The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-02-14

| u. held their annual due social at the
home Of Mrs. s. d. Irwin last evening
which was attended by practically all ol
the membership, either in person or by
dues" A nice lunch was served and a
pleasant evening enjoyed, one feature be-
ing an old fashioned "spelling bee," at
which a prize of trunk full of candy
was given the one standing up" longest.
The eclipse of the moon last Thurs
day night was all right and total, so said
by those who stayed up to see the show,
which was pulled off on schedule time
some two hours after midnight. Had the
affair come around little earlier in the
evening the audience might have been OF
quite respectable size. The average citi-
zen is never sverse to taking in a free
entertainment, but be kicks on keeping
awake all night if it doesn't cost cent.
While tho roads are frozen hard and
smooth there's lot of nice pine and oak
lumber being hauled through here and
shipped at this station. The cut is from
tract bought from Joseph Mealy on the
headwaters Of Little Tionesta creek, by
Commissioner Andrew Wolf, who is doing
the saving. There is also a good deal OF
chestnut wood coming in which is con-
signed to the Queen City tannery at III
tusYille, while many railroad ties of a
superior quality are finding their way to
the station here.
Rev. j. F. Scherer, who has been
pastor OF the Nick leville, Rockland and
Richland Presbyterian churches for a
number years, will leave his present
field about March 1st and go to Endesvor,
Pa, call haying been rendered him by
the church of that place. Rev. Mr..
Scherer has many warm friends In EN-
lenton as well as in his own community
and congregations, and they all regret his
departure, but wish him abundant sue
cess in his new field of labor. A special
meeting of Clarion Presbytery will be
held in the Presbyterian church in this
place on February 20lh, to take action in
the matter. Emlenton Herald.
There's never any telling. What with
the mercury ranging up in the 70s and
sos during a large part of the past win
ter, and with snakes, toads and robins
bestirring themselves in the month of
January, it appeared as though we were
going right Off into summer without so
much as taste of our usually delightful
winter weather, when along comes old
Boreas and gives us blast of his breath
merely to warn us that things are not
as rosy as they might be. And now the
river is closed with ice for much of the
distance between here and Oil City, and
in many places solid enough to carry
loaded teams. There's never any telling,
we say.
There has been some discussion re-
garding the constitutiouality of the new
road law passed by the last assembly.
judges have taken different views of the
matter, but Judge Lindsey, upon petit
tion to the court by the residents of Ell
dred township has made an order per-
mitting that the matter come to vote at
the next election, says the Warren Mir
ror. The law authorizes the court to
make such an order providing that the
petition contain the signatures of 25 citi-
zens. The question to be determined at
the next election is whether the taxpay-
ers shall pay in money the entire amount
of the assessed road tax or be allowed to
work out portion of it. The result of
the election shall determine the question
for every taxpayer of the township, and
it will not be optional with taxpayer,
as heretofore, to either pay all in cash or
work out portion of the tax.