The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-12-22
NEwsv NOTES.

Every dollar spent In your home town /
means a dollars worth Of prosperity for
that town.
Inscriptions small boys pick mp
Christmas money by blackmailing their
sisters hcaux.
With all It's energy and industry, asiu- |
gle bco can collect only about teaspoon
ful Of honey in single season.
Selecting Just the right thing for a
Christmas present Is made perfectly easy
IL you go to Heath a Killmer's. It,
Buy useful articles for your friends.
what is nicer than q Il ne umbrella, gloves,
suit or overcoat9 You get the best at
Miles & Armstrong;. 10
Tho total receipts at the football games
of the University Of Pennsylvania In
Philadelphia this season amounted TO
100000.
Hog cholera caused the death ofanum-
ber of hogs IN Sandcreek and French
creek townships, Venango county, the
past week
new counterfeit g. silver certificate
of the series of 1891 with a portrait Of
Grant, is announced by the treasury Sc
cret service.
A Union Pacific mail train has just
made the run from Cheyenne TO Council
Bluffs, 519 miles, in 500 minutes, actual
time, including stops.
"Riches may take wings, but Judging
ing from the prevailing prices Of wo-
mems hat trimmings" says the Mana
yunk Philosopher, "wings also take
riches.'
The holidays are here, so to speak,
and Hopkins is here with the Christmas
goods TO fit the case. Dead welts of en-,
and so low in price as to astonish close
buyers. 1t.
The old fashioned father believed in
the cooperation of parent and teacher,
and when the boy was whipped at school
he got a second whipping when he got
home. Such a rule should be revived by
the modern fathers for the good of some
boys.
-Amslers stock of Christmas candies
beats them all. The variety is large, the
| quality fine and the price is within the
reach Of all. Don't buy your supply till
you have seen his display. To be had
in any quantity desired. It.
DIR. Scott, whose adv. appears in this
issue makes the liberal offer to every one
trying his brush, that if it is not found
satisfactory after six months trial he will
refund the money, the brush has been
! sold over twenty years and must have
merits TO enjoy such an extensive sale.
While trolling for salmon in Moran's
Eddy near Oil City Sunday, a rainbow
or California trout measuring seventeen
inches in length was captured. 1t is sup
posed that it came from some of the river
tributaries which have been stocked.
The big fish was kept alive and will be
| put in an aquarium.
This is time of the year when the "pay-
on the installment plan man" is abroad
in the land. 1t is a good thing to
give these fellows the marble heart when
they call and try to induce you to buy an
inferior article at about double the price
home dealers charge, just because you
can have time on it.
We have secured the agency for the
finest tailoring establishment in the States
and can make a suit Tor you at prices be-
low regular tailoring prices. We guaran-
tee fit before you pay us a cent Come in
and see our samples, which comprises the
latest staples aud novelties the market
affords. Miles X Armrtrong. If
Never judge a man 10y the clothes he
wears, says the Johnsonburg Breeze.
The man with friuges around the bottom
Of his trousers. dilapidatod hat and worn
out shoes may be the editor of your To-
cal paper; while the man with the patent
leather shoes and red necktie may sim
ply be one of his delinquent subscribers.
Many counterfeit dollar pieces are in
circulation in this vicinity and scarcely a
day passes that one or moro of the spu-
rious coins are not stamped 'counterfeit'
at one of the banks. The queer coins are
under weight and have a greasy feeling,
though from the glass which they contain
u fairly good ring is given out by them
when dropped. d.-TaHSUiiIe Herald.
Don't miss the bargains at Miles ~
Armstrong;. 1t
Charles II. Shepard, one of Oil City's
oldest citizens, and at one time its lead
ing dry goods merchant, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head with a 3S-calibre revolver on Thurs
day morning last, the ball passing entire
ly through his head and lodging in the
partition of his room. Dependency is
given as the cause for the rash act.
You can make your money reach
tarthest al Miles IL Armstrong;. 1t
"Before the stewart takes up the col
lection" said preacher in a neighbor
ing town, al would like to make few
remarks. There are over two hundred
persons in the house, containing sinners
and saints, big and little, male and te
male, not including the crying babies. Il
each person here thinks my sermon
worth the price of beer or nickle ci-
gar, five cents or a dime, let them pay
that amount If each pay nickle it viii
make total Of $40 this evening, This
amount every week in the year would
pay my salary. A sermon that ism
worth a nickle isn't worth coming tC
hear and the person that will beat the