ReynoldsviHe
ReynoldsviHe
Has modern schools and churches, paved
streets, water, gas and electric accommoda
tions, convenient trolley service, high and
healthful location, varied employment for
labor and many other residential advantages.
Offers exceptional advantages for it he loca
tion of new IndUHtrles t Free factory sites,
cheap and abundant fuel, direct shipping
facilities and low freight rates and plentiful
supply of laborers.
VOLUME 17.
REYN0LDSV1LLE, 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 the announcement a few weeks
ego tbat the Reynoldsytlle silk mill
would resume operations in a short
time, local stockholders and others in
terested have watched with eager ex
pectancy (Or indications of actual re
sumption, and seeing none, were grow
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 ReynoldsviHe: Tt
C " When will the ilk mill start V
The reply Is published In full below:
P? New York, Sept. 4, 1908.
The Star, Kevnoldsvllle, Pa. 1
Gentlemen: Replying to your val
ued favor of the 3rd Inst., would say
that we have plans prepared for the
operation of the mill at ReynoldsviHe
just as Boon 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 that 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.
The above letter speaks for Itself and
its candid sincerity Is distinctly encour
aging. The American Silk Company,
like many other large corporations the
country over, was lorced 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 that 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 BOmewhat
flambuoyant newspaper reports of re
stored prosperity; articles intended to
restore public confidence rather than
portray actual conditions. The various
Ml. 111. J f4..f.. U . UA ntn.tn
ill it m m kiiii mi'.uirini uiiv lum dmlku
now, but present trade orders would
not consume their 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 ReynoldsviHe, on
the whole, has stood the strain as well,
or better than most other points sim
ilarly crippled.
t Paradise.
There will be several holes sunk for
x.gaa and oil in our town in the near
future.
JohnLott finished hauling bark to
Big Run Friday.
Charles Keller Is getting along nicely
with his new brick house.
Luther Plfer fell oil 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. B. Lett's,
-saw mill to Eleanora Saturday on one
load. And they do not have paved
jinil sraed roads over stretch, neither.
Misses Margaret Cathers and Belle
Syphrit had business in Wishaw Sat
urday. John Perry, one of our hustling farm
,ers, has his wheat and rye sowed.
Grover Sprague, of Pine street, has
itwo hundred (hocks of corn cut.
Then Is not water enough in the
'Paradise dam to cover the backs of the
poor little fish. We need rain.
Richard Yohe, of Wall street, is on
the tick list at this writing.
Brown, tan and ox blood polish lOp
M Adam's.
THEY WENT TO CHURCH.
A Bit of Strategy That Won For the
Minister.
"When Bishop Wllmer was rector of
the little Protestant Episcopal church
at Uppervllle, Va.," said a Virginia
minister, "he was much worried by the
nonnttendnnce 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
more serious gnme than It Is now, oc
cupying much the same position In the
realm of sports as do billiards and pool
in these days.
"Bishop Wllmer, then n 'parson' not
well known, determined to break up
this practice. He himself had been an
expert marble player In bis boyhood.
Accordingly one Saturday he came
across a number of the young men en
gaged In a game. The good bishop
asked several questions and Anally
challenged the lot to play him for
'keeps.' They readily consented.
"Much to their astonishment, the
young minister won steadily,-, nnd soon
they had to go to the stores to replen
ish their stock. Toward the close of
the nfternoon Mr. Wllmer had won
every marble In the town of Upper
vllle. Tutting his winnings In a bog,
he remarked as he walked away, 'Now,
gentlemen, since you cau't ploy mar
bles tomorrow I hope to see you nil
at church.' And he did." New YorV
Tribune.
THE IVORY HUNTER.
Troubles Begin When He Hat 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 ore chopped out,
wrapped In sacking and taken back to
camp. Each weighs DO or even 100
pounds. I have seen specimens that
are on record as tipping the scales at
250 pounds. Suppose I hare got to
gether 1100,000 worth of Bue Ivory. I
am perhaps a thousand miles from
anywhere with this load of 50,000 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 the
fancy happens to seize them. The
worst of the hunting Is nothing to
what such a homeward march may
mean. I have had my men shot down
by hostile tribes from nmhusb 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 nnd who tried to
help themselves to mine. Everybody's
Magazine.
