Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-06-06

The Holyoke School Board,
Massachusetts, have decided to
make it 9 rule that all principals of
schools shall be married.
Unclaimed letters in p. O., at
Patterson, Pa, June LIST. 1900:
Postal for Jacob Livinston: Letters:
s. R. Ramp, M. X. Ryrison.
lClayton Shower found a splendid
specimen of lead ore in Slim Val
ley north of town, which he will
send to State College for analysis.
Some believe it contains silver.
'It is said that dry sand poured
into the filed barrels of apples and
potatoes after storing in the cellar
has been found to be a decided i'm
provement on all other plans for
keeping them"
| THE lead and silver ore blossom
that Shower found in Slim valley,
if found in the mining districts Of
}fhe west. would lead to a palms.
taking search for the vein from
whence it came.
On the debate On the trust ques-
tiOn in Congress last week, COu-
gresham MahOn, showed up the
ice trust work of the democratic
bosses. They are a nice crowd to
talk about trusts.
y Railroad Superintendent Todd
has moved to one of the Company
houses near the railroad, in the
house vacated by Blair Cramer,
who has been transferred to Har-
risburg as assistant train master.
Miss Pidge Patton of Lewistown
visited her sister Mrs. " ilberforce
Schweyer on Monday, accompanied
by Elizabeth M. Schweyer, who
had been on a visit to her grand
mother Patton in LewistOwn a week
and more.
The Perry County Democrat was
GA years old last week and forty. six
years under the ownership and
management of j. H. Magee, its
present owner and editor. 1t is a
valuable paper rs large as the cir
culation and patronage of Perry
county warrants.
These long days give the sun a
chance to move the ice from and
around Cape Nome. American
gold hunters are there in steam
ships lowering on the edge of the
ice foes to find their opportunity
to land and drive their claim
stakes and begin work.
A despatch from the other side
of the globe says: Aguinaldo was
shot in a skirmish with a detach-
ment of the 33rd Regiment. The
fight took place on the 10Th of May.
AguinaldO has proven himself like
the Irishman's flea, 'by jabers
when you had him, he wasn't
there.
Work has been commenced at ex-
cavating the white clay on the
David Stouffer property a mile
and a half east of town. The Moore
head brothers at Port Royal are en-
gagged in the work. From the feel
of the clay one would consider it
fine enough for the finest of pottery
ware.
jerome T. Altman and jeremiah
Keller, are making democratic fur
fly for Senatorial nomination. ALL
man has boxed the political COM
pass of more than one party and
Keller has served in the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature as a democrat.
They have graduated politically
and are now wanting something
substantial.
Mrs. Ezra ID. Parker of Wash
ingtOn, ID. c., will spend the sum-
mer in town. Her husband is on
his way TO the new gold field in AL
aska, at Nome, where he will en-
gage in banking during the sum-
mer season. Nome is so far north
that during the winter months bus
iness of all kinds is suspended.
Last Sunday was whit-Sunday
-''white- -Sundaytide," the Eng
lish name of the season of Pente-
cost, is SO called from the white
garments anciently worn by the
newly baptized catechumens.-I
The word applies to the whole
week, seven days, and if it does
not rain on the beginning day Sun-
day, it will not rain within a per-
iOd of seven weeks.
The strewing of flowers on Dec
Grafton day in the cemeteries was
almost general. 1t was high
compliment to the veterans that
people should turn out and decor
ate the graves of their dear depart
ed on the same day that the veter
ans have set apart for their service
of strewing flowers. 1t is mani
festatiOn of fellow feeling that can
not be awakened on every day Oc-
c3siOns.
| The American Telephone and
Telegraph company have fifteen
men quartered 1T Murray's hotel
and twelve men at Zeigler's hotel,
reconstructing their line. That is
they are removing worn out poles,
and wherever a pole is decayed at
the top it is sawed off down to sol
id wood. Poles decayed at the
ground are sawed off, and if solid
above ground they are reset. Many
of the poles in that way are made
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