The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-04-04
The Aarurate.
RIDGWAY, PA, APRIL A, 1873.
Notes.

Kill the cats if you wish to raise
chickens.
! Brick sell her for cent and a-half
one. $15.OOper M.
The Treasurer's Sale of Unseated
lands numbers 832 tracts.
The County. Superintendent's
salary bill has been defeated.
Several new shade trees on the
south side of school house square.
The singing by the Grace Church
Choir on Sunday night was excellent.
House cleaning time has come.
The women are happy and the men
more so.
We publish the March report of
the Ridgway Public Schools in
another column.
Several new subscribers to the AD-
voCATE this week. We have still
room for more.
The bill allowing school boards to
choose secretary outside the directors
has been defeated.
The street lamp at Doctor Earley's
: corner don't seem to be attended to
much during the Doctors absence.
April Ist "All FOOLS Day" passed
Ridgway pretty much as all pleasant
days do, and no serious accidents to
report.
81 Collector Horton is busily circulat-
I ing notices for payment of county tax.
The rate is s mills on the dollar of
valuation.
Gold don't seem to reach higher
or lower point than 10la notwith-
standing all the bowling Of the hard
money men.
&C. d. c. Bowers has rented the old
post.office building, corner of Main and
Mill streets, and proposes to embark in
the furniture business soon.
--Ye editor has a new chimney in
the addition to his south street house.
Locals We're commencing to get scarce
and something had to be done.
Can't you afford to take the ADvo-
CATE? Ifyou would like the paper a
year and are unable to pay for it we
will send it to your address gratis.
The new band under the teaching
of Prof. Brack, are making wonderful
progress. We are happy to know that
our beautiful village is again to have a
band.
Wild Florida oranges can be had
at S. A. Rote's West End Store.
Those we had seemed tame enough
but it don't do to let those wild oranges
get the upper hand of you.
The "dollar of the sons" has been
successfully counterfeited, by some
unprincipled renegade, and it is well
done with the exception that the coun-
terfet is little off color.
-Ridgway is going to have an oil
we'll now sure. twill belocated near
the Gardner school house, which is
situated about two miles from this vii
lage. The rig will be erected in few
days.
Pigeons are said to be nesting
near Marionville, Forest county. A
party from Wilcox and Ridgway have
gone out to see about it. Cal Luther
is the only one from Ridgway in the
party.
The meeting of school Directors to
elect a Superintendent to succeed Mr..
Dixon, will be held in this place on
May 7th. The chances are that the
present incumbent will be reelected
without serious opposition.
We have received from the Penn.
sylvania Boad of Centennial Mana
gers two Volumes, embodying the
Preliminary and Final Reports of the
Board to the Legislature transmitted
to that body with message from the
Governor.
Louis Wray a resident of Wilmarth,
this township, caught on April I'd
near Wilmarth, brook trout which
measured seventeen inches and
weighed, Give weight two and three
fourth pounds. For the first catch of
the season we call this good.
Trout fishing is now lawful. Look
up that little brown jug, borrow some
ones fishing tackle, get small boy to
dig some bait, get your jug filled, and |
after these preliminaries are attended |
to wait for IA rainy day and go fishing.
Its fun but you are welcome to it.
Back yards may now be relieved
of the accumulated litter of fruit cans,
dead cats, old rags, hoop skirts, broken
down tin ware, ETC., without danger of
taking cold. You should have some
elder blow tea ready in case a sudden
change in the weather should occur.
Henry M'Dowell a well-to-do-far-
mer Derry township, Westmoreland
county, committed suicide by hang
ing. The determination to end his |
life was shown by the fact that his
feet would have touched bottom had |
he Strengthened them out. That we |
call grit, but it might be used in bet
ter cause.
AT the teachers examination.
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