The Too Ft.
Fat hens, being wretched layers, are
always sold off by farmers.
The early ltomans banished all use
less persons. Including the fat in this
category, j
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 houses
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. . f
In England It was once the law to
put the fat to death-"AU dronklttls,
fatt gluttouls and consumers of vltallls
more nor was necessary to the susteu-
tation of men, were tane, and first com-
mandlt to swelly their fouth of guhat !
drink tbey pleatlt, and incontinent 1
talrafter was drounlt In one fresche .
rever." New Orleans Times-Democrat
8plnaeh Omelet. .
Make a puree of spinach In the usual
way that Is to Bay, 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 tnblespoonfuls
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
robbed through the sieve, and salt and1
pepper to taste. When thoroughly
mixed put the whole into an omelet
pan with two ounces of batter and fry,
a pale brown. Serve vry hot By
stander. History of 8mallpox.
Smallpox appears to have been first
described by Rhazes, an Arabian phy
sician living abont 900 A. D. It was
Introduced Into southern Europe in the
time of the crnsades and slowly spread!
Into the more northern regions. In'
1B17 It was carried from Spain to San
to Domingo and thence to Mexico,'
where It Is said to have swept oft
,600,000 of the natives. It spread rap
idly all over the new world, and whole
Tillages and even tribes of Indiana
were carried off .by.lt. ....
Battled For Fourteen
Innings Labor Day
ReynoldsviHe and Tyler Ball
JTeams Have Two Rattling
JGood Contests.
The two ball games between Reyn
oldsviHe and Tyler teams on the ilia
mondTat this place Monday Labor Day
were fast and intensely Interesting
games. ReynoldsviHe won the morning
game, score 5 to 0, but after playing
fourteen Innings In the afternoon the
game had to be stopped to allow the
Tyler boys to catch the (1.08 train for
home. The score was 7 to 7. A large
crowd witnessed the second game,
which was an exhibition of baseball
skill on the part of both teams.
The battery for morning game was
Brooks and Gibson for Reynold. vMe
and Small, Laverlck and Mahollz for
Tyler. In the afternoon game Carney,
Gibson and Null for ReynoldsviHe and
Williamson and Maboltz for Tyler.
ReynoldsviHe has the best team this
season the town has had for years and
they are playing first-class ball. The
to:rn has reason to be proud of our ball
team and the boys are certainly deser
ving of liberal support.
BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION
Will Resume Regular Meetings Next
Tuesday Evening.
The regular sessions of the Business
Men's Association will be resumed
Tuesday evening, September 15, at 8 15
in the room In I. O. O F. building.
All members are urged to be present
and a special invitation Is extended to
all Interested In the future welfare of
ReynoldsviHe, who have not yet joined,
to be present and unite with the Asso
ciation In working for better Industrial
conditions.
A WALP0LE ANECDOTE.
To 8ave the Woman's Life 8he
Couldn't Recall Who Told It.
"1 heard a very funny story the other
uight 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 Bloke stiffly; "It wasn't
Sellers."
"I wonder if It could have been Mr.
Windsor?"
"No," repeated Blake; "It wasn't
Windsor."
Before Mr. Blake had 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. Blake, 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 the
last time."
Mr. Barton, a cadaverous man with
solemn eyes, looked rather foolish.
"Indeed 7" 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 Horrce Walpole, and If I did
know anything funny about him I
couldn't tell it. To toll a funny story
Is beyond my piwvcrs. 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. Markham came in she drew him
out of earshot of Mr. Barton and dilat
ed on the pleasure his story of Horace
Walpole had given her. Mr. Markham
was not cast in the funeral mold that
gave to Mr. Barton his grave aspect,
bnt 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 yon that yarn myself."
