The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-28
LAcal Notes

Bank up your urcellars and get ready
for winter
Get your corn pepper ready for the
long winter evenings.
AN adjourned term of court will
be held on December 9th.
"A sheet of paper and an envelope
Tor penny, at this office.
Sunday was delightful day. Just
cool enough to make walking delight
full.
Muddy roads make those having
teaming to do wish for a ruin of sleigh
ing.
That seasoned wood we spoke of
last week has not put in an appear
ance.
Potatoes sell at from IS to 80 cents a
bushei. They will be higher next
spring.
There is bad piece of sidewalk in
front of the Pat Malone property on
Main street.
-"Be good natured" is d good motto,
but another good one is "never put up
stove pipes"
Spelling bees are expected to rage
with more or less violence during the
coming winter. Let them rage.
THE ADVOCATE contains more
reading matter than any paper iii Elk
county. Subscribe now, and you will
never have cause to regret it.
"-Venison ought to be plenty in this
market. This we are led to say from
the number of men WE see carrying
guns and following by gamey looking
dogs.
The weather prophets are at a loss
to understand this weather, as it per-
sists in turning out in many cases ex-
actly opposite to the way they pre-
dlcted.
Mote heads, letter heads and bill
heads put up with Mead's celebrated
blotter tablet, at this office. Call and
get 500 note heads, which we almost
give away.
-RidSWay was not made borough
at the recent term of court because it
would add two delegates to Democratic
conventions in the future. At least so
we are infOrined.
There is talk of erecting a number
of new buildings in this place the
coming season. We are glad to hear
it; and hope that it will not be many
years ere our little village is entirely
built up.
The thing we most delight iii is to
have a person pat us on the back, who
has never paid us dime, and say how
glad he is to see us get along. Talk is
cheap, but the kind we talk of is dis
gusting.
The attendance at the Methodist
church last Sunday evening was very
large. Anyhow, it was very large
evening. Next Sunday Rev. Talbot is
going to tell more about hell and who
furnishes the brimstohe, etc.
That COW which was once loose in
the court yard is loose now no more
forever; which fact we are only too
happy to announce. We have lost a
prolific source of local intelligence, and
the cow has lost her pasture field.
Unhappy editor, disconsolate bovine.
Company H will meet for drill
every night this week. The new re-
cruits are getting along finely, and the
whole company will be in good shape
to attend the annual inspection at
Meadville next Tuesday. The COM
pany will muster about forty nen and
two officers.
Elk county will be out of debt by
January LIST, unless something eXtraor-
dinary transpires. Then we will have
new court house; and need enough
there Is fof it, The old shed was good
enough in its day, but it will not do
for the present time. Its days of use
fulhess,hra. past. Let it give way to a
respectable structure. What say you,
Messrs. Commissioners
The oil excitement in this vicinity
seems to have died entirely out, not
even live coal remaining to remind
lis that we once had such an excite
ment. The day will likely come, how
ever, when Ridgway will he an oil
town, but until the price of the crude
article advances from its present low
state the development of new territory
will not be carried on to any great eX-
tent.
The depot at Kane was broken into
on Friday last, at noon. The thieves
entered through the mems sitting room
into the ticket Office and took eighteen
dollars in money. The robbery occurred
while o. b. Lay, the ticket agent, was
at dinner, and the audacity of the
thieves in committing the crime in
broad daylight shows them to be old
hands ut the business. Nbarrests have
been made.
The question is often asked, what
will we do when the lumber and bark
are gone from our once dense forests
Raise stock, we answer. And it seems
that cattle and sheep could be raised
on these hills, and be better and more
lasting source of wealth than have
been the forests which nature so abun'