Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-07-25
SHORT LOCALS.

The ice plant has been put to
work.
There was a fog last Friday
morning. ~
Miss Villa McNitt is visiting in
Lew1stOwn.
Sweet potatoes are plentiful in
New Jersey.
Orange and lemon rind will soft
en- hard water.
The Pannabaker Island picnic,
Saturday, August 4, 1900.
Robert Stone of W ashington, D.
c.. it visiting friends in town.
Mrs. Lillian Roach of Patterson.
is visiting in Harrisburg and At
lantic city.
1t is good many years since the
hay crop failed in Juniata county
as in this year.
Mrs. John Thrush of Washing
ton, d. c., is visiting her mother
Mrs. Ellen Allison.
Master Lloyd Baker of Lewis
town visited post master McNitt's
s. family several days.
In several of the churches in
Royersford, Pa, last Sunday,
PRAYER was made for rain.
Miss Harriet Jackman of Pitts
burg, is spending her vacation with
her parents in this place.
Miss Agnes Hoopletts of Phila
delphia, is visiting the family of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Scholl.
Mrs. W. II. Manbeck and son
Maxwell and Miss Mary Hopes
are sojourning at Atlantic City.
The heavy rain at this town at 8
O'Clock on Monday morning was
only sprinkle at McAlisteIEi4le.
1t wouldn't take many weeks of
heat such as was experienced last
week to develop the coatless man. =
The copious rain of 3 o'clock On
last Sunday morning at this place
was only a sprinkle at East Salem.
Mrs. Emminger of Philadelphia,
is paving visit to her parents Mr..
and Mrs Clark Wright in Patter-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goldsmith and
Mrs. Titlebaum of Brooklyn, are
visiting the family of Mr.. Emil
SchOtt.
The state department at Harris
burg, has granted a charter to the
Tuscarora Lumber Company of
MifflintOwn.
Miss Grace Wright of Phila.,
has recently been visiting her pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Wright
in Patterson.
Mrs. James HOrning and Miss
Mary Laird attended the funeral
of Stuart Groninger in Harrisburg
last Thursday.
The war in China is in the north
of that country and as tea is raised
in the south of China how can the
war effect the price of tea.
Lightning damages are reported
from many parts of the states such
as houses and barns, struck and
burned and attlestruck and killed.
Miss Gertrude Sieber and broth
ers Paul and Raymond of Gettys-
burg, will spend several weeks at
the home of Mrs Elizabeth Roth
rock.
The letters uncalled for in the
Mifflintown post Office, Saturday,
July 81, 1900, are for: T. S. Diehl,
Miss Groce johnson and Surah
Hoover.
Miss E. Carrie Ralph and two
children of Pittsburg, sister OF
Samuel A. Tyson visited him on
Front street from Thursday until
Friday of last week.
Mrs. Chas. P. Stahr of Mt.
Pleasant, WestmOreland county
and Mrs. John s. Stair Of Lancas-
ter county are guests OF Mr. and
Mrs. Herbert Shaver.
The war in China has so over
shadowed the British Beers war
that the fighting in South Africa
has been lost sight of. The Beers
are keeping up the fight.
Wagon maker Harris at McWil-
liams' smith shop of Walnut has
an apiary in the garrett of his house
The bees do first rate in such
place. secure from storm and other
dangers.
Isaac Gingerich's g barn in Walk
er township, was destroyed by
lightning at noon on "Wednesday:
The live stock was saved. Inc
wheat and hay and harness anu
farm machinery was burned.
z The barn on the James Okeson
farm near Pleasant view, Tusca-
rora valley, was destroyed by fire
about dusk on Tuesday evening.
Origin of fire not known. Inc
farm machinery with the crops was
destroyed with the barn.
The Boxer rebellion in CHINA
and the street car line strike In
St. Louis, both go on. 1t is no"
denied from China that ministers
and missionaries have been muir
dered and women outraged. The
Chinese deny all that, but it IS MOI
a;1;n CT IO1is that the rioters