The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-12-22
Christmas next Saturday.
Senator Ross, and wife and da,


ter, Ollie, are here on visit.
RI v. Kline was taken home sicl
on Saturday evening, he is better a
present writing, ....
Fired. Ely, Gas. Kline, and Mag
gle Flynn, are home from the Loci
Haven Normal School on vacatian
Beautiful weather these days, more
like spring than mid-winter, and 6
very poor winter for numbering
although Just right for railroading.
A youag man named James Stin.
son has brought suit against the city
of Altoona asking for damages in the
sum of $4,000. While he was wait
ang en the outside of church for the
meeting to let out, so that he could
take his girl home, a policeman came
along, nabbed him for making a dis
turbance in front of the church and
marched him to the lookup. Because
of the disgrace thus put upon him,
Stinson's girl gave him the mitten,
and his rich maiden aunt, who had
intended to make him her heir,
changed her will so as to cut him off
without cent. And so he proposes
to have redress against the city.
Mrs. Smith, of Long Island, was
sick unto death. The only care of her
dying hours was her six children and
Mr.. Smith. That they might be well
cared sov after her death she demanded
that her husband marry her sister.
To satisfy the dying lady he con-
sented. With woman's perversity
Mrs. Smith then insisted that the
marriage should take place before her
death. In that spirit of self-sacrifice
and compliance with duty that dis
finguished the gallant Captain Reeve,
the 1ab Ballad hero, Mr.. Smith did
as he was bid, and the ceremony was
performed, whereupon Mrs. Smith
Immediately got better. 1t is plain
that Mr.. Smith will have to go to Jail
or to Utah.-Philadelphia Press.
AT the close of the lecture in the
NJ. E. Church last Friday evening,
Temperance Union was organized, I'M
der the auspices of the National and
Woman's Christian Temperance TN
ion, by the election of the following
officers.
Chairman-C. d. Osterhout.
Vice President.-Horace Little, d.
r. Kline, Benz. Stewart, w. S.
Hamblen, A. H. Head, G. F. Dickin-
son, and George Gulnack.
Secretary-Will Dickinson.
Treasurer-F. G. Ely.
The following Committees were ap-.
pointed by tie chair:
Executive-C. L. Holiday, Jacob
McCauley, r. V. Kline, S. A Ohm
stead, Howard Gorton, S. H. Langley,
and G. Z. Luther.
Singing-Dr. w. L Williams, H.
NJ. Powers, John A. Ross, Peter
Guluack.
Lecture-Geo, r. Dixon, Rev. S. NJ.
Clark, Rev. 4. S. Negley, Rev. A.
VanCamp. and w. H. Osterhout.
Ushers-Geo. Smith, and l.. w.
Ely.
The Union will hold meeting at
the NJ. e. Church tomorrow evening,
lFriday] at half past seven. An inter-
esting time will be had. And all are
cordially invited to attend.
An excellent authority says that a
years experience with broad wagon
wheels is conclusive as to their value.
A four-inch tire will carry two tons
over soft ground with greater ease to
the team than a two-and-a-half inch
tire will carry one ton. The wheels
are not so much strained by stones and
rough tracks on the roads, and the
road is not cut up, but on the contrary
is backed down and kept smooth.
The prevalent idea that the draft is
increased by widening the tire is alto.
gether baseless; on the contrary, a
wide tire reduces the draft. The
extra cost to the tire is repaid many
times over every year in the extra
work done by team. These facts
should not only be remembered by
teamsters, farmers, cartnen, and
Others, but they should be acted upon
as soon as circumstances will permit.
"A means of getting rid OF mutt |
lated currency has been discovered in
the st. Louis churches, where the |
coins are dropped in the collectors |
box. Prominent ministers there are
reported as saying that the effort to |
pass mutilated money has been pro-
ductive of more profit to the church |
than when all sorts of silver brio a
brac was passable. A man now who |
holds punctured half dollar, after
essaying to pass it for merchandise |
and being unsuccessful, finally resorts
to the collection box, and with the
shOrtsightedness peculiar to roguery,
he drops a half dollar or quarter
where formerly a nickle or a dime
sufficed. The money, when it accu-
mulated, is sent to the United States
mint, where it is received and paid for
as bullion, containing loss of five
per cent.
Habit, If not necessity, makes a
Hair DRESSING such as nr Aua.,n !