The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-11-17

Monday. This activity has caused
considerable friskiness among the
lambs hereabouts, but we hope none
of them will get shorn right in the
beginning of hard winter.
We notice by an exchange that
parties are working a new swindling
racket on the farmers of a neighbor.
ing county. They drive up to farm
house and give the farmer big game
talk about the high price paid for gro.
ceries. A barrel or two of sugar is
taken from the wagon and offered at
about one third the regular price.
The farmer bites, buys a barrel and in
two or three days discovers that he
has purchased ordinary salt. A few
pounds Of sugar covers the deception.
The lumber mill of Messrs. Barnes
& Duncan, located on Bluejay creek,
Howe township, one aud a half miles
below Frosts', was entirely destroyed
by FIRE on Thursday night of last week.
The origin of the fire is not known to
a certainty, but doubtless caught near
the arch. The owners sustain a loss
of about $4,000, on which there was no
insurance. The boiler blew up after
the mill was burned down, which scat.
tered the debris 10 all directions. None
of The lumber was destroyed, it being
all piled at the railroad siding, some
distance from the mill.
The Williamsport, Pa, Sun and
Banner publishes the following proof
that advertising pays: "a regular
visitor at this Office brought in his
weekly donation of apples and pears,
with which he filled the poetry basket,
the other day, and remarked: Now
don't mention this 10 the paper; your
senior itemized little gift like this
for me once, and said that Mr.. -
has a thrifty pear orchard of magnifi
cent fruit. The night after the paper
came out some miserable scamps came
to my place and Skinned every id
tree on the premises
Mise Kate Guenther, teacher of
Beaver Valley school makes the fol.
lowing report for month ending Oct.
90: Whole number enrolled males,
10; females, IS; total, 26. Percent
age of attendance, males, 81 females,
81. Those present every day during
the month: Berthe and Maggie Byer.
ly, Blanche Miller, Frank, Olive and
Henrietta Kiffer, Cora and May Mea-
ly, Burr and Jack Hunter. Those
who were present every day after ad.
mission are: Oliver Mealy, Willie,
Iva and Nellie Emert, and Verne AL.
baugh, Minnie Brecht missed but one
day.
Last Wednesday Cornelius, Is.
year old son of James Connolly, who
lives pear Hunters Station, was quite
severely hurt by having a handcar
run over him loaded with six men.
The young man was assisting to pro.
pei the car when he slipped and fell
10 front of the cas2which was actually
raised from the rails as it passed over
his body. DR.. Morrow being sum-
moned found him in rather q preca.
rious condition owing to probable in.
ternal injuries, but reports him as out
Of danger now. The young mans
face was quite badly cut, but no bones
were fractured.
Now that nearly every household
in town is burning gas, a note of warn
ing will not he out of order: Don't
keep your rooms too hot. 1t is dan.
gsrOus and injurious to health. Owing
to the price being all the same whsth.
er little or much is used, people are
apt to let their fires burn too strong,
and then when they step out into the
cold air, the consequence is, cold,
cough, and perhaps a coffin. Don't
do it. Keep a thermometer in the
house; or two or three of them for
that matter, and never let the heat get
above seventy degrees. That's plenty
warm enough for winter.
"A Burlington, Iowa, dispatch
says that "PrOf. Foster, the meteorOl.
ogist, will publish in the Burlington
Hawkeye tomorrow his prediction of