The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-11
Personal Notes.

from school.
James McAfee's baby is sick with
cholera infantum.
Send in your little 1. o. us to the
ADVOCATE Office.
Mrs. Michael Sheehan has been
sick for some time.
Miss Aggie Barrett will teach the
Whistletown school.
--Crayston, the miller, is raising
great number Of bees.
JAS. ID. Fullerton and wife are now
at Brookville on visit.
:" Dingle" has secret cigar pocket
in the lining of his coat.
Dickinson Bros. have an excellent
five acre piece Of potatoes.
Mrs. Paine has set out upwards of
four hundred cabbage plants.
e. NJ. Rogers and A. w. Gray
paid us visit the past week.
-Rathbun gets up early in the MORN
ing and works in the garden.
james Penfield has been confined
to his room for several days.
Hard times do not seem to prevent
people from getting married.
Frank Dill has hoed his potatoes,
and Charley Healy helped him.
Jos. Holseybrook seems to be doing
good business with his mail route.
Will. Cuthbert has the job of
painting the Sheffield school house.
Never stop a man to haul you a
keg of beer when the editor is along.
w. G. Healy recommends ashes
as substitute for flour to mix with
paris green.
-Robt. Kline is having his fence
painted. Cas-. Kline and Ed. Powell
are the artists.
Besides a new tin roof, Doctor
Farley is otherwise improving the old
Walker building.
Prof. Dixon's little girl fell off the
back stoop on Saturday, and was in
jured considerably,
Nellie Grant, Florence Osterhout,
Willie Geary and Alton Chaplin are
home during vacation.
Doctor M. J. Early accidentally
broke several bones in his foot while
playing ball last week.
Hank Wensel is cutting the grass
in the court yard. White dasies are the
prevailing feature of the crop.
Clark Dickinson and his youthful
bride returned to Parker City yester-
day morning by way of Weedville.
Mrs. Chas. Holes and two of her
children were out raspberrying on
Tuesday, and gathered in about ten
quarts.
Jim. Rhines is extremely fond of
cayenne pepper. He put a dose in
McAfee's tobacco, and took the first
chew himself.
Grant & Horton have, without
doubt, one of the best, if not the best,
barn in Elk county. 1t is worth ones
while to see this structure.
L. A. Brendel has neat and
pleasant ice cream saloon, and the
quality of the ice cream is excellent
Try it once and be convinced.
Miss A. p. Taylor has two cats,
one named Gumption Cute, and the
| other Conscience It's not every
Gumption Cute that has Conscience.
Sheriff Oyster has put up waxed-
end telephone from the Ridgway
Bank to the Jail. For short distance
this beats thenew-fangled ones all hol-
low.
w. F. Mercer and family have re-
turned from Baltimore, and have
moved into Ben. Dills house, on Cen
tire street, next west of the old planning
mill.
| Michael Sheehan has between five
and six acres of splendid looking
potatoes on POwell's flats, at the lower
end of South street, and near the
| Clarion river.
Harry Head and Geo. Woodward
claim to have caught thirty pounds Of
trout in Mill Creek, starting at this
place at one o'clock one day and re-
turning at seven o'clock the next.
Mrs. M. II. French accidentally
fell into Hyde's race, which runs hard
by her home, the other day, and but
for John Curtis, she would have
drowned. He waded in and pulled her
| out.
M. E. Lesser has left at this office
stock of rye ninety-three inches in
length, which he raised on his lot
across the creek, and he thinks there
are stocks in the lot that will beat this
one.
Clark Dickinson has taken unto
himself wife, Miss Dunkle, of
Parker's Landing. Clark intends 60
ing there to live, and take charge of
Dickinson Bros lumber yard at that
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