Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-21
ADDITIONAL LOCALS.

School number one, in town was
adjourned last Friday forenoon be-
cause the heater failed to warm the
room.
II many fox scalps can be secured
where few foxes are, how many fox
scalps can be secured where many
foxes are.
The temperature of the water in
the town fountain last Saturday
morning was "a degrees, only two
degrees above freezing.
The elocutionsry entertainment
and concert by Miss E. Myrtle Drum,
her students and the orchestra last
Thursday evening was pleasant en-
tertainment.
Wind last Friday piled the snow
high in many places in the roads.
MIR. Henry Scholl of this town with
his daughter Miss Marion, upset five
times between Richfield and this
town.
Professor w. f. Auman, trelted
the pupils of Cuba school to a sled
ride last Thursday, driving cut the
valley as far as to Happy Hollow
school, which they visited and thence
back to Cuba School House.
The remains of Mrs. Pennington,
wife of abram Pennington, who used
to live in this town, were brought
here for interment in Presbyterian
Cemetery, on Monday, from Harris.
burg where Mrs. Pennington died on
Saturday the 18th inst at the home
of her daughter Mrs. Mlddah.
All kinds of people were in atten-
dance at court last week, from those
who looked as if they had not washed
or completed toiled in weeks, to
those who were so tasty that they
had looking glasses with them to
see themselves and keep even hair,
feather, ribbon, button, and wrinkle
IN coat and dress smoothed
The Bellwood Bulletin says:-The
young man or youth who holds him
aloof from tad compony and immoral
influence, is the one who will sue
ceed in life. The Young
man or youth who carries on his per
son vulgar and obcsne literature will
never rise to any degree of eminence
in his life.
Madison, Neb had q sensation,
last Saturday over the fogging that
Mrs. Peter Ruff the wife of promi
nent citizen administered to Editor
j. 81 Mackay. The whip used was
wagon whip. She finished the Job
by kissing the dog on the humilated
editor. Tie trouble arose from an
article against Mrs Rulfs husband.
Auditor General Gregg says that
in accordance with recent decisions
OF the Supreme Court, dealers in live
stock and butchers who sell meat of
animals they have slaughtered, are
exempt from payment of mercantlls
license, but butchers who purchase
cattle killed and dressed, and sell
the meat are liable to the payment
OF mercantile tax.
Last Saturday, shortly before noon
William Luck had the large bone Of
his right leg broken Just above the
ankle joint. He was repairing grape
trellis for Ex Sheriff Hamilton, when
the ladder on which he was standing
slipped, and threw him down, his
right leg striking the step that leads
into the yard with such force that
the large bone was broken.
A citizen of Perry county, near
Marysville, says the Marysville, Adj
vance, had hog in a box on a vag-
on, the box dropped OF on The road, |
the hog broke out of his prison and |
trudged after the wagon. When the |
driver discovered his loss he called |
on some farmers for aid which was
given and his hogship was at once
stored in the box and slowed in the
wagon.
The jury trying the case of the
commonwealth VS., Patrick Haley.
and Thomas Brady, in court in Hunt
ingdon Last week, for running a loco
motive over Abram Irwin, be wsen
Petersburg and Barroe, last March,
We're acquitted of the charge of neg
killing and involuntary man
slaughter by the jury failing to agree.
The jury stood s for acquittal and
four for conviction.
An observaut individual remarks
that when man drops a piece of
meat on the floor, no difference how
clean the foor may be, he either
gives it kick or lays it to one side.
He will never eat it. But let him
drop his plug of tobacco on the
street. and DO difference how dirty
the street may be be will pick it up,
give it careless wipe on his coat
sieve, or on the bosom of his pants
and then takes a chew from 1t with
a keener relish than ever.
Jessie Grubb, died in this town on
Sunday afternoon, after an illness Of
some weeks, with rheumatism, stom-
ach and kidney trouble, aged about
IS years. He came to Junists from
Perry county, when a young man
md engaged in school teaching
which he followed many years, but
n later years pursued the calling of
| fire insurance agent. He loved a
oke, but had earnest, moral, and
,eligious convictions and was a good
leighbor. Interment in Union Gem
cry on Tuesday afternoon.
Harriet Z. Hall of Waynetown,
md, says: 81 owe my life to the
,reat South American Nervine. 1
lad been III bed for five months from
he effects Of an exhausted Stomach, .