The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-05-12


will be held next Saturday, May 10, and
all good Republicans should turn out and
make the vote as large as possible.
"A good kind of the real new woman
has been discovered in North Carolina
She works a tobacco farm and thereby
supports one husband and fiye sons.
Hurrah for the new womanl
-Tionesta's summer school which is
being conducted by Prof. r. N. Speer
started on Monday with about 25 stu
dents enrolled and everything seems
favorable for very successful term.
Dollar oil seems about as far away as
five cent whiskey.- Warren Mirror. If
we could just have the dollar oil we
could afford to pay ten cents for the whis-
key.
-"Here we stand-God help u.s." ex-
claimed Mr.. Cleveland i'm his Reform
club speech. Yes, Mr.. Cleveland, God
help you--if the voters of this country
ever get another chance at you !-Bu6alo
Times.
The prospects for a good fruit crop
this year are said to be very good, and if
no late frosts kill the blossoms, we will
have new crop apples in the market be-
fore the supply from last year is exhaus-
ted.
The engine in the saw mill of Robin
son & CASTOR broke down last Friday
and is so completely demolished that a
new one will have to be pvt in before the
mill can be started again. Luckily no
one was injured.
The historic old house at Gettysburg
in which Abraham Lincoln wrote his re-
nownod address delivered at the dedica-
ton of the Gettysburg national cemetery,
on November 10, 1868, has just been sold
by the David Wills estate for Slo,5OO.
The old ''sign" regarding the rainy
Sundays of May is proving true, so far
it rained the first Sunday of May and it
rained on the second Sunday, and not be-
ing satisfied with that it rained on the
second Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Lovers of homegrown Strawberries
will not be able to enjoy that luscious
fruit as early this season as in previous
years. Growers of the berry say that it
will be June before they are ready for
use, owing to the GOODNESS of the weather.
Every column in a newspaper con-
tains from fen to twenty thousand dis
tlnct pieces of metal. The displacement
of one of these causes a blunder or typo
graphical error, and yet some people
think it strange that they can find an err
ror in newspaper.-Er.
New designs have been ordered for the
81, 80 and So silver certificates issued last
year. The objection to the present ones
is that they accumulate dirt and get a
splotchy look because of the elaborateness
of the designs. The new designs will con-
tain fewer lines and fewer Celebrations.
In the local market, medium comb
ing unwashed wool is bringing 15 to lt
cents per pound. The prices for washed
medium combing are 20 and 2l cents, but
as yet none of that quality has been of
fered, it being yet too cold to wash thu
sheep.-JameStoic Journal.
Potatoes have been low for two yeari
and in some sections farmers are reduc
ing the acreage in them. The wise far
mer will always plant the crop that other
are reducing, as a scarcity ono wear will
sometimes be followed by an abundanc,
NelCs.
"A person whose troubles never ceast
is the supersensitive individual VIII
takes TO heart various illusions in the
newspapers, and who fondly hugs the de
lusion that such items are intended a
personal insults especially constructed t.
injure him or her. Don't wear the sho
unless it fits you.
Patrick Joyce has received the con
tract fof the erection of the foundation 70
the building for the new factory an
would have a crew of men at work to
day if the weather was favorable. TIL
work on these buildings will be rushe
as fast as possible and the factory expect
to be running full time within abou
three months.
H. NJ. Irwin, of the Franklin Ne,0S
who is President OF the Franklin SchoC
Board. was here this afternoon getting
few points on how to erect school build
ing, and incidentally to get a violir
which was formerly the property of tn
eccentric and lamented Pete Conver, an
which had been undergoing repairs &
one of our music stores.-BLizzard.
The migratory whippoorwill ha
made its appearance, and we may expeC
fairly settled weather without any greS
probability of frost. The peculiar note
F of this bird, and its regularity in the ma
of arrival in May lin the Middle States
so attracted the Indians that they consid
cred it as a herald of summer, and con
sidered it safe to plant their corn whe
the bird sang " Wee-cO-iis," they said
each other, with significant nod, "hacl
? i-beck, =" or ''plant the ground"
The Spinsters Convention entertain
2 ment which is to be given by the ladie
of the Y.P.S.C.E. in the Court house nel
, Friday evening, May IA, promises to
the best entertainment given in TiOnes
, for long time and no one should miss
: A good, hearty laugh is insured to a
} who come, and as the price of admissio
is only 10 and 25 cents no one can clail
! to be 'too poor" to go, so go and enic
= yourself and help the Christian Endea'
3 or society, for the benefit of which Il