The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1910-12-14

was last saturday when thermometers II
this place registered all the way fron
two to fourteen degrees below zero, de
pending on location. Perhaps the mid
die ground would be about right, max INF
the temperature seven degrees below zero
Out on the bills the weather was abou
the zero point, according to reports.
-"Says the Spariansburg Sentinel
Notwithstanding the reports that hav,
been going the rounds of the papers II
this section of the state that Prof. Biglel
Is TO resign his position at Ed nboro to &C
cept the presidency of an Iowa college, b,
states that there is no truth in the report
and that he expects to retain his present
position" This will be good news to the
Normal's many friends 1t this section.
"A big buck deer has been seen 9
number of times during the past week
in the vicinity OF Stewart Run, in
Harmony township. The animal seems
to be without fear of minkind and IL
wandering about the neighborhood II
10 hoped that he will not be molested
A large black bear Is reported to have
come out OF the woods and shown him
self In the upper part of the town of En-
deavor one day last week.
We had very pleasant visit Monday y
with Geo. W. Mong, who has been visit
ing his mother at the old homestead for
the past six weeks, having been called
here by her illness. George expects to
start back to his home at Maricopa, Cali
fornia, within few days, where he is en-
gagged in the oil fields, and where they get
wells that flow all the way from 20, 900 to
$4,000 barrels daily. 1t costs money to
operate in such fields, but one of these
spouters will pay for itself in less than a
week even at the low price of 30 or 40
cents a barrel.
Remember the Sunday School con-
ference to be held in the Tionesla NJ. E..
church this afternoon at three O'Clock and
this evening at 1880. A large attendance
is desired at both services and you are
especially urged to attend the evening
addresses. Mr.. Hermon Eldridge and
Mrs. Msude J. Baldwin, of the State
Sunday School Association, who will be
present, are among the most prominent
leaders in the work in this state and will
make the meetings interesting and help
ful to all who attend.
The we'll on the Clarence Potter farm,
mile north OF Tylersburg, which made
such fine showing when the sand was
tapped few weeks ago, was finished and
shot last Friday. Immediately after the
shot the well made three flows of 25 bar
rels each, and made over so barrels the
first II hours after being put to pumping.
The we'll is now pumping nicely and
experienced men on the ground say it
will make good Is barrel producer for
some time to come. Leasing is lively
there and hustling times are looked for
as soon as the weather will permit active
operations.
Lewis Daley, aged "a, laborer, en-
ployed at smelling plant in Titusvile,
met with an accident Friday afternoon,
which mains him for life. His left arm
was torn of in pair of rollers, while he
was picking cinders out from between
them. The hand was caught and drawn
into just below the elbow when Daley, by
a supreme effort and courage, saved the
remainder of the arm by jerking it out of
the machine. No bones were crushed.
the arm being torn off. He was rushed,
to the hospital, where the stump was am
putated an inch above the elbow. Daley
is in a precsrious condition from shock
and loss of blood.
Former County Commissioner L. Ag
new, who had been in the hotel business
IN Portland, Oregon, as propr ietor of the
Princess Hotel, has disposed of his in.
terest in that hostelry, and purchased a
half interest In the Hotel Houston, one of
the citys principal hotels, and much
more favorably located. We learn also
that John Lowry, only surviving brother
of Mrs. Carson, died on the 25th OF Novem-
Der, at his home at CASTOR, Oregon, aged
about S5 years. Mrs. Carson and her son,
Robert L. Carson, former residents of
Tionests, have lived with Mr.. Lowry for
a number of years, and with Mrs. Agnew,
are heirs to his half estate, which is val
ued at about $40, 900.
Cyrus E. Jones, prominent James
town man, met with peculiar accident
in that city Thursday, which should be
warning to those using celiuloid collars,
shades and the like. He was wearing
shade over his eyes and IN lighting a
cigar, the flame from the match reached
and set this on fire. In an instant the
gentleman's head was encircled by flame,
and his hair, eyebrows and moustache
were burned off and his face blistered.
Many of the articles used nowadays by the
ladies', combs and toilet articles generally
are made of that material, and they are
warned not to get them too close to the
fire or lighted gas burners, as they are
highly inhammable and liable to take fire
or explode.
Last week Editor White of the IT.
dioute News rounded out 36 persistent,
ceaseless years of toll as the head of that
paper. and in ruminating over the past,
comes to this conclusion: "Sitting here
at the old, well-littered desk, we look
back over this 80 years, ard not being
able to see the gray hair, the store teeth