Mrs. Blake stood still, with earring
knife polsed"in air.
"You?" she said Incredulously. "And
It was so clever too." New Tore
Times.
No betting on the races in Washing
ton, no poker games, no playing of
bridge. Next session congress will
hare 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
the best known of the earlier business
men of ReynoldsviHe, died at his home
on Brown street, West ReynoldsviHe,
at 11.45 o'clock Thursday morning,
September 3, 1908, after a prolonged Ill
ness from cirrhosis of the liver. For
eight months before his demise be had
been confined to his home and grad
ually grew weaker under the burden
of sickness and age until death came.
Funeral services were held at his
late residence In West ReynoldsviHe
at 2.30 p. m. Sunday, conducted by Rev.
J. C. McEntire and Dr. A. J. Meek, and
the high esteem In which the deceased
was held by his townsmen was attested
by the beautiful tribute of flowers
and the large concourse present at the
final tribute to his memory. The burial
was made In the ReynoldsviHe ceme
tery beside tha 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 old
at time of death. His early youth and
manhood was spent in Keating and
he was first married there to Miss
AnnaSmail. In 1872, when Reynolds
viHe was beginning to boom after the
development of the great coal beds and
building of the 'Allegheny Valley rail
road, be embarked In the mercantile
business in what is now West Reynolds
viHe. For twenty-five years be con
tinued his business and became one of
the best known merchants In the coun
ty. Fair and square in bis business
dealings and generous almost to a fault,
he made many friends who retained to
the 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 the 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 burgess of West ReynoldsviHe
and served well In that 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 second union were
born: William M. -Burge, Jr., Charles
W. Burge, and Leona M. Burge, all
at home. There are also the following
foster children: Mrs. Mary M. Shaffer,
John H. Kanash, and Mrs. John T.
Barclay, all of ReynoldsviHe.
The following relatives or friends
from out of town attended the funeral:
S. I. and Jacob Burge, of Clearfield,
Pa., and WInfleld Burge, of Cripple
Creek, Col., brothers; 'Mrs. Sablna
Schoonover, of Tioga county, a sister;
Mr. and Mrs. William Craft, of Bel
fast, N. Y., Wayne and Grace Burge,
of Clearfield, Mrs. ' Emma Hoyt, of
Sabula, W. W. Cole, of Sabula, John
Burge, of Grampian, Mrs. W. S. Carl
ton and children, Lon and Louise, of
Big Run, and Miss Kathleen Gleason,
of DuBoIs.
If you are looking for bargains, come
In Thursday evening from 8 to 8 o'clock.
Blng-Stoke Co.
State Roads Scathingly
Criticised by Grangers
BUYING A RING.
A Story They Tell In Japan to Illus
trate Occidental Love.
"The Japauese innrry out of esteem
and trust to the coming of love after
ward," said a Japanese lady. "With
us when love comes it Lists. We have
a song thnt we like to'slng 'I want to
lire to ninety-nine years, and you must
live to be a hundred, so that we may
be huppy while our hair grows gray.'
"That is better," she continued, "than
the love that comes swiftly and as
swiftly files 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
the river an old woman selling trin
kets. '
"'What is the price of this? he
asked, taking up an antique ring of
stiver and sapphires.
" 'Is It for your wlfo or for your
sweetheart?' snld the old woman.
" 'For my sweetheart' .
" 'Fifty francs!'
" 'Fifty francs! Nonsense!' And the
tourist turned angrily away!
" 'Come back,' sold the old woman.
Take it for ten. You've been lying to
me, though. Yon have no sweetheort
Had the ring been for her you'd have
bought It at once without regard to
Its price.'
"'I will take It,' said the tourist,
smiling, 'nere are' the 10 francs.'
"So the old woman wrapped the ring
up.
" 'But yon haven't a wife either,'
she grumbled. 'If It hnd been for Her
you'd have beaten me down, to 5 francs.
Oh, you men!'"
NATURE'S LITTLE SHIP.
A Curious Jellyfish Endowed With a
Movable Sail.
