The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-29
Personal Notes.

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Horace Little is spending few
days in our village.
Charles Holes has some very large
and fine tomatoes.
Doc. Fullerton's swing cost him
just ninety-five cents.
"A man told us the other day that
our garden was weedy.
Powell & Kline have adopted the
ready-pay system in their store.
Charley Matthews fence has taken
a mechanical lean toward the side
walk.
The cricket sings sorrowful tune
as he thinks of summers lengthening
shades.
"A dog stole Capt. Schoening's
Sunday roast, and the Captain wa.
not pleased about it.
Miles & Noon have finished plas
tering the Sheffield school house, and
came back here yesterday.
j. S. Powell has made new tor
for hack for the Brockwayville stage
line, now owned by Jacob McCauley
Gen. r. c. McGill, of st. Mary's
called in to see us last week, and is
looking hale and hearty as ever.
Miss M. Frank Stout, for some
time in the employ of James McAfee
tailor, is on visit to Lock Haven.
Nothing like keeping batchelor's
hall. We have tried it a couple o.
weeks now, and speak from experience
Mrs. Miles has been away from
home three weeks, come back again
and we never knew breath about it
Those weeds in j. Powell's loI
had been cut down several days-in
fact, were down when our article wa:
written.
- Hagerty has sold his stock q
goods to McGloin & McGeehin, and
purposes retiring from the mercantile
business.
Nelson Jackson, bartender ut the
Ridgway House, is now minus a shir
and three gold studs, all taken by {
chap representing himself as one o
Clusters soldiers.
That poetry we received from ;
certain correspondent last week is moi
of sufficient general interest to admit
of publication, although full of point
and pith to those unfortunates who
were there.
On the wall in q certain merchant
tailoring establishment in this city i.
displayed sign Positively All Good.
Sold on Time" We presume thai
tailors are like printers and shoe
makers, with plenty of hard cash, ant
sympathy for moneyless man.
Ten cent pieces appeared to b,
plenty on our streets the other day
Several parties, ladies as well as gen
tlemen, stopped to conquer, but, oil
reaching the shining treasure, were re
minded of the trite old adage that "al
is not gold that glistens," as the til
foil of which the piece was mad,
crumbled in their grasp. Those wer,
naughty men that originated tha
joke.
Edwin Crayston. miller, wa
shaved on one side of his face in quicl
order last Monday. He was workins
around the smut machine, when hi.
whiskers came in contact with part o
the gearing, completely stripping on,
side of his face before letting go. H,
was not aware that he was caugh
until the machine loosed its hold; and
probably, had the whiskers been :
little stronger, the result would hav,
been much more serious.
Thomas H. Rhines did some tai
pike fishing last week. Monday fore
noon he caught four; Tuesday fore
noon two Wednesday all day two
Thursday afternoon two, making ten
pike in all, Weighing on an averag,
five pounds each, would make fifty
pounds of fish. He has caught two
turtles, one weighing fourteen and the
other sixteen pounds. Altogether, he
caught this summer seventeen pike
four between rock edy and Spring
Creek edy; the rest between Beal
Creek and Spring Creek edies. We
call this good fishing, and if any one
can beat it, we would like to see theil
score. To finish up with, he killed O
large rattlesnake ON Tuesday.
Hearing a terrible racket on the
street on Friday evening last we poked
our head out the window and discoy.
cred Page Prindle and the editor of the
democrat having a very animated
conversation about an article which the
aforesaid editor had written, to which
Page had taken exceptions. At first
the conversation was very loud on the
part of the party of the first part, but
as large crowd of men gathered
to witness what all thought
would result in a fisticuff, the tones
became gradually lower and lower.
like the girls lamp that turned down,
down, down, until you could scarcely
see light at all, this conversation
grew weaker and weaker. and tinally
wlnked out. Verify, the editors have
a hard row to hoe
PREPARED COCoANUT in Tight.