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The Republican County Committee will meet at the Jacobs House on Saturday afternoon, January 11, 1896.
# SHORT LOCALS.
There was a hop at Hockenberry's hotel, Waterford, New Year's night.
Down with the combine is the watchword in Philadelphia.
The Spruce Creek railroad tunnel is to be made higher and wider.
The Exchange Bank at Goodland, Kansas, failed with $46 in the safe.
Mr. Depew of Milford township, aged about 70 years, died on the 4th inst.
On Christmas Day, Mrs. Morey of Plymouth, Mass., died aged 101 years.
Blair county people will indulge in a half century celebration. June 11 and 12.
Teachers will hold a "local Institute" at Thompsontown, January 17 and 18.
The two National Banks in Huntingdon, have $400,000 on deposit, the Globe says.
Mrs. Hannah Livitt, the oldest person in New Hampshire, died on Christmas Day aged 107.
Captain McClellan has a hen that hatched a lot of chickens a week before Christmas. Early fowles.
A fireman on a freight engine handles 10 to 12 tons of coal in the run between Harrisburg and Altoona.
M. R. Beashor's two best hogs, when 19 months old, weighed, respectively 473 and 517 pounds clean meat.
Some years ago a bushel of wheat would buy three barrels of oil. Now it takes three bushels of wheat to buy a barrel of oil.
James A. and Andrew Banks while hunting recently, shot a gray fox. The skin of the animal will be stuffed and prepared for mounting.
The Scotch Irish Congress will meet in Harrisburg next May. The descendants of Scotch Irish people are numerous in Juniata county.
There are people who believe that if a rabbit's foot is carried in one's pocketβthat it acts as a talisman and exempts them from all harm.
From present appearances the voters of Philadelphia will clean up the Philadelphia watered Traction combine at the February election.
On the 28th ult., Geo. W. Bittinger, a veteran, and charge on Walker township, died at the home of Michael Fulkroad in Walker township.
Mrs. Amanda Conn of Patterson, died on Saturday, the 4th inst, aged 68 years. Interment on Tuesday at Ebenezer Cemetery in Spruce Hill.
For default of fines and costs for disorderly conduct and drunkenness, on the street, Harry Warner, Cloyd Bender and Thomas Lowery are in jail.
David Weaver, aged about 70 years, died at his home in Walker township, early on Christmas morning. He had been an invalid about 15 years.
The Sunbury Democrat and the Bloomfield Democrat are arging the nomination of ex Governor Pattison as the nominee of the Democracy for the presidency.
Thomas Cox, died at his home in Greenwood township on the 23rd of December past, aged about 72 years. He kept the Seven Stars Hotel a period of 30 years.
The funeral of Mrs. Smith, wife of Hon. C. A. Smith, took place at Lewistown on Christmas Day. Mrs. Smith was a sister of Mrs. D. G. Alter of Port Royal.
The young peoples' society of the Presbyterian church held a sociable in the lecture room on the evening of the 2nd inst., at which coffee and sandwiches ware served.
The Columbian Calendar can be obtained for five 2 cent stamps by addressing the Calender Department of the Pope Manufacturing Company at Hartford, Conn.
The people of Philadelphia are aroused over the combine, and if present appearances indicate anything, will vote that organization out f power at the next election.
Amos Blumenschein of Elliottsburg, Perry county, while quarrying limestone last week had a bank of earth to cave, and back in the bank six feet, a live snake was uncovered.
A fancy lamp-shade in Mrs. Trimble's house on Third street took fire from a match and in trying to get the lamp out of the house an arm of Mrs. Trimble was severely turned, and her daughter Jean's hair was badly singed. The shade took fire when the lamp was lit.
Last Thursday while carrying a tub of scalding water, to use in butch-