The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-03-25


Whether the hand will be permanently
crippled depends somewhat on the pro-
cess OF healing. He Ia getting along all
right 80 far.
Glass G and their teacher, Russell j.
Hopkins, of the Presbyterian Sunday
school, with Rev. II A. Bailey and Prof.
l.. p. White as their guests, enjoyed a
chicken and waffle supper at the Gosh.
goshunk club house last Friday evening.
The young men prepared their own eats,
had feast tit for king, and had a good
time In general.
Cohen is again stocked up on all sorts
of fruit and vegetables. The finest
oranges and apples ever brought to Tio-
nesta at this season Of the year; cucum.
bers, celery, lettuce, rhubarb, cabbage,
etc., fresh from the southern gardens, and
dandy display. Another consignment
of fresh tish coming this week. And all
at rock bottom prices. adv.
Saturday, March 2l, was the first day
Of fspring, also cold one, thermometers
registering degrees below zero. But
that needn't surprise you, IL you just
think back little. On st. Pstrick's day :.
March II, 1885, the weather was also cold,
l7o below zero. and three days later,
March 20, it was 220 below here, and at
Newtown Mills, this county, the morning
opened with temperature of 26e below
zero. That year the ice In the river went
out on the morning OF April I'd, 1885.
The Biederwolf revival meetings
closed In OIL City Sunday night after a
continuous run Of five weeks at the big
tabernacle. During the meetings over
5000 "hil the sawdust trail" and on the last
night the biggest catch of the season was
made, being over 400 in number, among
whom was our good natured friend DR..
J. B. SigRins, Oil City's reform mayor,
who was cheered to the echo when he
clasped the hand Of DR.. Biederwolf The
free-will offeriog of the last night was
very close to the $1,000 mark.
Peter Galmish, residing on the Kiser
farm, German Hill. has purchased the
Adam Sibble farm adjoining the Kiser
place in Green township. since the death
of her husband, Mrs. Sibble and son
George have occupied the homestead. but
will give possession within a couple Of
weeks, and will in few days dispose OF
their live stock, farm machinery imple
ments, etc., at public sale, George has
not decided on his future course, but
may take look at the western country
with view to locating If he should be
suited.
Contractor A. f. Ledebur finished the
we'll on the Conrad Paul farm. near New
town Mills last week, having gone to a
depth of 1904 feet, or below the Bsiltown
sand. In what is called the grey sand,
supposed to inform to the Clarendon
sand, 1918 feet, q 60. foot vein of sand was
found and fair showing of oil. The
oper stors, Messrs. Blstt, McCsuly Il
Wagner, of Freedom, Pa, were encour-
aged to "shoot' this sand; but the show
was not greatly increased by the shot.
However, they do not expect to abandon
the territory, but will put down another
we'll not far from the same location.
Melvin E. Sibble. the sffable clerk at
the Collins Il Kreitler store, Nebraska,
also gives some attention to raising good
strain of chickens, his fsvOrite breed be-
ing the Rhode Island Red. One of these
lusty hens produced something in the
nature of freak one day last week, it be
ing an egg measuring 7x6H inches, and
containing perfectly formed egg, shell
and all on the inside. The freak was dis
covered when small hole was bored in
either end of the larger shell and allow
ing the "meat" to run out. The curiosity
Is on exhibition at the store where it may
he seen by any one interested in freaks.
County Treasurer Brszee this week
publishes his list of lands which will be
sold In June for arresrages of taxes, un-
less the same, with costs. etc., are paid
before the day of sale. The lists seem to
grow smaller and beautifully less as the
years go by, there being scarcely more
than $50 tracts to dispose of this year, and
many Of these being merely oil or gas
privileges, which have been assessed sep
arately. Time was when the list en-
braced six to seven hundred tracts and
then comprising often whole warrant of
a thousand acres or more. and often these
large bodies were sold for the taxes and
costs, amounting to one or two hundred
dollars at most, aud often sale was al
lowed to pass the period of redemption,
thus becoming the bidders property alb
solntely. AS the tracts were mostly
heavily timbered the lucky purchaser
often reaped small fortune by mesgre
investment. Those we're the halcyon
days of the "land shark" but they have
fled, probably never to return, surely not
in this day and generation.
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