The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-07-21

the woods last week. Or. Detar attended
him and 1t required several stitches
to close the wound.
"A company of Tylersburg people who
are operating near the head waters of a
branch Of Hemlock creek, in Tionesta
twp, have tapped what appears to be a
good we'll on a piece OF land the oil right
of which is owned by A. b. Kelly. The
we'll is located to the right ofthe road with
In a few hundred feet of j. A. Shriver's
house, and Is said to have filled up with oil
to a depth of 100 feet on tapping the sand.
The strike has caused considerable stir in
the community.
Here is a minister who appreciates
the editor. AT a recent editorial conven-
ton he gave out the following advice:
ITO save an editor from star vation, take
his paper and pay him promptly. 10
save him from bankruptcy, advertise in
his paper literally. To save him from
dispair, give him every item of news you
can get hold OF. To a v him from pro-
family, write your correspondence plainly
on n side of The sheet and send it In as
early as possible. To save him from
mistakes, bury him. Dead people are
the only ones who never make Mistakes"
Sylvester Confer attempted to do
some work in forging of checks in Brook
willie last Saturday, but soon came to
grief. He wrote five checks, two for $40
each, and three for $40 each, and gave
them to a young man to. pass. Four of
them were signed T. B. Cook, and one
was signed A. Cook Sons Company. In
stead of attempting to pass the checks the
young man turned them over TO the chief
OF police, and Confer was arrested aud
taken before a justice Of the peace. AT a
hearing he was held under bail for court.
The checks were drawn on the jefferson
National Bank.-Jeffersonian
Robert Painter, of Raughts, who Is
employed at Nebraska, Forest Co., has
returned to his work again after having
spent two weeks at his home, suffering
from a broken arm. The arm is almost
entirely we'll again and Mr.. Painter will
be able to use 1t again in his work. This
man has had a series of misfor-
tunes in the last few years. While a wit
ness at court here two years ago he con-
tracted the typhoid fever and upon re-
covery from that disease was attacked
with a very serious case of appendicitis,
which he was successfully operated
upon in the Elk County General Hos
pital. -Advocate.
Local railroad men are not inclined
believe the story emaDating from
Rochester to the effect that the New York
Central is about to trade the peanut
branch to the Pennsylvania for the W.
Y. Y. * P. No one can see of what SER
1ice the line from Batavia to Syracuse
would be to the Pennsylvania, or why
he Buffalo division should be sacrificed.
4 similar story was told here some weeks
and promptly denied by the officials
the New York Central. Almost any
lind of a rumor is possible regarding
ailroads now. The majority of them are
imposed to originate in the section crews.
-Titusyille Herald.
1t is a rather general impression that
physicians make use of anti-toxin when
'ther treatment fails, or only in serious
of diphtheria. The teaching has ever
)een that If anti-toxin is to be OF any
'alue at all it must be employed within
he first So hours, or before the poison has
serious changes in the body.
is ofgreat value in those who
ave been exposed to diphtheris but who
re not yet affected. The after results
rom the use of this agent are no more
erious than those following any potent
rug. The State Department of Health
furnishes anti-toxin free of charge to all
'ersons unable to purchase it.
up to this minute all kinds of crops,
With the exception of hay and some fields
f oats, are doing we'll. Potatoes promise
good yield and the acreage is above the
verage. Wheat, which is being harvest
is exceptionally good. Corn isgener-
lily fair, but is suffering from cold
lights. Blackberry bushes are we'll
Oaded but need more rain if the crop is
0 amount to much. If blossoms count
anything there ought to be a big
hestnut crop, as the trees in this vicinity
'ere white with them a week ago. But
nuts, which are already we'll along,
'ill be abundant, the trees being we'll
'eighted with the fruit. So cheer up.
are going about right.
As to the speed to which automobiles
nay attain on the public highways, Sec
ion IA of the new law says: "No person
hall operate a m~otor-vehicle on the
ublic highways of this state recklessly,
r at a rate ofspeed greater than is rea-
enable and proper, having regard to the
'idth, traffic, and use of the highway or
0 as to endanger property or the life or
Imb of any person; but no person shall
rive a motor vehicle at a rate of speed
xceeding one m lie in two and one. half
minutes; Provided, That the local au-
having charge of any of the high
rays may, in dangerous, congested. or
uilt up portions, place signs, marked
Danger: run Slow" and at these places
he speed limit shall not exceed the rate
{ a mile in five minutes"
Don't become a chronic complainant.