The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-04-11

The we'll on the old homestead farm
of the late Robert Guiton, at Guitonville,
is down between 1000 and 1900 feet, and
at last accounts had reached the top OF
what is supposed to be the Bradford sand.
In the Clarion sand fair showing of gas
was struck. Bradford parties are the
projectors of these operations, and they
expect to give the locality pretty thor
ough test before they quit.
This is what might we'll be termed
the muddy season. At any rate it's about
the muddiest that 1t could we'll be, and
the roads seem to be almost bottomless,
making hauling of any sort practically
out of the question, and only such going
as is absolutely necessary il INDUCED in
by any one. It's the most disagreeabe
section of the entire year. And then it's
the housekeeping season to-boot.
Special attention is directed to the
new ad. of j. G. Scowden, Tionesta's re-
liable hardware merchant, in this issue of
the REPUBLICAN. 1t would take half
page or more of our paper to enumerate
the many useful things which he has In
stock, but this we can say, there is moth
ing in the hardware line which he can
not furnish, and at the most reasonable
prices. Try Scowden on your next hard
ware purchase.
"A message was received by w. j.
Austin yesterday from G. f. Whitehill,
Muncie, Ind, stating that Samuel Brecht
had committed suicide and making in
quiry as to his brother. AL. Brecht. who
at one time worked in this section. The
telegram stated that he was Free Mason
and was without funds and is being cared
for by the fraternity -Marenville Ex-
press. The former home of these men
was near Tylersburg, where they were
reared to young manhood. Friends have
received no particulars of the suicide.
The typhoid fever epidemic in Pitts
burg is assuming alarming proportions,
and might almost be classed as a scourge
so rapidly is it spreading throughout the
ivy uhh ouOuib bos ho hOsPlhulo uhO
taxed to their utmost, and the authori-
ties are being urged to build temporary
annexes to accommodate the rapidly in
creasing list of patients. More than 500
cases have been admitted to the hospitals
within the last rour days, and this does
not include the number that are being
cared for at their homes. The health
bureau is making crusade against filth
about the tenement and lodging houses,
but the effort comes at so late an hour
that it will accomplish little in staying
the ravage of the disease.
State Fish Commissioner Meehan has
issued warning to trout fishermen. He
states that the season will not open le-
gally until Monday, April l6. All persons
found fishing on Sunday preceding this
date will be prosecuted for having in pos
session fish caught out of season, not for
violation of the Sabbath law, says an
exchange. Now, this assurance is posi-
lively important, as it will greatly relieve
the tension that would otherwise be on
us editors, for while we are attending
Sunday school and other religious duties
the thought that the other crowd may be
out enjoying the first fruits of the trout
ing season might greatly detract from the
wholesome lessons we're wont to ponder
over. 'Tis we'll that Mr.. Meehan is going
to catch every blarsted outlaw and pun
ish him severely.
"A gradual sentiment opposing the
card of thanks, which almost invariably
appears in local papers on the death of a
friend or relative, is rapidly becoming
apparent, says an exchange. To make
public display of your grateful senti-
ments to persons who are visiting the
sick and burying the dead and have only
performed their duty, is at all times bad
form and CRATES harshly on the nerves OF
a refined and sensitive nature. When
persons visit afflicted or bereaved fami-
lies, or otherwise render assistance, they
do so with the kindest of intenl ions and
are not looking for or expecting public
svowal of gratitude. A sincere and per-
sonal expression of thanks is ever so
much more effective and impressive, and
accomplshes far more than public dem
onstration in journals.
The Pennsylvania State Association
for the Abolition of the School Tax was
organized at Erie Monday of last week.
The object of the association is to have
the State assume the entire cost of main
tanning the common schools, thereby re-
leving farm and home owners of heavy
burden of taxation. Besides its officers
the organization consists of an executive
committee and general State committee,
to be selected one from each county. The
movement has been endorsed by numer-
GUS clubs, oranges and prominent per-
sons, and the proposition is at once
popular one. The State now pays nearly
one-half the expense of keeping up the
schools, and could easily assume the
whole burden with just a trifle added to
the taxation of corporations that are
amassng great fortunes yearly.
-Ex-Sheriff G. w. Noblt and County
Supt. ID. W. Morrison closed a deal a
few days ago for the purchase of the
timber on Warrant 1903, in Howe town
ship, tract of zoos acres. The purchase
was made from Samuel Crawford, for
mer lumberman at Pigeon, this county,
but of late years extensively engaged in
the lumber business at Cedar River,
Mich. 1t is estimated that there is over
two million feet of maple beech and