The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-01-30
-oIl market closed at sl.5s.

art Run, knows what the printers like,
and last Friday left sack of fine eating
apples at this office.
The special services being held in the
M. Il. church will be continued every
evening this week except Saturday. All
are invited to attend.
-Spillman Riggs, the renowned hu-
morist and lecturer at the court house
next Wednesday evening. You will hear
agood one if you go.
For SALE.-Saw Mill complete, in
good condition. Stearns receding blocks.
Rope feed. Clark gang edger. S. WIN.
IL ED. M. WILSON, Clarion, Pa. At
-Groundhog day next Saturday; but
any prediction of an early spring will be
lacking in validity unless accompanied
by drop in the price OF eggs.
-overcoats, heavy winter suits and ev-
erything for cold weather wear at just
about cost now at the Hopkins store.
Crime early if you want a bargain. 1t
Last week J. j. Landers moved his
mill from the mouth of Jakes run, on
Tionesta creek, to Neilltown, where he
will saw out tract of timber for Doutt
Il Foreman.
Goods are going some at the Hopkins
store these days. Those post-inventory
bargains are striking the public about
right, we should say. Don't fail to get
your share. 1t
The Philadelphia Inquirer of Satur-
day says that Harry X Hoch has signed
to pitch ball for Wilmington, Delaware,
the coming season. Oil City also claims
10 have signed Hoeh.
j. G. Scowden, the hardware man,
has just one handsome cutter left which
some lucky fellow is going to get at
bargain if he'll speak quickly. The ve-
hicle will be sold tor less than 1t could
now be bought for at wholesale.
The coolest night of the year was
Wednesday night last. Thursday morn
ing thermometers registered from Is to
20 degrees below zero. Saturday night
was another of the cold ones, and Sunday
morning IL to 10 degrees below was the
record.
Remember the fourth number of the
lecture course which is booked for next
Wednesday evening, Feb. 9th. Spillman
Riggs is said to be one of the ablest and
funniest platform orators of his day. Go
and hear him and you will not be disap-
pointed.
The W. @. It. U. will hold market
at the home of Mrs. f. r. Lanson, Satur-
day afternoon, February 9th, beginning
at 2 O'Clock. A varied assortment of
good things for the Sunday dinner will
be on sale and the patronage of the public
is cordially invited.
The Kane Republican thinks that
when the Baltimore u ohfo makes an
electric road out of Via narrow gauge run
ming between Foxburg and Mt. Jewett, a
project much talked about of late, wsttr
will be running up hill. And many 9TH
ers have much the same notion.
Last October, while Mrs. II. f. Bry-
ner, of Pleasantville, was on her way to
Bradford on train of the p. r. r., she
left her small handbag in the cars and had
about given it up for lost. Through the
efforts of Agent w. G. Incl, of this place,
the bag and all its contents were returned
TO her last Saturday. -
The Chemical plant of the Forest
Chemical Co. at Lynch, which has been
closed down since the retort house, was
destroyed by fire several months ago,
was again started Tuesday. A new and
better equipped retbrt house has been
built, and the plant is new better than it
was before the fre.-Shef1ield Observer
Our ice harvesters have been an the
anxiouAssat for some time on account of
the slim prospects of crop of that very
necessary summer commodity, but j this
Weather will just hang on a few days
longer the dangerpoint will have been
past. The creek is frozen over but the
ice has hardly reached the proper thick
ness for putting up.
james Osborn, aged 70 years, and a
lifelong resident q Erie and Venango
counties, died at his home at Shamburg,
Pa, Sunday evening last. He was
member OF the U. S. navy during the
Civil war, and in after years was engaged
in the oil business. He was married to
Miss Almeda Proper, OF Diamond, Pa,
who, with four sons, survives him.
The next annual convention of the
Pennsylvania State Sunday School Asso-
ciatlon will be held at Untontown, Octo-
ber 8, 10 and II of this year. The state
workers are already arranging for this
event, which il is thought and expected
will surpass all former ones held by the
association. This will make the forty
third annual convention of the organiza-
ton.
While the sleighing of the past week
has not been the best ever, it has meyer
theless answered the purpose very well,
and has been utilized to the greatest ex-
tent by lumber and tie haulers, from so
: to rs loads finding their way to the sta
ton here every day, and the air of activity
is gratifying to the beholder. The rail-
road tie business has surely been hum
mer this season, and the endis apparently
not yet.