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VOLUME 15.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY. JUNEfi. I5)n6
NUMBEK 4.
THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PASSING
TO AND FRO.
M. J. Coyle was in Clarion this week.
David Sowers was at Ohl this week.
Mies Edna Lewis is visiting in Frost
burg. Mrs. W. H. Ford is visiting in East
Brady.
Miss Frances Flynn vUited in DoBois
last week.
J. F. Ferrler, was In Pittsburg on
Decoration Day.
Miss Mary McClure visited in Brook
vllle the past week.
Henry Stevenson and wife visited in
Brookvllle yesterday.
MrB. M. Mohney, of Pittsburg, is
visiting in this place.
Charles Mohney, of DuBols, was a
visitor in town yesterday.
Mrs. M. H. Caldwell and daughters
are visiting in Indiana Co.
Mrs. Andy Denny, of Driftwood, was
a visitor in town Saturday.
Homer Small, of Cool Spring, visited
la ReynoldBvllle last week.
George and James Hughes were in
franklin the first of this week.
Mrs. M. E. Beck, of Punxsutawney,
was a visitor in town yeBterday.
Samuel Williams left here yesterday
-on a trip to Natrona and Pittsburg.
Mrs. George B. Adam, of Brockway--ville,
was a visitor in town yeBterday.
John Plyler, a former resident of this
cplace, was a visitor in town last week.
David Sowers and wife visited in
Srookville the latter part of last week.
Mrs. G. M. McDonald returned last
week from a month's visit in Boston,
Mass.
Ira Bowser, medical student in Pitts
burg, spent Sunday at his home In this
place.
Miss Maggie Sollda is visiting at
-Sabula. She expects to be absent three
weeks.
Miss Gertrude Lawson, of Clarion,
was the guest of Mrs. E. L. Potter the
'past week.
Cearing Barclay and wife are visiting
the latter's parents at Plumville, Indi
ana county.
Mrs. G. M. Herold returned Saturday
evening from a visit in Lock Haven and
Williamsport.
Misses Florence Stoke and Kathryn M.
Gillespie visited in Paradise a couple of
days last week.
J. A. Myers and daughter, Miss
Grace, visited in Corsica and vicinity
several days last week.
Mrs. J. S. Bracken, who had been
-visiting in Chicago since last December,
'returned home Monday.
George H. Mundorff and wife, of Du
Bois, spent Snnday with S. S. Robin
son's family in this place.
Mrs. George S. Mulford, of Buffalo,
"-N. Y visited her sister, Mrs. A. T.
Bing, in this place Friday.
Mrs. C. V. Smith and daughter,
Harriet, of Kittnnning, visited friends
In this plnue the past week.
Miss Agnes Blair, of DuBols, was a
guest at home of Rev. J. W. Myera
-several days the past week.
J. E. Durnell, of Johnstown, Pa.,
visited his sister. Mrs. A. B. Weed, in
'West Reynoldsville lost week.
Mrs. Dr. C. W. Hoffman, of Rimers
'burg, is visiting her mother, Mrs.
.Robert Waite, near this place.
Mrs. Mllford Kunes, of North East,
iPa., who visited in this section several
weeks, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. A. W. Mulhollan, of Rathmel,
attended the Presbyterian missionary
.convention in Brookvllle last Thursday.
Misses Zoe Woodward and Annie
'Ward visited the letter's parents at
iBlacklick, Indiana Co., the past week.
; W. G. Gourley, wife and son, Wil
liam, of Falls Creek, visited with E. A.
Gourley and family on Friday of last
wook.
Mrs. D. W. Riston attended tho
missionary convention held in the
Brookvllle Presbyterian church last
week.
Miss Avio Cathers, of North East,
'who was visiting in this section several
weoks, went to Pittsburg Monday to
visit.
Miss Adda M. Myers, student in
Lutherville College, Maryland, return
ed home Friday evening for the Bummer
vacation.
Misses Mary Torrence and Anna Boll,
of Punxsutawney, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. McEntire in
.this place,
Mrs. Owen Edelblute went to Brook
villa this morning to attend a party
to-day.
