Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-04-20
BRIEF MENTION.

iNAt0t W iAi AitEA liNtAAhs
Mrs. B. Ed. Brown is suffering an
attack Of quirsy sore throat.
Miss Fannie Poillon is not enjoy
ing her usual health this week.
Miss Ethel Noyes entertained a
euchre party yesterday afternoon.
The old Vandarmark Hose house
will be sold at public sale tomorrow.
A complete line of Mems fine shoes
and Oxfolds at r. Armstrong & Co.
Work has been begun on the
streets by Street Commissioner EN-
cry.
Ex-eounty Judge Peter Gruver, of
Monroe county, is dead at the age Of
G5 years.
Mrs. w. V. Hilliard gave lunch
con i'm houor of Miss Corinne Reed
last Saturday
The collection for the famine suf-
ferers in India at the Presbyterian
chuch Sunday wns $l3.
The next meeting of the Presby.
terry of Hudson will be held in the
Church here in September
At the Episcopal church Sabbath
morning the Easter offering amount
ed to $3.50. and at Sunday school S35.
The Ladies' Aid of the Presbyter-
ian church met Thursday afternoon
at the home Of Mrs. j. H. Van Etten.
Sickness of a member of the choir
prevented rendering the Easter
music prepared for Easter in the
Episcopal church,
Report says that Julia Buchanan
and j. Oily Ryder will be married
Thursday, April 26 at her no re on
Catharine street
Rev c.. Fl. Whitaker, of Bushkill
has received a call to a Presbyte tel'ian
church at Bordentown N. j which
he is now considering.
j. Wallace Phillips, of Middle
town, N. Y, died at his home Mon
day He was cousin to John G..
Wallace of this town.
John p. Kelly was appointed last
week by Governor Stone a Judge in
Lackawanna county in place of Hon.
f. w. Gunster deceased.
The Middletown Forum ceased pub
lication last Saturday and the plant
will be removed to Massena, n. ",
where a new paper will be issued.
DR.. Emerson brought with him n
number of tropical plants and speci-
mems from jamaica, and a jar of the
curious weed which covers the Sar-
gasso sea.
Mrs Ebert P. Jones, wife of the
former Dist Deputy G. NJ. of Pike
and Wayne is dead at her home al
Lake Ariel. She wrote, and publish
ed, volume of poems.
The Supervisors of Westfall are
doing excellent work ON the roads
and the thoroughfare between here
and Port Jervis will probably be in
better shape than ever before.
The House of Representatives last
week passed a resolution providing
for a constitutional amendment tC
elect Senators by a popular vote
The ayes we're 24O and nays Is.
A tramp, who annoyed the family
of r. G.. Barcklay last Friday night
was on Saturday taken by Officer
Wood to the lookup and detained
for day when he was shipped out
Of town, with an injunction not t.
return.
AT the Republican congressiona
conference for the eighth district hell
at Easton April 18th Russell Q. Stew
art, of Easton, and j. H. Dreisbach
of Mauch Chunk, were elected Ma
tional delegates. H w Kistler, o
Monroe, and DR.. II. B Reed. of Pike
alternates, and RI bert H. Sayre, o
South Bethlehem, Presidential cleo
tor.
The report circulated here Of tn
death of Andrew A. Haight, former
ly engineer in charge of the surve
of the NJ. NJ. 4 p. ]. II. R., proves
be unfounded, which hismany friend
will be gratifed TO learn. He is nc
in good health, having never recOve
from the excessive hemOrrhage at tn
nose he suffered while here, but hi
friends hope that ultimately he wi
overcome its evil effects.
Alanson l.. Crawford. who wa
well known here in his younger day
under the sobriquet Coon" ha
risen to considerable distinction i
Jersey city where he resides. II
recently made a speech at a Repul
lican ratification meeting, held
indorse the candidates, one of whic
: he was, having been nominated f
Justice of the Peace, and at the ele'
Z tion held April 10th he was electe,
, though sevearl ON the ticket wit