The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-11-11

ratification in Brookville last Friday
night
The entertainment given In the opera
house last night under the auspices Of
the Woman's Relief Corps, was greeted
with packed house.
President Cleveland issued a Thanks
giving proclamation last week designat-
ing Thursday, Nov. Goth, as the day for
the people of the nation to observe as
Thanksgiving Day.
"The Spinsters," the entertainment
to have been given in the opera house
tomorrow evening by ladies of the
Presbyterian church, has been postpon-
ed until Friday evening, Nov. Goth.
A. d. Deemer will have a cement
sidewalk laid on the Fifth street side of
the Arnold block, and j. Van Reed will
have cement sidewalk put down in
front of his property on Main street.
Two feminines, from nearby town,
whose regulations are not as spotless as
the new fallen snow, had papers issued
Monday evening for the arrest of a
young man of this place for assault and
battery.
Frank j. Black, of Hotel Mcconnell,
had the largest and smallest pigs killed
Monday that we have heard of this fall.
The largest one weighed 4lS pounds
and the small one IL pounds. The little
one was roasted whole.
A cold in the head is common and
very uncomfortable. This is the season
of the year when you may reasonably
hope to have a cold, or rather live in
dread of having one. 1t requires the
best of care to escape the "sniffles."
Six suspicious characers were loiter-
ing around some Of the business places
Of town at three o'clock Sunday morn
ing. They managed to keep out of
Watchman Adelsperger's way. How
ever, Frank kept his eagle eye on them.
Mrs. Christian Feeley, whose maiden
name was Orr, died Eat the home of
Amos Goss, near Pancoast, Saturday
night from pneumonia. Her remains
were buried in Beulah cemetery Mon
day afternoon beside the remains of her
husband.
Tony Farrell, the Irish comedian,
appeared at the Reynolds opera house
last Thursday evening in his new play
of Garry Owen" The opera house
was not uncomfortably crowded and the
play was not considered the best ever
produced in the town.
John Guthrie, OF Ottumwa, Iowa,
brother of Squire Joseph T. Guthrie,
of West Reynoldsville, dropped dead
on the street at Ottumwa Wednesday
of last week. He had gone down town
to get some apples and hear the election
returns when his spirit suddenly took
its flight into the Great Beyond.
Mrs. Samuel w. Snyder, of Rathmel,
died Thursday last OF pneumonia and
was buried in the Prospect cemetery
Sunday afternoon. Funeral services
were held in the M. E. church at Ratb-
mel, conducted by Rev. ]. V. Bell, Of
Dubois. Undertaken ]. M. Hays, of
Reynoldsville, had charge of the
funeral.
Demorest's Christmas number opens
with a most interesting article called
''The Cradle of Christianity" being a
series of sketches of the Holy Land,
written by the Rev DR.. Thomas p.
Hughes, who has travelled all over that
part of the world. 1t is copiously illus
trated with several full-page and many
other smaller pictures.
The tenth semi-annual convention OF
the Jefferson County Directors Associa-
tion will be held in the court house in
Brookville on Thursday, Nov. Goth, at
1870 A. M. The following topic will be
discussed: Public High Schools;
Necessity for school apparatus; Length
of school term; Compulsory attendance;
Text books and supplies.
A picture agent, who has ''traveled
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
from the lakes to the Gulf Of Mexico"
occupied a cell in the Reynoldsville
bastile short time one night last week.
The fellow played ''smart" on the street
with the gentler sex, got thrashing
for it and was afterwards locked up and
had to pay seven dollars to gain his
liberty. He skipped the town on the
first train the next morning.
BY the tabulated returns to be found
on another page of THE STAR, 1t
will be seen that the following gentle
men will take the oath of officers the
first of the coming year and will have