The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1914-08-12

sylvania closed their annual convention
at Erie Friday, with the election of the
following officers: President, ]. c. Thom-
as, of Erie; Vice Presidents, J.T. Wallace;
of Venango county, and F. D. Miller, of
Lancaster; Secretary, NJ. Q. Altburg, of
Crawford; Treasurer, George Wal len, of
Delaware. The next convention will be
held at Stroudsburg, Monroe county, at a
date to be announced by the president.
Here is the story of loon. The loon
lived in the neighborhood of an island in
stream not far from Dubois. Two boys
saw 1t in the stream and were told not to
shoot at it. They shot. They did not
have licenses to hunt and were arrested
for shooting bird protected by law'
Meanwhile the bird was sent to taxider-
mist to be mounted. Then 1t turned out
that the taxidermist was not licensed and
be was arrested. Now the bird is in the
Office of the state game commission,
where it will trouble no one except the
owls and herons and other stuffed birds
which stare from the shelves and from
mute evidences of peoples arreste.
The barn of Thomas Hahn, on his
farm located on the public road between
Leeper and Snydersburg. Clarion county,
was struck by lightning and totally de-
stroyed by the fire which followed. dur
ing severe electrical storm which
passed over that section last Friday eve
ming. The bolt struck the barn about S
O'Clock and the flames spread so rapidly
that Mr.. Hahn was able to save only his
team of horses and harness from the
burning structure, everything else in it
being consumed He had practically all
his hay and part of his other crops of the
season in the barn and places his loss at
$780, on which there was an insurance of
$500.
-Supt. ]. o. Carson has made final
arrangements as TO the talent secured for
the forty-eighth annual session of the
Forest County Teachers Institute, to be
held in Marienville, October 1928, 1914.
The day instructors will be DR.. Harlan
e. Hall. of Mansfield. Ohio, DR.. o. L..
Warren, of Elmira, n. y, and Supt. f.
II. Gaige, of Lock Haven. Pa. For the
evening entertainments be has secured
Prof. Geo. @. Williams, Monologist, of
Ithaca, N. r., in portrayal of Harold
Bell Wright's famous story Of the "Shep-
herd of the Hills" The Conservatory
Trio of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y,
and The Rogers Grilley Co., of Pitts
burgh, Pa.
The people In this vicinity who are
interested in suffrage and the reform
movements of the day will be pleased to
know that Rev. Mecca Marie Varney, ID.
D., is coming to Tionesta Tuesday even
ing, August Is, to deliver one of her lect-
ures on the aboye subject. AS speaker
Mrs. Varney stands in the front ranks of
the great speakers of the day. She is an
accomplished home-maker, college
graduate, a fraternity and club woman.
She has been the successful minister of
several large churches and has been
prominent in reform work. A cordial
invitation is extended to all to bear this
talented speaker at the Court House. An
offering will be taken.
The following personal mention, in
which a former TiOnests boy is con-
cerned, is taken from the Kane Republi-
can of the 7th inst: "Mr. and Mrs. @. II.
Helm announce the engagement of their
daughter, Lora L. to Dr. Karl E. Wenk
at a luncheon given, yesterday, in her
honor by Miss Helm and Miss Christine
Helm. A plaque of bluetts and pink
rosebuds formed the centre:piece for the
table and the iavors were rose geys of the
same flowers. The out-of town guests
were; Miss Meta Penlz, of Dubois, a
house guest of Miss Lora Helm Miss
Louise Neal, of Union City, and the
Misses Camilla and Harriet Rising, of
Hoosick Falls, N. Y"
Friends of Rev. Father Joseph B.
Keegan, of Emporium, Pa, will be
greved to leaan of his death which oc-
Cured last Friday at the parish home in
that place. His illness of pleurisy and
pneumonia lasted about three weeks.
Father Keegan is remembered in this
vicinity as former pastor of Tidioute
and Tionesta II. G. churches, and after
wards was for several years pastor of the
church at Crown, Pa. In March last he
was transferred to the Emporium charge,
taking the place of Father Thomas B
| Downey, who went to Franklin. During
his short pastorate there he made many
friends The body was taken to Phils-
delphia, his former home, for burial.
Miss Carrie Exley of Oil City and
Simon w. Mong of Tulsa, Okla, were
married at 7 o'clock Tuesday August A,
1914, at Bethel M. E. church parsonage by
the pastor, Rev. G. II. Frampton. They
left Wednesday for a visit with relatives
in Clarion county and at Walnut Bend,
alter which they will leave for Tulsa.
The bride has been resident of Oil City
for the past nine years, having been en-
gagged as a dressmaker and has many
friends there. The groom is employed
in the oil fields of Ok lahoma and on his
return there will be transferred to Cali
fornia. -Venango Herald, Oil City de-
partment The REPUBLICAN joins Mr..
Mong's large circle of friends in this COM
munity in extending best wishes for
future happinesa and prosperity to him
and his bride.
The large dancing pavilion located
near the cross roads near Henry Kaman's s
home, German Hill, was destroyed by
fl re between one and two o'clock, Friday