The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1888-02-08
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

10Th.
Valentine Day occurs next Tues.
day, 14th inst.
oil market closed yesterday 89j.
Opening this morning at $3.50.
Mr.. Wilbur Grove is home from
the would. be Kentucky oil fields.
The cosstipg since Monday has
been great" on the hills hereabouts.
Good teachers can double their
value by attending school at Edinboro.
TO Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Raab, on
Thursday morning last, daughter
was born.
The Book, Ahrens & Co. we'll on
tract 52OS, Hickory township, was fin.
ished last month, and is reported dry.
Mr.. Merriam contracted slight
cold about week ago, since which
time he has been confined TO bis room.
The borough council met on Mon.
dag in regular session, but aside from
acting 90 several bills, no business of
i'm mpOrtance came up.
MIR. ]. II. Brooks of Newmanville,
one Of our esteemed subscribers, paid
the REPUBLICAN pleasant and sub
stantial visit Monday.
Another three or four inch install
ment of the beautiful dropped 10 upon
mother Earth last night, and is still
dropping at this peDning.
p. M. Shannon has bought the
we'll on the Normal School grounds at
Clarion for consideration of 5000,
agreeing to operate it and get out all
there is in it.
MIR. and Mrs. w. S. Davis, of
Gilfoyle, this county, took advantage
of the elegant sleighiug yesterday to
pay Tiouesta a visit. expecting to re-
turn home to-day.
The Messrs. Lacy, Of Galenza
Mills, are taking advantage Of the ell
egant sleighing aud are hauling to
Tionests station fine lot of lumber
for shipment by rail.
DR.. Mary Allen, will lecture on
Social Purity" in the Presbyterian
Church, Tuesday evening, Feb. IA, at
half past seven o'clock, under the aus
spices Of the w. G. T. U.
Sheriff Sawyer received instruc.
tions from headquarters to have twelve
extra jurors drawn for February term
Of court, on account Of an important
case likely to come up for trial.
Three persons were killed and
FIVE injured in a wreck on the N. Y,
p. & o. R'y at Steamburg, N. Y,
twelve miles west of Salamanca, on
Sunday morning last. A broken rail
was the cause.
The ground hog is back in bis
hole for six weeks more of winter, il
there is anything in his prognostica'
tions, he having been abundantly able
to see his shadow during the greater
portion of the I'd inst.
Mr.. John Graham Of Fryburg
one of Clarion cOunty's most promi
nent and highly esteemed citizens
dropped dead in his sleigh while OF
his way to Oil City, yesterday. Th,
doctor pronounced the cause to b
apoplexy.
Mr.. G. d. Baker, who now has hi
residence at Spartausburg, paid hi
usual monthly visit to Tionesta thi
week. Clint. is one of the plessantes
and widest awake Commercial tour
lists" that visits our town, in which h,
has a nice trade.
Mr.. John CrOmsr aud family tool
their departure for the west on Frida,
last. They will stop with a son a
North Lima, Ohio, until the first o
March, before proceeding to their des
tination in Washington Territory
May success attend them.
Hop. Jas. t. Maffstt has returned
from Washington and is again at hi
home in Clarion, suffering relapse o
his disease, supposed to be softsning o
the brain. His fellow CongressmeI
noticed and commented upon his con
duct while in the House. which wa