Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-20
BRIEF MENTIONS.

MN AAC-N's
1t will pay you to walk around
the town and investigate what our
merchants are Offering for the Holi-
days Perhaps you can supply all
your wants here in that direction.
Ryman and Wells are Offering an es-
pecially fine line of goods suitable
for presents, and their show window
is pleasing and attractive sight.
They have almost every thing use
full as well as ornamental.
w q G.. Mitchell also cater to
that trade, and their store is we'll
filled with goods in all lines to make
you comfortable and happy. They
can supply all your wants in dress
goods, groceries and staple articles
generally.
Brown g. Armstrong have made
extra efforts to fill your long felt
wants, and if you will give them a
call you will find prices and COM
modities are in accord, and both in
viting.
II. r. j. Klein is prepared to
furnish all kinds of hardware, and
to add to your comfort whether you
want pan mended or a house rooted.
If you buy stove or range of him,
you need not eat your Christmas
turkey in the evening because the
day was not long enough to cook it.
If you feel the need of steam
heat to ward off the cold which the
goose bone man and the planetary
conjunction chap says is coming, or
if you think your house is not pro-
perly plumbed, just see Van Etten
and Wright. They will attend to it
promptly and carefully.
If you must go away give John
son, at Port Jervis, a call for foot
wear. He has all kinds, and at bot
tom prices.
Should you want a bit of the
craythur to wash down the turkey
dinner or make it properly digest,
Mr., Saxon can fix you up to the
Queens taste.
Take a stroll around, and visit
the above places, and if you cannot
satisfy your wants, ask our mer-
chants whether you are not little
over particular in these matters. The
nimbler siXpence will do more good
to spend it here than in some other
town.
After you have made yourselves
and family comfortable and happy,
and saved a lot Of money by calling
on the live merchants who advertise
in the Press you will want something
good to read. and then you will walk
up and subscribe for the Press, and
feel good over it for the next year.
The Press wishes its readers and
friends a very, very Merry Christ
mas.
The Milford Glee Club will hold
their first hop on the evening before
Christmas, Dec. oath at their hall
A good time is guaranteed to all who
attend.
Allentown is now having a try
ing experience with diptheria. AL
most daily there is a death in that
city from that dreaded disease.
Strenuous efforts are being made by
the city officials to stamp it out.
An epidemic of colds is preva-
lent In many instances whole house
holds are almost simultaneously af-
flicted.
On Friday last, Samuel Lines, "a
retired merchant of Wilkes Barre,
was shot dead ON a Lehigh Valley
train while returning home from a
cunning expedition. He got on the
train at Newport station, and soon
afterward fell over dead, with a bull
let in his head. The shot, it is
thought, was fired from outside the
train.
Owing TO the proftableness of
the business new telephone COM
panies are springing up and seeking
share of the profits, in almost
every town and city This has a
tendency to force cut in prices,a and
thereby the public is benefited.
There are some indications OF
quite lively times in Milford during
the holidays Most, if not all, OF
our young people, who are away al
school or in business will be home
and after the school room, and bust.
ness confinement, they will make
the most of the vacation.
1t is suggested that inasmuch as
electricity will soon supersede al
other modes Of lighting, persons
building should have their houses