Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-05-01

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Thursday forenoon of last week thre
couples entered the Bloomfield Pres
oyterI parsonage almost simults
neously to be married They wer
strangers to each other and unac
qualnted with each others mission
The SIX people stood up together an,
were married at the same time by tn,
minister. Rev. r +. Mclean.
List Of unclaimed letters in p. o
at Mifflintown, Pa. Week eudaC
April 27, SO. Persons calling fol
letters IN this list Will please ask fo,
advertised matter. Mrs. 3. +
Stoner, Miss Emma ]. Stoner, Mrs
David Smith, Albert Robison, Lewis
H Philo, y. VI. Hartman, Dors
Longacre. Mr.. N Keloy.
CHAs B. CRAWFORD, P. NJ.
The way To cultivate discontented
ness in children Is to continually
talk unfavorsb.y Of your own sur
roundings, and to praise the oppor
tunIties Of other places and other
people, by so doing your own children
viii soon come to despise their home
sad oftimes despise their parents.
The bstter way Is to teach your
children to appreciate their own
caople and things Of their own
neighborh6cd
Sheriff Loudon, prepared dose Of
strychniue for rats and placed the
bait under an out house. HIS vaiu-
able dog Shep was a silent spectator
of the placing Of the poison, and
when the Sheriff walked away. Shep
lay down by the out house and reach
ed under and with front paw drew
the rEt bait out and ate il, and that
closed the dogs career. Shep will
be missed IN the neighborhood #
East Point.
Last Friday three or four strange
fish appeared near the surface Of the
water in the canal near the river
bridge Of this place. James Banks
and others trved to capture them.
Various means were used such as the
hook and line, dip net sc. But all
that the fish would bite at was bread
thrown on the water. Some persons
declare the fish TO be carp Il at escap-
ed from some fish dam of which there
are u number north of town.
Last Thursday J. E. Kaufman,
Ex Sheriff Montgomery Jamison, of
Favette. both aged 78 years, and
Aaron Leidy, of Fayette, aged so
years and Lewis Blrchield, of Mil
ford, aged 81 years were In town. 1t
IL not often that such a galaxy of
prominent, aged citizens, come to
the county capital on one and the
same day. Many years of good
health gentlemen, Is the wish extend
ed TO YOU.
This bear story Is vouched for by
the Curtin township correspondent
of the Belefonte News: "A neighbor
Of our, Mrs. B, thought she saw bear
tracks under her hired girl window,
whereupon she set her husbsnd's s
bear trap whore the tracks were
without saving anything to anyone.
Soon after she had retired that night
she heard yells OF nain and anguish.
Upon investigating the cause she
found her husband hopping around
on one leg with the bear trap hang
ing 10 the other. Tue next morning
mutual explanations wero in order
the result being the sending home oi
the hired girl"
The Eclectic Magazine Of Foreign
literature for Nav lies on our table
oyer-tiuwing with entertaining and
instructive reading beginning witt
TN article On The Panama Canal aud
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Heritage Of The HtPsburghs. Prohi
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From The Bloomfield Advocate o
April "a. Mr. John Spicher lost I
valuable horse on Tuesday of las
week, IN a peculiar manner. Th'
animal WAS left go to the watering
trough with the harness ON her, anC
! fearing she would lie down one o
the boys picked IN a small stone an'
threw it, hitting her ON leg, break
ing il. The animal had to be killed
John \ Baker, residing nea
Markelville, Juniats township, die
last Thursday night Of pneumonia
On the Sunday previous his wifi
| died after brief illness from tn
same disease. At the time of IN
wife's death Mr.. Baker was danger
ouslv i'll, but it was thought he mi :, h
recover. Eight children survive tn
loss of parents, the Youngest 5eln
| about three years old. Tn
repeal of the fence law Of 100 b
the Legislature has created not
little curiosity to know what II WAS
it Is herewith given:
.SEc. |. All corn fields and ground
kept for enclosures. within said PROVING
I and counties Aunct~u. ~ "a h' Nv't '''''S
with fence at least 3 feet high, Of surtcie'
rail or logs, and close st tn e bottom. An
vhosoever, not having their ground enci"
ed with such sufficient fence ~ foresai
shall hurt, Kill or do damage 10 any hor'
Kline, sheep. hog, or goats of any 9th
person., by hunting or driving them out
or from -sid ground, shall be liaol- to nal
sood all damage. sustained thereby to q
owner OF the SAID cattle"
BY the repeal of this law eyel
pner Of stock Will be compelled
look after it himself and can be he
for all damages it may do by tire
passing on the lands of others, )
one now will be required 10 keep I
fences to protect his lands or crol
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