Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-07-11

congregation on Sunday morning
and evening.
Letters remaining uncalled fOl
IN the MifiintOwn post Office, July
z: Luther A. Bradley, Josiah Hen
dersOn, Annie Fotz, Mary Camp
bell, Anthony H. Peter.
Benjamin Renninger, who liv6
on the e. s. Parker farm fou,
miles east of town was severely
hurt on Sunday. He was in thu
wood shed when a strong wind
came and threw down from over.
head a set of wood ladders. The
ladders struck him on the back OF
the neck and almost broke hie
spinal column.
A large number of people from
Miffiin, LewistOwn and other places
attended the sixth annual dance
given in agricultural hall, Port
Royal, Thursday evening, July 5th
The members of the committee
were: G. C. Wilson, jr., Unger
Wilson and w. w. Mayer: Pat
ronesses were Mrs. C. B. Crawford,
Mrs. s. SvensOn, Mrs. H. r. SHAY
er, Mrs. F. M. NJ. Pennell, Mrs.
Darwin NJ. Crawford, Mrs. NJ. P.
Crawford and Mrs. +. E. McMeen.
A few days since Mr.. John Kep-
ner and daughter Miss FlOe and
Charles Kepner all of Chester and
Mrs. Deem and Mrs. Cook and Mrs.
Crull, daughter and son all of Har-
risburg met at the home of Mr.. John
HOllObaugh, Jr., in this place as a
birth day surprise party for Mrs.
Kepner wife of B. F. Kepner, de-
ceased. Mrs. HOllObaugh, Mrs.
Deem, Mrs. Cook and Mrs. Crull
are daughters of Mrs. Kepner.
Mr.. John Kepner and Mr.. Charles
Kepner are sons of Mrs. b. F.
Kepner The re union was a hap
py event in the family.
Officer Samuel Lapp was at
Reading recently and returned
with Carder Gardner former land
lord of the Waterford Mountain
House. Information had been
, ,, made against Gardner by James
HOckenberry, charging him with
/ selling liquor without license, and
it was upon warrant based on
that charge that Officer Lapp
brought Gardner back to Juniata.
A hearing was given him before
Squire Frank Patterson. In de-
fault of five hundred dollars bail
he was sent to Jail to answer the
charge at the September Court.
Last Saturday evening before
dafR a stroke of lightning struck
Wesley Sherlock's house at the
corner of North and Sixth streets.
The fiery fluid seemed to be dou-
BILE tOngued. One tongue licked
across the roof and ripped off a lot
of shingles. The other tongue
went down the chimney driving
the SCOT before it out through the
cook stove into the kitchen black
ening everything in the room, but
through all the clouds of dust and
SCOT Mrs. Sherlock was enabled to
see the streak of lightning pass
her and go out of an open window
George Berger who was sitting
across the way on chair in his
door waNwas almost knocked off
his CHAIR; Il
A bolt of lightning came down a
teieP Phohe pole in front of A. B.
Fasick's house on Front street,
last Saturday afternoon during the
storm that then prevailed. When
the subtle stuff struck the.gIound a
piece of it sprang off and passed
on the current or draft of air that
was going through an open door on
one side and an open window on
the opposite side of Fasick's house.
Ezra Fasick was at the front door
looking out. The fiery stuff en-
cOuntered the screen and that
seemed to break it's density and it
flashed all over him, passed into
the room and whirled his sister
against a stove and quicker than
eye-sight it went out of the win
dow. They were both sensibly af-
fected by the lightning =
/ Elmer Shellenberger's house and
~a mile and a quarter south
east of McAlisterville, were des-
trOyed by fire shortly after s o.
clock on the evening of the 4th e
July. The family were not at home.
Mr.. Shellenberger had gOna-
Richfield and his wife had gone to
visit friends. Neighbors who were
at the fire shortly after it lit up
the surrounding country say the
fire was burning when they arriv
ed upon the scene in the north east
corner of both the house and barn.
The live stock was all in the field,
The chickens. were in the barn and
were dettroyed. A cook stove and
a few other things were taken out
of the house. There is an insur-
ance of four hundred and ninety
dollars. IA
! A mad dog created profound
Sensation in Turbett township last
Sunday, going through fields snap
ping at cattle. How many were
bitten by the dog is not known. Men
turned out on every side to shoot
the mad animal. Senator William
Hertzler got a pop at him with his
Winchester and that closed the
career of the mad dog. The dog
came behind Mr.. Sherer who was
driving his cattle to pasture. She