Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-22
SHORT LOCALS.
Taccinate.

Selinsgrcve has "spook.s
Horses bring good prices.
The 9th OF April viii be Easter dav.
Tight pantsare coming into fashion.
Lent season begins this Wednes-
day.
The run of tramps last week was
large.
Vennor says that March will a
rough month.
Lent season begins to-day, and the
fsh eaters are happy.
The oldest goose in Mifiin county
is twenty years OF age.
The water in the Susquehafina
river was high last week
Save money by having your gum
boots repaired al Heck's.
People in SIiiilin county are hold
ing anti-Aormon meetings.
Hogs are not as scarce as they
were al this time last year
Shares. for all kinds of plows. made
by Holman at the Miillintown Foun-
dr..
The lawyers OF Cambria county are
about to organize Bar Association
and bay q library
A revival meeting in the Methodist
church in Lewistown gathered forty
seven persons into the fold on proba-
ton.
Washington North upset his car
riage last Thursday night while on
his way from the wedding OF Miss
Adams
One dozen persons were admitted
to membership in the Patterson
church, as the result of the late pro-
tracted meeting.
The Juniata Horse and Mule Pro
lection Company Will hold their an
nual meeting at Miffiintown, Febru-
ary 25, 1882, at 2 o'clock Z. N.
Reports through the newspapers
demonstrate that Valentine day was
made the occasion of the sending of
many sweet pictures and articles.
Exchanges report a scamp as going
around among colored people vacci-
mating them with beeswax, charging
each person SO Vaccinated one dollar
The Misses Elder lost wheel off
their carriage when on their Nay
home from the wedding OF Miss
Adams and lIr. Thompson, last Thurs
day night.
Harry Wilson. q mail route agent
on the Pennsylvania railroad, who re-
sides in this place, died with small
pox in the Harrisburg hospital last
THURSDAY.
The Huntingdon Journal SAYS that
Congressman Fisher has not voted a
straight Republican ticket in twelve
wears. Is the Journal correct in that
statement
Cloverseed is not bringing the high
price that it was expected to bring.
The drought last season did not
shorten the crop to such degree as
to affect it very much.
On the 9Th inst, after protracted
sickness. William Bistliue died at his
place of residence near Thompson
town. He had been a soldier against
the Rebellion of the Confederates.
Mrs. Devices, mother of Milton
Devices of Port Royal, died at her
home in Perry county, on Monday a
week. Her remains were brought to
this place and inferred in Union Gem
etery.
Solomon Bashore caught two coons
in the woods on his farm last week
He delivered them alive to Z. T.
Rohm. marhet-car NAH in Patterson,
on Thursday. Rohm took them to
Philadelphia on Monday.
Mrs. Oberholtzer, mother OF Jonas
and Joseph Oberholtzer, died at the
residence of her son Jonas, in Fer
managh township, on Tuesday, Feb
ruary IA, 1882, aged IS years, 3
months and 20 days.
On the 9th inst, Mrs. Annie Van
Seggern died at the residence of her
husband, Frederick Van-Seggern, in
Newark, n. J. Mrs Van Seggern
was a daughter of John Henkle, near
Thompsontown, this county.
Ex-Associate Judge w 3. Leas,
prominent citizen of Huntingdon,
county, died suddenly in passen-
ger car, which he had entered at Mt
Union, to so to the town of Hunt
ingdon on last Friday morning.
The hard freezing during the nights
of last week did the growing wheat
no good. All delicate stalks were
frozen OF so crippled that they will
not amount to profitable yield
Healthy wheat, however. has not
been greatly damaged
Afliction has swooped down on the
bar OF this place within the past few
days. Z. d. Parker has been con-
fined to the house with cold and
rheumatism, George Jacobs has been
suffering with inflammation of the eyes,
and ID. ID. Stone has had painful in
famation in his left eye.
S. C. Frank died last Friday even
ing, after long sickness of typhoid
fever. In this issue of the Sentinel
and Republican will be found an ac-
count of the death of the father, ia
cob Frank. The death of the father
preceded that of the son one day.
The funeral of the father took place
on Saturday, that of the son on Mon
day. III
When the guests that had assem-,
bled at the marriage of Miss Adams
in Walker township, last Thursday
evening, came to leave, they found
the night to be exceedingly dark, and
everything was wet with rain. John
Thompson, of Mexico, had the fore
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