The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-03-28

--Mrs. M. L. Vought, who has
pleasantly spent the greater portion of
the past winter with her parents here,
expects to depart for her home in
Minnesota tomorrow evening.
Some of the surrounding towns
are already talking up Fourth of July
celebrations. 1t is we'll enough to be.
gin early; it viii! take some of them
till July to get up q respectable 4th.
-Ballou's Magazine for April,
bright and cheerful as spring morn
ing, has arrived. None better than
Ballou's, and SO remarkably low in
price. Address, % Hawley St., Bos.
ton, Mass.
A new gas we'll was struck in the
town of Marienville, this county dur.
ing the past week, by the Kahle Bros,
which has sufficient pressure to abund.
antly supply the town. And the citi,
zens are correspondingly happy.
Il have known DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup for years as a good remedy for
the diseases for which it is recommend.
ed, and have used it with much benefit
10 my own family. Rev. r. L. Lewis,
Heathsville, Va.
The Emlenton News has found it
necessary to enlarge to a seven column
sheet in order TO accommodate its in.
creasing demand for advertising space.
1t is pleasant to record the prosperity
of 30 good paper as the Ne,us, and
the people of Emlenton should be
proud of it.
Upward Of forty Of the young
people Of Tionests, aud quite a mum.
Der from a distance, attended the par.
ty given by Mr.. aud Mrs. j. B. Ag.
new last Friday evening, in honor of
their SOD Mac, whose 21st birthday
occurred on that day. A pleasant
time is reported by all who attended.
The annual report of the Trustees
of the State Hospital for the Insane at
Warren. Pa, for the year ending Nov.
80, 1887, shows that Forest county is
composed of a pretty level.headed set
of people, there having been but eleven
patients admitted from the county
since the organization of the hospital,
seven of whom were males, and four
females.
j. B. Haggerty, who has the con.
tract of rafting and running the lum'
ber of the Messrs. Lscy, started six
RATS from Nebraska last week, but
none got out to the mouth Of the
creek. Jim is one Of the most sue.
cessful jobbers on the creek and sci.
dom gets left, but running a raft that
draws two feet of water on an eighteen.
inch stage, is too much like two trains
trying to pass on the same track it
can't we'll be did.
Governor Beaver has issued a
proclamation declaring Friday, the
9th of April, as Arbor Day. Parents
and children, and citizens generally,
are recommended to join in the oh.
servance of this day, and to seek op.
portunities and avenues for extending
its influence aud benefcent results.
If the day should not be sufficient for
the accomplishment of all that ia wish.
ed, let the work be continued on the
following day; and if for any reason
it should be found impracticsble to
observe the day fixed as ATbor Day,
let the community choose some other
day which will be more suitable for
the locality.
The eerie, delicate little pipe OF
the peep frog was heard coming from
the msrshy grounds last evening. We
doubt if people in this locality have
heard this spring music so early in the
season. The opening concert of the
swamp choristers seldom comes off IN.
til along in April. A March frog re.
hearsal must be a sign of an early
spring-Or of early frOgs.-Franklin
Neios. The Franklin swamps, it would
seem, are sOmewha: ahead of their
neighbOrs this season, in the prOduc'
tion of frog rehearssls. But then, its
the nursery of great men" as we'll as
great frogs and likely to keep the
lead for ages to come.
"A Black Friday. - That day
when a person is first seriously attack.
ed with rheumatism, may we'll be
termed a black one, for he will remem
bsr the same as long as he lives. II
he uses Salvation Oil in time, he will
however, soon be able to speak of q