The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-07-01
Local Items.

Clothes baskets, wash tubs, wash
boards, pals, &C., at Morgester's.
Considerable quantity of rain first
of the week.
New Clothing at the New York
Store for the Fourth.
-Haying will soon engage the at
tention of our farmers.
Call at Morgester's for Tobacco,
Cigars, Cigarettes, etc.
The strawberry is no more in the
land for this season.
A nice lot of scrap pictures at this
office. The price will suit you.
-Tinware, nails, and axes at Nor.
gester's.
Scrap pictures and shelf paper at
THE ADVOCATE office.
The work of excavating Hyde's
mill pond still continues.
Company II will meet at Rhines'
hall this (Thursday) evening.
In some sections of the country
the fruit prospects are said to be very
good.
The latest styles visiting cards at
THE ADVOCATE office. No trouble to
show specimens.
Company H will parade on Mon
day, July 5th. An inspection will
olso ho hod IN tbot doy
Charles Reade has made $40 900
out of Drink" He must have struck
q Democratic convention.
A match game of base ball is
talked of, between the engineer corps
and the town boys of this place.
Fresh case cookies. Fresh barrel
best milk and soda crackers, ginger
snaps and egg crackers at NIorgester's.
Number of post-oflices in the
United States up to Dec. 1879. Al ,517
Pennsylvania had 1884, New York
1923.
Subscribe for THE ADooCATE dur
lug the campaign. We will send it
for month or year just as you may
choose.
The term corduroy" applies very
appropriately just now to the plank
road that runs through the Main street
of this village.
Grove Dance at the Fish Pond,
Wilcox on July 9th. An invitation is
extended to all to attend. a good
time and lots Cf fun.
A new court house is soon to be
erected at Ebensburg, Cambria county.
The contract has been awarded to an
Erie county man at SIS, 800.
The ditch dug on the court yard
side of Main street effectualy breaks
up once and for all the frog pond that
has so long been an ornament to that
particular place. For this, o Supervis-
ors we praise you.
No paper from this office next
week. Our boys feel like enthusing,
also the editor has an itching that way
OF course you will miss THE ADvo-
CATE, but we will be ON hand as usual
the week after.
The small boys will fire off good
many crackers. The big boys will
take in a goodly amount of cooling
beverage, and thus will the Fourth of
1880 pass silently into history. There
is one thing left for us all, to read over
that interesting though antiquated
document the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
The attention of the Supervisors
is called to stagnant pool of water
nearly opposite Pat. Malone's house.
There is q culvert under the road at
that point which has become choked
up, forming filthy pool from which
arises perfume anything but agree
able to persons who have occasion to
pass that point.
The Democrats of Ridgway en-
thused down on Hyde's fiat last Satur-
day. G. r. Farley, Senator Ross, Jno.
G. Hall, Prof. Dixon, and f. J. Mil
Ter addressed the meeting They, the
Democrats in attendance, were all en-
thusiastic for Hancock. After the
meeting all hands took in more or less
strengthening cordial. After this
they all went home fully satisfied that
Elk County would go Democratic.
The county Commissioners have
passed resolution to the effect that
no individual shall after Aug. lst be
allowed to run water in pipes or logs
through the court yard. For num-
ber of years a liue of pump logs have
been laid through the yard, aud now
since the yard has been graded so
nicely, it is thought by the Commits
sioners to be highly improper to allow
this thing to continue longer, as it
necessitates digging up the logs occa-
sionally, and besides the leakage of
the pipes is a serious objection. Peo-
pie interested have until Aug. lst to
make other arrangements for water
Sassiy.