The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-11-01
Tho Philadelphia Athletics of the

American league won the worlds bas'
ball championship from the New Yorl
Giants OF the National league, taking
four games by scores of 81, 80, AZ snt
1879. The Giants won the first anC
ffth games by scores of 81 and 4-3. The
games and official figures show the Ath
letics outplsyed their opponents in every
department of the game and the result
proves conclusively that the American
is stronger than the National league
Meyers, tie Giants great man behind the
bat, says: "Every Giant will admit they
trimmed us squarely and fairly. They
could hit anything we offered M atthew-
son, Marquard, Ames, Wiltse-they
damned them all. Only old DR.. Gran
dali escaped their fusillade and he was
not in very long"
Vance Mack, 26 years old, son oi
VIM. s. Mack, of Gray's Mills, while
asleep on the tracks of the Titusville
Electric Traction Company at 6:l5 O'Clock
Sunday evening was struck by car,
receiving such injuries that both legs
were amputated by surgeons in the IT.
tusville hospital shortly after his removal
there. The accident occurred between
the power house of the company and
Fieldmore. Mack was lying across the
tracks with his head at the side Of the
rails. The legs we're so badly mangled
that amputation OF one was made two
inches from the body and the other four
inches. 1t was three.quarters of an hour
before the injured man received surgical
care. 1t was at frst thought the injuries
must prove fatal, but the physicians now
think he has chance for his life.
If Col. Bowen of the Oil City Blizzard
is not "uature faker," and we never
suspected that he was. this story is inter-
esting, besides pointing a moral: "The
wild ducks now are flying south, 10 search
of milder weather, and in the northwest
and along the lakes the sportsmen are
bsgging many Of the mallsrds, red-heads,
pin-tails and teal. By the way, it may
not be generally known that the mallard
duck could give some human beings
pointers on morality. The mallard is
not only strictly homogeneous, but re-
mains paired for life. There is no divorce
in his case. When there are not enough
males the females remain old maids. Ow-
ing to the extra molt his plumage under
goes at the end of June-a tax he pays
for his extra beauty-the male loses the
power of flying for time, and does not
regain his full plumage until autumn.
But the domesticated bsrn-yard mallard,
which springs from the wild bird, is a
freelover, with morals as loose as those
Of a Mormon, or some ofNew York's 400,
which shows what culture will do for
some kinds of BIRDS"
Floyd Thompson, principal of the
West Hickory school last year, and
again elected to teach the ensuing term,
died at the hospital in Oil City on the 10th
ult,, aged 2s years. Mr.. Thompson was
a native of Lake twp, Mercer county, and
| his home was near Stoneboro, whittier
his remains were taken for burial. In
September he began his second term as
principal Of the school at West Hickory
where he was very popular with people,
patrons and pupils, but on account of a
serious bone disease in his leg was oblig-
aI q nlNf IN In
City hospital. He received only tempor-
ary relief and returned to the hospital
and during his confinement in the insti-
tuition a severe case of typhoid fever de-
veloped, which caused his death. he
was a young man of highest stand ing in
the community in which he was reared
and his early demise is mourned by q
large circle of friends. Two years age
his wife died, and two little children are
now left without father or mother. Five
sisters and one brother also survive. The
funeral services were conducted at the
home of his brother, Evan Thompson, or
the old homestead, Sunday the 22d.
Surveyors from the state highway de-
psrtment are now working between I'll
tusville and Enterprise along the route
of the proposed Sproul road. They have
been making rapid progress, covering {
distance of ten or twelve miles in the pas
week. 1t is said by these engineers tha
the roads to be constructed under thu
Sproul bill will be either brick or asphalt
The state is through building water bounC
Mscadam road, such as that between I'll
tusville and Hydetown. The Macadan
road is wrong in the respect that 1t will
not withstand hard service, especially o
automobiles. The disintegration of thu
fine surfacing material causes the road Il
wear out rapidly and the expense o
maintenance in brief period of year
often exceeds the cost of the original road
Many of the engineers in the department
are favorable to brick, which of course il
the most expensive material of which
roads may be built. But it is likewise
the most lasting and the most satisfactory
Last winter piece of asphalt road wa
made in Erie county, largely as an ex
pertinent Ifit proves to be successful
that material may be used extensively il
Pennsylvania. But the present tendency
the Titusville Herald is informed, is fol
a brick road with gravel foundation.
Wing Hill.