Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-04-17

along the main road, and attractively To-
Gated it should be made thing of beauty.
Can't the new minister interest the people
in brushing it up little, and put new
coat of paint on the church?
Mrs. Hannah j. wife of Landlord West
brook, of Peters Valley is rapidly recover
ing from a severe attack of blood poison
ing. Thanks to a good constitution, and
the scientific care of DIR. J. N. Miller she
will soon be able to walk.
Trout fishing is the correct thing now
provided you own the land, or have per-
mission. Some one says fishing ON Sun
day is prohibited by law. Wonder how
many a couple of Centreville gents bag
ged last Sabbath; what say?
A lusty young farmer appeared at the
home of Dayton Depue on Monday morn
ing last Mother and child doing nicely.
If Dayton has not missed tally this is the
eighth.
Our roads are in unusually bad condi-
ton, and the season for work on them is
now at hand. We hope the overseers will
depend more on well rounded road than
in the swells to keep the water out. Put
in tile in place of swells and see how nice
they will work.
Divine service at Centreville last Sun
day evening had fair attendance. An
interesting sermon by the new minister,
Mr.. Van Claim was intently listened to.
The music was sweet, but would be much
improved by two or three male voices.
Francis Layton is recovering from an
attack Of pneumonia, and will soon be
able to be about his work.
r. H. Everitt is gaining, and will soon
again.
The city members of the Flat Brook
club are putting in their appee rance at
their club house. understand they will
raise the central dam six feet higher, and
put in 5000 land locked salmon fry. The
dam of the trout pond was badly damaged
by the spring floods, but has been made as
good as new under the supervision of ar
chitect, Alden B. Van Sickle. There is a
large number of trout in the ponds, but it
is said they are scarce in the brooks. If
some of the pot hunters, or fishermen
rather, who net the trout in the spring
holes during the summer could serve the
State a while at the Hotel de Trenton a
better state Of things might prevail.
Our orator, butcher and freeman has
proved himself Solomon. Invested as he
is with all the wisdom, and a like devotion
to women and wine, as was his illustrious
prototype, he has recently added the divine
accomplishment of song, and shows that
up-to-date Solomon is not in it as a a poet
as compared to the o. B. f. 1t has for
some time been a question whether he was
going to pose as a disciple of Annanias, or
Solomon, but great is Allah. The o. B.
f. has cut the gordian knot by being both
in one. By energetic use of ice under his
hat, and continuing to sell county bridges
on unused roads, he will certainly attain
to a state of ecstatic bliss to which Solo
mon could never aspire in his palmiest
days, and to which the pleasures of the cur
and the merry -go-round are as the ashes OF
the Dead Sea fruit, or the taste in the
mouth next morning
LAYTON, N. Y, April Is Our neighboI
and fellow townsman, Mr.. Matthew Shay,
of whose illness we wrote you in a former
letter, died quite suddenly yesterday at
about one o'clock p. m. He had met with
his family at the noon meal and afterward
laid down upon the loungei remaining in
that position longer than usual he was
found upon trying 60 awaken him to be
unconscious and dying. One of the little
girls was buried on April 1st. The afflicted
family have the deepest sympathies of the
entire community.