Paul Riston has gone to Savannah,
Georgia, where be expects to spend the
summer.
Mrs. B. M. Moore, of Brookvllle, has
been the guest of Mrs. W. H. Moore
this week.
Mrs. Harry Houp, of Hollidaysburg,
who has been visiting her daughter.
Mrs. George Johns, has returned to her
home.
W. P. Woodring, grocer, and wife,
left here Thursday for a two weeks'
visit with tho former's sister at White
Haven, Pa.
Harry F. Reynolds, of Pittsburg,
visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S." T.
Reynolds, in this place a couple of days
the past week.
Mrs. Alice Lewis and daughter,
Catherine, of Winslow, Pa., visited the
former's siBter, Mrs. J . R. Mllliren, in
this place the past week.
Miss Caroline Robinson is visiting in
Punxsutawney. Miss Robinson will
play the wedding march at the Smith
Young wedding to-night.
J. Elson Smith returned last week
from Newsome, Idaho, where he spent
several weeks around the gold mines of
the Meadow Creek Mining Co.
John D. Swanger, ot Milton, Pa.,
a photographer in this place a year or
more ago, is the guest of Homer R.
Ressler, in this place this week.
Miss Anna Kunes, who taught school
in Braddock during the paBt term, re
turned to her home in this place last
evening for the summer vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. John Stauffer and twins,
of Eleanor, who were viBiting Mrs.
Stauffer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Trudgen, returned home yesterday.
Mrs. Daniel Frack, of Allentown, Pa.,
Mrs. F. E. Dixon, of Falls Creek, and
Mrs. Ab. Weaver, of DuBols, were the
guests of Mrs. A. B. Weed Saturday.
Harry L. Schlabig, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
came to town last evening to attend the
wedding of his sister, Miss Olive Schla
big, who will be married thiB evening.
W. W. Wiley, proprietor of The City
Hotel, is in Harrisburg this week at
tending the Republican State conven
tion as a delegate from Jefferson county.
Mra. H. Alex Stoke and Miss Carrie
Albright attended a "visitors social"
given in DuBols last evening by ladies
of the Round Table, a literary society
of DuBols.
Jesse McDlvitt and wife and Mrs. H.
J. Graffis, of Punxsutawney, came over
here Monday evening' to attend the
birthday surprise party given Elmer
Ellenberger.
John Fink and wife went to Brock
wayville Saturday to visit the latter's
parents. Mrs. Fink has been ill a
couple of weeks, was threatened with
typhoid fever.
Mrs. John Pomroy and two daughters,
Misses Bortha and Ethel, will leave
here to-day for Danville, Illinois, where
they will visit several week. Before
returning home they expect to visit at
Canton and Sheffield, 111.
Roman E. Koehler, editor of The
American, of Donora, Pa., Mrs. C. K.
Hawthorn, of DuBols, and Mrs. V. L.
Moore, of Washington township, visit
ed ther parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Koehler, in West Reynoldsville over
Sunday.
Miss Lois Robinson will go to Pitts
burg to-morrow to attend the com
mencement at the Pennsylvania College
for Women, in which she was a student
several years ago. Miss Robinson will
remain in Pittsburg a couple of weeks
visiting friends.
Rev. J. A. Parsons, wife, daughter
and son, Miss Mary and Harold, left
here yesterday on a ten day vacation.
They went to Corry, where Rev.Parsons
officiates at a wedding to-day, and to
morrow, they go to Chautauqua, N. Y.,
to remain until the latter part of next
week.
Thompson Phillabor, of Hamilton,
this county, visited with hisbrotber-in-law,
E. A. Gourley, the past wook. Mr.
Phillabor is a man well up in years and
he remombers of coming to Reynolds
ville in the fall of 18G5 to invest in real
estate, when there was no town whero
tho businees section now is, and he is
now much surprised at the change
time has made. He also remembers of
rafting from Iowa Mills to Red Bank in
1850, taking four days to make the trip
and receiving four dollars for his
service.
SIXTEENTH S. S. CONVENTION.
Report of the Jefferson County Sunday
School Convention.
The sixteenth annual convention of
the Jefferson County Sunday School
Association was held in the Presbyterian
church at Corsica, May 28 and 29.
