Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-06-13
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C. A. Hinkle has returned from
a trip to Dakota.
Fifty nations have exhibits in
the Paris worlds fair.
The thermometer reached 90 in
the shade Monday noon.
Clay spots here and there in corn
fields have been replanted.
Cut worms and wire worms have
destroyed a good deal of corn.
Funeral directors held a State
convention at Hazleton last week.
New Workers loaned the French
government fifteen million dollars.
Two hundred houses are being
built in Clearfield town this sum-
mer.
Within the past week the Beers
captured British battalion of 500
men.
Mrs. W. F. Schlegle of Blooms
burg, is visiting her friends in this
vicinity.
The Republican National Con-
ventiOn will meet in Philadelphia
next Tuesday.
1t seems to be a contradiction,
but fact that good natured peo-
pie are irritable.
Rev. A. N. Raven arrived on
Wednesday morning from Seattle,
Washington State.
Harrison BrOuse and wife of Nc
Veytown have been visiting their
friends in Juniata.
There was a rain last Thursday
night, the night of the fifth day of
Whit -Suntide week.
Miss Katharine Pontus Baker
has been admitted to practice law
at the Union county bar.
Banker E. S. Parker of Wash
ingtOn ID. c., spent Sunday with
his relatives and friends in town.
John Banks, ESQ.,, of Indiana,
Pa, has been visiting his relatives
in Mifflintown within the past week
Thursday evening John Bpn-
yan's Pilgrims Progress will be
exhibited in the Methodist church
Miss Harriet Parker and sis
ter Miss Rebecca of LewistOwn
spent Sunday with their aunt Mrs.
Robert McMeen.
Mrs. Cloyd ellison was stricken
with paralysis on Monday evening.
One side of her body and arm and
leg and side of face was affected.
From present appearance the
June drop will pass and leave
large crop of peaches on the trees
to mature for the peach market.
John Wister prominent citizen
of Duncannon, died at his winter
home in Germantown, Pa, June 3,
1900 of kidney and heart trouble,
aged 20 years.
The delegates to the Republican
National convention are assembling
in Philadelphia. By Saturday and
Sunday most of the delegates will
have arrived.
Someone dynamited the fish
pond made by the abandonment of
the canal below Lewistown dam.
1t was done to get the fish that
were in the pond.
The Presbyterian congregation of
Duncannon, Perry county, has IS
sued a call to Rev. Hutchinson OF
Callensburg, Clarion county to be-
come their pastor.
A man giving his name John
Bell was lodged in the Bloomfield,
Perry county Jail last week on the
charge of stealing horse from
man named Elmer Adams in Penn
township.
The past ten days showed the
weak places in the corn fields. In
the strong clay spots the corn did
not come up. The corn came up
best on sand land. Much hasbeen
replanted.
The strike in st. Louis among
the street railroad men on Sunday
resulted in an attack on deputy
sheriffs. The deputies fired on the
mob. Two were killed. Three
fatally shot and eleven wounded.
Two solid trains of strawberries
consisting of thirty-six cars were
sent west over the Northern Cen
tral railroad one day last week.
They were sent from Delaware.
There were one million eight hun
dIed thousand quarts on the two
trains.
A Howe township, Perry county
man wears a No 13 shoe. The
who want to equalize
everything among men would find
trouble to get people who wear No.
8 shoes to wear No. 13 and num-
Der 12 feet people to wear number
s shoes.
The new meeting house OF the
Episcopal congregation
of LewistOwn was dedicated last
Mrs. r. E. Pitcairn pre-
sented a five thousand dollar mem
orial window. The building has
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