The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-25
Personal Notes.

Howard.
w. II. Osterhout is now in New
York City.
Capt. Woodward's girl is named
Stella Augusta.
Doctor G. r. Farley came home
Monday afternoon.
Tom Barry is now working for
Geary at the depot.
Miss L. Lee has returned from the
city with new goods.
Geo. Rhines is busy farming his
piece below Halls farm.
w. II. Hyde has returned from
the east with new goods.
Charlie and Frank, sous Of Doctor
Farley, are now at home.
J. S. Hyde is taking the stumps Off
his Rough and Ready farm.
Grace Church was beautifully
decorated OH Easter Sunday.
b. f. Ely tells of an egg 3sx7b
which one of his hens laid.
-Mollie Thayer is making soap and
Mrs. Ely is down helping her.
Mrs. Cunningham finished plant
ing her potatoes week ago yesterday.
-R,y. Kline has returned from the
city wRere he has been for new goods.
-MAfee now boasts of the flower
garden in his front yard on Zion's
hill.
Carl Rhines commenced working
in Hyde's saw mill on Monday morn
ing.
John Van Orsdall is going to
manure his lots with hemlock saw
dust.
Morris Sherman made a clean
burn of his fallow at Boot Jack last
week.
Miles and Noon are doing some re-
pairing in Osterhout's tenement
| houses.
New lattice work under the bay
window and porch of G.. R. Kline's
residence.
Our old black hen panned out ten
chicks for the eleven eggsYe entrusted
to her care.
Flynn & Malone have commenced
| the stone work on NJ. e. Lesser's eel.
| lar oorocS tbp crock
Judge Derby went fishing on Satur-
day and caught quite string of
horned dace and chubs.
The fellow that made the young
| lady present of some date seeds, is Mt
certain where the joke comes in.
Frank M'Gloin has potatoes up.
He is bound to have the first new po,
tatoes if the frost don't kill them.
s.. H. Clark has moved his family
to Lock Haven. He continues to
make boots and shoes for J. S. Powell.
L. L. Miller is fitting up a room in
d. d. Cooks corner building to be
used by Mathews for an ice cream
saloon.
Capt. Woodward besides being
Town Clerk and peanut vender has
been elected Vestryman in Grace
Church.
Postmaster Hagerty received lot
of potatoes the other day and exercised
himself considerably getting them
into his store room.
w. H. Schram's pretty sorrel colt,
which we spoke Of last week, has had
a sick spell. 1T is much better now
and we hope will recover.
The chap who tried to wind up
his clock with match had probably
been imbibing that beverage (beerj
which never intoXicates.
Mrs. Noon has made soap, and
feels proud of her good luck, which
was no, doubt due to having the boil
ing done in the full of the moon.
Doctor Hartley has planted forty
rose bushes on his Broad and South
street property. He has also planted a
hitching post in front of his drug
store.
The new Lutheran choir consists
of Bev. Mercer, Bob. Robinson, A. G.
Mathews, and Jim. Fullerton, all bass
singers, and the basist quartette in
the place.
N. II. Cummings and Minor Will
cox each have new Weber pianos this
week, which were purchased through
the agency of ID. S. Andrus & Co.,
Williamsport, Pa.
Jennie l.. Parsons, our right hand
supporter, started on Tuesday morn
ing for visit to Mrs. Frank H. Burr
formerly Clara A. Parsons), at Petro-
liza, Butler county.
j. S. Hyde remarked the other day
that he had seen no notice in the pa,
pers of new buildings going up in
Ridgway this summer. But then he
don't take the ADVOCATE.
Gould, of the Cameron County
Press, was in town on Monday. Time
has dealt rather gently with our old