The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-11-06


| fall Of slate in the Elenora mine one
day last week. Mr.. Sechrist was in
Reynoldsville yesterday.
H. ]. Nickle invites everybody to
call at the Reed building and examine
her stock of all kinds of goods usually
kept in variety store. The goods are
all good quality at reasonable prices.
The ladies of the Presbyterian church
will serve a chicken and waffle supper
at the home of DR.. w. b. Alexander
Thursday, Nov. 7th. Supper from to
! o'clock. Price % cents. All are in
vited
Sunday evening at 600 p. NJ. there
will be a memory prayer-meeting held
in the Baptist church. 1t is TO be
union service by the young people of
the Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran
and Baptist churches.
Too much gas turned on, clothing
hanging too close to stove, nobody in
the kitchen, came pretty nearly causing
VIM. Barkley's house on jackson street
to ascend toward the sky in smoke and
flames early one morning last week.
The Festival of the Reformation and
Childrens General Council Home Mis-
sion Day services were held in the
Trinity Lutheran church last Sunday
evening. A program of songs, respon-
sive services, questions and answers
addresses, &c, was nicely carried out
The Miller orchestra furnished music.
The season is now here when the use
of good horse blanket should not be
forgotten. The habit farmers and
teamsters have of hitching their horses
TO post when they come into town and
leaving them in the cold and weather
while they transact their business is not
general one but there are too many
instances where this is the case.
The number of pupils registered in
the Reynoldsville Public Schools at the
close of the second month, Oct 25th, is
752. The lower grades are greatly over
crowded, and the general average for
all rooms is upwards of 60. The attend
ance is quite irregular, and parents
should remember that good results are
impossible without regular attendance.
Squire John T. Earl, who has been
editor and publisher of the Driftwood
Gazette for ten years, has leased the
Gazette Office to I. II. Williams, gen.
tleman who has had sixteen years ex-
perience in the newspaper business.
Squire Earl has purchased an interest
in the Herald at Depew, N. Y, to which
he will give his time and brains. Bro.
Earl is bright young man with aspira-
tions which we thought some time ago
would not always be confined between
the mountains at Driftwood.
Mrs. Daniel Mowery died at her
home few miles out from Reynolds
vile Sunday afternoon and was buried
in the cemetery at Emerickville Mon
day afternoon. The services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Metzenthin of this
place. About ten days before she died
Mrs. Mowery was confined without
having a doctor present and blood
poison set in. A husband and two
children, the youngest two weeks old
to-day, survive the young wife and
mother. The deceased, who was a
daughter of Israel Snyder, was almost
twenty-three years old.
The b., l.. 81 Y. G. NJ. Co. took an
appeal on the tax assessments on their
lands in Winslow township, it being in
some instances three or four times
higher than the assessments ON adjoin-
ing lands. The following gentlemen
having been appointed for that purpose
went over the coal company's lands last
week to take testimony to present to
the Judge at argument court to be held
next week: Ben. Clark and j. M.
Pierce, of Brookville, j. M. Hays, w.
G. Schultze, G. J.. Kerr, David Reyn-
olds, ]. J. Sutter, F. M. Brown and j.
S. Hammond, of Reynoldsville. 1t took
these gentlemen two days to go over
the lands.
At 500 A. NJ. yesterday Pat. Ward, an
honest, industrious and respected citi-
zen of West Reynoldsville, and
Sarah Lee were united in the holy
bonds of matrimony in the st. Marys
Catholic church by Father Brady in
the presence of a large number of peo-
pie. After the marriage ceremony Mr..
Ward took his bride to a home in West
Reynoldsville where they will spend
their honeymoon and settle down to the
realities of married life. A few friends
were invited in to spend the evening
and an elegant supper was served THE
STAR extends congratulations and joins
with their host of friends in wishing
them joy and happiness.