Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-29
SHORTLOCALS.

Politeness does not offend.
The oyster season opens next Sat-
urdsy.
Miss Myrtle Drum returned home
on Friday from Gettysburg.
Some of the fields of corn are
good. Others are very poor.
A. W. Opple of Oppleville, was in
town on business day last week.
The most skilliul carpenters in
China, get 3Octs for days work.
The place to buy shoes will be at
Heck's auction, next Monday night.
Don't forget the Auction Sale of
shoes at Heck's next Mondsy even
ing.
Squirrels are numerous in the
woods in the upper end of Blair
county.
Colonel Moore of the Tuscarora
Valley Railroad spent day in town
last week. .
The Supreme Lodge of the Knights
of Pythias meets in Washington, d.
c., this week.
Sausage and buck wheat cakes are
looming up family along the aut-
umn horizon.
Harry Frieze is a victim of small
pox at his home in Carroll township,
Perry county.
Edward Willet of this county re
Gently visited his uncle J. w. Norton
at Newton Hamilton.
The output of Juniata county
peaches is estimated at not less than
fifty thousand boxes this year.
A nine pound girl baby was the
gift that Mrs. Joseph McCauley, pre-
sented to her husband last week.
Rev. Mr.. Thompson of the Fosto-
ria. Ohio, Methodist church, was
married last Saturday to mulatto
girl.
Last Wednesday, August %, .ars.
William Christman of near Strouds-
burg, Pa. gave birth to triplets, all
boys.
September 9th, is the last day for
registration of voters, and October
9Th, the last day for the payment of
taxes.
The Newport Light, Heat and
Power Company, have been granted
a charter by the State Department
at Harrisburg.
G. W. Burchfeld of Harrisburg,
spent Sunday with his family in this
town. His son Percy accompanied
him back to Harrisburg on Monday.
Fire in the mountains caused a
heavy smoke in the vallies on Friday,
Saturday and on Monday. There is
heavy penalty against firing the
woods.
The Gibbony wooden mill in Wif.
fin county was destroyed by fire on
the night of the 18th inst. Loss
10000 Origin of the fire not
known.
A storm along the sea of Azof in
Russia on Satur rday, rolled the waters
high inland, destroying much prop
erty and drowning more than a thou,
sand people
On Sabbath evening, August 10
bolt of lightning, struck the Thomp
sontown Lutheran church, and dam
aged it to the extent of about three
hundred dollars.
On Thursday afternoon game of
ball was played between the II. L.
Wagner's and a scrub nine. The
score of runs was nearly all on the
side of the Wagners, being 32 to
in their favor.
"The new word for tramps, '.ho
bos' is corruption of '.hoe boys" a
phrase used in the South for "the
peripatetic agricultural laborers" EN-
ployed in the South during the sea-
son when cotton is growing
The Huntingdon Journal says:
Mitilintown's base ball PLAYERS are
regular sluggers, as "Our Own" dis
covered when they were taken into
camp on Fridsy afternoon and only
succeeded in making three runs.
Where's Shorty"
The letters uncalled for in the Mif-
hintown post Office for the week end
ing August 25, 1894, were for Mr..
Dorry Owings, and cards for VIM.
II. Grissinger, Mrs. William Webber,
Charles Wolf, George Gross, Esq,
VIM. H. Grove.
LosT-A pocket ledger somewhere
on the road between Mifflintown and
the peach orchard of Philip Weber
i'll Fayette township. The finder
will confer favor by sending the
ledger to Philip Weber, McAlister-
Vile.
The sheriff of Huntingdon county,
has been charged with neglect in the
keeping of prisoners He asks the
people to suspend Judgment till they
have looked into the manner of the
escapes of prisoners from Hunting
don jail
First Patriot-s..Mr. Greenhead
wants ter be 'lected." Second patri-
ot-"what kind O man is he!" 'Us
boys called on him last night to talk
things over, and i've got er splittin
headache this mornin'" "I'm fer
him. Arkansas Traveller.
"Seven prisoners escaped from the
Franklin county Jail on Sunday night,
Aug. 10. Five are still at large.