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VOL. XL. NO. 44.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, JAN U Alt Y 22, 1908.
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BOROUGH OFFICERS.
Burgess. J. T. Carson.
Justices of the reoceC. A. Randall, D.
W. Clark.
CouncHnien. J. W, Landers, J. T. Dale,
O. T. Anderson, Wm. Smearbaugh, E.
W. Bowman, J. W, Jainleson, W. J.
Campbell.
Constable W. II. Hood.
Collector W. H. Hood.
School Directors J. O. Soowdeu, Dr.
J. C. Dunn, Q Jainleson, J. J. Landers,
J. R. Clark, W. O. Wyman.
FOREST COUNTY OFFICERS.
Member of Congress P.Wheeler.
Member of Senate J. K. P, Hall.
Assembly-W. D. Shields.
President Judge W. M. Llndsey.
Associate Judges F. X. Kreitler, P.
C. Hill.
Prothonotary, Register t Recorder, Ac.
-J. C. Oelst.
Sheriff. A. W. Stroup.
Treasurer W. II. Harrison.
Commissioner! Leonard Agnew, An
drew Wolf, Philip Etnert.
District Attorney A. O. Brown.
Jury Commissioner! J . li. Eden, II.
II. MuClellau.
Coroner Dr C. Y. Detar.
Counfv Auditors-Oeorge H. Warden,
K. L. Haugb, S. T. Carson.
Counlu Surveyor D. W. Clark.
County Superintendent ). W. Morri
son. Heiular Terns afCaurt.
Fourth Monday of February.
Third Monday of May.
Fourth Monday of September.
Third Monday of November.
Regular Meetings of County Commis
sioners 1st and 3d Tuesdays of month.
Church and Habbnth Nchoal.
Presbyterian Sabbath School at 9:45 a.
m. ; M. E. Sabbath School at 10:00 a. m.
Preaching in M. E. Church every Sab
bath evening by Rev. W. O. Calhoun.
Preaching in the F. M. Church every
Sabbath evening at the usual hour. Rev.
U. D.Call, Pastor.
The regular meetings of the W. C. T.
U. are held at the headquarters on the
second and fourth Tuesdays of each
nn nth.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
'pi' N EST A LODG E, No. 369, 1. 0. 0. F.
1 M sets every Tuesday evening, in Odd
Fellows' Hall, Partridge building.
CAPT. OEORQ E STOW POST, No. 274
O. A, R. Meets 1st and 8d Monday
evening In each month.
CAPT. GEORGE STOW CORPS, No.
187, W. R. C, meets first and third
Wednesday evening of each month.
RITCHEY CARRINGER.
ATTORN EKS-AT-LAW,
Tlonesta, Pa.
CURTIS M. SIIAWKEY,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW,
Warren, Pa.
Practice in Forest Co.
AC BROWN,
ATTORN EY-AT-LA V.
Office in Arner Building, Cor. Elm
and Bridge Sts., Tlonesta, Pa.
D
R. F. J. BOVARD,
Physician Burgeon,
TIONESTA, PA,
DR. J. C. DUNN.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
and DRUUGInT. Ollice over store.
Tlonesta, Pa. Professional calls prompt
ly responded to at all hours of day or
night. Residence Elm St., between
Grove's grocery and Gerow'a restaurant.
GEORGE BIGGINS, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon,
TIONESTA, PA.
Ortlce in rooms over Forest County
National liank.
Professional calls promptly responded
to at all hours of day or night.
D
R
J. B. 8IGGINS.
Physician and Surgeon,
J OIL CITY, PA.
HOTEL WEAVER,
E. A. WEAVER, Proprietor.
This hotel, formerly the Lawrence
House, has undergone a completechange,
and is now furnished with all the mod
ern improvements. Heated and lighted
throughout with natural gas, bathrooms,
hot and cold water, eto. The comforts of
guests never neglected.
CENTRAL HOUSE,
GEROW A GEROW Proprietor.
