Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-04-21

The fall meeting of Huntingdon
Prssbytsry will be held in the Pres
bytsrian church ct Bellwood, Blair
county.
A new g. A. r. Post has been
started At Aarkslsburg. Huntingdon
county. Il is little late, but the
boys think better late than never.
4 man with explosives to sxtin
guish fires, held forth on Watsr st.,
the other evening, and showed how q
hre may be put out by aid of e1plo-
sives.
Something Of the intellectual ae-
quirements of Middle Age kings Of
Europe may be learned from the fact
that Henry was called '.Bsauclerk, !"
because he was one of the few kings
of his time who could read and write.
New pension bills are being offer
ed in Congress Why not pass q
general pension bill and be done with
pension legislation. Pension every
one who was in the service against
rebellion for long or short period
of time.
"With the assistance of the latest
machines, n piece of leather can be
Transformed into a pair of boots in
thirty-foar minutes, iu which time it
passes through the hands of sixty
three people and through fifteen ma
chimes"
Now comes the tug of war. Turk.
ey has declared war against Greece.
Fighting in the Karya district took
place on Saturday and Sunday.
About $4,000 troops were engaged.
The advantage of the battle was with
the Turks.
It is many years since wild ducks
came into the Juniata Valley as they
did last week Thousands of ducks
frsquented the river last week and
handreds of sportsmen from the
mouth Of the river to it's head were
shooting ducks.
Merchant Harley Is now east and
by next week will have a stock of new
clothing for men and boys. You
know the place, corner of Bridge and
Front streets. The old reliable place.
Always up to date, with new styles
at prices to suit the times.
Altoona Tribune:-Ir used to be
the young fellows who sowsd wild
OATS. Now it's the old chaps. 1t
would be no difficult task to name a
half dozen men in this community,
who we're models in youth, who have
gone to the dogs after the gray hairs
came.
The State Fishery management are
urgent to catch the violators of the
fish law in the bye way places. But
where corporal ions kill fish by the
hundreds and where they depopu-
late streams of fish the management
say nothing. Who can understand
the fish management.
The religious feeling and devotion
of number of church member fe.
males, were sadly out of tune last
Sunday, because they had not a new
Easter bonnet, and that kept them
from going to preaching. Many
sisters, however, attended church
and never once thought of au Easter
bonnet.
Perry county papers report the
Newport Deposit Bank case as set
tied. 1t is stated that q settlement
has been made by the payment of
fifty cents on the ninety cents due
the depositors, which with the ten
per cent. paid some months ago,
makes sixty per cent. of their entire
deposits.
Sometime on Friday night or Sat.
urdsy morning, thieves entered the
Howe store on Main street by way OF
the cellar window. From the cellar
it was an easy way to the store room
above, where they helped themselves
to such things as suited their taste
from a stock of goods in a grocery
and confectionery store.
The wild ducks that entered the
Juniata Valley ten days ago did not
stop going up stream till they reach.
ed the head of the stream in the back
bone Of the Allegheny mountain be-
yond Altoona. The last heard Of the
tail end of the great flock was that
Altoona hunters were shooting them
in the reservoir at Horseshoe Bend.
The organ grinder as rule is the
first music man to leave his winter
quarters in some city and start on a
spring and summer tour in the couu-
try towns. but the first music people
to strike this town this year came
last week and were a couple of men
the one with harp the other with
a violin. They played the town for
pennies.
The bushel basket that was taken
with Jesse Rowe's chickens and corn
some nights ago, has been returned.
The brace and bit and other tools
used by thieves to work their way in
to Howe's store some nights ago
were obtained in Creswell's black
! smith shop. Creswell identifies a
number of the tools, aud tools that
he found lying outside of his shop,
fit the work done on the cellar door.
Lewisburg Chronicle good
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