The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-12-07
NOTES,

ALL kinus VI prlntiuB uollc oo Iuis
office.
DIPHTHERIA has subsidized in this
place and no new cases are reported.
SERVICES in the Lutheran church
next Sunday, German in the morning,
English in the evening.
GENTLEMEN drop into the ADvo-
CATE office and see our new year
cards.
CHRISTMAS will soon be here. The
Methodists will have supper, for the
children, in the basement of the
church.
WE learn that Jackson S. Schultz
contemplates selling his saw mill at
Wilcox to New York parties to be
used as o furniture mandatory.
LADIES! Your attention a moment!
Step into Powell & Kime's and see
some of the handsomest neck ties you
ever beheld. Also collars and cuffs to
match.
a RELIGION that this country needs,
remarks n female cynic, is one that
will make man remember that it is
Just as cold for his wife to get up and
build fire, as for himself.
THANKsGIvING-DAY passed Off
quietly in this place Services were
held in the Methodist and Episcopal
churches. a large flock of turkeys,
hens etc., were devoured during the
day, and in the evening there was a
social party at the Hyde House.
OIL well No. 8, at Wilcox, is down
1880 feet. Some oil has been found,
and experienced oil men say the indi-
cations are favorable to paying
supply of oil. We expect in a week or
so to announce that oil has been found
in paying quantities at Wilcox.
NoTICE.-In consequence of the
death of Mrs. Martins brother, Rev.
VIM. Martin will not preach here as
announced next Sabbath, but Rev.
Gillet (Presbyterian), of Kane, will
preach, instead, morning and evening,
in the NJ. E. Church.
The latest, simplest and most cffec-
tual mouse trap yet thought of is an
earthern wash-bowf nearly half filled
with water, covered over. with meal
and placed on the pantry shelf. A
Pulaski, y. Y, woman recently
caught half dozen of the mischief
makers in one night by this method.
\ YOUNG man, of twenty bright
summers, bearing the name Casper
Wilhelm, and a resident of st. Mary's
borough, was brought before Justice
Brandon, charged with rape on lady
sixty years of age. The crime was
committed last Thursday evening,
after which the young man repaired
to the house of his "sweetheart'
where he was found by the officer who
served the warrant. He was com.
mitted to Jail, in default of $1,000 bail
to answer at next term of court.
Theodore Tilton will surely be here
Dec. 14th as he lectures at Oswego n.
| Y. on the 18th and will come directly
from Oswego to Ridgway. The st.
Mary's people can return by special
coach after the lecture if fifty tickets
can be sold at st. Mary's. There i;
every assurance that fifty tickets will
be sold there and prehaps one hun
dred tickets and those in Ridgway
who have not bought tickets had bet
ter do so at once. Parties at Sheffield
and Emporium have secured tickets.
DIpHTHERIA-The Cameron Pres
spells it "Dyptheria' and the st
Mary's Gazette "Diptheria. Mr
Webster spells it Diphtheria, the def
milton of which is: "An epidemic
disease in which the air passages, and
especially the throat, becomes coated
with false membrane, produced by
the solidification of an intiamatory
exudation. 1t is accompanied with
great prostration of strength: recovery
is usually slow, and retarded by com
plications, as paral yses, &c.
ELK CoUNTY.--Tho little county
of Elk puts its hemlock to good use
1t tans more leather than any county
of it's inches. Three of its extensive
tanneries consume IN the aggregate
40, 900 cords of bark per annum, anc
turn out $50, 900 sides Of sole leather
The tannery of essrs.Schultz at Will
cox, one of the largest in the United
States, gives employment to two
hundred men. They have sos double
tan watts, six bark mills and sevent!
dwelling houses for their employees
The tannery itself cost 81, ,00o, 900, and
the buildings cover twenty acres o
ground.
SAD ACCIDENT AT EMPORIUM
Last Thursday afternoon, John Nc
Donald, eight years of age, and son o
the Chief Burgess of Emporium ha'
both legs crushed by the cars, so tina
they had to be amputated. 1t seem
the custom has been for the boys +
jump on freight trains to have rid
from one depot to the other. On thi
occasion train loaded with wheat
Charles Rennagar, conductor, wa
passing along, and as usual severa
boys boarded it. The train broke il
three pieces, the forward and al
pieces having brakemen on, and tn
middle piece no one but the boy