Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-03-17
SHORT LOCALS.
E,stec Sunday, April l8.

boiling.
Miss Katherine Diehl is visiting il
Middletown.
Rafting was brisk last week on the
Susquehsnna-
Jacob Davis spent several days il
Osceo!a last week.
Captain Mcclellan has been on thu
sick list within the past week.
Bills are being sent from this of
flee to subscribers who are in arrears
Samuel Wagner has returned from
Reedsville, Miff1in county. to thi:
place.
A strolling band of negro min
strels sang on the streets on Friday
evening.
The roads were bad last week
Eight weeks more and the roads will
be good.
s'The student finds that the end OF
his college course is only the com
mencement.'
Merchant D. w. Harley spent a
number of days visiting in Harris
burg recently.
The band practises three evenings
a week in the Hollobaugh building
on Bridge street.
Mrs. Holmes Irwin of Newport,
spent ssversl days with Misses Sallie
and Maud Irwin.
Kuuckle-down to marbles is the GO
on the street among boys, who have
nothing else to do.
John Hollobaugh, Jr., made gar
den and planted onions, &c, on the
11th day of March.
The Suparintendants of Common
Schools met in State convention at
Harrisburg last week.
Miss Bessie Parker of Lewistown,
spent part of last week with her aunt
Mrs. Robert McMeen.
Noses Pannebaksr saws he is on
deck to do all kinds OF house paint
ing at reasonable rates
Maple sugar makers are at work,
There are few sugar maple groves
now in Junista county.
Miss Pidge Patton of Lewistown,
paid her sister Mrs. Wilberforce
Sohweyer a visit last week.
II man could see himself as 9th
ers gee him when lie is drunk, he'd
never get drunk any more
The western wheat crop IS report
ed to be killed TO the extent Of 80
per cent. by the open winter.
"Chambersburg now puts the
tramps from the county jail TO work
as breaking stone for the roads"
Philo Pannebaker caught eight
carp on q certain day last week.
They weighed over eighteen pounds.
The February ''freshet" did not
materialize, which is interpreted to
mean that the June flood will be a
big one.
"Ds bes' way foh 10 make dumb
boy srnart,' says Brother Watkins,
'sarn to glib hin e course wid a pine
shingle"
One more word" said prescher.
But he said 563 more words accord
ing to the count of boy who sat in
the congregation.
- Jesus Campsche, a Spaniard, who
was born in l742. died in the City of
Mexico, Mexico, on the 5th OF March
1897, aged 155 years.
Thirty five men of the Pennsylva-
pis Railroads middle division form
ed Veteran Employees As. .ociation
ct Harrisburg on Friday"
The sale CT live stock and farm i'm
plaments On the farms are at flood
tide. You may attend sale every
day from this to the 1st Of April,
On Monday Congress convened in
extra session under a call Of -Presi-
dent Mckinley, to consider the de
, depressed condition of the coun try.
If civil service were applied to
Governors, Senators, Representa-
tives and Presidents, they could not
be COTTON out of Office when once
put in.
Governor Hastings says the Office
of Governor is congenial to him and
that be has not besn seeking an ap-
poIn.neGt under the National Gov
eminent.
An agricultural society in Ger
many have a gas stove large enough
to roast an OK at a time, and the gas
to roast au OK cests three dollars and
fifty csnis.
This fifty ff.h Congress was con
vened in extra session on Monday,
to lesislate for the depressed condi-
ton OF the country Speaker Reed
was reelected speaker of the Lower
Houss.
Last week Ella Strasbaugh was ar
rested at Harrisburg on the charge
of infanticide. She placed ker new
bora babe in the stump OF tree,
where it died from exposure. Three
other abandoned infants were found
in the same town last week.
The Kansas Legislature has a num-
Der of singular bills before it.-A bill
requiring railroads to stop passenger
trains wherever passengers desire to
get off; to have an unment1onable
surgical operation on men who inde-
Gently assault women; to let all coun
ty offices to the lowest bidder