The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1892-01-20
Kellettville and Suburbs.


prove II just ask the people up there.
And to any person who has not been
in the town for year or so until now
the improvement and growth is quite
decided. On the side Of the creek op.
posite to Kellettville proper-in fact
on the side you come to first as you
come to Kellettville approaching it
from the direction of civilization, that
is, from Tionesta, or Wing Hill, New.
town, or Buck Mills, there is quite
little settlement all by ITSELF aud it
calls itself Brooklyn. Still there is
nothing stuck up about the place, and
it is on quite friendly terms with the
old town across the creek. Brooklyn
has hotel called the Brooklyn House,
kept by Mr.. and Mrs. Carter. There
is hotel in the old town also, kept by
Mr.. Chamberlain. You can get
square meal at either and for q mod
crate price. On the Brooklyn side
there is Tom Corah's new store, aud
Weller's drug store, and Watson's
meat market, and Johnson's combined
barber shop and billiard room, and
Arnold's blacksmith shop. and the
church, and the public school, aud
whole lot of houses with people in
them. On the other side of the creek
is the big tsnnery and the post Office,
Andrews, Kribbs', and the Tionesta
Lumber Co.'s stores, all selling lots of
goods. Buckeye Wilson is over on
that side also with his blacksmith shop.
Buckeye is getting older as the days
60 by but he doesn't mind it much.
r. q. Gillespie presides in the Office of
Horton, johnson q Co., and is the
same old Bob of aUld lang syne.
Frank Gillespie is fireman at the tan.
merry. Frank is about the only fellow
in that neck O. woods that can keep
up steam in the tannery boilers. They
burn wretched fuel there, tan, com.
pletely saturated with water. Tan is
what is left of hemlock bark after it is
ground and the tannin and as much of
all the other substances and elements
and properties of the bark have been
absorbed by the hides as possible and
then made into leather along with the
aforesaid hides Of course. Our opin.
ion of tan as fuel is that it is not
destined to become popular for family
use.
The Tionesta Lumber Co. have
considerable lumber on the banks of
the creek for the Spring floods.
Berlin & Co. are putting in somc
square timber, hemlock of course, as
there isn't anything else to make
timber of up in that country.
DR.. Barber of Pleasantville, has
located at Kellettville and has his
Office in the Brooklyn House.
Whiteman & Bauer have been using
the late snow to get in logs and bark
fer all there is in it
DR.. Smith of Whig Hill, has been
hustled around lively this winter in
professional way. Time is sitting his
SHOWS on the doctors head and gain.
ing a little on the color of his hair but
the doctor takes it good humoredly
and is happy as ever.
G. F. Gillespie on Whig Hill, has
built new barn to replace tho one
lost by fire last fall.
The place where the M E Church
used to stand is quite lonesome looking.
We were surprised to fiud saw
mill in Ross Run hollow Just where
the road to the mouth of Ross Run
leaves the Tionesta road. And also
to find another mill, or the very recent
memory Of one, just at the foot of the
hill on the road from Whig Hill to
Kellettville, but they are there never
theless.
The grip has been getting in its
work with a hearty good will that
would be a credit to an enterprise
more to ones liking.
Kellettvile has daily stage to aud
from West Hickory. 1t leaves Kel-
lettvilIe about 8 a. m, and then leaves
Hickory to return at 4:40 p IN.
Kelleltvile needs one thing badly
to do her justice and that is a daily
mail. There is probably one half as
much mail matter sent over by stage
to be mailed at Hickory as there is
mailed at Kelletiville. The Kellett.
vile postOffice is thus deprived of so
much of its legitimate patronage, And
it isn't right that it should be.
The ignorance of some folks on
! Scripture teachings is very great