The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-08-13

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teachers for the seven schools of said
township. Applicants will please
appear 10 person or send their certif.
Gates, &C., to John II. Osgood, New.
town Mills, Pa. 81.
Sheriff Sawyer, Charles Hunter
o. g. Brownell, II. G. Whittekin and
George Raab will represent Tionesta
at the National Encampment of the
G. A. r. at Boston, this week, having
taken advantage of the low rates to
visit the Hub, get good dish Of beans
and hunk of brown bread, besides
seeing the big lot Of old vets.
Next Saturday the last M. Z
Quarterly Meeting for this conference
year, Tionesta charge, will be held at
Nebraska. On Sabbath morning,
after Love Feast, the handsome new
church edifice at that place will be
dedicated. Presiding Elder Smith
will be present aud officiate, assisted
by the Pastor, Rev. Rumberger.
We find the following item in the
Franklin Ne,cs of Monday, which will
be pleasant news to the many friends
Of the popular young couple: "Den.
nie ID. Shields, of Bradleytown, and
Miss Augusta M. York, of South Oil
City, have taken out a marriage Ii.
cense" We understand the marriage
took place yesterday. The REPuBL1.
CAN extends its best wishes.
When a man gets up 10 the morn.
ing early and hies him away to the
green wood with two good sized pals,
and the same man comes home early
IN the afternoon with both pals filled
with black berries-and does this same
for week right along-and you ask
him if berries are plenty where he was
and he says they are not, all dried up
with the hot weather, woods full of
brush and hard to get through, snakes
plenty, berries small ETC., etc., you are
justified in believing that man is toy.
ing gently with your credulity.
AT the meeting of the State Rosd
Commission in Titusville a few days
ago, Ed. Clapp made hit by telling
story of his endeavor to get certain
man in Venango county to join him
in keeping up good roads by which
they both would be benefited and the
public, too, but not cent would the
man contribute. He turned tables on
that man one day, however, when the
mau applied for aid in building
church in the locality. u gave him
the answer" said Mr.. Clapp, "to go
ahead and build the church, aud
would build the road to get there."-
Franklin NeVs.
--"It is curious" a friend at our
elbow remarks, "that stamped envel.
opes vary in price considerably owing
to whero you buy them. Here in Tic.
nesta | paid II cents for stamped
envelopes; over in Mexican county,
at a certain place, not long ago, | paid
II cents for the same number; last
week | paid 13 cents for the same
number and kind; aud longer ago
than last week, at a certain place in
Venango county, l wished to buy a
package of stamped envelopes
and the lady postmistress Chen lately
installed) asked 70 cents for the pack.
age. l said to her had been in the
habit of paying So cents (the price
them a pack, whereupon she said, with
a brisk business air, they cost us
that"
Mr.. A. s. Parsons is 10 our midst
delivering the History of Forest
County to subscribers. The volume
is large one, most elegantly bound
and handsomely printed and gotten
up. 1t embraces the counties of Nc.
Kean and Elk along with Forest, aud
makes splendid addition to the Ii.
brary. The work shows much care
and labor in its compilation, and while
the eontepts may not seem TO US of the |
present generation to be "newsy," they
will be news to future generations, for
whom histories arc designed anyway.
a vast store of knowledge is thus pre-.
served for lime to come that could in
no other way be kept. It's reception
by subscribers will doubtless be very
cordial, and we trust they will preserve
it with great care for their children
and children's children.
The market value of the stock of
the New Orleans Lottery Company
has risen from thir.y.fve dollars per