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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
One for the Athletics.

The first basketball game in the
championship series between the Reyn-
oldsville Athletics and High School
team was played In Park theatre last
night and developed into one Of the
most exciting contests ever held there.
The Athletics won 20 to 13, but had 10
play the game Of their lives to do 1t.
The high school boys were strength
ened by Prof. Marsh and he proved to
be Tartar for opponents. There WAS
plenty of ginger in the game and it was
close enough throughout to lend uncer-
tainty to the outcome of the remaining
contests OF tho series.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
Fell Down Cellar Steps.

Mrs. S. 7. Reynolds, Of Grant street,
was injured last Wednesday evening by
falling down the cellar steps at her
home She started into cellar with
lamp in her hand and either tripped or
missed first step at head of stairs and
fell into cellar, The lamp was broken
and oil scattered around, but fortunate
ly the light was extinguished without
setting oil on fire. Mrs. Reynolds was
badly injured, though not seriously.
One bone of her right wrist was broken
and her body was bruised In many
places.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
Pomona Grange Meeting.

A meeting OF Jefferson County
Pomona Grange was held in the P. o.
s. ri A. hall NJ Reynolds-ile last We'd
nesday. There were two sessions, fore
noon and afternoon, and we're both we'll
attended although the weather was
unpleasant. There was an open session
in the afternoon which was interest
ing. us woman's work on the farm
harder, according to her strength than
that OF the man." was warmly discussed
by both sexes, and the ladies put up
good arguments in their favor.
We depended on the secretary for a
report OF the meeting and not having
received it we cannot publish full re-
port OF the meeting.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
W. A. Mcconnell Dead.

w. A. Mcconnell, who was one Of
Beechwood's highly esteemed farmers
for a number OF years, died at his home
In Falls Creek at 3. 90 a. m Sunday, March
II, 1907. He had been In poor health
for sometime. Four years ago he re-
tired from farm life and moved to Falls
Creek, but retained his farm. He
is survived by his wife, four
sons and three daughters. Funer-
al service was held Ia the Presbyterian
church at Falls Creek Yesterday and
interment was made In the Beechwoods
cemetery. Deceased was born Dec. g.,
1916, and was In his 6lst year.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
To Increase Capital Stock.

BY u legal notice found elsewhere In
this issue Ct The STAR II will be seen
that the board of directors of the Reyn-
oldsville Brick and Tile Co. advise an
increase of capital stock from $4,000
to $4,000, and that the stockholders
will vote on the proposed increase at II
special meeting to be Eeld May 10.
The business of this company has be-
come so large that the present plant Is
too small to FIJI the orders and 1t is
necessary to increase the capacity of
the plant.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
Sykesville to be Incorporated.

Judge John W. Reed has granted
Sykesville petitioners decree OF in
corporation and that town will soon be
borough. All the exceptions IN the
case were dismissed at the cost OF the
exceptants. The first borough election
In Sykesville for the election OF bor-
ough officers, provided by law, will be
held in the basement OF the Knights of
Pythias building In Sykesville on Tues
day, April 30, 1907, from 700 a. m. un-
til 200 p. m. Judge Reed appointed
Frank A. Moore judge Of the election
and William a. Stahl and David A.
Smith inspectors.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
Mrs. Mary Ann Ross Dead.

Mrs. Mary Ann Ross, relict Of James
Ross, an old and we'll known lady Of
BeechwoCds. died at 0 p. m. last Thurs
day, March a. at the Ross homestead
near Coal Glen Pneumonia was the
cause of her death. She was 10 years
old. Funeral service was held In the
Beechwoods Presby church Satur-
day afternoon, conducted by Rev. Geo.
II. Hill, and interment was made In
Beechwoods cemetery.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
Dentists Association.

A number OF Jefferson and Clearfield
county dentists met at the Commercial
Hotel at Dubois Saturday night and
organized dentists association. 1t is
expected that the dentists OF Elk
county will join the association.
Following officers elected: President,
DR.. G. G. Lowry, Of Brookville; vice.
president DR.. @. G. Hughes. OF Punx-
sutrwney; secretary. DR.. F. Fl. Bell, OF
Dubois; treasurer, DR.. j. @. Boner, OF
Falls Creek; chairman executive com
mittee, DR.. r. DeVere King, of Reyn.
oldsville. Charles A. Kelley, OF Buff.
aio, N. Y, president Of the national
association OF dental statesmen, was
pre-, 1t and gave an address.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
DEAD AT AGE OF NINETY YEARS
vile Twenty Nine Years, Died Last
Wednesday Evening.


