The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-07-10

edward t. Beck, who will complet,
awe mile paving contract In New YorL
state within a few days, has been award
cd the contract for ten mile brick roat
TO extend from Cuba to Obi, N. Y. ant
passing through the town of Friendship
The contract price is $l05, 900. Mr.. Beck
made good on the road he is just finish
Ing and rushed it through to com mpletion
Warren Mirror.
The Seneca Kicker, one of our wei.
come exchanges, celebrated its l4tb ami.
Versary on the 4th Of July by increasing
its subscription from 80 cents to $l.OO a
year, step which its publishers should
have taken long before they did, for the
Kicker is well worth the price and more
too. Good luck to ye, girls.
The borough school board at its reg
ular monthly meeting, July lst, effected
new organization as follows; W. c.
Incl, president; q. Jameson, vice presi-
dent; David II. Blum, secretary; j. r.
Clark, treasurer. The school term, be-
ginning on the first Monday of Septem
Der, will be as usual, eight months.
The Hickory township school board
has elected teachers for the ensuing term
as follows: Laura X. Smulz. principal
of the East Hickory high school;
No. 5, Mae Libby; No. 4, Dora Rosen;
No. 3, Miss Baker; No. 2, Mary Hender-
son; No. l, no election; Beaver Valley,
Dorothy Skunk; Church Hill, Hazel
Sibble; Queen, Rachel Albaugh; Albaugh
Hill, no election.
The school board of Harmony town.
ship has made partial selection OF teach
ers for the ensuing term, as follows:
West Hickory, Alice N. Siggins, princi-
pal; Primary room. Mary Casey;
Trunkeyville, Martha Morrow; Fagun-
dus; Clara Head; Fleming Hill, Mrs,
Jennie A. Vail. Teachers for Allender,
Washington, Neilltown, and West Hick-
ory No. 2, schools are still to be elected.
While wading in the Allegheny river
at Oleopolis, about 6 o'clock Saturday
afternoon, Raymond M. Wolf, aged %, a
p. X. X. brakeman, was swept into 20
feet of water by stiff current and, being
unable to swim, was drowned. Clyde
Proper, of Oil City, who was with him,
had his wrist grabbed by the drowning
man and was pulled under twice, but got
Ia llaA
away and gave the alarm. His expert
ence so unnerved him that II was found
necessary to get a doctor for him. The
body of the unfortunate victim was re-
covered Sunday afternoon aud that same
evening was taken to Allegsny, N. Y,
where his parents reside, for burial
LIN addition to the damages done by
lightning during the storm of Friday
evening. mentioned by our Kellettvllle
correspondent, a number of other places
up that way felt The effects of the same
storm. At the home OF Ben Weller. on
German Hill, the chimney was struck
and completely wrecked, some Of the
Weller and son we're in the house and
near where the bolt entered, but were
not injured. At the home of Theodore
Barber, on Whig H i'll, the lightning came
in on the telephone wire and tore the leg
off a small table on the front porch. just
below Kellettville bolt struck and re-
duced two poles of the Forest Telephone
Co. to kindling wood.
Frank Hendricks, who is employed
at camp number seven near Endeavor by
Wheeler and Dusenbury as a woodsmau
had narrow escape from death Thurs
day afternoon when speeder on which
he was riding was struck by locomotive
on the Wheeler and Dusenbury railroad.
Mr.. Hendricks had taken the speeder to
go to West Hickory and on the return
trip when he was near the mill at En-
desvor he saw an engine approaching and
before he could remove the speeder from
the track it was struck and Mr.. Hen
bricks was thrown distance of about
thirty feet. The speeder was completely
demolished but Mr.. Hendricks escaped
with deep cut on the head and a couple
ofsmall cuts on his right leg.
Edward Cook, 20 years old, is in the
Punxsutawney hospital, with a COM
pound fracture of the left leg, sustained
In an accident near his home at Cooks
burg, yesterday, says the Punxsutswney
Spirit of the 2Sth ult. The young man
was driving a team with about 1000
pounds of mine props behind it. The
road is extremely rough and young Cook
was jolted from his seat. He fell directly
in front of the right rear wheel, which
passed over his leg about midway be-
tween the knee and thigh. The bone was
crushed and a piece of it pierced the
muscle. AT the hospital last evening il
was found necessary to wire the bone.
The injury is serious one, and may re-
suit in the patient being slightly lame,
Thomas Sullivan, the man who was
shot while stealing ride on an Erie
freight train who was taken to the W. G,
A. hospital in jamestown, N. Y, June 6,
was discharged from the hospital Satur-
day as cured. He has completely re-
covered from a wound in which so times
out of hundred would have proven fa-
tai. The bullet pierced 10 holes in Sui
livan's intestines. This was an abdomi.
nal wound fully as dangerous as the one
which caused the death of President Nc
Knley at Buffalo, and the president had
the benefit of the greatest surgical ex-
perts of the country. Naturally Drs.
Robert b. Blanchard and Il. d. Bowman
of jamestown, the latter former Tio-
nnsIn nh " uainan WIN has nharRa of This