The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-04-20

--Oll market ClOSeu NJ cl.OO.
New hats, new hats at Fets. 1t
oil and gas leases at this Office.
y Hopkins sells the Douglas shoes Il
Nobody beats our prices. Hopkins,
Get your carpet at II. b. Felt Co.'S. /
Hopkins shoe stock beats them all.
And he matches anybody's price. 1t
The stock OF wall paper at Dunn's
drug store excels anything ever handled
in this town. IL
All the new things in ladies' and
gents shoes. Cash makes the price low.
II. b. Felt Co. 1t
The White Star grocery, as usual, will
keep complete variety of garden seeds
in bulk. They are considered much bet
ter and cost less. 1t
A half dozen successive nice days
would put the roads in good condition,
but the trouble seems to he to get the
nice days in bunch.
Two new county phones have been
added to the list this week in Tionesta.
No. 55 at Hermans store, and No. So at
Wilson's meat market.
-Ex-S Sheriff James s. Shearer, OF
Venango county, died at his home In
Rouseville, on Monday last, after an i'll
ness of more than two years.
-Four deaths from typhoid fever have
occurred at Ridgway, where there are at
present 70 cases of the disease. The cpl
demic seems to be spreading.
ALI members expecting to entertain
guests at the Alumni banquet, will please
send i'm names without further delay
Tickets now on sale at the home of the
president.
Alfred, the four -year-old son of Isa-
iah X ifier, of Beaver Valley, Hickory
township, died on the llth inst, and was
buried at the Town Line cemetery last
Wednesday.
The Prohibitionists of Forest county
will hold county convention in Tones
ia, May 4th, at 800 p. m. Charles X,
Jones, S@te Chairman, will be present.
BY order bf Committee.
Ray Birtcl has received a carload of
cement and is ready to commence laying
gravolithic walks as soon AS the weather
settles. The first job will be in front OF
j. G.. Scowden's residence.
Caats for rCon,,uancamante exel cises OF
the graduating class of the high school
have sold rapidly in the past few days,
and If you expect to attend, it will be
well to secure your seat at once.
Two inches of "the beautiful" cover
ing the ground this morning, April 20,
A. d. 1901, with a healthy Dakota bliz-
zard accompaniment, is a feature worthy
of note. Is this the "spring time, gentle
Annie ?"
General orders have been issued from
the headquarters of the National Guard
of Pennsylvania that the Lewiston en-
campment will be held at Gettysburg
July 23d to 30th. The rifle practice wa"
opened April 1st and will close Oct 3lst
The sermon to the high school gradu'
ates in the Presbyterian church next
Sabbath evening, by Rev. Il. W. Hing
worth, is intended to be union service
and the members of the other churches,
with their congregations, are invited tc
attend.
Last Sunday was bright and clear
though the air was quite chilly. But tlf
ty years ago on that date the natives
awoke in the morning to find the GROUND
covered by two feet of snow, an evidence
that there were old fashioned winters IL
those days, also.
George Holeman and crew turned
the first boat Of the season at the Castor
scaffold Monday, and the barge builders
launched their first sand flat at the sam'
yards on that day. From this on th'
work will progress rapidly at that plant
if the weather is favorable.
And now the question of how tn,
base ball games went is tho ell-absorbinl
topic of the day. The trouble started 70
the season last week, and bids fair to be
come as epidemic as ever. The feve
hasn't struck Tionesta yet, but there ar
symptoms of it apparent in some quar-
ters.
The trouting season was opened las
Friday by few who had the hardhoot
to brave the weather and storm, but tn
results were not very encouraging. On
party of two, Geo. Robinson and Josepl
Weaver, brought in a string of nineteen
the largest and about the only string re
ported.
Hon. W. &. Hunt, one of Oil City
old and most prominent res dents, die
at his home in that city last WEDNESDAY
evening. His death was sudden and un
expected, though his health had not bee
good for year or more previous. MI
Hunt was lumber dealer of considers
BILE note in this section, and was we
known to many of our citizens. lie wa
mayor ofbis city during the flood an
fire of 1892. and served many years i
the select council, of which he was
member at the time of his death.