One Of our highly esteemed and aged
citizens. ID. W. Riston, who had almost
reached the four score aud ten mark In
life's journey, died at his home on Grant
street at 80 p IN. Wednesday,, March
13, 1907. His dea,h was not unexpect-
ed rs he had been lowering near the
gates OF death for two weeks before his
spirit took its flight. He had not been
able to work for Il year, but had been
going TO the cigar factory regularly
every morning at eight o'clock as had
been his custom for so many years,
until about five weeks ago, when he
hal hard attack of the grip which
finally ended his earthly career. He
was conscious up until Il half hour be-
fore he died, and was not afraid to ans
wer To the summons Of the death
messenger.
Mr.. Riston was born In Alexandria,
Maryland, December 20, 1877, and was
In his Goth year April 4, 1912, sixty
five years ago the 4th OF next month,
he was married to Miss Nancy Cupples
at Pittsburg, whom, with nine children
survive him. In 1853 Mr. and Mrs.
Riston moved to East Brady where
they resided quarter OF u century and
moved to Reynoldsville in 1878, resid-
ing here about twenty-nine years.
Mr.. RistOn was a man OF good habits,
excellent character and sturdy consti-
tuition, and as stated above, he con
tiaued TO be active In his accustomed
pursuit, cigar making, long past the
age at which men ordinarily drop out
of the ranks of workers. He was a
practical, matter-of-fact man, lived a
quiet and unassuming life. but had his
own peculiar way OF extracting enjoy
ment from life as II went along, and he
was not disposed to worry about things
of an unpleasant nature that crossed his
| pathway.
He enjoyed his home life and 1t was
very rarely that he was seen down town
after supper. His spare time was
usually spent at home instead Of loafing
| In stores or on the streets.
Mr.. Riston was member OF the
Presbyterian church but was not a
member OF any secret societies.
Unto Mr.. and Mrs. Riston ten child
rem were born, nine OF whom with the
mother, survive the deceased. They
are: Mrs. J. T.. Kirchar'z, Of Beaver
Falls, Mrs. j. II. Young, Of Wilkins
burg, Mrs. J. G. Hamilton, Of Green's
burg, Alex. @. Riston and Agnes ].
RIston, of Reynoldsvile, Mrs. l. q.
McGaw, of Punxsutawney, Mrs. M, II.
Hayden, OF Brooklyn, N. Y, Mrs. M.
| NJ. Cribbs. of Pittsburg, Mrs II. w.
Truitt, Of Indiana, Pa, and one daugb.
ter.in-law, Mrs. Virginia Riston, OF
Braddock, widow Of j. g. Itiston, the
son who died several years ago.
Funeral service was held at the
family residence at 200 D. m. Saturday,
conducted by Rev. A. d. Mckay, pas.
tor Of the Presbyterian church, and
interment WAS made In the Reynolds.
vile cemetery
All The daughters attended the fun
eral and the following other relatives
and friends: Mrs. Sarah Stewart. sister
OF Mira. Riston, Mrs. d. 9. McCombs
A. J. Cupples and daughter. Of Pitts.
burg Mrs. Virginia Rision and son, J
5. Rlston OF Braddock, j. G. Hamilton
of 'Greensburg, ] e Kirchartz o
Beaver Fa Is. sons inlaw Of deceased
Miss Kittie Heidrick, OF Brookvile.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
a Little OF Everything.


