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filial?
Reynoldsville
Reynoldsville
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Has modern schools and churches, paved
atroets, water, R&e and electric accommoda
tions, convenient trolley service, high and
healthful location, varied employment for
labor and many other residential advantages.
OITers exceptional advantiiges for it he loca
tion of new Industries i Free facty sHes,
cheap and abundant fuel, direct shlpplnt;
facilities and low freight rates and plentiful
supply of laborers.
VOLUME 17.
REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1908.
NUMBER 18.
When Will The Silk Mill. Start? ,
cAnswered by President Collins
Dependent Entirely on Return
: of Normal Business Condi
tions in the Country.
: NO MORE DEFINITE DATE SET
Trade Bulletins Show a Very
Gradual Improvement,"'and
No Immediate Resumption
Would be Advisable.
Since tbe announcement a few weeks
ago tbat tbe Reynoldsville altk mill
would resume operations In a abort
time, local stockholders and others In
terested have watched with eager ex
pectancy for Indications of actual re
sumption, and seeing none, were ft row
ing slightly pessimistic. To secure au
thoritative information The Star ad
dressed, In substance, to the president
of the company the query so common
on the streets of Reynoldsville:
C "When will the ilk mill start ?''
The reply Is published In full below:
P New York, Sept. 4, 1908.
The Star, Kevnoldsvllle, Pa.
Gentlemen: Replying to your val
ued favor of tbe 3rd Inst., would Bay
that we have plans prepared for the
operation of the mill at RoynoldBville
just as soon as the silk business returns
to Its normal condition.
This may be a question of a few weeks
or a question of a little longer, but we
can assure you that at the earliest op
portunity the mill will be placed In op
eration. We do not feel tbat It Is wise to start
up the mill for a few weeks and then
have to close It down again for the lack
of orders. Yours very truly,
M. G. Collins.
Tbe above letter speaks for Itself and
its candid sincerity Is distinctly encour
aging. The American Silk Company,
like manv other large corporations the
i country over, was forced to the wall in
the money stringency last fall and It Is
regaining Its normal business just In
porportion to the improvement over
the land. Trade reports show clearly
that the latter is In progress, and will
be all the more permanent for Its slow
ness; but local people need look no
farther than their own business ven
tures to discover tbat never before have
merchants been so cautious in buying
stocks or in attempting to carry on
their business on a narrower margin of
Invested risk. This Is the condition all
over the east, despite the somewhat
flambuoyant newspaper reports of re
stored prosperity; articles intended to
restore publlo confidence rather than
Dortrav actual conditions. The various
; idle mills and factories might be started
now, but present trade orders would
not consume tbeir output and It would
be only a matter of a few months until
suspension would follow. Under these
-conditions there is nothing to do but
wait, and while "hope deferred maketh
the heart sick," It is the concensus of
opinion of those who have visited other
-cities recently that Reynoldsville, on
the whole, has stood the strain as well,
or better tb an most other points sim
ilarly crippled.
, Paradise.
There will be several holes sunk for
vgas and oil in our town in the near
-future.
John Lott finished hauling bark to
Big Run Friday.
Charles Keller Is getting along nicely
with his new brick house.
Luther Plfer fell off a bridge near
Soldier one day last week but was not
'badly hurt.
Miss Elda Barnet Is In our town again.
Fred Sheesley hauled twenty-five
-hundred feet of lumber from J. H. Lott's
saw mill to Eleanora Saturday on one
load. And they do not have paved
nd graded roads over stretch, neither.
Misses Margaret Cathers and Belle
Syphrit had business in Wishaw Sat
urday. John Perry, one of our hustling farm
era, has his wheat and rye sowed.
'Grover Sprague, of Pine street, has
itwo hundred shocks of corn cut
There is not water enough in the
'Paradise dam to cover the backs of tbe
poor little fish. We need rain.
Richard Yohe, of Wall street, is on
the sick list at this writing.
