Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-09-05
SHORTLOCALS.

The schools in town opened on
Monday.
Shoes are auctioned at Heck store
st 8 bargain.
The season for squirrel shooting
opened on Saturday.
Labor Day was observed in this
town in the post office.
Ex-Gov. Curtin is seriously ill at
his home in Bellefonte.
Now is the time to get bargains at
Heck's auction on shoes.
The smoke came from fire in the
pineries of Michigan and Visions sin.
Great forest fires are raging in
Kane and Bradford counties this
State
NJ. a. Yeatter will sell a good
dwelling house on Jefferson street,
next Saturday.
Sugar and whisky will be more ex-
pensive under the tariff Of the "per-
fdy and dishonor party"
Read in another column in this is
sue Of the SENTINEL AND REPUBLICAN
of the Plague-BIack Death.
Twenty new members were added
to the Bloomfield Methodist church,
on Sunday evening, August 26th.
A man walks longest and best on a
mush diet Not all mush, but diet
with large percentage of mush in it.
Don't forget the public sale of a
house and lot on Jefferson street
-e1t Saturday at 2 P. NJ, by NJ. H.
Yeatter
Mahon will be re nominated for
Congress by the Congressional Con-
ference that is to meet at Lewis town
next Friday.
The cannery at this place the past
month has had so people employed.
That number cnmprehends men.
women and children.
The Wavne County Nebraska Re-
publican of September 1st says: The
corn crop of cur county will average
about - bushels to the acre.
On Saturday the .Nifflintown cluh
went to Port Royal and played with
the crack 9 of the latter place Score,
to s in favor of Miffintown.
The earlier symptoms of dyspepsia
heartburn and occossio nally head
aches. should not be neglected. Take
Hoods Sarsapariila to be cured.
- The Western corn belt,
corn was SO plentiful that it was upe,.
by many farmers for fuel This
year the price is higher than the
price of wheat.
Thieves were heard and seen at
the house of Abram Moss in Tusca-
Jora township, last Saturday night
They got away in time to escape
reception such as their case merited.
The towns of Partridge, Sand
stone and Mansfield, Minnesota, we're
destroyed by forest fires on Mondsy.
1t is estimated that u to Is hun
dred people perished in the Minneso-
ia fires within the past week.
The Reedsville 9, and the .Mifflin-
town 8, crossed bats on the grounds
OF the Miffiintown club, and in the
presence of many people, Played
an animated game last Thursday.
Score, 13 to IS in favor or MifHintown.
The Lutheran Sabbath School of
this place picniced at Schmittle's
Park along the T V R., near Water
ford last week one day, and came
home delighted with the trip over
the Valley Railroad, ahd the pleasant
outing throughout.
The disease that took the life of
many cattle pastnring on the noun
tain north of Tyrone, turns out to
be poison that was set for the cattle
" bad man. and not n contagious
disease as at fret reported bv State
7tficers who examined dead and llv-
ing cattle.
Last Saturday night the town Of
Hinelev, Mimi. was DESTROYED by
forest fires. Four hundred people
persisted in the fire. Six towns in
Wisconsin were DESTROYED the same
light bv forest fires The fires have
;rn railroad BRIDGES ard cars can
ot get to the DESTROYED towns.
-Four wears ago the Legislature of
Quebec offered bounty of 100 acres
o. land to every family containing IL
or more living children Already l.
I42 fathers of q dozen or more in
fants have received thia mark If gov
ernmept consideration for fruitful
ness, and applications for it are COM
ing in at the rate of one day.
Mrs. Christiana Hikes of Patterson,
the venerable mother Of our towing
men, Daniel and Stewart Hertc'er. ia
visiting the former. The old ladv
lacks only two months Of hein9 70
years of age, but she is MS nim',le
foot as many persona not half her
age. We wish her a pleasant visit
and hope that her life NAV he spar-
ed many Observation-Disclosures Journ
al,
The new democratic tariff puts a
tax on playing cards, and exchange
papers already report the revenue
collectors around smelling the bust
ness places for PLAYING cards to tax
Only card PLAYERS will have to paw
the tax. The democratic party is a
fraud in its preteuse of tax reduc-