Born to Mr. and Mrs P.F Skinner,
March lS, 1907, daughter.
The ordinance Of baptism was admin
istered In the Baptist church Sunday
evening.
Robin red breast, sure barbinger of
spring, has returned to this section of
the country.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Lu-
theran church will hold a market and
bazar March 80
six lnew members we're initiated in
MazoGnania Tribe No. BAL, |. o r. NJ,
MonAay evening.
Algass well will be drilled within
half mile OF knoxdale. The rigging
was)hauled TO that place last week.
ANEW grange was organized at Panic
reccbtly with D. NJ. Straitwell as mas
ter, g. B. Shaifner secretary and W.
G. Dekey treasurer.
Th4 auditors reports Of the finances
Of WiSslow ano Washington townships
were deceived too late for publication
this we&k, but will appear in The STAR
xtwe\k
Misses DALEY and Loidold, milliners,
who conduS Sted store here last year,
arrived in tpwn Monday and will open
| their store iAthe room next to Peters
restaurant.
Hi Henrys minstrel show was greet
1 ed with large audience at Park
theatre ON Wednesday evening of last
week. The people were well pleased
with the show.
Mrs. Reynolds committee of the
Helping Hand Society will hold pie
social In the festal hall of the NJ. E.
church on Thursday evening of next
week, March 2S.
Mr.. Gillian made wonderful hit and
left only delight and desire for more
among his hearers. Appleton wis.
Daily Crescent. At Assembly hall Mon
day evening, April lst.
The Kiski Independents, Of Salts
burg, will play the Athletic basket ball
team In Park theatre at this place
Monday sevening Of next week, March
rs. This will be good game.
The Sandy Lick creek overHowed It's
banks last week and poverty fiat" and
other lowland in this section was inun-
dated, but the flood was not as high
as some other floods in this valley.
A freight wreck on the P. r. R. near
Long Point tunnel Monday forenoon
delayed the eastbound passenger trair
due here at 1852 p. m. four hours and
forty-five minutes.
The ladies Of the Baptist church will
hold . social in the church on Friday
evening. All ladies Of the church ant
new members are cordially invited Il
attend. Refreshments will be served.
A call meeting OF the Ladies' Worl
Society Of the Presbyterian church viii
be held at the home Of ]. K. Johnston
on Grant street at 7.30 p. m. tomorrow
Thursday. A full meeting is requested
70 close up the years work.
There will be preaching in the Pres
byterian church on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday evenings Of next week
preparatory service for communion thu
following Sunday. Rev. J. S. Blaney
Of Wilcox, will preach each evening.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
If you are particular about your feel

II you are particular about your feet
we want to sell you shoes. Adams.
4 With new and improved instruments
and methods, DR.. Gibson hopes TO give
even better work than ever before. Try
him.
Leave your orders at Koerner's gro
Gerry store, near postoffice, for potted
plants and cut flowers for Easter.
Thunder, lightning and heavy rain
storm about six O'Clock last evening.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
Humorist Coming.

Mr.. Gillian, the humorist, remark
able attraction, will be the fifth and
last number Of the high school lecture
course this season. Mr.. Gillian will
appear in Assembly hall Monday even
ing, April 1st. Seats will be on sale at
Stoke & Feicht Drug Co. store at SOC
a. m. Friday, March 20.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20

DR.. Gibson is a graduate, doctor Of
Optics) from one OF the best colleges,
with long experience, and will be able
to do good work. See dates.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1907-03-20
Applying for Charter.

Elsewhere in this issue OF THE STAR
will be found notice Of an application
for charter by some Beechwoods gem
tlemen for a corporation to be called
the Beechwoods Telephone Company.
The names OF those applying for o
charter are: MuCurdy Hunter. j.. G.
Smith. John w Stewart, Robert p.
Morrison, James Dougherty. Harvey
Cooper and j. McCurdy. This linz
has been in operation tout three years
and most all the farmers 10 Beechwoods
have phones on the line. which gives
service into Brockwayville aud Falls
Creek, and is connected with the Elk
and Summerville lines.
| House cleaning time will soon be
here. old papers will be wanted to put
under carpets and now is your oppor-
tunity to get them at half price. To
reduce the stock Of old papers In THE
STAR Office in the next ten days we will
sell them for cents for 100 old papers,
regular price 10 cents. Call and get q
package and yoI will have them when
you want them.
Leave your orders at Koerner's gro
Gerry store, near postoffice, for potted
plants and cut flowers for Easter.
DR.. Gibson, who did such good op-
tical work, will again visit regularly.
See ad and dates.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12

cialize the kitchen let it be done with the woman
in mind no less than the man; even more than
the man.
We more than doubt whether the temperance
societies altogether right in blaming the smells
of cooking and soap-suds for drinking habits of
mascunity. We never came across man who
was driven to drink by the smell of cooking, ex-
cept professional cook or two. Indeed, the
smell of cooking is usually a sweet SAVIOR to the
man returning from day of toll
We can't say how it is about soap-suds but if
woman can stand their odors for day, man
ought to be able to stand them for a shorter time,
and if he is the sort of man worth considering by
any organized or unorganized influence outside the
Salvation Army, he will do so; and more than
that, he will, if the right sort, remain to soothe
and sustain his wife amid the smells, instead of
rushing off to the saloon.
The fact is, the who goes to the saloon
does so because he likes to CO. and if he says that
it is because of the smells of cooking and soap
suds at home it is only an aggravation of his Of
Tense. If we have sympathy and help to bestow
it ought to be for the wife who remains at home
with the smells, example to all her sisters and
living reproach to poor excuses who masquerade
in trousers as men.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
THE NATIONAL pRoH1B1T1oN1sT
WHERE HASKELL STANDS
Governor of Oklahoma Declares that He Will
Enforce the Prohibition Law.