Tionseta, Pa. This is the mostcentrally
located hotel In the place, and has all the
modern improvements. No pains will
be spared to make it a pleasant Btopning
place for the traveling public ilrst
class Livery In connection.
pHIL. EMERT
wAwnv univr A SHOEMAKER
Shop over R. L. Haslet's grocery store
on Elm street. Is prepared to do all
Kinds of custom work from the finest to
the coarsest and guarantees his work to
give perfect satisfaction. Prompt atten
tion given to nienaing, aim friuw i
sonable.
JAMES HASLET,
GENERAL MERCHANTS,
Furniture Dealers,
AND
UNDERTAKERS.
TIONESTA, PENN
T.C.UREY,
LIVERY
Feed & Sale
STABLE.
Fine Turnouts at All Times
at Reasonable Rates.
Rear or Hotel Weaver
TIOITESTA., ZP-A-.
Telephone No. 20.
42D
SEM-AIIML
CLEARANCE SALE
OF THE McOUEN COMPANY.
Wednesday Morning; January 15th, 1908, for Ten Days Only.
We Intend to Make This Sale Worth While to Every Man, Woman and
Child Within 50 Miles of Oil City.
It is a well known fact that this store carries the largest, finest, most reliable stock of Men's, Boys'
and Children's Clothing, Fine Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Traveling Bags and Suit Cases,
Raincoats, Fur Overcoats, Rubber Coats, Wind and Water Proof Reefer Coats, Umbrellas and fine
Tailoring Woolens in this end of the state.
Now listen to a plain statement of facts as you will find them when you come to this sale.
A Sweeping Eeduction of One Fourth
Or 25 per cent, will be made on the choicest and finest goods in every department of this big store. Pos
itively no reservations except contract goods. One fourth off the plainly marked prices at which the
goods have been sold.
On all our finest and best Men's Suits and Overcoats. On all our finest and best Boys' and Children's Suits and Overcoats. On all our finest Shirts, Underwear, Gloves, Neck
wear, Hosiery, Sweaters, Mufflers, and Furnishing Goods of all kinds. On all our finest' Trunks, Traveling Bags and Suit Cases. On all our finest Raincoats, Umbrellas, Wind and
Water Proof lleefer Coats. On all our finest Hats and Caps.
So much for regular lines of our best and newest goods, but that does not end the story. Hundreds of broken lines and odd lots of clean reputable merchandise will be slaughtered for
a fraction of their real value.
Only one iron-clad condition : As this sale means a serious loss to us, the strictly cash rule will he rigidly enforced.
No goods on approval during this sale. No goods charged except at regular prices.
Tour Money Back Always for Any Unsatisfactory Purchase.
Note well the dates and don't fail to attend. We guarantee to make it well worth your while.
Wednesday morning, January 15th, for ten days only.
A PARTIAL LIST OF McCUEN COMPANY SPECIALS.
Articles that are underpriced greater than the 25 per cent, rule and some that are hut a fraction of the original prices.
