The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-11
Personal Notes.

| Oh Aboy 'tl.
Peter Houghtailing sleeps in the
court house. a|T ls-.
Capt. Woodward's girl has been
named Estella.
! %. B. Fitch made considerable
maple sugar this season.
Miss Frank Stout, of Lock Haven,
is now tailoring for M'Afee.
Mrs. Maginnis is on visit to
friends in Stuben Co., N. Y.
Curt. Barrett has concluded to stay
at Centreville a while longer.
Meals at all hours and bread and
butter for Saturday night lunch.
Doctor Bordwell has planted 300
grape vines on his farm this spring.
Pat Daley and his men are put
ting in a geat many new ties near the
depot.
Mrs. J. o. w. Bailey has gone on
visit to friends at Hammond, Tioga
county.
Several of our citizens were very
particular about keeping lent. This
is a joke.
Dave Mulqueen's girl was chris
tened on Monday last and given the
name Kate.
How many ponies make horse?
Referred to the committee on vice and
immortality.
Ed. Gray and G. G. Brandon's
son were in our office last Saturday
Call again boys.
Louis Brendle has had the inside
of his store room newly painted. A
needed Improvement.
W. F. Mercer. formerly of Mercer
Bros, butchers, will move his family
to Baltimore next week.
w. B. Smith is now working for
W. 5. Service. He expects to stay all
summer, and we hope he will.
Geo. Woodward's garden on Main
near Depot street has been beauti-
lully arranged by John Fannin.
-M'Afee don't like it because the
CRATE in his new stove only lasted |
about two weeks. A great crate.
Matthews, of the Ridgway Market |
House has moved into the corner re-
Gently occupied by B. Lamoreaux.
Rev. L. Breneman is very
punctual about collecting pay for the
monthly dues of his ladies' society.
Joe Metz has purchased ten acre
farm of Dickinson Bros. west of the
mill. He intends raising turnips and
poultry.
Miss May Little, who is attending
school at Painsville, Ohio, after visit.
ing here for week, returned on We'd
nesday last.
John Flynn has suffered more or
less with pain in his head since the
stone fell on him while digging
Geary's well.
Lawyers Bailey and McCauley
had the first brook trout of the season
on Thursday last. They hooked them
from Mohan run.
Mr.. Nichols has moved from ].
PowelPs house, corner of Mill and
Centre streets. to the Cobb house next
above the cemeteries.
Supervisors Sherman and Gardner
intend to build the bridge, on the Os-
-erhout road across Elk creek, about [
he first thing they do. t
Charles Mathews has two roosters t
md one pullet, white bantams, and {
he ROSTERS are the greatest little vii
aims to crow we ever saw. ]
Captain Schnning's new Grand c
square 5000 piano has come and a
beauty it is. Perhaps the finest in \
'trument in Elk county. a
David Thayer. who has been an a
Invalid for number of years, is now I
eelingquite comfortable. We noticed I
lim at the door a few days ago. o
Cal. Luther has returned from his !
pigeon hunt, bringing with him sew !.
raj dozen squads. He reports the .
'igeons as plenty and pigeon hunters =
Tito. d
Grove Messenger wishes us to cor q
ect the statement made two weeks q
go "that he often keeps his drug store i,
pen," and we cheerfully take back h
IL we have said. l.
B. p. Mercer has kalsomined, "
and neatly arranged the old a
lace on Court street, where he now Il
ispenses steak, rOasts, and surloins to n
is customers as formerly. h
Thomas Noon is raising potatoes II
'om the seed. This is the third year "
nd next fall he expects to have G.
everal bushels of dinner potatoes he ft
lay call them twelve o'clocks.
There are some neat specimens of P
entlemen's sewed shoes in j. S. Il
owelrs show window, the handi- k
,ork of Sam Clark, who, for neat d
'ork and good fits is hard to beat. j
Lawyer Bailey is also a chicken IL
meier, an old hen of his stole her b,
est under Cal. McCauley's barn, and in
al enough eggs under her for goose, al
nd succeeded in bringing out four g
hicks. II