The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-10-18


is quoted as saying. "Each year every
local newspaper gives from $500 to $500
in free lines for the benefit of the com
munity in which it is printed. No Other
agency can or will do this.
-Amsler handles as complete line o.
groceries rs can be found in town and
his goods are all new and fresh and o
the finest grades, while the prices are as
low as the lowest. Seasonable fruits and
vegetables always on hand.
w. 1. Swoope, the "boy orator of the
Susquehanna," prominent member OF
the Clearfield bar, was married last week
to Miss Elizabeth Hartwick of Clearfield.
The groom will be remembered by many
of our people here as speaker during
the campaign of'96.
Harry d. Patch disappeared from
Wilmerding, Pa, on July 30, 1899. Patch
is a boy l5 years old, four feet six inches
tall, dark complexioned and dark hair.
His parents do not know whether he is
dead or alive. They are making every
effort possible to find him.
"A gin that was not included in the
published list of wedding presents re-
ceived by newly married Missouri cou-
pie was a receipt for ten years back SUBJ
scription due from the groom to one OF
the neighboring county papers, the gen.
erous contribution of the big-hearted
publisher.
Send your items when they are fresh.
We don't like to publish birth after the
child is weaned, marriage after the
honeymoon is over, a death after the wild
ow is married again, nor notice of an
entertainment after the job work is done
elsewhere and the editor is charged for
admission.-ET.
-Tionesta is never behind, whether il
pertains to improvement, horticulture, or
what not else. This year Eli Holeman
picked twenty-five bushels of nice win
ter apples from one tree, besides several
bushels that fell off. This is certainly an
immense crop, and one that doubtless
has few if any equals hereabouts.
Miller McClelland, aged % years, a
brakeman on the river division of the W.
N. Y. & p, and member of Co. X of the
10th regiment which took part in the
Porto Rican campaign, was thrown from
the top OF a freight car in the railroad
yards at Siverly and instantly killed, his
neck and four ribs being broken.
Three of Conrad Sibblee children
arc still confined with typhoid fever
at their home on German Hill, two having
recovered. All seem to be getting along
pretty well at present, but Mr.. and Mrs
Sibble are pretty nearly worn out by the
vigilance which they have constantly
kept since about the middle of August.
The new bridge across the mouth o
Hunter Run on tho West Side has beer
completed and the new road which was
made by taking slice off the Hunter
property is vast Improvement over thu
old one and it now looks as though thu
trouble which the township road com
missioners have had every time there
was a rain is over, at that point at least.
The bricklayers and stone cutters
have finished their work on the new
county house and the building is nov
ready for the plasterers. The work vii
now be rushed as fast as possible, bu
owing to the unusual boom in buildin!
all over this section the contractors ar,
meeting with considerable difficulty il
securing men to do the work.
When the new year swings around
it will take considerable practice for peo
pie to get into the habit of dating thei
letters 00.-RidglOdy AdUocdte. Tha
will do for the middle-aged and the old
who are in the decline of life, but tn
young, who arc fast-lived and who ar
aspiring for somewhere, they know no
where, in manhood and womanhood, vii
write it easily.
F. Walters IL Co., our popular up-to
date milliners, will hold their fall open
ing next Friday and Saturday, Octobe
20 and'2l. AS usual they have made ev
cry effort TO make their display of fal
and winter hats larger than on any previ
Gus occasion and as usual they hav
been successful. Everybody is invite,
to come and see goods whether they wisl
TO purchase or not. 1t
The case of Wheaton, the Venang
county boy murderer, sentenced to l
years Imprisonment at recent term Q
court, came up in the supreme cour
and the attorneys asked for last weel
continuance. 1t seems that the pape
book will cost 5000 to print and Wheat
on's brothers, who are laborers, have nc
yet been able to raise the amount, henc
the application for continuance.-Iftu
Ville Courier.
"A convention of the horse traders {
Beaver, Lawrence, Mercer and Butle
counties is to be held at the farm {
Philip Mclaughlin, near Beaver Falls
October II. 1t is said this will be til
first gathering of its kind. Only thos
who make horse swapping principa
source of livelihood will be present Fac
person is expected TO come with one G
more horses prepared to trade.-Er.
"A barn belonging to George Burher