Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-05-20
BRIEF MENTION.
Pillsbury's vitos at Mitchell's.
John S. Oliver was appointed post
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master at Glen Eyre, May 13.
Listers and the Great Eastern Fer
tilizers at w. & G.. Mitchell's.
Hon. William Ewart Gladstone
died at Hawarden about 1 a. m.
yesterday, Thursday.
The next meeting of the Chau-
tauqua Literary Circle will be held
at the home of Miss Lily Mott.
Julius W. Keisel is candidate for
committeeman. He is an energetic
party worker and deserves recog-
milton.
Sally and Ennis of Port Jervis
have an especially fine line of May
millinery which will interest the
ladies.
Service will be held at the Sawkill
School house Sunday, May 22, at
2:3O p. m, the weather per-
mitting.
Most of the young men who have
been rejected by the army surgeons,
in final examination, are cigarette
smokers.
The Third, Fourth and Sixteenth
regiments of Pennsylvania volun-
teers left Mt. Gretna early Sunday
morning for Chickamauga.
Jervis Gordon's grandfather was
one of the Braunsweigers, brought
over by the British during the Revo-
lutionary war, to fight the Ameri-
cans.
There has been some complaint of
too much rain recently, and yet
there has not been enough to cover
the shortage of the three months
preceding April.
Hon. w. S. kirkpatrick advocated
the House resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution pro-
viding for the election of u S. Sena-
tors by popular vote.
The first class battle ship Iowa
Is our most powerful open sea fight
er and the protected cruiser Mime
apolis, which has reached a speed
of 1877 knots, is the swiftest ship
in the navy.
c. Lehde, of Dingman Twp, who
fought bravely in the war of the re-
bellion, regrets that the age limit
bars him from active service now in
the war with Spain. His spirit is
as willing as in his younger days.
The stories of traffic in Post offices
have stirred up considerable feeling
in this state, and recently in the
goth Congressional district some
things have developed which go to
show that they were bartered away
for cash.
After this Spanish furry and
sensation is over and the country
settles down to its usual quiet, there
will be a re-adjustment among the
yellow newspapers. They cannot
keep the pace, and the people will
have no need for them.
A hearing in the Ottenheiner
Estate was held before Hon. d. M.
Van Auken, Auditor, on Tuesday,
which asattended by G. B. Staples,
H. J. Kotz, of Stroudsburg, and A,
X. Britain, Esq, and Hon, T. Y.
Hoffman, of East Stroudsburg.
An engine on the Erie r. r. blew
up Sunday night, near Oxford, in
stantly killing engineer VIM. Kronk,
and fireman Theodore Franklin,
both of Port Jervis. Eleven empty
cars were wrecked. 1t is not known
what caused the boiler to burst.
Subscribe now for the Press and
Tribune. In the busy times just
here they will give you all the war
news. The great events do not hap
pen daily, but at intervals of a week
or more, and these papers will fur
nish full information. Only 81 ,65
for both.
Every Republican should attend
the primaries to be held tomorrow,
the 21st. We have not been ap-
prized as to who are candidates, but
the tickets will show. Atall events,
manifest your interest by attending,
and demonstrate that the party is
alive to the situation.
The tenth Pennsylvania regiment
is ordered to join General Merritt S
command at San Francisco and form
part of the expedition to Manila.
T his isR high tribute to the efIicien-
cy of our volunteers. The regiment
was recruited in the five southwest
ern counties in the State.
1t cost a private citizen several
dollars this week to remove the dirt
and gravel which the town council,
at the expense of the taxpayers