Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-11-09
MORT LOCALS.
The political agony is over.

Thanksgiving and the institute
next.
Lewis Strayer has caught nine
coons this season.
The oath day of this month is
Thanksgiving day.
JH. Simons spent Sunday with
friends in Tyrone.
~ John Hamilton and family have
.erf,oyed to Altoona.
The corn crop has been harvested
and is Lot q half crop.
The next general and legal holiday
will be Thanksgiving day.
Wm. Aiken will move to Altoona
and build several houses.
A number of farmers plowed
ground for Gown last week.
Mrs. i'berJ Hackenberger is visit
igg friends in Philadelphia.
The people generally are pleased
with the new way of voting.
Mr.. Aiken has sold his Third
street property to Vim. Ord.
Corsets lave been found on the
waists of Egyptian mummies.
There IS a great scare in town
over the advent of diphtheria.
Fly in the wheat is the report
from more than one part of the State.
The ground was lightly frozen on
Saturday morning the first time this
fall
Wm. Ord has sold his farm near
.lBig Run school house to Christian
'Musser.
A newfoundland company has
been organized to gather ice from
icebergs.
Paris is talking about gong to the
the mountains of Switzerland for
pure water.
Many hundred rabbits have been
shot the past week, since the shoot
ing season opened.
Astronomers expect brilliant met
eoric showers on the nights of the
18th, 18th and 18th.
Major J. D. Howell, of Pleasant
View. has returned from a visit to
friends in York State.
The State of Washington lays
claim to 800 Indian voters, while
Oregon boasts of so.
The love and affection of many
people extends 10 deeper than q
man or womau's dress.
Philadelphia boasts of one jourD-
alist 50 conscientious that he won't
puff even the best cigars.
Mrs. Michael Collron. Of Van
Vert, has been visiting friends and
relatives in Mifiin county.
Last Thursday night Strayer
caught two coons in Macedonia gap
near the water works dam.
The most popular animal in the
world Is probably not the horse nor
the dog, but the scnpegoat.
{. S. Parker of the Columbia
Washington. d. c., National Bank,
was in town on Election day.
The first rain to settle the dust
since the Port Royal fair fell On the
morning Of the Bird of October.
Grated horse radish eaten at fre-
quent intervals during the day, it is
said will remove hoarseness and
cough.
CuI Espenschade was home to
vote on Tuesday morning and off
Immediately after voting for Phila-
Hdelphia.
= The rain on tue morning of the 80
inst, drove away smoke that hid the
sun almost every day for q period of
10 days.
Several of the schools in Tuscaro-
IA Valley have been closedo account
OF diphthcria prevailing among the
children.
Mrs Speakman, wife of Hayes p.
Speakman, died at her home in
Ihompsyntown, last Sunday after a
lingering illness.
Agreat many eels have been caught
In nets in the river within the past
week. They are late about going
down stream this fall.
Matthew Allison. William Davis,
Ellis Stump, Edward Berry, David
and Wm. Etka, Jacob Davis and
others came home to vote.
Andrew Banks shot wild cat last
Thursday on the ridge north OF town,
he was hunting rabbits when the
dogs chased the cat up tree.
Congressman Atkinson has plant
ed several thousand locust trees on
his farm south of town aud he will
put IL a mile and a half of tile drain.
Henry Goshen has returned from
trip to Altoona, and his tale of the
: 1ithy water that Altoona people
toiink IS almost enough to sicken one.
A bear walked into the town of
faamIiton, Northampton county last
Saturday but did not walk out. It
was shot and weighed nearly 400
pounds.
Ihe mountain fires broke up the
haunts of the bear and within the
past week, four bears have been
seen IN Macedonia gap about four
miles from town.
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