While mnu 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 Us body has the power of
stinging, the results of which are very
palnfnl 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 the surface of the
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 Ransom thor
oughly approved; that was bard, steady
work. "I hope," said the philanthropic
spinster Who was spending a fortnight
at the Ransom form, "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 the folks tbat work for
me. 'Begin as early and keep it up as
late 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 basts nowadays as you might
think."
Her Modest Request.
When Andrew D. White was minis
ter to Germany be 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 chusch," she wrote, "and
I am making an autograph quilt I
want you to get me the 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, says an expert, more
and more butterfly fakirs turn np.
These men, with various aniline dye
powders, color up an Insect rained at
10 cents into a good resemblance worth
nearly $10. Their work to hard to de
tect for the reason that when the dye
rubs off and discolors one's fingers one
inspects v nothing, since the genuine
dnst belonging to every butterfly's
wings would do the same thlng.-0.li
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 fining Educational
to Farmers and Supervisors.
The following orlticism of the State
Highway Department, delivered by W.
F. Hilt, master of the Pennsylvania
State Grange, at the recent Williams
Grove picnic, Is of peculiar Interest
locally:
"As the leading organization among
farmers, the grange stands Immovably
for good roads. We commend the en
terprise f the state in this direction,
but I fear that tho results being
achieved by the present administration
in this respect will prove to be disap
pointing. The roads built under the
supervision of the State Highway De-
i j n i Liunji u iinvn isii nil iiuHi'HtH fir riMa
tween $8,000 and $9,000 per mile, and
almost everywhere I find they 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 veneer work In road con
struction will not last. The thin bot
tom layer of comparatively small
stone, often laid on soft dirt recently
graded, will not support an average
sized load In the spring of the year, and
ruts and depressions result."
. "The functions of the Highway De
partment were designed to be educa
tional and helpful, not secretlye or dic
tatorial. It was the Intent of this law
that the department should Issue fre
quent bulletins to the township super-4
vinnrfl. flrlvlnff ATnnit Infntmnf nn unnn
' " " ' ypu-
the value of different materials for road
purposes, for sewers, bridges, etc Let
the commonwealth Instruct and en
thuse farmers everywhere in these lines
and then pay 50 per cent of the expense
on the township road and we will have
a big army working for general road
betterment."
"The State Highway Department
takes the whole matter away from any
control by the people locally, and with
Its almost universal practice of permit
ting the running up a large- bill for
.'extras' above the contract price, the
taxpayers find themselves obligated In
a much larger sum than was expected."
"ALASKA WHEAT" A BUBBLE.
Yields But 25 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, paid to" yield over 200
bushels per acre, to-day made the fol
lowing statement by wire:
"Alaska yielding 25 bushels per
n.ji f j r ...
ioi ijau i jr uiiadu. urniu luioriur.
Quality soft and white. Ordinary
wheat yielding fully as mucn. Best
varieties more."
An analysis recently made by the
Department of Agriculture shows tbat
Alaska wheat contains only a little
more than 9 per cent of protein, while
soft winter wheats average 10 per cent,
bard winter wheat 12 per cent, and
hard spring wheat 12 per cent.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Property Changes in Jefferson County
Put Upon Record.
Levi Schuckers to Charles P. Snyder,
agreement for 90 acres in Pinecreek
township. $1,600. August 10, 1908.
Elizabeth Peterman, et al., to Julia
Ford, for 4 acres in Winslow township.
$1.00. August 10, 1908. '
O. F. Smith, by administrator, et al.,
to Frank S. Smith, for lot In Reynolds
viHe. $2,000. August 22, 1908.
Frank S. Smith to Esther C. Smith,
for lot in ReynoldsviHe. $1.00. August
22, 1908.":
John Lord to J. R. Stlgers, for lot la
McCalmont township. $1.50. June 22,
1908.
50c Ties for 35c
Gents, Thursday evening from 0 to 8
o'clock you can buy any 50c tie In tha
store for 25c Blng-Stoke Co. -