The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-06-01

tailor shop.
The ladies of the Guiding Star lodge
held festival In the @. A. II. hall
Wednesday evening of last week and on
Thursday evening dished out straw
berries, ice cream and cake at the rink.
The exchequer of the lodge was increas-
ed thereby.
The employees of the Bell, Lewis e.
Yates store at Reynoldsville and Du-
Bois had a friendly game of base ball on
Decoration Day In the field below the
coke ovens at this place. The Dubois
ties came out victorious. The score
stood IL to II.
The ladies of the w. II. G.. gave the
old soldiers and Sons of Veterans an
excellent dinner in the G.. A. II. Hall on
Decoration Day. The dinner was such
an one as the ladies of the Relief Corps
know how to get up, and best of all it
was a free dinner.
A preliminary meeting of the Knights
of the Macabees was held at DR.. ]. s.
McCreights Office last Friday evening.
| a meeting will be held in the G.. A. II.
hall on Thursday evening of this week
when the organization will be completed
and officers elected.
Last week we had written personal
for Alex. Riston who was in Phila-
delphia and in correcting proof the
printer made ''pi" of the entire item but
philadelphia this week, "and forgot to
reset 1t, thus the three words appeared
in the personal column alone.
To celebrate, or not to celebrate, Is
the question? The r. irth of July is
just over the hill of June and there has
been no effort on the part of our citi-
zens, as yet, to greet the day in an APP
propriate manner. as is becoming live
town, such as Reynoldsville is noted for
Come, awake!
A coal train on the II. & +. G. II. II.
knocked NJ. Mohney's COW into the ditch
last Thursday evening. The COW was
badly used up. Her jaw and three legs
were broken. The injuries sustained
necessitated the application of a sledge
to her forehead and a butcher knife
across her windpipe.
DR.. J. b. Neale attended meeting
of the National Association of Railroad
Surgeons, which was held at Point
Comfort, Va, last week, convening at
p. NJ. Tuesday and closing at p. NJ.
Friday. About ., 2,000-including wives,-
were present. The doctor also visited
Washington and Baltimore.
John Flynn was the guesser who got
the suit of clothes offered by Bell Bros.
for the candle guess. Flynn said 1t
would take days, 10 hours, and Is min
utes to consume the tallow dip. Time,
days, Is hours, and I minutes. Some
extravagant guessing was done; ranging
from t of a second to hundred years.
The musical institute now in session
will close on Friday night of this week.
The pupils are highly delighted with
the instructions. On the line of read
ing and voice culture they have made
great improvement. Prof. Jaquay and
class will give a musical entertainment
in the Opera House on Tuesday evening,
June 7th.
The third semi-annual convention of
the Union Y. p. S. G. f., of jefferson
county, will be held i'm the Beechwoods
Presbyterian church on Thursday, June
23rd, commencing at o'clock A. NJ. and
closing at o o'clock p. NJ. Rev. H. G.
Furbay, John b. Whitehill and Miss
Belle Arnold, of Reynoldsville, are on
tho program for the exercises of the day
Street Commissioner Henninger as
sessed the CANNES of Reynoldsville last
week. There are only about $50 dogs
in this borough. The Commissioner
found II dogs at three places. The
dog tax for one family was $l0.5O. The
tax on dog is $l.50, 0,-feminine gender
s2.OO,-the borough gets dollar of this
and the State gets the balance.
The newspaper that attempts to pub
| lish lie as enormous as the one pub
lished in the Ridgway Democrat last
week about the balloon ascension from
Erb's circus at that place recently will be
as star out of sight" in its lying ability
as the balloonist was when he lit on the
base ball ground. If that is a sample
of the editors ability for campaign
truthfulness, he's a dandy"
The school directors of Winslow town
ship, w. T. Gathers, Henry Stevenson,
o. H. Broadhead, Thos. McCreight,
Levi Schuckers and J. w. Phillippi,
met, with exception of Phillippi, in
the school house in West Reynoldsville