Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-06-10

. Miss Roller and Miss B..ul,n /
Sauceman ct Newport are eueats At
har. and Mrs. Shatters' on Main 81.
Mr, and Mrs. David Puffenbsro.r
Q, Altoona, visited Mr.. and Mrs
oiamer Powell few days last week.
Inc early delegates are already on
me pilgrimage to the Republican
National Convention to be held al 81
lIosis next week.
"A century ago there was not
miie OF telegraph or telephone wire
In existence, not a foot of ra;yro.d
not steamship"
Inc Perry County Democrat of
last week ssys:-F. W. Noble of Mif.
filntown, placed new iron pump in
the we'll in front of the Ward House
last Friday.
Jesse Howe msnages to keep the
lead in garden potatoe raising. On
the 9th inst, he raised some new DO.
tatoes. The largest measured IL
inches in circumference.
several thousand young shad were
put into the river at Newport last
week, which causes the News of that
town to remark. the young shad will
make first rate bass food.
You missed wholesome sermon.
when you failed to hear Rev. A. N
Ravens sermon on the subject of
putting wages into bags with holes
in them,' on Sunday evening.
The sentence of John Hogan for
barn burning at Doylestown, Pa, is
richly deserved. He'll have ample
time in the coming 40 years of pris-
on life to repent of his crimes.
A candidate for the scaffold on
Sunday night, June 7, cut the ton.
que out of calf belonging to Will.
liam Larkin, farmer residing near
Tarr Station, Wes.moreland county.
The Rev. L. l.. Sieber of Gsttys
burg will preach III the Lutheran
church in Aifliintown on next Sab
bath, toe 14th, morning and evening,
and at st. Stephens in the afternoon.
Mrs. Thompson wife of William
Thompson, deceased, of near McCui-
loch's Mills, died of paralytic stroke
while in her garden last Friday. In
termsnt Ia McCulioch's Mills ceme.
terry on Sunday
We are indebted to the courtesy cf
editor Morrison of the Newton Ham.
ilton Watchman for a drive one after.
noon last week to the large field of
fire brick and pottery clay north of
Newton Hamilton.
On the 3rd inst, Jahn Hogan was
sentenced by Judge Yerkes of Bucks
county to 40 years in the eastern
penitentiary for barn burning. He
was convicted On five indictments.
Hogan is 4S years old.
Ksfer is the name of a new corn
from Africa that has been introduced
into the hot wind districts of the
west. It is said to withstand drought
aud the hot winds in tie west better
than the American corn.
Albert Bosom and Ellwood Nc
Connell returned from Wheeling,
W. Va. to Richfeld this county on
Friday. Thev rode over half of the
, way bv their bicycles and thu rest Of
the wav by passenger train.
The ST. Stephen's Lutheran Sun
dav school will hold festival at the
Red Bank school house on Saturday
evening, June 18th. Ice cream, can
DIV. cakes. &c . will be served. Come
everybody and give us lift.
Rev 3ir. Raven in his Sunday ev
eniug sermon, showed clearly how
many man spend q snug little for
tune in the course of 20 years by the
smoking and chswing of tobacco and
the drinking of bser aud whisky.
Rev. J. P. Halsell, Cumberland
Presbyterian minister and Miss Lu
cille Caldwell of Danvills, Ky, elop-
ed tn Ohio. and we're married on the
2ad of June. The parents of the
bride objected to the marriage.
Hence the elnpement.
The G. A. r. State Encampment
drew 10000 people to Chambers
burg last week, to applaud the fif-
tnen hundred veterans in line. On
the 31st of last December the G. A.
r membership in Good standing in
Pennavlvania, was 36.S76.
At the primary election in Hunt
ingdon county last Saturday. State
Senator Penrose and Post master
General Wanamaker we're run as can
didates for United States Senator
Penrose had batween three and four
hundred majority on the popular
vote.
! A County Convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. will be held June 27 in the
Westminster Presbyterian church,
Nifflintown, Juniata county. Mrs
Hammer the State President will be
present The public are cordially in
vitad
! The teachers selected for the Milf
fintown public schools are: High
School. o G. Gortner, principal; sal
arv $75; Grammar School, Miss Kate
DippIe, $50; In.ermediata, Miss Mary
NcCulloch, $40: Secondary. Miss
Bertha Cramer. $3.50: Primary,
Miss Mary Laird, $40.
A man talking about the amount
of seed that should be sown on land
says:-Tha amount of seed of any
crop depends on the character of the
land. IF the land be rich less seed is
sown. OF oats, two bushels are
enough for the best Of lands and
three on poor soil per acre.
The company of bicyclists who rode
to Chambereburg, Gettysburg and
Autietam last week, returned on Sat
urdav evening wheu the band was in