Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-09-28
BRIEF MENTION.

Mrs c. A. Beardsley is confined
to her room by illness.
Henry Hillebrandt is seriously i'll
at his Hartford st. home.
New lot of hats and caps at W.
and q. Mitchells.
The Democrats held two campaign
meetings in Chicago last Sunday.
d. H. Hornbeck and wife visited
at Dingmans a couple of days recent
ly.
Mrs. l.. F. Hafner is confined to
her bed with a severe attack of
asthma.
Saturday night there was consid-
cradle noise and drunkenness in
town and the cooler was a necessity.
Service may be expected at the
Sawkill school house next Sunday,
Sept. 80 at 80 p. M. the weather
permitting.
Thomas G.. ShearmRn Esq, of
Brooklyn, who was of counsel in
the celebrated Beecher-Tilton case
is critically ill,
A fine assortment of outing fan.
nels at W. and q Mitchells.
Hon. w. P. Porter, of Allegheny,
has been appointed to fill the posi-
tion on the Supreme bench made
vacant by the death of Judge Green
Earnest c. Wood has the contract
for painting the exterior wood work
of the Court House and has several
helpers engaged with him this week
on the job.
Wanted. A case of liquor, NOR
phine or opium habit that we cannot
cure in 30 to 60 days. Write for FREQ
trial treatment. The Lane Institute
Co., 1135 Broadway, N. Y. d14
Press and Printer aptly says the
best property town can have is good
newspapers, and, we may add that
liberal support in the way of adver-
tising and subscriptions will make
and keep them good.
This is an exclusively agricul-
tural section, and small at that yet
in fifty days the Milford Bank has
over $26, 500. in deposits. Have our
people good reason to kick 1T Mckin.
ley times and want a change.
See the new flower pots and jardi-
niers at w. and q Mitchells.
At the Commissioners sale of lands
last week about sixty tracts were
disposed of to various purchasers al
unusually good prices. The Com
monwealth secured 517 acres and
the total sales amounted to $939.
If the dry weather continues fish
will lose their anadromous habits
unless they use bicycles to ride ovel
the riffs in the river. The trout
in the streams are probably nearly
all extinct either through the water
drying mp or being caught by snakes
and there will be little fishing ot
tnat kind for several years.
Oil cloth and linoleums at w. ant
q. Mitchells.
A warrant is out for the arrest Of
George Ttman charged with having
few evenings ago broken into th'
store of Ryman g. Wells and takel
therefrom watches, revolvers, shoes
etc, He has so far eluded captur
by remaining in Jersey during th
day time, but if he CT mes over a tri
to the Quaker city very likely await
him.
We acknowledge receipt of tw
pamphlets on by Clifford Pinchot
Forester, entitle Progress ofForest
} ry in the United States and one b
Henry s. Graves superintendent c
working places division Of Forestr
called the practice of forestry b
private owners. Both are govern
,, ment publications and may be pre-
, cured by addressing the Departmer
? of Agriculture at Washington.
, Joseph Kugler, well known I
lnmberman along the Delaware riv
er, died at Milford N. j., (uppf
Blacks Eddy, Sept. 12 aged rs yeal
/. 5 months and fifteen days. In earl
: life he followed the lumber and me
chandising business but for the la
{ fifty years his chief occupation WI
that of a "steersman, running raf
to tide water, often from points I
far northward as the Water Ga
- and no person was better conve
: SAINT with the currents, location
!, dangerous rocks, and the prop
y channel at all stages of the wat
than was he. As a neighhor al
= citizen he was highly esteemed I
a his friends and the community gel
orally.
n For Sale.