Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-05-20
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WAS ASCENSION day
On Saturday week = Memoria!
Day.
Ephraim Jones of Patterson is
quite i'll.
All the latest summer millinery at
Mrs. Ickss'. st.
Cholera has broken out in Alexan.
dria, Egypt.
Lewistown preachers have organ.
lied ministerial association.
The Christian Endeavor Conven.
ton on Tuesday was well attended.
Miss Harriet Parker of Lewistown,
visited friends in town on Saturday.
Altoona wheelman have trouble to
keep their bicycles from being stolen
Frank Rice of Lswistown has had
35- years experience in cutting cord
wood.
Tobias Arker has put porch to
the front of bis Cherry street resi-
derce.
Henry Kepner of Milford town
ship, has been seriously i'll the past
10 days.
Mrs. Frank Moist visited the fami
ly of Mr.. Richenbach in Patterson
last week
A new time table fer the running
of passenger trains went into affect
on Sunday.
Rev. Mr.. McBurney is in q critical
condition from the effects of a stroke
of paralysis
Absalom Wise and Isaac Longacre
celebrated their 66th birth day on
the 18th of May.
A Millerstown, Perry county man,
caught Is pound carp in mill dam
near Millerstown.
I. V. Irwin has had new porch
placed at the front of his residence
on Bridge street.
Miffintown High School gradua.
tion exercises in the Court House on
Thursday evening.
The village of Panams in Douglas
county, Neb., Was destroyed by a wind
storm on the 18th inst.
The Perry County Teachers In
st;tuts will be held IN Bloomfield
November 8 and 13, 1896.
Many of the County Superiutend
ents of the public schools in this
State have been reelected.
DR.. Jacob SaAdo of Cincinnati, was
home last week to see his father Mr
Anthony Sando in this place.
Tke storm ct two o'clock last Fri
day morning, caused almost every.
one in town TO get ont Of bed.
It was Josh Billings who said:-
s'You always can catch more flies
with molassug than with vinegar"
Mrs. Harry Kaufman of Harris
burg, is Visiting at the residence of
her mother Mrs Sarah r. Bartley.
Rev. DIR. Holloway will preach the
Memorial sermon for the G.. A. R. in
the Presbyterian church on Sunday.
The teachsrs of the Patterson school
with their principal, draped the Court
House for their graduating exercises.
The year 1916 was without a sum-
mer. There was frost and ice every
month of the year There was no
corn that year.
Excursion tickets will be sold by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
to the National Prohibition Conven-
ton, May "a, 26, 27, % and 20.
The railroad company will sell ex-
cursion tickets to the G. A. r. En-
campment to be held at Chambers
burg, May 80 to June 6, inclusive.
The Northumberland fire com
pany will celebrate its centennial on
the 4th Of July. It has in its DOS
session the oldest fire engine in the
State.
The storm last Friday morning
put cut The electric light. It is a
great defect yet to be remsdied, that
the electric light plants cannot be
worked successfully during electric
storms.
Lewistown Free Press Miss Todd
of Miffiintown, has charge of the
Western Union telegraph station at
this place, during the illness of Miss
Jennie Marks, who we are sorry to
say is not improving.
A New York paper, says, the pol
itical situation is plain one. 1t is
all revealed in the fact, that the dem
ocratic party is not capable of man
aging the affair of the country, and
tho republican party is capable of
running the government.
"Ralph Snyder farmer near Sci.
insqrove Junction, while hauling a
load of corn fodder by burning
brush pile, made narrow escape
with his life. The fodder was ignit-
ed and in a moment was ablaza, con-
suming the wagon, and allowing
barely time enough to unhitch the
horses.
When man goes on his farm after
a rain like that of last Friday morn
ing and finds great burrows in his
fields, he feels that percentage of
his Capital has been washed away
and he is that much the loser, and 1t
is az hard on him as it is on the store
keeper, when he sustains loss of a