Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-08-12

so heavily loaded that thew are bre.L
ing down. oeAA-
Inc thermometer last Thursday
ana Friday, registered 100 degrees in
the shade. '' -
The Harvest Home at Browns
M.lla was attended by many people
asst Sstu rday.
Mss Villa McNitt of Patterson ia
making prolonged visit to friends
in Lewistown.
'Mrs- Annie jackson of Altoona
was the guest of the Marks family in
Patterson, recently.
Henry Stearing Of Germantov vn ia
visiting the family of MIR. Henry
Berger, who are relatives.
The thermometer registered 96
and 100 degrees in the shade on SIM
day, and the same on Monday.
Quite delegation of .Mifaintown
people attended the Pannebaker Is.
land Harvest Home last Saturday.
The rain fall in July was s.o6
inches. The average annual rain.
fal. for this part of the country is 36
inches.
The sound money democrats will
hold National convention, Ssptem-
Der 3 in Indianapolis and put tick
ct in the fia1d
Mervin Pannebaker returned home
the latter part of last week from
Pueblo, Colorado, where he has been
the past four years.
The letters uncailed for in the
Miffiintown post Office for the week
ending August s. were for Mrs. Mag
gle A. Shirk, Miss Rettie Nipple, Mr.
Geo. Rhine.
William Culbertson has bought the
house and lot. adjoining the property
of .Ar. Elias Horning on Main street,
from the Mrs. Frow's heirs for six
hundred dollars.
The Is to coin question has caus-
ed the Pennsylvania railroad com.
paDy TO stop oil work excepting that
which must be done to keep the road
in running order.
Mr.. Emil Schott and daughter
Gertrude started for New York last
Thursday evening, where Miss Ger
trude will remain with relatives the
rest of the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kelly of Barns.
borough, stopped of with Mrs. Kel-
ly's parents, MIR. and Mrs. Daniel
Pannebaker, while en- route to attend
the funeral OF Mr. Henry Smith in
Newport.
Eddie Hurd, aged 2 years. was car
ried to near TIE lions cage in shew
in Chiilicoth, Ohio, by his parents
last Wednesday. A lion pressed its
mouth through the bars aud bit the
child's head OFF.
The heat dropped men by the
score on city pavements On Saturday
and Sunday. but the farmer p'owed
and worked on bis fields and felt first
rate in the evening when the days
work was over.
The democratic party will hold a
National convention at indianapolis
to nominate president and vice
president They repudiate the Bry-
an, Watson, Sewali ticket, because it
is not democratic.
Bryan went by on a through nain
az l.19, afternoon, on Tuesday, on his
way to New York, where he is to de-
liver the speech accepting the nomi-
nation OF the Chicago convention, for
the Presidency, on this Wednesday
evening.
Robert E. Wright sound money
democrat, has resigned the chairman
ship of the Pennsylvania democratic
state committee, and tie probability
is that John ii. Garman of Wilkes
barre will be elected to fill his plsce
Garmau is a silver man, and is Ju-
niata county man by birth.
The name of the Pennsylvania
Traction Company with head-quar.
ters at Lancaster, Pa, has been
changed to that of Keystone Traction
Company with George 8. Lac of New
York at its head. The price paid by
Lee has not been made known.
There are q number of Miffiintown
and Juniata coznty people interest
ed in the deal.
A. W. Potter, Esq., of Seiinsgrove,
secured verdict of S13. $50 against
the Pennsylvania Railroad for injur-
les sustained one night while cross
ing the Selinsgrove and Lewistown
railroad with shedding party last
winter year. The party had been
to Middleburg to a dance and on
tbeir way home were caught by a
freight train on a crossing.
Sryan, the so-callea democratic
metaphor candidate for the presi-
dency, passed through here on the
ears-yesterday, Tuesdsy-to New
York, where he will open ths cam
paign by metaphor speech in which
he will leave out the crazy metaphor
of gold as a crown of th0rns on the
brow of labor. It will be great
speech until after it has been dissect-
ed.
W. A. Sponsler was released from
Bloomfield Jail on the 5th inst, where
he was sent last January by Judge
Lyons for contempt of court, by his
refusal or inability to pay claim,
that he owed Ephriam Clouser Of
Center township, Perry county, He
paid the claim and thus purged him
self Of contempt of Court and was re
leas, 4.
There was a furry in Chicago