The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-02-13

j. M. Bray, Presiding Elder, Will ot1-
ciate. All are cordially invited to
attend.
To. morrow is st. Valentines
day. There has been no DISPLAY Of
fancy chromos yet in any of the store
windows, from which it may be infer.
red there will be little or nothing done
in that line this year. The old Gus
tom is fast dying out.
Don't forget the primaries for
the election of Delegate to the
State Convention next Tuesday.
Republicans in the different town
ships should see that boards are or
ganized in accordance with the in.
structions Of the chairman.
The Clarendon Record comes to us
this week vastly improved in typho.
graphical appearance and editorial
excellence. Mr.. B. j. Morris, the
veteran of the Warren Ledger, is the
new proprietor. and to say that the
paper will steadily grow better under
his charge, is stating but the simple
facts. Success.
Who's going to be our next set
of borough officials ? This is ques-
ton that don't seem to bother the av-
erage citizen very much judging
from the little talk we hear about the
matter. But our people don't gener-
ally get much interested until the
evening before the election. Let us
have good and fearless officers.
Mr.. d. W. Clark arrived home
from Macksburg, Ohio, this morning
having been since last Friday morn.
ing on his way, owing to the impedi-
ments to railroad travel caused by the
great floods. He has witnessed much
of the devastation wrought by the
food along the Ohio, and says that
the scene beggars description, and
still the end is not yet.
tuesday of last week Judge Hills
house, in Hickory township, four miles
above Tionesta, narrowly escaped be-
ing burned to the ground. The Judge
had been at a neighbor's house and
returned just in time to save the
building from the flames, which had
gained considerable Roadway, after a
bard fight. Had he been ten minutes
later nothing could have stayed the
progress of the fire. An unfinished
hue was the cause.
Our school directors are posting
themselves on school architecture.
The site for the new school building
has been selected and the ground se-
cured. 1t is the lot known as the
Episcopal Church Lot, containing
something over an acre, and situated
on Vine St., directly back from the
Central House. The site is consid.
cred a good one, and the locatian as
easy of access as the old one, besides
much more ground.
Mr.. Frank Witherell, of East
Hickory, who has charge of the gang
mill of Wheeler & Dusenbury, met
with very painful accident, on Sat-
urday forenoon last. Something hav.
ing gone wrong with the machinery
in the basement of the mill, Mr.. w.
started down to fix it, and while let.
ting himself down through a small
trap door he dislocated his left shoul-
der. DIR. j. B. 6iggins was summon
ed, and the assistance of FIVE of the
largest men about the place was re-
quired to pull the dislOcatsd shoulder
back into place, an operation which
it takes an iron constitution to under
go without finching.
The high water down the Ohio
river has been higher still than last
year. Pittsburgh and Wheeling were
flooded last week to an extent which,
to the present generation, is without
precedent, while all the smaller
streams which supply the upper Ohio
have been bank full and overAowing,
The steep banks of the Ohio give its
floods little opportunity to expend
their force laterally. The narrow
trnnph mnst carry off the whala vol.