Capt. S. A. Craig, our enthusiastic
president, presided at every session.
Rev. Charles F. Irwin, a state field
worker, of Pittsburg, and Miss Ermina
L. Lincoln, secretary of the primary
department of the State Association,
were with us and by their presence and
by their most interesting and helpful
addresses, added greatly to the success
of the convention.
The topics on the program were well
discussed. Many beautiful thoughts
and high ideals were set before us,
which, if we carry to the various schools
in the county, cannot fail to make our
work for the advancement of Christ's
Kingdom more effective. Those de
serving special mention for taking part
in the discussion were : Revs. S. L.
Richards, J. A. Parsons, C. F. Irwin,
J. M. Van Horn, J. E. Drake, C. J.
Zetler, Goo. H. Hill and T. W. English,
Miss Ermina Lincoln, Dr. E. V. Kyle,
C. C. Benscoter and otherB.
The attendance was very good. On
Monday evening about 400 were present;
Tuesday morning, 200 ; Tuesday after
noon, 250 and Tuesday evening, 450.
The delegates numbered about 100.
Ministers, 13 ; officers and teachers, 35 j
Superintendents, 10 : number of Bchools
represented, 48. Of these four were
Baptist, one Reformed, three Luther
an, two C. P., one C. of G., five Union,
one M. P., two U. P., fourteen M. E.
and fifteen Presbyterian.
The nominating committee, Revs.
J. E. Drake, O. H. Sibley, J. A. Cowan,
Geo. H. Hill and Dr. E. V. Kyle, sub
mitted their report, which was accepted
by the convention and the following
officers will take up the work for the
coming year : President, C. R. Crlss
man, Summervllle ; Vice President,
Jos. R. Wilson, Corsica ; Secretary,
Elsie M. Ross, Reynoldsville ; Treasur
er, W. B. Cowan, Brookvllle ; Super
intendent Primary Work, Clare Mo
Cracken, Richardsvllle ; Superintend
ent, Home Department, S. A. Craig,
Brookvllle ; Superintendent Normal
Department, L. B. Underwood, Brook
vllle. On motion, the place to hold the next
convention was left to the executive
committee.
The treasurer's report was read and
adopted as read.
The secretary reported 148 schools In
the county ; 113 of these sent in a
written report. In the 113 schools
there are 1,370 officers and teachers ;
9,775 scholars ; 477 cradle roll members;
472 home department members, making
a total of 12,994 ; 601 of these have
joined the church during the year.
The committee on resolutions, Clar
ence Breakey, W. G. Harris, Miss Mae
Meyer and Mrs. W. D. Steele, submit
ted the following :
We desire to express our gratitude to
Almighty God for the success of this
convention.
Resolved, First, That we express
our appreciation of the practical truths
the state speakers and home speakers
have brought to us and that we carry
them to our several places of labor.
Second, That we express our thanks
to tho people of Corsica for throwing
opnn their homes and entertaining us
so royally and making our stay among
thfin so pleasant.
Third, That w express our thanks
to the choir and musical leaders for the
good music they furnished us during
the convention.
Fourth, That wo express our
thanks to the local committee for
performing this work in such a manner
so as to make this convention a success.
Fifth, That the Association last
year paid $30.00 to the State Associa
tion, we recommend that it be increased
to $50.00, knowing that It will be seed
sown on good ground and that God will
give the increase and reap an abundant
harvest for His Kingdom.
Sixth, That we thank our retiring
President for his efforts to make the
Sunday school work a success in Jeffer
son county.
The convention was one of the best
ever held In the county.
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GOLDEN WEDDING.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dempsey Celebrated
Fiftieth Anniversary of Married Life.
