The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, August 15, 1906, Image 5

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Spices for
Pickles
To make savory sweet
pickles you need good
spices.
You will experience the
best results with all
your pickling if you
use our Pure Spices.
We have them whole
or ground.
fl Little q! EvenjtMnQ.
Criminal court is being held at Brook
ville this week.
The M. E. Sunday Fehool will picnic
at Romantic Park to-morrow.
Vesper sirvlce in M. E church Sun
day evening from 7.00 to 8 00.
VThe Gourley reunion is being held at
Jeffeion Park, near Punxsutawney,'
to-day.
VA daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Gates at Graceton, Pa., August
6, 1006.
Ja new smoke stack has been put up
over the boilers at W. A. Leech's plan
ing mill.
Chautauqua vesper services in the M.
E. church next Sunday evening from
7.00 to 8.00.
There are some very bad sidewalks
in Reynoldsville and they are not all on
back streets either.
Meeting of the Foreign Missionary
Society of the M. E. church will be held
in the church parlor Friday afternoon.
The DuBois Traction Company has
men at work grading for the extention
of its trolley line from Sykesville to Big
Run.
Dr. James Conway, pastor of the
Brookville Presbyterian church, has
given the congregation his resignation
as pastor.
Arthur O'Donnell, Jr., requests the
party who took Ice cream freezer off his
back porch last week to return it
promptly.
The P. O S. A. Camps of Jefferson
county and DuBois will hold a picnic at
Romantic Park, Sykesville, on Labor
Day, September 3rd.
H. A. Swab, contractor, who is build
ing five dwelling bouses at Rimersburg,
was not at home when his barn was
burned Friday afternoon.
The harvest home service and picnic
of the Grace Lutheran church of Emer
ickville will be held on 'Wednesday of
next week, August 22nd.
Almost two hundred tickets were sold
at the P. R. R. station in this place
Monday to people who were going to
Brookville to attend court.
Repairs on the tank of the Star GlasB
Company have all been completed, the
'tank charged with cullet and is now
ready for applying the torch.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Weed rill cele
brate their stiver wedding on Thursday
of next, week, August 23. Invitations
have been issued.
On account of Chautauqua vesper
services in the M. E. church next Sun
day evening there will be no meeting of
the Epwortb. League.
The borough dads will have new
sewer inlets put in on Main street.
They will be set in the curb. Two have
been put in near postoffice.
A base ball team came up from Brook
ville Thursday afternoon and defeated a
Reynoldsville team in a game on the
diamond in this place. Score 14 to 4
The wet weather of last week dam
aged the oats considerably in this sec
tion. Some of the farmers had oats cut
and could not haul it in between
showers.
The Protected Home Circle picnic
that was announced to be held in Mam
moth Park to-morrow has been post
poned until Thursday of next week,
August 23rd.
Next Sunday evening vesper service
will be held in the M. E. church instead
of preaching service. The vesper ser
vice will begin at seven o'clock and con
tinue one hour.
The merchants and clerks are enjoy
i g the six o'olock closing these even
ings. It will go a little hard with them
after the first of September to keep
open until eight o'clock.
The Jufferson County Agricultural
Society and Driving Park Association
will hold its annual fair at Brookville
September 4, 5, 6 and 7. This, fair
promises to be bettor than ever before.
Vhe doctors of Jefferson, Clearfield
and Elk counties will bold a picnic at
the Driving Park in DuBois on Friday
of this week. It is the annual picnic
of the Jefferson County Medical Society.
During the storm last Friday evening
lightning struck a tree close to the
house of Malvln Styers, near Wlshaw,
and gave the entire family quite an
electrical shock, but no serious effects
resulted.
Fourth quarterly meeting service In
the M. E. church next Sunday morning.
Sunday school at 9 45, love feast at 10.30,
followed by sacrament of the Lord's
Supper at 11.30. There will be no
preaching. ,
Rev. James Waite, a missionary in
Cblna, who is visiting hiB mother near
this place, gave a missionary address in
the Reynoldsville M. E. church Friday
evening, and a short missionary talk in
the same church Sunday evening.
