Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-01-15
LAYTON.
Especial Correspondence to the PRESS }

LAYTON, Jan. 11.-Will "Sand Burr
kindly tie his sentences together so the
reader can get little sense out of them.
1t was no doubt intended there should be
some sense in them, but it taxes ones in
genuity to the utmost to find it.
Why "Dick" should have been missed
by Santa Claus is past our comprehension.
He has been a careful and painstaking
contributor to the PRESS the last year,
and given the people straight news. We
tried to be good boys the pa st year too, but
our stocking failed to draw tribute from
Santa. Now we have both apparently
made some good resolutions as good
christians should, and if these are kept,
we surely may expect that the Knight of
the Renders will at the close of another
year, recompense as in double measure.
Ed Layton the man of all work in the
employ of the Flat Brook Club has kept
adding to his accomplishments until he
has become almost indispensable to the
club. AS sportsmens guide he is unex-
celled. Is not at all slow himself with
rod and line. Has had charge of the
Trout Hatching room for some time with
100000 trout eggs under his care and last
week filed an incubator to hatch early
broilers for the club. Surely Ed will have
to do some hustling.
Dayton Depue is booked to move in the
spring from the farm of J. Y. Clark near
Hainesville, to the farm of Moses Cole
near Layton.
Mr.. H. K. Montross we are very happy
to state is steadily improving He begins
to sit up at short intervals, and is surely
gaining strength with each day. The
canards circulating elsewhere, and differ
ing from the above statement are not to be
credited
When a person gets worsted in argument
they often talk fight, unless they should
happen to have brains; then they are apt
to show it by keeping cool. When a per-
son takes a newspaper structure to him
self, and as it were fits the shoe on, it is
considered fairly good rule of evidence
that he is guilty. A bully is generally a
coward, and always a very disagreeable
person in any community When the
bully gets so hot under his collar that he
feels he must take the law into his own
hands, then is a good time to give a
thought to the majesty of the laws. No
good citizen needs any other protection.
We are not in the wilds of Pennsylvania,
although they do send person to States
Prison there sometimes too.
The series Of revival services at Layton
are continued this week. Rev. G. H. Won
Claim, the Pastor, has labored very faith
fully, and his eloquence, and gentlemanly
bearing has made decidedly good impres
sion.
A regular contract has been entered into
between Youngs & Smith, the owners Of
the rock crushing plant, and the people Of
Beyans by which the placing of crushed
stone on the road from Frank Nc
Keeby's store to the watering trough at
Alfred Bevans' is now going on. Youngs
& Smith crush the stone at a reduced rate.
John J. Van.Sickle meets half the money
cost, and the people of Bevans and vicinity
the balance. All honor to the pioneers Of
this good work in our valley. They will
not be forgotten, at least as long as that
road lasts.
Another candidate for the Morristown
Asylum appeared In the Post Office last
Saturday His rawlings indicated a very
acute and decided disarrangement Of the
gray matter, or else an advanced stage Of
intellectual atrophy. His friends should
care for him before he becomes a state
charge.
Mrs. Frank Rosenkrans has suffered
the past week from combined attack Of
pleurisy, and neuralgia. Her many friends
viii learn with pleasure that she is now
improving
A sad accident is reported Of Reeves
Swartwout, as occurring at Branchvile.
II Is said he had put a charge Of powder in
aiog to burst it. One report has it that
be touched it of with a match, another
that the fuse burning up, and not going
on at once he returned TO the log, reaching
Il just as the explosion occurred. Both
his legs were broken besides sustaining
other injuries. Later reports not consi-