The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-02-16
Episcopal Social at w. H. Schrani's


The sidewalk between Centre and
Main Streets on Elk needs repairing
badly.
The work on Hydp's new Steam
Ssw Mill is being rapidly pushed to
completion.
We understand there Is to be q
riance in Hyde's Opera Hall on Wash
ington's Birthday.
The Methodist social held at Geo.
Rhines' last Friday evening was well
attended and netted SAL
For three years my son was sore
all over. Pernna cured him. J.
Neuenschwauder, S. S. Pittsburg.
The Parochial Society meets on
Thursday at one O'clock, at Mrs. G.. #.
Wheeler's, a full attendance is desired.
The Presbyterian socioal held at
Mrs. Chapin's on Tuesday night was
well attended and netted S7.l8. 1t was
u very enjoyable affair.
The prospects for the successful
opening of the Ridgwuy School
Library Union lecture course are very
flatering. One hundred;and sixty re-
served seats have been sold.
What Rev. 4. VanCamp SAYS of
Dr. Willis, "I1p IL known all over the
United States from California to Maine.
He is n fine speaker. At Chautauqua,
last season, his lecture on Sunshine"
won the applause of the Thousands
who attended that popular resort seek
ing opportunity for recreation and
pleasure.
Improve the opportunity, go and
hear him.
AT Il regular Meeting Of the Tenn
perance Union in the NJ. e. Church,
On Saturday evening, Major Scott
addressed II large and attentive audi
ence composed largely of his friends.
When the invitation was given by the
President, &. ID. Osterhout, as All ell
enlargement TO Major Scott that ell
those who had taken the pledge should
rise To their feet, nearly the entire
audience arose.
A new disrase called "sCurvy leg
which attacks poultry il desert bed by
an exchange as follows: at is caused
10y gathering of inflnitesimal parss-
ites which comes impreceptibly at fist,
In the creviccs between the edges OF
the legs scales, and rapidly increase,
pling upon themselves and apparently
forming grnyish- white warts or rought
punches. There are millions Of them
in one bunch. Kerosene oil will des.
troy them and remove the lunches.
Liquor dealers cannot use too much
precaution to whom they SELL They
are oftcntimcs deceived into selling
liquor to minors OH the representation
Of the young men that they are OF age.
These young men may not know it,
but at the last session of the Legislature
there was an act passed making it n
misdemcanOr, punishable by fine or
imprisonment, for any person under
age attempting to nuy liquor by falsely
representing that they are twenty-one
years old.
William Fl. Vanderbilt says til
he cannot afford to gamble, smoke 'r
drink liquor; that such habits would
unfit him for business, and prevent
his using mind and body in pursuits
that demand his attention. If it Is to
expensive for him with his millions,
should not young men, depending upon
their hands and brains, ignore such
evil habits and practices? There arc
young men in Ridgway who should
consider that these habits were too cX-
pcnsive, and, like Vanderbilt, refuse
to cultivate then
For diphtlIeria the following re-
ccipe is furnished from an excellent
source: "A teaspoonful of flour of
sulphur stirred in wing glass of water
to be used as IL gargIe. Within ten
minutes, it is said, the patient will be
relieved. Should the fungus nave
grown so that gargling is precluded,
blow dry sulphur down with quill or
any small tube. The fungus will con
tract 30 that the patient can gargle
Another way is to put the sulphur on
live Goals aud let the patient inhale the
fumes. 1t will kill the fungus. This
is recommended for colds and asthma,
also.-LeWiSbuTg Journal.
On Friday evening, Feb. 18th, DR..
A. A. Willis will deliver the first leci-
ure of the course in the NJ. +. Church.
On Monday evening Maj. H. e. Dane
will follow with his graphic lecture
"Up the Rhine and over the Alps with
a Knapsack. The third in the list will
be a lecture entitled, From the
Blarney Stone to Vesuvlus "by Rev.
j. Halsted Carroll, d. D. ofNewburgh
N. Y. He will appear Feb. 2Sth.
The Hartford EUeniag Post says of
him ITO the power of and the eloquence
of Beecher, DR.. Carroll adds rhetor-
ical culture and finish that places him
in lofty and distinctive place in the
lecture field"
The Accommodation west on Fri
day evening will remain at Ridgway
until after Willis lecture so that those
who attend from Wilcox and other