Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-12-20

D. w. MCCAHAN,
Lecturer.
Herbert Thomas & Co., have stock
ed their store early for the holidays!
Miss Isabella Schweier paid eis-
it to friends in Lewisburg over Sun.
day.
The Perry County Medical Society
will hold q banquet in Bloomfield on
the evening of February 2l
Jeremiah Stauffsr claims to have
found gold bearing quartz on his
farm in Westmoreland county.
The British can over whelm the
Beers, but it will cost them many
valuable lives and q great deal of
money.
Government announces that in the
United States there are over 200, 900
more acres sown to wheat than q
year ago.
There are reports and reports OF
all kinds relative to the construction
of the railroad from this place to the
Susquehanna river.
Stage line men would be glad if
they could pass the two mouths to
come off the road for during those
two months, bad roads aud severe
weather are experienced.
John Bender killed a 4SO pound
hog recently. There are few hogs
slaughtered this fail that tqua! that
weight 1t was an IL months oil
hog.
= The let ers uncalled for in the Milf
fintown, P. o, on Saturday evening,
Dec. 16, 1899 were for: Emma Rid
en-, Francis Colgap, Lewis II. Whit
aker, j. 81. Siever, VIM. 81. Weaver
and one for Herman L. Hazcecsa.
American troops of the Sixth In.
fantry, 20 soldiers and l8 native po.
licemen attacked 400 insurgents at
Msdrigal on the Island of Negroa,
one of the Philippine group and rout-
ed tbe insurgents. killing % and
wounding many.
The old border raid claim chest.
nut that is re roasted every time a
county man wants q nomi.
nation for Congress is again sending
forth it's aromatic oders. At this
early stage of the Congressional cam.
paign it has SO fragrantized the Sc.
linsgrove Tribune. that the journal
is oder;zing Snyder county with its
The Wayne Nebraska Republican
of the 18th says:-The cattle feeders
are making the grain business in the
towns exceeding dull. Scarcely q
load OF corn is of. red TO the regular
buyers for the reason that the feed.
ers need it and are willing to pay
price considerably in advance of what
shippers can afford to pay, and as
result the feeders get the corn and
and the other fellows keep up fires
in their Offices, grow fat and lazy,
but business-that's different thing
they don't have any OF it to do.
Rev. Raven had a packed house on
evening to see and hear the
of his illustrated lecture
on the drunkard's g career from start
to finish. It represented the youth
taking his first drink and lis journey
thence on into thu drink habit to
drunkenness through it's various
stages till the hallucinations of his
mind make him see demons and
snakes and then to the time that he
becomes an outcast and dies alone
and forsaken on pile of straw with
no sympathetic creature about but a
friendly dog.
Two doctors in. this town who
courteously attend to each others
practice when occasion requires,
made the exchange last Sunday, be-
cause ole of them had an invitation
to dinner in Q neighboring town.
while the one doctor was enjoying
his dinner an urgent call was sent in.
The other doctor promptly respond.
ed to the call to wait the whole day
on the case Of obstetrics four miles
away, and when he returned TO his
home in the evening he was con-
fronted with the fact that he had
missed q case of the same kind in his
own practice q few doors from his
Office.
The eclipse Of the moon on Sat ur-
day evening war visible to everyone,
who desired to look et it,. All of the
moon except Q narrow strip on it's
south side was covered by the shad-
ow. The unshsdowed strip was not
silvery in its color, - the color of the