The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-22

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BILE address Of Governor Beaver at the
banquet Of the Ohio Republican
League, Columbus, o., on the 18th
inst, in commemoration of the birth.
day Of Abraham Lincoln. The Gov.
ernor's was the set speech Of the oc.
casion, and is beautiful and loyal
tribute to the great Lincoln.
Bro. Wenk, of Tionesta, had pre-.
sonted to his hungry family a mice
mess Of fish of the smelt variety"
Up here we don't call 'em nice when
they are "smelt. Warren Mail. II
occurs to us, from the fuss some of our
impecunious brothers are making
about it that they haven't "smelt" a
fish, or anything else good to eat, for
coon's age.
Flags for signalling the weather
for this place have arrived and been
doing duty since. j. II. Zones has
volunteered to act in the capacity of
chief signal officer, and performs his
duty promptly and with "signal" abil
ity. The flags, which some mistook
for washing" at first, are suspended
over the street from a wire connected
to Bovard's and Smearbaugh q Co.'s
stores.
The Drillers and Tooldressers
Union of Grand Valley has several
members in this place and vicinity.
Last Friday they received their
monthly checks from the Union,
amounting to $1.00 per day for the
time they have belonged. Each mem.
ber gets dollar day until the shut.
down embargo is raised, and they are
privileged, in the meantime, to follow
any other avocation they choose.
Attention is directed to the ad. of
the Northeastern Lumberman, in this
issue. No recommendation of this
great journal is necessary to those who
have ever seen or read it. 1t is the
recognized lumberman's journal Of the
United States aud one number con.
tains more reliable information to the
trade than all others of its class com.
bined. Every lumberman should read
it.
Two young men of Tionesta skat
ed from that place to Oil City yester.
day iu a little over three hours. -
Franklin NetoS, of last Saturday. They
consumed most OF this time going
from here TO President, where they
took dinner, if reports are correct.
After getting good square meal at
that place. they made the balance of
the distance in less than 40 minutes
on "Pap" Richards express train.
-A'ftartul cyclone visited the city
of Mt. Vernon, ILL.,. on Sunday after,
noon last at FIVE o'clock, which de.
stroyed nearly three hundred resi-.
dences and places Of business and un.
housed from twelve to fifteen hundred
people. In the fall of the walls many
persons we're buried under the debris
and thirty five we're killed, while twice
as many more were injured, eight or
ten so seriously that their recovery is
despaired of.
%. P. Morrow, of Rockland, spent
Thursday night in Emlenton, and
called at this Office. Mr. Morrow was
member Of the last Assembly and
proposes to make sn effort for re. elec.
tion to the next Emlenton Ne,cs. Mr..
Morrow was one of the most level.
headed members of the last House,
his services being very creditable alike
to himself and his constituents. Should
the people Of Venango county return
MIN next fall they may rest assured
that they have a member who has
both the ability to discover a bad
piece of legislation when be sees it,
and the backbone to sit down upon it
after the discovery. Two indispensa.
BILE requisites in good legislator.
"A young man has been passing
counterfeit money in Butler and We,
mango counties, and the clever way in
which he does it is liable to render
any one an easy victim. He is small
of stature and plainly dressed, aud
goes from one farm house to another
in prosecuting his nefarious business.
He does not exactly take the role of a
tramp, but at every house says that he
is suffering from hunger and asks for
loaf of bread, and offers a silver
dollar in payment for the same. If
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