Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-22
NT[NEL 4 REPUBLICAN
SHORT LOCALS.
Sassafras tea

Children in Huntingdon have ,nea-
sles.
Clearfeld county has debt of
$4,000.
Trout may be caught on the first
OF April
Mrs. Turbett has returned from
visit to Ohio.
Lime is scarce in this neighbor-
hood. So builders say.
The business persimrnon is .lways
knocked by advertising.
Judge Elder proposes to BOW spring
wheat, as an experiment
A great interest-The ladies' in
terest in spring bonnets.
All exchange papers report an IN
common number of deaths
J.C. Crawford has been appointed
Postmaster at Reeds Gap.
The Oldest lawyer of the Perry
county bar is 81 years of age.
Baptists in Huntingdon have been
holding protracted meeting.
There was snow about 81 inches
deep on Thursday morning.
Quite a number of Juniata people
left for the West last week.
The beautiful spring weather got a
back-set last Thursday morning.
Newton Hamilton Presbyterians
are about to repair their church.
Belletonte ladies have opened soup
and lunch house at the railroad sta
ton.
j. B Okeson will sell valuable per-
sonal pr5ferty ss Port Royal on Satur-
day.
Mrs. Kepner, of Frederick City,
Maryland, is visiting at John Horn
ing's.
The sunfower, both real and arti-
fetal, is considered the aesthetic
flower.
The heaviest grade on the railroad
on the Allegheaies is one foot to the
100 feet.
Lawyer Stone, during the past
week, has been down to Virginia on
business.
David Robson, ex-superintendent
of common schools, was in town on
Saturday.
There is a movement on foot to
create State out of the southern
part of Dakota
People that believe they know, say
the coming summer viii produce q
great deal of fruit.
Rev. Bossert, O colored man.
preached in the Chapel Presbyterian
Church on Sabbath.
Cresson has been selected as the
place for the encampment of the Ma
tional Guard next fall.
There is petition being largely
signed by citizens of this place asking
for the pardon of Mason
I'D. Mussers health has been 81
far recovered that he may walk oui
when the weather is fair.
Butter brought from across tn,
sea, from Holstein, sells in New Yorl
at 45 and As cents per pound.
Boys do not like to set fish-net'
below town, in the river, because thu
musk-rats destroy the nets.
This month has not been cold, bu
backward enough to prevent farmer.
from sowing oats in March.
A Selinsgrove type-setter, named
E. E. Duck. in 9 hours and 45 min
utes set 12.020 ems, solid BREWER.
Exchanges report a boom in Oi'
Fellowship they mean that the mem
bership is increasing in this State
II the coming April exceeds tn
present March weather, it will hav'
to change about four times day.
People in Indiana county are peti
tioning for the establishment of
Soldiers Home in Indiana county.
The Presbyterian Foreign Mission
ary Society viii meet at the house o
Mrs. Mcknight, next Saturday after
noon.
The stalk of the Easter pos.
showeth itself above ground Tn
Easter posy is the first OF sprin:
flowers.
Miss Maud Irwin is away at Han
risburg attending the wedding of he
friend Miss Mamie Cdip, to Mr.. Cieve
land.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Con
pany, it is sad, will build new sta
ton house, 800 feet long, at Harris
burg.
Frank Books is home from his meo
ical studies. Another winter at tn
University, and he'll get a diploma a
q doctor.
The Chambersburg, Franklin cour
ty, Fair Ground has been divided o.
into town lots, which will be sold q
public sale.
Friends of Congressman h. I
Fisher say that he will again beeom
a candidate for the position that b
now holds.
A lady confused Huntingdon ed
tor the other day by asking, ''Do th
newspaper corps embrace man
ladiesf"
Henry S. Graham, of Northun
berland, was married on the 18th
February; on the 2Sth of the SAN
month he died.
The law requires that School u
rectors be sworn, or affirmed beioi
entering upon the discharge OF the
duties as directors.