The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-01-22
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

1t cost Sharpsville so ,6O2 Al for its frs
paving, on Main and Walnut streets.
The price paid was 81 SO per square yard.
Meadville is to have reduction in in
surance rates, as the result of an organ
lied offort to that end on the part of the
business men.
Mrs. Anna Taylor, wife of Frank II.
Taylor, private secretary TO j.. G. Sibley,
died on Tuesday night, Jan. l4th, at her
home in Oil City.
Governor Stuart has resppointed Hon.
Bryan H. Osborne, of Franklin, and Hon.
0. G. Allen, of Warren, as trustees OF the
State Hospital at Warren.
DR.. James L. Dunn, aged 81 years, one
of the Oldest medical practitioners in this
section of the State, and prominent in
&. A. r. circles, died at his home in III
tusville on Tuesday of last week from the
intirmities of old age.
The Bucktail monument was erected
last week ut Driltwood, and has been de-
clared one of the handsomest in the state.
The figure surmounting the stone work
Mas made from cannon used In the bat
tie of Gettysburg, and represents the
Buck tails and their gsrb at the time they
left their native haunts for the front.
Monday, April q, 1908, has been selected
as the date for the dedication, that being
the 47th anniversary of the day of their
departure from Dritwood. 1t is also the
birthday anniversary of General Grant.
The annual reunion of the Bucktsils will
be held on that date and also on April
2Sth.
There were 81, PSI male babies and so, Ola
female babies born in Pennsylvania dur
ing the year 1906, according to an official
statement issued by the bureau of vital
statistics of the State Department of
Health. There were ,SS2 sets of twins
and fifteen sets of triplets. or the twin
births ,259 occurred among the native and
500 among the foreign-born population,
in four cases the nativity being unstated.
OF the triple births eleven occurred In the
native and four in the foreign born. Ille-
gitimate births numbered Alps. The
greatest number of births in the entire
State occurred during the month of Au-
gust, when there were l5,0SS, the least
number during April, IL, 500.
whether or not rabbit can swim has
ofttimes been an unsettled question
amoung amateur mature fakers." Will
liam Zimmerman, Postal Telegraph mes
senger, unintentionslly definitely decid-
ed the matter this forenoon, fortunately
Tor bunny. Bill caught rabbit on the
island north Of the Boulevard and
brought it to the Pennsylvania freight
depot. Brer rabbit made an especially
lusty kick and escaped from Bills en-
folding arms, fleeing among the freight
cars with Bill and several other youths In
chase. Headed off on all sides the little
creature dived between the wheels of a
moving locomotive and with tlirt of his
short tail jumped into Sandy Creek which
he swan like duck and quickly disap-
peared toward his home in the rushes. =
Du uBois Express.
II is almost a certainty now that the
site of the we'll drilled by Colonel Edwin
Drake, near Titusville in 1858, will be
properly marked for the benefit of pos.
terity. The members of Canadohta Chap
ter, Daughters of the American Revolu.
ton, which some years ago backed by
promises of financial assistance from
substantial oil men the world over, agi.
tated this idea, have received from Charles
Brigham, of Boston, the architect OF the
Drake Monument in Woodlawn cemetery
Titusville, sketches of plans which they
and the men whom they exp ct to asss
in prestige and finances have freely ap
proved. 1t is designed to be memoria
to the oil industry. The memorial will
include granite shaft about rs feet high
situated in the center of a plateau 100 fee
square surrounded by park and reached
! by macadsmized roadway from Titus
vile. 1t is estimated that the memoria
and the necessary maintenance fund will
amount to SlO0, 600, which the chapter ex
pect to raise by popular subscriptions.