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

Percy Burch6eld, of Williamsport;
Is home on vacation.
Miss Mamie Page. of Obsrlin, paid
q visit to the Misses Diebl.
Wheat at dollar in Chicago and
Minneapolis on Saturday excited the
business of those big towns.
Thomas Kidd and wife of Pitts
burgh, who have been visiting two
weeks in Tuscarora Valley returned
home on Monday.
Edward Kaufman of Kansas was
Nm from the west to attend the funer.
al OF his mother Mrs. David Kauff:
man last week.
CARLOADS OF NEW FURSITuRz.-
Chas. Renninger, the draymsn has
been hauling Furniture to Meyers
new rooms on Bridge street for two
weeks.
Few people have a natural express
sion when they have picture taken
That's the reason so many pictures
do not look like the people they are
said to represent.
Mr.. Lutz of Miflin county bought
the Leonard homestead tract of 81
acres, near Oakland mills, at public
sale on Saturday for thirteen hund-
red and twenty dollars
The drought or some other cause
produced many premature peaches in
Juniats county. Bushels and bush
els that are not marketable will
be left in the orchards.
The black birds are focking. They
leave this latitude about the Goth and
21st of September, and appear in the
rice fields of the South on the 22nd
day of September every year.
On Saturday DR.. VIM. Banks
bought the homestead property of
the late George Smith for $3.50.
The house and lot is located on Main
street, alongside of the Jacobs House.
For the past two weeks manufac,
turing companies from Michigan, In
diana, New York and Pennsylvania,
have been shipping large lots of Furn-
iture to Meyers new rooms on Bridge
street.
The water companys reservoir on
the ridge northwest of the station,
is being filled with water. The res
ervoir is 212 feet above the railroad,
and is made to hold 100000 gallons
of water.
Inventors are cudgeling their
minds to invent q machine to thaw
the ground in the Klondyke country,
so that opela atoms for the mining of
placer gold may more speedily be
carried on during the winter time.
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One of the New York fresh air chill
dren in Snyder county, recently, al
most knocked farmer off his feet
with surprising question: "Say, Mr.,
isn't it expensive to buy chewing gum
for the cows" She was looking at the
COWS chewing their cud.
Fifteen dollars day for g davis
work in the KIondyke gold field
amidst snow and ice is good wages,
but when it costs fourteen dollars to
fourteen aaellasss and fifty cents With
out luxuries to live, it isn't near as
good job as one can get at home.
The cool days of last week started
a lot of summer birds south. Orni-
biologists say that birds that go
south and come north as the seasons
change make the flights at night.
How the birds have come to go on
their pilgrimages at night is thing
not e1plainable.
LThe careless man has no idea of
Me precise work that is necessary to
make one of the nicely running ma
chimes that are now used on the
farms If farmers would plow and
do their other work with the exact
ness Of a grain binder how nicely and
carefully the plowing and sowing
would be done.
A couple of Italians with a light
buff colored bear, exhibited on the
streets several days ago. They smil-
ed, that is the men smiled, when
someone mentioned the duel between
Count Turin and Prince Henri. If
they had been Frenchmen their faces
would have worn serious cast at the
mention of the duel.
Officer Albert Hackenberger ar
rested r. r. Crozier on Saturday 'ev-
ening for drunkenness and disorder
ly conduct on the streets, and escort.
ed him to Castle Calhoun to spend
Sunday. On Monday hearing was
had before Justice Hamilton, and the
defendant was released on the pay.
ment of costs and fines amounting to
two dollars and fifty cents.
James A. Kinkead, son of Joseph
Kinkead of Earlville, Illinois and
grandson of James Kinkead, who
lived in this town more than q half
century ago, and was one of the pio.
neer local Methodist preachers here,
is now on a visit to the home of his
ancestors in this county. The
oldest people in this community
tell of grandfather James Kinkead's
frequent Sunday walks to Jericho
four miles northeast of Mifflintown
to preach for the congregation there.