The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1897-06-16

-ohautauqua Assembly opens June
26 and closes August %.
-"Boiler' sale of recovered stolen
goods at Miles & Armstrong;. Great
bargains. 1t
"A new postoffice has been established
at VOLTS Corners, Clarion county, with
Ii. II. Sigworth as postmaster.
-Meadville has began arrangements
for the Firemen's Convention of North
western Pennsylvania on Aug. Is, 10, 20.
IF you have the slightest idea of buy
ing odd pants or clothing of any kind it
will pay you to take look through
Hopkins store. 1t
Joseph Lull, a well known hotel
man of Fryburg, and gallant soldier in
the war of the rebellion, died at his
home Monday, June Z, 1897.
g. M. Arner has been appointed by
Governor Hastings as Notary Public for
this place and is now ready TO do all bus
iness pei tanning to that office.
The Cooksburg Summer Resort is
now open for the accommodation of guests.
For particulars address Cook & Calvin,
Cooksburg, Forest county, Pa. 1t
The II. o. Davis property, corner
Bridge and River streets, was sold Thurs
day at Orphans Court sale, to John II.
Swanson, for a consideration of $510.
The Governor has appointed Geo.
Lewis of Oil City and Charles G. Shirk of
Erie to be trustees of the Warren Insane
hospital for three years from June 10.
R. j. Thompson, Hopkins popular
clerk, was pleasantly surprised by G. M.
Arner & Son handing him nice check
for damage of his fine Brussels carpet
last week.
-Scowden & Clark have a first-class
carriage painter in their employ now,
and anyone wishing their carriages re-
painted before the 4th of July should call
and see them. 1t
The Free Methodists will hold a
camp meeting at Warren, Pa, beginning
June 80, and closing July Z. Tents for
meeting can be ordered from Rev. d. B.
Tobey, Franklin, Pa.
The County Commissioners went to
North Warren, Saturday morning, to
look over the asylum buildings and as
certain the condition of the Forest coun-
ty patients in the institution.
Now is the time to order your straw
berries for preserving. They are in just
the right condition and the price is about
as low as it will be this year. Leave
your orders early at Amsler's. 1t
Individually the hen does not cut
much of a figure i'll this country, but col
lectively her product is more valuable
than any other single production,
amounting in 1896 to $259, 1000, 900.
The prospects for very prosperous
excursion season for the w. N. Y. p.
Ry. are very good. 1t is claimed that
over thousand people took in the Olean
and Bradford excursion last Sunday.
1.-THE bones and muscles of the human
body" says an expert, care capable of
over 200 different movements" Any
body who has watched small boy at
family prayers will bear witness to this.
The town council of New Bethlehem
have secured from a Pittsburg brick
pavement builder an estimate as to the
cost OF paving the main street of that
borough which is so cents per square
yard.
AT meeting of the school board last
week the corps of teachers employed last
year were reelected. This was wise
action on the part of the board, as no bet
ter selection of teachers could have been
made.
Fireworks at Amsler's. All fresh,
new goods. No old stock from last year.
Sky rockets, Roman candles, flower pots,
pin wheels, in fact everything needed to
celebrate Independence day in chang
| lp" style. 1t
1t is reported that an effort will be
made to induce President Mckinley to
be in attendance at the unveiling of the
soldiers monument at Kane next July,
at which time the county association, G.
A. r., hold their annual reunion.
The w. N. Y. & P. Ry. is running
Sunday trains from Oil City to President
and intermediate points. Why not run
them on up to Tionesta? We have the
finest scenery in and about Tionesta to
be found on the Allegheny river.
Two aphorisms by the bachs-
lor oynic of the New York Press. 'Tis
better to have loved and won than never
to have loved at all. A mans cyniclsm
is bounded on the north by his vanity
and on the south by his digestion.
If the borough "dads" haven't got
''sand" enough to pass an ordinance
compelling bicyclists to keep Off the side
walks, they ought at least to pass law
compelling all riders of the wheel to
have bell and lamp attached to their
wheels.
Somebody now wants to make out
that bicycle riding shortens life. Some
medical director of large New York
life insurance started the idea and adj
vanced the theory, and if heart and kid
ney disease exist bicycle exercise is the
reverse of beneficial.
The Clarion Assembly opens June
80 and continues until July 20. An un-
usually attractive program has been pre-
| pared and the fact that Mrs. John Darr,
of Oil City is to have charge of the musi-
cal numbers on the program is an assur-
ance that that part will be well rendered.
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