Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1899-07-21

Herbert Alton. of Brooklyn, is at
! the Crissman House for a stay of
several week.
DR.. H. B. Reed and son Howard
are spending a day or so in New
York city.
w. Irving Dey, of Ridgewood, N.
j.. is spending several weeks at the
Bluff House.
! Hon John u. Biddis arrived in
town this week from Washington,
to spend a three week vacation with
his family here.
A full account of the entertain
ment, given in Browns Hall last ev-
ening (Thursday) for the benefit Of
the Presbyterian organ fund, will be
given in The PRESS next week.
FOR SALE-Horse, carriage and
harness. Apply to JOHN L. GoUR-
LAY, Milford Pa.
The stone work for County Line
Bridge, at Hawley, was sold to An
thony Van Auken or Tafton, Pike
Co. for the sum of $3S9.
The County Commissioners went
to Hawley Tuesday where they met
the commissioners of Wayne to sell
the building of the abutments and
guard walls of the bridge at Crom
welltown.
Bicycle Repairing quickly done at
Rutans.
The North German Lloyd people
have just ordered a passenger YES
sci which will be 700 feet long, 20
feet in beam and is to make twenty
three and half knots with engines
of 36, 900 horse power.
Moses Gumaer, of Sandyston, N.
j., made pleasant call at the The
Press Office this week. He says that
small fruits are plentiful and fine
in his section, but the peach crop
will be a total failure.
An informal meeting of parties
interested in a proposed railroad up
the valley was held Thursday at
Bushkill, and was attended, by sew
eral gentlemen from Easton and
other places who seem quite san
guine that the project will mater
ialize soon into actual visible fact.
Eleven correspondents of papers
at Manila have signed a statement
to the effect that the dispatches sent
by General Otis to the Government
do not represent the true state of af-
fairs there, and that the declaration
made by him that "the situation is
we'll in hand" aud the assumption
that the insurrection can be speedily
ended without a greatly increased
army is an error. If the charges are
not true the correspondents will be
ordered from the island, and if true
Otis will be removed.
Row boats are a scarce article in
and about Port Jervis at this time
of the year. 1t seems they can't be
obtained for love nor money, and
they are often borrowed at different
places along the shore and forgot.
ten to be returned
After several meetings and dis
cussions over the matter, it was fin
ally concluded this week to seat the
Sunday School room of the Presby-
terian church with chairs. A COM
mittee consisting of Mrs. J. H. Van
Etten, Miss Helen Biddis and Jacob
Klaer went to Port Jervis this week
to make the selection, and soon, no
doubt, the old pews will be replaced
with the more modern furniture.
A farmer from near Milford was
held up Sunday on Catbarine street,
not by highwaymen, but by some
thing in hemp bag lying in the
middle of the street which was in
clined TO move quite briskly. His
horse refusing to pass it he dis
; mounted from the wagon and going
up to the bag opened it and found tC
' his surprise small, shaggy haired
' dog which had evidently refused t.
obey orders and had been placed
. there to be run over as punishment
He freed the dog and it ran home
A Port Jervis shoe man little rec
. our streets and sidewalks this weel
with large dodgers, advertising
wonderful bargains. If you wan
. fair treatment and good value TO
. your money consult the advertising
u columns of the Press, and eschev
those merchants who prefer to de
face trees and posts and dirty tn
i streets with paper to doing regu
l. lar business in a live and let liv
i manner. II they want Milfor
l. trade let them ask for it throug
:, the home papers.
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