Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-07-10
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SHORTLOCALS.

The Governor has signed the re-
ligious garb bill.
The Governor has vetoed the
Quay county bill.
The oats crop will not average q
half crop in Juniata.
A glass of milk will clean the
breath of onions, says an exchange.
Port Royal people indulged in q
cake walk on the evening of the 4th.
Under the new law coal dealers are
required to give 2,240 pounds coal
for ton.
Rev. John Crawford, of West Vir
ginia. preached for the Presby terians
last Sabbath.
Rev, Henry T. Scholl, of Big Flats.
York State, will preach for the Pres
byterians on Sunday.
Showers & Scholl have put down
q substantial board walk along their
carriage factory on Washington
street.
The barn of Jacob Hickman in
Fayette township. was struck by
lightning some days ago, but not
burned.
Judge Harry White is now grant
ing license to sell liquor in Indiana
county. A few years ago he refused
all applicants.
A band of seven horns was in town
on Friday. It was "dat leetle Ger
man bant. Their music brought
everyone to the front door.
Mrs. Sandoe, wife of Mr. Anthony
Sando, died of cancer of the stom
ach Oh the 9th day of June last, ag-
ed 10 years. 8 months and 20 days.
The town council had a wrestle
with the electric light question on
Monday evening They will have
an other wrestle next Monday evening.
The men and women who tell
what is not true about their neigh
bors, are pronounced by scientists as
poor weak creatures, destitute of
conception and perception"
Bumblebees are growing scarce,
and when they become extinct so will
clover, for it is the only bee that has
atongue long enough to gather in
the pollen of the clover head and scat
ter it far and wide.
Sabbath Schools and the Junior
Sons of America, turned out at Wat
erford on the 4th and celebrated the
day to the delight of ali participants
and spectators. A number from this
town were in attendance.
"Moses Ambrose, colored man,
died at Salem, Oconee county, Ga.,
few days since at the apparently
authenticated age of 1O4 years. His
son says the old man was the father
Of more than hundred children"
W. I. Smith White Plains, N. Y.
merchant had not taken holiday
within the past 10 years, till on the
4th of July, when friends prevailed
on him going to the seashore. ae
went in bathing and was drowned.
A bicycle has not the right of pave
ment, but it has the right of streets
and roads, as wagons have, and when
run down Intentionally or by care
lessness on the part of wagoners or
others, damage may be obtained by
process of law.
Miss Smith, who for some time
had been one of the unfortunate in
mates of the Harrisburg Asylum,
died last Friday. Her remains were
brought to McAlisterville on Sunday
for interment in the Presbyterian
cemetery. She was aged about AZ
years.
The heaviest rain in this section of
the country since the June flood of
1889, fell on Sunday evening. June
80. 1t was terror while it lasted.
and if it had lasted as long as the
June flood rain, that great food
would have been a mild affair in com :
parison.
The restless patriots who rang
bells, blew engine whistles and dis
charged fire arms when the morning
of the fourth was ushered in were
less blessed than blamed by the hun
dreds of people whose sweet sleep
they disturbed, but patriots will be
patriots on the 4th of July.
Washing day was instituted on
Monday by the Pilgrim Fathers. It
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they learned in Holland where they
lived 10 years before they came to
Plymouth Rock Monday is now
generally observed as wash day by
the families in the United States.
Boys if you don't want to propose,
take care where you put your arm.
for an Alabama Judge has Just made
a decision, that is causing a great
deal OF CONSERVATION among the un
married men of the State He holds
that if a man puts his arm around
the waist of marriageable woman,
1t is Prtma tacie evidence that he has
proposed to her-New York Tribune.
During the great rain of several
days ago, Samuel Stoner was driving
home in buggy, when he came to
the Beashor farm east of town, he
found the water higher than the
bridge. He did not know whether
the bridge had gone. To be on the
safe side he got out of the buggy,
and waded in and with his feet felt
Tor the floor, found it and drove over.
There was about 26 inches of water