Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-18

an effort will be made to orOan;ze
farmers trust to keep wheat
from selling below one dollar a
bnshel.
The Standard Coal Oil Company
mas station at Newport, Perry
county, from which it sends an oil
tank wagon to supply customers.
The wagon comes into Juniata
county to sell oil.
Harry Mcclellan, ex-county
chairman of the republican coun
ty committee, spent Easter with
MS family after an absence of a
month In western Pennsylvania as
a commercial agent. =.
The fore part Of last week Emil
Schott spent in New York buying
goods. The latter part he spent
with his daughters Misses Ger
trude and Lottie at the New Eng
land Conservatory of music, BOs-
ton.
The streets Of the New Jerusa-
lem are represented as being paw
ed with gold. The sands of the
sea shore at Nome, Alaska, are
said to be laid full of gold. If the
New Jerusalem is like the land of
Nome, it will be mighty bleak and
cold.
IF cloudy weather is the proper
condition for the best of trout fish
ing, then was Monday, the first
fishing day of the season alright
for first rate fishing weather. The
day was cloudy. The number of
fish brought from the mountain;
streams that day have not been re-,
ported. ..s.
William Dribert former director
of the poor at Allentown had ap-
prOpriated one hundred and TWEEN
ty dollars and ninety two cents of
the poor funds to his own use for
which he was sued. The court
sentenced him to two years in the
county Jail and requires him to re-
turn the money.
Newport News, April 2.-Last
week John Shuman of Wheatfield
township, was buhcoed out of So.
IS by stranger, who represented
to Mr.. Shuman that he was heir to
an estate of $4,000 in Germany for
which the stranger was the attor-
ney. He got the 1915 from Mr..
Shuman to pay car-fare Othe city.
There are 7O4 cremeries in Penn
sylvania and they are all aroused
over the late exposure, cOnnivance
of officers of the State Dairy and
Food Commission department. 1t
is charged that certain officers of
the commission were paid one cent
a pound for protection from arrest
in the sale of Oleomargarine for
cow butter.
Now that horses are bringing
better prices more horses will be
raised. The supply and demand
governs the price. 1t is the scare
ity of fast trotting horses, and fast
running horses that keeps the
prices Of such criminals up. If
every horse could trot or run fast,
the price of trotterS and runners
would be low. 5,
Under n special dispensation.
the tribe Of Apache Indians at Fort
Sill are holding a ten days dance
to keep off small -pOx. They might |
religiously dance to the end of
their lives and not keep off small
pox, whereas a few scratches on
arm or leg and particle of cow !
pox virus inserted in the scratches
will keep off small pcH.
A Pittsburg steel company has I,
constructed a steel anti-earthqnake !,
house for a citizen of Japan, a
house that cannot fall to pieces
during an earth quake shock. The
house is two stories high and con-
tains twelve rooms. 1t will be
taken to Japan and set-up where
the prince wants it set up at a cost
of twenty one thousand four hun
dred and eighty-One dollars. /
The Conference for the purpose
of electing delegates from the 18th
Congressional District to the Re-
publican National Convention will /
be held at Lewistown on Friday,
the Goth inst. James G.. Thomp.
son the candidate for Delegate
from this county has selected as
COnferees to represent his inter-
ests at the Conference, w. L.
Hopes, Wilberforce Schweyer,
w. 81. Kaufman and James Will
son. - !
By the splitting of a tree L. w. |
Smith of Milford, Perry county,
came nearly losing his legs. He
was assisting to saw down a large
tree, two feet thick. Suddenly the
tree split about ten feet from the
base. He stumbled and fell and
the tree fell across his legs, but !!
did not break them. His legs
were badly bruised; he could not
stand; he was taken home in n
buggy and put to bed. When he
will be able to get out no one
knows. /
William Parker Of pittsburg;
Ezra Parker of Washington, D. c.
and Edward Parker of Juniata Co.,
Pa, all sons of banker E. s. Park
er of Washington, D. c., have /;
gone with government party |
to Nome, Alaska. In connection .
with other enterprises the young !