The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-08-26
Ridgway, Pa, Aug. 10,1SS0.
For ladies and gentlemen's riding
saddles call on Jacob Butterfuss.


100 boxes Fine Imported Sardines
three boxes for so cents at Morges-
ter's.
The barley crop of Erie county is
estimated at 45O, 900 bushels over the
yield of last year.
-Sociable in the basement of the
M. e. Church on Friday evening
August, 9th, 1880.
--Bushel Baskets, Wooden Pals,
Wash Boards and Large Stock Of
Brooms at Morgester's.
Scrap pictures, shelf paper ma
chine made, and note paper and en-
velopes at THE ADVOCATE Office.
Congregational services at the
school house by Rev. E. a. Squier
next Sunday morning and evening.
The thermometer stood ct 90 in
the shade on Tuesday last. Rather
warm for the winding up of dog days.
Several cases of poisoning have oc-
Cured in Erie county, caused by cat
ing cabbage on which Paris green had
been sprinllled.
Expect to handle large quantity
of Prime Grapes, oll wishing Grapes
by basket or otherwise will please
leave orders. J. w. WORCESTER.
Note paper and envelopes, in
large or small quantities at 1'HE AD-
VoCATE office. Call and see our stock
before purchasing elsewhere.
Company H will meet at their ar
mory for drill every eycning until the
9Th Of September, when the Company
will leave for the annual inspection
and encampment at Braddock's
Fields.
"A Teachers Examination will be
held by County Superintendent
Dixon, at the school building, Ridg-
way Pa, the first Saturday in Sep
tembcr commencing st y. NJ.
Applicants for certificates should be mt
least eighteen years Of age and thor
oughly verscd in the common BRAN
chos, also in the theory Of teaching,
The oil well at Grant IL Horton's
tannery, which is being put down for
gas for heating and lighting purposes
is well started and unless an accident
interfers we may expect in a few
weeks to know all about it. Oil may
be found, as it is proposed to sink the
we'll Gig ghtcen hundred feet unless gas
or oil is found II less depth,
There are 125 reaping machines
rattling over the Dalrymple farm in
Dakota, which embraces p, 900 acres
in wheat and 1900 in oais. The
wheat averages Is bushels to the acre,
and the oats about IS. This will give
the enormous yield Of 49,, 600 bushels
of wheat and 90O0 bushels of oats.
To move this immense amount OF
grain would require III freight trains
of thirty cars each. buffalo Ery0rcss.
You have my full sympathy in
support of the ticket headed Garfield
and Arthur writes General Grant to
Secretary Dorsey, and he goes on to
say that he has lost no opportunity OF
saying what he could in conversation
in behalf of the ticket. This disposes
of one of the biggest Democratic lies
of the compaign. The man who
started the story that Grant was sup,
porting Hancock will have to put III
another bid for the jackknife. New
York Tribune.
AWFUL - The Kittaning Time,
says: Another and a terrible war
ming to those who are careless in the
use of oil will be found in the shock
ing death of a Mrs. Mary Kirkland
near Cochran's Mills, this county, OF
Monday evening last. She attempted
to pour oil FROM a large can into ;
burning lamp, when the fluid ignited
exploding, and scattering the burning
oil all over her person and the room
she was in. \ lady who attempted
to eXtinguish the burning clothing
was badly scorched, but managed t,
escape, while Mrs. Kirkland wa
burned to crisp, and the house wa
entirely destroyed.
The Ridgway House owned by ]
s. Hyde, and leased by Salyer Jack
son, is undoubtedly one of the bes
arranged hotels in this section o
Pennsylvania. Painted white, will
doors and wainscOating, grained, o
filled and vanished in the lowe
stories of the house, greater part o
the rooms being carpeted and furn
ished in good style. About 2,400 lbs
of white lead was used in the finish
ing of the house. The hotel is practi
cably four stories in height counting thu
basement, as the plastering is carried
upon the rafters making room for ,
number of beds in the attic. w. S. .McVey
of this village did the painting anC
granting, and the work is lasting tes
timonial to his skill as a first-clasi
ia.i,,tsr and grain sfs