The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-01-08
NeighbOrhOOd Notes.

Because he sold his fathers clothes to a
ragman, Willie McDonough, OF Parkers-
burg, has been sent to the Reform School.
The town of West Middlesex, Mercer
County. has been unshsven and unborn
for the past week, because the three bar
bers the town boasts are down in bed
with the grip.
Simon Stablman, who resides near
Brookville, recently opened up coal
mine on his farm. While drifting in,
about four feet below the surface was
found pine board imbeded in the coal.
The grain of the dirt above seemed to
clearly indicate that 1t had never been
dug into. a
Mike Holkas lawyers at Franklin are
preparing to place his case before the state
board of pardons, in the hope of having
his sentence commuted from hanging 10
life Imprisonment. The application will
be presented at Harrisburg on Feb. 10
The special plea will be that Holka was
drunk and irresponsible at the time he
killed Police Captain Meehan.
Thirteen suits are to be brought at once
10y State Dairy and Food Commissioners
Foust as the result OF the recent inquiry
into the break fast foods sold in Peunsyl'
vania. The arrests were made in Reading,
Altoona, Erie, Harrisburg and in Column
bia and Luzerne Counties. Pure Food
Comm issioner Foust has directed Agent
Billings, OF Edinboro, to proceed against
2S hotel and restaurant keepers in West
ern Pennsylvania, on charges of serving
oleo colored with coal tar dyes without a
license.
Charging that receut typhoid fever
epidemic was due to the water supplied,
number OF residents of Franklin are
seeking to collect damages for sickness in
their families from the Venango Water
company. Suits have been filled by Rev.
DR.. Maurice Pentield Fixes, pastor of the
First Baptist church, and James b. Bor-
land, editor of the Franklin Evening
News. The amount of damages claimed
is not stated in the petitions, but it will
be sufficient to cover the charges of phys
ical and mental distress.
A well-known lumbermsn who has re-
sided in the Scootac region, Clinton
county, all his life, ard who is hunter
and trspper, gives out the information
that we are to have severe winter. He
bases his predictions on the mounds that
musk rats build on the top of the ground
at their winter quarters, something which
these animals sle never known to do
when the weather is mild. my parents
as we'll as myself never saw this sign fail, J"
he said earnestly, "and you can depend
on it that we will have plenty of cold
weather this year."
The new line of the Alum Rock Gas
| Company from Tylersburg, Fryburg and
other sections of Clarion county, which
has been built during the summer to
supply fuel to the local refneries, the Oil
Well Supply Company and the power
plant of the Citizens Traction Company
was opened yesterday. From Licking
willie to Coal II i'll the line is six inches in
diameter and from Coal Hill to Sage run,
near the town limits, the diameter is
eight inches and from there TO the rrac-
tion Company plant it is six inches. The
initial pressure of the line was l25
pounds. s.--Derrick.
Two boys we're playing at fencing with
butcher knives in a meat market in
Punxsutswney last week when one ofthe
boys, whose name is Peter Savage, re-
ceiyed a wound with the knife at the hand
of his companion whose name is William
Hill which caused his death twenty min
utes afterwards. The boys were aged 10
and Is years respectively, and were play
ing as they had often done before. The
wound which caused the Savage boys
death was very deep, and it was inflicted
Just above the heart. The youngsters
were the best of friends, so there could
not he any reason to suppose that the
terrible deed was done IN malice.