The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1910-01-12

Chief Game Protector Joseph Kalb-
fus, of Harrisburg, received message
from Warden Joseph Berrier that Berrier
had caught man in Butler county "who
worked the smoothest trick ever pulled
of on the game commissioner" The
prisoner shot doe In Elk county, and in
endeavoring to escape the law against
shooting any deer but one with horns, he
punctured the does skull and fitted on a
handsome pair of antlers. The mature
fake" almost succeeded but Berrier got
on the mans trail and landed him in
Butler county. He was fined the max
imum, 500. The costs amounted to $2S.
"A correspondent writing from Beers
Camp, Hickory township, under date of
Jan. 9th, says: "All Is activity in camp
with the recent fall of snow. The trail
road is glare of ice and the teams are
doing rushing business. Il. w. Beers
recently hauled in a trail of logs, eighteen
in number, containing 10, ,265 feet. This
trail was hauled by team weighing
1900 pounds and driven by teamster Bert
Albaugh. The logs were scaled by j. II.
Rutherford, who used the Scribner rule.
Who can beat this?" This camp is one of
those engaged in supplying logs to the
Wheeler Il Dusenb bury mills at Endeavor,
Pa.
The goosebone weather prophets who
have been predicting an open winter will
haye to guess again. The past week has
astonished the Oldest inhabitant as regards
the severity of the winter weather, and
with about IS inches of snow on the level
and the mercury trying to drop through
the bulbs of our thermometers, it is most
anything except an open winter. Sstur-
day morning thermometers in Tionesta
registered from l2o to lSo below zero,
according to location; Sunday morning 1t
was 90 below; Monday morning lac below
and Tuesday morning 40 to llo below.
That ought to hold the prophets for
while.
The season for shooting bear in Penn
sylvania closed on December 81, and ac-
cording to secretary Joseph Kalbfus, of
the Game commission, the killing of bear
the past year was the greatest known in |
ten years or more. DR.. Kalbfus' estimate
is that at least 400 bear were shot, princi-
pally in the northern and Allegheny |
mountain counties. The bears were
more numerous, too, than for a long time
and score or more of hunting parties re-
ported that they came close to camp.
This was the first bear season to close
With the year, as heretofore the bear sea-
son has run until spring. The season for |
bear as made by the last Legislature was
from October l to January l.
The farmers of this county will be
interested to learn that there will be held
this year a series OF Farmers Institutes
at Clarington, Friday and Saturday, Feb.
18th and 10th, and at Tionests, Monday
and Tuesday, Feb. 2lst and 22d. The
instructors from other parts of the State
who will be present to join with the
farmers of this locality in the discussion
OF topics relative TO agriculture are Prof.
Franklin Menges, OF York, Prof. Chas.
f. Noll, of State College, Chas. T. Corn
man, of Carlisle. Clarence G. McCurdy, of
Hartstown, and E. b. Dorsett, of Mans
field. These meetings are free and open
to all, and all the farmers of this county
should avail themselves of the advantages
to be gained by attending these meetings.
Programs will soon be issued.