Monday of this week, June 4, was the
fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dempsey, a highly
respected couple of West Reynoldsville,
and the event was celebrated with a
large golden wedding. There were
oyer two hundred friends and relatives
present, and there were many more
thai' Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey would like
to have Invited, but could not. The
day was an ideal June day just such a
as the one when this couple were mar
ried fifty years ago and the beautiful
day and evening added to the pleasure of
golden wedding. The Invitations were
for afternoon and evening and people
began gathering in the afternoon and
continued to come and go until late in
the evening. Tables were sot in the
house and on lawn and at 5.30 one
hundred and ten people ere seated at
the tables to partake of an elegant and
well prepared feast of goods. During
the evening over two hundred people
were served. The Women's Relief
Corps marched to the Dempsey resi
dence in a body about 7.00 p. m. At
7.45 Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey were seated
on the lawn and Dr. J. A. Parsons,
pastor of the M. E. church, presented
the bride and groom of fifty years ago
with a number of valuable presents, in
behalf of the frionds assembled. Short
addresses were made by Dr. A. J.
Meek, of Baptist church, Rev. A. D.
McKay, of Presbyterian church, Rev.
J. C. McEntire, W. L. Johnston, Esq.,
Albert Dempsey, and others. Mr. and
Mrs. Dempsey expressed their gratitude
and appreciation for presents and friend
ship. Everybody joined heartily In
singing "Blessed be the tie that Binds."
It was a late hour when the last guests
departed for their homes. The anni
versary was an enjoyable and pleasant
event.
The house was nicely decorated.
There were friends present from Brook
vllle, Emerlckvllle and surrounding
towns. The presents consisted of $125.00
in cash, china dishes, silverware, linen,
centre table, Ico., &o.
Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey were married
In Pinecreek township, near Emerlck
vllle, June 4, 185G, by Rev. John Crum,
a Methodist Episcopal minister. Mrs.
Dempsey's maiden name was Elizabeth
Zetler.
Mr. Dempsey was born in Venango
county Septembor 19, 1836, and is now
in his 70th year. In 1863 at Watorford,
Pa., he enlisted in Company G, 82nd
Pennsylvania regiment, and sorved two
years, until close of the war. During
that time his company was In tho fol
lowing battles : Rappahannock Station,
Va., Mine Run, Va., North Anna, Va.,
Totopotomoy, Va., Cold Harbor, Va.,
Petersburg, Va., Dabnoy's Mills, Va.,
Potorsburg, (Fort FIshor) Va Sailors
Crook, Va. Early in lifo Mr. Dempsey
united with tho Methodist Episcopal
church.
Mrs. Dempsey was born in Philadel
phia March 19, 1840, and was 60 years
old last March. She was just two
months past her sixteenth birthday
when married.
Unto Mr, and Mrs.' Dempsey nine
' tiffin.
J. W. Dempsey.
children were born, Beven sons and two
daughters, and they are all living :
George W., Watsonvllle, Cal., William
H Jolon, Cal., Albert J., Leadville,
Colo., Wallace, Erie, Pa., Irven F., Oak
Ridge, Pa., Milton L., LeBdvllle, Colo.,
Earl, Dents Run, Pa., Misses Evaline
F. and Tacy M., bjth at home. They
also have eeventeen grand children.
With the exception of a couple of
ynars in the oil country after the war,
Mr. and Mrs. Dempsey spent their half
century of married life in Pinecreek
township and West Reynoldsville.
They moved to the latter place thirteen
years ago. When they started down
life's pathway together this section of
the country was a vast wilderness and
the ' place where Reynoldsville now
stands was not a very large clearing.
They have lived to see a great trans
formation in a half century. The
mighty oak, tall pine, Indians and wild
animals have disappeared since Jeffer
son Dempsey and Elizabeth Zetler did
their "sparking" in a log cabin over in
Pinecreek township, and beautiful farm
lands, with sleek cattle grazing on the
hillsides, railroads, trolley linos, Im
posing buildings, fine residences, large
industries, paved streets, &c, are now
seen In the erstwhile wilderness.
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Satisfactory results can never
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tu. it is an it is) oi yellow
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Such a coating is bound
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ONE OF EGYPT'S MYSTERIE8
A Lake Part of Which la Freah ana
tha Other Part Salt.
During the reign of Bald Pasha
causeway was built across the lake of
Mareotls, with the result that the west
ern portion of the hike became highly
Impregnated with salt, while the east
ern part remained as formerly, only
slightly brackish. - Scientists are not
intlsfied as to the source of the im
mense quantity of salt contained in the
luke, and some have conjectured an
underground passage from the sea.
