The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-02-14
Bluff Ben Wade is not expected to

bluff Ben Wade is not expected TO
live.
Potatoes are selling for sixty cents
q bushel.
Gideon Wells, ex-Secretarylof War
under Lincoln, is dead.
Items of interest from all parts of
the county are solicited.
--Bill-heads and note-heads printed
cheaply at this office.
The Greenback movement is gain
ing strength in Elk county.
The oil fever is likely to break
out here as soon as spring opens.
See the card of A. G. Mathews &
Co. in our business card column.
M. E. Lesser will build house on
his lot across the creek in the spring.
Mrs. Cook is sorry she was not
sent to the penitentiary with Sine
line.
For canned tomatoes call on
Hagerty. He sells cheaper than any
one else.
The County Auditors settlement
crowds our columns to the exclusion
of other matter.
-Hagerty has just received an as
sortment of excellent prints. Call
and see them.
Morris Sherman is putting in some
monster sticks of square timber taken
from his Root Jack farm,
The outlook for the township can
vass is that there will be music in the
air. Let the music proceed.
There is bill before the Legisla-
ture looking to the reduction of the
pay of County Commissioners.
Hon. G. r. Farley will accept our
thanks for q handsomely bound copy
of Smull's Legislative Hand Book.
Centennial Note, Letter, and Le-
gal Cap papers at this office. A sheet
of paper and an envelope for Il penny.
Light fall of SNOW in this section
on Sunday, and on Monday morning.
The sleighing continues fair to mid
ding.
Pope Plus TX died in Rome on
Friday last after a life of eighty-five
years, and Pontificate of thirty-two
years.
Philip Dorm had about three
inches of his scalp split open by ice
falling from building. A close cal
for his life.
When you toss the copper into
the hat for the evangelization of the
heather please remember there are
heather nearer home.
The new curtains recently put ur
In Hagerty's store are very neat, and
the lettering by J. o. w. Bailey is
very well executed.
Ed. s. Grant has the contract tc
furnish the P. q E. K. R. Co. with
several thousand oak ties, and Dan
and Jim McGOvern are hauling them.
The Ridgway Greenback Club
will meet in Rhines' Hall on Monday
evening next for the purpose of put
ting in nomination full township
ticket.
When you cast your ballot for the
Office of Supervisor remember that the
judgments against the township
amount to S12, 1856, and then vote
for the candidate whom you know
will reduce this large amount.
"A bill has passed first reading in
the House of Representatives reduc-
ing the pay of Jurors to two dollars a
day. While we are decidedly in favor
of economy, it would seem that there
are many ways where savings could
be accomplished without reducing the
pay of jurors.
The McRean Miner, abandoned
the patent outside last week and APP
pears as bright as new dollar.
Messrs. Barbour & Allen have re-
Gently purchased power press and
steam engine, and now print one of
the neatest and best papers in this
section of the State. Oil, of course did
it, and we are pleased to note this evil
dence of prosperity in our old acquain-
tance the Mexican Miner.
ANNALS OF THE WAR" famous
series of articles of the unwritten his
tory of the war, written by actual par
Elephants, are published in the Phila-
delphia Weekly Times. Asleep with
a Dead Man." a thrilling adventure,
appears in No. so of that paper. The
Weekly Times is an eight-page paper,
seven wide columns to the page, and
filled full of interesting reading matter.
In fact, it is the handsomest and best
weekly paper in the State, and should
be taken by all persons who wish to
keep up with the current news of the
day. The price is very low, only $500
per annum, with reductions to clubs.
Address, The Times, Philadelphia, Pa.
Payments of the Militia.