Brown, tan and ox blood polish 10c
it Adam's.
THEY WENT TO CHURCH.
A Bit of Strategy That Won For the
Minister.
"When Bishop Wlltner was rector of
tbe little Protestnnt Episcopal church
at L'ppervllle, Va.," said a Virginia
minister, "he was much worried by tbe
nonnttendauce at service on Sundays
of the majority of the young men of
the community. On Inquiry he found
that Instead of going to church they
were In the linblt of playing marbles
for stakes. Marbles in those days, it
must be remembered, was a much
luore serious game than it Is now, oc
cupying much the same position in the
realm of sports as do billiards and pool
In these days.
"Bishop Wllnier, then a 'parson' not
well known, determined to break up
this practice. He himself had been an
expert marble player in his boyhood.
Accordingly one Saturday be came
across a number of the young men en
gaged In a game. Tbe good bishop
asked several questions and finally
challenged the lot to play him for
'keeps.' They readily consented.
"Much to their astonishment, tbe
young minister won steadily,-mid soon"
they had to go to the stores to replen
ish their stock. Toward the close of
the afternoon Mr. Wllmer had won
every marble In the town of Upper
vlllc. rutting Ills winnings In a bag,
ho remarked as he walked away, 'Now,
gentlemen, since you enn't play Der
bies tomorrow I hope to see you all
nt church.' And he did." New YorV
Tribune.
THE IVORY HUNTER.
Troubles Begin When He Has to Get
Ivory Out of the Jungle.
First catch your Ivory, then get It
home If you can. A man's troubles
have barely begun when the tusks of
the fallen monsters are chopped out,
wrapped in sacking and taken back to
camp. Each weighs 50 or even 100
pounds. I have seen specimens tbat
are on record as tipping the scales at
250 pounds. Suppose I have got to
gether $100,000 worth of flue Ivory. I
am perhaps a thousand miles from
anywhere with this load of 60,000 or
60,000 pounds. There are no railroads,
no wheeled vehicles, even no draft ani
mals. The stuff must be carried across
the wilds of Africa on the backs of na
tive porters, who think nothing of drop
ping their loads and deserting- If tbe
fancy happens to seize them. The
worst of the bunting is nothing to
what such a homeward march may
mean. I have had my men shot down
by hostile tribes from ambush with
poisoned arrows. I have seen them die
In agony from the bites of noxious In
sects. I have been attacked by bands
of Dlnkas, who knew the value of
Ivory as well as I did and who tried to
help themselves to mine. Everybody's
Magazine.
The Too Fat.
Fat hens, being wretched layers, are
always sold off by farmers.
The early Ilomans banished all use
less persons. Including the fat in this
category.
Ovid, In his "Art of Love," says,
"Keep ever slender and supple, for the
fat have no success with women."
The Gentoo tribe enter their honses
by a hole In the roof of a certain pre
scribed size, and they who grow too
bulky to enter by this hole are slain as
useless and lazy. . !
In England It was once the law to
put the fat to death-" All dronklttls,
fatt gluttonls and consumers of vltallls
m nrn nnp iroa n (vnao rv tn ihn on of nu
tation of men, were tane, and first com- j
mandlt to s welly their fouth of guhat I
drink tbey pleatit, and incontinent i
tairafter was drounlt in one fresche '
rever." New Orleans Times-Democrat
Spinach Omelet. -Make
a puree of spinach in the usual
way that is to say, after having boiled
it till tender chop it very fine and rub
It through a coarse wire sieve, season
with salt and pepper, stir over the fire
and add two ounces of butter and a
little cream. Take two tablespoonfuls
of the spinach and stir it into four
eggs which have been previously beat
en, yokes and whites separately. Add
a little piece of shallot which has been
rubbed through the sieve, and salt and
oeDoer to taste. When thorough! v I
mixed put the whole into an omelet
pan with two ounces of butter and fry,
a pale brown. Serve vry hot By
stander. .
