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

SHORTLOCALS.
The growing oats presents q prom.
1slng appearance.
Tom Uttlsv of Lswistown spent
Friday with friends.
The Democratic primary election
will bs held next Saturday.
Will the cannery be opened this
season, IL frequently asked.
j. j. Clarkson of Waterford was in
town on Saturday on business.
Miss Bessie Middah is visiting
Miss Lillian Kspner in Chester
Miss Kate Diehl has come home
from visit to friends in Altoona.
James McMullin visited the county
seat on business one day last week.
Southland Parker of Lewistown
spent day in town the past week.
The Strawberries raised in this vi
cinity are unusually large this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Howe return
ed on Tuesday from trip to Tyrone
The cherry crop this year in this
part of the world will be short one.
Tnei are two hundred and seven
ty FIVE women preaching the gospe
in America.
Hay making will be late this yea,
in consequence of the absence OF
clover grass.
The big day of the Blair county
semi-centcnnial VIII be next Friday
at Harrisburg.
Preparation is being made a. Lew
istowu for the encampment of the
National Guard.
Mrs. VIM. Davis and little son of
Washington, D. c., ara ths guests of
Mrs. Sallie Davis.
On Sundays large numbers of
crows flock on the roof of the Phila
dslphia post Office.
Miss Pidge Patton OF Lswistown
is visiting her sister Mrs. vii.
berforce Schweyer.
The PENNSYLVANIA State Editorial
Association will go to Atlantic City
on the 29th of June.
Mrs. George Hess of Stoneville,
Clearield county, was killed by
lightning on Sunday.
Miss Kate Mathers and Miss Jen
nis Banks have come home from n
visit to Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Cioyd Heck and daughter
Mary are visiting Mrs Heck's pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. John Etka
The Prohibitionists have split or
the mone- question. Money seems
to be stronger than Prohibition.
The latest crop reports from for
eign lands say the wheat crop will
fall long distance below the aver.
age crop.
CAPTAIN John Stewart formerly OF
Juniata. but now a citizen OF Pitts.
burg, paid his native county q visit
last week.
The question who will be the can
didate OF the Republican party for
President, will be decided next week
at st. Louis
There have been showers and
showers the past week that keeps
vegetation on hssty move toward
development.
The l.. E AS and the Printer
clubs crossed bats on Saturday, which
resulted in score in favor of the
former, 25 to 4.
The prospect of a fair crop of Der
ries in the mountains are said to be
good. Rasp-berries and buckle Der
ries as they are called.
The growing wheat has greatly
improved the past 10 days. Oi
course there cannot be wheat where
it is not on the ground
On next Thursday and Friday
Blair county people will indulge in g
semi-csntennial celebration OF the
formation of the county.
In recent divorce case in South
Dakota, seven of the jurors were
women, and report from there says.
they did their work we'll.
"On to st. Louis is the sentence
that interests the delegates to that
Convention and the candidates who
will be placed in nomination.
A barber at Canton, Bradford
county, was shocked when Benjamin
Landon walked into the barber shop
and committed suicide by shooting.
The rain on Sunday washed away
the electric road bed OF several places
between Altoona and Hollidaysburg
and interrupted travel part OF the
day.
The young clover In wheat fields is
showing itself, and if drought does
not destroy it the coming IL weeks
the grass crop next year will be larg
or than in the two past years.
Miss Beckie Trimble attended the
wedding of her cousin Miss Edns
Kirk formerly of this piece to MIR
Robley Sn;vely of Hanover, Pa, al
the brides home in Lancaster last
week.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has a human
curiosity-a three year old boy tba
weighs only 10 pounds. When n