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

Mrs. Sarah Bartley is visiting in
Harrisburg.
Ehere are 63 paupers in the Perry
coSnty poor house.
Edison never attended school ex
ceptinS two months.
Newport grain dealers paid Scots
for wheat last week.
Five bushels Of wheat will keep q
man in bread year.
= Frank Murray Of Washington, d.
c.. is home on . visit.
Bicycling makes big feet for the
devotess of that sport.
Mrs. Kennedy of Lancaster is the
guest of Mrs Sallie Davis.
A nine inch snow fell in North Car
olina ON the 2nd Of December.
Four inches of snow fell at Atlanta.
Georgia on the 2nd of December.
Mrs. George B. Rakard of Lewis
town spent several days in town last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra G. Doty return
edNrom q visit to Philadelphia on the
9th inst.
Miss Mary Patterson Of Lancaster.
is visiting her relatives and friends in
this place.
Squire Robert Patton spent Sun
day with his sister Mrs Wilberforce
Sehweyer.
Children attending the public
schools are enjoined by the law to be
Waccinated.
On Tuesday at public sale s. B.
Loudon bought the county Office
house for $118.O0.
Mrs. Washington North and daugh-
ter Mary spent several days in Holli-
daysburg last week.
Mes. Elizabeth Wilson of Harris
burg, is visiting the family Of Squire
ilson in Patterson.
Robert Nixon, Jr., of Haddonfield,
N. j., spent Sunday With his rela-
tives and friends here.
George Ubil a citizen of Spruce
Hill township, died on Tuesday morn
ing aged about 70 years.
While middle Pennsylvania was
free from snow last week. snow fell
south as far as Atlanta, Ga.
''Nineteen Thousand heads of cab
bage have been buried for winter use
az ths Huntingdon Reformatory."
Jacob Ride of Lewisburg, recently
killed four hogs, the aggregate
Jsight of which was 2O654 pounds.
So far this fall one million one hun
dred and twenty thousand Bushels OF
american wheat has been shipped to
India.
From st. Petersburg. Russia,
comes the statement that the sap of
the war.wort - chslidonium cures
cancer.
David Harshberger Of Bratton
township, Miff1in county, shot desr
and bear in Licking creek valley,
recently.
Lou Strayer is the champion coon
3hunter. having captured 21 this sea-
son. His dog Tyler is a sure dog on
q coon track.
The railroad mems revival meeting
in the Methodist church on Sunday
and Sunday evening was attended by
many people.
Edward L. Rhom formerly of this
lace has bought the Oakdale Times,
. weekly paper published at Oakdale
near Pittsburg.
The government is in need of rev
kenue. It has been running in deb
at the rate of 8 million dollars pc
month the past year.
French farmers are holding meet.
ings to Influence the French govern
Iaent to pass a law to prevent the i'm
portation of American pork.
s.Liverpool is the most densely
populated city in Great Britain, hav
ing q population of ia per acre, in
eluding the docks and quays."
It is said hearty laugh INDUCED
in three times day is good to pro-
note health, but it ism Z everyone that
Is funny enough to laugh three times
. day.
Last Friday night dynamite was
exploded under house occupied by
Italians at Lewistown The floor Of
the house wss broken, but no one
was hurt.
Mr.. Tobias Aucker's hog was a
. large one II weighed 461 pounds,
but merchant Zimmerman of Ickes-
burg, beats him. His largest hog
weighed 5014 pounds.
Mr.. Swartz farmer on the Bvler
farm in Fermanagh township, has
brought the Houghawout farm, 3
miles southwest of McAlisterville for
seven hundred and fifty dollars.
1.-THE Ave leading surnames in or
) der of numerical importance of babies
born in England and Wales are,
Smith, Jones. Williams, Taylor and
Davies. In Irelaud the list reads,
Murphy. Kelly, Sullivan, Walsh,
Smith"
Joseph Heating of Columbia, Lam
caster county. came to town last
week and called on his old time
G.rd NJ Trador;ck Esneuschade.