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

Lloyd Knight, died at his home
near Cross Roads, Delaware town
snip, unexpectedly Of heart trnn.
bic, last Sunday.
Tonsorial. professor Green has
moved back to 9Th street into q
mouse occupied by himself and
family some years ago.
Mrs. Anna jackson and NJ
Grier of Altoona, stopped off a dav
last week with friends in towD
while ON their way to their home
in Altoona. A'o
Miss Kate Thomas of Norr;stowr
accompanied by the Misses White
OF Conshohocken is visiting among
Old friends and relatives in the
town and county.
Willie Backer of New York. who
mas been spending the summer
with his aunt Mrs. Morris Schott
started for his home in New York
on Saturday evening.
j. Cloyd Gibson, while TRIMMING
a walnut log with an an ak in the
Patterson railroad tie yard cut the
lnstep of his right foot. Surgical
attention was required.
The canal was constructed nv
this place about 1929. The canal
In the Juniata Valley was DESTROY
ed by flood, June LIST, 1889, hay
ing lasted only so years.
The letters uncalled for in the
Mlfffintown post office on the 1st of
September, 1900, were for: Cloyd
Ross, Bertha Graybill, Alice b.
Swartz, L. Rayman Register.
1t is said that the drug that is
put in milk by some dealers in cit
les TO keep the milk from souring
ing is chemical that is used by
undertakers to embalm the dead.
One of the strongest and most re-
liable Life Assurance Societies in
the world is the Equitable. For
particulars, address or call on How
ard Kirk, Patterson, Juniata Co.,
Pa.
Some days ago a small son of Jo-
seph Leidy of Waterford was acci-
dentally shot in the leg by a COM
panion who was handling a gun.
The leg was amputated below the
knee.
Miss Ruth Kelly of Reedsville,
Miss Belle SpOOneybarger of Hunt
ingtOn and Miss Helen Dimm of
Lewistown, were guests of Miss
Villa McNitt, part of last and this
week.
Miss Elizabeth Crull, who has
been spending her vacation with
her aunt, Mrs. j. s. HOllObaugh
on Washington avenue, East End,
returned to her home in Harris
burg on Saturday.
A telephone consolidation is
about taking place in the eastern
part of the State. The new deal
proposes the issue of five million
dollars stock. They expect to get
rich on the catch of suckers.
A rattle snake bit A. b. Gala
han of Camel, Clinton county, Pa =,
on the hand. He quickly took out
his knife and cut the flesh that was
bitten out of his hand before the
poison had time to circulate.
Thursday, G. Howard Martin
leaves for New York where he will
meet and accompany home Mrs.
Martin and daughter Miss Belle,
who were among Christian En-
deavor tourists to the Paris Expo
sitiOn.
Some of the summer tourists to
Europe were disappointed in their
hotel quarters. Their expecta-
tions were to high. When one ex-
poets four dollar a day house ac-
commOdatiOn for a dollar a day
fare, it can't he realized on.
The new barn of fSOlOman Thatch-
er in Tuscarora township was
struck by lightning and destroyed
by fire last MOnday evening about
l7P.M N. Mr.. and Mrs Thatcher
were in the barn at the time the
building was struck. No insurance.
| C. A. Allison, is visiting his
mother Mrs. Ellen Allison on
Third street. He has been west
the past nine years and he finds
that many changes have taken
place in MifflintOwn, his native
place. 4
! Lightning played havoc with a
herd of cattle of James McLaugh
lin" in Tur bett township, The cat
tie were sheltering from rain un-
der a tree. Lightning struck the
tree and killed eight of the herd.
Six of the herd were cows.
What a spectacle, the civilized
nations of the world, all engaged
in warning against China. What
would be thought Of it, should a
number of nations lard troops in
the United States for the sake OF
peace, sometime, when a great strike
of several months is going on.
The members of the w. CT u,
l are earnestly invited to meet at
Schmittle's Park on Saturday, Sep
, tember Sth, to hold their annual
county convention.
The regular train on the T. V. r.