The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-03-16

the Pickering street bridge. The build
ing is heated and lighted by gas, and
when the supply failed 1t was very chilly
and dark. They had TO resort to all man
ner of expedients to keep warm. The
case was made worse by reason OF the
fact that there were so many old people in
home. Brookvills Democrat.
AT Warren. Friday Claude Baker,
convicted of highway robbery in holding
up and robbing Richard Collins, on Feb
ruary IL, was sentenced to pay a fine Of
500 and costs of prosecution, and TO be
imprisoned in the Western penitentisry
for term of eight years. Sheriff Brown
and deputy came down from Warren
Monday evening and yesterday started
with Baker and Snyder for the peniten-
tiary. The latter goes for six years.
The editor of the Oil City Blizzard is
seized with the following apprehension !:
Apostle Smith has q boys and 81 girls in
his domestic five-ringed circus. Were
the boys to emulate the example of their
illustrious sire, and each take five wives,
and were the same polygamous proper
tons maintained in other families, there
would not be girls enough to go around,
and something like what is known in the
oil country as "crowding of lines" might
follow.
1t Is said that the body of John Eel
burg, who was drowned in Tionesta creek
at Sheffield on the evening of Septemb Der
lS last, was found last Wednesday mile
below the point where he met his death.
lie walked into the stream from the
bridge, which was very high. Lee Mum
ford, who was fishing in the creek,
brought the body to the surface. 1t was
very much decomposed. The unfortu-
nate man leaves a mother, his father
having died since the fatality.
john said James, "Where are you
going?" ~ am going to Kellettville. A
clothing sale is going on there, and it is
said that II fellow can buy real cheap
thblts iOh UlOun tbO ANtN lOlN
Clothing sale. You bet they sell cheap.
am just coming from there and here is
what l have bought: An overcoat, a suit
of clothes, two shirts, hat, four pair of
hose, and honestly believe that for the
price l have paid for all could not have
bought the overcoat in any other store.
Let me tell you they are godsend to our
community" 1t
"A private letter from John w. Solley
states that his father, James Solley, Esq,
died at his home in Parkersburg, w. Va,
on February 18th, last. This will be sad
news to many old friends of Squire Sol
ley still residing in Forest county, where
he had made his home for many years,
and wherc he was held in high esteem by
those who knew him. He was aged So
years, and kept his health remarkably
well up to within a few hours of his
death. which came from mere eXhaus-
tion, ora silencing of the heart beats.
Mr. Solley was a justice of the peace in
llonesa nearly 0U years ago.
That this has been strenuous winter
no man will dispute who has been at all
mixed up with it, but there have been
others. In running over the files of the
REPUBLICAN,, in search for something
that might compare with it in measure
at least, we find that on the 18th Of March,
1885, ST. Patrick's day, (Which, by-the-
way, occurs to-morrow) the thermometer
registered II degrees below zero, and
three days later, March Goth, first day of
spring, the murcury dropped to % below.
That year the river was frozen over solid
ly for nearly its entire length, and the ice
did not pass out at this point until the
7th day of April. So il will be observed
that the winter of 1904 is not the only
winter.
The Central Pennsylvania Lumber
Company, whose main Offices are kept at
Williamsport, Pa, is mo small potatoes"
in the lumber business, says the Ridgway
Advocate. "This company now owns all
the vast tracts of timber and bark lands
formerly belonging TO the Penn, Elk and
Union Tanning Companies. They have
in the neighborhood of two hundred
square miles of timber lands, located in
twenty counties of Pennsylvania. Their
possessions extend from Pike county on
the east to Warren and forest counties on
the west. They have nine saw mills,
several of them each large enough to
turn out $50, 900 feet of lumber each day."
Roy G. Brownell, former well-known
Tionesta boy, is secretary of this exten-
sive corporation.
"A Sunday or so ago, while conduct
ing religious services at the county Jail,
one of the speakers in the course of his
remarks, mentioned the fact that he OBJ
served couple of strange faces among
the inmates frank, honest appearing
countenances, that he had not seen on his
former visits to the basllle. He didn't
know what they "were in Tor, but hoped,
and judged from their appearance, il
could not be for serious otfense, but in
any case ho trusted they would receive
mercy and pardon from the Great Judge
OF all flesh, and that they would lead bet
ter lives in the future. 1t developed later
that Sheriff Brown and Commissioner
Hegberg, of Warren county, having offic-
ial business with Sheriff Noblit. had
come down on the Saturday evening
train, and were taking view OF the in
side of the Jail on Sunday afternoon,
when the good people arrived to conduct
the customary worship there.
TO Stop The Evil of Intemperance.