The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1899-09-13


strosg's. 1t
Still selling those odds and ends at
.your own price at Hopkins. 1t
The county commissioners conven-
tion to be held at Erie has been post
poned until October 10th.
The pumpkin is getting exceedingly
yellow these autumnal days. First thing
it knows it will be "pie" for the average
householder
The Veterans reunion at Marienville
tomorrow will be quite well attended
from this section If all go who have ex-
pressed desire to.
The creamery at VOLTS Corners will
be removed to the Charles Gilfert farm
near Lickingville, where it is expected
to do much larger business.
e. w. Bovard is finishing the hall
over his store room and will have very
nice place of it when the carpenters and
plesterers get through with the job.
Quarterly meeting services will be
held in the Free Methodist church at
Newmansville, beginning Friday even
ing Sept. 22d and continuing over Sun
day.
Some buckwheat Is already cut, a
matter oflwo weeks or more earlier than
usual. Corn, and in fact most all other
farm and garden produce, is alike for
ward this season.
We suppose. remarks an observant
exchange, that the last intelligent thought
in a woman's mind in moment of peril
is to wonder how many will see the hole
in her stocking if she is killed.
-Titusville has been voefully torn up
over the proposed purchase of town
pump. The campaign was closed yester-
day, but the returns are not all in yet,
but the indications are that the pump has
won out.
Grapes galore at Amsler's, and every
other variety of fruit the appetite may
desire. And vegetables, too, fresh and
just right. Nothing stale about his store.
Groceries, canned goods, tobacco and Gig
ars. Try him. II
-Pleasantville correspondence to IT.
tusville World: The Misses Mae and
Winnie Noyes are visiting friends at Ne
brasda, Pa.-Florence Fogle, daughter
pf W-S, Fogle of Neitown, is suffering
With typhoid fever.
Following is list OF letters remaining.
uncalled for in the Tonesta, Pa, post
Office for the week ending Sept. 49, 1899:
Mr.. James Hartrup, Mr.. Robert Shaw,
Archie Blakeslee, Miss Magey Hagap
N s. KNOX, p. M.
Frank, the aforementioned son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hunter of Nebraska,
Pa, died on Saturday last of cholera in
fantum, and was buried on Sunday. The
parents have the sympathy of all in their
community ip this bereavement.
-Chas. A. Golf, who was tried in
Franklin last week for the murder of
his wife at their home in Oil City on the
2Oth of July last, was scquitted by the
jury after seven ballots had been taken.
The trial did not attract much attention.
-Thirty-one persons received natural
ization papers at argument court held
in Ridgway Sept. .. However, it will be
several generations before their names
become so far Anglicised as to be pro-
nouncable by the average native Amer
lean.
The road commissioners of Tionesta
township give notice that they will meet
on the ground near the Overlander grist
mill, at 10 o'clock a. m, Sept. l6, to let
the contract for building the bridge over
Hunter run and filling the approaches.
The abutments. are built.
This is big day at the Oil City fair,
but tomorrow will be bigger one. a
special train leaves here at 1914 a. m. to-
morrow and will return in the evening,
giving visitors a who o day at the fair
grounds. Doubtless large crowd will
attend from this section. Fare for the
rouud trip. 65 cents.
BY collision of two freight trains
near Tiona, on the P. & Il. railroad, Sum
day morning, engineer IL. J.. Gerlach
and fireman W. G.. Shoff, both oftrain So,
were so badly injured that they have
since died. Two brakeman were severe
ly injured but will recover. Thirty
freight cars were demolished.
o-Someone has figured out how FAR a
farmer has to walk to plant and attend to
forty acres ofcorn. To plow the ground
with sixteen-inch plow he walks $50
.miles, to harrow it thoroughly before
planting, fifty miles more, and to culti-
vate it afterwards, $50 miles, making a
total of $50 miles, in addition to garner
ing.
The Tionesta Gas company has dis
posed of that portion of its plant located
on Hemlock to the StandarL, which COM
pany has been getting the production of
that field for the past two or three years
on contract. The home company will
hereafter get all it's gas from the Mealy
field, where they have number of very
fine wells.
And soon now o. mornings Old Sol
will kiss the frozen perspiration from
the brow of Mother Earth. And ye prin
ter, whose hook is full of unpaid gas
bills, can warm up mornings reading
over his list of delinduent subscribers.