Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-01-29
SHORTLOCALS.
cx-Sheriff Lapp is i'll.

Inere arc 80, ,OOO National Banks
in the United States.
The ice passed down the river on
Friday and Saturday.
Clothing merchant Harley has
been i'll with the grip.
The mail from the west on Mon
day, was two hours late.
This wint.r to the present time,
there has not been complaints of bad
roads.
7 Colonel Mooreheed of the T. V. r.
R., returned from trip west, last
Friday.
Washington's birthday. Memorial
Day and Fourth of July, all come on
Saturday.
"You Bet" stock is ON the RISE
VIM. Murry has bought an interest
In the flyer.
The Republican National Conven-
ton will eet in st. Louis on the
18th of June.
The winter is more than half past
and the religious revival season more
than hcf over.
There was q storm of rain, sleet
aud snow from Canada to Florida
last Friday and Saturday.
Farmers Institute at Mexico Oh
Friday and Saturday and at Port
Royal on Monday aud Tuesday.
"Ole hundred and sixty plows
started in a row in recent plough
ing match at Eartferd, England"
ga Bradford county creamery last
year, made $4,000 pounds of butter
charging three cents a pound for
p shurning it
The gold and silver men, who are
called by the gold bugs, silver men,
held convention in Washington, d.
c., last week.
The individual communion cup
has been enlarged upon and now the
individual cup is urged for pupils in
the public schools.
James Murry has an old Spanish
five cent piece, bearing the date 1882.
He received it through change. From
whom he does not know.
The despatch published bv many
daily papers last week, that England
had purchased the island of Cuba,
was a full -fedged- It wasn't true.
Mrs. Caroline Van Fossen has ex
changed her dwelling house on Third
street with Mrs. Minnie Martin for
the latter's dwelling house on Cherry
street.
Robert McMeen, Esq, will address
the Scotch Irish Congress that will
convene in Harrisburg in May on the
subject of the Scotch Irish in the
Juniata Valley.
A number of people from this town
attended the Teachers Institute at
Waterford on Saturday, and they re
NAMED to hear Rev. Mr.. Ravens
lecture in the evening.
The river has been frozen over
twice and twice opened by thaw-. this
winter, and weather.wise say it will
be frozen over third time before
Spring weather comes to stay.
The Ladies Aid Society of the
Evan. Luth. Church of McAlistsrville,
Pa, will hold Festival and BIRTH
day fete at the church, Wednesday
evening, Jan. 29th at z o'clock P. N.
Travellers will be pleased to learn
that the rates FOR the famous and
popular Girard House, 9th and Chest
nut Sts., Philadelphia, bave been re-
ducsd to 81 Is, $3.50 and So per day.
The body of Mrs. Coyls, wife of
David Coyle, deceased, was brought
from North Adams, Massachusetts,,
on Monday, for interment in the
Presbyterian Csmetary between East
Waterford and Waterloo.
The boom of the borough of Bris
bin, Clsarfsld county, has dropped
out. A few years ago it was full OF
life and hustle. It is now almost de-
serted. Good residences can now be
bought for q song and hundreds OF
houses are empty.
Bixlsr's water pug was a place Of
dreadful accident last week. The
horrors of the dynamite explosion had
not been dispellsd from the mind OF
the public, whom on Friday evening,
Edward Wilson, night foreman on
the steam shovel at work at grading
there was struck and instantly killed
bv fast line westward bound.