The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1910-06-08

-Children's Day Will be observed In
the Methodist church next Sunday eve
ming at the usual hour for church ser.
vices. A fine program is being prepared
The Presbyterian Sunday School will
celebrate Children's Day on the 10th al
IL a. m.
The regular meeting of the Forest
brotherhood of the Tionests NJ. e. church
will be held Friday evening, June 10th,
at 8 O'Clock. The question, Resolved
That the world is growing BETTER" will
be debated. Affirmative, Rev. B. f,
Felt, T. f. Ritchey, @. A. Lanson. Neg
alive, d. W. Morrison, G. f. Felt and
Parker Flick.
"A souvenir post card received from
John Lawrence, who is now in the west,
shows that II is hard to keep good man
down, even in base ball. A clipping at
tached TO the card says that on May 29lh
the Chehalis, Wash, team defeated the
Montesano team in the State League by a
score of to 0 in ten innings. John was
the catcher for the Chehalis team.
This is the year that the II year locust
is due again, and in few weeks he will
make his appearance in the farms of the
Middle West. At least the authorities on
locust lore and superstition are sure he
will, and they have never been mistake en-
in the past. No one seems to know ex-
actly where the IL year locust comes from,
but II is matter of record that he does
show up regularly just the same.
The retiring school hoard of Tionesta
Boro held its last meeting Monday eve-
ming, when the business of the year was
closed up. The new board organized
with the election of J. J. Landers, Presi-
dent, j. G. Geist, Secretary, and ]. G.
Snowden, Treasurer. Monday, June 20
was set as the date for the election of
teachers. The retiring directors are w.
G., Wyman and j. r. Clark, and they are
succeeded by J. G. Geist and Joseph
Clark.
Moses Mealy, aged upward of 70
years, and veteran of the civil war, died
at his home at Tylersburg, Sunday
morning last, and was buried at the Hs-
gen cemetery yesterday afternoon, fol-
lowing the funeral services which were
in the NJ. e. church of Tylersburg, The
deceased leaves his wife and large fami-
ly of grown children, besides many
friends, to mourn his death. He was the
father of John F. Mesly of Tylersburg,
well known to many of our citizens.
According to the Derrick's monthly
oil report there 1862 new wells completed
during the month of May and 7lO new
rigs and drilling wells. This is gain of
SO wells, and an increase of 302 barrels Of
new production. There was decrease
of 25 in new work. This is for the Penn
avlvanis field only. In the Buckeye and
uoosier Oil Fields 80 wells were COM
pleted in May. The new production was
1911 barrels and there were IA dry holes.
At the close of May there were l2O rigs
and drilling wells under way.
Information has just come to the
Democrat ofanother big lumber operation
in which some of the members of A. Cook
Sons Co. are interested. They recently
bought out Dubois and Bond Bros. Mills,
railroad and all equipment at Bond, Gar
rett county Maryland, and are now get
ting the plant in shape for operation. F.
B. Calvin, recently returned from Cali
fornia, who was formerly located at Mill
creek, is trans ferred to this new operation
and is assisting A. Wayne Cook 10 getting
the same going. There are about 10000
said it will take eight years or more to
complete the job. 1t is expected that ev-
erything will be running by the middle
OF July.-Clarion Democrat.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. @. Geist, with their
sons Glenn and Willis, were called to
Corsica, Pa, Saturday, by the news OF
the death of their sister in-lsw, Mrs. E.
p. Glenn, who died Friday night, June
4th, after a weeks illness of pneumonia.
Mrs. Glenn was aged 40 years and is sur
vived by her husband, two sons and two
daughters. Her maiden name was Eliz-
abeth Bennett and she had resided in
Corsica since her marriage sixteen years
ago She was member of the M. L.
church. The funeral services were held
Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Corsica Presby-
terian church, conducted by the Presby-
terian and Methodist ministers. Inter
ment in the cemetery there. Mrs. Geist
and Willis remained at Corsica for visit
oftwo weeks.
Frank Barnes, the notorious crook,
who was released from the Venango
county Jail May 25th, after serving nearly
two years for the robbery of Miss Eliza
Copeland at Pithole, June "a, 1908, just
can't keep out OF prison. He professed to
have reformed and went to Olean, N. Y,
but was arrested after few days charged
with extorting money from various
women by threats. He confessed and
last Friday was sentenced to six months
in the Erie county penitentiary at Buffalo.
When arrested Barnes was with married
woman from Franklin, who had run of
with 5000 of her husbands money. The
money was found on Barnes. They had
bought trunks and were preparing to
leave for some point in Pennsylvania.
This makes Barnes eighth penitentiary
sentence, besides numerous Jail sentences.
While in olean he travelled under the