The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1896-05-06

for the week commencing on the first
Monday Of each month.
If r. II. STILLsoN.
The executive committee of the
w. 9. L. U. Of Forest county will
hold their annual meeting Wednes.
day. May 18th, at 2 o'clock in their
rooms All members are requested
to be present,
Miles u Armstrong sell goods
cheapest. See their goods aud prices.
No goods marked" to sell at two
thirds price, but sold to all at one,
and that the lowest cash price. When
you can't End what you want come
TO u.s. 1t
Mrs. j. G. Beaver of Mononga.
hela City, Pa, and Mrs A. L. Her.
man Beaver and little daughter, of
Boston, Mass, mother and sster.in.
law respectively Of Mrs. Kate B.
Craig, were welcome guests of the
latter last week
The PETER we'll on the Wheeler
d Dusenbury lands, above Kellett.
vile, was finished Saturday and is a
duster. 1t is little over 1900 feet
deep. The strange part of it is that
there are fairly good wells on both
sides of this failure.
Don't forget that Frank Amsler
keeps the best line of green groceries
in town. They come fresh every day,
and the prices are the lowest. He
also has an excellent stock of house
and garden plants, and can take your
order for anything in that line. 1t
Don't forget the play entitled
my Awful Aunt" to be given at
Grange Hall, Cropp Hill, next Fri.
day evening. Adults 15 cents, chill.
dren 10 cents After the play there
will be box social, and every lady
is requested to bring box Of lunch
Mrs. G. w. Kerr, who has been
visiting with friends in Marienville
since her departure from Tionesta, has
gone with her mother, Mrs White.
hill, to Alliance, Ohio, tn live. Her
many Tionesta friends will wish her
a pleasant scjourn in her new home.
The Free Methedists will hold
quarterly meeting services at New.
mansville, Pa, beginning May 9Th,
1896, and continuing over the Sab.
bath. Rev. D. B. Tobey, D. E, will
have charge Of the meeting. A cor.
dial invitation to all F. E. Glass,
p. c.
Mrs. Aunabel Holvey of West
Pittson, Pa, Press Superintendent of
the w. c. r. u, delivered very en-
tertaining Temperance lecture to a
very large audience in the M. E.
church last Friday evening. Mrs.
Holvey is an eloquent speaker and
her lecture was excellently prepared
and rendered.
The graduating exercises of Tio-
nesta public school, class eff '96, will
take place on Friday evening of this
week, probably at the Court House,
but that fact will be made known by
printed programs. The exercises will
be interesting and entertaining, and
no patron of the school should be
found absent. A large attendance is
expected.
Work on the local telephone has
been commenced and it is expected
that it will soon be in operation as
everything has arrived but the
phones. Misses Clara Dunkle aud
Minnie Landers will be in charge OF
the exchange. Miss Dunkle returned
Monday from Oil City where she has
been for the past week taking in.
structons.
-Marieuville Express: Judge
Nash has resigned the postmastership p
at Pigeon, and d. E. Crawford has
been appointed postmaster for that
place.-George Stewart. of Pigeon,
and Miss Lizzie Muller, Of Kingsville,
were married at Clarion, April 21st,
by Rev. H. Z. Wieand. Hon. j..
B. Agnew was in town between trains
last Friday.
Forest county's share of the
State school appropriation of five
million five hundred thousand dol.
lars is just $S,51916 Erie will get
S90,08l Sc, Crawford $S1, ,632 05, Elk
$25,029.16, Warren S36,S4373, We.
mango $41 ,S33.04, Mexican S33, ,412..
"a, and Cameron $6,S25.23. The
amount allotted to each county varies
with the list of taxables as returned
by the county officials.
Our subscribers at Fagundus,
West and East Hickory, complain of
not having received the REPUBLICAN,
until Monday of this week. We can.
not account for this unwarranted de
lay, for the papers were mailed here
on Wednesday afternoon, and should
have reached them on Thursda 2
morning as usual, We shall try to
find where the difficulty lies aud see
that it does not occur again.
According to the Derrick'S field
report there was an all.round in.
crease in operations in the producing
fields during April. In the fields
producing Pennsylvania oil 613 wells
J were completed in April with IL 1,25C
barrels production, and 155 were de,
void of oil in paying quantities
t Compared with the month preceding
there was an increase of II wells
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