Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-09-17
Brief MENTOR.


School House next Sabbath Sept.
10th at 230 p m.
The Y NJ. C. As. of Port Jervis
and the Milford nine played a game
of ball here last Saturday which re-
sided in a score of IL to 10 in favor
of the home nine.
johnson at Port Jervis calls at
tention to his closing out of russet
shoes. They are going very cheap,
and it will pay to take advantage Of
the great reductions
The Blooming Grove Park As
sociation is building a large dam on
the Shohola creek, which will over
flow considerable land and make an
excellent trout pond.
The old stone grist mill at Port
Jervis has been sold to a gentleman
who will convert it into silk manu-
factory which willemploy 200 opera
tives. This will be a boom for our
neighbor.
The editor of the Monroe Demo
crat still plies discriminating sois-
sors, but remains forgetful of the
commandment. The article "about
snakes" in its last issue was copied
from the PRESS.
Cunning and Flanagan can fit
your head with a Derby hat, that is
unless it needs a cooper instead of a
halter. If this is not true we will
acknowledge the mistake when the
contrary is shown.
Mrs. w B. Duggan has received
from Governor Hastings her COM
mission as State police officer of
the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children. She is the
first woman in the State thus hon
ored
The Registers ancient history
says Jan. 20, 1850 John l. West
brook, Albert s. Stoll and John Van
Gorden, committee, received pro
posals to build Reformed Dutch
church at Dingmans choice. Size
32x55.
The neurological table in the last
minutes of the Presbyterian General
Assembly shows the fact that the
average life of the one hundaed and
twenty eight ministers of that de-
nomination who died last year was
sixty six years.
The authorities at Washington
have decided to change the color OF
the current two-cent postal STAN =
from carmine to green of the shade
used on government notes. The
char ge will save about $40, 600 in
the difference in cost between the
two inks.
james Reser was arrested We'd
nesday charged with having August
3lst appropriated a pocket book
containing $40 ont OF a coat hanging
in Findlay's stable. He gave bail
in 800 with Maurice Steele as sur
ETY. for his appearance at the hear
ing before William Angle, Esq. the
27th.
-Zion's Herald warns the Ep-
worth League of four dangers to
which it is exposed First that of
being "conventionized to death"
second, that of being "ministerized
to death" third, that of being
"benevolentized to DEATH; and
fourth, that of being politicalized
to DEATH.
During a severe storm at
Stroudsburg Monday lightning
struck the house of NJ. w Brown on
Normal Hill and badly damaged it.
His wife was rendered unconscious
for over two hours. At Broadheads-
vile, Christian Mills house was hit
and damaged, and also at Kellers-
Vile, a Mr. Snyder's house was
struck and burned.
Tho case of the Commonwealth
against F. A. Van Valkenburg for
conspiracy which grows out of the
alleged attempt to bribe Senator w.
c, Weiss, of Northampton, last win
ter in the Wanamaker Senatorial
fight and which was to be tried at
Pottsville this week was postponed
until November by reason of the i'll
ness of defendants brother.
William Checkley, a we'll
known resident of Honesdale, was
found hanging dead in his house
last Monday. He had taken a piece
of cord attached one end to shovel
handle which was thrown over a
door and the other end around his
neck. He then stood on a jar and
after all was ready kicked it away
and was suspended He lived alone.
just try 10c box of Cascarets the
finest liver and bowel regulator ever
made