Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-09-22

Cashier L. v. Irwin was to Allan
tic City, last week, attending the
State Water Convention.
Any person needing peach crates
can buy them from s. F.. Hines of
Cocolamus at 81 per hundred
The fifth annual meeting of the
veterans of the Juniata Valley Asso-
citation, will be held at Miffiintown in
1898.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Krick Of Read
ing. Pa, are visiting their nephew
and neice Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Krick.
A seventy-five thousand dollar can
non on the American ship Indiana, is
worthless On account of a crack in
the gun.
A rain on Sunday night washed
the face of vegetation and made
things look brighter on Monday
morning.
Within the past year Democratic
Presidential candidate Bryan has
been in three railroad wrecks and es
capped without injury.
Mrs. Svenson has broken ground
for her new house in the Schweier ex-
Tension at the east end. Joseph
Briudle is the contractor.
Take chewing gum with you on a
wheeling trip, and when tire is
punctered smear it over with gum.
Pump up the tire and go.
VIM. Gushard is clerk,ng in the
Panuebaker hardware store on Main
St., in place Of the old time clerk
Boyd Parker, who has resigned.
The great heat of September is
charged to spots on the sun 1t is
pity the sun spots had not been held
in reserve for the coming 5 months.
A lady bicycle rider stopped in
this place on Thursday for a short
time. She said she was travelling
from Kansas City to New York by
wheel.
The dwelling house Of John Zook
at Germania Mills, was destroyed by
fire from stove on a porch about
supper :ime-ive o'clock on Satur-
day evening.
LosT.-A valuable spotted, black
and white slut-hound pup, six months
ol5. Anyone finding her will confer
n favor by informing DR. L. Banks of
. 4 ~, 1,,ba,aobo
David Roush of Thompsontown,
Pa, late of Company L. of 2lst Penn
sylvania Cavalry, has had au Increase
Of pension from SIT to S24, through
the agency of Captain Fry.
| The wster company propose plac.
ing the pipe that now lies on the
bridge across Lost creek, uodar the
creek, thus securing that place against
damage from frost and flood.
! Mrs. Ezra Parker and brother
PhiIo Banks, and Miss Jane Banks,
started on Monday for Washington,
D. c., aud while on their way will
stop at Reading and Philadelphia.
The Democrats don't know where
they are on the Tariff question, and
since grain has gone up in price and
silver down in price, they don't quite
} understand whe.e they are on the
| gold question
DIR. D. NJ. Crawford lost pocket
book containing twenty-five dollars
last Tuesday morning. The last
knowledge he had of it, was when ne
was paying for meat bought from q
butchers wagon.
| yHrs. Parcake.-Say, Mrs. Soap
cake, I believe all matches are made
, in HEAVIER, don't you.-Mrs. Soapcake.
No I don't, for know Jack and I
made our match while swinging on
the gate last summer.
Grateful Citizen.-I WAS delighted
to read in the papers that you had
refused to raise the price Of ice.
President Ice Company. - That is
true. We shall make no change in
the price. The only changa will be
!; in the lumps.-New York Weekly.
Lswisburg Chronicle, September
, IS Mr. Edgar r Hickman, form
erly of this place and son Of Rev
Isaac Hickman of Montoursvi!le. was
rendered position in Dickinson Col
lege, Carlisle, which he has accepted.
He graduated a. that institution last
term.
S. F. Hines of Cocolamus, who
has two peach orchards, comprising
all told $500 trees, claims that out of
} the 5000 crates OF peaches that ne has
) shipped and sold, he has just about
cleared his expenses. He has quite
number of trees bearing later fruit,
from which he expects better profit.
Penn's Valley farmers put 60 cat
tie to pasture in the mountains south
of the valley last June Just recent
ly, the cattle were gathered to take
home. OF the 60 all are dead, except
I ing %. The csrcases of the dead an
imals are in the woods pasture range.
The cause of the death of the ami
mails is not known, but an investiga-
ton will be made.
These who are in the Klondyke
region are already locked up there,
| like in trap, till next May. and
those who want to get there will have
to wait till next summer. Perhaps
when they have heard from there
next summer, they will not want to
go, and perhaps they will be all the
| more anxious to go when they get
/ reports from there next summer.
The reports of the quantity of gold