Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-25

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fraternity here celebrated The Cen.
tennial on the evening of that day by
a banquet.
A lot of boys, Is to 18 years old,
were arrested in Altoona, charged
with disorderly conduct, for snow
Dalling on the streets of that town
last Thursday.
Peach growers report large per-
centage of peach buds dead, but do
not know whether dead because of
the drought last summer or the cold
of this winter.
Snyder county people are digging
for coal in the Middle Greek Valley,
IN the same formation that Isaac Et-
ka Is digging in for coal in this coun-
ty, near Van Vert.
The town council of Huntin gdon
has passed an ordinance, that tramps
who are lodged in that town, shall
break stone on the streets for their
board and lodging.
The Altoona Tribune of March 20
says of the lookup in the Mountain
City: "It is doubtful if the foulsst
dungeon of antiquity was worse than
the lookup of Altoona.
The town council of Huntingdon
refused to renew the contract with
the electric light company of that
town to pay $50 a lamp, year.
Consequently tho town has no street
light.
Rev. w. B. Cox, of Glen Rock,
York county, Pa, stopped off for
dinner on the Goth, with w. FL.
Zeiders, while on his way home from
conference. Rev. Cox was formerly
pastor of the Patterson Church.
Farmers report old clover killed
by the freezing weather of the past
winter, and the new clover a failure,
and from that statement go to anoth-
er, namely: The hay crop this com
ing summer will be very short one,
Rev. Philip Graft who not many
years ago preached for the Lutheran
congregation in this town and Lick
ing Creek Valley, has joined the
Freewill Baptist Churca and is
preaching for that people in Califor,
MIA.
| Senator Vest delivered speech in
the United States Senate last week,
against President Cleveland, for hay
ing belittled the Christianity of
Western pioneer people in a speech
that the President made at Home
Missionary Meeting.
Geo. II. Williams, representing
J. NJ. Runk & Co. publishers, gave
US o pleasant call on Saturday morn
ing last. He represents an import
ant biographical enterprise that with.
in the coming year will interest the
chief families of Juniata.
An exchange says:-The State Sec
retary of Agriculture will make war
against some of tho cheap candies,
which are adulterated with terra alba,
and upon impure vinegar and other
deleterious articles Of food, the sale
of which is prohibited by law.
The man who WAS perplexed over
the question, whether the dog waS-
ged his tail or whether the tail wag-
ged the dog, ia perplexed over the
question Whether the weather wags
the ground hog or whether the
ground hog wags the weather.
s:It is shown by the official statis-
tics that ir a given 1000 of the peo
pie of massachusetts, there are now
more individuals possessed Of mod
crate and fair-sized estates than ever
before, and that the average size OF
such estates is more than double
what it was xty years ago.
To hear some people in Hunting
don bewail the loss of the electric
light in that town, one is almost in
clined to believe they were raised
where there is no night and dark
ness. The town council refused to
pay tie electric light company $50 n
lamp, and that is the reason they
nave no StIeeG nSn'.
On the 18th inst, Captain Thomas
s. McCahan, died at his homo at
Birmingham, Huntingdon county of
pneumonia, aged 60 years. On the
Wednesday following the 18th inst (,
his wife died of the same disease
He contracted pneumonia at a public
sale aud his wife contracted the dis
ease while attendidg him in his i'll
ness.
Kentucky militia were called out in
anticipation of the Legislature of
that State becoming rio:ous, but the
Legislature behaved itself, and dis
tinguished itself by doing nothing.
1t did not even elect United States
Senator as it was expected to do.
It adjourned and went home, leaving
the militia eamped about the State
House. The soldiers speedily left,
after the Legislature adjourned.
Bradstreets Journal Of Trade, of
March 31st says:-The growth of the
honey industry has been very rapid.
According to the last census the pro-
duction during the preceding year
was 63,39S, 1927 pounds, compared
with only rs, ,743,2OS younds ten
years earlier it is not generally
known that Iowa led in production
with 6,Sl3,O00 pounds, slthough
Utah and other western states have
increased heavily.
The Beaver Springs Snyder coun.
ty Herald OF the 10Th inst, says
Samuel Bowersox aud Isaiah Binge-
man claim to have discovered cur.
ious niece of work which ia laroa