The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-10
LOCAL NOTES.

How ducedly hot the nights are.
Nor a circus in Ridgway this season
yet.
READ our Centennial letter in this
issue.
Now blackberries sell at eight cents
quart.
A RAIN storm would be q great
blessing.
OIL has a decided upward tendency
as to price.
BRANDON of the st. Mary's Gazette
is on the Grand Jury.
Don't forget to get registered. Sep.
tember 7th is the last day.
EGGS are selling here at from twenty
to twenty-five cents dozen.
READ our Wilcox notes in another
column. We hope ~" will call
often.
WE publish the Ridgway Township
Auditors Settlement in another
column.
THE picture of R. B. Hayes occupies
a prominent position in the post office
window.
THERE will be q Centennial dog
show. Ridgway could spare about a
hundred.
COURT commences on the third
Monday in September, being the
eighteenth day.
THERE is some talk of nominating
DR.. G. r. Farley, for Assembly, on
the Democratic ticket.
THE Chandeliers for Grace Church
have arrived and been placed in
position in the church.
THE jury for September term of
court has been drawn. We shall pub
ish the list next week.
IT is rumored that w. S. Service in
tends soon to start a hardware store
in the old post office building.
THE excitement thatusually attends
a Presidential election is not felt here.
Perhaps Ridgway will wake up yet.
TEAMS WANTED For Bark hauling
at Brookston Tanncry.
G. BROOKS Dc Co.
AFTER August 18th it will be un.
lawful to catch or kill speckled trout
under a penalty of ten dollars for each
trout.
A MAN in Ridgway said, when ques-
toned as to the state of the times:
MY -four barrel sounds like base
drum.n
FISH in large quantities are found
dead along the shores of the Clarion
River. The refuse from the tanner
les is said to poison them.
THE mail west on Friday last struck
a valuable COW, belonging to Salyer
Jackson; injuring her so badly that it
was found necessary to kill her.
LAST week Wednesday morning
McEnally's Foundry and Machine
shop, at st. Mary's was destroyed by
fire. Total loss $1,000; no insurance.
THE Elk County Democrats hold
their primary meetings on Saturday
August Goth, and their county conven-
ton at the court house on Tuesday
August 29th.
LAST week Oscar Burgh had two
toes, next the big toe, on the left foot,
badly cut by an ak, which he was
using, striking tree and glancing
from it to his foot
of stars between the 18th and 10th of
this month. OF course, as this is the
Centennial year, the display will be
grand accordingly.
THERE is said to be the biggest liar
in the State, in Williamsport. That
may be, but we think there are several
liars in this village that would make a
big struggle for the belt.
Look out foran attractive advertise
ment from Powell & Kline in week
or so They are going to the city, and
will lay in a large stock of fall and
winter goods, which they will sell
cheap for cash.
IT has been stated, by one who has
tried it, that to take a common sponge
and fry it in sufficient quantity of
lard, and place wherethe rats can have
free access to it, that it kills them al
most instantly.
WE were in error last week in stat
ing that deer could be lawfully killed
from the lst day of August, Deer may
be lawfully killed from the 1st of Octo-
ber to January lst. We give the sec
ton referring to deer and elk in an
other column.
COMPANY 1 is Ridgway's latest Or
ganization. The company is COM
posed of misses from five to eleven
years old, and parades the streets
every night. Singing "shoo fly don't
bother L, for belong to Company "
Miss Jennie Hall is the Captain.
WE call the attention of hotel keep
ers to the act published in another
column for their benefit. We print
the act on heavy card board with the
hours for meals and tariff of charges,
with name of the proprietor printed in.
Send for sample aud prices by postal
card.