CLOTHING
Young men's suits (long trousers, ages 15 to 19 years)
originally sold for .f 10 to $ 15; two lots priced 2.50, 3.50
Men's and young men's stylish top coats (up tb 36
size only), originally sold for $ 10 to .$16, sale price 5
Men's black cheviot and worsted suits, were priced
$12 to $16, sale price $6 50
Men's mixed worsted and cheviot business suits that
sold for $12 to $16, sale price $6 50 to $7 50
Boys' double breasted short trouser suits, ages 6 to
16 years, were priced $3 50 to $5, two lots all
sizes to choose from priced $1 50 and $2 50
Stout boys' short trouser suits, ages 8 to 16 years,
were priced $6 to $8 50, two lots, your choice, $2 50, $3 50
Boys' good winter overcoats sale price $3
Men's good heavy winter overcoats, sale price $5
" black clay worsted suits sale price $5
" house coats sale price $2 95
Men's bath robes sale price $1 95
" working pants sale price 69c
" odd vests sale prices 39c, 69c, 89c, $1 19
" duck reefer coats flannel lined sale price $2 50
Boys' long ulster storm coats sale price $1 49
" bath robes sale price $2 50
HAT DEPARTMENT
Men's fine soft hats were priced $3 and $-1 sale price $1
41 and boys' winter caps 10c
" fur caps $5 qualities sale price $3
Children's winter Tarn o'Shanters, 50c qualities 10c
" knit Tarns and toques 10c, 19c, 39c
FURNISHING DEPARTMENT
Men's stiff bosom colored shirts 25c
All men's, boys' and children's turtle neck, loot ball
and v neck sweaters, finest all wool hand madehalf price
Men's heavy derby ribbed balbriggan underwear 35c
Men's heavy fleeced lined underwear 39c
11 double breasted natural wool shirts and drawers.. 89c
" last black half hose, some wool, some cotton.8, 11, 19c
" camels hair half hosv 10c
" extra heavy home knit wool half hose 19c
" fine natural wool half hose l"c, 2 pair for 25c
" asbestos gauntlet gloves and one finger mitts 21c
" suspenders 8c, 11c, 19c, 42c
" white handkerchiels 3c, 4c, 5c
" bandana handkerchiefs, large size 6c
" shield bows 3c, 4c, 5c
Dr. Diemels linen mesh underwear, $3 25 qualities $1 50
U. S. Government half hose, hole proof. 3c and 7c
Canvas gloves, 8 ounce duck 6c, 7c, 8c
President suspenders and Chester suspenders 39c
Collar buttons 3c, 8c, 10c
McCuen Co. globe trotter suit case, all sizes. $1
McCuen Co. cowhide suit case, straps and catches,
three steel hinges, all sizes price $4
THE McCUEN CO
McCuen Co. Block,
OIL CITT, PA
ri..l,..l.:n'. Co,ic- Cholera and
LnamDeriain S Diari-horn Remedy.
Jcver fails. Buy it uow. It may wive life.
ENTOMBED j4B DAIS,
Three Miners Rescued from the
Caved-ln Shaft at Ely, Nev.
Elder Mrs. Thaw's Evidence 170
Deaths in Theater Fire Proposed
Magellan Towing Company City
Seizes Locomotive for D"bt Death
of Charles Emory Smith.
After having been entombed forty
i days 1,1)00 feet below the surface
In the Alpha shaft of the Giroux
mine near Ely, Nev., A. D. Bailey, P.
J. Brown mid Fred McDonald were
rescued Saturday night.
On the morning of Dec. 4 McDonald,
Brown and Bailey and two Greeks
were working; in the bol'tom of a shaft
S3 feet below the pump station and
1,085 feet below the surface. The
shaft caved in, snapping thu cable
used to draw the cage from the shaft
and hurling thousands of tons of rock
aud timbers Into the shaft. From the
bottom of the compartment In which
the men were working lo the pumping
station a series of rickety siairs of
fered the only means of egress.
With falling rocks . and timbers
streaming down on them, the five men
struggled up these ladders. Half way
up falling Umber? knocked the two
Greeks from the ladders, killing them.
Bailey, McDonald and Brown reached
the pump siation. It3 timbered roof
withstood the ro.'k and timber that
came down the shaft and offered them
a safe prison.
At first it was thought on I he sur
face that all five men had perished,
but twenty-four hours after the ac
cident the three burled men managed
to make themselves heard by tapping
on a six-inch walerpipe thai reached
from the pumping station to the sur
face. Communication was established
with the wo.'ld above and food and
drink were plenteously lowered
through the pipe.
A large supply was sent down, as It
was feared the pipe would be broken
before the rescuers could reach the
Imprisoned men. But throughout the
long weeks of Imprisonment this pipe
was dally ns(.d. A portable telephone
was lowered and the men were able to
talk with the people above. This tele
phone carried from friends news of
the world and messages of cheer, and
from the buried men reports of their
condition.
