The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-06-03
Local Items.
the month of roses.


June the month of roses.
Court proceedings in this issue.
The sidewalks! oh the side
walks!!
The blackberry crop will be light
this season.
Now is the height of the straw
berry season.
Feed your potato bugs on flour
and paris green.
Look for borers about the roots of
your apple trees.
Note paper and envelopes at the
ADVOCATE office.
Go to Days drug store for the best
flavorihg extract.
-l5 new styles visiting cards at
THE ADVOCATE office.
Picked Oysters in quart glass
jars. Finest in the market at Nor
gesters.
AT the mast head of our next issue
will be found the name of the next
President of the United States.
The next term of court on the
third Monday of September will likely
be held in the new Court House.
- Dr. Days Stomach and Nerve
Tonic strengthens the digestion and
will cure constipation in every case.
Teachers Institute at Benezette
June 4th and 9Th. Lecturers for even
ing session. Good time is expected.
ALI kinds Of job printing, plain
or in colors, neatly done at THE AD-
voCATE office. Please examine our
prices.
- Don't fail TO call and examine
our l5 new styles CT visiting cards.
The prices are cheap, aud quality the
very best.
Festival at the NJ F. Church Fri
day and Saturday evenings of this
week. An invitation is eX tended to
NIL to attend.
AT present writing the state of the
iron market is rather uneasy, and in
dications seem to point to decline in
prices more than equal to the rapid
advance of few months ago
The work of rebuilding the des-
troyed town Of Milton is making
times lively for lumbermen, sash and
door manufacturers, and mechanics
who live or do business anywhere il
that section.
The newest, and nobbiest style;
of visiting cards just received at TIL
ADVOCATE Office. Beveled edged
scalloped corners, bows, panels, white
beveled, chromos and several other
styles. Call and see them.
= The Census Enumerator com
menced his rounds on Tuesday las
June lst. All manner of people are
enioined, under heavy penalties fol
failure, to answer the questions of til,
enumerator fully and frankly.
- The glorious rains of Saturda!
night and Sunday did an immens
amount of good in this section
Parched vegetation took new leas
of life while sweating humanit.
breathed more freely in the cooler at
mosphere. There is rafting stage il
the Clarion river
Fathers and mothers of soldier
who enlisted for three years and wer
killed or died in the war of the Re
bellion, are entitled to an additiona
bounty of 500. Those who have no
received this bounty should make ap
plication before the lst day of Jul.
next as the time expires at that time
The lowering weather of the pas
few days would seem to fortell fro9
about the full of the Juno moon. Q
course every one is anxious on thi
point, for while Jack Frost is a we
come visitor on the ides of December
his presence in the month of roses
very undesirable. An estimate of tn
loss by a June frost is something n
man can make, although it canno
help being very great.
- A case somewhat peculiar wa
tried recently in the Jefferson count
court. Mr.. Geo. a. Gourlcy was a'
SCISSOR in Perry township last yea
and in giving the occupation of e.
Sheriff Mitchell, a gentleman nearl
seventy-five years of age, inserted til
word 'loafer." The eX-Sherif brougf
action for damages and a jury IT
turned a verdict of 800 fine and cos
of prosecution, which will aggregat
nearly three hundred dollars. NJ
Gourley protests his intention
wrong, but the case was very clea
one, and he has a heavy bill of e2
pense to pay This case may be
warning to other officials, and prever
too free use of the names of citizer
Ia an official capacity.