Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-08-20
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In cities, men ride bicycles, and women
ride tricycles.
The State Fair, this year, will give $780,
600 in premiums.
Charles and Henry Book have bought an
other steam thresher.
Campaign poles are being raised in diff
erent parts of the State.
"Care will kill cat The care must be
exercised in taking aim"
McAlisterville post Office has been made
a money postal order office.
Arch Rock Sabbath School, held a pic
mic at Macedonia, last Saturday
There is lawful penalty ofs5Ofor catch
ing fish by drawing OFF the water.
Miss Maggie Snyder, of Port Royal, visit
ed friends in this town, last week.
Several three pound salmon have been
caught in the river within the past 10 days.
DR.. d. S. Funk and family, of Harrisburg
have been visiting their parents in Walker
township.
Rev. Mr.. Gardner has been asked to be-
come pastor of the Academia Presbyterian
congregation.
A Vigilant Horse Protection Company
has been organized in Spring township,
Perry county.
= The U. P. Church at McCoytown, is to
be repainted and papered. Ex-Sherifi Ham
ilton has the contract.
After long illness, Mrs. Samuel Panna-
baker, of Honey Grove, died on la st Sab
bath, aged about 45 years.
Church Hill Sabbath school will picnic
in Groninger's wood in Turbett township
on the 23rd day of August.
Resolutions, of st. Pauls Lutheran Sab
bath school on the death of Miss Ellie Min
imum will appear in next issue.
The reunion of the Veteran Association
of Perry county will be held at New Port,
on Thursday, September 25, 1884.
Mathew Clark, of Waterford, sent 2l
hogs to Philadelphia BY Rohm's car. The
hogs, in weight averaged 80 pounds.
The Chambersburg Repository says, a
$4,000 COW owned by Colonel Geo. b.
Wrestling accidentally hung herself in the
stable.
Miss Bessie Parker, daughter of r. E
Parker, has been Oh a visit to her uncle,
Rev. A. Ii. Parker, at Reedsville, Mifflin
county.
.What is a garden party A gar den par
ty is the old Shanghai that gets over the
fence and rakes up all the mignonette and
other flowers. -.
A mob of 200 men in Iowa City on the at
ternoon of last Wednesday, August IL,
took lawyer W. II. Baily, stripped his cloth
ing off and tarred him.
Joseph Auker, living near this place
threshed the wheat that he raised on three
acres of ground and the yield was LOG bush
els. 1t was Foltz wheat.
Last week, one evening, Jennie Peoples,
daughter of VIM. Peoples, of Fermanagh
township, gave birth day party. A large
Company was present on the occasion.
Five buildings and eig ht business houses
were destroyed by fire at Altoona, on Sun
day afternoon. Loss S33, 200. The fire
started in an unOcupied room of house on
llth Avenue.
If the borough authority would be half
as particular in enforcing the hog law, as
some of the citizens are in violating that
law, or ordinance, the borough pound
would be quite well stocked for time.
On Wednesday morning, Aug. IL, An
drew Patterson, aged 80 years, died fat his
home in Beale township. he was son of
Merchant Patterson, who was prosperous
merchant in Tuscarora valley two genera
tions ago.
An electric alarm revealed the effort of
thief to get through window in the store
room of Rhine * Graybill at Richfield, a
few nights ago, but the rascal got away in
time TO save himself from capture or dose
of cold lead.
"The Friendship Hook and Ladder Com
pany of Patterson, will hold festival and
Cake walk on Friday and Saturday even
ings, August % and %, to raise funds to
pay the remaining indebtedness on their
building"
"The first bicyclist was blacksmith
named John Cox, who, sixty years ago,
made a riding machine in his little shop, in
Connecticut. He used it in the village
streets, and like those of the present day,
it had one large and one small wheel"
The Grangers' picnic for the Middle
States will open next Monday, Aug. %.
and close on the following Friday, at Will
liams' grove thirteen miles from Harris
burg. 1t promises to be the most COM
plete exhibition of the kind that has been
held. Persons who desire to attend can
procure orders for twelve days excursion
tickets and all needed information by writ
ing to K. II. Thomas, Mechanicsburg, Pa.
Several days ago Philo Pannabaker
caught a two-pound salmon in the river op-
posite the Espenschade farm, but whether
it was a nstive or California salmon, he
did not know. He says that its flesh was
white. What do the old people, who
caught salmon before-dams were placed IN
the river say2 is the flesh of the native sal
mon white.