Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-02-11
NO. Is.
BRIEF MENTION.

AT Milford, Monday Feb. 14th.
AT Dingmans, Tuesday, Feb.
18th.
Able speakers be will present.
Sessions will open at 13O p m.
Let there be large audiences.
Wives and mothers will be in
terested
Show your appreciation of the
opportunity.
1t is to benefit you the meetings
are held.
You will not be profited if you
remain away.
1t is not book farming, but sense
farming.
Farming for profit.
Does that appeal to you?
Your presence or absence will
determine.
The Milford, Matamoras and
New York Railroad engineers have
finished the line to Milford, and are
now at work putting in the grade
stakes. This, it is said, is prelim-
mary to an early commencement of
the actual work of construction.
Two of the County Commission
ers, Heller and Newman, have filed
appeals from the auditors state
ment surcharging them with time
alleged to be improperly spent and
expenses and horse hire unnecessar-
lily incurred, the items of which ap-
peared in the Press of Jan. 21st.
Miss Emma Daley, of Strouds-
burg, in attempting to light a cigar
cite last Sunday set fire to some
clothes drying on line and but for
prompt aid the house would have
been burned.
Tie Philadelphia Press of Mon
day contained picture of Congress-
man Kirkpatrick and also stated
that he was willing to accept re-
nomination for the office.
The G. L. S. met last evening at
the home of the Misses Bull on
Board street.
Cottage prayer meetings are
being held at "The Manse" Tuesday
evenings.
The Port Jervis trustees at a
meeting held last Monday evening
resolved to give the Erie company
peremptory notice to open Fowler
street Within 12 hours after service
of same, and in case of failure to do
so they would take immediate ac-
ton.
1t is neither sleigh ing or wagon
ing on the river road, and warm
weather will only make it worse,
while cold will have the same re-
suit. Now which do you wish for,
The preliminary examination of
applicants for the West Point Ca
detship was held last Saturday at
Easton. There were none from
this section.
Two greenback farmers from
the Blue Grass State were fleeced
out of $27O last week by green goods
men at Allentown. 1t was the old
game of packages of paper in tin
box, n It to be opened until they got
home, but curiosity and greed i'm
PEELED them to examine it before
they left the town aud then the
sharpers had disappeared.
1t looks as though rubber boots
would be indispensable in the very
near - pretty soon or quicker.
Take time and slush by the forelock,
by sending an order to Johnson, at
Port Jervis for a pair of Woonsocket
boots only 1929 delivered. Glance
at his "ad" while drying your feet.
The heirs of S. Marietta Thrall,
who bequeathed by her will large
sums to Thrall Hospital and to es-
tablish a public library in Middle
town, have begun proceedings to
prevent payment of the legacies.
The Stroudsburg Post Office
is not yet settled and the several
contestants for the plum are grow
ing slightly warm over the exercise
it gives them.
Mrs. Lizzie E. Howell, of Month
cello, N. Y, wife of the rector who
is at present slightly under a cloud,
has sued the New York World to re-
cover $4,000 damages for alleged
libel in publishing false and libel
GUS article concerning her which
was furnished by her husband.
The c. E. Society and Epworth
League will hold a Union meeting
in the Presbyterian church Sunday
evening at 730. The subject for the
evenings consideration will be