Oklahoma City, Okla, Nov 28.-(Special cor
respondence )-Governor Haskell the new gov
ernor of the new state, speaking before a great
audience of nearly four thousand people in this
city on Monday night, placed himself on record
as determined to enforce the prohibitory law to
the very letter and with every energy and all the
power at his command. In part he said
"The people of Oklahoma knew what Charles
N. Haskell stood for when he made his cam
paign, and, if they elected him and secured state
wide Prohibition when they didn't want it, that's
their fault.
"Prohibtion is argued as being an infringe
ment on personal liberties Is there single law
in the broad length of our land that would permit
any to commit suicide? If the kisses of the
wife and the clinging embraces of your babies
are to be conducive to happiness, then begin
there in your search for pleasure. Is the promo
ton of such pleasures as that an infringement
on personal liberties?
"They say, oh, don't destroy the progress and
prosperity of town. Not for minute does
the existence of saloon affect the substantial
prosperity of any town.
"You said in your Constitution that the gov
ernor shall be charged in his oath to enforce it's
provisions, and, by the heavens eternal, you've
elected one who will see that they are enforced"
The occasion celebration of the adrnis-
sion of the state to the Union and the adoption
of the prohibitory clause of the Constitution.
Beside Governor Haskell, several local officials
ing the w. C. T. u, and the Rev. E. c. Din
widdie superintendent of the state Anti Saloon
League considerable sum of money was
raised to push the work of enforcing the pro-
hbitory law.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
THE SALOON AND SOAP-SUDS
A Study of the Problem of the Poor Mans
Home in Competition With Gin
Mill Attractions.
From an Unidentified EDITORIAL

From an Unidentified EDITORIAL
In a report of a sermon that was preached in
this city on Sunday, the reader is told that the
clergyman in considering "The Foes of the Fam
y,' said
In the homes of the well-to-do and of the poor
alike we find, as always, the dormitory, the laun-
dry and the kitchen. The laboring man finds
small comfort in the home, in which his nostrils
greeted by the smells of cooking and soap
suds, and the temperance societies tell its effect
upon his life. The laundry and kitchen have no
logical place in the home of either the rich or the
poor.
Not always does brief abstract or quotation
give perfect picture of the thought in the mind of
a speaker. We do not doubt that the pastor feels
as much concern for the moral and spiritual well
fare of the woman as the man, but the detached
quotation makes him appear to consider the in
huence of odors of cooking and soap-suds the
man only. "The temperance societies tell us their
effect upon his life"
But if these smells are really prejudicial to the
man, how about the woman, compelled to put in
whole days amid odors of coap-suds where the
man noses them for minutes, and forced to cook
as we'll as to absorb the aromas of the viands at
close range? What do the temperance societies
have to tell about effects upon her? Is she driven
to the saloon, or does she remain at home with
the kitchen smells and wait for the odors of stale
beer, bad whisky and worse tobacco to be mixed
with them by the lord and master when he returns
late and unsteady?
She usually waits at home. Her case, therefore,
seems to one unbiased by consideration for the
rights of superior sex to be the sadder one, and
to appeal the louder for Specialization" of the
ktchen-the remedy proposed. If we are to So
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
POOR OLD KANSAS
By the Hon. C. w. TR1cKErT,

