The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-03-03
THE sUFFRAaETTEs,


Miranda as a clerk,
Jennie with poll-book
And Susan doing "work;"
With Daisy perched upon hack
In which the sick are hauled,
Then Home will be-well, possibly,
Twill be what wars been called.
oil City Blizzard.
"A movement is on foot to organize a
stock company in Dunkirk for the pur-
pose of manufacturing ice. Many other
towns in this latitude will doubtless have
to resort to this means of supplying
themselves with ice this summer.
The Forest Gas Co. of Tidioute fin
ished another good oil we'll last week in
their No. 10 on the Lacy lands, near Co.
lima, in Green township. The we'll is
showing up for the best that the company
has yet drilled for oil on the Lacy lease,
the showing being so good that it was
not thought necessary to shoot 1t.
When grown.up man, in converse.
tion with you, refers to one of your
schoolboy chums as ''uncle" or "grand-
pa" he holds up a mirror in which you
can plainly see something that looks like
an old man. Blizzard. There is so much
pathos reflected in this item that we
scarcely had the heart to reproduce 1t.
-"Red Head" Joe Landers' famous
red Irish setter dog, gave up the ghost
some time during Sunday night, the
faithful old fellow having evidei tly got
ten dose of poison. Although well
along in years he would still have been
good for a season or two yet, and Joe
would liked to have kept him for the
good he had done.
The Derrick's monthly oil report for
February shows heavy decline in all
fields and in all kinds of work. In the
Pennsylvania field $40 wells were COM
pleted of which 1856 were dry, and the
new production was 4.SSl barrels. In all
the fields com bin I'D there were 255 new
wells completed, 944 dry holes, and 81, l,34s
barrels new production.
In court at Clarion last week the case
of young Frank Mesly was called and on
motion of district attorney was contin.
ued. The charge aIsinst the boy is felo-
NOUS shooting, the victim Mike Ellios,
the Syrian peddler, and the scene of the
shooting near Newmansville on the 18th
of last January. The defendant has not
a.ked to be released on bail
Contractor s. T. Carson finished wha t
appeared to be fair well on the Fox
farm, mile north of President, a week
or more ago. The we'll is wildcat, be
ing a mile from the lease Of the President
Oil Co., and was showing up for about
five barrels day. The owners are Frank
Sha,nburg, e. q. Hosg and Milton Stew
art of Titusville, and they have 26O acres
under lease.
Alfred l.. Smell, editor of the OIL City
Derrick, died at his home in that city on
Wednesday evening last after brief Ill
ness resulting from an internal abscess,
aged 81 years. Thus passes away one of
the oil regions most talented writer's and
expert statisticians. and withal one of the
kindest and most genial of men whose
friends and admirers were limited only by
his acquaintanceship.
In the March issue OF Woman's Home
Companion is begun a series of articles
telling "What the Emmanuel Movement
Really Is" Many frsgmentary articles
have appeared on this subject, but this
series Is the first complete story of this
worldwide movement. The Companion
is rapidly coming to the front as leader
among Americas greatest magazines.
Madison Square New York.
Roy Barber, l3.year-old lad of
Lynch, spent the day in the city. On his
way to the train this morning after leav-
ing home the lad had an adventure with
a wild cat that he will long remember.
He met the cat along the road and threw
stone at the animal. 1t is difficult to
say which was the most frightened, the
boy or the cat, but both beat hasty re-
treat.-Warren Times, Saturday.
M. P. Sutley of West Hickory, met
with an accident while at work on the
island lease of Carson, Morrow i Co.,
near that place, Monday of last week, by
which he lost portion OF his lett hand.
He was lighting a gasolene jet when a
slight explosion occurred and in throw
ing himself back to escape being singed
his hand came in contact with the cogs OF
the gas engine. DR.. Morrow dressed the
wound a. d found it necessary to ampu-
tate the ends of second, third and little
fingers.
"A small ice machine, worked by
hand, and which manufactures ice in
small cakes or cools water by few turns
OF crank, is a new household article
manufactured in Reading, England.
Should this valuable household article
prove an entire success, what will become
of the ice man? -PuDxy Spirit, Gee!
What do we care for the ice man! Fetch
on the machine. With the prospects of
an ice harvest gone aglimmering, they'll
sell like hot cakes on frosty morning
along about July OF August.
The REPUBLICAN has received copy
of the Alaska Yukon-Pa edition of
The Argus, Seattle, Wash, exploiting the
exposition which will be held in tnat city
the coming summer. The publication,
which is in magazine form, is a credlta-