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

this week.
Geo. Rhines, the younger, has a
lame hand.
Frank McGloin now has forty-two
young chickens.
james Penfield has been suffering
with erysipelas in his finger.
Doctor Farley was in town a few
days this week.
George Woodward now goes around
with his hand tied up.
Curtis (J. P. better have a piece
put in then they ill fit.
-M'Afee will make you suit of
clothes for twenty dollars.
B. Lamoreaux has moved into
Hartley's drug store.
Thomas Johnson has moved into
his new house across the river.
james Penfieldis going it alone as
Postmaster while Hagerty is away.
Isaac Avery is still busily engaged
putting in hemlock square timber.
Pat Malone is suffering with a
terrible cold in the head And yet no
ice.
Those people that can never take
joke have no business in this neck of
woods. ...-
The number of ladies on the street
last evening would seem to indicate
storm.
Capt. Schening is having his
garden laid off in neat beds and
mounds.
Mr.. Joseph Taylor is highly de-
lighted with this bea utiful spring
weather.
Doctor Hartley has purchased
new span of black ponies, fine look
ing team.
John Kline is making several i'm
provements about his residence on
Broad street.
Francis M'Gloin was the name
given the peddler's boy at the chris.
tening on Monday last
jackson S. Schultz, of New York.
was in town yesterday. Looking after
oil territory no doubt,
Flynn & Maloney are building
several cellars under the tenament
houses at Osterhout's tannery.
-Jno. G. Hall, Geo. R. Woodward,
and A. G. Brown, are going to lay out
the clutch lands'' in a few days.
The Paymaster whose duty it is to
pay Company H has not yet arrived.
The boys are all anxious to see him.
They say that Pete O'Neill's mule
beats all to pull stumps, and can easily
get away with one sixteen feet square.
Hon. Jno. G. Hall has returned
from his southern trip. He looks
much better than when he went
away.
The fashion now is to have your
boots of different style. The road is
fearfully muddy between here and
Portland.
Frank Dill was busy one day last
week trimming up the trees and burn
ing the rubbish on his Centre street
property.
Harry Wilson keeps busy doing
odd jobs of carpenter work about town.
If you want anything done in his line
give him call.
Prof. VanOrsdall besides being q
handy man about the depot is now
struggling with a moustache, which is
quite becoming.
-Messrs. Sherman and Gardner, the
new Supervisors, were sworn in on
Monday last, as also was Capt. Jas.
Woodward, Town Clerk.
The man who emptied the dead
fish in the alley back of Oysters barn,
should have one tied to his nose while
he is compelled to remove them.
The time for garden making in
earnest will soon be at hand Spade
up your lettuce bed and plant a few
peas now, they will come handy in a
few weeks.
-MAfee is the chap to make clothes
to fit. No use sending away to get a
miss fit when a splendid fit can be had
at home. Put that in your pipe and
smoke it.
j. K. Whitmore, was on the streets
Tuesday looking for men to run his |
lumber. AS the water is now quite
low we presume he intends to
bracket out.
Mr.. w. H. Schram is a persistent
wood splitter, he was almost obliged to
give up on that stick last Saturday.
But with Mr. Brooks help the stick
had to succumb.
Jerry Sheehan is busy clearing up
his farm south of South street. Jerry
has neat looking place, much differ
ent than when he commenced, several
years ago, to clear it up.
Harry Wilson, Joe Bowers and L.
IL. Miller, put up j. S. Powelrs house
In Benezette, size 16x24 and IS feet
nigh, in three weeks, which we con-
slider good running time.