The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-20
LOCAL NOTES.
WARM.

TOWNSHIP road orders are being
paid.
CUcUMBERs will soon be ready to
pick.
THE Wilcox oil well is down 2OOO
feet.
Stripped hose for ladiesare now fash
ionable.
No one complains of an abundance
of money.
Now we commence another hun
dred years.
HUCKLEBERRIEs now sell for ten
cents quart.
THERE are several cases of scarlet
fever in town.
TEE shade trees about town are
growing finely.
J. d. PARSONS is now shoemaking
for J. S. Powell.
les WATER is not a healthy drink
this hot weather.
HucKLEBERRIEs are said to be very
plentiful this year.
CHILDREN should not be allowed to
swing on the shade trees.
COMPANY Fl paraded last Saturday
afternoon in full uniform.
SEND us fifty cents and try the AD-
yoCATE for three months.
RED-RAsPDERRIEs are selling in this
market at ten cents quart.
THE festival for the benefit of Rev.
1. Breneman netted $l65 OF.
THE seat under the naples at the
post office is well patronized.
BOYS take to the water as naturally
as ducks this warm weather.
JEROME PowELL's farm house is re-
ceiving a coat of white paint
w. H. Hyde's fence fronting his
residence has been repainted
THE summer of 1876 is noted for
the hottest weather known in the past
fifty years.
THE supervisors have done good
job of grading on the west end of
South street.
THE burning of brush after night is
q penal offense in this State, punish
able by fine of $50.
RoBr CAMPBELL is having his west
side room fitted up with large glass
front and black-walnut counters.
THE Auditors of Ridgway township
have not decided to publish their
statement in conformity with the law.
WOULDN'T wonder if there would
be a chance for printing wedding cards
for some of the boys and girls after
while,
THERE were, it is said, sixty double
teams besides the one-horse rigs on
the barrens last sunday aIter nuci>le-
berries.
The peach crop Of Delaware, as is
estimated, will exceed three millions
of baskets, and all good sized and well
grown fruit.
THE Ridgway Silver Cornet Band,
after having cost the citizens of Ridg-
way about $4,000 is now among the
things of the past.
WE have received the very interest
ing volume entitled "Monthly Re-
port of the Department of Agricul.
ture" for May and June, 1876.
THE school directors of Ridgway
township have made public ~ the
financial statement of the school dis
trict by few written statements pasted
up about town.
IN Philadelphia on the Fourth
Henry Clay was arrested for stealing
a horse and wagon, and George WASH
ington was arrested for drunkenness.
What's in name?
$2,269 have been subscribed toward
erecting monument to the memory
of the late General Geo. A. Custer.
J.
with $1,000 subscription.
DIsINFECT your cess pools and out
houses if you would ward off disease.
Chloride of lime is cheap and effec-
tive disinfectant. 1t is cheap and
should be used without stint.
THE crop of grass on Osterhout's
flats is very heavy, and the rye on the
heights look splendidly. Mr. Oster-
hout proves that he is successful
farmer as well as a successful business
man.
Arthe Senatorial Conference of War
rem and Venango counties, held at
Warren, Thursday, Hon. G. w. Stone,
of Warren county, was nominated for
Senator. This conclusion was reached
on third ballot.
ADJUTANT General Latta has just
issued an order which includes
twenty one military companies
throughout the State, which have
failed to come up to the requirements
of the law and are therefore dis
banded.
AN exchange says: The New York
Board of health warns the public
against the use ofa certain preparation
of meat called cooked corn beef" put
up in tin boxes, and which has found