The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
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NEXT Saturday is Hollow Fen. Look
well to your cabbages.
PERSONS naturalzed one month before
,he election are entitled to vote.
The Methodist church is ready for
the first coat of plaster.
WE see it stated that Mr.. G. K. Ross,
father of the lost Charlie Ross, has lost his
reason, and is also physically prostrated.
TURN out to the election next Tuesday,
and vote for Oyster, Wensel, and
Osterhout.
LAST Tuesday afternoon, Lieut.. Fred
Grant was married to Miss Ida Honore of
Chicago, very quietly and nicely.
SEVERAL houses in town are being newly
shinged. This seems to predict a hard
winter.
Forty-two postoffices in the United States
glory in the possession of the naae Of Wash.
ington.
A machine for removing ice and snow
from the streets by means of superheated
steam, is the invention of brilliant New
Yorker.
TWENTY ONE girls of Kenosha have
"Resolved, That if the men wont come
and see us we will 60 and see tn IN"
How is that for womau's rights?
VOTE for d. 9. Oyster, if you want
a man for Representative who will rep
resent our interes-, and and not The
tcrests of railroad monopoles.
THE new style of ladies' mutfs are
said TO be larger at one end than the
other. How CONVENIENT for sleigh
ride.
NEXT Tuesday, will decide the fate
of the candidates for sheriff We pre-
dict there will be three disappointed
men.
DIED F. f. Crandall, formerly Of
this place died in Baltimore, CT Tues
day evening last He was about forty
lour years vi age.
The eclipse Of the moon occurred last
Sunday morning according to announce
ment. 1t commenced about ten minutes
to l o'clock, and was total at about 2,
and at $3.50 was entirely over.
VOTE for w. II. O5terhout for Com
missioner, for he is a man who will do
honor to any position in which he may
be placed. He will make an excellent
officer if elected.
VOTE for Henry H. WcnscI, for
sheriff, he served his country faithfully
in her hours Of need, and we guarantee
if he is elected he will faithfully dis
charge the duties of the high Office to
which he aspires.
THE osracism of Chicago by the Board of
Insurance Underwriters, is not having the
effect that was SO fordly anticipated. The
home companies are gobbling up every
thing and a few organizations not included
in the Board, are doing thriving business.
Ifyou want railroad, monopolies vote for
WINNER. He is the railroad candidate and
has letter now in his possession, written
last August, from the Penn. R. R. Com
pany, requesting that he be candidate.
We don't want this man to misrepres,nt us.
Mr.. WINNER claims 500 majority. We
know lots of men who would be willing to
bet that his majority won't exceed 499.
Mr.. WINNER would be somewhat surprised
should the majority be on the other side.
WE have received a long communication
from one of the Modoc base ball nine, in
answer to an article in last weeks Demo-
erat. We decline to publish it on the
ground that we don't wish to take up the
hatchet against our own boys, and we be-
lieve the Register the proper exponent of
Brockwayville's ball club.
A WRITER in the St. Paul Press tells
new story of Horace Greeley. Horace
wrote nots to brother editor in New
York whose writing was equally illegible
with his own. The recipient of the note not
being able to read it sent it back by the
same messenger to Mr.. Greeley for elucida-
tion: supposing it to be the answer to his
own note, Mr.. Greeley looked over it, but
likewise was unable to read it, and said to
the boy $50, take it back. What does
the id fool mean?" "Yes, SIR" said the
boy, "that is just what he says"
CADET.-Hon. G. B. Curtis has the
appointment of cadet to West Point
for this district A competitive ez-
animation viii. be held at the office of
j. W. Wetmore, Esq, in Erie on the
second Tuesday of November next, be-
ing the 10th day. The boy who pas
ses the best examination will be re-
commended. He will not have to re-
port at West Point till June next.
Now is the time for the fighting boys
to step to the front.