Dr. Thomas F, Nolan, who bad charge
of Dr. Gourley's practice at Bradley,
Ohio, a month, returned to Reynolds
ville Thursday and had charge of Dr.
H. B. McGarrah's work Saturday, Sun
day and Monday, in the absence of Dr.
McGarrah.
The annual picnic of Trinity Evangel
ical Lutheran Sunday school and
congregation will be held in Ro
mantic Park at Sykesville, on
Saturday of this week August 18. The
Sunday school will leave Reynoldsville
on the 9. 20 car. All will be welcome.
A number of Daughters of Robe k ah
and other ladies from this place and
Rathmel drove to home of Mrs. Lizzie
Smith in Beechwoods last Wednesday
and held a picnic. Had the weather
been favorable more ladies would have
tt tended the picnic.
Dr. A. J. Meek, pastor of the Baptist
church, and family left here Monday on
a two weeks' vUit in Pittsburg, Greens
burg, . Waynesburg and other places.
Rev. J. E. Dean will preach in the Bap
tist church Sunday morning and there
will not be any preaching in that church
Sunday evening.
Mention was made in The Star last
week that the teachers and pupils of the
Dennison school in the Beechwoods will
hold a reunion in the Ross grove August
29. This promises to be a big reunion.
Nlnian Cooper, of this place, came with
in one of teaching the Dennison school
the winter of 1846. '
The Daughters of Rebekah will hold
a plcnio in the Reynolds park on
Wednesday of next week, August 22.
All Odd Fellows and wives, Daughters
of Rebekah at.d members of Women's
Relief Corps are invited. Coffee will
be made free for ail. If it should rain
picnic will be held in I. O. O. F. ban
queting room.
Mrs. Harriet Lingenfelter died at
the borne of her daughter, Mrs. Melvin
Styers, near Wishaw, at 1.00 a. m.,
August 4th, 1906. Dropsy was the
cause of her death Deceased was born
February 22, 1835, and was 71 years, 5
months, and 13 days old at the time of
death. Interment was made Sunday
afternoon at Battle Hollow 'cemetery
.beside her first husband, Samuel
McGhee.
On Thursday of laBt week a party con
sisting of Mrs. F. R. Best, Mrs. Al.
Leech, Mrs. Walter Dillman, Mrs. J.
O'Connor. Mrs. T. O'Connor, Mrs.
Campbell, Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Catbcart,
Miss Frances O'Connor and others,, en
joyed a tally-ho trip to Brookville.
They were joined by a number of
Brookville people at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Carroll and were splen
didly entertained.
K. of P. Reunion.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Pythias of the Grand Domain f Penn
sylvania will meet in DuBois next week,
August 21st to 25th. Reunion of the
First Reunion District, which comprises
Jefferson, Clarion, Armstrong, Clear
field, Indiana, Centre andElk counties,
will be held on Thursday, Aug. 23rd.
Manufacturers to Meet.
A meeting of the National Associa
tion of Window Glass Manufacturers
will he held at Fort Pitt Hotel, Pitts
burg, on Wednesday of next week,
August 22nd, at which meeting it is
expected that the manufacturers will
select a wage committee to treat with a
wage committee from the Amalgamated
Association.
Two Bricklayers Injured.
Last Friday morning Bert Bussard,
of Brookville, and Ralph Syphrit, of
New Bethlehem, two bricklayers who
were working on J. Morris Smith's
house on Worth street, were Injured
by the scaffold breaking. Both men
had a gash cut in hack of head, requir
ing three to five stitches to sew up the
wound. The men were bruised con
siderably by brick falling on them.
New Automobile.
A. B. Weed, train dispatcher on P.
R. R., has bought a new automobile,
which arrived here Monday. It is a
Wayne light tour car, Model G, 14
horse power, bevel geer driver, heavy
wheels and heavy springs with gasoline
power. The car is painted a carmine
color. It haB two seats and five persons
can ride in It very comfortable. It is a
beauty and has the latest Improvements.
y'For Fire Protection.
