The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-19
Wild raspberries are ripe.
Ed Paine is getting better.


Ed Paine is getting better.
Splendid haying weather last week.
See Administrator Sale in another
column. w.. ....
New potatoes are selling at S1.OO a
| bushel here. r.. .-r.
Business-cards neatly and cheaply
printed at this office.
For first-class work md good fits
give McAffee CALL
L. G. Horton and wife, of North
East are in town visiting friends.
Hard times does not seem to deter
young folks from getting married.
Skunls seem to he thick Mt Wilcox
See our Wilcox correspondence.
Hyde, Kline, & Co., will put up n
ware house in the rear of their
foundry.
There seems to be a demand for
cheap tenement houses in this place at
present.
Ezra Belnap has been in town for
the past week. Will Walker is also
staying here now.
Services in Lutheran church next
Sunday evening in English by Rev.
I. Brencmun. All are invited.
NJ. S. Kline is now taking the
registry of votes i'll Ridgway town
ship. See to it that you are registered.
Paris Green mixed with water seems
not to be a good remedy for the potato
bug evil.
Bear in mind that we sell writing
paper and envelopes cheap at this
/office.
w. II. Ostcrhout is cutting the
grass on his flats with a moving ma
chine, heretofore the work has been
done by hand.
Miss b. Il. Wilcox is building q
house on South Street next Capt.
Fred. Schoening's. Excavation on
the cellar has been commenced.
The Episcopal Sunday School pc tic,
held in Earcy's orchard last Thurs
day, wis success, and seemed to be
enjoyed by all who participated.
Hucllleberrics are ripe now, al
though none have appeared in this
market. We are informed that the
| fires in the woods have damaged the
crop.
Bill-heads, notC-hcads, cards, tags
md envelopes at this office, and if
you contemplate getting married we
can furnish you with elegant wedding
ards.
The schedule fer the Ridgway and
rylersburg mail route has been
changed. starting from this place Mon.
lays and Thursdays and from Tylers-
ourgh Tuesdays and Fridays.
H. II. Wilson has returned from
Philadelphia where he has been for
several weeks. He had an operation
performed on his thigh at Jefferson
looking much better.
That Dried Beef Sliced at the West
End store is certainly Just the Ming.
Come and see it. You buy only what
you need, no waste, no drying out, a
half pound goes farther than pound
of ordinary beef.
Republican candidates for Sheriff
| are non est inucntus.-Ek Democrat.
This simple looking paragraph
seems much more simple when trans
lated, viz: ,,Republican candidates for
Sheriff are has not been found" 1t is
evidentt that the Latin education of the
Democrat has been neglected.
Two bark-woods accidents last
week. w. II. Clyde, had his arm
nearly broken in the woods above
Eagle Valley, and Ben Malin had a
terrible cash cut in his leg, and was
| thrown a considerable distance by a
tree Oh the side hill near Halls farm,
between the State road and the river.
John L. Cummings, formerly a
resident of this place, died of small
pox at Spring City, a place about
thirty-fve miles from Philadelphia,
on Tuesday, July 10th 1877. He was
about thirty years old, and leaves a
| wife and one child.
The Democratic Committee of Elk
county met in Ridgway on Friday
the 18th inst, and appointed Col. L.
Brown, Representative delegate and
| recommended Hon. Jno. G. Hall fol
Senatorial delegate to the State Con,
vention-appointing as senatorial con-
ferees Hon C. r. Farley, J. X. P. Hall
Esq, and w. II. Hyde-the commit,
tee instructed for Col. A. c. Noyes fol
State Treasurer.
The Ridgway Musical Association
holds its regular sessions in the base
ment of the NJ. e. Church ON Friday
evening of each week. The following
is the list of officers for the quarter
ending October 5, 1877. President e
X. Gresh, Vice Presidents, G. r
Early, Horace Little, d. G. Oyster, S.
A. Olmstead, w. H. Osterhout anG
Lizzie Luther, Treasurer H. X. Gresh
Secretary, w. H. Smiley, Musical Di
rector j. o. w. Bailey. Organist Miss
| Iennia Crash Ey COn1n1ittee- T, d