The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-05

the Lords Supper will be dispensed
Services will also be held on Saturday
evening at 1880 o'clock. Rev. j. r.
May will officiate.
We give up much Of our space in
a report of the Johnstown horror this
week. Nothing could be of greater
interest to our readers at this time,
and we only wish we could give more,
but much, we might say all, must be
left to the imagination. Human in.
genuity cannot depict the frightfulness
of the calamity.
The officers and Executive Com.
mittee of the Northwestern Associa.
tion, Department of Pennsylvania, G.
A. r., met in franklin on the 9th
ult. The date of the annual reunion,
which is to be held IN Greenville, was
changed from Sept. 10 to August 20,
the change being rendered necessary
by the change in the date of Pennsyl.
vania Days at Gettysburg.
Jared Huling has been commits.
stoned Deputy Grand Master of the
A. o. U. W., to organize a lodge of
that order in this place. He has al
ready secured about 25 names to his
application for a Pleasant.
ville Record. Jared is wide awake in
a matter Of this kind, aud if the boys
about Pleasantville will give him
proper encouragement be will have a
lodge of the "father of beneficial
orders" in that place which will be
second to none in this section.
The new school board of the
borough organized Monday evening
by the election of E. l.. Davis, Presi.
dent; j. I. Brennan, Secretary A.
B. Kelly, Treasurer. The board re.
solved to have eight months school, to
commence on first Monday of Septem.
Der. Salaries of teachers were fixed
same as last year, to.wit: Principal,
$50 per month; each of the other
rooms S37 80. Teachers and ianitor
will be elected OH the first Tuesday in
July, and applicants should make a
note of the date.
The Pleasantville Record reports
the death of VIM. H. Neill, former
well'known and highly esteemed resi-
dent Of Neillsburg, this county, at his
home in Summit City, Thursday, May
10th, at 10 a. M, aged 81 years. A
loving wife and two daughters are left
to mourn the loss of husband and
father, always made doubly sad, when
cut down in the prime of life and in
the midst of robust health aud man.
hood. Two brothers, James, Of Cleve.
land, and Sye, of Neillsburg, and
three sisters, Miss Lou Neill and Mrs.
Jesse Burchfeld, Of Neillsburg, and
Mrs. Robert Cochrane of Ohio, also
survive him.
The heavy rains of Thursday
night seem to-. have been general
through the western portion of this
State, and all the streams, large and
small we're swollen to enormous pro.
portions. Along the Allegheny and |
its tributaries the rise was unprece.
dented for this season of the year, and
the destruction of property has been
very great to the lumbermen and 9TH
ers, although in this immediate vicini.
ty the damage aud loss was compare.
lively light. The Clarion and Red
Bank river lumbermen were heavy
losers, the banks having been swept
from one end to the other. Yet all
these calamities, great as they are,
sink into utter insignifcance in the
light of the awful catastrophe along
the Conemaugh.
The Oil City Blizzard makes an
observation which is noticeable every.
where, and its suggestion should be
acted upon in every community: "The
old soldiers who marched to the GENE.
teries yesterday were gray and griz
zled lot. One could not fail to notice,
as they marched along, how much
grayer they have grown during the
year which has passed since last they
performed the loving ceremony. The
ranks are thinning and it will be but
q few years more before the remaining
veterans will be better qualified to
ride than march. In fact they are
better qualified to do so now and it
would be graceful act on the part of
he citizens of every community to
provide them with carriages on each
recurring Memorial Day."