The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-05-11
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THURSDAY, MAY 11TH, 1876.


RAIN storm here yesterday.
Heavy frcst here last night.
YESTERDAY was cool day.
SUBSCRIBE for the ADVOCATE.
THE base ball season is opened
MAKING garden is next in order
SILVER change snow in circulation.
DoN'T move your stoves out doorsyet
TIE Legislature has adjourned sine
die.
CALL and see our style of visiting
cards.
TIE 10Th of May is now legal
holiday
UNCLE SAM is nearly one hundred
years old .,
JNo. G. Hall walks to bis farm every
morning.
JEROME POWELL is having his farm
ploughed.
BRooKvILLE bad $35, 900 fire week
before last.
New potatoes have appeared in
Pittsburgh.
THE ADVOCATE Office turns out first
class job work.
CUaT BARRET has come back to
town to stay.
We notice our old friend D. B, Day
on the street.
We hope to give better variety of
reading matter soon
LADIES in need of visiting cards viii
do well TO give Us call. '....
THE new trappings for Company III.
will he here III few days.
TIE fare to Philadelphia and re-
turn from Ridgway is $13,2O ...
TIE bridge or depot street is being
repaired by Supervisor Riley.
THE public debt was reduced $780,
600 during the month of April.
THE opening of the Centennial Ex-
hibition yesterday was brilliant.
TIE Ridgway test oil well is now a
ghost; only this and nothing moro.
TIE mercantile appraisement list
appears in the ADVOCATE this week.
HENRY MARVIN still continues to set
out shade trees. May his shadow never
grow less.
THE Commissioners have decided to
prohibit boys from playing ball in the
| Court Yard,
\ NEW side walk will be put down
on the west side of Mill Street from
Main to Centre. ..... 3
WON'T somebody please get carried
and give us the job of printing their
wedding cards.
THE Centennial Exhibition at Philn-
delphia was formally opened to the
public yesterday.
THE Riley House is the place to get II
tivst-cass meal, as we have occasion to
know from experience,
D3yToR FARLEY is having a new
fence built on the Barrett lot corner of
| Broad and Centre streets
A LARGE number of fruit trees have
been planted in town this spring. Ic
editor set out seventeen.
AT the ADVOCATE ofliccyou can find
envelopes by the pack or box, with
request printed or without,
PREsByrEHTAI services in the LutE~
eran church on Sunday morning and
evening next, at the usual hours
THOMAS CRAVEN, John j: Ridgway'5
agent, died IN Philadelphia Pa, May
I'd, 1875, in the seventy-sixth year of
his age.
FLAGS were displayed in several
places about town yesterday in honor
of the opening of the Centennial Ex'
hibition.
THE Commissioners are having the
court yard fence repaired; and new
walk laid down the Main street gate to
the Court House.
VEGETABLES as tomatoes, onions,
radishns etc, are received daily in this
, market, but the prices are rather
strong on money.
EGGS are worth twenty cents a
dozen. Butter il worth thirty five
cents a pound; pork thirteen cents;
Potatoes aye worth fifty cents bushel.
GEo r. DIXON, has moved into the
SOuther house ON South Street. The
editor Of the ADVOCATE now lives in
the house formerly occupied by A. F.
Eby, corner Mill and Centre streets.
\ TIE Black Hills gold fields are now
set down as a great fraud. We give
some of the prices paid for necessities
of life. Sugar is 40 cents per pound;
8 bacon so cts; corn 80 cts; -four $22 90
per sack Co.. Q.
t The coustitutionality Of the boom
, bin is to be argued before Governor
Hartranft and Attorney General Lear.
No time has yet been fixed for the ar
, gumcnt, though it viii probably be
heard within the next ten days.
NOTE-- Visitors Guide to the Cen
tcnRidt EGhibitiOn and Philadelphid,
GuthOriged6ytte Board Of Finance and
the OnLy one to be sold on the grounds
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