The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-08-05
Busy, Prosperous Mayburg.

| considerable sickness on the NIL
Frank Parker is down with typhoid fe
yer, Drs. Detar, Morrow and Hamilton
are in attendance. j. X. Brown h as bull
very pretty addition; to his home on
Lookout Point. The new porches and
the tasty paint work by G. J. McGill oI
Tidioute, gives it very rich and neat sp-
pearance. VIM. Deshner did the carpen-
ter work. Didn't think twas in you
Billy. It's a good job. The school house,
Browns fine residence, the parsonage
and the new church Ito be built this sum-
mer) will make that locality look grand.
On Cottage Hill stands the new residence
of Monroe McMauigle, of McManigle Il
Brown. It's fine coat of green and red
put on by Irwin Long makes that point
look good. Then the new road leading to
Deshner's passing Horizons, gives good
way of travel out and in. Improvements
in the home of Deshner, helps the sp-
pearance of that locality very much.
James Huling, and John Saylor, of
your city, and VIM. Hartman are build
ing good home for Joe Richards, oppo-
site the Cook Oil Lease office. Joe's
election as township treasurer seemed to
make him grow, so that now he is about
six feet. Don't know how tall he'll be
when he gets into his new house, which
will be beauty. Then the small barn
back of the house is very nice.
The old Cliswell house is being rehted
for 7. B. Clifford and family. Thomas
moved away from Msyhurg some years
ago but he is welcomed back. The large
boarding house kept by Smith Bros.
gives general satisfaction, and good
meal at reasonable figure. The May
burg Supply Co, is doing large business
of general merchandise. C. j. Johnson
the supt. of the store is O. X. What
with new buildings and other improve
mehts, good roads, the mill running
lively, and the old Cook Oil Lease pour
ing ont the oil, it don't seem as if tLis
was the Forest County wilderness, yet it
is what was known as such a few years
ago, when black bear were killed where
now are houses and gardens.
The mill has ii good machine shop ably
presided over by A. j. Slosser of Warren,
Pa, where the locomotives of the Watson
Lands Lumber Co., and all the machine
work of McManigle and Brown, mill
work etc., etc., is done up in first rate
style.
This 1000 acres of land, known as the
Cook estate, now owned by Mr.. Il. ID.
Collins of Nebraska, Pa, has had a won
| derful history, which is not closed yet,
for the future looks bright. First came
Hall x May, who took off the white pine,
mostly during the civil war. Timber and
manufactured lumber was run TO Pitts
| burg and Louisville, where it was sold
for good prices which made everybody
comfortable. Then the oil developed by
Grandin q Kelly, under the management
of VIM. Richards, the constant striking of
big wells and their staying qualities,
proved this to be one of the richest fields
ever struck in Forest county. Now
comes the taking off of the hemlock tim
Der and bark by II. d. Collins and the
Penn Tanning Co., and after that the con-
tnued yield of oil which is promised 10th
from old and new wells, makes the story
OF the Cook lands read like a fairy tale or
something like it. You know the Bible
says that "the wilderness and the sola-
tary place shall be glad, and the desert
shall rejoice and bloom as the rose" well
it's so. And what else there is beneath
the ground we cannot say.
North OF Mayburg, along the old Ball.
town road, is watering trough, which is
not always filed but when lis the horses
like to stop and fill up. That water comes
from under the hill from spring that
was once famous as a deer lick. II seems
that the deer and the horses have the
same taste for mineral water. This
water, when used in boilers, yields sed-
iment, which / presume is the mineral
liked both by deer and horses, and for
aught we know, by other animals. 1t
might be one of those wonderful springs
that is often so good in the healing of The
ills that flesh is heir to, but it always
seems that the deer and horses find it out
first. MORE ANON.