The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1913-07-02
No Paper Next Week.

NO dpCI NCAt Wcch,
The REPUBLICAN will be conspicuous
by It's absence next week, holding fast tC
the customary "week OFF, on account o
the recurrence of the ever glorious Fourth
The office will be open for business dur
Ing the week, however, and the more the
better, 80 don't hesitate to call II there IL
any money involved and especially II II
should be coming this way. Our mex
issue will appear July IS. Meanwhile
may everybody have a good time.
Mrs. Harry Lusher, who was operated
upon at the OIL City hospital Monday Of
last week, has so far recovered that she
has returned to her home at Hickory
Venango Herald, Oath ult.
An all-day meeting will be held in
the grove near the Free Methodist church
at Newmansvilie. next Friday, July 4th,
The morning service will begin at II
o'clock, afternoon at 3 o'clock and eve
ming at s o'clock. Rev. G. A. Garrett,
the pastor, will have charge of the SER
vices aud will be assisted by Rev. Mr.,
Webster, Of Tylersburg, and Rev. f. A.
Reese. of Tidioute. In case OF rain the
services will be held in the church. Ev-
erybody cordially invited.
The last will of Mrs. Cummings OF
Tidioute, who was recently killed In an
automobile accident in Baltimore, was
probsted at Warran Friday. After pro-
viding for an annuity for her niece, Sarah
Sink German of Rome. N. Y, and In
case of her death, for her son George G,
German, of $500 the year, the balance oil
her estate went to the six children Of the
deceased, share and share alike. The will
was drawn Jan. 20, 1913, and Harry Ii.
and Abigail Cummings we're named as ex-
ecutors.
Earl Mesly. of Endeavor, lost a
pocketbook containing $40 while sitting
In the porch swing at the Hotel Weaver,
here, last Wednesday afternoon. The
book was found a short time later by two
small boys, who did not realize the value
of their find, and proceeded to divide the
wealth, which was in tives, tens and
twenty dollar bills. The mothers of the
lads soon discovered their "hush" condi-
ton and after a little investigation were
able to return the book and money to the
owner, minus just Is cents which had
been spent for candy.
The school board of Harmony town.
ship has elected the following teachers
for the ensuing year: West Hickory,
High School, Miss Alice Siggins, princi-
pal; No. 3, Miss Margaret M. Mooneyi
No. 2, Miss June Fitzgerald; No. l, Miss
Mary A. Casey; Trunkeyville, Miss Mar
tina IL. Morrow; %Fagundus, Miss Maud
Head; Neilltown, Mics Clara Benedict;
Allender, Miss Bess Sigworth; Wash
ington, Miss Glare Henry. The Fleming
Hill school has been discontinued and
the pupils there will be transported to
West Hickory. Length of term, eight
mouths, to begin Sept. LIST. The tax
levy is 20 mills.
Sunday morning, June 81, Thomas
Campbell, a former resident on Blue
Ridge, neai C%larington, this county, was
discovered dead In his bed at his home al
Youngsyille. Pa. 1t is supposed that the
man died at about four O'Clock in the
morning but nothing was known of his
death up to the time that his wife called
him for break fast at about eight o'clock,
Receiving no response to her calls she
went to his room and found the dead
body of her husband lying in bod. Hear
trouble is attributed as the cause of his
sudden demise. He was 81 years of age
and had been a resident of Youngsvillt
for the past two years. A wife of a SECOND
marriage and five children are left tc
mourn his death.
Day after tomorrow will be the fourth
of July in this great land of the free -ir
other words. the day a whole lot of people
celebrate. Here in Tionesta there will bt
nothing doing out of the ordinary, and 81
it is reasonable to suppose the observance
will be one of the safe and sane kind
Other precincts may get up on theiI hinc
feet and howl and raise mullion to theiI
hearts content, shoot cannons, big fire
crackers, drink red lemonade and othel
red liquids, probably, and get up mex
morning with a big brown taste ant
swollen head if they like, but as for thi'
people no such dippy stunts will b'
pulled off. Tionesta will celebrate in al
orderly fashion and have enough left t
sober up on next morning.
-T~wenty-one members of the sopho
more class of State College, 10 company
with four professors are spending eigh
weeks camping in the woods on tn
Wheeler Il D%usenbury timber tract be
tween Endeavor and Kellettville. Prof
X. Il, Chatfee is their instructor in tn,
numbering and woods surveying branche
of Forest study. The staff of instructor
consists of an expert in Silviculture ant
Dendrology, Forest Botany and Fores
Utilization. The camp is in charge o
Professor j. A. Furgeson and is for th,
purpose of instructiug the student il
all branches of Technical and Practica
Forestry. They are a happy and healthy
looking crowd as well they may be livinl
as they are so close to nature.
Mrs. Joseph B. Pierce, of the Hote
Weaver, was called to her former HON,
at Toronto. Ohio, Sunday, by the suddeI
death of her only sister, Mrs. Mar.
McFadden Stokes, wife of Frank Stokes
which occurred at Ills Sunday morning
June goth. While Mrs. Stokes had beer