The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-12-16

The Republicans of Winslow township
will hold suggestion meeting on Sat
urday afternoon, Jan. End, at 300
o'clock, at the Reynoldsville Hardware
store. BY order com.
If you want watch it will cost you
nothing to get price, and If they are
not lower than any in town don't buy.
But come and see for yourself at G. +.
Hoifman's, the jeweler.
Forty-6ve of Margaret Evans young
friends held surprise party at her
home, on Main ST., last Saturday even
ing and all reported having spent a
very enjoyable evening.
David Postlethwait, an engineer on
the r. q +. G. R'y, won the $4,000
diamond stud at the shooting gallery
last week for the best rest shooting
done at the gallery during that week.
A nine and half pound girl was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Witter, of
Heating, Pa, az the home of Mrs.
Writer'S parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. M.
Iseman, on Hill street, Monday after
noon.
We have received copy, in pamph-
let form, Of the minutes Of the
Teachers Institute held in Brookville
the latter part of last month, for which
we return thanks to County Superinten-
dent Teitrick.
John Dillman, proprietor of the
Hotel Belnap, at Reynoldsville, has
some very good horse stock, and last
week he brought one of them over to
Lindsey especially to have it shod.-
Lindsey Press.
Attend the entertainment to be given
in Centennial Hall Friday evening" Dec.
18th, by Jos. p. Frampton, entertainer,
elocutionist, humorous and dramatic
reciter. Tickets on sale at Stokes
drug store. Admission l5 % and 35
cents.
The assessors' returns show that there
are 6.190 children in Jefferson county
between the ages of eight and thirteen
years. and it is claimed that about four
hundred of them are not attending
school as required by the compulsory
educational law.
Over hundred witnesses from
Brockwayville and vicinity are at
Brookville this week to give in
testimony either for or againgt Frank
and William Dodson, who are charged
with the murder of Louis Helman, a
Jewish peddler, on the afternoon of
September 2nd, 1896.
The London mine, lying between
Reynoldsville and Dubois, one of the
Jefferson g. Clearfeld Coal & Iron Co. g
plants, is now equipped with a rope
haulage system. Heretofore the coal
was drawn from the London mine by
small locomotives. About LOO tons
of coal is taken out Of this mine daily.
w. ]. Thompson, who has been at
Willow City, N. Da., the past three
months, returned to this place last
week. Mr. Thompson carries the re-
membrance of western blizzard with
him in the shape of two frozen ears,
the thermometer registering 81 degrees
below zero when he left Willow City.
O'Donnell's MILL near O'Donnell
station, shut down last week for the
winter. The mill at Camp Run will
likely work during the entire winter
The logs are run into that mill on a
tram road and can be handled most any
time, but where the logs are drawn out
of the water on to mill it is different.
Seven new relief maps, costing one
hundred dollars, have been ordered for
the West Reynoldsvilc public schools.
Mating will be laid on the halls and
stairs of the school building to deaden
the noise that would otherwise be made
by persons walking up and down stairs
or through the halls during school
hours.
Sheriff Mackin, of Ridgway, passed
through Reynoldsville on A, V. mail
Friday having in custody two prisoners
whom he was escorting to the Western
Penitentiary. They were James Will
son, who was sentenced to five years
and six months for burglary, and l. H.
Bressler, who gets eighteen months for
larceny.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the Presbyterian church will hold a
social in the G.. A. r. hall Saturday
evening, Dec. 10Th. A cordial invita-
tion is extended to all. A literary and
musical program win be rendered the
fore part of the evening, beginning at
eight o'clock, after which refreshments
will be served. Admission Fifteen
cents.
| Yesterday about noon man, who
had imbibed freely from the cup that