The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-03
LOCAL NOTES.

ELK COUNTY needs q new court
house.
THE express trains don't stop at
Wilcox.
HAY-the boyssay is nineteen dol
lars ton.
CRoQUE TIE is favorite pastime in
Ridgway.
COMPANY H will not attend the
Centennial.
THERE will be some fun in politics
this fall.
The rye on Cooks heights has been
harvested.
PHILLIP LESSER has ripe tomatoes
in his garden.
BLACKBERRIEs are in the market at
ten cents a quart
THE warm weather is said to be bad
for the potato crop.
THE organ-grinder man appeared on
our streets the other day.
Now we have the "harvest moon;"
the evening are delightful.
THE small boys about town are be-
coming good velocipedists.
You may lawfully hunt deer from
now to the first of January.
THE Supervisors are doing a good
job of grading on Depot street.
GROUND has bean broken for the
cellar of j. S. Hyde's new store.
IT will soon be time for the boys to
gather chestnuts, and butternuts.
A WAC writes to a friend briefly,
"don't eat Q-cumbers; they'll W-up."
THE Prothonotary's office has avn
ings over the windows on the west
side
THE Supervisors are doing some
needed work on the western end of
Centre street.
IT will soon be time for buckwheat
cakes and asking your wife to scratch
your back.
THE Episcopal Church will soon
have three new chandeliers of six
burners each.
THE editor of the ADVOCATE is not
rich, as is generally reported, and
firmly believed by two thirds of our
subscribers.
AN addition is soon to be built to
the Episcopal Church, for Sunday
school purposes.
SALYER JACKSON is now at work
with his men, on a new school build
ing at Sheffield.
w. G. HEALY and family will re-
turn to Jacksonville, Florida, some
time in October.
IT is said that small brown bird
like the "chippy" is the mortal enemy
of the cabbage worm.
N. II. CUMMINGS is clearing he side
hill above his house, and intend to
use the land as pasture.
NJ. S. KLINE is now busily engaged
taking the registry list. See to it that
your name not omitted.
PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES in the
Lutheran church next Sunday, at the
usual hours, by A. j. Montgomery.
w. H. OsTERHOUT has so far recov-
cred from his late illness as to be able to
get out of the house and walk around.
AN apple tree, on the premises of
Charles Mead, Esq, has a single bios
som on it now, very singular thing
for this time year.
THE old 'liberty pole" in the court
yard needs new top piece. The piece
now on is very shaky and liable to
blow over some windy day.
No business man should write let
ter without printed letter-head. At
this office the printing and paper cost
but little more than the white paper
at retail.
The idea has crept into the minds
of some of our subscribers that we are
able to live on nothing and sleep on a
clothes line. Moral-This is hint for
delinquents to pay up.
LAST evening, August LIST, P. r.
Smith was married to Miss Lille
Wicks, at the residence of the brides
parents. They took the express, at 10
o'clock, for the Centennial.
IN our local last week, referring to
the explosion of Doctor Hartley's soda
fountain, we said the generator was
charged with carbolic acid, we should
have said sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol.
WE would be much pleased if some
gentleman or lady, at Wilcox, would
volunteer to furnish us items from
that place, and not only from Wilcox,
but from any other point in the
County we would be glad to receive
''local notes"
A LITTLE fellow named Gene Miller
muffed ball on the street Monday
evening, at which the boys on the
fence set up "caw" ''caw." Another
player hurled a stone at the boys,
when lively stone throw took place,
no one was wounded; no lives were
lost.
DIR. c. r. FARLEY presented bill
to the Episcopal Church Society for the