The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-05-24


orchard OF James Il. Gaul near Marien
Vile on the Both inst, which the public II
invited to witness.
"A public dance will be held at the
Hunter run platform May 30th, afternoon
and evening, to which all are cordislly
invited. Good music has been secured
and good order will be kept. The plat.
form will be we'll lighted. Free bus for
the ladies in the evening.
The we'll drilled for Kellettville par
ties on the j. r. Squire farm, on the
Hickory road, was finished Monday and
will be shot this morning. The we'll
made light showing of oil in the third
sand, 3S feet of which was found at a
depth of 400 feet. Another we'll will
probably be drilled.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Robert MnA fee has informed the Com
missioners of Forest county that II will
not be necessary for candidates for county
offices to file new petitions for the pri-
maries to be held next September. This
is sensible ruling which will be ap-
preciated by the candidates.
There will be no morning service in
the Presbyterian church next Sunday, on
account of the Memorial services in the
NJ. Il. church. In the evening al 7:45 the
choir will give song service, for which
a splendid program has been prepared.
A collection will be taken to purchase
new music for the choir. All are cor
daily invited.
The June Woman's Home Compan-
ion contains practical and varied sugges-
tions for celebration OF the Fourth of
July, which, If put into effect, would
save arms, legs and lives in your COM
munity on the fourth of next month.
And, what is more, the children would
have better time than they have ever
had. There is still time to do this-in
fact, this is exactly the right time.
The dead body of John A. Roberts,
so years old and since boyhood resident
OF Tltusville, was found In spring in the
basement of the Roberts homestead
South franklin street at o'clock Satur-
day morning. Evidently the man had
gone there the evening before to get a
drink and VIII lie STOPPING over the spring
had fallen in, and being weakened by
heat exhaustion, was unable to extricate
himself.
The Oil City Blizzard on Monday
turned another milestone in its peaceful
though energetic, career, making the 10Th.
While not as old as the REPUBLICAN IL is
in most respects almost as good, and al
together indispensable to our happiness
and, we were going to say, existence, for
when the boys take to yelling for "copy"
we can always scissor good one out of
the breezy old rag and finish our nap
while it's being put in type. Long live
the Blizzard and its amiable manipuls-
tors.
The high temperature of the past ten
days has broken all records for May in
this part of the country. Not since rec
ords have been kept has there been a
time when in May for full week that
thermometers have registered as high as
during the week just past. From So to "a
in the shade have been the marks attained
by local thermometers, and the latter
figures have prevailed most of the time,
not even the occasional little showers
having dim inished the heat to any notice.
able degree.
The Harmony township school board
elected the following teachers for the
coming year, last Saturday: West Hick-
ory, No. l, Miss Mary Casey, No. 2, Miss
Martha Morrow, No. 8, F. E. Thompson;
Trunkeyville, Miss Hazel Sibble; Fa-
gundus, Miss Clara Head; Fleming Hill,
Miss Blanche Hunter; Neiltown, Miss
Ida Fones. The board will meet on the
first Monday in June to elect teachers for
the Allender, Washington, and River
Hill schools, and to transact other i'm
portsnt business.
The Ladies' World for June has
most attractive cover and the content are
quite up to the standard of this m agazine.
There is rather more than the usual
amount Of excellent fiction, the most
noticeable of the stories being The Choice,
by Shirley Carson; The Surrender, by
Judith Chrisney Cameron; and The
Listeners, by Kate L. McLaurin. Some
thing very timely for this season is Pests
in the Kitchen and Elsewhere. Alto
gether this months number is one you
will be glad to have-New York; Fifty
Cents Year.
The following officers were shown to
be elected by the returns made to the
meeting of the State Grand Lodge, 1. o.
o. F., in session at Wilkesberre last
week: G. w. w. o. Miller, Reading; d.
g. M, II. w. Roller, Philadelphia; W.,
Fred G. Hanyen, Scranton; Secy. U. A.
Hall, Philadelphia. Officers of the Re.
bellsh Lodge were these: President,
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Lafferty, Philadelphia;
Vice President, Mrs. Lizzie Sloan, Brad
ford; Warden, Mrs. Minnie Snyder, Erie;
secretary, Mrs. Mary N. Joslyn, Phila-
delphis; treasurer, Mrs. Lille G. Haines,
Altoona,
The Butler Times says the news that
the people of Butler had subscribed more
than 5000, 900 to guarantee fund to be
used in backing industrial establish
ments which would locate in the city has
spread throughout the length and the
breadth of the country to such extent that
almost from Maine to California have
come letters from manufacturers who
want a location in live wire town and
who are after information as to what
Rntler has to offer manu- factnrers. both |