Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-02-28

IN odvanSt Si''V IL hOs fosu Au 1Os
vance.
notices cents line.
REDUCTIONS will be made to those de-
airing to advertise by the year, half OF
quarter year.
Gold has been found in Genessee.
Pa.
Spring begins tomorrow, March
lst.
If is the meat eating nations that
are the fighters.
The thermometer touched zero
on Monday morning.
Harry Musser spent some days
in Philadelphia last week.
Aguinaldo the Filipino chieftain
II is said, has fled to Japan.
Last Sunday was one of the cold
est windiest days of the year.
The heavy rain last week flood
ed good many cellars in town.
The robins came i'm numbers as
if TO stay on the oath, last Sat
turtiay.
The G.. \. r. Post held interest
ing exercises on WashingtOn's
birth day.
The North Branch canal from
Northumberland to NanticOke has
been abandoned.
There was big turnout of the
horse and mule protection COM
pany on Saturday.
For burn or scald cover with
soda and bind with Il cloth satur.
ated with coal oil.
Post master Andrew 6. Allison,
spent several days in Philadelphia
and Washington last week.
The town schools went through
with the usual interesting Wash
ington's birth day exercises.
We have the poem, Hthe man
with the hoe" who'll write u
poem on .!the white mans burden.
Ezra Parker of Washington, d.
c.. was visitor among his friends
in town on WashingtOn's birth
day. 4
Frederick Espenschade is having
the walnut logs that he had haul.
ed to the railroad, hewed before
shipping.
Timber is being hauled to repair
the coal wharf at the railroad sta
tion under the supervision of fore
man Todd.
Rev. j. ID. Hedges of White
Lake Flats. n. Y, preached for
the Presbyterians on Sunday
morning and evening.
Dan Rice who was known to cir.
Gus goers 40 years ago in the Jun
iata Valley, died last week at Long
Branch, aged II years.
Every spring time there is a
move against the trampe, which
gradually subsidies as summer
comes in. Will some philosopher
explain why.
Banking in Mifflin Co. must be a
good business. One is talked of
for LewistOwn and another for
Belleville. Well the more banks
the more money.
Ex Judge Junkin of Bloomfield,
slipped ON ice at his Office door
and fell and fractured the smaller
bone in his left leg, which will keep
him in doors some weeks.
Reports from all parts of the
country state that the heavy rains
of last Saturday night did great
damage to many fields by washing
off the soil that had been lOOsened
by frost.
The Lutheran church and the
Methodist church at Port Royal
have each passed through a revival
season by which many were turned
from the ways of darkness into the
ways of light.
Part of Williamsport was flood
ed by a heavy rain on the 22nd
and great damage done to proper
ty. So alarmed were people in the
houses surrounded by water that
they were removed in boats.
Stanley Woodward. judge of Lu-
zerne county, has rendered an opin-
ion that the act classifying town
ships into two classes is not cOnsti-
tutional. 1t is special legislation
which the constitution forbids.
William Alters of Indiana conn
ty, has this season caught forty five
skunks, seventy-five muskrats, five
raccoons and five minks. Mr.. AL
ters is IS years of age and hasquite
reputation as hunter and trap
per.
According to deeds recently re-
corded, the Pennsylvania canal
company has sold the canal from
\ Newton Hamilton, Mifflin county
to Duncan's Island, Dauphin cOun-
ty to the Pennsylvania Railroad
for one hundred thousand dollars.
And the books were opened and
the good was counted with the