Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-09-13
BRIEF MENTION.

full house in Browns Hall Monday
evening.
George N. Cole will open a fresh
kiln of lime at Montague to-day,
September 13.
A rumor current in town says
that a wedding VIII take place here
early in October.
The story entitled, IA Little
Heroine, " is from the pen of Miss
only 13 years oil.
Mary, widow of William A. Brod.
head of Delaware Water Gap, died
last Monday at the age of s5 years.
Grading and curbing has been done
around the Episcopal church which
will add much to the appearance of
the grounds.
John Wolf, the Hartford street
shoe dealer, will soon have a new
line of fine footwear which he will
sell at popular prices. He invites
inspection and comparison.
Miss Esther j. Howell, who has
been visiting friends here for sever
al days, was called this week to the
bedside of her sick sister-in-law,
Mrs. James Howell, at Pen Argyll.
Emma Goldman, the notorious
anarchist speaker, was arrested in
Chicago Sept. 10. She admits having
met Czolgosz for a short time but
denies completely in any plot to shoot
the president.
G. 0. Armstrong; new home on
Ann street is being rapidly developed.
Builder II. Canine has the contract
and the house will be a decided inn
provement in that already attractive
part of the town.
Work is rapidly progressing on the
new house to be erected for Mrs.
Bertha II. Reed on Centre Square,
and before long handsome structure
built under the supervision of A. D.
Brown & Son will adorn the premises.
An adjourned term of court, over
which Hon. Allen Craig is expected
to preside, will be held Tuesday.
September 18th. This will be his
first sitting in this county and his
term will ordinarily expire Jan. l,
1904.
Some grading has been done near
Cave bank by the Milford and Ding
man railroad company and a little
piece of track laid. 1t is a problem
when it will be connected with the
track laid at Matamoras ten miles
from it.
w. w. Weston, one of the most
prominent business men of Homes
dale, was found lying dead in the
bath tub in his house early Tuesday
morning. Heart disease is assumed
to be the cause. His age was about
20 years.
Dennis Mclaughlin has followed a
fashion set by Squire Came in Ding
man township and enclosed his prem
ises on upper Broad street with a
tasty rustic fence built of cedar poles.
The effect is quite unique. Painter
Wood did the work.
Norman B. Dreher of Stroudsburg
has been appointed by Judge Allen
Craig official stenographer Of the sew
eraI courts Of this county. He is a
grandson Of the late Judge Dreher Of
MOnre and has the reputation of be-
ing very proficient in his profession.
"a Drone and a Dreamer" is the
title of new book just published
written by Nelson Lloyd. The
characters portrayed are taken from
Pike county people, which should
give the work, aside from its literay
merit which is highly praised, a
local interest.
William Stewart, confined in the
county Jail on a charge of horse
stealing, has contracted scarlet fever
in mild form. Any one now con-
templating such infraction of the
law as might result in Incarceration
in the county hostelry will take the
chances of a double punishment.
Judge Shay in the common pleas
of Schuylkill county has decided
that the county treasurer has no
authority to charge and retain for
the use of the county a commission
on money received for liquor H.
.censes. The borough is entitled to
receive its full share with no deduc-
tions for commission.
There are several pronunciations
given Of the name Czolgosz, the as
sassin Of President Mckinley. One
is as if spelled "choolcotch, " an
other 'schollgosch. He is said to
be a Russian Pole and they have
some unpronounceable combinations
of letters in thair namas- A GOOD