The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1910-09-21

Long and Newcome lease, the gaug,
showing 100000 feel. et.-Brook yille Re
publican.
Severe white frosts were reported In
the hill country Thursday, Friday and
Saturday mornings of last week, and in
some places the corn was nipped, but as
rule little damage was done, all the
other crops being ''out of the way" as Il
were.
DIR. and Mrs. W. j. Mcknight, Mr.
and Mrs. III. Ii. Kennedy, Mrs. G. B,
Hastings and the latter's mother, Mrs.
Moorhead, spent Wednesday of last week
at Cooksburg, where they were guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Cook-Brookv lille
Republican.
The regular quarterly communi ion
services will be held in the Presbyterian
church next Sabbath morning. Pre-
paratory services will be held Thursday
and Friday evenings OF this week. A
general and cordial invitation is extended
TO all of these services.
Alton V. Hover, twice convicted of
murder in the first degree for the killing
Of bis wife at Atlantic, Crawford county,
~ been refused a new trial by Judge
Wing of Erie, before whom the second
trial took place on charge of venue from
Crawford county. Hover will be sem
fenced to the death penalty.
Judge Taylor, of Washington county,
has given the railroad trespass law solar
plexus blow. He ruled that railroad de-
tectives cannot molest men for tresspass-
ing, for walking on railroad property.
Heretofore II has been the practice of
these officials to seize trespassers and
hustle them before magistrate.
"A well known minister who had been
preaching begging sermon, concluded it
as follows: 81 don't want any to con-
tribute who have not paid their subscrip-
tion to the home papers, for country
papers need money a great deal more
than do the heathen." That minister
knew what he was talking about.
e. A. Handy, who recently purchased
the VIM. Clark farm on Hunter Run, was
a business caller at the REPUBLICAN of
hce Monday morning He informs us
his apple crop was not bad one this sea-
son, and that he will have good lot of
hand-picked Northern spies to dispose of
this fall. For all purposes this variety
has them all done to frazzle.
-Tionests ladies to the number of forty
or more enjoyed picnic supper up at the
Jameson farm last Wednesday evening.
The feast was one of royal proportions,
and after the bounteous meal, the atmos-
phere being a triae frosty, the large
gathering was delightfully entertained
within the spacious home of fMr. and Mrs.
A. l.. Thomson until train time.
Mrs. Rhoda Kuhn, widow of Reids-
burg, Clarion county, died suddenly at
her home several days ago. Mrs. Kuhn
had lived alone oyer20 years. Her hus-
band was Civil war veteran and she
received a pension aud worked at carpet
Once when the hiding place of
her savings, an old coffee pot, was dis
covered, she deposited about 5000 in a
Clarion bank. Examination of the house
after her death disclosed $45037 in cash
and receipts and papers worth over IS, 900
The value Of the estate cannot be deter
mined till it is admin istered. Mrs, Kuhn
leaves two heirs.
w. II, Klepper, high sheriff of Clin-
ton county, advertises that at o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, October 10Th he will
Dffer for sale at the court house, Lock
Haven, a plot ofground. known as Great
Island cemetery, In which many bodies
have reposed for century. This prop
erty contains nearly two acres of ground,
upon which are many marble and granite
markers aud monuments
hundreds of persons buried there during
he Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Doubtless the aucti oneer will guarantee
he premises spook less.
The United Evangelical con ference,
leld last week at Windber, near Johns
own, made the following appointments
or the Franklin district: Franklin, f. |
Z. Hetrick; Rocky Grove, F. W. Ware;
A. +. Lenhart; Oil City, |
J, V. Carmany; Greenville, L. A. Miles;
+. G. Timmis; Salem, j.
+. Shafier; Rockland, B. f. Felt; Venan-
20, M. V. Kelly; Armstrong, s. Milliron;
G. S. Engle; Brookville, L.
=. Nicely; Clarion, G. e. Erskine; Craw-
ord, j. c.. Wygsnt; Hawthorne, d.
8erkey. Rev. f. w. Ware, who was a
ormer principal of the Tionests schools,
\ as named as one OF the delegates to the
general nference at Canton, Ohio, on
he 9th of October.
Jonathan Harp, long time resident
If Brookville, Pa, died at his home in
hat place, Sept. 18th, after long illness.
Mr.. Harp was born in Perry township,
Jefferson county, July "a, 1899. He
erved three years in the Civil war as a
of Co. E, 18th U. S. Infantry.
lie was good soldier and an honored
'itizen in the community. His wife, who
vas Miss Isabella Davis, of Greenville,
clarion county, died Jan. lst, 1908. Mr..
Harp is survived by two sons and three
as follows: Harry II. and
Milton Harp, of Marienville, this county,
Mrs. q. w. Aulenbach, of Brookville,
Mrs. w. A. Russ, of Oil City, and Miss