The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-06-19

the various schools of the county. Two
Interesting sessions were held yesterday
afternoon and evening In the M. Il.
church and were largely attended. The
meetings today will be held In the Pres
byterian church.
james Landers had the tips of the
two middle fingers OF his right hand all
but cut of the other day. A scythe was
falling off peg in the barn when he was
hitching up his horse, and was going In
such shape as would have brought the
blades edge across the horses neck. Jim
saw the danger, grabbed for the scythe
and caught 1t, saving the horse at the ex.
pense of his own finger tips.
Hon, George X. Dixon, one of Ridg-
ways best beloved citizens; died in that
place on the llth inst, after short ill
ness, greatly mourned by the people of
Elk county. Mr.. Dixon is we'll remem-
bered by many Forest county people as
an instructor at the teachers institutes of
former years, when he was superintend.
ent of schools of Elk county, a position
which he held for twelve years.
Mr.. and Mrs. @. II. Anderson, daugh-
ter Maude Elizabeth, and j. N. Gerow
autoed over to Marienville Thursday to
witness the drilling in of gas well on
the Bevier tract, in which the gentlemen
are financially interested. The we'll is
their third on the lease and is good one,
making a better initial showing than
either of the first wells. 1t Is estimated
to be good for about 100000 feet per day.
Samuel Hsslet has been elected man
ager of the Sheffield base ball team and
has arranged for the strong Butler team
to play a return game here Saturday. A
schedule of games is being made up, and
If every body will boost we will see some
base ball worth while in Sheffield this
season. 60 Observer. We note that Sans
sluggers pounded clean victory over
the Butterflies SATURDAY to the tune of 10
to2.
The Oil City Y. NJ. G. A. juniors lost
the first ball game here with the Tionests
juniors last Wednesday morning, the
score being l3 to II. The game went
fourteen innings and was exciting to the
end. In the afternoon the visitors
romped away with the victory by the
score of 10 to 0. The visitors were a
gentlemanly lot of boys and good play
ers. They made the trip home by ca
noes and had a good outing.
Parker Flick, while catching flies in
the outfield at the ball ground Monday
evening, suffered a bad injury to the
third finger of his right hand that will
stop him from playing ball for some
time. A ball going over his head struck
the finger near the end, dislocating it at
the first joint and forcing the end Of the
bone through the flesh. DR.. Dunn re-
placed the dislocaton and was obliged to
use several stitches to close the wound.
From the home of Hugh Miles comes
story of the weather that reads more
like Novem ber than June. That locality
had frosts for five successive nights and
Saturday morning at five O'Clock it was
100 below freezing. Friday night two
inches of water in a basin outdoors was
frozen solid. Even grass was frozen aud
the wild ferns looked as though fire had
run through them. That's the hardest
bunch of weather we'd heard from, sure.
-Tidioute News.
Mrs. N. p. Wheeler, of Endesvor,
who is superintendent of mothers meet
ings for Forest county, gave a most ex
celent paper on this work at the last W.
C. II. U. convention. The local w. G. Il.
U. have arranged to have this paper at
their next meeting in the Woman's Re-
lief Corps hall, Tuesday, June 25th, and
cordial invitation is extended to all
mothers to be present. The Ideal Home
will also be the subject of paper by one
of our local women.
AT meeting of the Tionesta school
board Thursday evening the position of
assistant principal of the high school was
| filled by the election of Mrs. Clara NJ.
Sharpe, of Ulysses, Pa. Mrs. Sharpe
has had thirteen years experience as a
teacher in the common schools of Penn
sylvania and comes highly recommended
as a successful teacher, For several
years she did grade work in the schools
of Cory, Pa, and during the past wear
was acting principal of the Walton
school.
MIR. and Mrs. George Il. Clune, two
well known young people of Titusv!lle,
were drowned Saturday night in Pres
que Isle bay, Erie, where they were
spending their honeymoon, having only
recently been married. Mr.. and Mrs.
W. NJ. Mum of Titusville, and Edward,
were also in the small boat when it cap
sized in the middle of the bay. The other
members of the party we're able to swim
10 the cspsized boat to which they clung
till rescued an hour later. The bodies OF
the unfortunate couple were later re-
covered. Mrs. Clune's maiden name was
Daniels and ber former home was at
Chapmanvile.
Tomorrow evening after the regular
prayer meeting services the congregation
of the Presbyterian church will tender a
farewell reception to Prof, Francis w.
Gill, who leaves our town in short time
to take up his work as principal of the
Tidioute high school. Prof. Gill has been
so uniformly kind and unseltish in con.
tributing to the musical portion of the
services in the past four years of his resi-
dence in Tionesta, that the congregation
is desirous of showing in this modest
manner its appreciation of his faithful