The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-08-12

ice cream ana cake social on j. y. ScoW-
den's lawn, Friday evening, August l4th.
Everybody is cordially invited to attend.
When the campmeeting closed at
Pleasantville last Sunday evening the
ownership to the grounds, which had
heretofore belonged to Pleasantyille par
ties. passed into the hands of the Oil City
district of the Free Methodist church, all
debts against the property having been
paid.
church in this place will be laid Wednes-
day, August Goth, at 200 O'Clock p. IN. A
platform meeting will be held in the M.
e. church on Tuesday evening previous
at which several of the former pastors of
the church are expected to deliver ad-
dresses. A general and cordial invitation
to these services Is extended.
The 25 or 80 young people who have
spent the past two weeks in a most de-
lightful outing on the island below Daw-
son station, broke camp Monday and re-
turned to their homes. They called their
place Camp Tionesta," and a pretLier
spot for such an outing could scarcely be
found on the beautiful Allegheny. Every
minute of the time was enjoyed to the
fullest extent if we take the word of the
young folks for it, and in future years
they will look back upon this occasion
no doubt as one of the pleassntest of
their lives. They rounded out their two
weeks of pleasure with a dance in Bo-
wards hall on Monday night.
Samuel Cowan, our expert harness
maker, is in possession of live bird
which is now a rather uncommon sight
in this latitude, where the species was
once quite common. 1t is an American
goshawk, or blue hawk as it is best
known to hunters and old inhabitants.
They are said to be the fiercest of all the
hawk families, and very predatory in
their habits, chickens being their most
delicious tidbit, and they don't object to
and picking out the fattest and best. This
bird which was caught in steel trap on
George Burhenn's farm, German Hill, is
handsome specimen, measuring about
two feet in length, with spread ofwings
of nearly feet.
Former Sheriff McElhinney was a
business visitor in Tionesta yesterday.
He says the grass IS foot high in the
sidewalk leading up to the main entrance
of the court house. A county official told
him that official business was dead there.
There hadn't been prisoner in the coun-
ty Jail for months and the sheriff was
compelled to work out by the day in Or
der to make liying.-Frankl lin News.
We fear the ex-Sherlff is so accustomed
to letting the grass grow under his feet
that he is able to see it where others can
not. No more beautifully kept public
grounds are to be seen anywhere in the
state than those surrounding the Forest
county court house. But the last SEN
tence of the News paragraph comes
mighty near the truth.
j. S. Caldwell, of Byromtown, was
attending to business at the county seat
last Friday, and meeting number of old
friends. Jack" is perhaps the youngest
"old veteran" in Pennsylvania, at least
the National Tribune, which is making
an investigation into these matters, has
failed to find man. up to this date, who
enlisted in Pennsylvania "to carry a
gun," younger than he. There are
as drummer boys ETC., but our friend
took his place in the ranks, shouldered a
musket and was at the front till the end
of his enlistment. Jack was born at Mill
Hall, Center county, April 27, 1919, and
was mustered into the service September
5, 1864, being aged tritle less than l5
years and months, and il this record
can be beaten by any Pennsylvania SOL
dier he'd like to hear about it.
"A miniature cyclone struck this
county in the vicinity of Trunkeyville
about $3.50 O'Clock on Tuesday afternoon
O last week and ravaged section of the
country five miles long by about half
mile wide. Chestnut and other hardwood
trees two or three feet through at the
butt were torn up and yards of soil in
which the roots were fastened were torn
cut with them. There we're more than
100 of the big trees down in and within a
radius of half mile of Trunkeyville.
Several of these fell upon the siding of
the p. II. K. and ii was necessary to send
choppers to lop off the branches which
obstructed the main track, to permit the
trains to go through. One big tree fell
across the roof of the newly erected store
of Samuel Tucker, smashing in the roof
supports. Some of the islands in that
neighborhood were swept clear of the
standing timber. The path of the storm
was about five miles in length by half
mile wide, and little rain or lightning ac-
companied the wind, which is said to
have been higher than the old timers can
recall.
1t is a well-known fact in the oil re-
gion that more sudden deaths by nitro
glycerine are caused by leaky cans than
in any other way, says the Franklin
News. 1t was this knowledge that
caused William Bowers, Housewife
shooter, to blow up his wagon last Mon
day at Oleopolis. He had received orders
to put in 50-quart shot of nitro-g!ycer-
inc in the Trax we'll and arrived on the
Job early in the morning. When he un-