The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-06-03

convened In the M. r.. church at Luth-
ersburg yesterday for a two-days ses-
sion.
An eleven-year-old daughter of Mar
tin McCarty, of West Reynoldsville,
came very nearly knocking one of her
eyes out few days ago by falling on
the sharp edge Of a board.
Rev. A. A. Kelley, pastor OF the
Presbyterian church at Rimersburg,
and wife and Miss Ella Reed, OF the
same place, came to Reynoldsville Mon
day TO hear Hon. John G. Wooley lec-
ture.
A fellow dropped into the postoffice
Monday morning and gave Postmaster
McGaw the following instruction about
his MALL "Send my letters and all
first-class mail to Milestone and let my
papers go to thunder"
There has been change in the busi-
ness management of the Punxsutawney
Spirit John =. Wilson, practical
printer of Dubois, has leased the
interest of Theodore NJ. Kurtz and has
assumed the business management Of
that paper.
Squire Abner Spyker, an old, highly
respected and prominent citizen Of Rose
township, jefferson Co., died at his
home on Monday morning of this week.
His remains will be buried in the st.
Johns cemetery, near his late home,
this afternoon.
The gas Office was closed Friday
afternoon to show respect to r. w.
Porter6eld, late president of the o. G. F.
SEQ, who was buried that afternoon, and
Saturday being legal holiday the Office
was not opened from Friday noon until
Monday morning.
Henry Ashe, of Dayton, Pa, came to
Reynoldsville on the 100 p. NJ. train on
Monday and rode TO Panic on his bicycle
to visit his son-in-law, r. L. Kirkpat-
rick, at that place. Mr.. Ashe is almost
sixty-four years old, but finds the
bicycle, as means of travelling, more
enjoyable than walking.
Charles Clayton, aged about twenty
three years, who was injured in the
Sprague mine year ago by fall of
coal, from which he never recovered,
died at the home of his father, Thomas
Clayton, in Winslow township, Sunday
morning. Remains were buried yester-
day afternoon in the Sykesville
cemetery.
Misses Alice Doane, Jessie Smeltzer
and Eleanor Reed went to Luthersburg
yesterday by rail to attend the League
convention. Misses Minnie Smeltzer,
Hannah Stauffer and Jas. Lord rode
their bicycles to Luthersburg this
morning, and Sam1 Lowther and Miss
Evaline Sechrist drove to the conven-
ton in buggy.
Ice cream, cake, coffee and lunch was
served Decoration Day by the following
societies in the following places:
Daughters of Liberty in the building
next door to Mrs. r. NJ. Alexander's
millinery store: Work Society of Presby-
terian church in the Reynolds block;
Ladies' Aid Society of the Lutheran
church in the G. A. r. hall.
Mrs. Mary Bollinger, OF ShamolSa,
Jefferson Co., aged almost eighty years,
recently completed and presented to
her daughter, Mrs. d. L. Brumbaugh,
OF Winslow township, quilt contain
ing twenty-one hundred patches. The
quilt is quite piece of handiwork for a
woman as old as Mrs. Bollinger, and is
valued very highly by Mrs. Brumbaugh.
Hon. John G. Wooley, the Chicago
temperance apostle, delivered an ad
dress on "Christian Citizenship" in
Centennial Hall Monday evening before
large audience. Mr.. Wooley is a
forcible speaker. He strikes very hard
at the church members who vote other
thhu biC IoHlDltiOil "a
of people from Falls Creek, Punxsutaw-
ney, Brookville and the surrounding
community came to Reynoldsville to
hear Wooley lecture.
On Friday OF this week the two
month term of select school in the
Reynolds block. taught by Miss Cora
Milliren, will close. Miss Milliren has
proven herself to be a competent
teacher and given such satisfaction that
a number of parents, whose children
have attended the select school, have
tried to persuade her to extend the
term one month longer, but it does not
suit her to DO so and hence the school
will close AS above stated.
J. II. Barton, of Blackwell, Pa, at
one time merchant OF this place, was
in Reynoldsville Thursday of last week,
having brought the remains of his