The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1893-05-03

The temperance ladies OF Reynolds
vile will meet at the home of Mrs. f.
r. Derr next Monday afternoon at 2
| o'clock All are invited to attend
Ridgway is Il pretty town and up with
the times in many things, but their
postofIlce Is not what II should be by
any means 1t is disgrace to the town.
Buckskin Bills new monster railroad
Wild West Show, Indian Silver Bands
and Mexican Hippodrome, will be at
Reynoldsville Tuesday, May 9th. A
street parade at 1890 A. NJ General
admission % cents.
Jos. M. Gathers and bride returned
from their wedding trip Saturday even
ing and went to their own home on
Jackson st. The calithumpians sere-
naded them Saturday night and the
Keystone band serenaded them Monday
evening.
The jefferson County Agricultural
Association has announced its in
tention of holding its second annual fair,
on the grounds In Brookville, Pa, on
September Goth, 9th, 2sth and Goth,
1893. The premium list and race pro-
gram will soon be issued.
Solomon Shaffer, ]. Van Reed and
DIR. w. b. Alexander are at Emporium
this week attending court. The suit,
on which the two last named gentle
men are witnesses, is the outcome of
the failure of Mr.. Brown OF Sabula some
time ago, with whom Mr.. Sol. Shaffer
was partner.
Miss Vina Sweeney, of Dubois won
the contest for ticket to the Worlds
Fair offered by the Courier last January
to the teacher who would get the larg-
est number of coupon votes clipped from
that paper. Whole number of votes
was 1925. Miss Sweeney got 12,74l.
| There were sixteen contestants.
Counterfeit silver dollars, half dollars
quarters and dimes are said to have
been recently put into extensive circula-
tion in some of the eastern counties of
this state. They are brand new coin,
and can be easily detected If you are on
your guard. They havn't the true ring
and the feel of them is different from
the genuine.
The debate that was to be delivered
by the Reynoldsville Prohibition Club
in Centennial hall on Monday evening
has been postponed till next Monday
evening, May Sth, at o'clock, at which
time lively discussion is anticipated
and the public is invited to attend.
Subject "Resolved that local option is
the best means to suppress the liquor
traffic.
The Clarion Presbytery met at Will
cox last week. Rev. ]. V. Bell, of Du-
Bois, was elected moderator. and Mr..
Jesse L. Test, of Reynoldsville, was
elected as Il commissioner from the
Clarion Presbytery to the General AS
sembly which will be held at Washing
ton, ID. c.. the 18th Of this month. Mr..
Test is anxious to attend the General
Assembly to hear the Briggs case.
Drunkenness, cursing and fighting oc-
casionally run the streets unmolested.
A sample of such conduct was given on
Main street Saturday afternoon. Why
the ''drunks" were not pulled in" we
are unable to say, unless it was because
our officers were all in some other part
of town. If such scenes are not to be-
come an every day occurrence gener-
Gus supply of the law must be applied.
The following ladies of the Reynolds
vile Relief Corps went to Brockwayville
last Thursday to visit the Corps at that
place; they speak very highly of the
hospitality of the Brockwayville ladies':
Mrs. ID. M. Dunsmore, Mrs. Alb. Reyn-
olds, Mrs. J. S. McCreight, Mrs. Anna
S. Gibson, Mrs. George Sykes, Mrs.
Thomas Mahoney, Mrs. J. C. Burns,
Mrs. Frank Hamaker Mrs. f. Neff,
Mrs. Lyman Scott, Mrs. Sam1 Saxton,
Mrs. M. F. Phillippi.
A district convention of the Knights
OF Pythias with delegates from Clarion,
jefferson, Elk, Indiana and Clearield
counties, was held at Dubois last Fri
day. 1t was decided at this meeting to
hold a reunion of all the X. OF p. lodges
in the counties mentioned at Dubois
on Thursday, June %. This will be the
first reunion ever held in the district
by the Knights of Pythias. David
Hartman represented the Valiant lodge
of Reynoldsbille.
The three prisoners who escaped
from the Brookville Jail several
weeks ago are still at liberty
and are likely to have their freedom
as long as they behave themselves and
do not return to Brookville in day light.
The sheriff has already spent fifty dol