The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1910-09-07

~ 1'N9o' npusg DDII Is not ringin
tnese days for The reason that some boy
wasted lot of valuable time saving th
J clapper out of the bell with hack saw
Really boys, jokes joke, but ism
that Joke getting little monotonous.
Two crates containing u bundre,
homing pigeons from Rochester, N. Y.
were received at the Tionesta expires
Office, Saturday, TO be liberated for th
flight home. The rainy weather has hel,
them up, but they will be released thi
morning II the weather Is clear.
According to the Bradford Star Rec
ord: The Corell concrete tie bas mad,
good on the Erie Railroad, where a piec,
of track has been tested with the new de
vice. The tie Is the invention of Mr.. Ii
Il. Corell, of Mt. Jewett, and bids fair t
revolutionize the use of wooden ties.
The fourth and last district quarterly
meeting of the conference year for lh,
Oil City District, Oil City Conference, o
the Free Methodist church, will be 8
mid-week meeting held at Oil City, be
ginning Monday evening, Sept. 18th, and
closing Thursday evening, Sept. 10Th.
For SALE.-The Richards property
in Tionesta, near court house, between
the Joyce and Herman properties. l2i
feet front, 100 feet deep; two-story house
and barn, concrete walks, fruit trees
Will be sold reasonable for cash. Ad-
dress, Wm. Richards, Mayburg, Pa. Al
james NJ, aged seven months and
nine days. twin son of Richard and Daisy
McWilliams, of Tionesta township, died
Sunday, Sept. 4, 1910. The funeral SER
vices were held at the home Tuesday at
10 o'clock a. m, and we're conducted by
Rev. e. L. Monroe. Interment in the
VOLTS Corners cemetery.
The dance platform has been removed
from its location near the river bridge to
location just below the Dawson saw
mill, on Hunter run. The owners an
nounce that a dance will be held next
Saturday afternoon and evening, to which
all are invited. Good order will be main
tained. Refreshments will be served.
Fortunate Chiriano, the Italian who
was shot and stabbed by his brother-in-
law near West Hickory on Tuesday
morning of last week and Is in the Oil
City Hospital, is getting along finely, and
there is now no indication that any of his
wounds will result seriously. His broth.
er-in-law, who came from Italy with the
express purpose of killing him, has not
been captured and no extensive effort
along that line is being made by the
authorities of Warren county, in which
the crime occurred.
DIR. H. L. King, vice president of Pc
king University, Peking, China, spoke at
the Nebraska church Sunday morning
and at the Tionests M. L. church Sunday
evening. DR.. King has been in China for
sixteen years and is thoroughly conver-
SAINT with the ways of the heathen Chinee
and the willy Jap. His addresses were
on educational work in China and very
interesting. He was home on fur
Tough and is now returning to China.
He was guest of T. d. Collins and G.
f. Watson while here.
The Tionesta public schools opened
for the term Monday with largely in.
creased attendance over last year. The
enrolment in the different rooms is as
follows: No. l, 80; No. 2, AZ; No. 8, 2s;
No. 4, q; No. 5, 43. Total, l72, as against
l54 for the first day last year. The teach
ers for the rooms in the order given are,
Miss Blanche Pease, Miss Katharine Os-
good, Miss June Herman, C. F. Felt, j.
o. Carson, assistant principal, and F. w.
Gill, principal. The schools open with
every prospect for successful year.
1t has developed that John Bell, of
st uben township, and Mrs. Israel Metz
ger, of Forest county, who it was recently
stated had secured a marriage license at
Mesdvile as mentioned in a recent issue |
of the Courier, the prospective BRIDE
groom giving his age as 81 aud the bride |
as 81, were married the other evening |
and are now keeping house near Tryon-
Vile Although it was said that Mr.. and
Mrs. Bell kept the matter under cover,
their friends found 1t out and the young
people of that section gave them a fine
serenade aud were cordially received and |
entertained by the couple. .-Titusyille
Courier.
BE sure you come to Tionests next |
Saturday. the occasion of the big harvest |
home picnic of the Odd Fellows There
will be good music by the Youngsville |
Band, which arrives at II o'clock, pa
rade from the train to the court house
grounds, where the big picnic dinner
will be served at II o'clock, a number of |
good spec ,hes, ball game at o'clock,
and grand free balloon ascension and
parachute drop by Prof. Robert Jewell,
OF Philadelphia. This ought to round
out full afternoon of pleasure. The
extends cordial invitation to
all people TO bring well filled and attend
this picnic. The ball game will be be-
tween Tionests and Kellettyilte, and as
each team is counting on winning, it will
be worth going miles to see.
Reports continue to come in indicat-
ing that the bear crop will be good one
when the season opens on the first day
OF October. Last Thursday Miss Irene
Coon, aged l6 years, and her brother, aged
years, of Clarington, who were carrying
the mail from Clarington to Hallton,
were making the return trip when they