The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-07-16

The first passengers carried over th
3. d Il. Ry extension was on the morninI
of the fourth, when a special was rul
from C3leman's mill to Kellettville. Th
train started with 20 passengers. Tn
rails and ties for the new road are laid Il
a point just below Coleman's and th
work of ballasting the track between tina
place and Nebraska is going along fast.
Yesterday before Judge Hinckley a
Warren arguments were heard In tw,
applications for new trials In cases from
this county. The first was that of J. Il,
Proper vs.. Keystone Handle Co., and the
other Anna M. Proper Va. Elizabeth Wei
Ter, Extrix OF estate Of A. l.. Weller, de
ceased. The attorneys we're ID. L. Bal
and d. u. Arid of Warren, and A. @
Brown of Tionesta.
james A. Connolly, Of the Curtis
Leather company, at Ludlow, has been
in the city during the past few days with
bis new 1914 Pierce.Arrow which is one
of the most complete machines eyer seen
In this locality Kane Republican,
There. didn't we tell you 'Jim" was
making good every day In the week.
Come down this way soon, SOD; we'd like
a little spin out the Macadam in that
wagon.
1t required six automobiles to trans
port the Masonic brethren to the monthly
lodge meeting here Monday night. Four
came from East Hickory and Endeavor,
one from Nebraska and n from Kellelt-
vile. The auto has done much TO en-
nance the attendance at the lodge meet
iDgs, the out-of.town members being able
to run in from distance OF II or Is miles
after working hours, have a fraternal SEES
sion, with a light lunch on the side, and
get back home in time to see the family
of 10 bed at a seasonable hour.
Harry II. Craig on Tuesday of last
week disposed of his drug store, the pur-
chaser being II. A. Walker, of Warren,
who comes to us we'll recommended as
an experienced pharmacist. Mr.. Craig
will return to C|lintonville, his former
home, where he will be engaged In out
door work In looking after his oil lease
During their residence In Tionesta Mr..
and Mrs. Craig have made a host OF
friends who will be sorry to see them
leave, but will wish them abundant pros
perity wherever they msy be located.
William Hall of Endeavor, whose
success in selecting fine draft teams for
Wheeler Il Dusenbury has been noted
from time to time, passed through here
n day last week leading a pair OF fine
looking horses for his firm which he had
picked up out in Clarion county. They
were iron grey fve-year-olds, and their
combined weight was 3,lOO pounds, or
precisely $50 each, so evenly were they
matched in size, and in color you could
not tell (which from t'other." When
William ~ sent out to bring in a good
team and Is not limited as to price, he al
ways comes back with the goods.
Terrific winds prevailed throughout
this section Sunday afternoon, but for
tunately for this immediate locality, were
not accompanied by rain. Sections north
OF us. however, we're not so fortunate but
were visited with tremendous down
pours of rain and hail. Along the upper
end of Tionesta creek and around Shelf.
field there seems to have been a veritable
which sent the creek up to a good
stage within a few hours. Many
trees and some oil derricks were blown
down, but no casualties were reported,
and considering the magnitude of the
stor m the damage was small.
"A Kansas paper of a recent date re-
ports the striking of an exceptionally
good oil aud gas we'll by the Ottawa oil
aud gas company. a short distance east of
on which a number of former
young citizens of this community areem-
namely, Arthur and Charles
Elliot, and N. o. Mcdonald, son and
son. in-lsw of James Elliot of Stewart
Run. The boys are doing fine in that
and like the country 30 we'll that
they Q xpeSt TO stay indefinitely. Their
brother, Mathew Elliot, who has for
time past been employed on the
lease in Tionesta township, ex-
poets soon to leave for the Kansas oil
fields.
One of Tionests's needs is a well
organized and effective humane society
for the protection of horses and other
iumb animals from their brutal masters.
One evening recently a party of four
'talwart men we're crowded into a buggy
lrawn by a single horse which they
-aced up aud down Elm street several
lines at full speed, the faithful animal
strainiDg every nerve apparently to es-
APE the cruel lashings from the drivers
whip. There is adequate law for
he prevention of such brutality, and it
should be invoked and the guilty parties
made to understand that the authorities
will speak for those who cannot speak for
themselves.
-Arner, the six-year old son of Mr..
Ind Mrs. G. ID. S nall, OF Pearl and Seeley
venues, fell from a window on the
'econd floor of the family home, late
Thursday evening, and was badly in
ured, says the Oil City Blizzard. The
ad was leaning from the window and lost
MS balance. The mother heard the
screams and found him lying up
IN the ground. DR.. Goodwin, was called,
ound no bones broken but the body was
painfully bruised. Today no symptoms
# internal injuries had developed. Nj.
md Mrs. Small are former residents of
Nebraska, this county, and friends here