The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-12-01


January 2-6 1882.
-Plow your garden this fall 1t viii
work as easy again next spring.
Let us have peace--and buck.
wheat cakes with sorgum for break.
fast,
Ask your neighbor to subscribe for
THE ADVOCATE. $3.50 a year in ad-
vance.
The Rochester and Pittsburgh r.
r. Co., advertise for $50, 900 cross-ties
in another column.
The squawk of the last buckwheat
cake will soon be heard in the land.
Cause-a scarcity of buckwheat flour.
The number of pupils enrolled in
the Ridgway Borough Schools last
month was 23O. See report in another
column.
We don't just see why woman
should like her mirror better than a
man, for the man will fiatter her and
the mirror will not.
Tuesday was beautiful day, and
the sun sbone brightly in seeming dis
regard of the overcoat advertisements
in our last weeks issue.
--The young woman who used to
sing so divinely, "Oh, had L the
wings of a dove," is satisfied with a
chicken leg now. She is married.
The Rev. ]. M. Thoburn, of War
ren, Pa, will occupy the pulpit of the
M. L. Church of this place, next Sab
bath, Dec. 4th, in exchange with the
Pastor.
The ELk Democrat will issue q
daily during Institute week. Our
citizens should give the enterprise a
cordial support both in the way of
subscription and advertising.
"A scarf pin made of dollar gold
piece on which is engraved the initials
III. III. w" was lost Tuesday night
either on Mill or Main street. The
finder will confer favor by leaving
the same at this office.
The Bogert House lunch room is
the place to go for quiet lunch or a
square meal. Bogert understands
running hotel, and the addition of a
lunch room shows that he is wide
awake to the wants Of his patrons.
There are sixty-one trout streams
in Pennsylvania that the fish commits
sion have stocked with fish, placing
from one thousand to six thousand in
each stream. By a law, fishing in
waters thus stocked is forbidden until
three years after such stocking.
Clean Up.-An exchange we'll says
that persons having cabbages patches
in their gardens should look to it that
no decayed heads remain, as it is con-
sidered to be a fruitful source of diph-
iberia. 1t would be well to watch the
cellars carefully during the coming
Winter for all manner of decayed
vegetables. A little sanitary regula-
tion about the house and vicinity will
repay our readers in the enjoyment of
better health and reduced doctor bills.
The debt reduction for the current
month will be large according to ap-
pearances at the close of business in
Washington on Monday. The re-
ceipts so far have been $50, 900 900, and
the ordinary disbursements, $4,000
600. In addition to this the interest
payments for the month which have
to be substracted amount so far to $3,-
100000. This leaves with the returns
Of two days to count, something like
100000 surplus for the month.
Mercer Brothers meat market
was on fire Saturday evening at about
6 o'clock. The stove pipe was stuck
through hole in the roof and as this
condition of things has existed for
years the only wonder is that the
building has not been burned long
ago. The bucket brigade was on
hand and extinguished the fire with
out loss. ]. S. Singleton, the owner
of the building, has had o substantial
chimney build since the fire, and the
stove pipe peeks through the roof no
more. This little incident should
prompt our citizens to look at once to
the safety of stove pipes and f1ues.
1t will be matter of more than
common interest to the farmer read
ers Of The ADVOCATE to learn that
there Is in existence and in full force
a statute of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. by a knowledge Of
which many dollars may be saved to
them. Tt is to the effect that any
person who shall transplant on the
side of the public highway, on his own |
premises, any fruit. shade or forest
trees of suitable size, shall be allowed |
by the supervisor, when the roads run
through or adioin cultivated fields, an |
abatement on his road tax Of one dol
lar for every four trees set out. The
trees must, however. be set out the
year previous before the allowance will
be granted, and they must be alive
and well protected. This law was
enacted May 2, 1879, and deserves the
widest publicity. |