Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-09-26

The Hebrew New Year bean
ns last Sunday evening, September
John Graybill and family an
demiciled in their house on 4tf
Street.
A trust is q business combina.
tion for tho benefit of all connected
with it.
If the Millerstown dam goes shad
viii come mp the liver tothis place
next spring.
The average potatoe crop TIN,
year in the United States is 80 IL
SO last year.
Potatoes have a fine solid taste
this season on account of the dry.
ness of the soil.
The soldiers reunion will, bt
held in Mifflintown on Thursday
October 1S, 1900.
The Cubans want to govern
themselves and be independent Of
the United States.
The biggest hog in the Mansion
House pig sty in Newport, Pa,
weighs $50 pounds.
Taking the United States
througout the corn crop is almost
up to the average of ten years past
The people are multiplying rap.
idly on the earth. When will the
4ext cataclyson come to destroy
them:
Miss Lottie Hackenberger after
spending her vacation with her pa
rents at East Point returned ia
Philadelphia last Thursday.
ClOverseed average this year is
reported lower than in eight yean
past, excepting in Michigan and
iowa in which states the crop il
above an average.
j. D. Lesh of Juniata township,
Perry county, lost a COW from eat
dng too much corn and ex sheriff
3. b. LOudOn of Mifflintown
lost his COW from the same cause.
y Some big fish stories come from
Ryde, Miffiin county, where report
has it that number of salmon
have been caught in the river, the
salmon weighing two and
half pounds each, the largest one
weighing seven pounds.
Bryan talks of one hundred
thousand soldiers in idleness in the
PHILIPPINE Islands and elsewhere,
AMI what do the people who so re-
Gently shouted, Remember the
Maine," think of such talk from a
candidate for the Presidency.
How happy should family be
that has a house to shelter them
with a supply of coal and wood
and provisions to see them through
the winter and school house for
the children to go to and a preach
ing house for the family to attend
ON Sunday.
Even Bryan has expanded since
his former campaign. Then his prop
erty was assessed at two hundred
and eighty dollars. Since then he
has expanded his property inter
ests and now his property is asses
sed at three thousand seven huh
dred dollars. "
F. Goodman was award
ed the contract for rip-rapping the
river bank at the Mexico side of
river bridge at that place for eighty
nine dollars. There were eight
bidders. Their bids ranged from
eighty-nine dollars to one hundred
ann eighty-nine dollars.
Joseph Kaufman, aged 80 years
of near Kistler, Perry Co., was
found dead in bed on the morning
of the 14th of September, and the
Oldest man in Perry county, Sam
uel Nunemaker, aged 81 years,
died at his home in Tyrone town
ship, on the 11th day ofSeptember.
The newly sown wheat presents
about the same appearance that the
corn presented last spring. That
is where the ground is mellow and
moist the grain grows nicely.
" here the ground is clay and clOd-
dy the grain does not grow so the
wheat fields this fall present a
spotted appearance like that of the
corn fields last spring. II
kHarry Moore of McAlistervf1le
returned from a trip to the west.
He attended the Grand Army en-
campment at Chicago and says that
during two days of the encamp-
ment there were more visitors in
Chicago than during any two days
of the worlds fair. In coming east
in the car in which he rode vote
was taken for Mckinley and Bry
an. Only one vote was cast for
Bryan.
%George Miller of Perry county
has been placed under arrest,
charged with the murder of Harry
G. Shoemaker of Liverpool. He
went into ShOemaker's canal boat
and shot him while he lay in his
bed. Miller denies the charge.
Revenge is the motive charged,
having called Miller a
thief.
If the Philadelphians who en-