Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-10-20

OctnS III vASiuI1s buu tudb ~ tuo lure
runner of a mild winter in the north.
the fellows that partook of too
much booze on re union night did
not get home by the light of the
moon.
Last Saturday, October 16, there
was mid. summer heat, the thermom-
eter registering IS degrees in the
shade.
Tae Academy was opened at the
regular time on Tuesday morning in
the lecture room of the Methodist
church.
Miss Louie Mcclellan and Cora
Baird of Lewistown, spent Thursday
at the home of Louie McCle]Ian's pa
rents in town.
Thsre is a demand among the peo-
pie Of the west coast of Africa for
stove polish, because negro ladies use
it to shine their faces.
\ The 49srs who held their re union
at Port Royal last Thursday helped
to swell the ranks of the veterans re-
union in this place on Friday.
Major Howell of Spruce Hill, one
OF the bravest men that Juniata coun-
ty turned out against rebellion was
N town attending tie re e-union.
Football is at discountin Tyrone,
because one young man was killed.
Another had his shoulder broken,
aud another had an arm broken.
The Lutheran congregation will
hold congregational meeting on
Sanday.to consider the question of
building a new house OF worship.
The sportsmen who were practic-
ing shooting red squirrels the past
two or three weeks left themselves
loose on the gray squirrels last Fri
day.
The foot bali game between the
Juniors of Lawist3wn aud Mifflintown,
played at this place on reunion day
was won by the Miffiintown club 80
to 0.
Ed. Gushard shot black squirrel
on the ridge north of town on the
18th inst. The tail was on exhibi
tion at the Banks drug store last
week.
HURRY UP the building of the State
Capitol, now that the court has brush
ed away the cob-webs that were spun
to make game of its building for con
tractors, &c.
Mrs. Harry Kaufman Of Harris
burg. visited her mother Mrs. Sarah
BARLEY, and Mrs. Bartley has gone
with her daughter to Harrisburg to
spend some time.
It was a queer obituary notice that
read:-George Waldron in Montreal,
Canada, died from combination of
old age, congestion of the lungs and
the irritation of wife.
Now that the big sleeves of wom-
ems earn ents are growing less and
less, those preachers who denounced
the balloon sleeves from the stand
point of Bible texts will be happy.
Jeremiah Grouse fell into a ditch
at railroad street crossing in Selins
grove and sued the railroad company,
aud received a verdict for S4050. A
motion for a new trial was entered.
The foot ball contest Ast Friday
between the Mifiintnwn and Lewis.
town junior Clubs wss witnessed By
a large multitude of people, and the
boys were as happy as the veterans.
Mrs Jacob Liddick of near Newport,
Perry Co, was killed at Newport
railroad station On Saturday evening
by stepping in front of a freight train,
the approach of which she did not
notice.
'When Goethe was first in love he
went into the forest, selected beat
tiful tree, engraved thereon two
hearts united by scroll end receiv-
ed from the forester therefor sound
thrashing."
The SO called sockless Jerry Simp-
son of Kansas, but in fact a gentle.
man who wears shoes an4 stockings
rs do other people, predict financial
panic for year hence Prophet of
evil, avaunt!
This Wednesday. October IA, Ben
ismin F Hart aged SO years of Bost-
on. was married TO Julia A. Sherman
of Watertowr, New York State The
bride is 90 wears old and is worth a
million dollars.
A Boston woman bad more faith
in her bustle than in banks, and
therefore deposited money in her
hustle. When she died she had
twentv-four thousand dollars on de.
posit in her hustle.
The veterans on reunion day were
happy over the thought of the big
six days encampment that they viii
hold at this place next summer, anc
over the thought of getting Presi
dent Mckinley to visit the camp.
Frank Warner and Harry Tysor
were employed by the Post G.. A. r.
to place a spruced arch at the in
tersection of Main and Bridge st.
the evening before re union day. 1
was the only arch on this side of th,
river on the 18th inst, reunion day.
The we'll grounded man and woman
may under unfsvorable environments
ard surroundings bend sometimes al
most to the breaking joint, but lik'
an elastic bow the seeming tendenc,
to break is only momentaiy. The,
spring back again into proper positio,
like fash
George Washington was fond of (
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