Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-07-30
GRIEF MENTION.

ture win soon be erected
The Government will hereafter
be responsible for all registered let
ters where the value does not ex-
coed $40
The Democratic primaries for
nominating Il jury commissioner
viii be held August 21st
At the present price of silver
5he value of the silver in dollar is
a fraction over 46 cents.
A special meeting of the Ladies'
Aid Society of Montague was held
yesterday at the home Of Mrs Weed
The wheat crop in Franklin
county is very heavy, many fields
averaging forty bushels to the acre
The commissioners sold the fill
ing of the roadway at the Bushkill
bridge to William Schuppe for $40
The Kittatinny House at the
Delaware Water Gap has closed
The season there is said to be very
poor,
The Town Council at meeting
held Tuesday evening passed the re-
solutions to purchase the Glen over
the veto of the Burgess, by Il vote OF
six
The Milford Water Company re-
Gently replaced the fire plug in front
of the Fauchere Hotel, and changed
its location The old one had be.
come disabled.
Dogs killed two sheeps and
wounded a lamb last week belong
ing to G. w. Hubbard, of Dingman
township The auditors awarded
him $40 damages.
Henry L. Came has the filing
of the approach to the Mott street
bridge at $74. The fatal cost of that
work may now be closely approx
mated at $780,
The skin of the rattler, which
killed Willie Clark in Porter town
ship some time ago, now adorns the
Fauehere Hotel bar-room 1t mea-
sures five feet and sports twelve
rattles
The filling at the Mott Street
Bridge has been caved away by the
rain so that passage is considered
unsafe, and the bridge has been
closed TO travel until the necessary
repairs can be made.
Judge Craig refused naturaliza-
ton to two Russians at Stroudsburg
because they knew nothing.
They could not tell the name Of
the President, or of the Governor of
this State,
james Kresge and Joel Henning
of Monroe county, who were ar
rested on complaint of Peter Ross,
fish warden, for illegal fishing, were
discharged at the hearing last Mon
day.
"A firm in Middletown, N. Y
which manufactures gold dust bags
of sheepsBin for California custo-
mers is now working with double
force on account of orders received
since the Klondike discovery
The sawmill Of George Kipp at
Punxsutawney, Pa, was wrecked
July oath by the bursting of the
boiler One man was killed and ten
seriously injured and two hundred
men are thrown out of employment.
The road between Quicltown
and Matamoras was reported as
rough just after the storms. Some
large stones on the Cumming S
hill were uncovered and in many
places holes very annoy ing to wheel
men appeared,
George A. Brill, of PougIIquog,
Duchess county, a Cornell graduate
recently received a cable dispatch
from Ii Hung Chang offering him a
liberal sum to organize and manage
a model farm in China under the
/ Government He will accept.
The huckleberry crop on the
Moosic, Pocono and Shawangunk
mountains is now being gathered
The pickers win realize fully $500, :
900 from the entire crop Four
cents per quart is paid for picking
and the berries sell in market from
g to1o cents.
The report of a bitter fight
among Monroe Republicans over a
delegate to the State Convention is
pronounced by the Jeffersonian as
false. 1t says there viii not be any
fight nor is there any feeling what
ever and that everything is encour-
aging for the party.
The dish washer advertised in
the Pass win soon be on exhibition
here There are other kinds, of
course, for instance, the two handed
ones arrayed in calico and white