The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-02-15
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.

Next Tuesdays election day.
Get out the vote.
Lent begins to-day and ends with
Easter Sunday, April I'd.
Bern to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. F..
Blum, Sunday morning last, a daugh.
ter.
Philip Paltrovitcb, Marienville's
jewsler, was a visitor to town yester.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur w. Kelly
and young son, arrived from Chicago
last week and are the guests of AR.
thurs parents.
Eek Treasurer Hsggerty has be.
gun rafting the Tionesta Lumber Cos
winter out. put at Kellettville. Will
Morrow will keep tally" of the lum.
Der as it is rated.
"A bill introduced in the House
by Mr.. Andrews, of Crawford county,
requiring railroads to fence in their
lines, was reported f~avorably from
committee last Thursday.
Can't be beaten! Mr. j. w.
Wittig. Blue Mound, Ills, writes: II
have used Salvation OIL with wonder.
full success for Infammstory rheuma.
tism in my foot. 1t cannot be beat"
WIN. Smearbaugh froze his face
last Thursday while out looking after
the firms interests in the lumber
woods, since which he has been con.
fiued to his bed a pretty sick man.
But he's mending now.
H. w. Ledebur was one of our
East Hickory visitors last week.
Owing to the "back water" in the
tail race Of his Touring mill, caused
by a gorge in the mouth of Hickory
creek, he has been unable to run the
mill since the baeak.up.
F. r.. Lanson has sold bis home.
stead in the lower end of town to j.
B. Hsggerty, who will take possession
some time next month. Mr.. L. has
rented the Hickling house, now occu.
pied by Mr.. Hsggerty, and will move
there when the change takes place.
There is more shoe factory talk
for Tionesta within the past few days.
The gentleman who, on a former oc
casion, talked of locating here, was
in town last Friday to look us over
and get the opinions of our business
people. What the outcome will be
can't yet be ascertained.
Miss Gertrude Summons will
speak in the Presbyterian church this
Wednesday, evening, at 1880, in the
interest of education among the col.
ored people of the South. She comes
under the auspices of the Y. P. S. G.
E. All are cordially invited to at.
tend. No admission fee.
"A party of polecat hunters from
Ashtabula county, Ohio. passed
through the city Saturday on their
way home from above Tionesta.
They did not state what success they
met with. Derrick. There are no
polecats on Tionests. This should
have been understood long ago.
"A bill has been introduced 10
the legislature to empower the Coron-
or of each county to appoint one or
more Deputy Coroners, the saIne as
deputies are appointed by the Sherifs.
This will be a great relief to the cor
oners in about 60 out of the 81 coun.
ties of the State, where the coroners
are kept busy () night and day, al
most, "settiDg on corpses."
In the figures handed US by
Supt Kerr relative to institute re,
ceipts and expenditures an error &C.
Cured in one instance, in which we
made him say Institute of 1884,"
when it should have been 1891. The
casual reader would really under.
stand that it was an error, but we
note it, nevertheless, in justice to Mr..
Kerr.
Some of our exchanges are bO.
theriDg their brains as to what will
be done with the hammock when the
hoop.skirt comes into fashion again.
Hoops and hammocks may seem
rather incompatible to the average
man, yet it's a question the girls will
have to wrestle with, and we prefer
to let them solve the problem rather
than offer any suggestions just now,