Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-08-20
LAYTON.

These items are in no-siso designed to
/ burlesqus the interesting productions of
other correspondents as usually found in
our county newspapers.
| Collector Hiram Hankins is elegant
authority on the fish laws Of New Jersey
and Pennsylvania and would make fine
Justice of the Peace in Walpack
| Bx-Froeholder Joseph G. Warner is the
owner of three farms and is a noted truck
grower. His produce is mainly marketed
in Port Jervis aud Milford and he weighs
about two hundred pounds when he is
right fat
Justice James B Fuller was promin-
ent figure on the speakers stand at the big
picnic last Saturday. Jim had his note
book and pencil out and you will get it
| straight in this weeks Herald.
| Pound Keeper, Garrett Abers is cap
able and obliging official and it takes quite
an active man to beat him getting out
tie or talking politics.
Ex-Postmaster Lester I Smith has not
| yet mated his fine black horse, but proba-
| bly, will find one in the city. Later he has
| bought fine team of bay horses, and is
all right Constable George Warner has
about the best stepping farm team in the
valley.
| Ex-Constable Ben Drake has a comfort
able and imposing corporosity or bay win
dow and they say it was not built ON beer
either. Ben is proud OF it.
Freeholder Edwin b Klntner is an ex-
tremely obliging official and occasionally
gives his friends a free ride behind his
nobby team.
Ex-Justioe of the Peace VIM c. Drake
has fine peach orchard and is extending
his acreage of berries Both are bearing
good crops this year.
| Shady Lane has taken a-cr something
like vomick and now feels in somewhat
the same condition the whale is supposed
to have been in after it got rid of Joseph,
no excuse me Jonah
| Benz d. Hursh brought new Crescent
wheel with him from New York last week.
He rode it from Newark home, taking
breakfast in New York, he dined in New
| ton and was home in the evening doing it
with ease, his cyolometer registering 73h
miles
/ wv bhEEtAo anu Atiiilil nave BlNth up
boarding and will here after reside with
his father in-law Francis Layton
We noticed our old friend, Robert A:
Price of Morristown was taking in the pic
mic at Culvers on Saturday and seemed to
thoroughly enjoy the hearty greetings of
his many friends.
The Farmers, Mechanics and Trades
men Picnic at Culvers Lake on Saturday
was an unqualified success Everybody
was there. The citizens band was on Its
mettle and the speakers made brief but
interesting speeches. Capt. Lewis Van
Blarcom, John l.. Swayze and ex-Judge
Lewis J Martin all sons Of old Sussex
came in close touch with the people and
the Judge captured their sympathies en-
tirely when he told them he had been
a farmer himself and found it so hard
business that he had to add on "A law prac-
tice to make the balance come out on the
rig hit side. The attendance was variously
estimated at from 4,J0O to 1000 people, at
any rate it was generally conceded to be
greater than last year, and the holders of
privileges did much better In fact l be-
lieve everybody was pleased and enjoyed
| themselves
The arrest Of Ed Layton at Dingmans
for catching trout in stream in Pike
county was simply for effect Perjury
was committed in swearing that the trout
were taken in 1894 whereas it was in 1892
The fish were taken by the notorious Cass
Howell himself for Layton. 1t was from n
private stream by permission of relative
of Layton occupying the land and was be
sides for stocking purposes Cass Howell
as irresponsible stool pigeon preferred the
charge egged on by Others who have per
sonal spite and desired to make capital out
Of it for newspaper use and against the
Flatbrook Club. No one appeared against
Layton on trial day and no one expected
to unless it was Honest John. The part
les had no case and are left in the same
ridiculous attitude that Honest John oc-
eupies In his report of the case in the Gaz-
ette of Aug. l3. Simply a little too preyi-
Gus
Honest John is so quick to see spite
work in everything that does not agree
with his narrow views, that it would be
well to remind him that person who goes
into foreign territory (say Pike county, to
aid and instigate in the arrest Of a neigh
Dor where there is no case would be better
employed at home cutting his Canada
thistles. 1t is only % cents fine each for
letting these noxious plants go to seed
He can accept it for fact that it takes
smart man much smarter than himself to
keep his own bars up, while he is engaged
IN letting other peoples down.
J e Everett who is doinga fine saloon
business in Newark, was visiting his many
friends in SandystOn last week.
Lester Il. Smith enjoyed several days 70
Taxation from business cares down the
county last week.
Wewould offer as a suggestion to the
management OF the Farmers, Mechanics
and Tradesmens picnic that next year they
appoint two, or more Of their number as a
committee with fun power to locate an
the stands closely and compactly in street
form aud save space The many other
reasons for such a step are too apparent to
need mention
The populace is not always on the right
side Of "a question, and it is often wise TO
look beneath the clamor to lind ii there Is
not principle involved This is applics.-
bic 90 the fish question. Beneath all this
fuss and feathers is a question Of property
and its protection Il Is a vital one In
the end the owner viii find that the law
will protect his fish and game fnterastz