History of 8mallpox.
Smallpox appears to have been first
described by Rhaies, an Arabian phy
sician living about 900 A. D. It was
Introduced Into southern Europe In the
time of the crusades and slowly spread
Into ths mora northern regions. In
1517 It was carried from Spain to San
to Domingo and thence to Mexico,'
where It Is said to have swept offi
8,500,000 of the natives. It spread rap
Idly all over tbe new world, and whole
Tillages and even tribe of Indiana
wers carried off .br.lt -....
Battled For Fourteen
Innings Labor Day
Reynoldsville and Tyler Ball
.Teams Have Two Rattling
Good Contests.
The two ball games between Reyn
oldsville and Tyler teams on tbe ilia
moncTat this place Monday Labor Day
were fast and intensely Interesting
games. Reynoldsville won the morning
game, score 5 to 0, but after playing
fourteen Innings In thn afternoon the
game bad to be stopped to allow tbe
Tyler boys to catch the 0.08 train for
home. The score was 7 to 7. A large
crowd witnessed the second game,
which was an exhibition of baseball
skill on tbe part of both teams.
The battery for morning game was
Brooks and GibBon for Reynold ville
and Small, Laverlck and Maholtz for
Tyler. In the afternoon game Carney,
Gibson and Null for Reynoldsville and
Williamson and Maboltz for Tyler.
Reynoldsville has the best team tbis
season the town has had for years and
they are playing first-class ball. The
town has reason to be proud of our ball
team and tbe boys are certainly deser
ving of liberal support.
, BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION
Will Resume Regular Meetings Next
Tuesday Evening.
Tbe regular sessions of the Business
Men's Association will be reBumed
Tuesday evening, September 15, at 8 15
in tbe room In I. O. O F. building.
All members are urged to be present
and a special Invitation is extended to
ail Interested in tbe future welfare of
Reynoldsville, who have not yet joined,
to be present and unite with the Asso
ciation In working for better Industrial
conditions.
A WALPOLE ANECDOTE.
To Save ths Woman's Life She
Couldn't Recall Who Told It
"I heard a very funny story the other
night about Horace Walpole," said
Mrs. Blake. "I wish I could remember
who told it Henry, can you remem
ber? Was It Mr. Sellers?"
"No," said Blake stiffly; "It wasn't
Sellers."
"I wonder If it could have been Mr.
Windsor?"
"No," repeated Ulako; "it wasn't
Windsor."
Before Mr. Blake bad a chance to ex
press an affirmative or negative opin
ion of that hazard as to the source of
the Walpole anecdote Mr. Barton came
in. Mrs. Blnke, being by that time
sure of herself, tried on him her rec
ipe for winning universal affection.
"Oh, Mr. Barton," she said, "I am
very glad to see you. I have hardly
stopped laughing since I saw you tbe
last time."
Mr. Barton, a cadaverous man with
solemn eyes, looked rafher foolish.
"Indeed?" he said. "May I ask what
about?"
"Over that funny story you told
about Horace Walpole," said Mrs.
Blake.
"M-m-m Horace Walpole?" stam
mered Mr. Barton. "I am afraid you
must have got me mixed up with some
body else. I don't know the first thing
about Ilorpce Walpole, and if I did
know anything funny about him I
couldn't tell it To tell a funny story
is beyond my powers. Even if it was
funny to start with it wouldn't be by
the time I got through with It"
Mrs. Blake's spirits were somewhat
dashed by her fiasco in finding an
owner for the Walpole story, but she
bore up courageously, and later when
Mr. Markhnm came In she drew him
out of earshot of Mr. Barton and dilat
ed on tbe pleasure his story of Horace
Walpole bad given her. Mr. Markham
was not cast In the funeral mold that
gave to Mr. Barton his grave aspect,
but he protested himself totally inca
pable of telling a funny story about
Horace Walpole or anything else.
