The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-02-12
The PUBLISHER.


Hopkins store these days take the lead.
Winter wesrables are cut so there IS
scarcely anything left of the prices. 1t
-Twenty-six degrees below zero is
coming down the line at a pretty good
speed in this latitude, but that's what the
most of the thermometers registered on
Sunday morning at o'clock. Some re-
ported 2s below, but we'd rather take the
smaller figure for safety and common
decency's sake.
Don't forget that there will be an cleo
tion next Tuesday, but turn out and cast
your ballot. The Republicans of the
borough present ticket composed of
worthy and competent men, who will
carefully guard tie interests of the mu-
nicipality, and they should be pulled
through without scratch.
Waldo Il Morris began work Mon
day on their fourth well on the Morris
farm, in President township, Venango
county. We are informed that their No.
3, which started off at 35-barrel clip, is
holding up well. The new location is 800
feet west of this strike. The first two
wells are expected to make small pump
ers when rigged up.
1t is said that the Pennsylvania Rail-
road officials are getting ready for a
movement which will finally result in
ridding the company of all its intemper-
ate employees, not only those who get in
toxicated once in while, but also those
who coDtine their drinking to an occa-
sional glass. In the suspension and dis
charge OF men preference will be given to
teetotalers and the fact that man d. inks
will weigh heavily against him, says the
Greensburg Press.
Trains on the B. IL o narrow gauge
have just pulled themselves out of the
snow drifts after a weeks tussle along
the line between Clarion junction and
Kane. A passenger train was atalled
and completely showed in near Arthurs
station last Wednesday and only succeed
ed in getting out yesterday when the
track was cleared up and the first en-
gines, pushing snow plow went down
the road from Kane. 1t is just week
since our neighbors at Marienville have
received or dispatched any mail matter.
"A few days ago Congressman Wheeler
was notified by the department that a
pension had been allowed to Mrs. Caro-
line M. Law, OF Franklin, at the usual
rate of $500 per month. Furthermore
that the restoration and increase of the
claim of her husband at the rate of $40 90
per month from March I'd, 1908, to
Sept. 8, 1907. the date of her husband S
death, had also been allowed, making
back pay for about SO months. or about
81, 4S4 90 in lump sum. Surely Uncle
Sam is doing nobly by the old boys in
blue and their widows.
The past two days have been of the
"ethereal mildness" type, than which a
finer article of weather never laid out of
wake of the rough and stormy ways of
last week, have been thoroughly appre-
ciated and thrice welcome. People who
we're completely "snOwed-up" for several
days are just beginning TO pull them
selves out of.the drifts, and business on
the roads is assuming normal proportions
once more, thanks. 1t was one of the
worst storms this country has experienced
within the memory of the oldest of them,
if not altogether so.
Will Nichols, a married man living
at Fox Creek, Green township, met with
an accident Monday evening which lacked
but hairs breadth, as it were, of being
fatal one. While chopping in the woods
his ak caught on a brush and was so
turned as to bring the sharp blade down
upon his neck just back ofand under the
right ear, cutting a long cash, the one
point of the blade strik ing the tip of the
jaw bone, thus preventing the large ar
teries and jugular vein from being sew
cred DR.. Bovard was summoned and
pmade the necessary surgical repairs and
Mr.. Nichols was doing well at last ac-
counts
Foster, the famous long range wealth
or forecaster, says that the first ten days
of February will be unusually warm, and
the last 10 days unusually cold. From
| 81 tp hn oh nj dau a
great cold wave will cover the continent,
with extremely low temperature in
places. During the cold spell very low
temperatures will prevail in the vicinity
of Washington. d. c., and heavy SHOWS
may be expected. The month will aver
age much warmer and will be very dry
in the great central valleys. Judging
from the professors wide miss on the
weather of the first ten days we wouldn't
give much for his guess on the latter part
of the month. Rather take the ground
hogs word for it,
-Precocity in child is thing to bt
regretted rather than encouraged. Few
precocious children rise above the aver
age in adult life. Rather the tendency il
to fall below it. During early childhood
say the first seven years, the brain is i'm
perfect both in form and substance, anG
any strain then put upon it is at the ex
pense of future vigor. One trouble il
that the brain of such a child tends o
itself to dangerous activity; and another
is that the fond parent is almost sure
sometimes unconsciously and sometimes
purposely, to push 1t to the limit of it
power. What the parents should do is t
hold the child away from schools anC