The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-05-31


brisk as 1t has been during the past bal
dozen years, mainly because the price o.
bark has taken quite slump, the larger
tanning institutions having large stock
still left over from last year, Timber
owners will peel only such amounts as
comes from the stock they must have to
keep their mills running. Heretofore
large quantities of timber were cut be-
canse the bark was in demand and COM
manded handsome figure.
Every boy and girl should be disci-
plined thoroughly in the matter of living
within ones means. The greatest harm
in business is rascality -embezzlement,
gambling, cheating, stealing is caused by
living, or desire to live beyond ones
income. 1t is not enough to live as we
can afford to live but to be content with
that. There are millions of people who
do live within their means, but who get
no joy out of life, because they are always
sour and surly because they can not live
more extravagantly.-Ex.
james Gilfillan, one OF MarienYile's
well known and highly respected cti-
zens, died suddenly of heart failure
Wednesday night, 9th inst. aged 60
years. While working at Iron City, in
Howe township, about three years ago,
he fell and sustained injuries from which
he meyer lully recovered, and which ulti-
mately eliminated in bis death. He had
retired in the evening feeling about as
well as usual. and his wife, who had re-
tired only short time arose about mid
night TO see If he required anything, and
was Mortified to find her husband dead.
The deceased was reared in Clarion
county, and made his home for many
years near Tylersburg.
The borough street committee has
succeeded in putting the German Hill
road in the best condition it has ever yet
been, teking out all the big boulder OBJ
structions that have heretofore interfei ed
with the free running of the road scraper,
and turnpiking the thoroughfare in fine
shape. Now if the officials of Tionesta
township would give some attention to
the river road above Tubbs run, before it
becomes impossible, condition which it
has we'll nigh attained by neglect, the
public would no doubt rise up
and call them blessed. This particular
road was once the pride of our commun-
ity, but ii allowed to "run wild" much
longer it will be the disgrace of the
Fix it up and keep it
fixed.
Did you ever count the words in
of ordinary newspaper print?
There are about two thousand words in
Suppose you sit down and
write thousand words upon some sub
tect, and then another thousand on an
other until you have written eight or ten
Try it and see if it is right
easy. Keep that gait up for a month.
Then chase local item all over town and
after you have gotten the facts all right,
condense them in few lines-an hours
work that can be read in few seconds.
Do this for a dozen items that seem in
significant after they are printed but
which you know are important; then
have items criticised and inaccuracies
pointed out to you when it is too late to
correct them. Oh, yes, it is easy.-Ex.
lis your name Robson? ]. r. Rob-
son, who was born in Berlin, Germany,
but who has liveH in the United States
for seventeen years, in which time he bas
fortune, owns 500 acres of land
On the west side of Higgins, Lake Michi-
gan. Mr.. Robson has announced that he
has divided this land into lots of 25Xl25
feet each and will give away 1000 of the
OTIS, free of all membranes, one lot to
,very person by the name of Robson,
wi ether related to him or not. The offer
IS to every person of that name in the
United States and Europe, and Mr.. Rob-
son is now endeavoring to find one
persons ofthe name of Robson.
At the present time he has l40 persons
who bear his name, and with whom he
Ias corresponded. Indirectly he knows
If about 800 persons scattered over the
United States with the name of Robson.
One of the most beautiful and lasting
to be found anywhere is the
Mary Atkins birthday party observed
zach year by Mrs. N. p. Wheeler, the
noble benefactress of Endeavor. Last
over one hundred guests, in
,luding parents and children, were en-
by Mrs. Wheeler at the Kin
lergarten Hall, which was built in men,
,ry of her little daughter, Mary Atkins
Wheeler, who died in 1889, when six years
If ago. Ffty-eight children were pres
mt, thirteen of whom were babes in
lrms, and fifty-five parents. present
was given to each member of the Kin
iergarten by Mrs. Wheeler. Miss Fran
,es Judson, formerly a teacher in the
Florence Heath Settlement work in Chi
ago, but who for the past two years has
lad charge of the kindergarten at En-
leavor, planned the entertainment for the
guests and her unselfish interest gave
great delight to all present.
Base Ball.
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