Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-09

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:. II. eimons hes been tsouhlei
with malaria.
Snow squalls prevailed four honr.
at W1iiiamsport and Lock Haven
last Friday.
One hundred barrels. of extract
is the daily output of the Newnort,
fefry county works.
Inc Altoona Grand Army have
secured the Eervices of Rants
Day. M orla'
There have been over six hund
req shad caught below the Millers
town dam. Most of them male
shad. lo
Shad are now being caught be
now the Millerstown dam. The
catch Of a night runs from 40 to 5O
shad. w w
From present appearance the
June peach drop can be large and
ieave enough peaches on the tree
19r a profitable crop in the autumn
Reuben Auker's horse that he
bought at the Wilson sale some
time ago, died last Thursday of
some ailment of the lung. and
stomach.
L
"Judge Albright, of Lehigh
county, has recently ruled that a
fisherman is guilty of trespass who
enters a stream and fishes without
the consent of the land owners
The weather was cold enoupb
last Friday to cause a rekindling
OF stove fires and those who travel
ed any distance in wagons were re-
quired to put on their over-coats.
| w. H. Nelson of Thompsontown
was at the County Seat on Satur-
day on business. He said there
was not only frost at Thompson
town on Saturday morning but ice.
John Klnter has retired from
railroad service under the pension
system after forty years service
with the Pennsylvania railroad.
He was freight train master of the
middle division. His home is at
harrisburg.
Oliver L. Stewart, Hunting
don county's republican candidate
for State Senate in the Huntingdon
snd Franklin county district was
4 killed by the bursting of an emery
wheel in maleable iron factory in
Huntingdon last Thursday. He
was stock holder in the works.
Rev. Cyrus Hatch, of Pittsburg,
preached for the Presbyterian CON
gregation on Sunday morning and
! evening. He will preach for them
next Sunday. On Sunday evening
he will deliver the baccalaureate
, sermon for the Mifflintown High
School in the Presbyterian church
The Bellefonte Watchman says:
The cut worms that did SO much
q injury to corn fields in Miles, Penn
and Haines townships, Centre
county, last year, are to be treated
to a sailing this year on the farms
: of J. 81. Reifsnyder, the owner hav.
4 ing purchased a car load of fertili.
> zer salt for that purpose.
Newton Hamilton Watchman
e May 5th.: Mr.. James Mccoy, who
s was sent to a Philadelphia hospital
s on Thursday of last week to be op
Grated on for appendicitis, whe1
r examined, was found not to hav'
}, any appendicitis, but merely &
;. stOmach trouble which is yielding
to treatment and he will be home
= in a few days all right. l.
8 Last Friday the two houses own.
e ed by the Lutheran congregatio,
in this town, located between th'
church building and the parsOn
= age were taken down. The houses
\ were built by Rev. Mr.. Boyer, ;
preacher who ministered to tn
congre alton more than a half cen
l. tury ago. The buildings were re
n moved to make room for the nev
s church and new parsonage.
4. Manifold blessings came to Milton
: Mellott, a farmer of Belfast town
y ship, Fulton county, few night
It ago. His wife presented him will
;. lusty twins. In the morning whel
he went to the barn he found tina
. one of his best cows, during tn
= night, had given birth to twin cal
- YES and in the sheep pen he dis
70 covered that an eve had twin lambs
A peculiarity of the occurrence i
{, that one of each six made up tn
), three pairs.
It Think of cannon that shoots {
). bullet five feet four inches long {
distance of 20 miles. The bulle
% weighs 2,37O pounds. 1t takes
# charge of 1 ,O6O pounds Of powder
~ The powder for one shot costs 1866
, and the bullet costs 5000. With
!. gun like that, Mifflintown cOul'
drop a projectile across the noun
tain into Bloomfield, Perry coun
.r ty, and then swing the gu
l. by machinery around and throw
e projectile into Lewistown.
Is The forest fires in Juniata conn
ty have done incalculahle injury
= Young timber. The damage t
!, timber has been supplemented b
- the burning of houses, barns an