Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-04-17

Miss Rachel Henderson, spent Las,
Saturday with Miss Eleanor Camp
bell.
The fall meeting of Huntingdo,
Presbytery will be held at Port
Royal.
The State Teachers' Association
will meet OF Mount Grstna, July 2
8 and 4.
Miss Nell Musser spent last Fri
day and Saturday visiting relatives
in Newport.
There are 33 republican candidates
for the Office of sheriff, In Westmore.
land county.
Abraham Milliken, of Tuscarora
township, died on tho IL inst, oi
Bright's disease, aged SO years.
Joseph h. sIathers, D. D., will de.
clare the Westminster Prssbytsry
church pulpit vacant, the first sab.
bath in June
Rsbecca Davis Shaffer, aged 8
months and II days, daughter Of
Thomas and Lillian Shaffer, died on
the 18th inst, after q protracted and
complicated ailmsnt of eryslpelas and
pneumonia. Interment on MONDAY
afternoon.
From the Huntingdon Journal of
the 18th inst. There was horse
buyer in Everett recently, who pur-
chased ten or twelve in one day.
The prices paid were from $3 to $40.
The price paid for most of the mum
Der purchased was IS each.
"Joseph Conrad, OF Lower Angus
ia twp, Northumberland county
who secured pension by imperson-
ating his dead soldier cousin was
sentenced in the United States court
at Scranton, to thirteen months i'm.
prisonment in the Northumberland
county Jail"
That the able editor of the Hun
tingdon Journal is a practical man
and a utilitarian of the first water, il
made cellar from the following from
his paper on the IL inst'-There is
no excuse for swinging dumb bells
and Indian clubs when you can get
a spade and have access to a garden.
Somerset county farmers who
maple sugar report the
output up to the present time this
season as being unusually large.
The sap 10 more than ordinarily
sweet, and it does not require 20
much of it to make q pound of SD
gar as when the conditions are othsr-
wise.
Newton Hamilton people are still
happyin the pursuit of gold, digging
for the precious metal in their gar
den lots, may their golden dreams
come true. But what q pity it
would be if gold should bs found
there. The glorious campmeeting
ground would be changed from a
spiritual, religious summer resort
for the place Of the gold digger aud
money changer, however, the camp.
meeting place could te located in
soms oth;r place.
The Perry county Freeman says
Judge Lyons will tesch the people
of this county that court subpoena
is not to be treated with contempt.
Michael Lauver, was subp9rad in q
case this week, and did not put in an
An attachment was
for him and the sheriff
brought him into court. His excuse
for non attendance was chat he
thought the weather was too bad"
Judge Lyons promptly fined him S15
and the costs of the attachment.
Presbytery at its meeting in Hun
tingdon last Wednesday,, April 10,
elected the following Juniata county
commissioners to the Gen
eral Assembly, to meet in Pittsburg
on the 18th of Msy, Rcv. r. NJ.
of Port Royal and Rev. J.
F. Diener, of Watsrloo. D. T. Nicely,
of Academia, was licensed to preach,
The judicial committee recommen-
dsd that the resignation of Rev. j.
r. Henderson, of the Westminster
church, take effect on
June 1st, 1895.
Rev. F. McBurnev with, layman
James Adsms, Of Walker township,
the Mexico q. P. con-
gregation, 10 Big Spring Presbytery.
that met last week at Hopewell,
York county. The pastoral relations
that had existed for period Of over
26 years between Rev. F. McBurney
and tho Mexico congregation was
dissolved by Presbytery. on account
of the advancing age of the pastor.
Rev. John JamisoD, of York county,
will preach and declare the pulpit
vacant on the 21st day of April.
The Huntington News says: VIM.
81. Thompson and wife of this
place, have concluded to separate af-
ter married life extending over So
years. He is An invalid 70 years of
age, and his wife about ten years
younger. They were the parents of
fourteen children, eleven of whom
are living. The cause of separation
is best known to themselves, but ii
is very rare, indeed, that couple
who have shared the joys and sor'
rows of married life for over half q
century will decide to part company
SO near the close of their earthly ca.
reer.
From the Lswistown Gazette,
April 10, 1895: One Of our citizsni
recently received letter from q
friend in Pittsburg and among Other
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