The Reynoldsvlllo Water Company
will lay a six Inch water line from the
pump station down Fifth street to con
nect with the main water line on Main
street. This line is to be used to pump
water direct from dam Into the mala
line in case of fire. The pipe alone for
this line, which Is now being hauled
along the street, cost about $800.00.
The pipe will be laid as soon as possible,
Picnic and Carnival. ''
Big harvest home picnic and carnival
at Nolan Park, in Clarion county, four
days this week, beginning to-day and
closing Saturday. Among the attrac
tions will be day and night .balloon as
censions, trained horses, base ball, John
L. Sullivan, the pugilist, who will box
four rounds with his partner each day.
Prominent speakers will be present, in
cluding Hon. W. T. Creasy, the famous
granger and legislator, and Hon. Alex
ander McDowell.
Killed Twenty-Three Snakes.
Last week Amos Strouse, tax col
lector of Wlnslow township, got up a
party and drove over Into Clearfield
county to pick huckleberries. There
were 34 persons in the party, sixteen of
whom were of the gentler sex. There
were six wagons In the caravan. Mil
ton Filbart, of this place, was one of
the jolly party. He says they killed
twenty-three rattlesnakes and only got
seven bushels of huckleberries alto
gether. Huckleberries, must be scarce
and rattlesnakes plenty.
Miss Carrie J. Carnahan, of Pittsburg,
secretary of the Philadelphia Branch of
the Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal church, delivered
interesting and instructive addresses in
the M. E, church at this place Saturday
evening, Sunday morning and Sunday
evening. Miss Carnahan epent two
years in making a trip around the
world, at her own expense, to acquaint
herself with the missionary work in
foreign lands. She is an intelligent
woman, good talker and is able to hold
the close attention of bor audience. .
Lrge Funeral.
The funeral service of MfV Philip
Koehlet held in the M. E. church last
Thursday afternoon was largely attend
ed. The service was conducted by Dr.
J. A. Parsons, assisted by Rev. James
H. Jelbart, of New Bothlehem. The
floral tribute was beautiful. The fol
lowing outbf town relatives and friends
attended the funeral : Miss Julia Barry,
of Stroudsburg, Pa., J. H. Crawford,
Wilkesbarre. Mrs. Dr. J. K. Brown,
Mrs. James Hawthorne, Misses Clare
and Virginia Hawthorne and Mrs.
Grant Scheafnocker, of Brookville, Rev.
James H. Jelbart and wife, of New
Bethlehem, and a number from Beech
woods and Hormtown.
Won a Wager on Walking.
Fred Carlson, a miner of Westville,
who is a fast walker, 'bet ten dollars
with another citizen of Westville that
he could walk from Westville to Reyn
oldsville, a distance of almost eleven
miles, in two boure. The walk was to
have been made Sunday, but the mines
at Westville were idle Saturday and
Mr. Carlson won tbe wager that day by
walking to Reynoldsville in one hour
and forty-two minutes. Gust Nestor
and Andrew Arbucklo,' also of West
ville, drove behind Mr. Arbuckle to see
that he did not run and that he walked
from Westville to Reynoldsville within
tbe time limit. They had to make
their horse trot frequently to keep up
with Carlson. , " ,
See the new negligee shirts at Mil
lirens. '
Lightning Struck Two Places.
During the heavy storm about five
o'clock last Friday evening lightning
struck the barn of H. A. Swab, on
Fifth street, and set the barn on fire.
Hope Hose Company promptly respond
ed to fire alarm, but the barn was de
stroyed before tbe firemen got the
flames under control. A workshop and
small dwelling house near barn were
not damagee by the fire, but had it not
been for the work of .the firemen tbe
shop and house would have been burned.
There were a number of chickens and
two tons of baled hay In barn. The
chickens escaped in safety, but the hay
vas badly scorched. There was some
lumber burned near the barn. Mr.
Swab did not carry any insurance.
Philip Koehler's house was struck by
lightning during the storm Friday about
five o'clock. There was not much dam
age done to house,
Marvelous Feat While Asleep.
Eight-year-old daughter of William
Shutt got out of bed several nights ago
while asleep, crawled out of second
story window, down side of house on
some small vines, was carried into the
house by her father and did not awaken
until he put her on her feet. It is, mar
velous how she got out of the window
and down the side of house without
falling. Some members of the family
heard the little girl crawling down side
of house and thought It was a robber.
