The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-12
Local Notes


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r ADVOCATE.
Hauling bark will now be in
dulged in.
Pork and beans at Morgester'l
corner grocery.
Call and see our elegant samples O
New Years cards.
Oysters by the quart or count a
Morgester's corner grocery.
The prospects for good sleighing al
christmas time seem to be good.
The Ridgway public school report
will be found i'm another column.
The sociable at D. C. Oysters, last
Friday night, was largely attended.
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The season for killing deer ends or
December 10th. Only four more days
A large assortment of candies and
candy toys at Morgester's corner gro
Gerry.
Company H will elect several non
commissioned officers next Saturday
night.
Visiting, wedding and business
cards neatly and cheaply printed al
this office.
We don't altogether agree with the
article in another column which argues
against shaving.
This has been a poor eeasen fol
hunting deer, and we presume the
deer are very glad to hear it.
Fresh tub oysters at thirty cents
quart at Morgester's corner grocery
Also shell and canned oysters.
y The Ridgway School Dramatic
Association are preparing to give an
other entertainment in the near future.
The p. & f. r. r. company are
putting up new water tank shout q
mile west of Wilmarth, on the right Of
the road.
If you need furniture call on E
X. Gresh, at his furniture rooms, Ma.
sonic Building. He sells at marvel.
ously low prices.
The new plank crossing for teams
in front of J. w. Morgester's grocery
is decided Improvement and enables
teams to drive up to his door.
AT Ae Methodist church, next
Sunday evening, Rev. H. V. Talbot
will preach a sermon from the text
''This day shalt thou be with me in
paradise"
Those turkey gobblers who had
the good fortune TO escape the Thanks.
giving massacre, had better say theil
prayers now, as Christmas and New
Years are coming.
-Coasting on the sidewalks is a
habit our boys have which should be
discontinued, as the sidewalks become
so slippery that it is almost impossible
to keep ones feet.
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Clarion river and Elk creek were
at high stage on Tuesday demoral-
izing the plank road at the lower end
of town. Tuesday night, by reason OF
the cold snap, the water fell eighteen
inches.
The members of company II are
requested to meet at theirarmOry, neXt
Saturday evening, at o'clock sharp
An election for non-commissioned Off
GERS and other important business will
come before the meeting.
ALI kinds of commercial printing
such as bill heads, note heads, letter
heads, cards, tags, envelopes, price
, lists, postal cards, ETC., ETC., at this
office. We make specially of note
and letter heads, and furnish them at
very cheap figure.
The late inspection of company II
at Meadyille, has infused new life into
the organization, and the company
will meet at their armory for drill
every Saturday night. The command
will soon have new uniforms.
Throw away the tobacco box
And the little dem mi john,
Now forsake the gay sheroot,
Swearing off tiihe has come.
This elaborate piece of poetry is not
by Byron, but it will be handy to read
on January lst all the same.
Splitting and piling five cords OF
stove wood in forenoon is good work
for two young men, but when the pile
only panned out two cords the record
Is not as good. This is the difference
between a guess and the stubborn re-
ality.
Several parties from abroad are
hunting deer in this section. Their
efforts have not been rewarded with
any alarming amount of venison, very
few deer having been killed by any
one except where driven into the river
by hounds.
The weather has been very un-