Presently Mrs. Blake left the room
to prepare the sandwiches. Mr. Blake
followed her.
'Tor the love of the Lord," he said,
"don't make a fool of yourself again
by trying to get some other Idiot In
there to father that Walpole story. I
told you that yarn myself."
Mrs. Blake stood still, with carving
knife poise (Tin air.
"Tour' she said Incredulously. "And
It was so clever too." New Tork
Times.
No betting on the races in Washing
ton, no poker games, no playing of
bridge. Next session congress will
have to get down to hard work. Phila
delphia Inquirer.
WILLIAM M. BUROE
PIONEER
J MERCHANT
DEMISED
William M. Burge Conducted
Mercantile Business Here
Twenty-Five Years.
BURIED SUNDAY AFTERNOON
William Montgomery Burge, one of
tbe best known of the earlier business
men of Reynoldsville, died at his home
on Brown street, West Reynoldsville,
at 11.45 o'clock Thursday morning,
September 3, 1008, after a prolonged ill
ness from cirrhosis of the liver. For
eight months before his demise be bad
been confined to bis home and grad
ually grew weaker under tbe burden
of sick ness and age until death came.
Funeral services were held at his
late residence In West Reynoldsville
at 2.30 p. m. Sunday, conducted by Rev.
J. C. McEntlre and Dr. A. J. Meek, and
tbe high esteem in which the deceased
was held by his townsmen was attested
by tbe beautiful tribute of flowers
and the large concourse present at the
final tribute to bis memory. Tbe burial
was made in tbe Reynoldsville ceme
tery beside the body of the deceased's
wife, who died but little over a year
ago.
Mr. Burge was born In Keating,
Center county, Pa., July 19, 1832. and
was 70 years, 1 month and 14 days ola
at lime of death. His early youth and
manhood was spent in Keating and
he was first married there to Miss
Anna Small. In T872, when Reynolds
ville was beginning to boom after the
development of the great coal beds and
building of the Allegheny Valley rail
road, he embarked in the mercantile
business In what Is now West Reynolds
ville. For twenty-five years be con
tinued his business and became one of
the beBt known merchants In tbe coun
ty. Fair and square in his business
doalings and generous almost to a fault,
he made many friends who retained to
tbe end their respect for his integrity.
His first wife had died and on May
2, 1878, at Lawsonham, he was united
in marriage to Mrs. Matilda Kanasb,
with whom he lived until Sept. 1, 1907,
when her death dissolved tbe union.
After a quarter of a century of business
life, Mr. Burge retired and spent the
last years of bis long life In a well
earned rest. In 1901 he was appointed
chief burgeas of West Roynoldsvllle
and served well In tbat capacity five
years.
To the first union of Mr. Burge the
following children were born: Mrs.
James Beudry, Amos Burge, Frank
Burge, all of Michigan, Mrs. William
Craft, of Belfast, N. Y., John Burge, of
Grampian, Pa., Mrs. W. S. Carlton,
of Big Run. To the Beoond union were
born: William M. -Burge, Jr., Charles
W. Burge, and Leon a M. Burge, all
at home. There are' also the following
foster children: Mrs. Mary M. Shaffer,
John H. Kanaah, and Mrs. John T.
Barclay, all of Reynoldsville.
The following relatives or frleuds
from out of town attended the funeral:
S. I. and Jacob Burge, of Clearfield,
Pa., and Wlnfield Burge, of Cripple
Creek, Col., brothers; 'Mrs. Sablna
Scboonover, of Tioga county, a sistqr;
Mr. and Mrs. William Craft, of Bel
fast, N. Y., Wayne and Grace Burge,
of Clearfield, Mr. ' Emma Hoyt, of
Sabula, W. w. Cole, of Sabula, John
Bur?e, of Grampian, Mrs. W. S. Carl
ton and children, Lon and Louise, of
Big Run, and Miss Kathleen Gleason,
of DuBqIb.