In looking for the supposed robber Mr.
Shutt found his daghter before she had
gotten down to the ground.
Sunday School Picnic.
Tbe Methodist Episcopal Sunday
school will hold a picnic at Romantic
Park, Sykesville, to-morrow. The first
car will leave here at 9.20 a. m. and
there will be an extra car every 35
minutes after that until noon. Fare for
round trip 15 cents. Tickets will be on
sale this afternoon and to-morrow at
Stauffer's grocery store, Stoke & Feicht
drug store, Tyson's grocery store and
James W.Spry's grocery Btore. Par
ents, members of congregation and
friends are invited to attend the picnic.
Evening Party.
Miss Pearle Barrett entertained a
number of friends Monday evening In
honor of her guests, Misses Emily, Elsie
and Adda Douglass and Edith Mackie,
of Allegheny City. Parlor games were
played and a very enjoyable evening
was spent. Fine refreshments were
served.
Out of v town guests present: Miss
Mary Neff, of Punxsutawney, Miss Sadie
O'Connei, of Milrate, Charles Mohney
and Charles Fye, of DuBois.
Big Fair at DuBois.
In this Issue of The Star will be
found a two column advertisement of
tbe big fair to be held in DuBois Aug.
28th to 31st under the auspices of tbe
DuBois Driving Association. Tbo as
sociation promises to give the people
good races, Wild west show, balloon as
cension, midway attractions, ball games,
etc. Read tbe advertisement.
Free Tuition
For prospective teachers seventeen
years of age. College preparatory de
partment. Conservatory of music. Com
mercial department. Three new build
ings. The fall term of the Indiana Nor
mal School of Pennsylvania will begin
Tuesday, September 11. 1906. Catalogue
free. Address D. J. Waller, Jr., In
diana, Pa.
The House Keeper.
Tbc'Prlz'tr stoves and ranges repre
sent the best of everything in stove
making. They please the housekeeper
because they are what they want at
prices they can afford to pay. Sold,
guaranteed and recommended by Royn
oldsville Hardware Company.
The Board of County Commissioners
recently redeemed 117,000 of outstand
ing county bonds, thus reducing the
county indebtedness to that amount.
While the taxpayers furnished the
money that made redemption of theBe
bonds a possibility tbe commissioners de
serve proper credit for using the money
to the best purposes, and stop the pay
ment of large sums in interest. Brook
Tille Republican.
Large luscious blackberries are very
plenty in this section thU year, and are
soiling at four cents a quart.
Clarion State Normal School opens
September 4. Expenses for the year
(41 weeks) to prospective teachers,
$136.00. Write for catalog to J. George
Becht, Principal, Clarion, Pa.
Tbe Reynoldsville school board will
receive bids for good first-class run of
mine coal for the coming school year.
Coal to be delivered at the school build
ing. Al) bids must be in the hands of
secretary by the 15th of September,
1906. W. H. Bell, Sec.
Parasols at Millirens.
Butter-fly batistes at Millirensl
Young men desiring rooms in the new
dormitory of the Indiana Normal School
of Pennsylvania will find it to their ad
vantage to send in their applications at
once. Address D. J. Wallor, Jr., In
diana, Pa.
Pure imported olive oil 60 cents a can
at J. Damore's. -
Must be Vaccinated.
Tbe State health department under
Dr. Dixon Is sending out instructions to;
every school board in the State to tbe
effect that tbe vaccination law must be
rigidly enforced this year, especially
since it has beon approved by the
Supreme Court. It is suggested that
those having children who must be
vaccinated should attend to that during
summer vacation so that tbey may be
fully recovered before school opens in
the fall. At tbe request of several
school boards this notice is published,
and it will be for the welfare of all to
follow the directions of the health de
partment. In another column of The Star will
be found a notice from the school boards
of Reynoldsville and West Reynoldsville
that all children who have not been
successfully vaccinated will not be per
mitted to attend the next term of school.
Rain Marred Pleasure of Encampment.
