Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-10-07
LAYTON.

The "Hornbeck" iron bridge is complet-
ed and will be viewed for acceptance on
Thursday of this week The mason y is
said TO be first class job, and the Free
holders will no doubt declare the iron work
to be, ditto.
Mrs David Heater and daughter, of
Deckertown were visiting friends in, and
about Layton, last week
Clarence johnson and VIII Beyans will
try for job on the Newark trolleys this
week. They are both reliable young men
aud shonld meet with no difficulty in So.
curing the desired position
A child of Manning Hotalen swallowed
a nickel last week. No bad results as yet,
though the SHERIFF mas doubts as to its
being safe place for cash deposits.
The buckwheat crop is an average good
one, and the past week saw much of it
threshsd and cared for in good condition
The pancake timber for this winter will
therefore be the;clear stuff and free from
knots and flaw, all wool and yard wide
as it were.
There will be an examination Of Teach
ersfor the the third grade on Friday of
this week and for l, and 2, grades on Sat
urday. 1t will be held in the public school
building at Newton, and is the first of the
series for this school year
Subscribers to the peanut telephone
trunk line begir to realize that they
haven't got the best thing there is going
still it beats nothing, when it does work
by quite big lot.
John J. Van Sickle has sold out his i'm
mense holdings ofapple to a party in New
ark, N. J.
Daniel Shoemaker is visiting relatives
In the Delaware Valley Dan is a profess
sional miner, and was sent to South Africa
when the mining craze broke out over
there, but returned, and for the past two
years has had charge of silver mine in
Mexico He is looking we'll, and carries
his So years with ease.
Mrs. Sally Ann Hunt and daughter Wis.
tied her neice, Mrs. H. e Montross. on
Sunday. Mrs. Hunt will be remembered
by many of our people as the wife Of the
late DIR Isaac Hunt, and mother of the
late J. Halsey Hunt, NJ d. Mrs. Hunt Is
now in quite feeble health.
The festival in the Centreville Church
last Thursday night was we'll attended
and about $500 was realized. This is an.
proaehing old-time figures, before a
church squabble was known, and show,
that Pastor Burley is more successful than
some of his predecessors in closing the
breach.
The author Of the ''Nail Keg" series wa.
seen to pass through this hamlet on Sun
day morning, en- route for Newton. II II
had been a week day we would have sup
posed he was running a prisoner in, bui
as it was Sunday perhaps he was only go
ing to Newton to church.
Apples will be too short crop to g,
round this year, and the high prices viii
prohibit any export movement.
Mrs. Amelia, wife Of Jason Lehomme
dieu, living near Normenock, died OF
Sunday evening of dropsy, after an lines
of several months. She bore her suffer
ings with commendable patience, an,
passed away quietly at the ripe age O
go years. An aged husband and two sons
John and Jason, survive her.
Mrs George Porter, Of Hainesville, /
seriously ill, at this writing, ofpedtonitis
The family has the sympathy Of the com
munity
1t is the most insensate folly for Demo
Gratis to even try to inject the free silve
issue in this campaign It is not ma
tionM election, and the issue can bu
weaken the party, while but Strengthen
ing the Republican nominees.
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