If you are looking for bargains, come
in Thursday evening from 6 to 8 o'olook.
Bing-Stoke Co.
State Roads Scathingly
Cnticised
BUYING A RING.
A Story They Tell In Japan to Illus
trate Occidental Love.
"The Japanese marry out of esteem
and trust to the coming of love after
ward," said a Japanese lady. "With
us when love comes It lasts. We hare
a song that we like toeing I want to
lire to tilnety-ulne years, and you must
lire to be a hundred, so that we may
be happy while onr hair grows gray.'
"That Is better," she continued, "than
the love that comes swiftly and as
swiftly flies away again. They tell In
Japan a story Illustrative of this transi
tory love the love of your west.
"A tourist, they say, was touring
Brittany. He came to Qulmper, and
he found In the Place Publlque beside
tbe river an old woman selling trin
kets. "'What is the price of this? be
asked, taking up an antique ring of
silver and sapphires. M
" 'Is It for your wife or for your
sweetheart? said the old woman.
" 'For my sweetheart.'
" 'Fifty francs!'
" 'Fifty francs! Nonsense!' And the
tourist turned angrily away?
"'Come back,' said the old woman.
Take It for ten. You've been lying to
me, though. You have no sweetheart
Had the ring been for her you'd have
bought It at once without regard to
its price.'
"'I will tuke it," said the tourist,
smiling, 'nere are' the 10 francs.'
"So the old woman wrapped the ring
up.
"'But you haven't a wife either,'
she grumbled. 'If It bad been for Her
you'd have beaten me down, to 5 francs.
Oh, you men!' "
NATURE'S LITTLE SHIP.
A Curious Jellyfish Endowed With
Movable 8ail.
While man makes the largest ocean
vessels, nature makes the smallest
This Is a species of jellyfish, found only
In tropical seas, which has a sail.
The part of the fish under the water
looks like a mass of tangled threads,
while the sail Is a tough membrane,
shaped like a shell and measuring quite
five Inches and sometimes more across.
The fish can raise or lower this sail at
will.
Wise sailors let this curiosity of na
ture alone, for each of the threads
composing Its body has tbe power of
stinging, the results of which are very
painful and often dangerous. .This
power defends it from porpoises, alba
trosses and other natural enemies.
It has no other means of locomotion
than Its sail, and when seen skim
ming bravely along tbe surface of tbe
water It looks more like a child's toy
boat than a living creature out In
search of food. London Saturday Re
view. Treating Them All Alike.
There was only one thing In the
world of which Eben Hansom thor
oughly approved; that was hard, steady
work. "1 hope," said the philanthropic
spinster who was spending a fortnight
at the Ransom farm, "I do hope, Mr.
Ransom, that you treat all your men
alike; give them all equal advantages
and wages. I find a varying standard.
If I may use the expression, makes so
much trouble and discontent among
laborers in any field of work."
Mr. Ransom surveyed her gravely
and nodded assent
"You're right there, ma'am," he said
dryly after a moment "There is Just
one rule for tbe folks that work for
me. 'Begin as early and keep it up as
lata as there's light to go by, and you'll
get your one-fifty a day, unless the
times are unusual hard, when I make
it one-twenty-five.'
"But I tell you, ma'am, you can't
get as many fellers to work on an
equal basis nowadays as yon might
think."
Her Modest Request.
When Andrew D. White was minis
ter to Germany he received some queer
letters from Americans. Perhaps the
funniest of all was a mandatory epistle
from an old lady living in the west,
who inclosed in her letter four pieces
of white linen, each some six Inches
square. "We are going to have, a
fair in our church," she wrote, "anJ
I am making an autograph quilt I
want you to get me tbe autographs
of the emperor, the empress and the
crown prince and tell them to be very
careful not to write too near the edge
of the squares, as a seam has to be
allowed for putting them together."
Faking Butterflies.
As the collecting of butterflies grows
more popular. Bays an expert, more
and more butterfly fakirs turn up.
