The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-12-10

BOvard'S Pharmacy. Ad.
Tionesta Water Co. Reader.
The Distinctive Garment Store. Ad.
Forest Co. Nat. Bank. Ad. q Reader.
oil market closed at " so.
is your subscription paidf
You can get it at Hopkins store. II
Look for Walkers ad. on page l. ad
Look for Walkers sd. on page |. sd
IF. h. Lanson sells oleomargeriDe.
ADV. II
ga Horse blankets and robes at s. s.
Sigworth s.-adv.
Shot guns and rifles, ammunition and
hunting coats at s. s. Sigworth's. adv.
A young man named Barber killed a
50 pound wildcat while hunting rabbits
near Lynch. this county, Saturday.
The REPUBLICAN can furnish you
with the very latest In engraved calling
cards or anything else In that line, at
reasonable prices.-tf.
The bszsr and supper held Friday
night by the Ladies' Aid Of the Presby-
terian church was a success In every way,
netting the committee the nice sum of
about $500.
When in Oil City go to The Grotto,
next door to the Orpheum, Seneca street,
for your lunch or dinner. The best OF
everything to eat, promptly and taste
fully served. adv
-Oleomargsrine always fresh, always
the same price and making new friends
each day, at 2Oc per pound in nine pound
lots, at the Salmon Creek Mercantile Co.,
Kellettville, Pa. adv
An exchange says: "Never judge a
man by appearance. A shabby coat may
contain an editor, while man wearing a
plug hat and a swallow tail coat may be a
delinquent subscriber"
The best time to order engraved CAL
ling cards Is right now, before the holiday
rush is on. The REPUBLICAN Is pre-
pared to take care of your orders, and can
give the best and promptest service at
easy prices.
"A foolish man down in Chester ate a
dozen bananas on wager and In short
time died .-Clearfield Journal. Must
have been foolish to up and die after such
messly performance. We knew man
to eat twenty-six on wager, and then
stopped only because the loser wouldn't
pay for any more.
The we'll on the Mcintyre farm,
Harmony township, was finished and
shot last week, but failed to respond
with anything like an oil production
George Holeman, who drilled the well
has contract for drilling al another To-
cation on the same farm and expects tc
get started within day or so.
Farmers week at the Pennsylvania
State College will be from Dec. 20, 1918 tc
Jan. 3, 1914 at the College. So you are
interested In any branch of farming you
will doub ubtless want to attend the meeting
the courses of which are free and open tC
all women as well as men. Send to the
College for program ofthe weeks work
Concrete abutments for the culver
over Council run, on Daniel Walters lot
are being built at present and II not
stopped by weather conditions the s. & T
roadbed will be completed almost to III
terminus north of Bridge street by thu
first of the year. 1t is likely, however
that grading will soon be brought 10 {
close from present appearances.
We note with pleasure that our vet
eran friend, Charles G. Van GieseD, o
President, is among those who will re-
ceive an increase of pension from Uncle
Sam, his allowance having been fixed a
$25 per month, dating from Aug. 8. 1913
He was one of the company G, SD regi
ment boys, and went through the thickes
ofthe fray with his comrades in the civi
war.
ANYHOW there's comfort in thu
thought that we're working up close t
the short day of the year, and that In lesI
than two weeks hence we'll be travelling
toward the long day again, when yor
may sit on your back porch and watcl
the garden truck grow, while swapping
your fingers at the high cost of henfruit
Why not smile aud look pleasant owe
the prospect.
A street row in which four or fiv,
com mbatants we're involved, most OF WHOM
more or less boozed, was pulled of II
front of the Morgan store Saturday night
ending in two of the men getting pretty
badly battered up, and another, ACTIN
more in the capacity of a peace-make
than a ontestant, having his jaw bon
broken in two places. He was taken int
the Office of DR.. Bovard and given surgi
cal aid, and on Monday morning wa
taken to his home near Lock Haven
His name is Lewis Geyer and he will
doubtless be laid up for some time. NJ
arrests have followed the row.