Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-09-11
SHORTLOCALS.
Foot ball and oysters.

Autumn and foot bali are here.
There are no bald headed foot ball
players.
To succeed your heart must be in
your work.
Senator Cameron saws wood and
keeps quiet.
The Delaware peach crop is smaller
than expected.
There Is more rye grown in Penn
sylvanla than any other State.
The potatoe blight has struck the
crop in certain parts of Miffiin Co.
The National G.. A. r. Encamp-
mont is being held at Louisville, Ky.
Burns Thompson is having a house
built On bis property north of Patter
son.
The State Firemen's Association,
will meet at Reading, Pa, October 1
to 5.
The Lewistown centennial had one
day of fair and one day of rain
weather.
Chickens are shedding their feath.
ers and lay few eggs at this season
OF the year.
The wheat aud corn crop in Ohio,
In.!iaua and Illinois is reported short
of full crop.
The Juniata Veteran Association
Will hold the ercamp1nent next year
at Huntingdon.
Columbus Servis of Waterford this
county, had his meoagerie at the
Lewistown centennial.
Many Juniata county people attend
ed the Lewistown Centennial last
Thursday apa Friday.
G P. Dull raised 1000 bushels of
potatoes on his island farm at Nc
Feytown, Miflin county
Those four pictures for q quarter
a. Hess are creating quite an excite
meat in the twin towns at present. If.
The rain at midnight on Monday
was a terror while it lasted. A pier
of the Watec street bridge was washed
out.
The so called Labor Holiday is
not popular in this part of the coun-
try No one paid attention to the
day.
This Wednesday, September IL, is
the day of the meeting of the Demo
cratic State Convention Il. Williams
port.
Mr. Frederick Espenschade is in
luck this fall in having what IS con
sidsred large crop of peaches this
year.
: good many farmers in this
neighborhood are sowing winter bar
ley. They say it pays better than
wheat
To dodge the Jaw agains. selling
beer o. Sunday in Philadelphia, the
beer is frozen and called ''hopps
frappe."
The electric light company have
bonght loS of ground near Man
beck K Nelson's rnill and will put
their plant there.
One of the distinguishing features
of the Lewistown centennial last week,
was the encampment Of the veterans
of the Juniata Valley.
The majority of the immigrants
from Poland and Hungary the past
ten wears settled in the mining dis.
tricts of Pennsylvania
When a town grows old, the in-
ha5itaots iubiiats over its age. But
wnen a man or woman grow old, they
never rejoice over their age.
One OF the most luscious of grapes
grows on three year old vine in
VIM. Hawks yard in this town. Mr..
Hawk obtained the stalk from Mr..
Josiah Gingrich, il Walker township.
4 maa at prayer in Texas camp
meeting last week would not get out
of the way of snake and WAS bitten
on the hand and died He thought
he could pray the snake cut Of the
meeting.
George Heck's peanut roaster is
run by spring machinery like clock
On Saturday evening while winding
the roaster something about the ma
chine slipped and struck, and hurt
his left hand severely.
Cards are out for the marriage of
Miss Carrie Adams, and Mr.. Robert
john Farquhar, on the 18th of Sep
tember, 1895, at the home of the
brides mother, Mrs. Caroline Adams,
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
The Altoona Tribune says:-That
the man who helped Evans and West
to escape from the MifHintown Jail is
Eddie Brown, who has about as bad
arscord for petty thieving as any
person in the interior of the State.
Last Friday Sheriff Calhoun took
G. \. Leland alias J. E. Bacon and
I'll Parker alias Owen McCabe to the
western Penitentiary at Pittsburg in
tuIhliment of trial. conviction and
sentence for the robbery of HertzIer's
store at Port Royal.
Miss Flora X. Hertzler of Hunting
don and Mr.. Lloyd J. Mcclellan of
Altoona, were married at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Hertzler in Huntingdon on
the 4th of September by Rsv. e. G.
deltz of the Reformed church.
Well Well the latest war ships
that the United States have built are
too large for American dry docks,
and therefore the battle ship Indiana
has to be sent to England to find a
dry dock large enough in which to