The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-05-29

were hailed into Squire Clark's ,urt and
fined in amounts of So, $s and $40, with
costs added in each case. The constable
says there'll be order and decency in the
old town while he's 1t, or he'll jack the
job. Aud all the order loving people will
endorse the notion.
The Oil City Blizzard has now blown
for 80 years, having reached that period
In its career on the 22d inst. Not always
has it waited gentle zephyrs, but more
frequently the blasts have been some
thing akin to the real thing, and this fact,
we reckon, has made the spicy old rag
what she is today-one of the best ever.
And may she continue to blow another
30 with the same old codgers at the
bellows.
High class, single comb, white Or
pingtoDs and LeghorDs for sale, Keller
strasse u Haupt strain. l have 20 pens
of 1-year-old chickens in full laying;
about 100 pullets and % cockerels, all in
good health and vigor. l will sell them
very reasonably, together with the 20
pens, Philo system. Must close them
out quick, having no time to attend to
them. First come, first served. WIN.
RICHARDS, Mayburg, Pa. 2t
Announcement is made by the P. h.
Il. that the name of the Buffalo and Al.
legheny division has been changed to the
Northern division. This comprises the
lines running between Buffalo and Kis-
kiminitas Junction, Oil City and Olean.
Red Bank and Driftwood, Buffalo and
Kinzua branch. 1t is in charge of two
division superintendents, G. b. Beale
and A. NJ. Parker, of Oil City, who are
under General Superintendent Rogers of
Buffalo.
The Oil City Derrick has we'll authen-
ticated reports that "the fish warden
would find something in his line of en-
deavor If he would visit the vicinity of
Walnut Bend. Although the season does
not open for some time yet there have
been a number of bass caught in that
neighborhood during the past week. An
Oil City man who spent Sunday at the
Bend met a resident ofthat section with
more than half dozen bass ranging in
weight from one to two pounds caught
that day" This is important news and
the fish warden should stand not on the
order Of his getting busy.
The grand lodge OF Odd Fellows. in
session at Reading, Wednesday increased
the per capita tax from II to 10 cents in
order to pay off the second mortgage of
$4,000 on the Office building at 1923 Arch
street, Philadelphia. A heated debate
followed the report of the committee on
finance recommending this increase.
There was strenuous opposition on the
part OF the country delegates. Following
is summary of the statistical report of
the subordinate lodges as submitted:
Members at last annual report, 1867;
present mem mbership, l54 sos; increase in
mbership, 2,9ll; number of working
lodges, l,l6S.
"A new company known as the NJ iller
Oil and Gas Co. has leased the Donovan,
IL. O'Hara, j. O'Hara, Huidekooper,
Herbert aud Brown tracts, in President
and Allegheny townships, Venango
county, aud the Emick tract, in Harmony
township, this county, and expect to
begin drilling in few weeks These
leases give the company a solid block of
1875 acres aud they will give the property
a thorough test for oil and gas. Back in
the Pithole excitement days good oil
we'll is said to have been drilled on the
Donovan property, but the owners aban-
doned it for the prospect of larger and
better paying wells at Pithole.
Peter CuriGo, an Italian from up
Tionesta creek, who was convi icted of as
sault and battery at last September court
aud sentenced to one year in the county
Jail and to pay fine of $500. M. l..
Hoover being the prosecutor, took leg
bail and made good his escape from
Sheriff w. II. Hood last Thursday night.
The prisoner had been given the freedom
of the corridor outside the steel cells and
at the supper hour his meal was given to
him through a small trap door communi-
eating from the pantry to the corridor.
The family all lett the house and failed to
lock the trap door on the outside, aud
during their absence Curico crawled
through the opening and got out of the
house without being seen. No trace OF
him has been found.
While it has not been so given out, il
appears that improvements in connection
with the shortening of the running time
for passenger trains between Pittsburg
and Buffalo, problem that at present is
occupying the attention of the company,
are contemplated by the P. r. r. With
the hope of cutting oil eight miles from
the distance, by the building of a couple
of tunnels, one at Wood Hill and the
other at East Brady, on the Valley divi-
sion, it has been given out at Oil City that
this work will be Immediately under
taken and that for this purpose and max
ing other improvements with the end in
view of reducing the running time be-
tween the Smoky City and the Bison
City, the company is said to have made
large appropriations, and the plans for
the tunnels are being prepared.
Memorial services held in the Presby'
terian church Sunday morning were
largely attended the congregation having
the pleasure OF listening TO a most elo-
quent aud patriotic discourse by Rev,
DR.. Stevens, of the East Brady NJ. T.
church. Throughout the services were
perhaps the most impressive in the his
tory of Stow Post, made so largely by the