The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-21
Notes.

last Sunday?
Snow fell quite briskly at Centre
vile on Tuesday.
Services in all the churches in this
village next Sunday.
The State Fair will be held at
Erie, Sept. 20 to q. ....
A new and neat awning in front of
r. 1. Campbell's store.
The Supervisors of Ridgway town.
ship meet on the first of April.
-Ridgway can boast of a shoemaker
who has forsaken lying forever.
What pity we can not have
another grocery or two in town.
THAT last crop of ice is likely to be
failure. Wonder how the melt lies?
The voice of the delicious buck
wheat cake is heard no more in the
land.
The County Seat of Elk County is
the only one in the State not q bor-
ough.
About these days clean up your
back yard and cellar and be some
body.
--Ridgway must be healthy place
for dogs, we scarcely ever hear of
ones death.
The State Senate has passed the
bill reducing the pay of jurors from
$3.50 to $500.
The new township officers, ex-
cepting Constable, are sworn on the
first Monday in April.
The chap who wintered four pull
lets and seven roosters wonders why
he don't get more eggs.
The mines at Farley have en-
tirely shut down throwing a large
number of men out of employment.
Two hunters went out the other day
and after firing six shots at squirrel
succeeding in killing the poor thing.
The report is current that the
Haskell well, in the borough of Smeth'
port, contains eight hundred feet of oil.
We noticed Frank Lawrence on
the streets the other day, the first
time we have seen him in q "dog's
age"
The Cameron County Press is
now issued as an eight-page paper.
The Press entered its NH volume
last week.
Hon. C. r. Farley will please ac-
cept our thanks for specimen IDOL
lar of the sons" received by mail on
Tuesday last.
If you don't write much for the
paper folks will conclude you are lazy,
you write too much they conclude
you are fool.
The croquet season is upon us,
when the LATEST man in town, and
three next LATEST men, will take
four handed game,
This has been an unusually good
spring for our lumbermen. The
streams having been at good rafting
stage for long time.
On Wall street, New York, the
new silver dollar is selling for little
more than gold, as people are desirious
of getting them for tokens.
Lilac bushes, are budding ready to
put forth leaves, and all other vegeta-
ton seems to catch the idea that we
are to have an early spring.
Last week a stranger, John
Buckley by name, helped himself to a
suit of clothes belonging to Nelson
Jackson bartender at the Ridgway
house, and left for parts unknown.
The Treasurer's Sales of Unseated
Lands will be published next week.
We had intended to publish them this
issue but did not receive the copy in
time.
A bill has been introduced in the
Legislature making the cremation or
burning of human body a misde-
meanor and imposing fine of not
less than $500 nor more than $1,000.
st Patrick's Day was generally
observed in this village, all the places
of business We're closed and services
were held in the several churches. 1t
is not necessary to add that Sunday
was the cause of it.
Rock candy and whislzey is said
to be cure for consumption. The
opinion is prevalent in this latitude
that the candy part is superfuous. At
any rate the consumption seems to be
on the increase.
Capt. Fred. Schening has erected
neat grape arbor in his front yard
on South street. The general desire
among our citizens seems to be to i'm
prove their places as much as possible,
which is right and will soon place
Ridgway in the front rank of beauti-
full villages.
An organization has been formed
in this village, embracing large
number of our citizens, the object of
which is to enforce obedience to the
license laws. We would willingly
have published the rules apd regula-
lions of the order had they been |
handed us in time.
The Oil regions are NOT the nara |