The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-19
Glk gdrorate,
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1877.

SOME oil on the brain.
Some rain yesterday.
SUBSCRIBE for the ADVOCATE.
House cleaning time has come.
APRIL showers bring May flowers.
CALL at the ADVOCATE office.
Work seems to be plenty Just now.
THE robbin Is now heard in the
land.
THE roads are in excellent condi-
tion.
OUR Wilcox correspondents are
dumb.
Sheriff Scull's boarders are making
garden.
THE rafting stage continues in the
Clarion.
PEAS and onions have been planted
in this section.
HENRY MARVIN is busily at work
planting trees.
J. S. HYDE is burning his Rough
and Ready fallow.
Now is a good time to have your
garden plowed.
d. w. BALDWIN has his photo
graph gallery neatly arranged.
THE ground is as dry now as in
many seasons the middle of May.
PLANT trees for if you benefit not
yourself you will benefit posterity.
THE new spring hat will be on the
street, thick as hops, next Sunday.
THE present month is remarkable
for the long period of dry weather.
PRESBYTERIAN Services next Sun
day at the usual hours by Rev. A. j..
Montgomery, in the Lutheran
Church.
1t would be fine thing to have the
Murphy temperance wave come this
way.
\ FIRE at mill creek last week
destroyed 500 worth of cable for Jim
George.
IT is better to work for a dollar q
day than be supported by the town
ship.
Two hundred and forty kegs, or
twelve tons, nails have been used in
the construction of J. S. Hyde's new
store.
THE New York morning papers are
received here now, the same day they
are printed, on accommodation. This
is great convenience.
H. H. WENsEL says that he and p.
A. Mead and two other men RATED in
10000 feet of lumber and loaded 12O,
600 shingles in four days.
a sEvEN-year-old son of Henry
Marvin died this week. The child
was apparently as well as ever at nine
o'clock in the morning, and died at
four o'clock in the afternoon.
Maggie Woods a child of four and a
half years, recently arrived safely in
Stockport, England, having made
the journey from Chicago, without
any care but that of the railroad and
steamboat employees.
Col. w. w. Hollister might as well,
while he is about it, buy the whole OF
California He already owns 10000
acres OF that blooming State. On his
Santa Barbara farm he has the trifiing
number Of 900 fruit trees.
JAS. NJ AFEE, Of Lock Haven, will
open tailor shop, above Powell &
Kime's store, on Monday next. Mr..
M'Afee is a first.class workmen, and
all those desiring TO fit themselves
with new spring clothing will do well
to wait and examine his stock.
Every lady would say it was cruel
boy who would carry a dog across the
street by his tail, yet how many
mothers are there who do not hesitate
to lift their child by one arm and carry
it across the gutter. And the liga,
ments of a dogs tail are much more
firm than those of child's arm.
RIDGwAY MARKEr.-Eggs 20 cents
dozen /; butter so cents pound; pO-
tatoes S1,25 bushel; flour $500 q
barrel corn meal from 81 GOO 10 a
hundred; beef steak 100 Is cents q
pound; eighteen inch wood so @
cord onion sets l2!@ 15 cents a quart
milk 10 cents a quart.
DICKINSON Bros. are getting rid o.
their stunlps in hurry. They use
dynamite cartridges, one to two pound:
and costing so cents pound. A hole
is made under the stump with bal
and the cartridge forced in and after il
percussion cap and fuse. The
stump is thrown out of the ground
and split into pieces, by the explosion
and u hole left big enough for cellar
The dynamite is said to be perfectly
harmless, and resembles coarse brown
sugar in appearance.
OUR lumberman have had a splen
did flood this spring. All the lumber
with very few exceptions has beer
safely got out, and the water still con
tinues at good rafting stage. Not {
drop of rain has fallen, and thu
weather has been warm enough tC
make rafting and running comfOrta