The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-07-31
Local Notes

hiay ing anu parh peeilnS are aUOuG
over
Warm weather during these dog
days.
For powder and shot go to ~ Main
street.
All kinds of job work at The AD-
voCATE office.
Some cornerstone laying in THE
ADVOCATE last week.
The surveyors are still busy at
work locating our new railroad line.
Hon. John Welsh, U. S. Minister
to the court of st. James, has resigned.
Our new Octave note is small, neat
and excellent paper, and price cheap.
Go to Morgester's for eating apples,
watermelons, cantaloupes and all kinds
of vegetables.
Young ladies and gents should
read advertisement Of w. Fox, in our
advertising columns.
Light running, Latest Improved
~S-SssSi oo pii ioCS iiSNCl ntdlu vi
before, at Mrs. w. S. Services.
There will be preaching in the NJ.
E. Church next Sabbath, Morning and
evening, by Rev. H. V. Talbot.
james McAfee, Merchant Tailor,
has just received varied and extern
sive assortment of spring and summer
goods for gents'wear.
Many persons have bad headache
every few days. 1t can be stopped in
one hour by DR.. Days Cure for Head
ache. Prepared by d. B. Day, Ridg-
way Pa.
The brick walls of the new Court
House are rapidly advancing upward.
The commissioners expect to have
fourteen brick layers at work in few
days.
Stationery packages at the ADvo-
CATE office for % cents, including
enough paper and envelopes, to last an
ordinary writer year also lead pencil,
blotter and pen. Call and buy pack
age.
The ladies of the Ridgway M. E.
church propose holding a festival for
the benefit of their PASTOR on the eve
nings of the 10th, 18th and 18th of
September. Further notice will be
made before that time.
There will be Sunday school
jubilee and basket picnic at Weedvilc
Aug. 9th, 1879. An invitation is ex-
tended to all. 1t is expected that there
will be excursion rates on the mail
trains from points east as far as Drift
wood.
The semi-annual encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, De
partment of Pennsylvania, is being
held at Erie this week. Fifteen hun
dred men are expected to go into camp.
The cornerstone of a monument to
General Anthony Wayne is to be laid
during the week, when Gov. Hoyt
will deliver the address.
The yellow fever scourge still RACES
with unabated fury in the southern
cities, and the terrible scenes of last
year bid fair to be repeated in this.
Memphis is terror-stricken, and its in
habitants are fleeing from the ill-fatcd
city to places of safety. Appeals for
aid are already coming northward,
which of course will be honored as
promptly as they were before.
Those widely advertised quieters,
called soothing syrups," for children,
have killed several children in Eng
land. The base of the stuff is opium.
At an inquest recently held on a pois-
oned child, doctor said "the admin
istering of such mixtures was a
common cause of death where children
died from commissions. The Jury
recommended that the mother and
vendor of the syrups be prosecuted.
List of letters remaining in the
Ridgway p. o., Elk county Pa, up to
July 20, 1879:
Ellis, William H.
Hughs, John
McCray, Mrs. Julia
McKsey, Patrick
Mantanye, Charles
Miller, NJ.
McClelen, Geo. B. Shaffer
Neeiser, John II.
Reidiger, j. Max
Read, HI. J.
Shirley, Amos
Taylor, VIM. H.
Tuttle, A. F.
FOREIGN.
Teirney, John
If not called for in thirty days they
will be sent to the dead letter office,
Washington, d. G.
j. HI. HAGERTY, p. NJ.
Information has been received OF
murder in Clearfeld county, under
peculiarly sad circumstances. VIM.
Wilson, who lives a few miles
over the line of Cambria county, killed
his twelve-year-old son in a fit of anger
few days since by striking him over
the head with hoe, and then Jump
ing upon the lads body. 1t seems that