Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-15

"A bee can carry three times its
own weight.
John d. Rockfellow has given
500, 900 to Vassar College.
Two weeks from this coming
Saturday is Decoration Day.
The brightest thing about the
coming summer girl will be her gilt
belt.
The Street commissioner of Mil
ford, is grading George street from
Broad to Fifth.
j. B. Vantassel conducted an
auction sale of lamps, clocks, tin
ware and numerous other articles
during the week.
The highest priced watch ever
made in Geneva cost $4,000. The
watch was worth $500 and the dia-
mond studded cases made up the
balance.
Richard J. oldest son of A. T.
Searle ESQ, of Honesdale was
drowned in fish pond on his fathers
farm near Siko last Monday after
noon.
Louis Remey, a Port Jervis
horse doctor has served As days in
Monticello Jail for fishing on private
property in the town of Lumber
land.
Archbishop Whately said that
"a good preacher preached because
he had something to say and a bad
preacher because he had to say
something
The Town Council at its meet
ing held Tuesday evening agreed to
buy new street sprinkler of the
Miller Knoblock Co., with capa-
city of $50 gallons, and to cost $216.
George E. Horton, our genial
borough father and popular livery
man, came in town the other even
ing with handsome pair of black
horses purchased in Middletown, N.
Y.
Judge Craig of the Monroe Car
bon judicial district, recently de-
cided that a man cannot buy real
estate with pension money and hold
! ~ q 5dlllSb Ills CItblbOIS.
With potatoes at ten cents a
bushel and base ball salaries not less
than 800 per month, we wonder
which the farmer boys would better
do-plant potatoes or play base ball.
Put the town in condition for
the summer. Pick up all the old
papers and rubbish and show the
summer guests that come and go
that one of our traits is tidiness and
neatness.
There are 81 in the graduating
class at Blair Hall this year. Mr..
Christopher Easton will deliver the
Valedictory Grafton and Mr.. F. F.
Hopper the Salutatory, they stand
ing highest in grade in their class.
The dry weather last summer
caused bees to select some poison
Gus substance in place of their usual
sweets, and many bee keepers lost
nearly their entire apiaries. In
Wayne county five men lost 1886
hives.
The New Jersey Democrats
held a very meek convention last
week to choose delegates to the Ma
tional Convention. No instructions
were given, but many are said to
favor VIM. E. Russell, of Massa-
chustts.
While the family of Theodore
Lee, of East Stroudsburg, were at
supper pet bear belonging to a
son entered the room and devoured
the meal. In the fight to get Bruin
into his den James Myers had an
arm badly lacreated.
"A few Of the choice selections of
roses and clematis yet remain un-
sold. A package of seeds will be
presented to each purchaser. Now
is the time to secure this assort-
ment of beautiful flowers. Call on or
address J. Leahy, Grey Towers.
Col. Frank K. Hahn, general
manager of the L Road in New York
was killed by a freight train at Cliff
ton Springs, New York last Satur-
day May 9th. He was suffering
from nervous prostration and was
at the Sanitarium at that place.
The State College has issued a
bulletin describing a phosphate de-
posit in Juniata Co. 1ne stratum is
three feet in thickness, and if work
ed to a depth of one hundred feet
viii supply nearly twenty five tons
of rock for each foot of length Of
outorop.
Ten eXcursiOnists visited Mr.
Reilley's new town back of Milford
last Sunday. 1t is reported that
some who have already purchased
lots are making arrangements to
build cottages on them, and have en-
tered into negotiations for the mat
erials.
-Ottenheimer' Forest Park es-
tablishment, back of Bushkill, will
open for a season of at least two
months during the summer, and a
great part of the many rooms in the
numerous buildings attached thereto
are already engaged. Mr.. Often
heimer died last Fall.
The Borough Council at the
meeting last Saturday evening took