Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-08-28
SHORT TLOCALS.

Tyrone has had five suicides with.
the past five years.
Harvest Home services were held
in the Lutheran church on Sunday.
Middleburg. Snyder county people
want clock placed on their Court
House.
The electric light plant at the
Huntingdon Reformatory is to be on.
larged-
A Tyrone shoe dealer offers a mar
riage license free with every pair Of
shoes sold.
Cider can be made from pears and
when allowed to ferment tastes like
Rhine wine
Dogs killed four sheep for Robert
Crozier near Port Royal few nights
ago.
Lewistovn people are counting or
having many people at their Centen
nial next week.
Edward Sieber bought the John
Reno farm a mile north east of this
town for $500.
The gates of Newton Hamilton
Camp Meeting are to be open next
year on Sunday.
The drought has destroyed the
fair prospects for large corn crop
in Juniata county.
The attendance upon the Republi.
can State Convention from Juniata
was unusually large.
A party in Kansas wants to move
the National Capital from Washing
ton to Topeka, Kansas.
Tons upon tons Of fertilizer for the
wheat soon to be sown are hauled
from the railroad station every day.
Last Monday the Department o.
Internal Affairs at Harrisburg sem
out 20 medical certificates to women
Sportsmen ale looking out hunting
places to shoot squirrels when the
season opens on the lst of Septem
Der.
There was a good deal of gipgel
in the Democratic primary in tn
Miffiintown, Patterson and Ferman
agh boxes.
John Tyson met with loss in tn
death of his horse, that served hin
50 well in hauling his coal oil wagoI
through the county.
The Mifflin base ball club will pla,
the deciding game with the Logan
on the home grounds, next Saturday
afternoon, August 3lst.
The drought has played havoc wit
the young clover in wheat stubl
fields, and turned the experimen
with red top clover into a mockery.
A horse of Irwin Clark of Lac
township while being brought fro1
pasture field ran against barbe
wire fence, which caused him to fal
In the fall he broke his neck.
Bicyclers are finding out that it
best not to run over snakes they fin
in the road. The snakes thus trea
ed resent and generally catch ont
the wheel and sometimes onto tn
rider.
1t turns ont that Jefferson Davi
president of the defunct Souther
Confederacy and General o. S. Gran
who put down the rebellion were re
lated through the Pennsylvani
Simpsons three generations ago.
Last Thursday, Aug. % in th
Baptist Church at Coal Run, KY
Levi Thornton and Mrs. Linda Fie
der we're married. The groom is 8
wears old and the bride is aged 81
Both had been married five time
previously.
Executor, Squire J. B. NJ. Todi
adjourned the sale of the Leonar'
farm in Fayette township, LAST Sal
urday, to Sept. 7, 1895, at 1 o'cloc
P. NJ, when the farm will be sold a
the Court House in Miffiintow1
S2,95O.OO was offered for the farm G
SO acres.
At a reunion of the children an
great grand children of Jacob Gror
niger, deceased, held at the home {
Al Groninger in Milford township
there were one hundred twenty. fiv
invited guests. The Groninger fan
lily is large, and one of the most thri
ty in the county.
A recent writer says:-''Statistit
demonstrate that people live longt
now than formerly" That the write
was writing by random is we'll prove
by the age of dozen men in Jun
alta county, who in 1910 were drav
ing pensions as Revolutionary so
diers, may be learned in another CO
umn in this paper.
George L. Hover, ESQ, came int
the office of the SENTINEL AND REPU
LIcAN on Monday morning, Angus
26, 1895, with an apple that was tal
en- from an apple tree in Shade Va
ley, Huntingdon county, last Fal
1894, and brought to his place i
this town. The apple has a som
what wrinkled appearance. Othe
wise it is all right:
On the Goth of August Glydes N
Cauley, daughter of Joseph ~
Claudius McCauley was one year el
When she was born her frient
bought little bank for her in
which they occasionally dropped pc
MES. On her FIRST birthday, Il
bank was opened and found to CO
tain twenty-five dollars and sew
cents, which was placed in bank
interest to the chlld's credit.