Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-02-13


County Commissioners, Steuart
Moore aud Niemand were caught by
the storm 1t the County Seat and
we're compelled to remain over Sun
day.
4 number Of heaters in houses n
town, distinguished themselves BY
not heating during the prevalence ol
the blizzard, just the very time heat
was most needed.
Scrofula, humors and all diseases
caused or promoted by impure blood
or low state of the system, are cured
by Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Down in Gsorgis, the thsrmsm..
ter dropped q few degrees below
zero on Friday and Saturday, and
the greater part of Florida was &c.
verely frost bitten.
The Altoona Tribune says: The
gale last Friday at Tyrone blew al
the rate OF 60 miles . minute. That
must have been where the boy saw q
thousand rabbits in the woods.
What do you take medicine for.
Because you are siek aud want to get
well OF course. Then remember
Hoods Sarsaparilla Cures.
"The superintendent of the New
port, Perry county cemetery solicita
patronage from the public through
the newspapers; says that grave dig.
ging will be done on short notice,
and promises the work done in a
workmaalike manner"
A belated passenger train ran into
gang of railroad snow shovelers, at
Lucknow, near Harrisburg. last Fri
dav and killed three men and iDjur-
ed two others. The injured are Ben.
j,man Ostot and John Grossly, The
dead are Noah Nsy, George w.
Troup, John K. Carr.
Bert Biglow was the first man
from this town through the blizzard
from Philadelphia. He left the Q IA
ker City between 8 and 4 o'clock on
Friday afternoon on Pacific and
stuck to the train till it arrived here,
which was on Saturday afternoon be-
tween 8 and 4 o'clock p. Al.
The blizzard interfered with the
running Of trolly cars, the snow
packed into the ground rails aud
broke the electric current. To keep
up the running of their cars the
trolly lines restored to the use Of
horses to pull their cars in Philadel-
phia last Friday and Saturday.
The torture of dyspepsia and sick
headache, the agonizing itching ana
pain of salt rhem, are removed by
Hood's Sarsaparilla.
The handsome fountain on the
south side of Court House Square,
gave up to the stress of weather on
Friday, February s, to the great dis
comfort of the town cows who we're
won't to resort there in droves to
to slake their thirst. Friday and
:turday were dry days for horses
and cattle in town.
The seven Mifflin county farmers,
who moved a neighbor to what used
to ba the Barefoot farm, near Oak
land Mills. this county, were snow
bound by the late blizzar.1, till ON
Monday when they returned home.
Each man of them had q shovel and
when the lead team encountered 4
drift of snow, every man stepped
out, wen. forward and cleared the
way for teams and sleds.
A flock of luckless ducks found
their way through Fridays storm in
to a piece of open water in tho ice
Oh the river below the river bridge.
Bad as the day was the opportunity
to get shot at snch game was suf-
ficient to turn out some of the bloods
of the town. Fred Espenschade and
James Murray each got a shot at the
fowls and killed four of the flock
They, however, only secured two of
the dead ducks. Two were drawn
under the ice by the strong current
of water.
Walking was not good on Saturday
and Sunday and Monday, bat more
walking was done on those three
days in Juniata by men who own
horses than Oh any other three da, s
within the past 80 years. Horses
could not be cotton through the
snow drifts, but men could walk over
and around them. Harry Lloyd, q
Miffiintown Academy student, walk.
ed miles home to Nc alisterville on
Saturday evening Some citizens
walked 20 miles over snow drifts to
the lower end of the county.
Owing to the drifting snow storm
last Friday and Saturday, business
in town was at standstill. The
business places were open, but there
were no customers. They we're days
long to be remembered. II the
Hbrcak up of the winter" as it is CALI
ed, IS half as severe "a was The storm
of last Friday and Saturday. the de.
struction to property along the
streams will be frightful. However
there is no use of borrowing trouble,
the break up may not come, and the
winter may end in spring to the de-
light of all.
Sleighing on the river was in
dulged in on Monday, snd jeff Mid
dams horse that cut such q figure IN
Lewistown recently when it leaped
over a sled with a sleigh in which
Mr.. .Niddah sat, knocked to pieces q
couple Of sieighs, and wound up the
run off by running a cross q trestle
bridge, tried the runaway caper on
the ice, and in all probability would
have again succeeded to the discom