The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-07
Glk Adrueate.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1875.

The time to gather apples has come.
Cheese! Choice Factory, at P &K
This pleasant weather is the time for
potato digging.
Fred Schoening is dealing largely in
tomatoes.
Election on Tuesday November 2,
1875.
We publish tho election proclamation
in this issue of the ADVOCATE.
10. W. Bailey has moved into the
house, on Zion Hill, recently purchased
Of A. Cummings.
A new side walk has been laid on
South street to the western sids of Irish
Town.
Frank Pollman has purchased the
Warner House and fourteen acres o.
land for $1,000, and has commenced
clearing "Pollman's heights"
A sign in Hides store suys "ch oice
cooking apples 800. per bushel."
Rather steep Will, but we presume you
give a good discount for cash.
There was fellow around town yes
terday with little bell and a grind
stone, ready and willing to grind your
scissors.
The Western Union Telegraph OIL
fee has been moved from Chas. Holes
jewellery store to Doctor Earley's office
next Halls brick building.
The 5636th Hebrew year commen-
ced on Wednesday evening Sept. ~,
ult. aud was observed, in the cities by
feast called Rock Hachonoh.
The County Commissioners of Elk
County, will meet at their Office in Ridg-
way Pa. on Thursday October 81, 1875
G. H. McCAULEY,
Com. Clerk.
One of our citizens has lost a
valuable dog, it was setter; we are
authorized to offer ten cents reward,
payable in pups Of the same breed at
one dollar each.
Last Wednesday, D. B. Day, left
this place to attend medical school at
Cincinnati. Dudley proposes to have
his name read d. B. Day NJ. D. in the
course of time.
The school tax Of Ridgway township,
for 1875, is only about one half that OF
1874; omitting the building tax is the
reason for the reduction. This will be
good news to our long-suffering tax pay
ers.
Horace Little and w. S. Hamb!in,
have purchased the western half of the
Service d Wheeler block, and have also
purchased A. Cummings stock OF
| groceries, etc., They intend to continue
the grocery business.
| The new Constitution gives each
elector the right to vote for two can
didates for the off ,e of Commissioner
and Auditor, but no one has right
to cast two ballots for one man
We ask our readers to bear this in mind,
as ballot of the last description woul d
no be counted.
James McGinnis has purchased of r.
V. Kline, twenty-one feet front, on
Main street, between Service & Wheel
er's block and the barber shop, for
$1,000. He has commenced excavating
a cellar, and proposes to put up build
2lx7O feet, two stories high, to be used
for billiard saloon, etc.
The work of exhuming the bodies, in
the old school house burying ground.
and re-intering them in the new GENE.
terry, was commenced week before last
Cofins that had been in the ground for
twenty years we're found to be in good
state of preservation; while one buried
thirty years was almost entirely con-
sumed.
ga Century After" is the title of an
elaborate centennial work on Philadel-
phia and Pennsylvania. Part four is on
our table and opens with an article on
Cape May, which is very interesting.
The work is illustrated and will be oOm-
pleted in fifteen parts at fifty cents each
Address Allen, Lane & Scott and j. w,
Lauderbach, Publishers, Philadelphia
1t is suggested that poultry show be
held 10 Ridgway and Bantam Miller be
exhibited in bird cage, amongst the
game bamtams, great care, however
should be taken that his head and
claws are muzzled, so he cannot injure
birds smaller than himself, if any such
should be present, and equal care should
be exercised, on his own account, to pre-
vent Lis assaults on laroer fowls like