Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-02

opened on Monday and many men
went ont early to catch bass. Some
journeyed far from town. Others
cast their line here at town and be.
fore breakfast had a nice string of
fish, and some failed even to get a
nibble.
Lloyd 8. Wintersteen and Clifton
G. Knorr, are on trial at Bloomsbury,
Pa for blowing up Levi E. Walters
house lost fall. The evidence in the
case, if true, proves that a lot of saw
ages, that can match savages any
where live at Bloomsbury. Blooms
burg people are beginning to wonder
whether civilization isn't q failure.
Governor Hastings vetoed the bill
to allow common school houses to be
used for Sunday School and religious
purposes. His objection is that it Is
special Legislation and unconstitution-
al, and he deems it unwise to place
a law upon the statute books for the
use of school houses for any purpose
than for which they are erected.
The trial now going on IN Blooms
burg, is one of the thousands that
take place every year in America,
that proves that intellectual education
does not make men better. Intel
lectual education makes men and
women capable of doing certain
things that they cannot do without
intellectual training, but to be hon.
orable upright men and women. they
must have moral training.
Newspaper men are human and
publish some rasping things, but
they are with all their shortcomings,
the most charitable of men, for what
a picture OF affairs and picture of men
and women they would put in print,
if they were to publish all they hear
people say about each other, and
what they do to each other behind
each others backs, and what they
say in public and in social converse
tiop.
8. Chapman Sterrett, one of the
prominent citizens of Spruce Hill
township, died at his home in that
township last Friday, the 2Sth ult.,
He was aged 60 years, 10 months and
6 days. Mr.. Sterrett was born in
Northumberland county, but for
many years has resided in Spruce
Hill He leaves to survive him, q
widow and two sons. Interment in
Academia cemetery on Monday. The
funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Mr.. Davenport.
On Monday at Johnstown, Pa,
the 9Th anniversary of the Johnstown
flood vas appropriately observed by
thousands of people, many of them
having lost relatives and near friends
in the flood, visited the cemetery
The unknown plot that contains the
unidentified bodies Of over 500 vic.
Tins Of the disaster was literally GOV.
cred with flowers, contributed most.
ly by persons, who lost their dear
ones in the flood and whose bodies
were never recovered.
"a sensible mother says that as
soon as her daughter finishes the
high school course, she intends Civ
ing her q thorough course in bakeol
ogy, roastology, boilology, stitchol-
ogy, mendology and ironology, and
when all the above courses are com
pleted to the satisfaction of her moth
er she says she will give her diplo'
ma, then she will be candidate fol
matrimony and she can study dude
ology. 'Tis well; but the young lady
is liable to read the curriculum some
thing like this:- bikeology, roustol'
ogy, boyology, stickology, manology
Irunology, and mix it up with q lit.
tie dudeology from the first
Miflintown people decorated tn.
Soldiers graves on Monday. The
veterans this year were puzzled as te
what day to select for decoration pur
poses as the regular day May 80, fell
on Sunday. Now what day should
be observed, Saturday or Monday
that was the question. It would no
do to parade on Sunday for thai
would be an offense against the re
ligious observance of that day. What
day then, was the question. In The
most Of places SATURDAY. was selected
In other places Monday was selected
In this place the G. A. r. Post select
ed Monday, while in other parts o
the county, Saturday was the day OBJ
served. In Washington, d. c., Mon
day was the day.
Before the days of the canal, which
is now of no use, was made, the in
habitants along the Juniata and Sus
quehanna, had easy means Of secur
ing living. A cabin, q garden, ,
pig or two, a COW, and the river sup
piled them with everything excep
clothing that they required. 1t il
doubtful whether the canals in thil
State ever did near as much good al
harm, bat be that as it may, theil
days for the present are over and
people along the streams mentioned
and their tributaries, are in a state o.
expectancy, for the water to wash th'
dams out of the rivers. and then tn,
streams will again become the chan
nels for an abundant supply of th'
best fish food to be had for almos
the catching.
The boundery line between Hunt
ingdon and Mifflin counties that 70
years was source of dispute, wa
disposed OF ON the 2lst of May b,
Judge Stewart of Franklin county
ruling that the new line or rather to
old line restored by a survey mad
out long since gives Huntingdon quit
a strip of territory that was believe'
by Miffiin county people belonged T.