The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-02-05
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
oil market, $l.43.


See Miles d Armstrong; new ad.
this week.
"A week from next Friday will be st.
Valentines day.
Mrs. J. f. Proper was visiting
friends in Oil City over Sunday.
Just fun TO see how fast the remnant
dress patterns are selling at Lanson's. 1t
Mrs. G. Fl. Hunter and son George
were visiting friends at East Hickory
over Sunday.
-Elbert Chadwick went to Oil City
Monday to put in couple of weeks at
the Derrick printery.
Finest and largest line of dress
shirts, collars and neckties in town at
Lanson's. 1t
Jacob Siggins wasup from Harmony,
Butler county, 10 visit friends in this
neighborhood, returning to his home to-
day.
Hon. J. b. Agnew of Tionesta is this
egate to the Republican National Con-
vention.
Jack Welsh, who has had such long
siege of fever, is able to be out again, and
has been shaking hands with friends for
the past few days.
Harley w. Fisher, of Oil City, a
former Tionesta boy, has been appointed
to clerkship in the State Department at
Washington, d. G.
Found, an umbrella and pair of eye
glasses. Left at this Office for the owner,
who is invited to come forward and prove
property and take same away.
Edward McCaslin, a popular young
man of Pleasantville, died from the eff
fects of injuries received in fAll from a
derrick at Montpelier, Ind, on the 9Th,
nit.
These warm winters are hard on
clothiers that expected cold winter.
Winter clothes, winter underwear, etc.,
are now going for summer prices at Lam
sons. 1t
The many friends of Mrs. Irvine AL
lison, of Nebraska, Pa, will be panied
to learn of her very serious illness from
a stroke paralysis. At last accounts her
life was despaired of.
West Hickory furnished candidates
for initiation into the Uniformed Bank,
Knights of Pythias Friday evening, and
the members indulged in "social ses-
sion. n."-1TtuSvilte World.
Miss Anna f. Huling, of Lock
Haven, Pa, is paying visit to her bro
theirs, j. P. and ]. A. Huling. She was
accompanied on her visit TO Tionesta by
her friend Mrs. Geo. Thompson.
The Commissioners of Venango
county have advertised for bids for the
erection of new steel bridge across Oil
Creek, at Centre street, Oil City. The
old bridge is said TO be worn out.
VIII Craig has gone to Silver Creek,
N. Y, to take charge of the passenger
station on the W. N. Y. & p. road at that
place. Miss Eta Lee, of olean, N. Y,
takes his place at the Tionesta station.
VIM. Lawrence departed for Kansas
last Wednesday TO look after his western
farm, near Phillipsburg, He may take
a notion to visit the Forest county gold
prospectors in Colorado before returning.
Mrs. L. ]. Hopkins gave her Sunday
school class, consisting of about fifteen
of the young Misses of the town, pleas
ant tea party at her home on Tuesday
evening of last week, from to 10
o'clock.
The grounding had an all-day view
of his shadow on the I'd inst, if he re-
mained out of his hole that long The
day was bright, and for February
weather was quite oalmy. Those who
pin their faith to the woodchuck's prog
nostications will have a good chance to
see how the next six weeks pan out.
Somebody started the story that dol
lars of the coinage of 1895 were worth So,
as but one thousand of them were coined
last year. About all the newspapers of
the country repeated the story. A letter
from the superintendent of the mint at
Philadelphia says s62, $50 silver dollars
were coined last year, which would in
dicate that the original statement was a
little out of plumb.
Fred Grettenburger's machine shop
Is now lighted by electricity. Chas.
Grettenberger, Plum Siggins and VIM.
Blocher have been experimenting some
time in the making of a dynamo and SO
successfully that they now light the
Grettenberger shop with twelve of the
sixteen candle incandesceut lights. May
the project grow until the town is sup
Piled Iidioute NeigS.