The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-12-02

ana the way 10 DO Is u help your frlenus
In The selection Of presents by suggesting
TO them through the newspaper.
The attention of our readers is called
to the &C advertisement of the Duquesne
S%ilverwsre Co., which appears in another
column. The Duquesne company quotes
some very reasonable prices upon sea
sonable aad desirable holiday goods.
The cartoon department in the De-
cember Review of Reviews is entirely
devoted to American cartoons of the
month. The elections and the Panama
situation are effectively ''covei ed" as
well as many other topics of the time.
Governor Pennypacker has named
the date for the execution of Aiello and
Pallone, the W condemned Italian
murderers confined in the Brookville
jail, as January 18th, next. The death.
watch has been set over the doomed men
by the sheriff.
Mrs. Rachel Noble had the misior-
tune to slip and fall on the icy doorstep
of her residence on Vine street, last We'd
nesday, and break the bone Of the left
forearm, and dislocate the wrist Of the
same arm. The injury is a very painful
one and will doubtless be many weeks in
healing.
The finest line of Christmas goods,
consisting of albums, toilet cases, hand
kerchief boxes, jewel boxes, sterling sill
yer novelties. dolls, boxing gloves, strik-
ing bags, juvenile books, ETC., ever dis
played in Tionesta or vacInity will be on
exhibition at Dunn's drug store on and
after Dec. I, 1903. 1t
w. W. Callen, who has been con
drcting a boarding house for the Warren
Lumber Company, near Warren, Pa, is
moving this week to Darlington, where
he will stay till spring, and then go back
into the boarding house again. AT times
he has as high as fifty-three boarders.-
Rockville Democrat.
Two men, said to hail from Mead
vile, b arded the train here Saturday
noon having in their Possession 96 rab-
bits and four pheasants, which they
claimed to have killed in the space OF
three days In these parts. That sort OF
sportsmen (?) ought to spell their name
with a g, h. appendage.
The Derrick's report of oil operations
for the month of November gives the
number of new wells completed in the
Pennsylvania field at S24, with 1884 rigs
and drilling wells on the way showing a
gain of nine wells and 459 barrels new
production over the October report.
There was an increase of "a in new work.
Poultry fanciers and all others inter
ested in chickens and pet stock of all
kinds should keep in mind the second
annual exhibit of the Forest County
Poultry, Pet Stock aud Horticultural
Association, which will be held in this
place Dec. % to 20, inclusive. Write f.
A, Keller, Sec'y, for any Information de-
sired. IT
The past week has bordered mighty
close onto real winter weather, and with
the little snow that has fallen the sleigh
ing for several days has been quite good,
better, in fact than wheeling, for most
purposes. If this means that winter has
come to stay, then it is a little out Of the
ordinary, being two or three weeks ahead
of schedule time for this section.
BY a ruling of the Postofice Depart
ment a person having mail delivered by
rural carrier can get his mail at the Office
from which the mail is distributed any
time he wishes TO call for il during office
hours. Thus a man living on a rural
route can get his Saturday mail in the
afternoon when in town and will not
have to wait until Monday morning for
it.
Between forty and fifty liquor deal
ers and druggists in Franklin, Warren
and Titusville nave been arrested during
the past two weeks for selling impure
wines and %brandies. All claimed to he
ignorant of the fact that they were break
ing the law, and most of them settled
their cases out of court by paying the
fines, which amounted to about S57 in
each case.
The typhoid scourge in the city Of
Butler is growing in magnitude daily,
and it is said there are over eighteen hun
bred cases now reported, which number
is being almost hourly added to. Many
deaths are occurring every day and the
physicians are being worked far beyond
their capacity. Impure water is blamed
for the prevalence OF the terrible scourge
The iourishing little city of Ridg'
way is TO have a daily paper, and the fact
that it will be one of which it may be-
proud, is assured by the nnounceme
that the versatile and all round newspa'
per man, William II. Baker, for years
past editor of the Advocate, is to be a
the head of the concern. If daily news
paper disideratum exists in the town o
Ridgway there is no one better calculat
ed to supply the want than "Old Bill
Baker, Success to the enterprise.
"A charge in the schedule of the
Pennsy trains went into effect Sunday
but only slight changes are noted at thi'
station. The first train up in the morn
ing reaches here at S:4S, three minutes
earlier than usual, and the first trail
down is due here al ll:l0, three minutes
later than formerly. The evening trait
down arrives at 7:20, also three minute
later. No change is made in the after
noon train up, which arrives at 4;45.