Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-04-27
BRIEF MENTION.

AWAKEN.
The Ladies' Club win meet next
Thursday evening with Mrs W. ".
billiard.
Ladies' Aid Society of the Presby
terian church will meet Tuesday at
the Sawkill House.
Ex- Prothonotary j. e. Westbrook
is having his house ON Fourth st.
newly painted Geo. Slawson is
chief OF the work.
Mrs. Edwards, of New York, while
here with her daughter and Mrs.
Herze Saturday suffered slight
stroke OF paralysis.
}. c, Chamberlain has been ap-
pointed and commissioned as Notary
Public and can now take ackowl-
nlents of legal instruments.
Jacob G. Fonda, proprietor OF the
Port Jervis steam laundry, died at
his home in that village hast sunday
evening aged nearly 80 years.
AT the Sheriffs' sale last Saturday
of the property Of Frank Dense, situ-
ated in Palmyra township, Geo. A.
Swepenizer becaIne the purchaser for
S20O.
BY vote of 33 to 81 the Senate
Oh tuesday refused to admit M. 5.
Quay to II seat III that body on the
certificate OF appointment OF GOV.
Stone.
Senator Mahlon Pitney, of Morris
county and a Republlcan aspirant for
Governor Of New Jersey, has by the
will of George Richards late OF Nor
ristOwn fallen heir to sou, 900.
Camp Yapeechu for boys will be
estaUllsned this summer Oh the farm
OF j. Z. Bull and Will be III the
cnarge OF Rev. f. Gardiner and
Cnas. H. Wilson, OIL Lancaster.
Marriage licenses have been issued
to Frank n. WiIkln ana Laura K
Seymour, 10th OF MatamUras, and
to Jacob Onver Ryder, OF Matamor-
as, and Jula Buchanan, OF Milford.
The State railroad commission Oh
New YORK mas granted the appnca
llou Ot tue Delaware Valley and
Kingston railway tJ baud road
from Kingston to II pUlnt opposite
Lacka waXen.
ROwdys smashed the globe ON the
lamp on the corner at DR.. Kelly IS
Saturday night. This kind OF amuse-
ment Is becoming veay monotonous
and expensive. A few arrests might
relieve both.
o. T.. Gilbert, Il colored gentleman
from Philadelphia, gave an address
III tile Court House tuesday evening
ON the subject the past and present
progress OF the freedmen their
schools ana religious Advancement.
By a decision of the Supreme
Court affirming decree of the Or
phan's count of Luzerne county in the
estate of the late Isaac Everitt, Aure-
liza Middaugh of Delaware township,
as one of theheirs will received about
~ nnn g,.,.., A., ,,A,4.
The earliest record of the bubonic
plague is 800 b. &. but it is now said
that the epidemic of ll4l described in
the First Book of samuel, chaps 4 to
6, was true bubonie plague. The
revised version translates the word
emeIad tumor or plague boil.
q. o. Armstrong, the progressive
druggist, tins week insta He'd large
and handsome new soda fountain in
his pharmacy. It will furnish fizz
for multitude of thirsty, IL bever-
age winch cheers but does not ine-
briate any more than dense fog.
Some scientists now aver that
water is really blue, and that the az
ure tint is not caused by the presunce
Of foreign substances, as has beer
heretofore presumed. However, this
may be drinking it has never YET
been known to give any one the blues
The freshet this week has enabled
the lumbeImen to run their RATS t.
market and several have passed dowr
. the river. The contrast in number
Z between now and thirty years ago il
evidence Of the melancholy fact thai
the timber supply along the Della
ware is about exhausted.
One of the curses Of keeping sheel
, are the worthless dogs which are al
.. lowed to ylm over the county. The.
! not only kill but a flock once barrie,
5 by them is irreparably injured. Dog
on land, other than that Of thei
owners, are trespassers and should b
summarily treated to a load of shot.
2 A small tenant house on the over
d brook farm Of J. c. Wallace in Ding
4 man township, occupied by the fam
+. lily Of John Froesse, was ignited by
: bursting lamp early last Saturda
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