Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-05-14
BRIEF MENTION.

season were heard here last Sunday
evening.
-lhe Knights and Ladies' of Hon
or held their annual convention in
Port Jervis this week.
The kind of man you elect to
represent you usually fills the bill
and does represent you.
Advertising is like BREATHING
You can { do enough of it in a dav
to last a month. Chronicle.
The Tenth State Sanitary Con-
yenHon under the auspices of the
state Board of Health will meet at
Johnstown, May 25 and 26.
The Washington monument will
be unveiled at Fairmount Park
Philadelphia tomorrow. President
Mckinley will make an address.
The Passenger Committee of
the Trunk Line Association yester-
day decided TO accept BICYCLES as
personal baggage between states.
-Beecher said more quarrel $
were smothered by Just shutting
your mouth, and holding it shut,
than by all the wis lom in the world.
The Commissioners. Nav 1O. .bor.
rowed 5000 to pay current expense $
and the same day they purchased a
Sl27.5O typewriter for use in the Of
flee.
-Lehighton will have a large silk
mill located within her border.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars have
been subscribed toward the enter
prise.
1t is said that General Gomez
the insurgent Cuban leader is near
Havana and that Il battle has been
fought in which the Spaniar dis were
routed.
e. S. Wood, of Berkshire county.
Mass, has hog which weighs
about 200 pounds. The breed is a
mixture of Berkshire, Jersey Red
and Duroc.
Three young ladies have been
requested to take permanent leave
OF absence from Wellesley college
because of their fOndness for
champagne.
"A barn belonging to Grant Tit
man i'll Lehm N township was
burned last Sunday night. The fire
Is suspected to have been of incendi-
airy origin. Said to be fully insur, L.
See the advertisement of sale of
horses by Price Bros, at Branchville
May IL Here will be an opportuni-
ty to suit yourselfin horse flesh with
a guarent1e that they are rs repre-
senGed.
Judge Eddie of Cumberland
county directed the constable9 when
making their returns to court, that
they should seize all slot machines,
and other gambling devices, and ar
rest the proprietors without warrant.
Captain Swift, of the United
States Fish Commission s steamship
Fish Hawk has collected at Glou-
cester twelve and a half millions of
shad eggs from the Delaware dur
ing the past week, for Matching pur-
poses.
"A large farm house belonging to
the estate of Seeley Howell, situated
near New ton, N. j., was destroyed
by fire last Saturday night. 1t was
occupied by Frank Lanterman, who
with his family was absent at the
time.
Professor Coles in storms and
signs says the army worms are
coming again this summer and will
destroy grain and vegetables. He
designates the "high flood" days or
the best for planting as the 10, 20,
%, "a, 27, 2S, 30 and 30th.
The Siberian Railway now being
built by Russia will be 4,700 miles
long. 1t is expected it will be COM
pleted in four years, and Will open
new markets for Russian products
which will be mace essible to foreign
competition.
"A regular automobile cab SER
vice has been established in New
York. Ten hanson cabs are now in
operation. They are easily operated
cost but little more than a horse and
ordinary cab, and can be run up to a
speed of fifteen miles per hour.
The Bee Hive store at Port Jer-
Wis is making some fine offers in the
way of seasonable goods Give it a
call. The Press especially com
mends its patrons TO visit this store
if they want bargains for their
many and fair dealing IN every re
sIect. We speak from experience.
Those who have experimental
say it win not pay to raise Kaffir
corn where Indian corn can be
grown, and that it would not be
profitable crop in Pennsylvania
being esq scially adapted to dry
climates, end well drained sandy
looms, as Kansas and other western
states.
Representative Kessler vot i
against the bill for the pro iervation
of forests. 1Ae vote on final I IS.
age was yeas 120, nays 24 He also
voted against the a t to allow COM
mon school houses to be used for
purposes of Sabbath schools and for
religious services. 1t passed, yeas
122 nays 26.
The hills on the road between
Mi eord and Port Jery is are disap-
pearing. Two have recently been
taken down and the grade materi-
ally improved. VIM. Reaser the
s,,,,nruisn1. of the township Is TO be