The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-18
Notes.


June 20.
May term of court is license
term.
Our lumbermen are praying for
flood.
To morrow is good Friday. Sow
your cabbage seeds.
Send in your subscriptions to the
ADVOCATE.
Farmers are now busy putting
in their spring crops.
old sheep and green peas will
soon be in market.
This is Holy Week and the last
week of lent.
Less than $40, 900 of one cent pieces
were coined last year.
Another lot of new samples for
summer wear just received at NJ
Afee's.
This is the last 'r" month and the
close of the oyster season for some
time.
The croakers are still determined
to have young winter some time this
summer.
Pleasant weather, and a good time
to clean up yards and get ready for
the,summer campaign.
The survey OF the dutch lands"
is being pushed forward as rapidly as
possible.
The lumber for the derrick, near
Jim Gardner's, has been hauled on the
ground.
Many people plant their potatoes
in the moon. We propose to plant
ours in the ground if it don't rain.
April showers bring May flowers.
The, e,Jshowers have not been very
plenty this month thus far.
The constables elected at the
spring election will be sworn in at the
May term of court.
The Republican State Convention
will be held on Wednesday, May 8,
1878 at Harrisburg.
The State Convention of the Ma
tionals will be held in Philadelphia on
Wednesday, May 8, 1873.
Potatoes are very plenty in this
market at present and are quoted as
low as 40 cents bushel.
The breeZes that are waited from
the skivings on the old road opposite
the grist mill, are anything but spicy.
April report of the Principals Re-
port of the Wilcox public schools in
another column.
If the weather continues fine we
expect to plant a lot of dead cats in a
few days. We have a few chickens
and that is the cause of it.
We would like a correspondent
from each township in Elk county.
ANY thing you would like to see in
the ADVOCATE please send us for pub
Ication.
There is talk of consolidating the
Methodist and Presbyterian congrega-
ton of this place and hiring a Con-
gregational minister. This will en-
able the congregation to hire a good
man and pay him a good salary.
The crop of spring chickens is
looking finely and reports from our
correspondents in different parts of
the town report them as unusually far
advanced for this season of the year.
There will be meeting of the
Ridgway Greenback Club, in the base
ment under W. S. Services hardware
store, next Saturday evening, for the
purpose of electing delegate to the
ensuing county convention.
My friend little advice. Don't
borrow the ADVOCATE from your
neighbor, remember we will send it to
your address for one year gratis pro-
viding you say you are not able to pay
for it. Then have copy of yourown.
The payment made to the Seven
teenth Division, p. n. c., for military
services during the last July riots, ag-
gregate S27 ,OO0, Clarion Republican.
The Seventh Division is undoubtedly
ment in the above item. AS no such
division as the seventeenth exists in
this State.
The number of officers and men in
company HI paid by Major Noble was
thirty-one as follows: three commits
stoned officers; five enon-commissioned
officers; and twenty-three privates.
This as a correction of the Democrat
which made the number thirty-two,
and which seems unable TO figure.
The culture of grapes in this vii
lage is improving very much of late.
There is no question about this
climate and this soil being adapted to
the culture of that delicious fruit, and
we hope every person having spare
spot will set out a grape vine as an eX-
pesiment, and our word for it the en-
terprise will pay. Judge Dickinson
Harry Wilson, Charles Matthews,
and others about town, have had good
success with grapes, and no sufficient
reason can be given why any person
havinga piece of ground cannot raise
enough grapes, for h is own use.
The Republican County Com
IL