The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-11-28
Personal Notes.

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Prof. Dixon will have no more ash
barrels arouhd his premises.
M. e. Lesser has moved into his
new home across the creek.
Ida Luther has twenty-one schol-
lars at the Laurel Mill school.
John Stout has been under the in
fiueuce of a cold for several days.
Sam Clark has tame cat, and
great mouser is that self same cat.
B. I. Taylor, of Kendall Creek,
Mexican county, is in town this week.
"A great big fat sheet of paper and
an envelope fol- a penny, at this office.
Orderly Horton Is having fearful
time making rarirods and wiping
sticks.
&C. H. McCauley rendered us valu-
able assistance in copying the court
proceedings.
The wife of Rev H. V. Talbot has
been absent from town on visit for
several days.
j. S. Powell has sold his stock of
ladies' and childrens' shoes to J. s. and
w. H. Hyde
H. NJ. Powers will celebrate the
ninth anniversary of his marriage OH
December Goth.
Horace Little has purchased of
Henry Souther the hill above the
Catholic church.
John VanOsdall has bought a hoe
and a long handled shovel, his first
purchase toward farifiing implements.
John Meenah and Joseph Bailey
are again at homie. They have been
selling trees and shrubbery for Chase
Bros.
j. n. Brown is still working on
the Montmorency farm house. Will
Curthbert was up helping him for a
few days.
L. F. Powers is repairing Prof.
| DiXon's wood shed. Next time that
ash barrel will be set out in the middle
of the lot.
| Running newspaper for glory is
a good deal like walking up hill to ride
down again. Here goes for the glory
all the same.
james McAfee and family went to
Lock Haven to attend the funeral of
Miss Keller, an account of whose death
appears in annother column.
j. S. Powell has been suffering
with a severe cold for several days,
part of the time being scarcely able to
be out of the house. We hope he will
soon feel better.
Judge Julius Jones dropped into
this Office last week for pleasant chat.
Hope he will call often. With his 81
years he is still erect and active as
many man at forty.
Brother brandon was down to see
us again this week, but that old arm is
still getting no better fast. He says
the st. Mary's mines are shipping q
great quantity of coal this winter.
Capt. Schening will commence
his fourth term as prothonotary, etc.,
on January lst. A twelve years lease
of an important Office shows what the
people think of a man as an efficient
officer.
-Messrs. Annie NJ. Irwin and Tillie
Clawges, who have been boarding at
G. G. Messengers and going to school
for the past month, leave this week to
take charge of schools in Spring Creek
township.
Joe Bowers thought his bob tailed
cat was lost, but he left him alone and
he came home with the stump of the
tail behind her. 1t isn't her cat, but
we must make rhymes at the expense
of truth sometimes.
-G. w Nichols has the job of put
ting up barn for Mr.. Meese, of the
Centennial House, Kane. The frame
work Mr.. Nichols will 90 at B. F.
Ely's mill, this place, the lumber to be
shipped to Kane after it is framed.
Henry F. Darlington, editor and
proprietor of the Bucks county hnteUi,
gcncer was stricken with paralysis
Saturday morning. He remained un-
conscious during the day and night,
and died Sunday morning at four
o'clock. The funeral will take place
to-day.
The Cleorfeld Republican nomin'
ates Hon. Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio,
for President, and Hon. VIM. A. Wal
lace, of Pennsylvania, for Vice Presi'
dent. The Democratic party in 1886
might go long way and nominate a
much inferior ticket than the one
which the Republican proposes:
james Penfield received slight
bruise on the left arm at the fire Sun
day night. He was standing on tn,
fence at the rear of the shed pulling of
the roof boards when he fell off back
wards, eof the boards following hin
and striking his arm. He also burned
his hand taking hold of a burning
board.
Miss Kate Keller, daughter o
Peter Keller, of Lock Haven. died a