Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-21
SHORTLOCHLS.

Colonel Moorehead is pushing his
railroad Southwark.
The corn crop ia Juniata county
will not be a large one.
TIE Juuiata County Institute will
be convened November 49,
Twenty-one Quay delegates were
elected in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
The torrid heat of last week was
broken without rain on Sunday night.
Rev Mr.. Trube lectured in the
Presbyterian church on Tuesday
evening.
Some Of the farmers are complain
ing of the grub worms working at
their corn.
The Republican State Convention
will be held on the 28th of August at
Harrisburg.
The corn fields will turn out a
good deal of nubbin corn, caused by
the drought.
A Festival will BE- held at Locust
Run church on next Saturday even
ing the Oath inst.
The Democratic State Convention
will meet at Wiliiamsport on the l1th
day of September.
A choir of 100 singers will take
part in the opening exercises of the
Low; clown aofonpia1
Perry county has 4,O70 men be-
tween the ages of 81 and As, who are
subject to military duty.
DR.. Holloway preached in the
Lutheran church, having returned
from a three weeks vacation.
Almost everyone interested in the
cultivation of the soil, and many
others prayed for rain last week.
Charles Book of Walker is now the
owner Of the farm on which the In
dian Mound annual picnic is held.
All Mifflin county seems to be en-
thused over the Centennial Celebra-
ton to take place on the 5th and 9Th
of September.
The Sunday School of the United
Evangelical church at Mexico, will
picnic in the grove at Mexico on Sat-
urday of this week.
The picnic in the PRESBYTERIAN
cemetery grove near McAlisterville
last Thursday, was attended by many
people from Juniata and surround
ing counties.
FARM FOR sALE.-J. B. NJ. Todd,
executor of Elizabeth Leonard, de-
ceased, advertises farm for sale.
For particulars, see advertisement
The farm may just suit you.
1t is said that President Cleveland
wants third term nomination.
When the Republicans proposed to
nominate Grant for third term all
the Democrats shouted Cesarism.
A man or company can have an in
candescent electric light dynamo, a
thousand light machine placed on
foundation for one thousand to twelve
hundred dollars with all appliances.
Ohio has many adventists who pre-
dict the end of the world to take
place in 1900. The end will come to
good many of the adventists and
other people before that date comes
around.
Judge Jackson of the United States
Supreme Court is dead. He was ap-
pointed by President Harrison.
Question-WillP President Cleveland
appoint a Republican to succeed
jackson.
The letters uncalled for in the Mif
fintown Post Office, for the week
ending Aug IT, were for Mrs. c. F.
Hess, John G. Wright. Miss Mary E.
Shirk, Peter Teas, r. J. Parter, Jr,,
Watson Clouser. 2.
Flour siftsd on caboage while the
dew is on will put an end to the des-
tructive work of the cabbage worms.
If they don't roll off they will be bak-
ed fast TO the leaves by the sun in
the paste made by the flour"
Last Thursday there was merry
dance by young people in the Grove
near McAlisterville Presbyterian
graveyard. Grand parents of Lum-
be- Of the yeung people who danced
there, are buried in the graveyard.
Austin Wagner rode eight miles
beyond McAlisierville on his bicycle
on Sunday when both wheels were at
one time suddenly punctured. He
returned 10 McAlisterville afoot and
there repaired his wheels.
Quay carried II of the 19 districts
in Mifiin county on Saturday by
about 300 majority. Culbertson was
nominated for Judge; Webb for Pro
thonotary; Lanlz for District Attorn-
ey; Milllken for Director of the Poor.
Policeman Gross of Lewistown es-
pied two men enter Musser's drug
store in Lewistown about o'clock
on Sunday morning. One of the
men named Dorsey Stoner, colored,
he captured. The other. named
Charles Rhinehart got away.
Melancholia caused Theresa Meyer
of Harrisburg to end her life by
shooting pistol ball into her head
about 4 o'clock in the morning at the
home of 8. D. Howard at Lewistown
Junction on the morning of the 14th
of August The unfortunate woman
was aged rs years.
The Huntingdon Globe says: That
John Corneilson of Strode's Mills
while taking nap near the Union
Station at that place. had his money,
watch and revolver stolen by q worth