Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-05-31

Mr.. John Kirk of Lancaster, is in
town.
The price Of wheat has an upward
tendency.
The weather changed on Sunday
to summer heat.
Many farmers are replanti1e corn
in JuDiata county.
Work goes hard when one fails 70
give their mind to the work.
On the road, keep to the right az
the law directs In France il IL keen
to the left.
Try going to work willingly and
learn how much happiness you can
add to your life.
z Old clover was killed by the past
winter. and the fields where it stood
are bare of grass.
Squire WIN. G. Gronipger' has
twelve thousand peach trees. but nc
peaches this year.
The white-winged messenger OF
peace has not spread it's wings over
the Filipines mind.
Philadelphia is hurrying her Ex.
position building toward completion
for the fall exhibition.
Decoration Day ceremonies were
observed throughout the country, az
programmed. on Tuesday.
The corn on limestone soil has a
hard time of getting up" on account
OF the crust on the ground.
Traction deals and deals of coun
terfeiters keep the good people Of
Lancaster in state of disgust.
Albert Smith, the Dauphiu county
wife murderer will be hung in Har'
risburg on the 18th of July next.
French girls may not ride their
bicycles alone, not even in couples.
A father or brother or cousin accom-.
panies them.
Miss Lula Mcclellan, optician, will
be at her place of business for con.
sultation at the Mcclellan shop on
Main street all this week. I
Harry Martin was home from Sh;r
leysburg school teaching to be pres.
ent at the graduation of his sister
Miss Belle Martin. last Thursday ev-
ening.
Merchant Irwin Dimm and wife OF
Lewistown, spent Sunday with the
family of Captain Mcclellan. Mrs
Dimm is daughter of Captain Nc.
CleIlan.
'.Fly in the wheat" is a sentence
that is read in many newspapers
Another sentence frequently met with
reads: "Wheat prospects are tor a
poorer crop than last year."
Some one wants to know why the
raising Of the right arm does not re-
lieve choking IS we'll as the raisin g
of the left arm, which is as easily
answered, as why was the river Jor.
dan the river to bashe in to cure lap
rosv.
Millionaire Carnegie has said be
does not want to die rich, and now
he has more requests for some of the
root of all evil than he has money
Here Carnegie, here if you please,
need some. is the cry from all parts
of the United States, and part of the
old world.
There are thirty five dogs in g
home for dogs at 18th street and
Germantown avenue says the Phila
>delphia Times. and they kept up such
a yelping and bowling night and day
that the citizens went to magistrate
and charged the keepers of the hong
with maintaining nuisance. II
Recently Messrs. G. W. Heck, J
H. Sweger, W. II. Rodgers, Clayton
G. Stoner, G B. Crawford, w. S. Ar
bogast, all Of this place, went to New
p ,rt and partook of an extra shaC
supper at the Central Hotel of which
Landlord Nixon Is the proprietor
They report having had a pleasant
evening.
The burning of the stable on th'
Dysinger Academy grounds clean.
the ground of buildings as clean al
if buildings had never been placed
there. All that is left is twisted iror
pipes and stone and brick rubbish
The stable was set on fire. Tit
professors harness, buggy and sleigh
went with the horse, hay and straw
in the stable. An out-building il
which were stored a Lumber o
brooms-he having been in the broom
business-took fire from the stable
and all went up in smoke. In tn
minds of many people the Academ,
buildings were burned by Academia
fires, but since the burning of ths
stable the general opinion prevails
that the three fires were all iEcen
diary fires under the inspiration ano
direction of one man, but who, and
what for. Was it done for gain
Was it dons on account Ct jealousy
or was it done for spite! 1t is
strange concident that on the nigh
of a successful public school com
mencement that the last remnant o
an Academy school property shoule
fall a victim to an ircendiary torch
The commencement exercises OF th'
public schools were little past bal
through when the CRY OF fire startie'
the audience and stopped everything
but an instructive desire to get ou
of the building. Here and there coo