The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-04-17
jerks Township Items.


registry list of over 300 voters, the
big end of il for the Amendment. 1t
boasts Of seventeen rattling good saw
mills, eight shingle mills, ten general
stores, two drug stores. (wbere you
can't get a drink for love, money or
wink, one millinery store, five hotels,
three billiard rooms, two doctors, and
one clergyman. The one lone clergy
man would have an awful time of it
fighting Satan and sin alone, but at
sundry times others come along and
help him brace up the moral back
bone of the community. The town.
ship has three good church buildings,
fair roads, and as for school houses,
let the Penn'a School Journal speak,
which it does as follows in the report
of Supt. Kerr for March: "On the
first Monday Of January, school was
opened in the new building in Marien.
vile. 1t is very fine building, having
two of the best rooms in the county.
The directors of jerks deserve credit
not only for having the best buildings
in the county, but also for paying the
best wages for teachers" The school
board ought to raise its hat to the
County Superintendent for bis honest
compliment, and ask him to send a
copy to the obscure writer in an OBJ.
scure Journal in Clarion county; in
which the writer accuses the board Of
building "Shoddy school houses of
second class finish, workmanship, and
material, at first class prices" All!
me, what some men will get down to,
to CRAFTY a little petty spite. The
school houses are here to speak for
themselves and the board can afford
to laugh at such stuff as the above.
There are new buildings going up
all over the township, and a lumber
in Marieuville, though not the "forty"
that the Brookvlle Democrat mention.
ed the other day. What Marienville
needs is not more workmen moving in,
! (for when you get to a certain point,
you reach line beyond which, each
new worknen only divides up the
work to be done with those already on
hand. and if that be limited all the
workmen suffer from the division), but
men with capital to furnish work.
When we get our r. Il. changed to
standard and that narrow gauge up
| Tiouesta and Coon creek to the big
livel," we will need few thousand
more people than we can feed at pres
ent. That narrow gauge idea is
suggestion TO our friend Collins, no
patent on the idea, or fee required for
the advice, ust send along the narrow
gauge.
To return to our "boastings." We
boast of only Que "schoolmaster," but
we fairly howl out our vauntings when
we speak Of our "schoolmams." From
! the "schoUlmam" at Browns MIL to
the imam" at Gilf5yle, they are the
brightest, fairest, best specimens Of
their sex in the profession, and when
the term is ended we will give them
''three cheers and tiger" We boast
of four fraternal societies The last
of these instituted was MarienvlIe
Division S. of 4. On Thursday of
last week the officers for the new term,
viz: j. w. Kahle Jr., w. P; Miss
Ella Leach, w. A; Mrs. Clara B
fowler, R. S Mrs. B. L. Hunt, A.
r S.; John Salade, Chaplain; Miss
Gerty Moriarity, F. S.; Mrs. Louisa
Collum, Treas. Frank Dodge. l. S.;
and Edward EIdridge, o. s., were
publicly installed into office by Deputy
G. w. p DR.. fowler, in the Presby.
terian Church. The installation was
followed by au Amendment meeting,
addressed in very able manner by
the Rev. II. f. Earseman of Eden
burg. This division has fifty members,
having more than doubled in six
months.
On Sabbath the 9th inst, the funeral
of Miss L. L. Rose, daughter of
Esquire Rose, took place from the
Presbyterian Church. The edifice was
crowded with neighbors aud friends Of
the family, the services were first, those
of the Presbyterian Church, Rev. II
+. Earseman preaching one of his
wonderfully good sermons. This was
followed by the burial service of the
Sons of Temperance, (of which Miss
Rose was a member, as we'll as of the
Presbyterian Church,, Rev. John Sal.
] ada Cha nlain and n - w u m