The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-05-20

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More success to the News.
Executive meeting OF the w. Z. It. u.
will be held at Nebraska, May 2Sth, COM
mencing at 1880 p. m. County officers
and superintendents, and presidents of
local Unions are requested to be present.
ELLEN b. CATLIN, Secretary.
j. A. Lawrence left here Monday for
Pittsburg with five barges belonging to
the Forest Barge Company. These
barges were specially built and at Pitts
burg they will be loaded with coal and
sent to the Tennessee River, where they
will be used for transporting logs and
ties.
-Orah Smith, of Oil City, we'll known
in this county, where he has done bust
ness for many years as travelling sales
man, is suing the p. II. II. company for
$780, 900 damages alleged to have been sus-
tanned in the railroad wreck on the AL
legheny Valley division at Kelly's station
in August last.
Lot owners in Riverside Cemetery
are requested by the Odd Fellows asso-
citation to have them put in proper condi-
ton for Memorial Day, or give authority
to the lodges secretary, Will II. Hood, to
have same attended to. 1t is desired to
have the cemetery appear in its most
beautiful condition on this occasion.
Mrs. Seraph Oliver Acomb, widow of
the late DR.. Acomb, died of the infirmi-
ties of old age last Friday, at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. l.. l.. Hunter, in IL
dioute. Mrs. Acomb was woman of
superior ability as physician while in
the full strength of body, and was mem
ber of the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
George Buchanan, the janitor of the
Hunter Memorial School at Tidioute,
committed suicide by hanging himself
in the basement of the school building,
Sunday afternoon. His daughter found
his lifeless body in the evening after he
had been missing since early in the alter
noon. He was despondent and thought
to be temporarily insane. He was aged
80 years and leaves a wife and eight
children.
Mrs. Nancy Holeman, wife of Ashhel
Holemsn, died May 10th, at her home in
Pleasantville, Pa, after a long illness, of
cancer of the stomach. She was aged
rs years and besides her husband is
survived by two daughters, Mrs. II.
J. Hopkins, of Buffalo, n. Y, and Mrs.
John Lockwood, of Pleasantville, and an
adopted daughter, Mrs. Wiley Ward, of
Pleasantyile. The funeral will be held
at the Pleasantville U. b. church, Thurs
day afternoon at 2:30.
The Brookville Republican tells this
one on our former townsman, Clark
Kepler: At an auction sale of the effects
of the late Anthony Bonnet, held in front
of the court house on Monday morning,
ur'genial friend j. G. Kepler invested in
a large bellows. A number of citizens
who inhabit the places where Mr.. Kepler
is wont to hold forth and who were ac-
qusnted with the gentleman's ability as
a talker previous to his purchase of the
bellows are contemplating removal
from town since the news of his purchase
has leaked out.
The following rapturous item from
the pen of Bro. Bowen of the Oil City
Blizzard all but impels one to sieze his
hat and run for the woods "Now is the
time to get out-of-doors. The call of
nature comes from every field and wood
aud garden, from every babblng brook
and every song birds throat. The green
getting back in the trees, the apple
blossoms, the wild flowers, all these and
many other things beckon one away, and
he is to be pitied who does not know, or,
knowing, cannot embrace the springtme
joys of out-of-d DOORS"
According to the public statement of
an official of the dairy and food depart
ment at Harrisburg, the day has passed
when the manufacturer OF cstsup can
take the waste of the tomato canneries
(which is merely colored water, and dirty
at that thicken it with starch, color it
with coal tar dye, preserve it with acids
and with bright, attractive label sell it
for tomato catsup. 1t is now made from
ripe tomatoes, which gives it the natural
color, and having the body of the tomato,
no starch is needed. This is as it should
be. This improved condition also applies
to jellies, jams, preserves, etc.
The services at the Presbyterian
church last Sabbath were in honor of
Mothers Day, and the congregations both
morning and evening were large. Reg.
Mr.. Bailey gave two splendid discourses,
and the special music at the morning
service was more than usually attractive
as was also the singing in the evening,
led by the male choir. Special efforts
were made to have present the mothers
who are not able to attend church reg
ularly, and there was quite goodly
number of them in the congregation.
White carnations worn in their honor and
remembrance were in evidence on every
hand. The day was one of springs love-
liest.
In some comments on the observance
of Memorial Day, the Reading Telegram
suggests that "the best way to perpetuate
Memorial Day and all ofthe great heritage
for which the soldiers of the union fought
will be to give the work of decking the
graves into the hands of the school boys
and girls. who can assist the men of the