Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1885-11-25
Notes From Washlngtor, Pa

| Notes From WashlnGton, Pa.
Several of the students cf the college,
J who belong to the Sophomore class are news
I paper carriers for a dsily paper, every day
at certain hour.
a citizen who disturbed = religious meet
ing has been lodged IN jan.
Washington has telephone connection
| with Cannonsburg. Pitishurg, Msnsfisli, and
Wheeling, West Virginia.
Rev. D. c. Marquis, D. D., President OF a
| Theological Seminary in Chicago, vas in
town visiting his ton -ho is at College.
Deer ard wild turkeys have fed from ;his
county. The quail and rabbit aOould.
The drilling tools we're f.,t ia me Gantz
| well, near Charters sistion several days
Tools are fast ia another well IN the county
. q new oil well IS to be drilled within hun-
dred yards Of the Gantz well. The Gordon
well has fallen from yield Of one hundred
and fifteen barrels per day to nineiy-five
barrels per day.
Daring tie distributing Of nails at the
postoiiice in the evening the crowd is lsrgei
college students make up the larger number
of people present
The Washington and FranSlin and Phlo
and Union Societies each Il ave elected their
msn Cor lie annual contest which will com-
cf next June, each society viii have eight
performers.
or SAbbath, the 9Th, the weak OF prayer
| for youug men a1i Y. II. c. 4, began in
! many places Throughout the county. Il was
| observed in the town 10y the Y. u. {. \. of
| The Coil e who held prayer meeting ey
cry evening oi the week.
The Senior class elected their chss-day
| performers ioc their commencement next
June. The iOilJ wIaz are the names Of the
elected: Poet, 81. 7. fieiway; Orator,
I J. 4. Stevenson Pro IEet, N. =. Thomas;
! History, ". K. " iiS0n Spoon Orator, =.
I A GsibTsiih Der LangUa tosium, j.
1 '. McAHiuch; Consolidation. :. l.. Godfrey;
/ Presenter oi Houors, G.. ". Futon Mas
J ter OF Ger, nuuieS, J. L. B,ser The Ora
( tioE, F. F. Wheeler; Physioeno mist. q. $.
McEroy. 7 ais class nuanbers forty some
members and viii graduate in 1886. The
Sophomore class is the largest in College.
Il costs s. 7.0Gp to sink well two thou
/ sand feet fog cil. gas wei, tnst deep has
| the additional expense OF pipes in which tn,
gas Is run away from iae neil in.
The project OF starting a creamery IA the
town, Is agiIated.
The following sre the signs o. the signal
service as they viii hereafter appear accord
to the weather, upon The Coari House en-
llola: Upon white flag red star signifies
! stationary temperature, black square a cold
wave, blue star local ram or snow, blu.
moon genera, rain or snUw. red moon Oh
=. I, -.
er. Lower temperature OF colder wegthel
is ra;-sseal-i on ia. Il = hy red crasceot,
bius crescent cica- ~ FAIR weather. At
.hc A.liil i. x. station she signal service
report = ta-k-d Hp - ols of the waiting
rooms every m0f.i1S ;o- tas ssneds Of Pso-
pie about b travel on The railroad.
Or. =. c. Beatty. Of StIaeavils, Ohio,
'Fbo recently died, bcquestaai 20 ihe Latin
Char of v s,hiu5rpD aud Jsl''rsoH College
SO .C'O worth Of railroad stock. The col
lege has no debts and has an endowment
fund OF two hundred and forty thossaad
dollars.
Several weeks ago e was stated that stu
dents would especially J ';roni5e s1cn hls
iuess men as adv ertiSe in town papers
This was partially a mistake. - 5'1ient'
have paper Of t!le.r own, named, Yb'
Washiugtonian and .I5lferSonllE, and it i
the business men that advertise iU ,GIs paper
ihs; the students wit! maks it q point % .'i.,
from. Each student has 4 printed earl wilt
TIE NAMES OF advertiser 10 .Asir paper up
on il They have over iitiy advertisement
I from different pirts "i tie t"wr.
! On Saturday evening toe ifih, bstseer
Q and 10 O'Clock the fire bell on the Dour
House was rung. People 5aa through tn
streets aud cried fire J. -As reported thl
the fire was AZ the Female seminar, and II
short time two fire companies were upon
the ground; they were not needed. II wa
a brush pile that was on lire not far from III
Seminary.
There are three Presbyteri1n churches II
the town incldding the U. ?. Three Meth
odist churches. one of which is compose
OF colored people. One il called the Prot
estant Methodist who baptise people in an
E way they de,ire, whether bv emrrsion q
, otherwise. The Disciple charch mas thre
: hundred members and commune every sab
bath. The BapJists emerse ike all Bsp;ists
! Another church, She Episcopal, like The
: p, select their hynns iroJa ihe Psalms, tn
preachers. wear gowns and according t
: I their belief read their prayers. There is
I Catholic Cathedral in the upper part OF III
ltNH HC 10 Spihpp1ts
of German speaking people.
Rev D. J. D. Moffatt was absent, at Pitts
burg on Tuesday, attending a meeting {
the board of Trustees OF the Female 5 emi
!, . nary of this city. lie is one OF the Tru.
: ices.
4 The C0roner's jury after ing into III
q case of the shooting of John b. Wolf l
: chief Of police Hammond while the form,
! was irving To break into a house decide
a that Hammond was simply dischargii b
a duty. The man who wounded his vile
badly that she died was convicted of MAJ
y slaughter.
II Natural ga. /. used for heating the con
Ie mon school buildings, The Seminary Is
the greater part heated by steam. The CO
ig l-ge recitation rooms are heated 10y co.
d fire. Most of the houses In town are heate
% by gas.
Rev. Or. Newman, of New York, who
church General Grant offended, and wi
" was his pastor, lsctured "a Gessrsl Gran
in the town hall on November 10.
;. IFS.
=, WAsHISGroS, Pa, November 20, 1885.
lie 90
al The family that lives without a ner,n