These men, with various aniline dye
powders, color up an Insect valued at
10 cents into a good resemblance worth
nearly $10. Their work la hard to de
tect for tbe reason that when the dye
rubs off an I discolors one's fingers one
suspects v nothing, since the genuine
dust belonging to every bnttsrfly's
wings would do the same thing. -Oji
by Grangers
Master of State Grange Says
Department Methods Injure
Good Roads Movement.
VENEERED ROADS SOON BAD
Complains that Methods are
Secretive and Dictatorial In-
stead of ;Being Educational
to Farmers and Supervisors.
The following criticism of the State .
Highway Department, delivered by W.
F. Hill, master of the Pennsylvania
State Grango, at the recent Williams
Grove pionio, Is of peculiar Interest
locally: '
"As the leading organization among
farmers, the grange stands immovably
for good roads. We commend the en
terprise cf the state In this direction,
but I fear that tbo results being
achieved by tbe present administration
in tbis respect will prove to be disap
pointing. The roads built under the
supervision of tbe State Highway De
partment have cost an average of be- -tween
$8,000 and $9,000 per mile, and
almost everywhere I find tbey soon be
come unsatisfactory and in two or three
years get to be a serious menace to the
very movement they are Intended to
encourage."
"The smoothly rolled, fine oval sur
face looks very pretty for the first few
months, but venoer work In rod con
struction will not last. Tbe thin bot
tom layer of comparatively small
stone, often laid on soft dirt recently
graded, will not support an average
sized load in tbe spring of the year, and
ruts and depressions result."
. "Tbe functions of the Highway De
partment were designed to be educa
tional and helpful, not secretive or dic
tatorial. It was the Intent of this law
that the department should issue fre
quent bulletins to the township super-
visors, giving expert information upon
the value of different materials for road
purposes, for sewers, bridges, etc. Let
tbe commonwealth instruct and en
thuse farmers everywhere in these lines
and then pay 50 per cent of tbe expense
on the township road and we will have
a big army working for general road
betterment."
"Tbe State Highway Department
takes tbe whole matter away from any
control by the people locally, and with
its almost uolversal practice of permit
ting the running up a large- bill for
.'extras' above tbe contract price, the
taxpayers find themselves obligated In
a much larger sum than was expected."
"ALASKA WHEAT" A BUBBLE.
Yields But as Bushels an Acre, and
of Poor Quality.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 6. An
agent sent by the Department of Ag
riculture to Juniata, Idaho, to investi
gate the present status of the so-called
Alaska wheat, said to yield over 200
bushels per acre, to-day made the fol
lowing statement by wire:
V'Alaska yielding 25 bushels per
acre. Badly mixed. Grain inferior.
Quality soft and white. Ordinary
wheat yielding fully as much. Best
varieties more."
An analysis recently made by tbe
Department of Agriculture shows that
Alaska wheat contains only a little
moi-e than 9 per cent of protein, while
soft winter wheats average 10 per cent,
hard winter wheat 12 per cent, and
hard spring wheat 121 per cent.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Property Changes in Jefferson County
Put Upon Record.
Levi Schuckers to Charles P. Snyder,
agreement for 90 acres in Plnecreek
township. 11,600. August 10, 1908.
Elizabeth Petermao, et al., to Julia
Ford, for 4 acrea In Winslow township.
11.00. August 10, 1903. '
O. F. Smith, by administrator, et al.,
to Frank S. Smith, for lot In Reynolds
ville. $2,000. August 22, 1908.
Frank S. Smith to Esther C. Smith,
for lot In Reynoldsville. $1.00. August
22, 1908.1
John Lord to J. R. Stigers, for lot la
McCalmont township. $1.50. June 22,
1908.
50c Ties for 35c
Gents, Thursday evening from 8 to S
o'clock you can buy any 50c tie In the)
store for 25c Bing-Stoke Co.