The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-07-18

Mill Hall, small town near Lock
Haven, was visited by big conllagra-
tion last Friday. Twenty-Five buildings
were destroyed.
The parties mentioned last week that
drove to Beechtree to install new Off
GERS we're members Of the X. G.. f..
instead OF X. Of p.
County Treasurer Waite's adjourned
sale will be held at the Court House in
Brookville on Monday, July 30th, COM
mencing at 1000 A. M.
Mary, eleven-month-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Touhy, died
Friday Of cholera infantum and was
buried in the Catholic cemetery Sunday
afternoon.
County Superintendent Hughes ex-
amined over sixty aspiring pedagogues
in the public school building at this
place last Thursday forenoon for teach
ers' certificates.
The latest superstition is that II a girl
takes the small bow which fastens the
lining Of mans hat, and wears II inside
her shoe, she will have proposal from
the youth within month.
Henry Feath is agent for A. H. Her
endeen g. Co., nurserymen, Of New
York. II you want fruit trees or any
thing in the nursery line give him a
call. The stock is good.
The Y. =. S. c. f. of the Baptist
church will hold lawn social at the
home of Rev. Dean, near Rathmel,
Thursday afternoon and evening, July
10th. They will meet at the church at
$3.50 and go out in body.
w. J. Weaver, who is painting Tom
Green's new house on Fourth street,
took twenty-three foot tumble Mon
day by the scaffold breaking that he
was working on. Mr. Weavers right
side was injured, but not seriously, how
ever.
The miners OF this place decided to
observe the legal half holiday on Satur-
days. To do this they will quit work
at noon every Saturday. 1t is under
stood that all the mines controlled by
b., L. g. Yates will shut down at noon
on Saturdays.
Esq. +. Neff, who was attorney on an
application for pension for Mrs. Sus-
anah Springer, widow of Allen Spring
er, received notice from the pension
department Monday that Mrs. Springer
would receive a pension of $500 per
month from July Goth, 1893.
The water was let out OF the Pres
cottville dam last week to put in new
forbay, and when 1t was out saws, ice
| tongs, hatchets, axes &C., were found
in the mud which had been lost at var
ious times when the Reynoldsville peo-
pie were filling their ice houses.
George A. Postlethwait and Miss
Dora Lukehart, of Falls Creek, drove to
Reynoldsville last Wednesday and were
united in the bonds OF matrimony at the
residence Of Mr.. w. N. Wells. Rev. E.
Lewis Kelley, pastor Of the Baptist
church, performed the ceremony.
According to the Washington town
ship auditors statement the amount
Of dog tax for that township did not
pay for the mutton the dogs ''necked."
The tax collected on dogs last year was
$3.50, and the amount paid out for
sheep killed by dogs was $l17.80.
The Reynoldsville and Dubois ball
clubs will play game on the Punxsu-
tawney grounds this afternoon. Each
club is to play home men and the winning
club is to get all the gate receipts and
the losing club to pay its own expenses.
This will doubtless be an interesting
game.
VIM. Wyant, we'll to do farmer Of
Plumcreek township, Armstrong coun-
ty, murdered his wife and then COM
mitted suicide last Wednesday morning.
The people who lived nearby are un-
able to account for the double tragedy.
Wyant succeeded in putting two bullets
clear through his wife's head before he
turned the deadly weapon to his own
head.
A Reynoldsville Divine who was
going to marry couple recently and
wanting everything to pass off nicely
and get answers just at the proper time,
mistook neighbor lady, who had been
called in to stand up with the contract
ing party, for the bride and called her
to one side and began explaining to her
when she was to answer. The preacher
enjoyed the joke on him.
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Brookville has been renovated and beau
titled until it is now one Of the prettiest,
II not the prettiest church in the county.
While at Brookville last Friday one of
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