The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-08-26

young wife in Brady's Bend last Febru-
airy. Yesterday Zilairo was sentenced to
be hanged. The papers will be sent to
Gov. Pennypacker, who will fix the date
of the execution.
Grape crop reports indicate only
about half the usual yield. This will sup
ply the fruit for all who care to eat it and
the wine makers will fix up a lot of cider
and flavoring extract and sell it for grape
wine, as usual.-Franklin News. Well,
Jim, hat won't hurt us fellows that don't
drink the stuff, will it?
Trouble is brewing again between
the'cottage owners at ChautauqHa Assem-
bly,, the cottsgers feeling aggrieved he
cause the trustees have mortgaged the
entire real property of the association
without their consent, they being 99-year
at law will be begun soon.
The State Department of Fisheries at
Harrisburg is ready to receive applica-
tons from county and city superintend-
ents ofschools for goldfish to be used in
the class rooms for experimental pur-
poses. Only applications made upon the
department blanks by school superin-
tendents will be considered.
The tennis club has been making ex-
tensive improvements on their court and
practicing daily to get into shape for the
tournament between Tionesta and the
locals. The club realized where they
were at when in Tionesta recently and
hope to make the play more interesting
when the club from Tionesta play here
M~arienville Express.
We've had wonderfully fine weather
during most of August, being cool and
comfortable, but for the past four or five
days the weather man has given us a
taste of the real stuff. It's that clammy,
sticky kind that sort O. boils you, and the
more you try to keep cool the stickier
you get. In more than one sense is il
difficult to keep sweet"
The first attempt of the Salvation
Army to interest the people of this vi
entity in their religious meetings is now
being made, a large tent having been
erected on the mahtel factory lot, in
which meetings have been held nightly
since Saturday evening. The attendance
has been good and the Interest manifest
ed has been quite marked.
Mushrooms, they say, are ripening in
the pasture fields, but it's early for the
best. variety, and you'd better wait till
later on, about cbestnutting time, when
they're plentier and better, and by all
means wait till you know the difference
between the real thing and the common
toadstool, or y4& might have a deuce
of time, with doctor bills to boot.
Here is a fine opportunity for the
press agents of the ''food'' cotfees to point
a moral and adorn a tale-at least they
should be able to find good grounds" for
doing so, says the Bradford Record. Ac-
cording to news reports, the death of a
Chicago man, whose career was cut short
last week, was attributed to coffee. AT
break fast he complained about the quail
ity of the article, and his wife hit him on
the head with tho stove lid.
1t is not generally known that the
Pennsylvania State law requires a per-
son to stop, look and listen before driv-
ing across a railroad track. Unless the
provisions are needed and. a person is
struck by the cars, there is no possibility
for securing a judgment for damages in
case suits are brought to recover. The
courts hold that there was contributory
negligence and generally, nonsuit the
plaintiff before the case is fully tried.
This. is worthy of notice.
1t may interest housewives TO know
how flies may he effectually disposed OF
without the use of poison. Take half a
~teaspoonful OF black pepper powder, one
~teaspoonful of brown sugar and one tea
spoonful of cream. Mix ingredients well
together in a saucer and place in a room
where flies are troublesome and they will
very soon disappear. This recipe is taken
from an exchange and we will not be re-
sponsible if it don't work." but its sim
plicity makes it easy to try.
The schools of the borough open for
the year on Monday next. All parents
and guardians OF children of school age,
have been or will be notified in regard to
the law governing compulsory attend
ance OF pupils, and it is the desire of the
school board that the law shall be strictly
complied with. In fact it must be, but il
ihoped parents and others having on
troll of pupils will cooperate heartily
with the board in the enforcement of the
laws provisions.
That the Warren Jail needs fixing
badly is evidenced by the fact that prison
ers are escaping with about as much reg
ularity as clock work and a"out as much
ease as rolling off a log. Some time dur
ing last Wednesday night two men, in
carcerated and awaiting trial for theft,
made good their escape and have not yet
been recaptured. Their names are Ed
win Snyder and Thomas Riquor. The
County commissioners have offered a re-
ward of 500 for their return. Thu jail
is booked for a complete o%verhauling and
r%emodeling, but the work has not yeI
been commenced.
The humble and once disposed elder
berry is now ripening and rapidly find
ing its way into the fruit-canning cam'
paign that has lately been inaugurated
The time was, and not so many year,