Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-10-06

A number of new peach orchards
will be planted in Juniata the coming
year
-+hock of partridges invaded the
Court House grounds one day last
| week.
Mrs. Rebecca Nevi1 and niece Miss
Warner are visiting Mrs. Robert Nc
Meen.
The National policy of the Repub-
lican party is slowly making times
better.
The pension list still increases, and
the militia of 1862 have not been
pensioned.
The shipment of cattle from the
west into Juniata seems to grow less
every year.
People here are too far from Chic
ago to have their appetite for saus-
age spoiled.
William McMeen of Pittsburg, is
visiting his mother, who is quite i'll
in Patterson.
The control of sixty million tag
fund in New York city, is what makes
politics lively. .
Twenty thonsand cells were caught
one night recently in Perry county in
the JuCiata river.
A search for gold is to be made in
the mountain separating Berks and
| Lebanon counties
The digging for stone coal at Van
Vert has not been resumed as was
expected by some.
IA number of citizens went to Har-
risburg to see the Blrnum & Bailey
Show on Saturday.
Miss Louie Long of Perry county
is learning dress making with Mrs.
Benjamin Wagner.
Huntingdon Presbytery is this
week holding its fall session at Bell
wood, Blair county.
Mrs. Harry Kelly of Barnsboro, is
visiting her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel Pannebaker.
Mrs. Krick, wife of railroad super
intendent Krick, is visiting her pa
rents in Berks county.
Miss Lou Cramer of Hollidaysburg,
is visiting at the home of her aunt
Mrs. EIizabeth Cramer.
Mrs. Henry S. Scholl attended the
Ladies' Home missionary convention
at Reedsville last week.
The most convenient thing out
the Leatherett Lunch Boxes at Nc
Clintic's hardware store.
Mr.. Frederick Espenschade remov-
ed worn out peach orchard aud
sowed the ground to wheat.
Sheriff J. P. Calhoun assisted by
his son Banks and others are taking
the fish dams out of the river.
Taking the fish dams out of the
river now, is like locking the stable
after the horse has been stolen.
Men talk about a dollar wheat, but
it is not dollar, and hasn't been, ex-
cePt f's day or two in August
Someone says man judges other
women by his wife and woman
judges other men by her husband.
If they have gold in Northumber.
land county, why not gold in Juniata.
The SINE rocks appear in both coun
| ties.
The Juniata Valley Editorial Asso
citation is off this week on an excur.
sion to Southern Pines, North Caro-
lima.
The Misses Mary Shelly, Maud
Crozier and Grace McManigal ar e
visiting Mrs. George Wilson in Pat
| terson.
The railroad company had a mum
lhs< of men at work on Tuesday
sprinkliug the yard with oil to settle
the dust.
The Dem ,cratic primary clectioh
box question ia Fermanagh towt
ship is like Banquo's ghost. 1t win
not down.
Within the coming year the Repub
lican tariff will give manufacturers,
merchants, mechanics and workmen
more to do.
= Bumblebees are more plentiful this
fall than in many seasons. Plenty
bumblebees and plenty clover seem
to go together.
The pension roll is unpopular
among large class of people, and
they grumble almost every time they
see pensioner.
Two students we're expelled from
State College last week for hazipg.
They were caught in the act of initial.
ing a new man.
The longer Spain wars against
Cuba, the poorer she grows. Cuba
can't pay the war debt even should
4hostilities cease.
Mrs. Margaret Hurrell, wife of Rob
ert Hurrell, late of Lack township,
deceased, died on Sunday morning,
aged about IS years.
I Contractor James j. Horning is
placing a handsome shingle roof up
on the house of railroad conductor
VIM. Brown in Patterson.
Copper river in Alaska promises to
be as profitable gold field as the
Klondyke. 1t isn't so cold along the
Copper river, but the Indians are bad.
The 1st day of October was warm