The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-14
Notes.

Patrick's Day. ~
Charles Mead will be- isevanty-
three years old next AugustY
q A new crossing between Hartley's
drug store and the Hyde House.
Mrs. r. V. Kline has gone on a
visit to friends at jamestown, n. Y.
Don't be in too much of hurry to
make garden. Summer has not come
yet.
DIR. Hartley has erected q neat
grape arbor on his Broad Street prop
erty.
Maple sugar is now for sale in our
\ stores, and is retailing at sixteen cents
pound.
\ We publish the text of the long
)bond bill, by Mr.. Wallace, in another
column.
Services in all the churches last
Sunday. The fine weather induced
. people to turn out.
The firm of Barbour & Allen of
the McKean Miner has beeA 5isselyed.
MIR. Allen retiring.
Next Sunday is st. Patrick IS
Day, and the fifth anniversary of ye
editors wedding day.
The next thing will be the first
potato bug. He will be around to see
who are buying seed potatoes.
Rev. w. II. Swartz has returned
after an absence of several weeks. He
seems much improved in health.
The next Presbyterian Sociable
will be held at the house of Hon. George
Dickinson, Wednesday, March 20.
All are invited.
There was an unusually large
number of ladies on the street Satur-
day and Sunday. Sure sign of a
storm.
Send in the money for your sub.
scription, wood, rags, and old iron
gratefully received and applied on
account.
The pigeons fly too high for oul
: nimrods, and, although the weather
s well suited for hunting, no game is
bagged.
Sheriff Oyster has planted some
peas, and now he don't know whether
to blanket them or build a shed to
protect them.
Read the article headed "Ridg-
way" which we copy from the War
rem Ledger. 1t contains good hint
to our business men.
The MKean Miner credits the
Eur Democrat with an item, laudatory
of the Miner, which appeared origi.
nally in the ADVOCATE.
The "boys'. had a bondfire on
Z Main Street Monday, and consumed
all the loose barrels they could lay
hands on, and lots of fun thrown in.
The Ridgway Silver Band were
out on Monday night long enough tc
play 'Home Sweet Home" and then
I took their accustomed snooze q Ia Rir
Van Wrinkle.
-Some mean "cuss" united raft at
Hyde's mill which belonged to Mr..
Hyde and allowed it to drift down the
stream. The piece "stuck" opposite
Grants tannery.
Stone is being hauled for the foun-
dation of J. S. & w. H. Hyde's new
planning mill, which is to be built
across Hyde's race opposite the site OF
the old jobbing shop.
Found on the sidewalk Oh Main
street. a ladiy's breast pin. The
owner can have the same by proving
property and paying for local notices.
JAS. M'AFEE.
The weather, for this season of the
year, is something remarkable for this
section. Beautiful sunshiny days,
and nights just cool enough for COM
Portable sleeping. Who would go to
Florida?
The big silver dollar will not
make its appearance in this section
for some time yet. Enough will be
coined the first year to give each citi-
zen of this great republic one of the
sinners.
Thomas Noon and Oren Bedell
were injured last Thursday by stick
of timber rolling on them. Mr.. Noon
I had one foot and leg badly bruised,
while Mr.. Bedell had both feet
severely injured.
In another. column we publish
the remarks of Hon. G. r. Farley, in
the House, February 26, on the store
order bill, and which were incorrectly
reported in (that fraud upon the tax
payers of Pennsylvania The Daih
Legislative Record.
The boys have been in the habit
of tapping the maple trees in the woods
near town. The other day a gentle.
man was in the woods, looking fol
shade trees, when he came across @
Eastwood tree with three spouts in it.
The boys had made slight mistake.
Wonder how Eastwood sugar is selling
this year?
Monday night last several miners
while under the influence of liquor,
"cleaned out" Cooks bar-roon at
Centreville, this county. A warrant
was issued by Esquire Taylor and one