The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1912-05-15

vices of Rev. Albert d. Stevens, d. D., o
East Brady, Pa, to preach the annus
Memorial Sermon for the Post, Corps anC
people, on Sunday, May Goth, at the To
nesta Presbyterian church. The com
mand in chief of Pennsylvania, in hi
general orders this year, particularly EN-
phasizes the duty of all to attend thest
important services, urging all comrade,
and tne people generally to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Rudolph and theil
handsome little boy, of Endeavor, were
Tionesta visitors Saturday. Mr.. Rudolph
gives some attention to raising poultry
along with his other work on the big
mill, and owns a black Monorca her
which has. them all guessing on her egg
producing stunts. She lays but two eggs
a week, but they are worth while, the as
one measuring GZ x St inches in circum.
ference. This was her last and best effort
but as the fruit is apparently still climing
there is no telling what she may do in
time.
The Tidioute company in which G. T.
ested got good gas well Friday on the
Bevier tract, south OF Marienvilie, esti.
mated to be good for more than 800, 00C
feet per day. This is the second good
well on the lease. The gas was found in
the third sand at 93S feet and they will
drill the we'll to the fourth saud, expect
ing to make another strike. Another Ii
dioute company, operating on the Baugh
man farm, in the same field, got good
gasser Monday of last week, 1t being
their third. The well is estimated at over
500 600 feet per day. The Forest Gas Co.,
OF Tidioute, gets the output from all these
wells.
The Mayburg Dramatic Club held the
boards at Bovard's hall Saturday night
and gave a very creditable show, the
title of which was the "Prisoner of An
dersonville," drama in four acts found
ed on incidents of the civil war. The
cast of characters embraces fourteen per-
sons, and most of the parts were acted as
If by veterans Instead of amateurs. Every
seat in the hall was taken nOtwithstand-
ing the inclemency of the weather, and
the audience showed its appreciation OF
the troupe's good work by frequent and
hearty applauses. A good orchestra, led
by Prof. o. E. Rupert of Porkey, violin
ist, furnished lively music between acts.
The club need not be afraid to play be-
fore any audience if they play as we'll as
they did here.
"A lively runaway occurred Friday
evening last about9 o'clock in which a
horse belonging to Donovan brothers, Of
Slewarts run, played the principal part.
The horse was hilched in the shed in rear
OF the Robinson store and in some un-
accountable manner got loose, backed the
rig out of the shed aud "hit the pike for
fair" The horse seemed TO know the
way home and got there without delay,
and strange TO say, without doing any
damage to himself and very little to the
buggy to which he was hitched, the dis
tauce being nearly five miles. James
Donovan, who attempted to catch the
frightened horse, was knocked down
striking his face on the pavement, but
aside from losing little of the cutice
from the side of his head, was little worse
for the jar.
Since the adoption of the amendments
to the State constitution abolishing spring
elections, there has been some uncertainty
as to whether justices of the peace whose
terms OF Office were extended by the
amendments would have to be recon-
missioned. The Secretary of the Com
monweslth sets the question at rest in
the following paragraph in circular let
ter issued in answer to inquiries on the
subject: justices of the Peace whose
terms have been heightened by the con-
stitutional amendments adopted on No
vember 2nd, 1909, and the schedule there
to, or by the act off March 1911, are en-
titled to serve the additional time without
being re-comm issioned, as the effect is to
continue them IN Office during the ex-
tended terms without any other or further
commissions"
The present value of the best black
skunk skins should allow a margin of
profit in rearing this class of animals, ac-
cording to the biological survey of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture. The sur
vey gives as one of the chief causes of the
failure of many attempts to raise skunks
for their fur inexperience, leading to
overcrowding and overfeeding the ami
mails. 1t is pointed out that at least one
acre of ground should be inclosed for each
80 animals, and even then there is danger
of cannibalism unless there are plenty of
separate dens for the females. In feeding
a certain proportion of meat is necessary,
but the animals also eat bread, green
corn, clover, tomatoes and many other
vegetable substances. The food should
not be salted, and fresh water should be
supplied regularly. Skunks breed once
year and produce from six TO eight
young. They are born in May or June
and mature by December.
The alumni banquet held in the
parlors of the Presby yteran church Fri
day evening was most joyful occasion
to those fortunate enough to be there, and
easily proved the climax that very fitting
ly closed a most successful commence
ment season of the Tionesta high school.
The attendance, though not quite so large
as on former occasions, was still very
satisfactory, upward of seventy having
gathered about the iestsl board. The
menu, which was served in four courses
by Committee No. of the Ladies Aid,
was all that the inner man could desire,