Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-03-11
BRIEF MENTION.


The Commissioners are sitting in
various townships this week as a
court of appeals.
In Chester County the Quay ticket
won, and the State delegates will be
instructed for w. A. Stone for Gov.
ernor.
If the weather is fair service will
be resumed at the Sawkill school
house next Sunday March Is th at
2 80 p. m.
The Bethlehem Times says the
State fishery may be moved from
near Allentown to Grims Meadows
on the Saucon Creek.
The lime kilns along the Bushkill
in Northampton Co. have been
working steadily and full handed
the past winter, which they have not
done before in the past years.
Capitalists have offered to erect
a beet-sugar plant, if assured that
several thousand acres of land
would be planted to beets, in Bucks,
Lebanon and Lancaster counties.
Governor Hastings has named
April Sth and % as Arbor days,
and hopes the children of the Com
monwealth may be impressed with
the importance and benefcence of
tree planting.
Farms for sale on Long Island and
also one in Delaware and a house and
lot in the Borough are advertised
this week. The house is desirably
located and we'll adapted for keeping
summer boarders.
Sap has ceased running. The sea-
son is too far advanced apparently
for further profit in the maple mo-
lasses business. But wait and see,
April 25 1857, snow fell to the
depth of one foot.
The Town Council met Monday
and organized by re-electing j. B.
Chamberlain President and d. H.
Hornbeck Secretary, and fixed the
salary at SIS per year. The meet
ings will in future be held in the
rooms over the store of Ryman &
Wells on Hartford street.
The Due de Loubat donated this
week property in New York valued
at over one million dollars to Colum-
bia College. This donation with that
of an equal sum heretofore presented
by President Low to construct IL
brary, will place the library on an
independent basis forever.
Mormon missionaries who have
been attempting for several weeks
to make converts at Stroudsburg,
have given it mp as bad job, and
have left that county. They could
not even hire a public place in which
to preach their doctrines. Monroe
is little off in politics, but her head
religiously speaking, is level.
The weather for the past week has
been superb, the roads in good con.
dition for wheelmen, and many
have enjoyed the unusual pleasure
of riding with comfort in the firsI
week in March. Blue birds are here
in numbers and every thing be-
tokens that spring has come to stay
We hope there will be no disap
pointments.
There are ten million citizens in
the United States of military age
and of this vast army ,at least eighty
per cent. could be concentrated IN
less than forty-eight hours. Penn,
sylvania has $4,000 men liable tt
military duty, ninety per cent. o.
whom would be likely to turn ouf
for go days service, and they coult
be mustered in thirty-six hours.
The Hudson River telephone peo
pie have been in Milford making ar
rangements to put mp line Th'
purpose is to run from Port Jer-
Wis via Milford Hainesville an,
Layton (from which point Their
, viii be a loop to Dlngmans) Il
Branchville and other points in Sus
sex. They have secured fourteen
subscribers already in town.