Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-04-13
Early Oats Sowing.

On the 9th inst, the SENTINEL AND
REPUBLICAN, published an item from
the Lewistown Gazette of how q citi-
zen of Miflin county soved oats, on
the 22nd of March, thirty-three years
ago, which item has brought a ro-
sponse from Wooster, Ohio, as fol.
lows:
WOOSTER, O., April s, 1S92.-B. f.
SCswEIER Just read piece in the
SESTIsRI. AND REPUBLICAN, about a
man sowing oats 33 years ago, on
the 22nd of March, and the ground
was in good order To reply to that,
Levi Marks sored oats in Wayne Co,
Ohio, in Chester township, q years
ago, on ths Sth ard 9th of March.
l never saw the ground in better
condition than it was at that time.
The yield of oats when thrsshed was
so bushels to the acre, and weighed
IL pounds to the bushei. How S
that for Ohio? l.. ".
"Dave Hill, como blow your horn,
Groves in the meadow, Boise in tho corn /;
Come, Dave, go mind your sheep
Down by Tammany, going to sleep"
DR.. Z. H. Irwin died suddenly, OF
heart failure. at his home in Lodi,
Wisconsin, on Saturday night, April
2, 1892, aged So years. He WIS q
Pennsylvania by birth, having been
born in Miffiin county. His father
moved to Wisconsin at an early day
and thus he becam. a citizen OF that
state, in which he practiced medicine
all his life, excepting the time of the
rebellion, which h. passed in the ar
my, frat as captain and second as
surgeon. He was a learned and
skillful physician, and on his last Wis
it to friends in Pennsylvania and
New York, in October, 1891, no dag
nosised disease, and learnedly gave
remedies to several relatives, that
lifted them from the clutches of dis
ease that was pronounced incurable.
His large circle of friends in the cen
trail part of Pennsylvania are grievsd
to learn of his sudden death, though
they know that he was ready for the
summons. He was a member of the
Presbyterian church, and when he
visited Juniata, last fall he took oc-
casion to worship with the congrega,
ton of his choice in this town. The
sympathy of friends and relatives in
this community are expressed for
Mrs. Irwin, and her bereaved family.
Ralph Espenschade, found II small
Indian tomahawks at the canal sluics
near town. The Indian made his
hatchets and axes of stone, the white
man melts certain kinds Of stone and
ground, and calls it iron, out of which
he makes hatchsts, axes and so forth.
The Indian used the skins of animals
and Of birds for clothing and used
their sinews or muscles for thread.
The white man raises fax and cotton
and clips the wool from sheep sll Of
which he spins into thread to sew
with, and to weave into material to
clothe himself in The Indian was q
rover, and lived off the things that
grew in woods and streams without
attention from him. The white man
settles, cultivstes the soil and from
what he raises from it he lives. The
Indians one and all followed the
same business, there was no diversi-
fed industry and every one support
cd himself. The white man is man OF
diversified industry; one is farmer,
another is mechanic, another is a
weaver, another is shoemaker, an
other is house builder, another is
a preacher, another is a lawyer, an
other is doctor, another is labor.
er, another is merchant, and by
trading or exchanging the products
of their different occupations they
live off each other The Indian was
a communist so far as ownership ir