The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-02-05
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Oil market closed yesterday 1.05S

Sucker fishing in the river IS now
IN order with the small boys.
Mr.. NJ. Levine, of Boston, is the
guest of j. NJ. Miutz, this week.
John Hunter is home from school
at Meadvile, on a short vacation.
The Auditors Report will be
found on this page. Glance over it.
We noticed II. S. Brockway, of
Spartansburg, bout town one day last
week.
Frank Thomson is recovering
from combined attack of grippe and
measles.
Considerable sickness is reported
in and about town, due, in most cases,
to the prevailing malady.
Now for bargains! A. G. Guth is
closing out his stock of Watches,
Clocks, and Si!vcrware at reduced
prices. IT,
--There.aro seventeen teachers in
the faculty Of the State Normal School
at Clarion and each is said 10 be an ex.
pert in the line Of work assigned.
Avoid the doctors bill before it
is too late, by keeping convenient Sal.
walton Oil, which is the greatest pain
destroyer extant. Price 20 cents.
Judge Brown has decided that
constables must be elected on the 18th
of February next for three years, and
that it must be so stated in the elec.
tion notices.
Boys who smoke pipes, chew TO.
bacco, swear, and call their father the
governor" and their mother the "old
woman," are not in the way that leads
to honor, fame or respec,ability.
Mr.. NJ. i. McQuown has pur.
chased the RGftsman's Jotrnul,o of Clear.
field, Pa, from S. J. Row x Son. The
Journal is one of our best exchanges,
aud we wish the new management sue.
cess.
--Reveries of bachelors used to con.
tain an alloy of painful anticipation,
on account ofsleepless nights with the
prospective baby, but DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup has made oil that part a
joy forever.
The business men of Bradford are
making gigantic efforts to obtain the
location OF the Tubular Car Works
manufacturing company near that city.
The company will employ from 1000
to 5000 men.
If the grounding camo out, as
usual, last Sunday, be didn't see his
shadow, and if the old tradition is
to be relied upon, our prospect for q
winter is about as slim as that Of the
Signal Service Bureau is for a cold
wave.
Orion Siggins and a number oI
workmen commenced stringing the
telegraph wire from this place to Ne
braska Monday, aud in a few days
that place will be in constant and i'm
I mediate communication with thu
world in general.
Our schools have been closed {
week aud one day, on account of sick
ness, but opened again on Tuesda!
last, all the teachers being presen
with the exception Of Miss Kerr, VIII,
is still i'll, but recovering. Miss Ma.
Sloan is at present teaching in he
stead.
The Derrieks oil report for tn
month of January shows that ther
were completed 553 wells, with ne'
production of 1850 barrels, which j
!, an increase of II wells and 131 bar
;. rels of production, as compared wit
December; dry holes II, an incrcas
of %, The report shows 597 drillin
wells, and 391 rigs, which is a differ
: ence of 20 wells and AZ rigs, an
u y shows a net decrease of II.
= Again we chronicle the death G
= one of Forests old and much respecte
: citizens. james Walton, of Marieu
vile, died suddenly, on Thursday
Jan. 80, Of la grippe. He was age
about 90 years, and leaves a wife an
/ four children-three sons and on
daughter, to mourn his loss. Th
funeral was held on Saturday, at
J. o'clock. from the Presbyterian ehurc
at the above place, and was largel
/. attended,