Assistant Attorney General of Kansas
Your state [Illinois] is the garden state of the
nation; you have rich soil, you have abundant
rains. Your state is naturally blessed by Provi-
dence. Out in Kansas one-half of our territory
was formerly known the Great American
Desert. 1t is the home of the cyclone, the grass
hopper, the drought and the green bug. We are
only about one-half as old as your great state,
but we have had no licensed saloons for twenty
years and you have had high license I say to
you that today the people of poor old cyclone
stricken Kansas have more money per capita on
deposit in the banks than have the people of the
great state of Illinois.
1t may be that some may resent my comparing
Kansas with Illinois. If so, let me compare Maine
with the great state of Ohio. Maine, they say, in
1855, when it adopted Prohibition was the most
drunken and poorest state in the nation Ohio
was rich state. In fifty years of Prohibition
Maine has organized and has today more banks
and has $22,O000o0 more on deposit in those
banks than has the wide open state of Ohio with
six times her population Booze and bankruptcy
go hand in hand!
Let me bring you another statement from Kan
sas They sometimes make the statement that
Prohibition does not prohibit in Kansas, that it
doesn't lessen drinking. I will read you state
ment made by the governor of the state of Kansas
quite recently and published over his signature
Listen.
"Of the 1O6 counties in Kansas only twenty-one
have any paupers. Only twenty-five have poor
houses. Thirty-fve have their jails absolutely
empty. Thirty-seven have no criminal cases pend
ing upon the dockets of their courts
Is there county in Illinois that can make state
ments similar to this last? Kansas has the small
est number of paupers of all the states in the
Union Kansas spends more money for educa-
ton in proportion to population than any other
state in the nation-poor old Prohibition Kansas!
Listen. One hundred and five newspapers are
published in Kansas, of which number only
twenty will carry an advertisement for liquor
house. Poor old, Prohibition Kansas
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12
December 10, 1907
SALOON ANARCHY
Justice" Court in New York Sets Free Gin
b, Miller Who Assails Officer

Delanson, N. Y, Nov. 27-(Special correspon-
dence. )-Readers of Prohibition papers will re-
call the recent account of the assault upon the
Rev. VIM. w. life, Presbyterian pastor at
Duanesburg, election day, by mob of heelers
of the saloon, disappointed because of defeat
largely brought about by the heroic activity of that
splendid representative of Christian manliness, in
the recent local option contest.
There was also hint that deputy sheriff had
been brutally assaulted by hotel liquor seller
the same day. The facts in regard to this second
outrage so far as they could be ascertained, are
substantially as follows.
Both free whisky and money we're being Law
ishy used by outside representatives of the brew
ing and distilling interests to influence voters at
johannesburg. This was being done in barn
the polls. Deputy Sheriff Hotaling, a Prohbi-
tonist becoming of this, raided the barn,
arrested two caught in the act, and siezed a
bottle of whisky as evidence. While Hotaling was
on his way to Delanson by train, hotel keeper
named Mackey, an ex-pugilist, informed by
phone of his coming, and of what had occurred
Probably with view to destroying the whisky
evidence, not knowing that it had already been
given into the keeping of the Rev. Mr.. life,
Mackey met Hotaling when the train arrived. With
profanity and vile language he demanded Hota-
ng's right to arrest men and accused him of being
drunk and having bottle of whisky in his posses
SION He then demanded to see Hotaling's badge,
and when Hotaling showed his badge as deputy
sheriff, Mackey twice attempted to tear it off his
coat Then Hotang laid his hand on Mackeys
shoulder, placed him under arrest, and Mackey
A>bI1faly assaulted the officer, cutting open his
4ace that he had to undergo surgical treatment.
The casa jury's trial-was tried in the local
Justices court, at Quaker street, last week.
1t attracted wide attention, and there was a
large number of interested spectators.
A special representative of The National Pro-
hibitiomist was present In his estimation the re-
suit could not be characterized as miscarriage of
justice, but an abortion-for the former conveys
the idea of being accidental Among the wit
nesses for the defense travelling salesman
for wholesale liquor firm, an ex-bartender and
hostler of Mackey's and some other hangers-on
and dependents of his Everything went" It is
the jury brought in verdict of mot guilty"
Mackey was evidently trif1e uncertain as to
the result at first, for though the people were rep
resented by only one lawyer, Mackey had re-
tanned two to defend him; and one of them the
Democratic assemblyman and ablest lawyer of
Schoharie county.
But this temporary victory of the liquor people
was dearly bought in this case. For the verdict
rendered has disguised decent men far and wide,
and has made, and will continue to make, not
only no-license sentiment but Prohibition party
votes.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12

Does it pay to maintain a national quarantine
against criminal and dependent classes from
abroad and license 100000 saloonkeepers to man
ufacture such products at home ?-Scanlon.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-12

The first conviction under the Oklahoma Pro-
hibition law occurred Wednesday morning, No
vember 20. A boot-legger named Smith, pleaded
guilty to the charge of illegal liquor selling in
the county court in Oklahoma City, and was
sentenced to pay fine of $50 and serve thirty
days in the county Jail
= Does it pay to call ministers to preach the Cos
pei OF love, charity honesty, purity, forgiveness
and redemption, and license other men to engage
in traffic which fosters hate, engenders strife,
breeds dishonesty impurity and Instruction.
Scanlon