The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1909-05-12

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menced, and will be done under the su-
pervision of the road commissioners with
VIM. II. Harrison as the superintendent
OF construction. This piece of road is to
take the place of tho old one, which fol-
lows the creek bank, aud will run along
the hill back Of the Kelly farm on almost
a level grade. 1t will be a trifle I'VE two
miles In length extending from the
watering trough near Charles Bush's
place to the Green township line. The
new road will obviate the o%verfows Office
and water which has always been a mem
ace to travel, and will not be 30 sandy
in the summer time.
-'Mothers' Day" SCI vices at the Pres
byterian church on Sabbath morning
were attended by a large congregation,
and the white carnation worn In honor of
mother" was the adjoining feature Of
every attendant. The pastor. Rev. Mr..
Bailey delivered u of his best sermons,
paying many eloquent tributes to the
memory the mothers of our land, and at
tributing to them and their Influence the
good, the true and the noble that is found
In the manhood and womanhood of every
generation. The singing was good at
this meeting, and the solo by Prof. Gill,
my Mothers Beautiful Hands" was ex.
quisitely sweet and touching, moving
many in the congregation to tears.
Though not given to spread eagle
speeches, our present representative in
Congress, Hon. N. p. Wheeler, of En-
deavor, Forest county, is making a fine
record in Congress for hard work and te-
nacity of purpose. The heads of the De-
partments in Washington have learned to
know Mr.. Wheeler as a man who never
gives up till he has won the case for his
constituent or found that there are obsta-
cles in way that can not be surmounted,
aud hence when they see him coming
now they m to get ready to grant
wishes. His tenaticity of purpose and
persistent activity have won him many a
case, and this accounts for his wonderful
success with the pension Department
Ridgwsy Advocate.
The Tidioute News still places some
in the rumored change Of
management of some of the branches of
the old w. N. Y. q p. road, according to
the following: "a story has been going
the rounds that the p. r. r. has leased its
from Oil City to Buffalo and from
Oil City to Stoneboro to the Lake Shore
Ry. A special dispatch of Tuesday to
the Franklin Evening News from New
York denies that the N. Y. Central had
made such a lease. AS the Lake Shore
and Central are one and the same in tact,
while maintaining separate manage
ments, the denial does not count for
much. The public will know as to the
facts when the railroads choose to an
nounce them aud not before. However,
one fact is known and that is that the p.
r. r. has been losing good money in run
ming those branches, and that the River
Division, with poor train service as to
connections, has been making up the
The twenty-eighth convention of the
Women's Foreign Missionary Society of
the NJ. f. church mot in Tidioute, May
9Th and 9TH, and was very interesting and
The first session began
Thursday morning at ten o'clock, Mrs.
A. S. NJ. Hopkins, Mrs. II. N. Rodgers
and Miss Ina Wilhelm conducting in
their usual efficient manner. The lecture
Thursday evening by Mrs. Flora Chew
deserves special mention; her ten years
missionary life in India made her able to
picture wildly the life they live in India
childhood to old age and some OF
her pictures we're heart rending. After
Mrs. Chew's lecture the ladies Of the M.
L. church gave a reception to the dele
gates of the convention. They served
light refreshments, after which a social
half hour was spent. The music of the
convention was exceptionally good. The
organ was ably presided oyer by Ralph
Siggins of Tidioute and a dozen special
numbers were we'll rendered by ladies of
Oil City, Franklin and Tidioute. The
convention closed Friday afternoon, all
the time had been ~protitably
spent. Mrs. MCKEEN, Press Com.
The Oil City Blizzard gives this
graphic description of n of the most
beautiful sunrises that has eyer
been witnessed In this latitude, or Thurs
day morning last: "Oil City residents
who believe in the early bird theory were
for their efforts this morning by
witnessing one of the most beautiful sun
rises that ever mortal eyes beheld. II
was a dawn triumphant owe an emer-
gence, from a night in which the NOON
lit sky was laden with billowy masses of
broken up into innumerable por-
tons, resembling a river filled with var
ious sized cakes of ice. This mornings
Aurora Boreslis threw out an amber glow
that apparently bsthed the whole world
in its great flood of color, diffusing yer
everything until the sun arose majestic
ally TO claim its own, causing the amber
glow to become submissive to its own
immense radiance. The phenomenon,
it is believed, arose from atmospheric
and was a sublime spectacle"
At this place the wonderful beauty OF the
hesvans was still more enhanced by the
appearance of a gorgeous rainbow in the
western sky, the rim of which extended
almost to the zenith.