The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-10-13


however, and due announcement of time
and place will be made.
The first real blizzard of the season
struck this section yesterday about noon,
when the temperature changed from a
fairly mild condition to clustering cold
in a short time, and 1t came from the
southland in which storms had been rag
ing for two days. The air was filled with
snow at intervals during the afternoon.
"A Butler county judge has given an
opinion that an unnaturalized foreigner
may keep firearms In his home for self
protection. The decision is the result of
some arrests made some time ago, based
on the Act of Assembly that no unnatur-
allied foreigner should have in his
possession fireaams for hunting purposes.
"A warning has been issued by the
Treasury Department to be on the look
out for two and fve-dollar counterfeit
bills. The spurious $2 bill is numbered
"D535700S3A" aud the bad s. certificate is
stamped "A24illlSB". Cleveland and
other nearby cities have been visited by
hundreds of the bills and secret service
officers are endeayoring to find where
they all come from.
Automobiles may fly along at rate
Of "a miles an hour over country roads of
the State where speed limit notices are
not posted, according to decision made
recently in quarter sessions court at
Pittsburg, by Judge John G. Haymaker.
The Justice held 1t was the duty of the
proper officials to display warnings not
to exceed Emile rate on built-up Sec
tions. Failure to post signs was held to
exonerate motorists.
One year ago the first of this month
the P. II. r. had approximately 900 cars
standing idle, stored in its yards and on
sidings, while this week there was not
one out of service and shortage is re-
ported on coal cars. 1t is said the COM
pany has tried to borrow cars from other
companies, but these have also reported
a shortage and only few cars could be
secured. All of which is pleasing evidence
of returning prosperity.-Oil City Bliz-
zard.
The annual inspection of Capt Stow
Woman's Relief Corps No. 1877 took place
at their hall Saturday evening. with the
Department President, Mrs. Julia Car
rington, of Susquehanna, Pa, as inspect
ing officer, who complimented the ladies
on their work and wished them success
and prosperous new year. There was
good turn out and the meeting was an
interesting and beneficial one. The la
dies served lunch after the business of
the evening had been disposed of.
Among the important decisions
handed down by the Supreme court sit
ting in Plttsburg on Monday, was the
famous Conneaut Lake case. This case
was tried In Meadville before Judge Girls
well OF Venango county, and involved
the ownership of the lake. The Conneaut
Lake Ice Co., which claims the owner
ship, enioined Quigley ct al from operat-
ing yacht on the water. Judge Girls
well decided that the lake was the prop
erty of the public and not the company.
This decision is sustained by the Su-
preme court. The case has attracted
widespread attention.
John r. Tallman, aged SO years. died
at his home in Tdioute on the 4th inst,
He was born in Erie county, but for the
past 30 years had his residence in III
dioute, where he was engaged in various
occupations. At one time he was largely
engaged in numbering, when river trans
portation was almost exclusively in
vogue, and he became one of the we'll
known pilots on the Allegheny, plotting
most of his own lumber TO the lower
market. Mr.. Tallman was we'll and
favorably known to many people in this
section, having spent the summer of 1898
In Tionesta while the water plant was be-
ing installed here. One son and two
daughters survive.
-Russel Byers, the four-year-old son
of Garfield Byers, of Venus, Venango
county, was drowned in Porcupine run,
five miles distant from his home some
time last Sunday afternoon. His body
was discovered late in the night by a
posse of men who had been securing the
big woods since o'clock in the afternoon
which was about the time the child was
missing from home. The distance trav-
eled by the child between the time of his
leaving home until it is supposed he met
his death, indicate that realizing he was
lost in the woods, he became panic strick-
en- and ran until exhausted, then stumb-
ling across the brook fell, and was too
weak to get up, losing his life in water of
insufficient depth to cover more than
half of his b ody.
The W. G. T. U. held their annual
dinner at the County Home, Thursday,
Oct. 7th. This being an ideal autumn
day, about forty members of the Union
went up to the Home with well filed
baskets to give to those less fortunate a
day of pleasure and feasting. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hill very graciously welcomed the
ladies and assisted in making it happy
day for the inmates. About sixty peo-
pie sat down to the tables that fairly
groaned with the good things the ladies
had brought. The out of town guests
we're, Mr.. and Mrs. f. Wenk of German
Hill; Mrs. CASTOR of Meadville; Mrs.
Lyons of Butler; Mrs. McElhsny OF
Butler; Mrs. Elmer Patterson of Lees