Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-10-16

Mr. Scnoll was on business trip
in Tuscarora Valley on Monday.
Miss Caroline Layer was in Har
risburg the greater part Of last week.
Mr.. Holmes Irwin, of Newport.
spent Sunday with his sisters. the
Irwin.
Miss Clara Patterson, of Harris
burg spent a few days last week with
VIM. Hawks family.
Mrs. Sadie worrall of Chester
county, is visiting her brother Sam
uel Lapp on Washington street.
Miss Agnes Catherine McAlister.
died at her home in McAlisterville on
Mondey morning aged IA years.
On tho morning of the 9Th inst.
William Deering while sitting in q
chair reading a paper in his house at
Mattawana, Mifain county, fell to the
floor dead.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Anna NJ. Mummah and
Mr.. Ira G. Bashoar at the residence
of the bride, near Oakland Mills on
the oath day of October, at two
o'clock P. NJ
The Turks have been killing Ar
menians. They killed 700 in the
city of Constautinople. All that
Eastern country is agitated, and
what will come out of it is not known.
England and Russia are restless over
the situation.
Miss Marion Scholl took Lizzie
Richardson, one Of the fresh air chill
dren, who has been spending the
summer with Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Scholl to the child's home in PhiIa-
delphia last week. Miss Marion will
visit friends IN the city.
Perhaps the largest chestnut
farm in the State is located near Ma.
rietta, and this year the crop will be
many hundred bushels. It is owned
by Henry n. Engle. and comprises
25 acres, all planted with chestnut
trees. There are over 1000 trees up
on the farm, and this is a good year
for the nuts
Rev. Samuel H. Chubb, pastor of
the Plymouth Evangelical church at
Norristown, Pa, was found guilty of
an assault upon Miss Rachel Hitter,
a II year old lamb of his flock. A
new trial has been applied for. The
preacher still denies the charge and
says he had no undue affection for
the young woman.
The Mifflintown public schools, the
teachers of which are: o. G. Gort-
ner, Principal, Bert Aumap, Miss
Kate Dipple and Miss Mary Laird,
paradsd on Friday through the
streets of the town. The parade
was given as a practice for re union
day, when the four schools are ex.
pected to parade with the veterans.
A new scheme of music is being
worked by scientists. it is by the con-
version of light into sound. The
light of tho sun is made to pass
through prism on piece of stretch
ed silk or worsted goods and the diff
ferent colors produce different
sounds. Who knows, the near future
may reveal through the ingenuity OF
man a musical instrument run by
sunlight.
George e. Heinbach, of Parksburg,
Chester county. bad his left leg Sc.
verely hurt, last Thursday morning
while in the discharge of his work as
railroad section foreman, by the ex
p!osion of a railroad signal cap.
With some men he WAS passing over
a section of the road on a hand car.
Two caps on a rail were exploded by
the wheels Of the hand car A piece
of one Of the exploded caps struck
his left leg about 4 inches above the
heel, and tore away the flesh and ex
posed the muscles of that part of the
leg to view making painful wound
George Berger Of this place while
engaged with other workmen in
building the Electric Light machine
house last Thursday WAS hurt by the
breaking of scaffold on which were
shelved seven hundred bricks. The
bricks fell upon George, bury.
ing him. It was sometime before
his companions succeeded in getting
him out. George received number
of bruises and severe scratches, bu,
reported for duty on Friday and as
sisted in placing the electric wire.
on the bridge between the boroughs
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hitchmau
have started a new industry at Nun.
Gle, Indiana. Henry spends his time
buying old horses from oil parts O.
the county, sending them home,
where his wife shoots and skins them
She uses the knife with great accu
racy and is assisted only by her two
small sons After the hide is remov.
ed the fat is rendered into tallow and
the bones dressed and sold for fertil
izing. The horses are purchased fol
mere songs, and Hitchman seems to
be making a good thing out of the
business. The woman can remove q
hide in less than ten minutes.
Those good people who are becom
ing alarmed on account of the dis
covery of germs of all kinds in water
and air, and are afraid that the mul
tiplicity of germs mean tho certain
destruction of the human race, ma,
be comforted by the fact, that the sa
Iva of the human mouth has anticep
tic properties, and is certain exter
minator of germ life. It is the SAM
with the lower order of animals
which is proven almost every day
within the observation of everyone
by sseeing animals licking theil
wounds and bringing them to heal