The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-03-13
Local Notes

blue Jays.
Rafting in.
Sugar parties.
Congress on 18th.
Maple sugar weather.
st. Patrick's Day 18th.
Plant onions next month.
Trim your fruit trees soon.
Prime dried beef at Morgester's.
Save your linen duster for awhile.
-Ye editorsix years married on 18th.
Eggs are down to 20 cents dozen.
Plenty of snow yet remains in the
woods.
Last Sunday and Monday were
pleasant days.
Two pound cans tomatoes for 25
cents at Morgester's,
Writing paper and envelopes for
sale at this office cheap.
-Hyde's saw mill is running this
week and has plenty of water.
The Western Union telegraph
Office now has bran new sign.
Bradford now seeks to become the
county seat of Mexican county.
All the hens are laying at the top
of their speed, and some of 'em in
nests.
All the prophets prophesy that this
fine weather will "be paid for' before
March is out.
Rafting in and running lumber
will give employment to many of our
idle men in few days.
Mrs. O'Herin, of st. Mary's who
was SO badly burned, we are informed
has since died of her injuries.
Elk creek and the Clarion river
are at high stage. The ice has gone
out and we expect tidings of great dam
age to property on the lower waters.
The blue jay and robin are taken
in, in common with the rest of hu-
manity, and are singing and hopping
around, near the middle of March,
as though the cold winds of this
clustering month were things of the
past.
st. Mary's oil company is deter
mined to thoroughly test the territory
In that vicinity. The shares are put
at the moderate price of IS each, thus
enabling persons of moderate means to
become prospective millionaires.
Sunday all the men and boys were
sitting on the platforms in front of the
stores, chewing tobacco, telling stories
and whiting. The platform in front
of Services hardware store looking as
though a dozen carpenters had been at
work for $3.50 day, and were bent on
earning their wages.
-House-cleaning time has come,
the time when two meals day is the
rule, eaten on the elbow of stove
pipe, while the dust from the parlor
carpet covers your bread and fills your
nostrils. Of course Job had trouble,
who said he hadn't, but did his wife,
Oh suffering stranger, ever clean
house?
The advent of spring uncovers and
shows up to good advantage the un-
slightly piles of ashes and rubbish heaps
that have accumulated during the
winter. The snow is like charity
while one covers a multitude of sins
the other covers q multitude of abom-
nations The moral of this short
story is that you should embrace the
first opportunity to remove all the un-
slightly and unhealthy objects of which
we speak.
Michael Kelly, a nephew of Mrs.
Thos. McTigue, of this place, has been
visiting at his aunt's house since about
the time Thos. McTigue died. Last
Monday he helped himself to 5000, 90
belonging to the widow, and took mail
west at 2:33. The loss was not discov-
cred until some time in the evening,
when Sheriff Oyster was informed of
the robbery, and at once telegraphed a
description of the thief to Warren, Erie,
and Buffalo. Tuesday morning the
Sheriff received telegram from the
Chief of Police at Erie, stating that
Kelly had been arrested at that place
at about eight o'clock, and took mail
west Tuesday afternoon with war
rant for the culprit.
Walter Rickard. aged about 10
years, youngest son of Jas. Rickard,
was seriously injured at the landing
opposite Eagle Valley mill, on Satur-
day last. He and his father were
hauling stick of timber cut from Jas.
Gardner's big pine of which we speak
in an other place. The sled had upset
once, by which mishap the father
received several bruises. Again as the
sled -neared the landing it struck
. skid, throwing young Rickard
to the ground with the sled and
heavy stick of timber on top of him.
His feet were sticking out on one side
and his head on the other, the snow in
which he sunk saving his body from
being crushed to a jelly. The stick
was raised from the PROSTATE boy, but,
before he could be rescued from his
perilous situation, the hold of the men
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