Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-05-26
SHORTLOCALS.
Bass fishing next week,

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Last Friday, Saturday and Sunday
mornings were cool.
Camp-meeting at Newton Hamil-
ton, opens August 10.
New potatoes from Florida have
been selling in town for SOC peck.
VIM. Pennell of Patterson, spent
eight days in Philadelphia, recently.
Robert .NcMeen, Esq, was on a
business trip to WiIkesbarre, last
week
Straw bais and all other kinds Of
hats for men at Rar!ey's clothing
store.
A worm is reported at work des.
troying clover in fields in adjoining
counties.
The railroad company has laid off
MANY men from work along the mid
die division.
You ore using hardware Of some
hluu HIl tIe tIule. IoCShutiS 10 WIZ
place to huv it.
o. Joseph McCaulav and family are
visiting friends in Haddington, N. j.,
and Reading, Pa
John Bvler of Miff1in county was
in this community looking to his
farming interests.
Miss Blanch Wright has had
electric lights placed in her house on
Washington street
Juniata river shad caught at New
port sold in thia town last week at
80 and 35cts piece.
Second hand Traction and Ports
bic engine for sale or trade by I. z
Hertz'er, Belleville, Pa.
W. Fl. Kaufman of Walker town
shin. has sold his firm TO his broth
ers Robert and Edward
Greece pnt no as poor a fight
against Turkey as France put up
against Germany in 1870.
SATURDAY., Nav %. will he observ.
ed as legal holiday The banks
will be closed on that dav.
The w. q. T. us in Burlingte n
county. N. j.. have declared pro.
gressive euchre to he gambling.
A Miss Cnrrier in Chester. N h.
fell hnir 10 fortune which so dis
<l1rhed her mind that ste drowned
6aree'f.
The Newpor. furns after run
: -aias-t9e months sgai, osed busi
ness The Cleveland So flows are
still in force
The june hnod will not rnaterialize
this year because the rain fall to pro.
dnce It fell gradually during the
month of Nav.
Ex-sheriff Walls spent a day last
week in town in town. He has 80
acres planted in corn on his farm ia
Tuscsrora Valley.
A so'diers' monument ia TO be nut
up in the Court House yard in Mer
cer The monument is to cost seven
thousand dollars.
"Tba oldest statute in the world is
that of the sheik of an Egyptian vii
lage It. ia believed TO be not less
than 5000 years old"
Thomas Sunderland tenant on the
Rhodes farm in .Mifflin county,
caught 55 rats in trap in three
nights in the corn crib.
If a man cenld Jump "a far in pro-
portion to his size and weight. as a
flea, he could at a single leap pass
from st. Louis to Chicago"
Memorial dav comes on Sunday,
and for that reason, Saturday, May
20, has been determined on as the
day on which to decorate graves.
The pictures Of the Corbett- Fit
zimmous fight dare not be shown in
public in Canada, because their exhi-
bition is considered to be demoraliz.
ing.
Miss Barbara Graybill residing
with her mother at Locust Run, died
on FRIDAY morning, aged about 80
years. She was a sister Of B. @
. 6raybill, who died short time since
James Mcknight of Thomson
town, aged about 70 years, died, on
Thursday, May 20. He took grip
last winter. and he never recovered
from its effects. It gave him con.
sumption.
The importers Of foreign goods are
all free traders, and they have the
ware houses Mt the ports nf entry all
stuffed full Of cheap foreigr goods in
anticipation OF a higher tariff law be-
ing passed.
It doesn't look as if the Legisla
re'intends getting away by fly time
? lis work now between junket kimes
is to hunt for something to tax.
Drink and smoke and hunt for some
thing to tax.
A three year old son of Andrew
Bossinger, deceased, fell into Lick
ing creek on the 10Th of May and
was drowned. The BODY was recov-
cred after it had foated down the
creek abont a half mile.
When the Democratic brethren
condemn the Mckinley administra-
ton for not having better times,
they condemn Democratic legislation.
for the country is now working under
Cleveland laws. The Cleveland laws
not been GLANCED
s. Ellen McNaughton, wife of
5ohn McNaughton, deceased, died at