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

Is worth more than a horse.
Bicycle riders are required to turn
to the right as the law directs.
Mrs. Lyons, wife of Judge Lyons,
has been quite i'll the past week.
The new women in New York are
organizing a woman's labor union.
The State Teachers Association
will be held at Bloomsbury, July Is.
The Prohibition party held State
Convention in Philadelphia last week.
Holmes, the fiend was hung in
prisos, in Philadelphia, last Thurs
day.
P. S. Arnold was re elected Super
intendent of public schools in Perry
county.
Joseph NcAulsy and wife have re-
turned from a visit to friends in
Altoona.
The Lords Supper was admins
tered ia the Presbyterian church on
Sunday.
Harry Mcclellan has re-opened his
tin shop in the Odd Fellows Hall
building.
It rsined ON Tuesday afternoon
and tho sale of Kentucky horses was
withdrawn.
Clevaland's issue of bonds without
special set of Congress is to be ex-
amined into.
About dozen United States war
ships ere in New York harbor. What
does it mean2
Giss Anna Wi'sos who hes bsen
visiting in Philadelphia, returned
last Wednesday.
Herman z. North, ESQ, hss been
re nominated for Assembly in the
Bradford district.
Lewistown will get the en- camp
mept of the National Guard, July Is
to 25th, inclusive.
A man named Miller, his wife aud
q II year old 500, run saw mill two
miles from Dubois.
Mrs Hannah Bostwick of Green.
wood township, died last Saturday.
aged about 63 years.
It looks as if the Democratic Nat
ioral Convention, will split at Chica-
60 on the coin question.
It is the bacteria in sweet milk,
that turns it sour, from which it may
be churred into the best of butter.
Red Men will hold the Great Coun
Gil Of Pennsylvania at Columbia, Lam
caster county, next week, beginning
on the 10Th of May.
The Juniata Valley Editorial Asso
citation. held business meeting at 9
A. NJ, in Newport, last Friday, and
thence to LOUISVILLE where they par
took of dinner.
Not many years ago the United
States Fish Commission distributed
German carp. Now the same auth.
ority will remove the fish from such
places, that they have jurisdiction
over.
The Lewistown Sentinel saws, peo.
pie in that town are miserable for
three reasons. First, because of
house cleaning; second because Of
spring fever; third, because OF Lew
istown water.
There were two candidates before
the directors convention in Hunting
don county, for County Superintend.
snt. s. G.. Rudy the present Super
intendeut and A. P. Silverthorn.
The vote was announced11 10 for Ruby;
100 for Silverthorn. For some rea-
son Mr.. Silverthorn had the chair.
man state that he Silverthorn will
contest the election of Mr.. Ruby.
The Huntingdon Journal says
Oliver Martin planted $50 plum
trees on his Porter township farm
this spring Henry Myers, a
Warriorsmark farmer, has Just fifteen
dozen of chickens and on Tuesday
they laid just twelve dozen of eggs
There we're only thirty six out OF the
one hundred and eighty, that did not
lay and they may have been the
r0osters.
Men who have counted the amount
of mud that is washed down the riv.
ers Of the North American continent
every year, declare that in four mil
lion. five hundred thousand years,
the continent will all have been wash,
cd into the sea- The mean heigth
of the continent is 748 feet. 1t will
not take that many million years to
wear away Miffiintown and deposit i
in old ocean, for it is only 46t
feet above the sea at this time.
The Altoona Tribune says:-Rev
Alfred N. Raven has been installed as
pastor Of the Westminster Presby
tartan church at Port Royal, Juniata
county. The Tribune is quite right
in it's statement, with the exception
that Port Royal does not have
ehurch called Westminster Presby
teriaa church and that Rev. Alfred
n Raven does not preach at Porl
RovaI. IF the Tribune had left Port
Royal out and put Miff1intown in, itf
tam would be correct to the letter.