The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1885-02-18

antville, on next Saturday evening
and Sabbath morning and evening
Love Feast and Communion Services
on Sabbath morning. A cordial invi.
tation to all.
The eighth annual report of the
State Board Of Agriculture is now
ready for distribution aud will be sent
from the Office Of the Board in Har.
risburg on receipt of % cents, the
actual postage on $50 pages. Mem.
bers of the Legislature will furnish it
to their constituents free of cost, and
those from Forest county. should send
postal card to Representative Berry.
The residents Of neighboring bor-
oughs will doubtless be interested in
learning that bill has been intro
duced in the state senate giving chief
burResses additional power in default
Of ines This bill provides that
when persons have been convicted be-
fore burgess and fine imposed,
upon a refusal to pay the fne the bur
gees can commit to Jail for sixty days
and the borough shall be responsible
for the costs of Commitment. - Oil
City Rsgsard.
Court commences. next Monday
and will likely last greater part Of
the week, Judging from the size of the
trial list. Prothonotary Shawkey has
issued Court Calendar embracing
the names of the Court and County
officers, Resident Attorneys, Rules Of
Court, Trial and Jury lists, together
with names and addresses Of oil the
ConstabIes and Justices of the Peace
in the county with the date of expira-
tion of their commissions. The work
was done at the REPUBLICAN office,
and is therefore a neat aud respecta-
bic job.
Mr.. Geo. /. Slater, the gentleman
who sawed lumber for Robinson &
Bonner on Little Tionesta during
last summer, died rather mysteriousIy
ct his home near Neilltown, on Tues.
day night of last week. The family
had all gone away during the evening
leaving Mr.. Slater at home. Return.
ing they found bin absent, but think
ing he had gone out to spend tho eve
niDg with some of the neighbors, they
retired for the night expecting him
in at any time. The next morning
the members of the family were sur.
prised at his continued absence, aud
upon searching we're horrifed to find
him dead at the barn. He was
rather corpulent man, and it is sup.
posed expired iu an apoplectic fit.
Miss Ella Leech, teacher of Mer.
elliott School, jerks twp, makes the
following report: Whole pumber in
attendance duriOg month, males 8. fe
males z; per cent. Of attendance,
males 80, females 50 names Of those
who have been present every day dur.
ing month, Daniel Eldridge, Peter
Walton Edgar Dodge,* Frank
| Dodge,* Jacob Mercilliott,* Mary
Mercilliott, Sadie Keshers. Those
marked with star have not been
tatdy.
Lizzie Guenther, teacher of Ross
Run school, makes the following 10
port for month ending Feb. ID, 1885
No. enrolled during month IA; aver
age attendance -; perl ceut. of at
tendance. males 100, females So;
names of those present every dav dur
ing month: John Dotterrer, Harry
Dotterrer, Samuel FELTON,. Emma
Dotterrer, Lizzie Dotterrer, Ada Zen.
die. Elsie Felton, Willie Harrington.
Those absent but one day Minnie
Ikenburg, Zeta Setley.
--Peterson's Magazine for March
opens with beautiful teel-plate of
two girls caught in snow storm, and
entitled The Sisters,' illustrating a
! powerful story by Frank Lee Bene
dict. In Edditiou, there ia the usual
dOuble.size fashion. plate. printed
from steel. and eolored by hand /:
Peterson" beiOg the only magazine
TO give these expensive and refined
fashion plates. Besides this, there is
a colorsd pattern for Tidy on Java