The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-06-24

q dr0pslcal affectlon, from which he mad
been a sufferer for more than year.
He was upwards of SO years of age. A
more extended notice Of the deceased
will be given next week. Funeral Thurs
day afternoon at the Zuendel church.
The Committee on Permanent Ger
tificates for Forest County, W. W. Mills,
Blanche Hunter and Maude Berlin, will
hold examinations at the school house,
Tionesta, July 1st and I'd. Those inter-
ested should make note of the dates.
The authorities having in charge the
erection of the new M. e. church in this
place have received many bids from
prominent contractors, and will close the
bidding next Saturday evening at
o'clock. Soon after that the contract will
be let.
People from this vicinity who attend
ed the great picnic at Monarch Park, Oil
City, given by Congressman Sibley few
years ago, will recall that James s. Sher-
man, the Republican nominee for Vice
President, was there and made fine
speech in behalf of Mr., Sibley.
For Sale, small farm within limits of
Tionesta boro, Is minutes walk from bus
mess portion of town. Twelve acres under
good state of cultivation, splendid water,
good new house and barn, and small
orchard bearing. See or write G. M.
Arner or G. B. Armstrong, Tionesta, Pa.
Robert Scott, employed at the box
mill at Nebraska, had the muscles of his
right arm badly lacerated above the elbow
last Wednesday, by getting his clothing
caught by a set-screw on the end of a
line shaft. DR.. Bovard found it necessary
to employ several stitches to close the
wounds.
Rural Route Agent Johnston came in
Monday from his regular trip through
Green and Tionesta townships with the
carcass of a four-foot rattlesnake dangling
from the rear of his vehicle. He had met
the reptile on the road and dispatched it.
1t was large specimen of the yellow
variety.
The Carpenter Morton Co., Boston,
Mass. were the first paint concern to offer
Varnish Stains to housekeepers. Camp
bells Varnish Stain is the original, first
made in 1888, and today recognized as the
most satisfactory article of the kind upon
the market. Bovard's IS Pharmacy carries a
complete stock. Color card for the asking.
j. J. Landers shot big yellow rat
tlesnake while trout fishing on Hemlock
creek last Friday. The snake measured
three feet four inches and carried buzzer
attachment of eleven rattles and button.
On the same day Geo. w. Osgood, who
is working on Indian Camp run, killed
big black rattler fully four feet long.
This one carried twelve rattles.
The public is advised by the con-
tractors, Messrs. Beck q OFT, that it will
be necessary to close Elm street COM
pletely from the Wol:ord property down
for some distance, but this obstruction
will not continue a minute longer than is
necessary. Vehicles coming into town
from the north may take the river beach
at Tubbs Run and come out onto the
the street again below the cemetery.
This can be done in spinch.
The most elaborate celebration of the
Fourth of July in this county will take
place at Kellettville this year. There is
nothing that goes with the proper obser'
vance of this great American day that has
not been provided for by the energetic
committee in charge, and tits bound to be
success from start to finish. The good
people of Kellettville will be glad to well
come all who attend, and will make it q
point to see that everybody is we'll enter
tanned.
Mrs. Belle Guinness has demonstrated
most conclusively that advertising pays.
Her advertisements, "a Husband Want
ed" brought men, and men with money,
from all parts OF the country. The fact
that she cracked them on the head and
planted them in her back yard detracts
in no way from the conclusion that il
pays to advertise. If you want a wife,
advertise. you want to sell goods, ad.
vertise. The duller the season, the great
or the need for the help of the newspaper.
The Oil City Blizzard thinks it is
simply remarkable on how slight a pro-
vocation the price of beefcs be advanced.
A rain storm or dry spell is equally
serviceable, or red sunset might suffice.
Vot oil Tho oo,na tbara 10 M nononolu
in this country more detrimental to the
whole country and more nefarious in
both its methods and its aims than the
Beef Trust. Ifever 1t be demolished, its
destroyer will be entitled to full need OF
the peoples gratitude, and he will get it,
too.
In his monthly talk in the July
Woman's Home Companion, DR.. Edward
Everett Hale protests against the grow
ing commercializing of travel in America
the making of it business when it ought
| to be pleasure. 1.-THE railroad people
seem to think" he says, ''that if they can
make the public understand how to gel
from New York to Santa Barbara in fif'
teen minutes less than it needed year
ago, the great battle of life is gained. But
whoever will try the experiment of say
ing, I'VE will show you how to 60 from
New York to the Pacific and back again
stopping forty times on the way, and
coming back twice the man you were
when you started will make genuine
contribution to the uplift of that hundred