Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-09-19

Thirty years ago st. Louis had
Lx1ore people than Chicago. Ac
c0rjing to the present census Chi
cag0 has three times a. many peo-
pie as ST.. Louis.
Benjamin F. Demaree of New
port, fished 8, 500 tons of stone coal
out of the Susquehanna river at
Green's dam and sent the coal to
Harrisburg. A canal boat made
20 trips in carrying the COAL
MIN Cambria county a bee tree
was cut down the other day and
yielded so pounds. The chaps
that sawed and bored down the
bee tree in Schweier's woods have
not reported hoy much honey they
got.
The military was called out to
keep the vicious element ofGalves-
ton from robbing the dead. There
was no place to bury the dead and
they were taken in barges into the
gulf and there sunk by weights
tied to each body.
SThree wagons each having pOta
toes came from Center county to
MifflintOwn last Monday. Thomas
brothers bought the potatoes. The
owners of the wagons then drove
out to the peach orchards to buy
peaches to haul as back loads to
Center county.
The flood at Galveston was a
Noah's flood in its destructiveness
to 5000 people. Aid is being sent
from many parts of the country
for the living. The Governor of
Texas telegraphs that three-quar-
ters of a million dollars have been
sent for the suffering.
\ Bloomfield Times, September IA. +.
George w. Barner sOwed his fly
proof seed wheat, that he got at
Ickesburg on the sixth of this
month and in the same field he
sowed a peck Of his own wheat as
an experiment to see whether the
flies will attack that and leave the
other alone.
Fred Carstetter is at his home
in Cocolamus, Juniata county,
from Fortress Monroe, Va, ON a
furlOugh, he having had ty-
4 typhoid fever. Last spring he en-
listed in the U. s army through
recruiting officer Lever, who had
his head quarters at the Jacobs
House at this place.
The farmers have only one more
Job between them and winter, and
that is to put away their corn and
perchance if the fall remains mild
to pillow for corn next spring. They
will have a good long rest during
the winter with sufficient exercise
\ tending their live stock to keep
kthem in good health.
VA Perry county man was taken
before Justice of the Peace last
week and fined S5 and costs fOl
starting a fire in a woods. 1t is
: the first case of the kind under the
new law. The highest fine fol
such an Offense is one hundred dol
lars and the longest term of i'm
Y prisOnment one hundred days.
.IUuniata county Prohibiiionists
have nominated a ticket as follows:
For State Senate, George NJ. Mar
land of Duncannon, Perry Co. For
Assembly, Rev. NJ. s. Derstein OF
East Waterford, Juniata Co. For
Register and Recorder, James Kidd
of TuscarOra township, Juniata Co.
For Sheriff, Samuel Diven of Lack
township.
The Presbyterian congregation
met on Tuesday afternoon to elect
a pastor, if the way appeared clear.
There were four ministers voted
for. Rev. J. NJ. Travis, received
% votes; Rev. Mr.. Helm received
16 votes; Rev. Mr.. Miller 4 votes;
Rev. Mr.. Brucklacher received 2
Votes. The motion to extend a un-
4 animOus call to Mr.. Travis was lost
by six votes. Adjourned.
Grace Roberts aged years and
her sister Mamie Roberts, aged 5
years, lived with their parents al
Boliver Point. When the storm
that destroyed Galveston, Texas
came it carried the children five
miles and lodged them in tht
branches of a fallen tree. The
tree stood near a house. The own
er of the house heard the children
and took them in. They wele not
\ hurt.
county is not the only
county in Pennsylvania in which
potatoes are scarce as may be learn
ed from the Selinsgrove Tribune o
the 18th inst, which says: "Wm
NJ. Mease of Kantz, came near hav
l inga collapse the other day. HI
was digging potatoes for the Misse
Meyers and actually came across ;
stalk that had fOuc potatoes on it
a and the surprise came near provin.
s to much for him. He fell over il
e a faint.
George Washington was de
: nounced as an imperialist, a laut
grabber, a royalist and q traitor
lI.incOln was denounced asa tYrant