Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-04-08
BRIEF MENTION.

| at the nome OF Mrs. X. u. Barckley.
The Forest Lake Association Club
House will open for the reception of
Members May 25th
The usual service may be expected
at the Sawkill School House Sunday
April 10th, ut 1880 p M
There will be special services and
fine music in the Church of the
Good Shepard this Frida Y after
noon.
Armstrong; Milford Pharmacy
is well supplied with Easter goods
as the new ad on another page more
fully states.
Dubois Pettibone will soon leave
the Brick House at Montague to take
possession of the Exchange Hotel
in Port Jervis.
We hada touch of genuine March
weather the former part of this
week, to compensate for what we
did not have in season.
The collection taken in the Pres
byterian Sunday School last Sab
hath in aid of the starving Cubans
amounted to ever eight dollars.
A. l.. Rowland, who win open
hottling establishment in the former
Gold shop on Hartford street, moved
his family TO Milford the first of the
week.
Travis has moved his store from
the Pinchot building to the New
man Building on Broad Street. where
he expects to keep large stock of
goods.
The Epworth League of the M. E.
Church will hold an egg social to-
morrow, Saturday evening, in the
Church parlors. Everyone is cor
daily invited.
Write something in your diary
about the weather this week the
fine robin snow which fell April 5.
but don't write any poetry about the
beautiful" spring time just yet.
The Milford and Delaware Bridge
Company has bought plank of E. S.
Wolf to replace the bridge. There
will be one course 81 feet long laid
so as to cover the centre of the track.
The snow storm and cold wea-
ther this week greatly Injured the
prospective fruit crops in this state.
IL the Franklin County peach belt
the loss is estimated at million
dollars.
Jerry and Durling La Bar, of
Smithfield Township, Monroe Co.,
were lodged in jail at Stroudsburg
last week, charged with the lar
ceny of be eff, bacon and feed from
the smokehouse of Frank Miller.
The Milford fremen responded
very promptly to the alarm of fire
last Saturday evening and were
ready to do their work with zeal,
but the building was too far from
the hydrants to be reached by the
hose.
The corps of surveyors for the
NJ, NJ. & N. Y. r. r have been
running line this week around
Milford crossing Broad street at
Sarah street thence up to Seventh
and out beyond Col. Lewis house,
crossing Hartford at Ninth.
A break in the levee of the Miss
issippi River at Shawneetown, Ill.
has swept away that will age and
drowned more than so people. TIL g
10, 1 m cOAf 4 IL .1.,o1
ly increasing. The site of the town
is from Is to 20 feet under water
The contractor forthe NJ, NJ. and
N. Y. r. R. at Port Jervis has the
derricks and engines in position and
has cleared off the abutments pre-
paratory to building. A large scow
is nearly completed which will be
used to cary stone to the pier. The
stone will be hauled from a quarry at
/ Cahoonzie.
Clifford Pinch OF, Acting State
Foreter of New Y ork, made an ad-
dress at the New Jersey Forestry
Association Meeting held at Trenton
March IL. His topic was forest fires
and how to fight them, also touch
ing on some of. the peeuliarities of
certain trees which would grow if
fires were prevented.
Medical authorities and boards of
health are expressing great anxiety
as to the certainty of the introduc-
/ tion of yellow fever into the country
next summer in case of war which
would compel the presence of our
troops in Cuba and close and con-
stant communication with them,
thus probably endangering more
lives in the United States than exist
in the island of Cuba.
The members of Miss Lizzie Bull s
Sunday Sc hool class, and their
friends, were delightfully."- entertain
ed by her ON Friday evening, April
1st. A riasical programme had
been arranged for part of the even
ing, consisting of a number of in
strumental selections by Blanche
Cross, Bertha Kleinhans, Linda
Klaer and Lila Van Etten also q
vocal solo by Frank Cross.
What a terrible state the liyers
of the jaundiced journals must be
in to enable them to keep up such @
yellow, while the President quietly
but surely goes forward withCOngres
and the people willing TO trust his
Judgment and await his action. II
is a good thing to have a man at tho
head of the government in whose
wisdom and stability all parties car