Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-08-25

|Aiss Mabel Wickersham spent two
days of last week in Thompsontown.
Mrs. Charles Crull, of Harrisburg,
10 visiting her sister, Mrs. John Hol.
lobaugh, Jr.
On Monday morning wheat sold in
Chicago at $l.0O on Monday evening
it sold at 96 cents.
Mrs. W. 81. Nanbeck and Miss
Belle Rothrock have returned home
from weeks visit to Atlantic Oity
The question of who stole the Fer.
mansgh township democratic primary
election ballot box is still live ques-
tion.
The best rain of the summer be-
gan on Monday morning and kept on
showsring all day and night and
Tuesday, saturating the ground.
Mrs. Sarah Derr, of Milton, Miss
Annie Peoples, of Downingtown and
Miss Valentine, of Philadelphia are
guests of Misses Belle and Carrie
Derr.
BUcKNELL UNIVERSITY, John How
ard Barris, President; College, with,
four courses of study leading to de-
grees; Academy a preparatory school;
Ladies' Institute, q refined boarding
school; Music School, for both sexes;
and Art Studio. For catalogue, ad-
dress the Registrar. VIM. G. Gretz.
niger, Lewisburg, Pa. tt.
It is reported from Seattle that
there is more gold in Alaska than in
the Klondyke. On Metlake island
there is said to be solid mountain OF
gold, but the Indians will not allow
white people to come there to take
away gold. The Indians say there
are big woody creatures in that part
Of the country that make o foot print
IS large as the head of a barrel.
The Lewistown Gazette tells of a
young man near Siglerville, who
his girl too long one night,
recently, and the next day when he
went to field to plow he was 80 ov-
ercome with sleep that he fixed him.
self on the plow, and was found there
by his employer fast asleep in the
sun. That young man believes that
the best courting that he ever did
see is to court all night and sleep
next day.
Johnny Conway, aged S years, was
one day from his home in
Albany, York State, last week. He
was gone four days when detectives
got on the trail Of the parties, who
stole the boy, and following up the
clue succeeded in finding the man,
who abducted the child. It was an
uncle of the boy who WAS at the bot
tom Of the stealing. He wanted $3,-
600 to return the child. The rascal
ly uncle is in Jail. People in Albany
to hang the rascal.
With many men, generation af-
ter the discovery of America, the in
spiration to come to this continent
was to find gold and to find the foun.
tain of youth. This WAS particularly
80 outside of the ranks of the Puri
tans and Germans. Most others who
came, came to hunt gold or the ''foun-
tain of youth" Men have always
hSntsd gold, and they have a tradi.
ion that there il, fountain of youth
in America. The foun
tain of youth idea may have come
rom the narrative in the Bible of
sternal life.
The Qusrtsrlsnouka song of the
Juniata Valley EdNs. ts.,s' Association.
will be held in Port Royal, on
FRIDAY. AUGUST 27, 1897.
The editorial fraternity will take in
an excursion to Blair's Mills, through
the courtesy of Col. T. s. Moorhead,
President of the Tuscarore Valley
Railroad. The special train will leave
Port Royal at 10 o'clock a. m, or on
arrival of Seashore Express on the P.
R. R., arriving at Blair's Mills il
time for an early dinner. The spec
ial will return to Port Royal in time
to make connection with the evening
trains east and west on the p. r. R.
On Sunday the woods was full of
people at Tuscarora station, five
miles east Of this place, attending
camp meeting and drinking in the
waters of eternal life as poured out
by the eloquent ministers of the
Evangelical church. The camp was
opened last Thursday and will close
next Thursday. to morrow. The at
tendance has been good all the time,
but on Sunday the multitude remind
ed Bible students OF the outpouring
on Penticostial days Of ancient tunes.
Twenty white tents reminds one of
the days when Lorenza Dow and
Father Gruber did pioneer work
through this section of country for
the Methodists. The Methodists are
more stylish now then they were
when Father Gruber told in the con-
that his wife Mary Gruber
had laid away her sun-bonnet on
Sunday, and had sold a bureau to
get money to buy fashionable bon
not. Mary Gruber's new fashionable
bonnet of those days would be a
caution among millinery women of to
day. Whether Mrs. Gruber's new
bonnet set the fashionable pace for
the Methodists is not known and
makes no difference, but the fact re-
mains that the Methodists of to-day
are as fashionable as fashionable peo.
pie, and the Evangelical people are
The palmer religious sect, and con-
sequently stand closer to the people.