On account of the rainy weather last
week the Sons of Veterans' field en
campment In Mitchell's Park, near
Punxsutawney, was not as enjoyable an
encampment an tbe boys bad at this
place last year, and the attendance was
not as large as it would have been had
the weather been more favorable. Tbe
Klttannlng S. of V. Camp joined tbe
Field Encampment Association this
year, and the Association Is now com
posed of Camps from Jefferson, Clarion,
Armstrong and Clearfield counties.
Tbe place for holding the encampment
next year was given into hands of a
committee and It is very likely that the
next encampment will be held in Reyn
oldsville. New Tribe to be Instituted.
A Tribe of the Improved Order of Red
Men will be instituted at Klttannlng
September 8th with a membership of at
least one hundred. District Deputy
Great Sachem C. Grant Rhoads, of this
place, was In Klttannlng ovnr Sunday
and on Monday the officers of the New
Tribe were elected. Tbe degree team
from Mazomanta Tribe No. 341, of
Reynoldsville, will accompany District
Deputy Rhoads to Klttannlng to do the
degree work in instituting the Kittan
ning Tribe. ' .
Ingelow Club Entertained.
Last Thursday evening Mrs J. L. Gra
ham entertained the members of ths
Ingelow Club at home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Corbett, and last
evening Miss Sara Corbett, sister of
Mrs. Graham, entertained the members
of the Ingelow Club at same borne.
Both evenings the members of the club
were nicely entertained and fine refresh
ments were served.
' A Good Band.
"Dick" Ramsey's famous Keystone
Band, of Reynoldsville, gave a concert
in front of the Waverly Hotel last
Thursday night, which delighted a large
crowd of people. The selections rend
ered were such as to show that this
organization has the talent and skill to
execute anything placed before it in the
way of music. Punxsutawney Spirit.
Harvest Home Picnic at Nolan Park.
Tbe Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will sell excursion tickets to Nolan Park
August 15 to 18, good returning until
August IB, inclusive, from East Brady,
DuBois, Sllgo, and intermediate sta
tions at reduced rates. Consult ticket
agents.
New Flour.
Have you tried Royal Quality Hour ?
Best in tbe world. A strictly fancy
spring patent ; Evory sack guaranteed.
For sale by the following merchants :
James H. Spry, Ed. .McCrnlght, E. M.
Evans, J. W. Riggs, Harry Moore, Star
Grocery, L. Dembek.
W. G. Spencer, Agt. for Pa.
Tuesday Excursions to Niagara Falls and
Toronto.
Every Tuesday, to and including Sep
tember 25th, the Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburg R'y will sell excursion tickets
from Falls Creek to Niagara Falls and
Toronto, good for return passage any
time within fifteen days from date of
sale at fare of $7.45 to Niagara Falls and
$8.90 to Toronto. For full information
consult agents of tbe company.
Balbriggan underwear at Millirens.
A good light one that we can
guarantee the Queen Inverted. Saves
gas and mantles. Imitation of the
electric light. Guaranteed for sixty
days. Money back if not satisfactory.
Full line gas lights and fixtures always
in stock. Union Plumbing Co.
Oxfords and low cuts at Millirens.
Never before has there been such a
large stock of floor coverings shown in
this town than we have this spring.
We have over 50 patterns of 9 ft. x 12 ft.
rugs from $5.00 to $50.00, and over
7,000 yards of carpet from 20o to $1.60
per yard. Come and see our stock ; no
trouble to show it. J. R. Hillls &Co.
Straw hats at Millirens.
See the white goods at Millirens.
Take your watches and clocks for re
pair to Samuel Katzon, tho jeweler. He
guarantees all his work for one year.
Next door to Postoflice, Roynoldsville.
Laoe curtains at Millirens.
THE NEW THEATRE.
Plans for the Building will be in Hands of
tbe Contractor this Week.
The plans for the now theater for the
Reynoldsvlllo Auiuacuient Company
will be completed and In tbe hands of
the contractors by tbe end of this week.
