The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-06-17

OSWs NHduig WuO Will ItHONb MS
family to that place within few
days to take charge of the lease.
A pleasant parlor meeting was Civ.
en- at the home of Mr.. w. G.. Wyman
last Wednesday evening" at which the
main topic of discussion was the wo.
mems suffrage question.
The Brookville Republican, one
of our most welcome exchanges, aud
among the staunchest Of the country
journals Of the State, came out in
handsome new dress Of type last week,
It's success is we'll merited
Samuel Oswald, of the editorial
staff of the Kittanning Free Press,
committed suicide last Saturday by
shooting himself through the heart.
He was sixty FIVE years old and had
been in i'll health for somo time.
"A true bill was brought in
Thursday morning by the Grand Jury
of Mercer county, against the Coun'
ty Treasurer, w. j. Graham. He is
charged with having embezzled the
county funds to the extent of $4,000.
-Hardenburg 81 Erb's latest well
on the Hawthorne tract, near Trun.
keyville, is doing very nicely since
they began pumping it. They are
troubled some with salt water. Pro-
per d Co., in the same neighborhood
finished and shot good well Mon
day of this week.
The following item from the EN-.
lenton Ne,0s of last week will be read
with sadness by the many friends of
the lady mentioned: Mrs. George
Weller, who has been sick from con.
sumption for several weeks past is
slowly growing weaker being now un-
able to leave her bed.
This is from au exchange: An
uptown man heard a noise at his of.
fee door, and thinking that it was
some one peeping through the key.
hole he injected little pepper sauce
into it. When he went home his wife
told him she had been cutting wood
and chip flew up in her eye.
w. H. II. Dotterer, of Newtown
Mills, Forest county, was caller on
the NeaVs, Monday morning. Mr..
Dotterer was in charge Of a fleet OF
barges bound for Piltsburg market,
and was obliged to stop here on ac'
count of wind Sunday. This trip is
the fifth he has made this season. -
EmLenton Ne,Us
You can get fire. crackers that
will crack at Amsler's. He has an
excellent stock of fireworks on hand
and they are cheaper than ever be-
fore Fresh strawberries aud vegeta.
bles arrive daily and the price is al
ways the lowest. Leave your orders
for crate of Strawberries early as
the price is going up. 1t
DIR. Will G. Morrow is in Har.
risburg this week attending the ex.
aminations Of the State Board oi
Medical Examiners. That be will
pass the difficult ordeal goes without
saying, since he got fourth honorable
mention in a class of 1876 graduates
at the Baltimore Medical College
only few weeks ago.
-Chidren's Day was very pleas
ingly observed at the Presbyterian
church last Sabbath morning. The
attendance was large, and the exer-
cises by the young folks, under the
direction of Mr.. Z. f, Ritchey, were
very pretty indeed. The great pro
fusion of flowers was one of the pleas
ing features Of the occasion.
AT the recent meeting held here
the Populists nominated the follow.
ing ticket; Assembly, j. A. Smith
jerks Prothonotary, L. b. Work
Barnett; Sheriff, NJ. B. Sutley, Howe
Commissioners, N. L. Hill, S. B
Gilmore, Barnett; Auditors, Johr
II. Work, G. Fulmer, Barnett; Jury
Commissioner, Benz. Sutton, jerks.
Misses Mamie Morrow aud Kit
tie Mcmillan, delegates, Misses Laura
Lswrence and Florence Klinestiver
Mr.. T. Z. Armstrong and Rev. j. V
McAninch attended the convention
of the Christian Endeavor societies
at Oil City last evening. The distric
represented by this convention em
braces parts of Crawford, Venangc
and Forest counties.
Mr.. j. T. Brennan is erecting al
office building on his newly acquired
corner lot, on Elm and Bridge streets
1t is to be 16x3S feet, with three wei
furnished rooms, aud will be very de
sirably located for business offices
one of which Mr.. Brennan will oc
cupy himself Carpenter Henry
Shoemaker has the contract for erect
ing and completing the building,
! Mrs. Keeler, wife of Rev. j, H
Keeler, accompanied by her daughter
Miss Ella, visited Tionesta as th
guests of Judge Hills family durinI
the past week. They lived here 2
years ago, when Rev. Keeler wa
Pastor of the Tionesta M, E Church
and this was their first visit to oil
friends since that time. Natural
they found many changes had take
place.
The second annual reunion of tn