Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-05-13

Mr.. Hile Of this town was called to
Pleasant Gap, Center county, to at
tend the funeral of his father. who
died from stroke of paralysis last
Sunday. i
After being told by Edison that
the Roentgen rays are not light, but
waves of sound, so highly pitched
that human ears cannot hear the
sound, one is inclined to ask what
comes next.
EAsroN, Pa. May CIV. W. Cot
tingham, the venerable Superintend.
ent OF the public schools of Esston,
was last night re e.elected for the 44th |
year. at salary of $4,000. Mr.. Cot
tingham is II years old.
The Miflintown base ball club will
open the season with Huntingdon
club, Saturday. May 16, 1896. The
boys have worked hard for this game
and should be encouraged By every.
body turning out Game called at
8 o'clock.
Next Sunday evening, Rev. A. N.
Raven will deliver an appropriate
OBSCURE to the graduating class and
scholars of the public school. All
persons interested in our common
school system are earnestly request
ed to be present.
The long talked of glass houses
are about to become o reality, for
hollow glass bricks are now in use in
Paris buildings. They rre said to he
both light and strong, and to be ex
cellent non conductors of heat, owing
to the air contained in them.
Miss Minnie Neely, who has been
in Nebraska the past two years, re.
turned on Saturday evening. On
Sunday, she and her brother j. How
ard Neely. Esq, drove to the old
homestead in Tuscarora Valley. now
occupied and owned by Peorus Neely.
Recently at 5 P. NJ, the new barn
OF Gideon Shelly. near Goodville,
Delaware township wss destroyed.
The barn contained hay, oats and
corn Mr.. Shelly was in a field on
the farm plowing at the time of the
Ere. How the barn took fire is not
known.
The Huntingdon baee ball club
will come to Miffli1 on Saturday,
May 18th to open the season with
the team of this place. The Hunt
ingdon boys will come down on Main
Line Express Fare for the round
trip, 50. The Mifflin boys will play
return game in Huntingdon on the
3Oth.
The cares of Professor Gortner in
these commencement times were mul.
tiplied last Friday, when his wife
presented to him q nice baby girl.
Variety is the spice OF life, and the
advent of the baby breaks the mon.
, otony Of the Professors duties, and
strews his pathway with domestic
!. flowers.
Professor Gortner and Professor
; Keiter, drew their coats and gave
/ helping hands to the erection of the
commencement platform in The Cour,
House. Professor Keiter's Schools
viii hold their graduating exercises
on the coming Thursday evening, ant
Professor Gortnsr's commencement
exercises will take place week later
Services iu the Prcsbyteriar
church on Sabbath afternoon at 2:3O
p. m.; children services, baptism o.
children. All parents who have child
rem to baptize, and all pareuts who
have had their children Baptized, are
requested to be present. The even
ing service will ba an address to ths
scholars of the public school. AL
are invited
Claud Hile, a bri ght lad OF l:
years was run over by the hose car
riage on its way to the fire in Patter
, son on the evening of the 9Th inst
The boy wanted to run with the ma
chine to the fire, but could not keeE
pace with the men, fell. A whee
of the carriage passed over his abdo
men just below the stomach, injurine
him quite severely.
"What can be done in case of en-
} ergency, was demonstrated q short
time ago, by a wheelman who had his
tire badly punctured on the way
home from Conev Island. He de
tached his injured tire, and, securing
heavy piece of rope, substituted the
rope for the tire and made the journ
ey home, some eight miles, in safety.
The club of which he was a member
has had the rope framed"
. The second annual commencement!
of the Miffiintown high school will
be held in the court house on Thurs
day evening. May 21st 1896, at eight
o'clock. The patrons of tho public
schools and the friends of education
are cordially invited to attend. In
order to defray the expenses con-
nected with the graduating exercises
a small admittancs fec of 10 cents
will be charged at the door.
cat last formidable rival to Olga
Nsthersole has made her appearance.
The Georgia Cracker thus feelingly
and POLITICALLY describes -'She il
: sweet 16, and she says the first time
her sweetheart kissed her, it made her
feel like tub of butter swimming in
honey, cologne, nutmeg and cranber.
ries as though something ran down her
nerves on feet of diamonds, escorted
by several cupids in chariots drawn
by angels, shaded with honeysuckle,
and the whole spread with melted