The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-10-13

Mrs. G. was in some manner thrown
from the buggy in which they were
riding, and had the misfortune to sus.
tain the fracture of her left arm near
the wrist.
The first snow storm Of the season
was on Friday last, October lst, the
first ice ON the Sunday morning fol.
lowing. This may not be news just
now, but in the near future it will be
an interesting chronicle. - Clarion
Jacksonian. We had ice in these
parts nearly half an inch in thickness
at the same time, but no snow.
Mr.. Daniel Saulsgiver, for many
years a resident of TioDesta township,
has purchased the Weaver farm pear
Tylersburg, Clarion county, and will
take possession Of the same this week.
We regret exceedingly to lose so good
citizen from our midst, but must
content ourselves with the thought
that our loss is Clarion county's gain.
Our best wishes for success 60 with
Mr.. S.
For the past week a most brilliant
light has shown from the top of Hop.
kins & Co. s store, having been placed
there by the Gas Co. 1t throws out
such wonderful light as to hand
somely illuminate the streets in all di.
rections, and our Borough dads are
considering the feasibility of having
four or five of this description erected
instead of the smaller ones first talked
of. Ii seems to be the general im-
preston that four torches of this size
will light up the town to better ad.
vantage and be cheaper than any 9TH
er kind, and certainly if this one can
be taken as fair test, the impression
is correct. Let's have 'em.
--DoVoe, the prophet, thus sums up
the balance of the week: Wednesday,
frost aud foggy; Thursday, clear and
pleasant Friday, clear and warm !;
Saturday, cloudy and warm. In con
neetion with his weekly prophecy, DE.
Voc ventures a prediction as to the
weather we are to have this fall aud
winter. Claiming to predict from in.
dications of natural law, he says: 1--WE
will have a remarkable pleasant fall,
aud your farmers will be able to plow
right up to the first of Decem mber, with
the exception of day or two about
the 18th of November. On the third
day of December winter will set in
with snap. and everything will freeze
ike a rock and remain so till next
spring"
The prospects are good for exten'
sive oil developments in this section
within the next year. A syndicate
has been formed which has leased the
extensive Collins tracts, consisting o.
about 5000 acres, and the Lacy lands
containing about 5000 acres, both il
Green township, and will give them q
thorough test. The parties are all ex
perieuced and successful operators and
producers, and there will De no boY'i
play about these developments. They
are confident of opening up new OF
field, and if they do it will be ne
small affair. We understand it is thu
intention to put down at least tel
wells on the Collins lands and five oil
the Lacy lands within the next eighteeI
months; at any rate the most thor
ough tests will be made before tn,
search is abandoned.
"A very distressing accident hap
pened to Albert Burdick, who lives a
Kellettville, on Saturday last, Will
out hunting with a comrade, Dal
Baker. A squirrel had been "treed,
and in order to scare it around th
tree where Baker could get shot a
it, Burdick had picked up a cudge
and was making a racket ia the brusl
at the foot of the tree. The squire
started to come down and had 60
near the ground when Bakers gun,
4O.6O Winchester, was discharged, tn
ball entering Burdick's right hand a
= the little finger, and passing throug
) | oon,a ont of tho thumh bav;nO hi