The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-30
Glk Adpoeate.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 80, 1877.
Notes.

School commences Monday.
Ed. Paine is falling slowly day by day.
There will be an usually large number OF
people ION the town" this winter.
Watermelons, and mush melons are in the
market.
Horses still run the streets TO the annoy
ance of all persons excepting the owners.
CHOICE HONEY DRIPS SYRUP
unexcelled at the West End Store,
Playing croquet seems to be all some ofour
citizens haveto occupy their minds.
Work on ]. S. & w. II. Hyde's new fire.
proof ware room is going along quite rapidly.
Services next Sunday in the Lutheran
Church morning and evening by Rev. /.
Breneman.
A new line fence is being built between d.
d. Cooks and Ed. Payne's out-lot on South
street.
Remember that September the 5th,
is the last day on which you can be
registered.
DIR. C. r. Farley, has given, free of charge
the basement under hisstore building to Co.
The great question now is 'what shall we
do with the laboring man?' We can't kill
him, and we can't let him starve.
There will be emusic in the air. this fall in
Elk County, in the contest for Sheriff.
MANY will be called but few chosen"
Nearly all the ladies in town get their Wis
iting cards printed at the ADVOCATE office,
became that new script is SO elegant.
The times are hard, and everybody hopes
next year will bring better times and thus
hope springs eternal in the human breast"
The Ridgway Graded School building has
been calsomined and papered throughout,
thus adding much to the appearance of the
interior.
"1ts an i'll wind that blows no one good"
the immense potato crop will be benefit to
those who are compelled to buy, even though
the producers suffer through the low price
In the woods near Whistletown last
Thursday, John Heay, a young unmarried
man about q years of age, had his skull so
badly fractured by falling tree that his re-
covery is dispaired of.
Flour is selling in Ridgway at from $500 to
$3.50 bushe. This is very encouraging
especially to men working at low wages and
having large families to support.
Potatoes are selling at so cents a bushel.
There is no reason why folks can't live cheap
with cheap potatoes, and cheap flour, and
salt only a few cents pound.
Horace Little is having the under-brush
and logs taken out OF the woods on his pre-
misses on South street, and intends having a
grove as the trees were placed by nature.
NJ,
place, and who is now ut Driftwood. will
move his family back this fall. It's impossi-
after once getting your feet wet in Elk creek
to leave Ridgway and stay away.
Where are the party that went pike-ish-
ing? VIII some member of the party sends
us communication on what he knows
about capturing pike by the aid of gun
powder?
Capt. James Woodward has moved from
Al. Malhorn's house. on Zon's hill, to r. IL.
Coates house on South street. James Nc
Afee, will move his family from Lock Haven,
and occupy the house vacated by Captain
Woodward.
The Ostcrhout road will be pleasant place
for walk when the sidewalk is laid, and tho
bridge across Elk creek is completed. There
is a foot bridge now where those wishing to
cross can do so. Mr.. Osterhout has agreed to
put down the sidewalk at his own expense.
Blackberries are selling for five cents
quart. The crop is said to be good, although
the pickers have to go six or seven miles be-
fore they find the berries, all the bushes on
Ely's hill, and in other places near town,
having been destroyed by fire. The places
burnt over will produce II big crop another
year.
a chap in Bradford was annoyed by the
whittlers whiting his fence, he drove the
top rail full of nails, and those were broken
of, almost at his wits end he ordered a bar
rel Of coal tar, and gave the fence Il heavy
coating, The whittlers congregrate there no
more, and the incense that arises from the
tar, under the suns scorching rays, is said to
be truly refreshing.
The lawyers and journalists of Pittsburgh
are trying hard 10 make the point that while
Allegheny county is responsible for ind-
vidudl losses, caused by the late riot, the
State of Pennsylvania is liable for losses oc.
curing to the corporations. AS the State can
not be sued, ana as the legislature will
hardly give any a id in the matter, the project
Will probably fail through as it should
There a"e thousands of acres of land in the
west, fertile, and uncultivated, where
thousands OF our oppressed, poorly paid and
oVer-worked labOring men, might make a
good living and in time secure a competence.
This fact all admit, but now we wait for the
man to come forward and advance the money
to get these laborers there, and sustain them
until they can plant seed, cultivate the crops,
and reap the harvest, and have u fair start.
Quite number Of subscribers to the ADvo-
CATE are in arrears for subscription. And,
whereas, it is Indispensable to have money
in Il printing office, this item is to give all
such hint. When you come to attend
court on the 18th ofSeptember, ult., bring the
amount you owe u.s. and do us the kindness
to bring the money due rs by any of your
neighbors. 1t is not often we are obliged to
put dun in the paper, as our subscribers,
as a general rule, pay up quite well, but there
are few, you know, who have neglected.
through oversight, to send in what they owe,
and thus this article. We will also say bring
along another subscriber when you pay up
the old score.
THE FIRST SWEET POTATOES
in this market at the West End Store.
Coroner Patrick AIah6n, of
Scranton, has been arrested for en-
bezzlement while serving as City
treasurer some years ago. The
amount in question is $1,000.