary occurrence.
Mount Joy plows, and plow shares
for sale at the Miffiintown Foundry.
Good corn planter at $1,000.
That there are successful fox hunt
ers in Perry county is evidenced by
the following from the Bloomfield
.4drocate of last Wednesday: During
the present season Samuel Sunday
killed foxes, Jesse and Andrew Mil
ler 9, and John Foster, Jr., II. Can
any township in the county equal
these Tyrone hunters! Foot up.
Michael Hawk, citizen of Patter-
son. was stricken with paralysis on
Sunday a week. He fingered under
the severe prostratiOn until last
Wednesday, on which day he died.
He Was born on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, 1928. Interment in Union
Cemetery on Saturday. MIR. Hawk
had been in the employ of the Z. &.
r. r. Co. for a period of 25 years.
He leaves wife and nine children to
mourn his death.
People going to housekeeping,
and people restocking their kitchens
with kitchen furniture, can buy to
advantage at McClintics in this town,
| 81 tba Odd EallowS' Hall stoves and