Hide Article Text (OCR)
The Huntingdon Journal. Wednesday Morning, Sept. [6, 1374. READING MATTER ON EVERY PAGE, LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Mention—Home-made and Stolen. Oysters are ripe. Apple dumplings. Mount Union is to have a new paper. Fruit thieves are plying their vocation. Pavements are going down on all sides. Huntingdon’s schoolhouses are too small. The season for teachers institutes approach ed. John D. Dorris, son of Col. Dorris, is off to Princeton. Conductor Adams proposes making a brief western tour. The usual number of drunks were about on Saturday night. If you want a good puff, buy your cigars at the Joureat store. Petty law suits are the latest entertainment for Warriorsmark loafers. Oil tanks are abundant about the car works. The proprietors must have “struck ile.” That “chapter’ of Chronicles, in the last Gazette, was good. Who wrote ’em out? Lewistown’s temperance folks have made a raid on the violators of the local option law. One thousand suits are pending in the Al legheny courts against violators of the liquor aw. A tramp printer, named Albert Green, was led by the cars, at Altoona, on Wednesday of last week. Our friend, Wm. Warther, is erecting a handsome brick store room and residence in West Huntingdon. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” but the price of our superior stationery is so low that everybody can buy. A small fight, on the Fourth stee: bridge, on Saturday evening, attracted quite a crowd. It was the least kind of a scratch. There were forty-one persons admitted into full membership in the M. E. Church in War riorsmark, last Sabbath a week ago. Notices to Trespassers can be had at the Jovenal Store at 50 cents per dozen. They are the cheapest and best thing of the kind out. If. We invite the attention of gossips to the article on our first page, under the caption of “neighboring.” Read it and profit by its teachings. We learn that George Zahnizer, son of Rev. Zahnizer, of this place, had an arm broken, a few days ago, in Clarion, where the family are visiting. Our robust and healthy-looking agricultu ral friend, Mr. John Heifner, will please ac cept the printers’ thanks for those toothsome watermelons. . .... Stevens, of Petersburg, has just fin ished burning a fine kiln of brick for Mr. Wm. Hutchinson, of Warriorsmark. Evidently Aby understands his business. Mrs. Jennie Barrick will put down a pave ment in front of the Miles Lewis property in a week or so. This will add very much to the walk on Washington street. Cobble stone gutters are played out, yet we hear of that kind of gutter in the ancient bor ough of Bedford. They belong to the Tine Vondrsmithian age up there. The enterprizing school directors of Tod township are building two fine school houses, but unfortunately one of them is nearly with out access by road of any kind. A bee-tree, on Brush mountain, Blair coun ty, was cut, the other night, and found to con tain ten feet of solid comb about one foot thick, which yielded two hundred pounds of honey. David Walker, an employee on the wood train, had his shoulder blade broken, on Fri day last, while attempting to get off the en gine near his residence, a mile or so east of this place. “Water! Water!” is the cry. One half the town is out of water and yet there are some of the fogies who are opposed to Water. Works. If a vote were taken now the ques tion would easily be settled affirmatively. We were in error,a week or two ago, when we stated that our young friend, Joe Jacob, had abandoned his Texas trip. He has arrived at his destination, and is highly delighted with the country. May success attend him. It is said that certain citizens of Ted town ship are receiving interest on not less than $40,000 of loaned money without paying a single farthing of taxation on the amount. Somebody must hoodwith the assessor effect ually. The grounds about the West Huntingdon school building are being leveled and enclos ed with a good substantial fence. Now, when the season arrives plant good shade trees, not horse chestnut, but something that will grow up in a few years. The School Directors talk about building a new wing to the old school building on the hill. We hope that before they proceed to do so they will consult some good school archi tecture and not make another batch like that in West Huntingdon. Our young blacksmith friend, J. M. Night wine, informs us that a wagon was at his shop, last week, for repairs, that had been ironed in the year 1800, and that it was still in pretty good condition. The wagon is the property of our townsman, Henry Glazier. Why don’t Walker township keep the old toll-bridge in better condition? We heard a gentleman say that his horse had broken through the planks, a few days ago, but fortu nately escaped without injury. If there had been any injury there would have been a bill to pay. A game association has been organized, in this place, with Hon. R. C D. Petriken as Presi dent, M. M. McNeil Treasurer, Mord B. Massey Recording Secretary,and W. W. Dorris Cor responding Secretary. The object of the as sociation is the protection of all kinds of game and fish and to see that the game laws of the State are respected. Warriorzsmark was livened up considerably, on Saturday last. The Huntingdon Furnace Zouaves, a very handsome company, by the way, and the Sheridan Troupe did the enthu sing. A whole picnic and lots of other folks witnessed the mounted drill of the Troupe, in one of Mr. Hutchinson’s fields. For the use of which field, the Troupe is ever so much obliged.—Tyrone Herald. The building of a new dam, by Fisher Sons, has necessitated the throwing of the volume of water into the north arm of the river forming the Island, so that the south channel is almost dry. The result is that there is a large quantity of decaying vegeta ble and animal matter in the channel which sends up a miasma that may produce much sickness. We hope that haste will be made to relieve us of the impending evil. One of our Penn street citizens, who is very fond of piscatory sport, one day last week, wended his way up the river for the purpose of fishing for bass. A half hour’s walk found him at the place selected, and, after carefully baiting his hook with a half grown toad, he cast his line and waited for a bite. After waiting a considerable length of time, and not getting even a nibble, he began to examine the situation, and what was his chagrin to see the road, with the line attached, high and
Newspaper Details
Huntingdon Journal
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Sep 16, 1874
Page 7
Full Page
Clipped by
Bruce S.
USA 31 Aug 2026
Other Publications Near Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
The Daily News
Huntingdon Journal
Huntingdon Globe
Huntingdon Journal American
Huntingdon Gazette
