Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-02-04
LAYTON.

The township committee will be in ses-
sion on Saturday Feb. 3, at the hotel Of
H. K. Montross, for the purpose of audit
ing and paying bills, to estimate the
amount of road money necessary for the
coming year, to make out the financial
statement and arrange for it's publication
Clyde w. Deming Ambassador OF
Christ, and watchman on the tower was
visiting among his adherents in Sandys
ton last week We did not learn whether
the Dominic tapped the NAPLES for drink
of buttermilk or not. 1t is trihe early
perhaps to get good flow.
We note that the Hudson River telephone
company is charging ten cent rate foi
messages between Newton and Sparta.
Relating to the Kentucky Legislature
making the marriage of first cousins un-
lawful, and declaring those already en-
tered into as incestuous, wished to say
"that wonder what that Legislature
would call it where man marrries step
daughter, as one did in this town" Ii
that compositor don't keep sharp eye on
copy this time, we beg to gently intimate
H will be after them with sharp stick OF
a sand bag.
One of the boys in the Centreville school
got into scrimmage last week and two
or three others set on him with an evidenl
intention TO spoil his beauty. 1t is said
beauty is only skin deep, if so, the boys
played havoc with it for they clawed q
good share of the cuticle from the young
sters face. The victim was sight to be
hold, but is getting better
We note ia the Vantage Recorder thai
one of the Board of Education visited tht
Hainesville school last Friday, and that
this is the first member of the board tt
visit any school in the town, and the term
more than half gone Our school In the
town would probably have been benefited
by their frequent presence, although thS
rJst of them are doing very well and can
not be said to have suffered materially by
the omission
Mr. John Warner of FREEDOM, who ha'
suffered from general debility for couple
of years past, died last Saturday, and tn,
interment in the cemetery at Layton took
place on Monday afternoon
The proposed new game laws will pro
vide for a short, but even open season fo
all game, and establish a boundary with
slight change of dates for the northern
and southern portions of the State.
The CentreYille school is attracting quit
bit of attention abroad as well as a
home. Fighting, swearing and immora
language, as well as actions, seems to b
prevalent and unchecked. 1t cannot b.
that the parents desire their children t.
grow to man and WomanhOOd under sucl
influences, and we wonder if they realiz
what the continuation Of such training
will produce in the man and woman O
the coming generation. No we canno
even believe that any parent Is even will
ing that their children run wild, in fact W
know that most of them are the best o
children when under home influences.
then these evils how from school associa
tiOn as it is admitted most of them dc
then the future man and woman can b
improved by drastic measures in th
school,
Andrew Cation and Mrs. Susie Myer
have moved into the Rutan house, nea
the parsonage, at Hainesyille.
Married at the home OF the brides par
ents in Hampton township, ON Wednes
day, Jan. Goth, Morgan d. Hughes, NJ
D., Of Layton. and Miss Margaret Wyker
of Myrtle Grove. We tender congratula
tions, and wish for them a prosperous an'
happy life The happy couple took pos
session Of their future home at Layton ant