Work of clearing the debris was
slow work, as tlmbeis, rocks and
earth were so twisted together that a
new shaft had to be cut for nio.it of
the 1,000 feet. At no time did the en
tombed men suffer greatly, except
for the distastefulness of their forced
seclusion.
Mother Tells of Son's Strange Acts.
In her son's trial for murder theelder
Mrs. Thaw, pale and weak from her
receut illness, was assisted to the wit
ness chair and repeated a large part
of the testimony she gave a year ago.
Her appearance and the sincerity of
her evidence as she told of her son's
strange conduct after meeting Evelyn
Nesbit and hearing her story, had a
marked effect upon all who listened.
On account of her weak condition
her examination was Interrupted by
consent to be resumed some time this
week, when she will tell of Thaw's in
fancy. District Attorney Jerome's manner
while the mother was on the stand
was all deference and it was his sug
gestion which led to the respite In
her ordeal.
But when the young wife took the
stand the change was marked. Jer
ome glared at her from the very first
and his objections were fairly shouted
in her ears. Well accustomed to court
usage from her former experience, the
young woman waited patiently for a
ruling as to each objection. When
they were sustained she was silent;
when overruled she was ever ready
with her response.
Effective testimony, was given by
Miss Alice ( Fletcher of Washington,
a long-time friend of the Thaws and a
fretpient visitor at their homo. She
said she had known Harry Thaw for
2C years and he had always Impressed
In,''- us irrational.
Alias Catherine O'Neill, who nursed
Thaw as a boy, from hiB third to his
tenth year, added her evidence to. that
already adduced as to irrational con
duct and tendencies on the part of
tun defendant.
170 Deatns From Theater Fire.
Bearing up bravely under the aw
ful blow which it received In the
destruction of the Rlioades Opera
House by fire last week Monday, the
thriving little borough of Boycrtown,
Pa., has come to a full realisation of the
fact that one-fifteenth of Its popula
tion was wiped out of existence by
the holocaust.
The figures compiled by Coroner
Strasser show that there are 170 dead
as a result of the fire. The list of
dead Includes one fireman who lost his
lite fighting the (ire and one man,
Jacob Johnson, who died Wednesday
from Injuries received in the bla.imr
playhouse. Three charred bodies
were leeovered from tiie ruins of the
building the tame day and of the K8
bodies or rema ns that lay In the im
provised moigne 115 have been offi
cially, or partially. Identified by sor
rowing relatives or friends.
The ml vale morgues In the town
were not of sufficient size to receive
the 1. ;d!es of those taken from the fire
I'll : 1 1 ; nd fnc public school was also
used as :i cliarnel bouse. Here,
where a number of the victims enJ
dally to their studies, the bodies wert
In id on' in rows.
Each bit of Jewelry or fragment o"
clothing picked up In the blackened
ruins was tagged, ns were their
charred and blackened bodies, or surli
portion of them as remains, and alt in
search of missing loved ones were
permitted to pass through the grue
some rows to make identifications.
!
Warren National Bank.
For the consideration of the conservative we submit the
following
Statement
which was made to the Government
Dec. 3, 1907: J
ici.hoi iu i s.
United Slates and other Bonds $ ii7.S,008 111 T
I.ohiihriuI Discounts l,:ti'i,0Kl o; T
Bank ami Olllce Building LV.O.HVt SI J
Cah in Banks ami with United Stales Treasurer 1ST, (Mil 00 4
Cash on baud 102, 100 lid T
Total , fc!,r'H,'J70 'r'- i
I.IAItlMTti:.
Capital $ HOii.ikk) IK) if
Surplus ami I'mlivided Profits l,"rJ,T:t !U
Circulation ;iui),ooo DO T
Dividend Chocks outstanding -,or 0) I
DEPOSITS 1.7SS.-IS3 lit
Total JJ,6 11,-70
Warren National Bank,
New Building corner of Second and Liberty Streets,
Warren, l'enn'a.
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