The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-04-01
next SUNDAY.

| VpenlnS Jnls morning AT ole,
Mack Agnew is home from ALE.
gheny College for short vacation.
IAN infant male child of Mr.. H.
E. Smith, aged four days, died on
Sunday evening last.
Mr. L. A. Raisig, of Wilkins
burg, Pa, is visiting his brothers,
Charles and Otto, here at present.
Postmaster Amer is happy over
the young lady arrival at his domi
cile last Wednesday evening.
For the benefit of our Florida
readers we will state that no lumber
has been run from here this spring, as
yet.
The trouting season opens to. day,
but the trouters must wait till the
streams open before lifting any of the
beauties.
Miss Emma Partridge, of James.
town, N. Y, is paying Tionesta a visit
as the guest of her sister.iu law, Mrs.
A. II. Partridge.
Forest Proper and Miss Efie
Walters departed yesterday morning
for Randolph, N. Y, where they will
attend school this season.
Mr.. Hoyt has moved his family
into the Robinson house on Vine ST.
DIR. Morrow now occupies the Samuel
Clark house vacated by Hoyt.
-Supt. Hillard publishes this week
the dates Of holding of the Teachers
Annual Examination. Applicants
for certificates should note these dates.
"A young lady clerk came to the
home Of Treasurer Smearbaugh last
Sunday morning. Billy has conclud.
ed to keep her since she looks so
much like her pap.
The condition of Mr.. George s.
Hunter still serious aud growing more
so daily. He is steadily declining in
strength and his chances for recovery
are lees hopeful each day.
j. T. Brennan has now for sale
1876 acres of warrant 5213 and 5214,
Kingsley Twp, probably on the new
oil belt. Also 10S acres of warrant
51S6, and 70 acres of warrant 51S7,
in same twp. 6m.
Grows, bluebirds, robins and the
small boy with his pocket full of mar
bles, all harbingers of early spring.
have shown up in the past few days.
but still the ice on the river, thick
and solid, remains with us.
Mr.. G. j. Carlson has purchased
the billiard tables and good will of
Geo. Smith, and will hereafter con-
duct the room in good shape, keeping
the tables, balls and cues in good
trim at all times. Give him a call.
The county hotel in the north
ward, presided over by Sheriff Agnew,
has but one boarder at present, but
we guess the Sheriff is not growing
at his lack of patronage as he gets
only 90 cents day for star boarders.
We learn with regret that Mr..
w. d. Shields, one of the board of
County Commissioners, is lying very
sick at his home in Clarington. We
are without particulars as to the ma
ture Of his disease, but trust that the
next report we hear of him will be
much more favorable.
"A rumor has gained some cur.
rency to the effect that Rev. j. P.
Hicks, formerly Of this place, was
dead, but we have been unable to
trace it to any authentic source, and
we hope it may only be rumor. He
is, however, reported quite low with
Bright's disease, we are sorry to say.
-NOw's ye time to lay in your eggs
for Easter. 1t should always be
borne in mind, however, that the hens
have the first whack at the "aying"
business, and the abundance with
which the average family head lays in
the stock of eggs depends very much
on the rapidity with which the hens
lay them Out,-and the size or bulk
of the purse of the aforesaid f. h., as
] it were, SO to speak. Aint it?