The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-05-27
' Personal Items.

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Montague arrived on Friday last.
Mike O'Conner of Kane visited our
village on on Tuesday of this week.
The Ross Brothers have started to
build their first kiln of this summer.
Jerry Thompson has moved into
the house back of w. G. Healy's
store.
Mrs w. S. Hamblen is away
from town on visit to friends in
Ohio.
- Mrs. r. S. Hartley and family
have returned after several weeks alb
sence.
Dan. Scribner had the misfortune
to lose COW last week. Cause un-
known.
Dickinson Bros, have two teams
of thoroughbred horses that are
beauties.
- Tai. Cuthbert, wife and child
are visiting at his fathers house on
Zion's hill for few days.
Mrs. Horace Warner of Jones
township is visiting with her daugh-
tea Mrs. f. c. Barrett in this village.
We understand that w. w. Ames
and Postmaster Charles McVean of
st. Mary's will attend the convention
at Chicago.
j. G. Meffert of Jones, w. H.
Murray and Geo. w. Winslow of
Benezette were in THE ADVOCATE
office this week.
H. H. Wensel of this village has
been sworn in as census enumerator
for the district composed of Ridgway
and Highland townships.
S. A. Ollnsted has taken I'D the
three lots next west of the Printers
property, and will commence the
erection of a house in short time.
Doctor Bordwell has planted an
acre of his farm with Amber sugar
cane seed. This is undoubtedly the
first experiment of this line attempted
in Elk county.
In the case of the implication of
A. j. RUNNER and his wife in the
murder of Constable Wernith by
Harry English, the grand jury at the
present term Of court ignored the bill.
William Gardner, aged II years,
was shot in the head by another boy
named Joseph Davis hear Brewery
Hill, Scranton, OH Saturday. They
were playing Buffalo Bill, with re.
volvers.
Judge Souther of Erie Is in at
tendance on court this week. The
Judge is growing younger or our eye,
deceive us, for he really looks better
than he did twenty years ago. Long
life to him.
Our old and much esteemed rr1end.
Erasmus Morey, Of Renezette, called
in on Tuesday. The weight of the
years rest lightly on his broad should
ers, while his step is as elastic as
though more than eighty winters was
an easy burden. Call again.
The annual examination of the
Lock Haven Normal School commen
ces this year at 9 o'clock A. NJ, Mon
day, June 81. County Superintendent
Dixon has been appointed as one of
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Latin, Rhetoric, Grammer, Reading
and Spelling.
Jacob McCauley celebrated the
thirty-tifth anniversary ofhis marriage
on May %. He says the day this
year is as near like the day on which
he was married as it is possible for
twoHays to be. Thirty-five years is a
long time, when we consider the
changes that have taken place in Elk
county. When Mr.. McCauley settled
on Toby Horton township was all
almost unbroken wilderness He
built a mill and manufactured the
cream of the pine lumber, rejecting
all logs that would not come up to the
standard. These boards were RATED in
Little Toby in three platform pieces, ten
courses deep, and even those shallow
RATS were with great difficulty got out
of the creek, the rocks and bars were
so numerous. Great Improvements
have been made costing vast sums Of
money, until at this day four plat
form sixteen courses deep can be run
with any kind of decent flood.
This lumber was run to Pittburgh
and sold for from Sc to $l2 thousand
feet board measure;six dollars for good
and twelve dollars for the c!earest kind
of clear stuff. Lumber that to day
would bring $30a thousand. But lum'
ber like that is hard to get in the
present depleted condition of our pine
forests. Supplies were all hauled
from Kittanning, Bellefonte, James
town or Olean, distance to either OF
the places from seventy-five to eighty
miles. These "reminiscences OF old
times by our old settlers would make
an interesting volume. We wish Mr..
McCauley many returns of his wedding
day anniversary. And we are certain
the people of Elk county who all
know him will join heartily in our