The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-08-09
oil market closed at sl.27.

--Oil market closed at Sl.27.
You can get it at Hopkins store. If
Melons and cantaloupes of the finest
varieties at the White Star Grocery. 1t
The subject of Rev. w. o. Calhoun's
sermon at the NJ. E. church next Sabbath
evening will be sour Debt to Missions"
While the rest OF us have had to wait
occasionally, 1t appears that the "hello"
girls never gave Cupid the busy signal.
-Edlnboro Normal incites love for
knowledge and desire to be useful. Fall
session opens Sept. 18th. John f. Big
ler, Principal. 1t
%. W. Proper killed two large rattle
snakes In the road near Ross Run last
Friday. One carried fourteen and the
other seven rattles.
Wayne Cook and family and Bert
Calvin started last week on trip to
Alaska They will visit various points
of interest en- route.-Clarion Democrat.
Don't overlook the fact until too late
that Hopkins is selling light weight suits
for men at ridiculously low prices. They
will not last long at the figures placed on
them. 1t
Following is the list of letters lying
uncalled for in the Tionesta, Pa, post
Office for week ending August 8, 1905;
Mr.. NJ. M. Barnes, card.
d. S. KNOX, p. NJ.
The special train for the Odd Fellows
picnic at Monarch Park, Aug. 10, will
pass Hickory at 9;54 and Tionesta 1906 a.
M, returning will leave Oil City IL p. m.
Fare for the round trip rs cents, which
includes street car fare to the Park and
return. st
DIR. Rumberger and party, of Big
Run, Pa, passed down the river in their
finely equipped house boat, stopping here
Monday evening Just long enough to take
on new invoice of provisions and
brick of limberger. They are having
splendid outing.
The past year was one of the most
successful in the history of the Clarion
State Normal School. The attendance
was large and fine spirit pervaded the
student body. This school offers super
ior advantages at very low cost. The
new catalogue has just been issued. 1t
Guy Hilliard, Jr., of Endeavor,
brakeman on the Hickory Valley Rail-
road had the middle finger of the left
hand so badly mashed between the
bumpers last Thursday that amputation
at the first joint was necessary, He came
to Tionesta and DR.. Dunn fixed him up.
-Ex.T Treasurer George c. Priestley, of
Warren county, we'll known to many of
our citizens, has cast his lot with the east
ern hustlers in the Indian Territory oil
field and is moving to Bartlesville, l. t.,
which he will make his future home, and
where we hope he may amass big for
tune.
The corner stone of the new Metho-
dist Episcopal church, at Greenwood,
Barnett township, this county, will be
laid on Sunday, Aug. 1S, at O'Clock p.
M, by Rev. A. II. Rich, d. H., assisted
by Rev. NJ. b. Riley. Addresses will be
delivered and appropriate services con-
Quoted. All are cordially invited to at
tend.
And now after the recent hard rains,
supervisors should 60 over their roads,
pick off the loose stones, and turn the lit
tie water ways from the roads into the
bitches, says neighboring exchange.
And that's what should happen in this
latitude. Some of the roads are in badly
dilapidated condition largely through
neglect.
w. A. Ekis, of Barnett township,
passed through TIonesta last Friday on
his way to attend the funeral of his
brother, Jacob Ekis, who died at his
home near Housewife on the I'd inst.
The deceased was aged II years, and is
survived by his wife, one son and a
daughter. He was a man of stel ling
worth, highly respected by all who knew
him.
The word "foci' as used in dispatches
from New Orleans regarding yellow fever
means center of the disease. 1t is the
plural of the Latin word "locus." There
may be one or more cases in focus. OF
late the dispatches have given only the
number of cases and not the number OF
foci The fewer foci reported the better
the indications are that the disease is un-
der control.
While watching ball game at Mar
ienvile last Thursday afternoon, Lewis
Mensch, one of the prominent young
business men of that place, was seriously
injured by being hit in the face by the
ball. The cheek bone was entirely
crushed in, making very painlul ana
dangerous wound. At last accounts he
was getting along quite well and 1t is
thought he will recover without further
difficulty or dangerous complications.