The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1895-10-09

publican candidate for Associate
Judge, met many Of his old friends
during his stay in town last evening.
Commissioners Coon reports three
new cases of typhoid fever in Clar'
ington during the past week, making
% in all that have contracted the di.
sease. The people hope for an abate.
ment of the trouble before long.
Mrs. I'D. Dewoody and daugh.
ter of FOxcreek, Mrs. Thompson of
Nebraska, aud Mrs. Pruden and
daughter, Miss Nellie, of Joliet, ILL.,,
spent the day with Mrs. G. F. Wat
son and family at Golinza, last
Thursday.
If you want a pair Of gloves, a
suit of underwear, a suit of clothes,
or anything to keep you warm, you
just look over Lanson's, and if goods
are not as good and as cheap as any
place in this end of the world you
better not buy-at Lanson's. If
Joe Landers has excavated
ground on the vacant lot between
Mrs. DIR. Hunters residence and that
of Judge Campbell's, and will have
neat residence erected thereon be-
fore winter sets in Of course Joe
will find use for the residence when
finished.
Miss Louise Henderson, a daugb.
ter of George Henderson of Mead.
vile, former resident and barber of
this place, died on Friday night of
typhoid pneumonia, at Oil City,
where she had been making her
home for some time. She was aged
about 20 years.
Hart Lawrence's bicycle is laid
up for repsirs. He collided with his
younger brother John. Hart was the
heaviest, but John rode the heaviest
wheel, and the result can be i'm.
sgined, but you can scarcely picture
in your imagination the woeful ap'
pearance of Hart's wheel.
The new Jail and Sheriff's resi-
dence is rapidly nearing completion 1t
being now in the hands Of the plaster.
ers, and Sheriff Carson will undoubt.
edly be domiciled therein by the first
OF November. 1t is certainly credit
to our county, and one to which the
citizens can point with pride.
While the bridge abutment is
being repaired and travel by teams
obstructed, Ed. HuDter is running q
ferry at the old landing, the sight ot
which carries one back nearly quar-
ter of a century, when that was the
only means of crossing the river a,
this point. Ed. isn't losing any
money on his enterprise.
1t should not forgotten that Fri
day is the day set for work on the
new river road, and the committed
in charge hope to see large force O.
men in attendance. Don't forget t;
bring your tools, such as picks, show
els, mattocks, and above all don't for
get to bring your dinner pals will
you, as each man is expected t.
aboard himself" on this occasion.
On and after the first day of thi
month a marriage license procured
in any county of this state can b.
used in another county. This is al
amendment to the marriage licens
law, and was passed in 1898 bu
through clerical error only take
effect now. A further amendmen
passed at the recent session of tn
Legislature compels the party solem
niziDg the ceremony TO transmit
duplicate record to the county il
which the license was issued.
George Armstrong, having pur
chased good sized piece of groun'
: extending from low water mark i
TiOnesta creek near Forge Islam
back over the hill in the direction G
Peters run, is preparing to build
house thereon, the same to be locates
on the bank overlooking the creek
He has already cleared up quite
nice patch up on the fat. Ere
Reib has a house about ready
move into on plot of ground a shol
8 distance up Peters run, where he
+ clearing up a little farm.
Senator jesse M. Baker, fatht
of the Baker ballot law, will pleas
accept our thanks for a very usefI
little pamphlet entitled "The VOteI
a Guide; a Digest of the election Law
of Pennsylvania" compiled by hin
II salf aod nnhlishad hv Vim q JohI