The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-02-03
YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS.

i f-'fN't " VI RAAN VII t1AAuEhh1s
Mrs. NJ. Andrews Of Kellettville Wis
tied Tionesta friends on Monday.
Capt. u. s. Knox was a business Wis
itor to Warren the last of the week.
j. r. osgood and J. d. W. Rsck were
business visitors to Oil City yesterday.
DIR. Davies, of Warren, was a guest al
the residence of Rev. J. r. Brennan over
Sunday.
%. F. Miles left Monday on a bust.
ness trip through Mercer and Lawrence
counties.
Misses Louise Killmer. and Carrie
Matha spent Sunday with friends in
Hickory.
II, NJ. Kline of Ridgway was bust.
ness visitor to Tionesta on Monday and
Tuesday.
ID. W. Hunter and wife of Cooper
Tract spent Sunday with friends in Tio.
nesta and vicinity.
Forest and Euretta Proper drove
over to Crown, Clarion county, Monday,
returning yesterday.
Mrs. Will Hunter, of the West Side,
left yesterday tor Wolf Run TO visit her
sister, Mrs. Kate Green.
Miss Susie Huling, teacher of the
Washington school at Stewards Run, was
a. home with her parents at this place
over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart Wentworth of the
township are both confined to the house
with la grippe. Mr.. Wentworth's case is
quite serious.
John Lusher of Hickory has bought
one of the new Ulf houses on Second
street and will move his family to Iidi-
oute.-Tidioute Ne,Cs.
Sam Haines, of Oil City, the we'll
known and popular supervisor of this
division of the w. N. Y. & P. Ry., stop
ped over between trains yesterday.
The many friends of Daniel Black
one of the venerable and highly respec-
ted citizens of Tionesta township, will be
grieved to learn that he has become to-
tally blind from cataract of the eyes.
Mrs. f. Wenk menrns the loss of her
uncle, Fred Shultz, which occurred one
day last week at his home at Etna, near
Pittsburg, Pa. He was the only brother
of Mrs. Wenk's father, the late John
Shultz
Jacob Weaver, proprietor of the
Coulter House, and wife, of Clarion, Mr..
and Mrs. V. Fulton, also of Clarion, and
Mr.. and Mrs. S. p. Weaver, of Leeper,
were guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. C. F..
Weaver, at the Central House, this place.
Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. G. A. Randall and Mrs. Lizzie
Huling leave to-day for few days visit
in Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati and
number of other cities where it is the in
tention of the latter to study the modern
modes of dressmaking from the up-to-
date dressmakers of the large cities.
Nicholas Ribb, of Bradleytown, We
mango county, who we mentioned week
before last, returned from Pittsburg last
Friday, and is now lying very low with
pneumonia at the home of his grandson,
Harry Mcintosh, of this place. Henry
Ribb, of Sistersville, w. Va, son of tn e
former, is helping to care for his father.
While hauling ice on the west side of
the river yesterday morning team
owned by Geo. Monday broke through
the ice and after considerable difficulty
were rescued without serious damage.
The aggregate weight of family
living in Van Buren, county, Mich, is
one ton. 1t consists of father and
mother and four children, and when they
go to church together they sit in one pew.
Last Sunday was bright, warm,
sunshiny day, and all who could afford
the luxury and felt so inclined took ad-
vantage of the excellent sleghing and
made business lively for the liverymen.
WHAT'S the reason the telephone com
pany don't get hustle on and connect
Hickory, Kellettville, Marienville and
other towns in the county with Tionesta.
That is what is wanted to make the line
a success here. Somebody get up petit
ton.
The Potomac river is frozen over at
Washington and is closed to navigation,
very unusual occurrence. The present
cold wave, in its lowness of temperature
and vast extent of area, is one of the Sc
verest that has been recorded in thirty
years.
F. A, Keller, the bicycle racer and
holder of the one mile State champion
ship record, and who had been suspended
from the l.. A. w. on account of riding
out of his class, received information a
few days ago that his temporary suspen-
sion had been removed.
Miss Celia j. Ferris, a returned mis-
sionary of the F. M. church, will lecture
on foreign missionary work in India, in
tho f. NJ. church, Tionesta, Saturday
evening, Feb. 9th, at 1880. Also at Stew
arts Run, Sabbath morning, at lI.OO
o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended
to all.
"A bill has been introduced at Harris
burg to abolish the system of requiring
constables to make returns at each Court
of Quarter Sessions. The passage Of the
bill would be large saving to counties,
which pay the cOnstables mileage and
per diem expenses, while nine out of ten
of them bring blank returs to the court.
Monday afternoon as DIR. L. d. Bow
man was unhitching his horse at his
barn the animal got "cranky" and ran