The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1906-09-12
The annual reunion of the l2lst Regl-

October IL. Capt. j. M. Clapp was in
command of Company f during the three
years this regiment was in service, and
is taking much interest in The coming
reunion. John Wilson, of this COM
munity, is also a survivor of the l2lst
Regiment.
Joe Scowden and Charley Weaver are
getting very chesty these days, and have
to reach out at arms length to scratch
their heads, all because they slipped up
to the CASTOR pond the other day and
lifted out fine string of bass. The worst
feature of the case is that, in the absence
OF John Bush, we are compelled to be-
lieve they did it all themselves.
"A company is now being organized
in this place and which is to be known as
the Marienyille SQUAD Company, the OBJ
ject of which will be for the purpose of
raising squads, small pigeons, for the
market. The company will be capital
lied at $40, 900. livestock the company
will be divided into ten thousand shares
and will be sold at the low price of ten
cents per share. The squab business is
said to be very lucrative and number of
our townsmen will go into the business
on wholesale scale. We trust the ven
ture may prove a big success Express.
Frank Gerard, Antonio Fruci and
Pietro Notaro, the three Italians on trial
for the second time at Warren last week,
charged with the murder of a fellow
countryman several months ago at Tiona,
were convicted Of murder in the second
degree, the jury being out about "a hours,
The first conviction, last spring, was for
first degree murder. The maximum
penalty for second degree is twenty years
in the penitentiary. Upon the first ballot
the jury stood seven for acquittal and
five for murder in the first degree. Bal
lots were taken repeatedly during the
"A hours the jury were out before a ver-
dict was reached. 1t finally sifted down
until there were only two for acquittal,
and compromise was made and second
degree murder was decided upon. On
Monday Judge Lindsey pronounced sem
tence upon the prisoners, giving them
the full penalty of the law, twenty years
each in the penitentiary.
AS late as the first of this week swal-
lows we're still "in our midst" TO be
sure, that's where swallows usually are,
or ought to be, but it's not that kind that
is here referred to; neither do we have
reference to the Swallow who is making
life miserable for candidate Emery, but
it's the little split-tailed birds that one
often sees lining the telephone wires
while driving through the country. This
means that we are to have late fall,
with pleasant weather predominating, if
the notion of the old inhabitant is worth
cent. Usually the swallow takes its
flight southwark about the 18th to the
2Oth of August, but when they stay on
until the first or second week in Septem-
ber it means that the little harbingers
have sized up the situation and that we
shall have pretty fair "spell of weather"
for threshing the buckwheat, cutting the
corn, digging the potatoes and lifting the
fall run Of bass, salmon, etcetera, leaving
no kick coming from any source. So
mote it be.
Hereafter fishermen who go out in
boats should provide themselves with a
large umbrella of the highly colored ad-
vertisiug sort. On Labor Day, while
Fred Parkhurst and Will Carnahan, of
Oil City, were drifting slowly through
the quiet waters of Thompson's Eddy in
a rowboat, which was equipped with this
sort of an umbrella for sail, they were
greatly surprised and correspondingly
pleased to see two-pound bass jump
from the river near them and land
squarely in the boat. Whether attracted
by the umbrella or animated by desire
to get in out of the wet, the performance
of the bass was remarkable one, al
though such instances are on record
among the archives of other strictly
truthful fishermen.-Oil City Blizzard.
Well, there, now. We've copied your
item as requested, but see very little in
it. We admit that the occurrence is
somewhat novel and inirequent, but we
have seen "suckers" pile into boat un-
til standing room was at premium, and
there was no umbrella Of any kind in
sight. However, there was tub in the
boat and they "kept it on ice," which
may have made the difference.