However, there is do visible channel
by which the sea water might enter,
and, as oue can ride all around It, It is
to all intents and purposes a lake.
Its length is about nine miles and its
breadth four, aud it furnishes the en
tire suit supply for Egypt. A minia
ture railway ruus from the workshops
to the lake, where the salt Is cut anil
the trucks filled by gungs of Bedouins,
who during the season are at work day
and night. At the workshops the salt
is ground nud packed und from there
distributed all over the country.
To the unscientific mind the main
chiirni of tho luke Is Its beauty. As
one stands on the thick crust of suit
ueur the shore, which stretches as far
as the eye cun see, oue feels exactly
as If stundtug on a field of ice, and, la
addition to the dazzling whiteness of
the suit. Its beunty Is enhanced by a
pink tinge which at the edges of the
lake deepens to a mauve. The cause
of this color is also a matter of con
jecture unit lias been attributed to
minute organisms contained in the salt
Whatever its origin, it fades as the salt
becomes dry, but While dump the effect
of the Imprisoned color is Indescribably
lovely.
To get an entirely different phase of
the sight one must ride over the cause
way. Here one bus the Ice field on the
right and on the left the rippling blue
Mareotls. About half way across,
where the lake Is deeper and the salt
crust has not formed, the scenery
changes. The water has the still and
heavy look of the Dead sea, but unlike
the latter, which looks ljke molten
brass, this milky lake with the clonds
aud the blue sky reflected in It might
be likened to a vast opal, and the
setting sun, throwing a fiery ball Into
its depths, complete the slmiltude.
To eyes accustomed to the soft and
varying tints of green in an English
landscape the setting might seem un
worthy of this gem, for the surround
ing hills boast no verdure. But after
a short residence In this desert one
learns to admire the hills, lu which all
the sepia tones are blended, and when
lighted up by the setting sun the color
ing calls to mind the western windows
of Magdalen chapel.
This enchanting scene, however, Is
evanescent. As the salt Is formed by
evaporation, It Is only during the hot
summer months that this can take
place, and with the first autumn rain
the picture fades away and the spark
ling Ice field resolves itself into a
placid lake of blue. London Tele
graph. 1
Bird Prafarancaa la Pood,
Experiments have shown that birds
avoid the bright colored caterpillars, as
a rule. And this seems almost to have
become a second nature, for a jack-l
daw, which bad been raised in captiv
ity and had had no experience In Judg
ing the edible qualities of caterpillars,
was observed to regard the brillnnt
caterpillar, of the figure of eight moth
with suspicion and aversion, although
it eagerly devoured dull, plain cater
pillars placed within Its reach. When
It was driven by hunger to attack the
other It finally refused to eat It, giv
ing plain evidences that there was
something distasteful about the prey.
Not Worth Whfla,
"Perhaps if I. were io boll It down,"
suggested the space writer.
"Wouldn't do any good," said .the ob
durate editor. "Take a gallon of wa
ter and boll it dowu to a pint, and it
would still be nothing but water."
Antidote For Carbolic Aeld.
It may prove valuable information
to know that alcohol Is the antidote ot
carbolic acid and how to rso It. If the
burn Is external pour alcohol over it; If
Internal, swallow whisky.
The Killarney of America.
Nestling in a frame Of beautifully
wooded shores lies a series of . beautiful
lakes 145 miles north of the city of To
ronto, Ontario, and known as the "Lake
of Bays Region." A chaiu of seven
lakes studded with lovely islands, with
hotels throughout tho district and good
steamboat service to all points attracts
the tourist, anglor and sportsman. Just
tho out-of-tho-way sort of placo to visit
during the summor months. For all
particulars and froo illustrated publi
cation apply to W. Robinson, 606 Park
Building, Pittsburg, Pa.
Letter Lint.
List of unclaimed letters remaining
In post office at RcynoldsvlUo, Pa., for
the weok ending June 2, 1906 :
John Hand, J. C. Miller.
Say advertised and give date of list
when calling for above.
E.c, Burns, P.m.