The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-08-19
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Rev. and Mrs. Fl. A. Bailey and
children are visiting friends at their for.
mer home near Callensburg, and in con-
sequence there will be no preaching in
the Presbyterian church next Sabbath.
Mr.. Bailey's guest, Rev. Mr.. Nelson,
went with them yesterday.
DIR. and Mrs. ]. G. Dunn entertained
the following guests at their home during
the past week: Mr.. G. L. McCauley,
Montpelier, Ind; Mrs. f. N. Brook
houser and babies, Oil City; Miss Frances
Wilcox, Miss Tempa Alexander, Coop
erstown; Mrs. John Titus and Mrs. John
Marley, Barnes.
"A party of twenty-five young ladies
and gentlemen gave Lee Thomson very
pleasant surprise at the home of his
mother, Mrs. Mary Thomson, on Satur-
day evening. The occasion was cele-
bration of Lees seventeenth birthday
anniversary, which fell on Sunday. A
number of handsome gifts were left as
souvenirs of the occasion and refresh
ments we're served by the young ladies
at the close of the festivities.
We are beginning to look with pleas
ant anticipations 10 our annual W. G. n,
U. convention in the M. Il. church at
Kellettville, Monday and tuesday,, Sept.
lst and I'd. We are very fortunate in
having Mrs. Cora e. Seberry, a former
National Secretary, with us to address us.
Miss Edna Wallace Neill, soloist oi
Bradford, and Miss Geuavieye Graf
Doutt, an elocutionist of Tionesta, will
also entertain us by their singing and
readings during the convention. Rev. H.
A. Bailey, of the Tionests Presbyterian
church, will deliver an address.
Cor. SEC'Y.
Will somebody please return to Bill
Smith ofthe Punxy Spirit his old briar
pipe. He's lost it, so he says, and is lost
without it. It's crooked affair, and very
strenuous, and the editor thinks nybody
would recognize it on sight. The world
has peerless leaders, matchless statesmen,
and the like, but we could not endure to
think of a pipeltss editor. So we hope
the man who has found Br'er Smiths
juicy old briar will hasten to return it.
We trust our friends of the "profesh"
will come to tho rescue and forward to
the Spirit office anything o. the kind they
may have about, not necessarily for pub
licstion but as guarantee of good faith
and Identification.
"A dispatch from Harrisburg states
that the fund of $4,000 appropriated by
the legislature of 1907 for the payment OF
bounties on scalps OF noxious animals
was exhausted last week, when 10 per
cent. was paid on bills aggregating So, 900
sent in by forty-three counties. 1t is
hoped tho next legislature will provide a
more adequate fund for this lsudsble
purpose, to tho end that these predatory
animals may be extermiDated. 1t would
go farther toward the preservation of the
game supply than all other protective
laws put together. The Commissioners
of Forest county give notice that no more
scalp bounties will be paid in this county
until a further appropriation is made.
State Zoologist Surface is inundated
by letters from all parts of the state tell
ing him of the ravages of potato bugs,
some agricultural districts of Pennsyl-
vania having been disturbed by a regular
plague of the voracious insects. "There
is veritable scourge of potato bugs in
Pennsylvania this year." said pr, Sur
face, land l am surprised at the reports
am receiving. There are more of the
beetles about than l have ever known
and unless timely action is taken there
will be considerable loss, as the acreage
of potatoes is greater than usual this year,
There is good money in the potato crop
in the general market and in the young
orchard potatoes are valuable for the
trees. The abundance of the bugs this
year is good example of the way they
come and go, appearing at unexpected
times and after they had all been reported
dead This illustrates the common law
that insects are held down by natural
enemies. The people of this state will
either have to adopt the half dozen meth
DDS of destroying the bugs or see that
birds which live off them are allowed TO
increase"
Constable j. B. Eden of Tionesta
township was called to the vicinity of
Hunter Station last Saturday to take
charge of man who was acting in a
peculiar manner and who was thought to
be demented. On arriving there he
found the man in the river up to his neck
and threshing about his head with his
coat. The man was young and stated
that his home was in Brooklyn and that
he was medical student; that the reason
for his strange actions was that he had
poisoned himself in some manner by an
acid used in photography. The constable
brought the man to town where he pro-
cured some food and medicine to relieve
his condition. 1t developed that he came
here Thursday from Oil City, registered
at the Central House as "Clair Pinckney,
New jersey" and had probably started
to walk back to Oil City. He had lost his
satchel and the constable found il under
a log near where the man had been
tramping about all day Friday and Sat-
urday. AS he appeared to be harmless
and had money to pay his way, he was
allowed to go, saying that he was going
to the Oil City hospital.
Must be Vaccinated.