Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-03-02
All Around the County.
DlNGMANS.

Bort, son Of Isaac Smith last
week broke through the ice when
skating on small pond, and was
pulled out by Harry Jaeger.
William Emery and wife have re-
turned to New Jersey after 1t ten
days vacation spent with their par.
euts at Center
D. o. Brodhead has been suffer.
ing with severe cold.
Nail Keg is very polite to apol-
ogize every time he misses.
Mr.. PEPPER and brother are clear
ing large piece of land on the
property OF A. Walters near Ed.
Shepherds.
Armstrong ana Co. mt Milford
have a large and we'll stocked store
but the shed Accommodation for teams
is rather too limited.
The last rain storms brought oJt
the supervisors to fill up wash outs.
If culverts and draius were kept
clean from distractions our spec
ial road tax would be much less.
VanEttenBros. are buying in II
lot of very fine telephone poles.
Miss Annie Synder has left
Adams and will in future remain
home with her mother.
IL. b. VauAuken was elected
school director and he has our best
wishes.
So far as known no tenants have
yet been secured for either the
Heury Wells, Jessy Gunn or Nc
Murray farms.
From the number of pickerel
Mink owns the most prolific waters
IN the country. One dollar II day
for all you can catch.
Milford people seem to lose a good
many horses. 1t may be overload
ing, perhaps tho use of western feed
which is often noldy aud we know
by experience unfit for horse feed
With mill having water to grind
might ald day, why not buy sound
grain pHtronize home trade and be
sure of healthy foods.
There were no independent can.
dates IN the county this year ana
that Is right, but there were can
dates .blatting behind the bushe.,
in Dingmans, and here some Caucus
defeated nominees wanted to run an
independent but Horubeck for col
leotor was satisfactory to most re-
publicans.
The Dispatch claims n larger cir
culation in the country than the
Press, but the younger paper beats
1t out of sight for a newsy paper,
and one to hold the interest of the
people, the proof is that non sub
scribers will travel miles to borrow
a copy to read.
The Dispatch says our new com
missioners saved lot of mouey tc
tax payers by only paying $l05. for
printing the Auditors statement
How does it know, or how do We
know, how much more might have
beeu saved if the printing bad beel
awarded by bidding as it Should
have been.
The question among republicans
not hankering for public office is
who is the party leader in Pix
now? or rather of the wing which
broke away last year from tn
former rules. Leading republican
for couple of years seem to b
dead or moved away ard the ad
herants of the old machine hay
tried to run it. The adherants o
the new order of things were no
notified of or invited to the caucus
Sunday Feb. Is, on a hill farm
it was noticed that the chicken
were having a picnic in a pastur
lot. Investigation showed that th
mild weather had brought ont
crop of stumpy black grasshopper
on which they were feeding. Eel
1s was very different for a baby bli2
zard prevailed, and the hopper
we're frozen up,
Many inventors are worryin
themselves over car couplers, sas
holders and fasteners and a lot {
useless patents are taken out, VIII
not turn attention to some new kin
of light Kerosene oil has gone u
in price and down in quality, ele'
= trlcity is too costly and acetyler
: gas too expensive and neither
convenient for farmers. What "
want is some light which can I
cheaply made on the farm frol
some home product 50 as to be il
dependent Of trusts and cooperation
The man who blesses mankind wit
such an invention has a fortune