The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1905-01-11

tune that befell l.. L. Songer, of Redclyffe
on December 18th. While shoeing a horse
clinch nail struck him in the eye and
destroyed the sight. Mr.. Songer former
ly lived near Corsica and later at Knox,
this county. He has many friends in this
county who will regret his misiortune.-
Clarion Republican.
Councilman Henry Lamberton of
Franklin has asked for an official investi-
CATION of the city administration. He
wishes a committee TO inquire into the
Guys affairs. He states that among other
things councilmen have never been
Obliged to pay paving assessments and
that contracts are often more favorable to
the contractor than to the city.
e. E Gerow has leased tho steam
laundry building on Bridge street and is
having It remodeled on the inside and
viii make an opera house of it. This sort
OF place of amusement has been long
felt want in Ticnesta, and those who en-
joy seeing show will lie pleased to hear
| 1T. 1t is Mr.. Gerow's intention to al
low nothing but first class entertainments
in the new opera house, which will have
a seating capacity OF two hundred and
fifty.
The new school building at Tidioute
Is nearing completion and will he ready
for occupancy about February lst. This
building is gift from Mrs. Margaret r.
Hunter and her daughter in-law, Mrs.
Lillian Hunter, and the beautiful struc.
ture is erected TO the memory of Jahu
Hunter and his son, l.. L. Hunter. The
building was designed year ago and was
commenced last April under the super
vision of Contractor j. A. Nixon, of III
tusville.
Farmer" /. E. Dean and Judge T.
w. Ford, of Houston, Texas, we'll known
in Brad ford, are business visitors in the
city. The gentlemen are stock holders in
the Big Hill Oil and Fuel Company, OPP
Grating in the Lone Star State, and are
the principal owners of IA wells with
daily production of 4 1000 barrels. The oil
is of practically the same quality as that
at Sour Lake and Beaumont, having a
specific gravity of about 20 Degrees
Bradford Era.
Talking about paying bills and all
that this story is related as fact. A But
Ter man doing business in bank in his
town overdrew his account and promptly
received notice from the bank that he
was indebted to the institution for that
amount. This didn't worry him a Bit
for he wrote out check for that amount
and mailed it to them. Talk about Mrs.
Chadwick being a financier This Butler
ite Rad her skinned a mile" as they
sometimes say in polite society,
Perhaps the ugliest characteristic of
human ma ure, says the Punxsutawney
Spirit, is intolerance-to bate and perse-
cute people who do not have the same
ideas about religion as yourself. Religious
beliefs are bred into people in childhood,
and they are no more responsible for
them than they are for the color of their
hair or the length of their noses. Why,
then, should person who was surround
ed by different instructions concerning
religion, be prejudced against another ?
Mrs. Robert Leach, of Clear Run, in-
forms the Courier that during the past
year she kept l6 hens. From these she
gathered zoos eggs for market, besides
setting six "cluckers." This is at the
rate of l25 eggs per chicken. and shows
that the brood lost little time IN idle pur-
suits. Mrs. Leach disposed of the eggs at
an average of 30 cents dozen for the l67
dozen, which means that the l6 hens
brought in over $50. Mrs. Leach believes
her poultry flock has earned a niche in
the temple of hennery ame.-DuBois
Courier.
"Wednesday of last week the dwelling
house owned by the Salmon Creek Lum-
ber Co., and occupied by Robert Young,
at Buck Mills, above Kellettville, was
destroyed by fire. Mr.. Young was away
from home, and Mrs. Young had gone a
short distance to neighbours house when
the fire broke out. 1t is supposed it was
caused by an overheated gas stove. Very
few of the family's household effects were
saved, and their loss will be about $3.50,
with no insurance. The building was
| worth about 5000, and is total loss to the
company.
"A variation of the old story OF the dog
who took up a stick of dynamite with
which its master was about to kill fish in
a stream, comes from Shelbyville, Ind,
in afternoon press dispatched Accord
ing to the story two boyg.S,.and an empty
nitro-glycerine can nes wi - well and
tied the can to the taiig :. laeir hound.
The animal ran homelr o. the house,
where the can striking. NJ fb in which
there was baby, exploded. Tie side ioi
the house was blown'out, the baby vas
badly damaged, and the tail Of the~ao og
was blown off.
For week we have been thinking
over that story of the Cory Leader, to
the effect that lawyer helped woman
chop a silver dollar from the ice IN the
street, she having seen it first, aud then
let her get away with the dollar. The
finding OF dollar. even in Cory, sounds
plausible, though surprising. the chop
ping of it out by a lawyer 'r natural
sort of story, but the letting go of it by
the legal gentleman is sirIiy a wild
dream of some desperate space writer
and the one who wrote it was lying
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