The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-06-18

D'oC Wv bbOh ENihlOs n hOOh "a
thermometer registered an even 80 in th
shade and between Q and 3 o'clock fou
TO ak degrees we're added, making tn
average temperature 95. That's no
enough to suit most any %knocker, but
good soaking rain would be more wei
come still.
oil City's "booster week" campaign
for members and funds for its new
Chamber of Commerce ended in a blaz,
of glory Saturday night. When all &C
counts were summed up and a balanc,
was struck 1t was found that 2,223 mem
bers were secured and a guarantee funC
of 500, 565 had been raised, exceeding tb,
committees aim of $50, 900 by more thar
ten thousand dollars.
"A new order from the P~ostofice De
partment provides for the acceptance o
"collect-on-delivery" parcels after July |
providing the amount does not exceed
500. A premium of 10 cents in parce
post stamps must be paid by the sender
and the package II insured, free of charge
to its full value, up to $3.50. No exsmins'
tion of its contents will be allowed unit
1t Is receipted for and all charges paid.
Six logging cars broke away from the
train crew on the Coleman, Hsrter q
Mccormick railroad one day last week
aud were badly wrecked when they
Jumped the track on a heavy grade. The
accident happened near the logging CAM
on Hemlock creek and one of the cars
struck and demolished q storage tank OF
the Billiken Oil Co., releasing about %
barrels of oil. Luckily no one was hurt
In the mixup.
Col. Robert B. Magee, n of Oil
City. pioneer residents and for a number
of yeas one of its most prominent citi-
zens, died Saturday at the Soldiers
Home In Erie. He was a civil war veter-
an and for a number of years he was a
colonel in the National Guard. his COM
mand being one of the first located in the
oil country. The body will be brought
to Oil City and buried with military
honors. AS u warm hearted, genial and
good. natured man Col. Magee will be re.
membered by a host of friends.
-Lauson Bros. shipped out from their
grist mill to Volant, Pa, last Saturday
the first car load of wheat ever shipped
from Tionests. The shipment amounted
to | 900 bushels and was all native wheat
For a number of years the mill here has
depended entirely on the home grown
variety and at this time had such a large
surplus on hand that part of it had to be
disposed of before being ground. This
is a pretty good indication hat Foresl
county farmers are improving conditions
on their farms and raising more wheat.
The open season for bass and other
game fish was ushered in Monday with
more or less ado, but with a whole lot less
ADDING iD the way of big catches. The
only landing worth while was by Alex
Thomson, who lifted the big 4 -pound bass
that has for the past month excited the
envy Of pedestrians as they passed to and
fro over the river bridge. We dom
count ourself much as a bass-isher, but
we Just have to go out occasionally and
show the boys how 1t is done. But as yet
we haven't noticed any symptoms coming
on.
Miss Marjorie wilkins of Titusville,
whose serious illness of typhoid fever In
a Florida hospital YVES heretofore noted in
these columns, died Monday, after seven
weeks suffering. The young lady was
aged about 10 years, and her parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. w. G. wilkins. were former
residents of West Hickory, in which com
munity she was well known and very
highly respected as one of the towns best
young girls. Besides the parents she is
survived by one brother, Fred. q. Will
kins. Her remains will be brought to Ii
tusville for burial
Miss Marie Brehm, of Chicago, H.,
who has been secured to speak at the
Forest County Teachers Institute, Oct,
20, was an honor guest at a brilliant re-
ception held recently in the Conestoga
Building, Pittsburg. Miss Brehm will
sail later in the month for Europe TO al
tend the Worlds Sunday School Cunven-
ton in Zurich, Switzerland, where she
will make an address. She will also give
a report of temperance education in the
schools of the United States before the
Worlds Congress on Alcoholism, In
Milan, Italy, Sept. % to %.
g. q. CASTOR has begun work on the
remodeling of his home which stands on
one of the prettiest lots in this pretty little
city. The house will be considerably en-
larged, raised to a higher foundation, and
otherwise much modernized. He has
purchased sufficient building stone fr
his needs from the NJ. T.. church people,
and the same are being AIKEN out of the
wall that has fer so many years fronted
the old church-yard, and expects to get
enough dirt from e%xcavating and lower
ing of the hump to grade his lot so as
to COMFORT with his raised house.
Last Thursday while leisurely driving
his car over the road leading from the
Hickory bridge to the village above, Bert
Stiles got into a mixup with the deep
sand and before he knew it the blamed
machine was trying to climb a telephone
pole on the opposite side of the road. The
auto was too much for the pole which
toppled over, but before doing so it ad-
ministered enough kicks on the car to
put 1t out of commission for a bit, and
Bert was not quite so handsome as before
the mishap, nor was he any wiser, for to