The building will be 62 x 95 feut. will
contain a gallery and be in every way a
first-class, up-to-date theatre. At the
entrance there will be an addition for
the box office and a ladies' dressing
room, also a coat and hat room for tbe '
use of patrons. The interior will be so
constructed that it can easily be used
for a gymnasium, basket ball playing,
running track and a skating rink. On
each side of the stage will be boxes de
signed in the latest style. The stage
will be large enough to accommodate
the best attractions on the road. Under
the stage will be a large room for dress
ing room, lockers and bath room. Ar
rangements are being made to open
with a grand musical and military spec
tacle of the civil war, Other shows are
also being booked and some of the best
attractions of the season have already
been secured. It is the purpose of tbe
management to book nothing but first-'
class, clean shows that will please the
people. In addition, basket ball games
will be a feature and some good playing
can be expected, as some of tbe best
teams in Western Pennsylvania will be
scheduled to play here. From the pro
gram now being got together, this com
pany will be a great success and will be
a great factor in attracting people to
this town, which is destined to be tbe
best In Jefferson county.
Little Expenene with Bees.
Cbief-of-Police Frank P. Adelsperger
was going around for several days the
past week with a skinned nose and badly
swollen eyes, but he did not get them
by coming In contact with a pair of
knuckles. Saturday a hive of Mr.
Adelsperger's honey bees swarmed on a
cherry ttee and he climbed tho tree to
capture the bees. Th' limb he was
standing on broke and tie fell and bis
nose was skinned in coming In contact
with tbe ground. Falling from the tree
disturbed the bees and some' of tbe
pesky little things gave vent to their
ill temper by stinging Mr. Adelsperger,
which was tbe why fore of the swollen
eyes and face. Frank is congratulating
himself that all the bees did not sting
bim. . The bunch of little fellows got
away from Mr. Adelsperger and flew
over tbe hills.
' Accept our Thanks, Gentlemen.
J. M. Culp, a farmer who resides near
Desire, was in town yesterday and pre
sented The Star office force with a
bushel of choice eating apples. This is
the second bushel of apples Mr. Culp
has given to this office this year.
Samuel Dickey, one of our farmer
friends, has the thanks of ye editor and
The Star office force for Bomo choice
eating apples left at this office Satur
day. His kindness is very much ap
preciated. Liable to a Fine.
There is an ordinance in this borough
making a person liable to a fine of not
less than five dollars nor more than
fifty dollars who tie a horse to a
shade tree within this borough and the
horse injures the tree. A number of
people, evidently, don't know anything
about this ordinance.
Church Notice.
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran church
notices:
Sunday School 9.45 a. m., preaching
at 11.00 a. m., Luther League 6,45 p.
m., vesper service 7.45.
Grace Lutheran church, Emerlckville:
Service 3.00 p. m.; harvest home service
and picnic August 22; service In the
church at 10:30 a. m.
LLOOTTSS
For Sale on Easy Terms.
Thirty fine residence lota for sale on
extension of Fourth street on easy
terms, to suit purchaser. Inquire of
E. Neff, Reynoldsville, Pa.
Wllliamsport Commorcial College.
Fall terra begins Tuesday, September 4.
Students admitted at any time. Over
200 calls received ror oooKKeepers ana
stenographers last year. Catalogue and .
trial lessons free. F. F. Healey, Prop.
The Lock Haven State Normal school
I closed the most succesful year in its his
tory. Its new catalogue containing 122.
I pages, beautifully illustrated, is now
ready for distribution, xnia isoneoi toe
great schoos of our state and affords the
best available advantage for the train
ing of teachers, fitting for college or
business. Its department of music and
elocution are also largely patronized and
thoroughly equipped. The fall term
begins September 10th. Address for
catalogue, the principal, J. R. Flicking
er, Lock Haven, Pa.
Tbe musical features of the week of
August twentieth to twenty-fourth at
Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua,
New York, will consist of three con
certs : On Monday evening a perform
ance in which tbe Male Glee Club and
Mandolin Club will take the principal
part; on Wednesday afternoon the
HKual popular concert ; and on Friday
evening one in which all will fool a
familiar interest, ''Auld Lang Syne."
Florsheiro shoes at Millirens