Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-16

yard, apd his mothers home on Gross
street.
Edit or.in- -Chief.-What's the latest
in the Turkish situationa
News Editor - Looks as though
there'll be- war among the peace COM
missioners.
Philip Weber of McAlisterville.
made the scaffold hooks for Messrs.
Haffley and Strayer, from which to
swing their paint platform at the
Court House.
The letters uncalled for in the Mif-
1intown post Office for the week end
ing June IA, were for Miss N. L.
Garner, j. B. Otto, Frank D. Gross,
and for Mary j. Andrews, a package.
1t is claimed that stone coal has
been found at Paintville along the
Sunbury & Selinsgrove railroad.
Their chances for coal are as good as
Isaac Etka's chance ut Van Vert,
Juniata county.
The peach June drop is now on.
Il is too early to tell to what degree
it may affect tbs crop, but from the
presen: appearance of the drop, it is
reasonable to expect a considerable
amount Of peaches for market.
Electric light manager Troxel and
Mr.. Rhine, clerk to County Commits
sioners, fished last Saturday in the
streams OF Upper Tuscarora Valley,
and the stock of fish iu the Jacobs
House refrigerator testifes to their
success.
The toughs who threw eggs in
town az night, will have their laugh
come out on the other side of their
mouth some Of these fiue days when
scooped in the meshes of the law.
There is good deal of evidence stor-
ed up for their case.
Taffy don't always win as is Illus
trated by the cutlery of a woman
whose house was invaded by burg
lar. The burglar called her dearie,
aud otner soft names, telling her she
should not be hurt, but she shouted
the louder, and the thief became
scared and ran out of the house.
r s. Mercer, Supervisor of the
Miffiintawn subdivision of the Mid
die Division of the 2. r. r, resign,
ed on the 18th inst People here
who met Mir. Mercer, all speak in the
h;giesi terms Of him, and it is a re-
gret that he did not remain here
longer 50 as to become more genGr-
ally acqus;pted.
The Franklin Repository of June
9, says-Clerk Prather of the Com.
missioners' office, has counted the
number of scalps paid for from 1885
to 1897. Here is the large list
Wild cats, 1876; foxes, 29l2; minks,
S34. In tie four years after 1898
(before the law as to these animals
was repealed) thsre were killed 102
weasels; $50 baaks and 12S owls.
For the scaips OF al these the county
paid S41S5.25.
Ii the free traders and jobbers had
their way, the ports of the United
States would be open to the trade of
all the world. and that would so
cheaper everything, that wages and
prices would be leveled down to the
rates that prevail in tie cid world.
The reason that SO many people
from the old world desire to come to
America, Ia because the rates of WA.
ges and prices generally are better
here than there.
A farmer writes every year I
hear of caterpillars destroying whole
orchards, and there is nothing to dis
pose of more easily. 1 bore hole
in the tree deep enough to reach the
sap, fill it with sulphur and then plug
it up. The result is magical. The
sap takes up the sulphur to every
branch and twig, and the caterpillar
at once dies. I have never koown of
tree being I'M yred by it, and l have
pursued this course for years.
William Ellis and William Brow
and, saw au animal run into water.
drain under the road in the Narrows.
A long pole was cut, and while one
pushed the pole through, the other
stood at the far end with club, and
when the animal came out, killed
it. 1t was twelve pound ground
hog which they gave to an inhabitant
of the lower end of the Narrows.. II
was a nice gift and made several
savory meals for the family to whom
it was given.
The direct inheritance tax bill hav
ing been declared unconstitutiona by
a Philadelphia Judge, the Legisla
ture last Friday, passed another bill
that is believed will correct the de
fects of the first bill. The frs. bill
exempted inheritarces below Ger
trim amount, which simply was sor
for the men who inherit nothing, tx
turn in and shout for a tax on people
who inherit something. That is th,
kind of Legislature that is now il
session at Harrisburg.
Wednesday, I'd inst, Daniel A. Yo
der, of Reading, died suddenly il
his skift, near the Mil,erstown dam
Every spring for several years pas
Mr.. Yoder and wife occupied hous'
near the old Rope Ferry during fish
ing season where they would be Wis
tied by friends from Reading. HI
WAS fishing in the river at the tims
of his death and was accompanied
by his wife. The body of the lifeles
man fell into the water, but Mrs
Yoder succeeded in dragging it bacl
into the boat. Yoder was so years
Of age and was a wholesale liquo
dealer. His remains were taken t.
READING for burial. The death il