Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-09

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Miss Carrie Derr is visitir,- t,;
IN Philadelphia. s friends
: 'John j. Patterson. ESQ :. :.
on visit 70 the Worlds Fair 10 Oh
Miss Emma Robson has returro o.
D IRON a visit to the Worlds Fair
"A company has been organized =
furnish ,, Bloomfield, Perry eonntr :.
The State Fair viii be held at Tn.
dlana, Indiana county, Pa, sentan1
Der IL to September Is next. ''ni
Mss Lenra A. Harley, daughter Of
Jonas NJ Harley of Philadelnbis =
Vls'Iing relatives and friends in tbis
county. III 'nis
James Robson and Benjamin Wac
ner have each laid new brick nave
m, ment IN front of their homes on
Third street. on
A game of base ball was played in
neid on the farm of Samuel Parma
Daker, adjacent to Pannabaker's Is
land on Saturday. . "
A soaking rain passed over Tusca
rora Valley at McCoytown on Sun.
day At Reeds Gap considerable
quantity of hail fell.
Mrs Grant Thompson of Altoona
mas returned home after spending y
few weeks with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs John Earnest in Patterson.
An exchange remarks that every
step or the National Democratic Per.
tty now is perfectly terrifying to the
business interests eff the country.
The Lewistown Gazette has been
enlarged. It has always been a new
sy paper, and doubtless it will be
more newsy now that it is enlarged.
At scheduled time the Tuscarora
Valley Railroad was taxed to its ut
most capacity on Saturday to accom-
modate the travel to and from the
Inscarora Valley Harvest Home.
The drought has developed the
grass-hopper in such numbers in GER
tain parts of Huntingdon county that
the insects are destroying what lit
tie Is left of grass and corn.
Colonel J. ]. Patterson and wife
are at home after a sojourn in Ian
caster, Pa. The Colonel has been
successful in getting his railroad en-
terprises safely based notwithstand.
ing the panic.
A large company Ct the friends of
Colonel John j. Patterson, convened
at the Jacobs House at 7:3O p. NJ,
on Tuesday evening, and in a body
walked to his hospitable home to a
reception in his honor.
4 A farewell social was given for
Paul Holloway, by AR. and Mrs. Hol-
loway at the Lutheran parsonage on
Tuesday evening on the occasion of
PauPs departure for Delta where he
has accepted clerkship in a drug
store.
The Executive Committee of the
Veteran Association met in town on
Saturday, and deferred the matter of
determining the time and place of
holding a reunion till Thursday even
ing, August II, when a meeting will
be bald at 7 o'clock in the Post room
in this place.
\ number of the fair sex tried bass
fishing in Tuscarora creek near the
harvest home ground on Pannabak-
er's Island last Saturday. Large
bass were in full view in the stream,
but they 70 more than gave a few
glorious nibbles at the bait thrown
TO them by the ladies.
Railroad men were called out about
l o'clock on Thursday morning to
clear a wreck of freight cars just east
of the Mifilin yard. For some un-
explained reason freight train 60
ing west ran into the rear end of a
freight train that was "slowed up"
or stopped il the yard at this place.
About 26 cars were wrecked.
The many friends of Rev Mr.. Dav-
export Of Academia were desirous
that he should make an address Mt
the Harvest Home on Pannabaker's
Island last Saturday, but Mr.. Daven
ports voice was in such state that
he could not crafty their desire.
He was present and gave assistance
in the work that made the harvest
home a success
Miss Mary E. Harley is visiting
her father Mr.. Philip Harley at East
Salem this county, during these va
cation days from teaching at Helena,
Montana, where she is principal of
six schools. In company with her
cousin Miss Laura A. Harley of Phil
adelphia, she visited her uncle and
aunt, Mr. Daniel Harley and wife in
this town several days ago.
The directors of the Lutheran
Theological Seminary, Gettysburg,
have elected Rev. II. II. Billheimer
of Reading to the Chair of Hebrew
and German, vice Rev. Charles A.
Hay, deceased" H. G. Holloway, d.
D., and Mr.. Joseph Rothrock, both
of this place and officers of Pennsyl-
vania college were in attendance up
on the election of Prof. L. S. Bill
heimer.
B. f. Alien and wife formerly of
this county visited friends in Tusca-
rera Valley this summer, and left for
their home in Ohio, stopped at Bell
wood, Blair county, Pa, with the
family of Ira Wentzel, and while there,
their three year old son was stricken