The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-17
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4 NEhT WEEK OOurI NEE Us aU tnlS
! bee.
The weather is very warm and the
ids very dusty.
! THE work on the Episcopal parsonage
is rapidly going toward.
READ the caution notice of J. II.
iagerty in another column.
THERE were services in the Episcopal
.urch last Monday evening.
I BLOCK SIDING, is commencing to be
popular in this place for buildings
THE Supervisors have built new
bridge over the race on Depot street.
THE cabbage in this section are being
destroyed by the green cabbage worm.
THE School Directors have planted
trees in the school house yard, and have
fenced them in.
APPLICATIONS are to be made for
Athe pardon of Dennis Donovan, and
RWes A. Burke.
G have it from reliable sources that
Daniel Scull will run as an independ-
candidate for sheriff.
TIE "infalible fire kinder" is a new
! invention now we wait to hear of the
! "infalible" fire extinguisher.
Rev. VIM MARTIN will preach in
the Court House, hereafter every Sun
day, morning and evening,
WHISKEY PLENTY-Cameron Press.
We are glad to hear that the Press man
Aas plenty of whiskey at last.
Our young friend Geo. McGibney
was in town the other dag. He reports
business lively in Ceutreyile.
REv.WM MARTIN proposes to put
thousand dollar organ in the Methodist
Church, by his own exertions.
The grasshoppers out west are so
large that they dress in mans attire and
occupy reserved seats at the theatre.
| THERE is to be a new sidewalk on
the east side of Broad street from Main
@Ientre; much needed improvement
ED.SourHER has purchased Of Jas.
Fl. Hagerty, his unfinished house on
south street near d. S. Thayer's resi-
deuce.
LATEST street suits Imported from
Paris are so short as to show the foot to
the ankle. Tough on the big-footed
girls, we should say.
DON'T FORGET the Republican con-
vention on next Tuesday afternoon, 21st
inst, at the Hyde House. Let there be
full turnout.
The Cameron Press referred to the
humble individual, who wields the seis-
sors of this paper, as "the Websterian
editor OF the ADVOCATE" And it
dou't make lis mad neither.
81 am standing on the ragged edge of
anxiety" is a new phrase, uttered by
Beecher, and is very applicable to can
didates for Office, and the "feler" when
his girl has given him the mitten.
A VIZ are pleased to hear that the cred
itors OF Wheeler & Horton, have agreed
to give G. T. Wheeler ten thousand
dollars, on condition that he gives secu-
rity for the payment OF the firm d ebts
in full.
U:ED. AT Wilcox, this county, on
Monday September 14th 1874, of ty-
phoid fever. Bayard son of A. 7.
Aldrich, postmaster at the above place,
aged 16 years; 4 months; IA days.
We are promised a more extended
notice next week.
The Lutheran church is nearly COM
pleted, and will be dedicated sometime
Ia October. Rev. l. Breneman deser-
YES a great deal of credit for his untir-
ing industry in raising funds to complete
this church edifce, which will be when
completed, a credit alike to the town and
the church.
THE Postofice Department has ruled
! that "Postmasters who have collected
nnngterly postage in advance since July
on county papers whish are now
Pfree,-that is one copy to each actual
subscriber residing in the county where
the same are printed in whole or in
part-and published, except postmasters
At letter carrier offices, should refund
the postage SO collected, and cancel the
entries"