Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-04-23
BRIEF MENTION.

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"A. d. Brown & Son started tie
raft from Dingmans yesterday.
Horny D. Clark. mortgagee,
bought the Newberger property,
sold by the sheriff last Saturday, for
1925.
Providence, RI wooden mills
are to day employing 5000 more
hands than last fall. Pass the
Dingley Bill.
The directors of the Indepeud-
-ent School District bought set of
relief maps for use in the schools.
The pucc paid is 500.
jerome Swartswood, one of the
oldest Masons of Monroe county,
died last week aged "a years. He
was made Mason III 1868.
In the Shefer.Leh contest in
northampton county, the recount
gives the Republican Sc majority
over the sitting member Leh.
-Smithfield township, Monroe
county at the election held last week
by a vote of 70 to l19 decided
against purchasing stone crusher.
Miss Mary P Bradley, principal
of the Music Department of the
Normal, is making an effort to or
ganize an Episcopal Church at East
Stroudsbulg.
Lake Poponoming, popular
summer resort in Monroe county,
was lately sold by the sheriff to
syndicate of Stroudsburg gentlemen
for about $4,000.
Fishing for shad has not vet
conmeuced here. The water has
been too high, and the weather too
cold, but thefish will be good when
we do get them
The Telephone company is ex-
tending its line to Dingman town
ship, and has put in a new AMI i'm
proved S andard Switch board at Il
Central Office at Findlays.
james B. Gentry, who was tried
and convicted of the murder of
Madge Yorke, at Philadelphia. has
had his sentence commuted by the
Board of Pardons to life imprison-
ment.
In Milford, Easter Sunday, the
churches were all beautifully decor
ated and services appropriate to the
day held. Six children were bap-
tized at the afternoon service in the
Episcopal Church.
DIR. S. w, Mills, Of Port Jervis,
recalls the fact that in 1854 Easter
fell on the 18th and that during the
18th, 10Th and goth of April it never
stopped showing and the beautiful
fell to the depth of rs inches.
Jas. W. Pinchot has been rep:> r.
ing the debris of the burned library
building, but we do not know
whether there will be any Phoenix
business about it. The cleaning up
is great improvement anyway.
Report from the peach belt is to
the effect that the recent cold snap
has seriously injured the crop.
Other fruits have also been dam
aged, and early produce killed.
This is very dfscouraging to farmers.
Eugene Boilletat of Dingman
township lost a finger rather sud
denly He was stopping up the end
of the gun with his finger and stood
it down rather hard on the floor
which exploded it with the above
result.
The supervisor of Milford town
ship is proposing to lower the hill
near the house of J. G. Bull, A new
culvert will be put in and the small
stream crossing at that point will be
lowered so as to allow of the reduc-
tion in the grade
The hens have been working on
full time this spring, and as a con-
sequence there is an overproduction
Of eggs and prices rule at 10 cents
per dozen. They will begin now to
sit, and cluck, and cluck and sit and
spoil lots of their fruit and prices
will no doubt advance.
The Mozart Symphony Club of
New York, which has given enter
tainments in ~ states of the Union,
and of which Miss Marie Louisa
Gumaer is the leading spirit, gave a
concert in Port Jervis Tuesday
evening, April 20th.
Two Of the Pike county COM
missioners being unable to meet on
account of sickness, the Monroe
Co. commissioners returned home
last week without accomplishing
any definite conclusion in regard to
the bridge at Bushkill.
"A man giving his name as Tom
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