Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-04-21

tnst weighed between seven and EIGHT
pounds s''
Track foreman @. L. Van Newkirk
OF Newport, was struck by . local
freight engine last week and main.
fully hurt.
The letters uncalled for in the Nif.
nlntown post Office on April l9, were
Tor Miss Nary Barnes, John Hase
Voons Marshall.
Suicide statistics from Switzerland
say suicides in that country are s Der
cent. higher on Tuesdays than on
any other days of the week.
Major Patton and daughter Miss
Pidge Patton, visited the family of
Wlberforce Schweyer on Tuesday.
Mrs Schweyer is daughter of Major
Patton.
On the 18th of April Boston girl,
Alice Marion Wilson ~ years old,
married Chinaman Yee Wah, aged
~ years. It is reported to be o gen
uins love match.
The banks in this town did not OBJ
serve Good Friday. They had plenty
OF work and plenty of money and did
not like to lose the time to use both
time and money.
Henry G. Havemeyer of New York,
President of the Sugar Trust called
John Bergen a liar aad Bergen has
sued Havemysr for libel and slander
He wants ten thousand dollars dam
age.
The barn on the Samuel A. Tyson
farm, adjoining Union cemetery,
south of town, was destroyed by fire
on Sunday. about midnight. It is
believed to have been an incendiary
fire.
For Osborne Farm Implem snts,
Buckeye Corn Workers, grain drills,
pumps, water pipes and fittings,
call on F. W. Noble, Mifflintown,
Pa. A full line on hand for your in. .
spectiop. St..
Merchant Schott while driving
from Lewistown on Monday. found a
z pound swapping turtle on the road.
A good thing like that was not to be
passed and Mr.. Schott took it in and
brought it home.
The new weather man who has not
. past weather record is puzzled over
the question whether an early Easter
brings an early spring. He says the
question puzzles him as much as the
ground hog question.
Three hundred and seventy-sight
persons were in attendance upon the
Lutheran Sunday School on the 18th
inst. 1t was net Christmas or pic
mic boom, but thu even-tids of Sun
day School prosperity.
The Spring weather of Easter was
followed on Monday night by real
winter weather. The thermometer
dropped to 26 degrees. Ice three
quarters of an inch thick was made
and general concern for the fruit is
felt.
The collections in the Lutheran
church on Sunday amounted to two
hundred and eighty.three dollars.
This is not counting the Sunday
School collections, and two Sundays
previous collection Of FIVE hundred
and forty.six dollars was taken.
A large delegation of Amish peo
pie from Aiff1in county, attended the
horse sale on Monday. The Amish
are among the most substantial peo.
pie in the State. Wherever they 10.
cate order and sobriety and industry
fourlshes. Real estate always COM
mands a good price wherever they
are
Charles Hollobaugh of Pittsburs
came home on short vacation last
week. He made it a special point to
be in Juniata for the opening day of
the trout fishing season, April Is,
but unexpectedly it rained that day,
and the waters have not been in first
rate condition since.
A member of the Illinois Legisla
ture beats them all on libel law. He
proposes law to punish editors for
praising men beyond their merits.
He takes the position that people are
often deceived in to supporting unfit
men by the good character that rews-
papers give unworthy men.
"Another fatality from excessive e
rope jumping is reported from Read
ing, in the case of Annie I. Dalcamp,
aged 7 years. She skipped the rope
fiftv-seven times without stopping,
and died in great agony. Too many
of our young girls engage in this
pastime to the detriment Of their
health and well.being."
It does not sound like the most
pleasant thing that L. A. Whitmire,
Muncy shoe maker has been engag-
ed by Williamspert doctor to make
8 pair Of slippers from human hide.
The leather Is from the leg of an un-
identified tramp, who was killed on
the railroad at Williamsport six
months ago. The leather was pre-.
pared by Williamsport tanner.
Chsmbersburg News, April 10
A boy while digging out chip
munk, near Caledonia Furnace, few
DAYS ago, dug up large Indian bat
tie axe, measuring eight inches in
length and weighing four pounds.
1t was fine specimen of Indian
workmanship and was as perfect as
tho 1ov ~ voc ,o,Ia t. :, po,y ~,
the possession of DR.. 1. N. Snively Ct
Wsypesboro.
The Greeks can only muster an
army of $4,000 men. Turkey can
raise an army of 100000.
The Greek steamer Athens was