The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1907-08-14
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

The army worm has invaded Mercer
and Is said to be doing much damage tc
gardens in vsriosus sections of the town,
Lawrence county farmers are so pressed
| for harvest hands that they are offering
81 and s., so per day and board for help OF
this kind.
The Erie Conference, M. f. Church,
will convene in annual session In the
First church, of Erie, on Wednesday,
September 4.
The Union City fish hatchery has pro-
duced thus far this season over $1,000 fine
black bass that have been deposited IN
the streams and lakes of western Penn
sylyania.
We point with pride to Br'er Walter
Irving Bates, editor of the Meadville
Tribune Republican, whose wife has just
presented him with pair oftwin daugh-
ters.-Blizzard.
Thomas Riley, who shot and killed
Benjamin Robinson, near Russell City,
Elk county, on June 2lst, while Robin
son was crossing Riley's land, was tried
last week at Riugway and the jury rem
dered verdict of insanity. Riley will
undoubtedly be sent to one of the state
asylums.
The friends and relatives of j. c. Dur
ham, of Kane, who was a passenger on
the ill-iated steamer Columbia, which
went down on the Pacific coast, July 2l,
have given up all hope, for no informs'
ton has been received since that date,
and relatives are resigned to the fact that
Mr.. Durham met tragic death and
watery grave.
Following are the dates of the county
fairs in the iron, coal and oil circuit:
Kittsnning, August IL, II, 10 and is;
Butler, August 20, 2l, p and q; Dubois,
August 81, 2S, % and 80; Brookville, Sep
tember 3, 4, 3, and 8; Clarion, Septemb ber
10, IL, IL and lS; Ri uersburg, September
IL, Is, 10 and 20; Stoneboro, September
"A. 25 and 26.
From all appearances the corn crop OF
this year will not mature before overtaken
by the frost. It's been an off year IN
many respects. Buckwheat cakes and
ssssige gravy are sure to have the call for
the fruit blossoms have been so scarce
that the little busy bee has left this season
with an empty store house, and sassige
gravy will prove pslatable substitute.
-Uniontown Genius.
The last literary series on the Chautau-
qua platform at Chautauqus, n. Y, for
luc Will u0 vi aulOilNnh Inv
and American Letters" by Mr., Percy II.
Boynton of the University of Chicago.
This particular subject is the one in which
Mr.. Boynton's chief university work is
done, and on which he has been lecturing
during the last two or three years before
various extension audiences. The series
will come at IL o'clock, Monday to FRI
day, August 1928.
Terrence Clune, aged about 80 years,
employed as driler by the National Oil
Company, was seriously injured while
at work at Enterprise, about six miles
northeast of Titusyille, shortly after 10
O'Clock Monday morning. Clune had
climbed to the top of three-pole derrick
to adjust a line with which to pull the
tubing from we'll, when the derrick col
lapsed under his weight. He fell dis
tance of about 30 feet and alighted upon a
wagon. His head was badly jsmmed and
J and cut, nose broken and cut, a small
bone in the left wrist fractured and num-
erous bruises about the body sustained.
He was unconscious for nearly five hours
after the accident. Physicians have hopes
| of his recovery.