Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-12-09
FTYYEARs A JOURNALIST

his Wednesday, December 0,
q, the JUNIATA SENTINEL is fifty
RS old. A half century ago on the
day Of December 1916. Colonel
K Mcclure issued the lst mum.
OF the JUSrArA SENTINEL here. at
hintown. We might ne celebrat.
the 5osh anniversary by a boom
1e, but as the paper was first
nched by slid substantial people
not boomers, it is fitting that on
fifsieth anniversary, the paper be
1T along the old substantial lines,
sinPiy brief mention made of
turn OF The half century mark.
ose who como after can put up a
nmemoretiye monument when il
:l.cs tbs Centennial mark.
We are looking backwards into the
,nt vistas of the past fifty years
len Colonel Nee ure issued The
SrrNEL it was Wing paper and as
come this way We see it keeping
'gress with the mighty changes
It have taken place for the better.
MT OF the condition of the human
e. 1t was always in the forefront
the progress for the emancipation
the human race from a state of
very that was personally SO a,bi
ry as to sell men and women from
auction block as horses and cat
ere sold. That men, women and
ldren should thus have been treat
within the period of the so years
tpass reads like fiction, bat it ls
q, and it vas the mission of the
tIATA SENTINEL to lead along in the
rthern flood tide of liberty and
sp unfurled the bann=r of individ-
freedom and bear aloft the ban
{: OF the common rights of all men
ore the law, and from those days
the present date, it has stood as
leading journalistic exponent of |
'se political principles in this noun.
n girt county. The SENTINEL has
ger faltered in its march with re-
o;Icanisn from the time of its first
tor to tho present time. It hss |
N the rc!sr s'sr Of republicarism |
Juniata county. When republ,-
ism becomes prostituted for other
rposcs, it will continue in the old
lbs no matter who strays into the
lges and bramble Of by ways.
onel Mcclure conducted the SEN
Ell five Years, then s3id it and nu-
rous were the changes in It's own
hip and editorship Till on the 9Th
'une 1870, it was bought by s. T.
lweier. In August 1873 il fell a
i'm with ether property in M'fflin-
n to the outrageous torch OF the
But it did not miss an
lie having accepted tbe courtesy Of
JuntGta Republican under the edi-
al management of IVm. IL. Allison,
it appeared on time On TIE day!
is regular issue. and i. was resu-
Y issued is )m that cffice # the
u6l'e1n till in October 1873 when
Republican was bought By B F !,
weier who joined It's na1ao TO that D.;
nc SENTINEL and issued the first i
soiidatsa pApsr under the name OF
jUNIATA SENTINEL AND REPUBLICAN,, ,
cber 22nd, 1878. TIE SENTINEL 1
been Owned Il longer period of
G by the present owner than all
past owrers combined. II Col
tcClcre had remained here it is ,,
sible that he o-day on its 50,h ,
iversaly would be its owner and
or, but be sought other fields OF
II mere cosmopolitan III their na.
;, AID Iow occupies the position
:hs bench Of !he distinguished ed .
Of the 19hh century. II recog-
cn Of his journalistic ability az.
century Connection with Journal,
the press of Pennsylvania have
iered him dinner in Philadel
J, this Wednesday evening, De- ,
ber 9, 1886
is no table event in the annals ,
pennsylvania journalism.
here are present number Of men
minent in public aud private life
side of journalism and world fam
journalists.
he men who were in Jnniata :
nty when Colonel Mcclure lived
labored among them have mostly
10 to enjoy their reward in the fu-
3 stata, and those who were boys
girls when he edited the JUN1ATA
iTINEL are in middle life and past
Idle life. To them his namo is a ,
Isehold word and through them "a
as through the Philadelphia ,
aes he lives here as we'll known in
ne as wheu he first ventured upon
journalistic sea of fifty years ago,
IN the fifty years 10 come the
s and girls to day will be the men
women upon whom all the burd-
of keeping up the affairs of their
: aud generation will devolve, and
y will know Colonel A. X. Mcclure
the first editor of the JUNIATA SEN
Ell, and as one of the great journ-
its of the 18th century.