The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-08-05

ing in shallow water and stepped into
deep water where the shallow beach
breaks off abruptly. Before companions
could reach him he went down for the
last time. His body was recovered.
The last quarterly meeting for this
conference year will be held in the NJ. f..
church in Tionesta, Friday and Sunday,
August 7th and 9Th. The District Super
intendent, Rev. d. A. Plat, will preach
Friday evening at o'clock, and hold the
quarterly conference. Sunday at 10 a.
m. Love Feast, followed by the sermon
and Holy Communion. The District Su-
perintendent will preach Sunday evening
at 7;45.
Last Wednesday morning, just after
he had finished cutting his hay and was
putting his moving machine in the barn,
f. M. Hoovler of Stewart Run got the
first finger of his left hand caught and
crushed in the cogs of the machine. He
came to town where DR.. Dunn found it
necessary to amputste the finger between
the first and second joint Ii makes n
very sore hand but Francis isn't losing
any time from his work.
The approach of the mushroom sea-
son brings its usual crop OF accounts of
people who have reached the threshold of
death through eating toad-stools in mis-
take for the real thing. Persons not en-
tirely familiar with the edible variety of
this toothsome fungi should religiously
desist from gathering them, but it's not
likely they will, and the newspaper man
will continue to get juicy news item
in consequence. now and then.
We were misinformed when we
stated last week that Lowe d Co.'s well
on the Kirk tract, Hickory township, had
been abandoned by the contractor, Chas
Carnahan, on account of bit being lost in
the hole. 1t was thought the well would
have to be abandoned but on making one
last try for it the bit was recovered. The
we'll was finished last Friday and was
dry. A location has been made for an
other we'll aud work will begin at once.
Some big hailstones fell in the neigh
borhood of the Francis Oil company's
operations, near Marienville recently, ac-
cording to the Express. Roofs were
broken in and destroyed on most of the
dwellings, barns and outbuildings.
Hail 2 Inches by IL and nearly an inch
thick is said to have Dme down in tor
rents for few minutes. Fortunately
none of the employees were caught out as
life would have been in imminent dam
GER"
AT the meeting of the Jefferson
County Gas Company held Monday eve-
ming last it was decided to go ahead with
the project of laying six inch gas line
from the property of the company into
Warren. The company controls a large
gas production, and will pipe the gas to
the East Side factories. This insures gas
for fuel to the factories and will relieve
the older companies from the burden of
the factories, which at times in winters
past have severely taxed their mains.
Private consumers will be glad to hear of
any means that will relieve a possible
low pressure of gas on cold days.-War-
rem Times.
Emory Witherell, who is with the
crew that is engaged in picking up the
Wheeler & Dusenbury timber along the
Allegheny, brings us natural curiosity
which he found on his trip at the mouth
of "A ickory creek. 1t consists of a fair
sized river "hardhead," in which is a
round hole or crevice that has the appear
ance of having been dug out with some
sharp instrument, and which would
answer quite hsndily for an ink well.
Emory thinks it might have been used
as such by the old Indian chief Corn
planter, the only missing evidence to
confirm such theory being the question
as to whether that we'll remembered old
guy ever had use for such a commodity.
"A crew of men with N. P. Wheeler
Jr. as their captain are engaged in an ef.
fort to pick up the logs which escaped
from the Wheeler Il Dusenbury pond at
Endeavor in the washout of July Sd, and
they had reached here last Saturday
where they found quantity of the logs
lodged on the piers of the river bridge.
They have tent and complete cooking
outfit so that they can put up anywhere
for day or two very conveniently, and
live quite comfortably while they have
such an artistic chef as Emory Wltherell
to provide the provender. While the logs
are badly scattered and lodged in almost
inconceivable places the men are getting
enough gathered into the eddies to pay
the company for the time and labor ex :
pended in picking them up, The Grand
in Lumber Co., at Eagle Rock, will saw
the logs found above their plant.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has dismissed the petition recently made
to haye a new trial granted Michael
Holka, the Austrian under sentence to
hang in the Franklin Jail August Is for
the murder Of Police Captain James Nee
han. Sheriff Williams, of Venango
county, the Blizzard says, received a
scaffold from the Commissioners of Erie
County two days prior to the date fixed
for the execution of Holks and James
Strait, July IA, AS both the condemned
men were granted reprieve the scafiold
was stored away in the attic of the Jail.
1t will be used in the execution of Holka
and erected in the Jail at the bottom ofthe
stairway leading to the upper row of
cells. This scaffold has seen ser ice at a