The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-18
Personal Notes.
ID. G. Oysters peas are up.
Cal. luther has bought q COW.

"ls' ~. ". lIdIley Is dgalu ht
home.
The township auditors have COM
pleted their labors.
II. A. Neill is boss on Hyde &
Ross new planning mill.
Mrs. Patrick Riley was in town
on visit last week.
Phillip Lesser has made himself
neat grape arbor.
-Oren Rhines has COW and calf
and a new spring house.
Hon. X. l.. Blood, of Brookville,
was in town last week Saturday.
Grant & Horton are building a
big barn near their tannery.
Mr.. w. H. Schram has beautiful
sorrel colt of which he seems very
proud.
w. S. Service has returned from
the city bringing with him a nice lot
of goods.
-M'Afee borrowed a hen of we'uns
the other day and now proposes to
have some poultry of his own.
Ben Dill was down from Shaw
NUT the other day and took home
load of potatoes and other necessaries.
G. r. Wheeler has bad sore on
his leg, the result Of the dog bite he
| received week or SO ago.
Geo. w. Rhines has set out a
number of fruit trees on his farm on
the State road below that of Jno. G.
Hall.
Every fellow must now lick his
own postage stamps as the postmasters
are not allowed to do that business
any more.
G. W. Rhines, George Rhines,
Carl Rhines and James Rhines, yester-
day started for Highland on a pigeon
hunt.
Michael Mann is doing the plow-
ing and other team work this spring
for all of Irishtown.
r. V. Kline is having his garden
nicely laid out. Year by year people
take more pains to beautify their
places.
Grants rye and Dickinson's wheat
are looking finely. And show what
can be done in this soil with the aid of
good fertilizers.
-TheSupervisors ofRidgway town.
ship have employed Messrs. Lucore &
Hamblen as their counsel for the en-
SUNG year.
The Warren Mail says: "the Mof-
fit bell punch is the coming thing.
You don't drink the punch it only
punches your drinks.
"A good many German strangers
are seen on our streets for the past few
days. We may expect to hear the
sound of the AK in the "Dutch lands"
before long.
Frank VanOrsdall, for long time
employed at the depot, will take the
position in Powell & Kime's store,
made vacant by the resignation of b.
| Il. Chaplin.
r. H. Coates started out on Mon
day morning, for a trip with Services
peddling cart, loaded with tin ware
ETC., 10 be exchanged for rags, old
copper, and cash.
Whatever shortcomings Messrs.
MGovern and Gulnack may have
been guilty of they are certainly de-
serving of great praise for not increas-
ing the township debt.
Mrs. n. II. Cummings has Just re-
turned from the city with a new and
elegant stock of millinery goods. Call
and see her in Thayer's building in
the room formerly occupied by Miss
Krimble.
-There was little error in the Elk
Democrat of last week in relation to
the size of Hyde & Ross new planning
mill. That paper gave the size as
45Xl00 feet, when the size is, as given
in the ADVOCATE, 4SX96.
| M. Il. heSSeT HIS lOTil uOWu HIS
old house across the creek next west
of Mrs. Houk's and has commenced
the cellar for a new dwelling. There
are several handsome building lots on
the other side of the Clarion.
B. II. Chaplin, who has occupied
the position of book keeper for Messrs.
Powell & Kline, has purchased the
stock of goods and rented the store of
Mrs. Moorehead, at Brockwayville, for
a term of five years. He intends COM
mencing at once.
Mr.. p. 7. Brooks cut the limbs off
an apple tree next his house because
the tree did not do very well. He
says the tree bore last year one million
little apples and two million caterpil-
lars. The apple crop being out of all
kind of decent proportion to the other
crop.
"A young chap poked his head in
our office door the other day and in
quired "have you change for a S. bill. )"
On our asking him for his bill he re-
piled, II have none now but thought
prehaps L might get one." We killed
the william at once and buried him un-
der the grape vines.
Eight Mollie Maguires were ar