The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-10-28
oil market closed at sI.7l.

oil and gas leases at this Office.
- -HopKins sells the Douglas shoes If
Rev. Nickle will conduct services at
the County Home, Friday evening, Oct.
80. 0nder the auspices of the w. G. r. U.
The Clarion State Normal School has
a splepdid faculty and a fine equipment.
Pa ents will make no mistake in sending
their sons and daughters to this school.
Lost, yesterday, between the resi-
Alence Off. r. Clark and the Rural house.
oadies' silver watch. Finder will be
suitably rewaSSed by leaving same at
Rural house.
AS usual the White Star Grocery will
keep a supply of guns for rent during the
hunting season, and will be prepared to
fit you out with the best of ammunition
for the occasion at reasonable cost. If
Operators over in the township, west
Side Of the Allegheny, finished a well
last week that is reported dry. Park
Black, in the Pithole field, found one of
same kind 1t is said, about the same time.
The Forest County Poultry and Pet
Stock Association will hold its second
annual exhibition in Tionesta on the 22d,
23d, oath, 25th and Goth of December.
Write to f. A. Keller, Secretary, for par
ticulars. 1t
III it's a set of furs you are looking
or'don't go farther than this store. A
finer showing is not be seen outside the
largest fur houses of the great cities. No
fancy prices, but great quality and beau
ty. Hopkins. 1t
Jack McCalmonl was up from Presi-
dent a few hours Monday. He reports
some drilling operations IN his farm at
present, but if the well comes in dry We
are to say nothing about it. But that viii
scarcely happen, for Jacks too good a
fellow to get left that way.
For a beginner that blizzard Monday
evening was a good reminder that winter
is not far away. Snow to the depth of an
inch fell here in the valley, and out on
the hills we are told the ground was COW
cred by from two to three inches. This
is the first of the 'real thing so far this
season.
Hadn't you better take advant-
age of the REPUBLICANS clubbing rate
with the New York Tribune Farmer?
Twenty five cents additional to ycur reg
ular subscription brings this great farm
journal to you every week for one year..
Both old and new subscribers get the
benefit of the offer.
The first real frosts of the season
along this valley visited us during the
past week, the effect OF which has been
to kill all serts of vegetation, and to start
the leaves to falling thick and fast. Tie
probability now is that we shall have
something like winter weather, although
no one is anxious for anything of the
Kind.
The Rev. e. NJ. Kernick, for several
years pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Tidioute, died Thurday morn
ing at his home in that place after an i'll
ness of several months of cancer of the
stomach. Rev. Kernick was about 30
years of age, and is survived by a widow,
two daughters and a son. Rev. and Mrs.
o. H. Nickle, of this place, attended the
funeral which was held Saturday.
Addison Mealy, of the township, left
with his family yesterday for lndepend-
ence, Kansas, where he has concluded 10
make his home so longas he finds protta-
BILE employment in the oil fields there.
They were accompanied by Harry Mong,
Will Korb and Bruce Stitzinger, all of
whom expect to work there. Joseph
Mong accompanied the party as far MS
Bowling Green, Ohio, where he will visit
his son, George.
John c.. Carpenter met with a pain
full accident on Monday of last week
while hauling timber out of the woods
near his home at Newtown Mills. The
stick. to which his team was hitched
struck some object and swung to one
side catching his leg and breaking the
bones about half way between the knee
and ankle. DR.. Detar, of Kellettville,
rendered the necessary surgery, and the
injury is doing well.
"A case of small-po developed at the
PENNSYLVANIA Memorial Home in this
place yesterday and the Home was quar-
antined at once, says the B~rookville Re-
publicans The victim of the disease is a
little daughter of Mrs. Jacob A. Haines,
who is employed at the home. The dis
ease has manifested itself in a very mild
form, and the physicians are hopeful of
preventing it from reaching other in
mates of the institution,
AT Harrisburg, Tuesday, State Dairy
and Food Commissioner Warren ordered
365 suits to be brought against wholesale
and retail loquor dealers in various parts
Of the State Tor selling adulterated hqu-
ors. OF the samples on which these suits
were brouL lit So per cent. were adulter-
ated with salicylic acid. DR.. Warren is
pushing his work of examinations and
prosecutions with c~ommendable activity.
oil City Blizzard. More power to the d..
and l.. Commissioner. Let the food be
kept pure and wholesome though the
heavens fall, and, incidentally, ourdrinks
as well.