The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-09-27
Glk garorate.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 81, 1877.
Notes.

Store.
POWELL g. KIME keep Flour
Feed and Grain.
ALL KINDS of Family Groceries
at the West End Store.
Beautiful moonlight evenings
and pleasant days. Good time to dig
your potatoes.
Cameron county has organized a
county agricultural society, with Hon.
John Brooks President.
w. r. Simpson had his leg broken
while skidding logs near Bear Creek
Mill on Saturday last.
%. b. Grant has sowed forty-five
or fifty acres to wheat this fall. b. F.
Ely has sowed five or six bushels of
wheat.
Election comes on November 9Th.
Pay your taxes without fail on or be.
fore October 9Th or you may lose your
vote.
Owing to the absence of Rev. w. H.
Swartz there will be no services in the
NJ. E. Church, until the third Sunday
in October.
Another savings bank, the Mer'
chants, Farmers and Mechanics, in
Chicago, has gone up, taking with il
the small sum of $500, 900.
A teachers examination will be helt
in the Ridgway school house or
Saturday Oct. 9Th, commencing at
o'clock A. M.
English Services in the Lutheran
church next Sunday evening by Rev
1 Breneman, subject, "The Bible ant
Geology" All are earnestly invited
to attend.
Sheriff Scull accompanied Willie
Brown aged about seventeen, con
victed of rape, and Henry Hornbeck
convicted of stealing heifer, to th'
Western Penitentiary, a few day ago
IS. S. Wilson has moved into tn
back part of John Casserly's house
John Kline has moved iuto his hous
on Broad street, and w. F. Merce
will move into the Powell farm house
Oil in small quantities has beef
found in the first sand at depth o
375 feet, at Cooksburg, Forest count.
point on the Clarion river four mile
below Darlington, and thirty-tw
miles below this place.
This is not exactly land of mill
and honey but great many bee tree
are found in this vicinity, and one, W
are told, yielded sixteen ten quart pail
of honey, and about barrel left il
the tree and large amount of comb.
Capt. James Woodward ha
moved his stock of groceries into tn
old New York Store room, where h
will be found hereafter ready an
willing to wait OH all his old customer
and as many new ones as may favo
him with a call.
The Democrats of New Jersey il
their recent State convention nom
mated Gen. Geo. B. M'Clelland fO
Gov. of New Jersey. The announce
ment of General McClelland's nam
was the signal for an enthusiasm be
fore which all lesser lights succumbet
The specimens of portrait paint
ing in the Prothonotary's office ar
the work of Joseph Schaut, of s.
Mary's, who followed his profession
for six years in the city of Munic
Bavaria. These specimens certainl.
stamp Mr.. Schaut as an artist of 81
perior order.
"A fire broke out in the Patent O
flee, Washington, about noon on tn
oath inst. 1t is supposed to hav
originated from fue reaching froI
the conservatory. The models los
are numbered between $4,000 and 20
600, but the drawings and specifics
tions of them were saved. The loss o
the building is estimated at slips ,OOt
Let's see there is d. c. Oyste
Republican John r. Kline, Demo
crat; II. j. Burke, Independen
Democrat, N. G. Bundy, Indeper
dent Greenback James Phalen, Ind'
dendent Phalen Geo. Everitt, Ind'
pendent Everitt, and Thomas Rogar
st. Mary's candidate, which make
seven, thank the Lord there's nc
eleven, candidates for the office {
Sheriffin this county this fall. Choos
we this hour whom we will serve.
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