Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-06-14


who is i'll of pneumonia, is slightly
improved.
A. d. Brown and daughter, Mrs.
Frances Westfall, are on a trip to
New York.
Miss Ruth Linderman of Bethle-
hem, Pa, is visiting the Misses
Vyse on Broad street.
The force of men on tie Delaware
valley railroad has been largely iu-
creased and efforts are being made
to have the road in operation by /
July.
The shale business has been re-
sumed at Matamorus and it is said
large orders have been received
which will keep the works active for
some time.
Latest reports as to the condition
of Rev. Thomas Nichols are that he
is improving somewhat in health,
and will has gone for a soiourn at
Atlantic City.
Pop Curry, well known by visitors
TO Brink pond, is lying very III at
the home of his son in Matamoras,
and it is doubted if he will ever re-
turn to his favorte haunt.
"Rambler" wishes to correct his
item regarding the cause Of death of
the horse of Chas. Courtright recent
ly. The animal was afflicted with
a heart trouble which caused its sud
den demise.
Small worms resembling caterpil-
lars are reported to be destroying
buds and stripping apple trees Of
their foliage over in Orange county,
andfruit growers are i'm consequence
: considerably alarmed.
The drug store of r. r. Anderson
& Co. Of Port Jervis was considera-
bly, damaged by fire Wednesday. A
lighted match accidentally dropped
in barrel Of liquid dryer in the Gel
lar started the flames.
The marriage of Emma, daugh-
ter of Horace E. Kipp and wife of
Wilaohvillc, to Guerdon Pellet, a
prosperous druggist of Paterson, N.
j., will occur next Wednesday, June
80, at the brides home.
The wrangle over the name of
= DeckertOwn, N. j., seems at last to
! have been settled 50 far as the post
office authorities are concerned for
, last Friday the department announc-
: ed the change to Sussex.
The body of Eldred G. Reynolds,
the boy who was drowned i'm the
4 LackawaXen river at Honesdale
Memorial day, was found at Hawley,
J.. ten miles below the scene of the ac-
a cident, last Friday in badly decom-
posed condition.
r The bronze monuments advertised
$ by j. F. Huntington are neat and
4 durable as may be seen by the one OF
Q a similar kind standing in the upper
f part of the borough erected several
years ago to the memory of Tom
Quick, the Indian slayer.
= Mabel L. Burt, a former student OF
Smith college, Mass, who has been
g indicted for the larceny of money
i and jewels from students i'm that in
e stitution to the amount Of $4,000, has
t been released on bail and will be
o placed i'm a sanitarium. 1t is alleged
Q that she is of unsound mind.
o The United States leads the world
in coal production. Official reports
o show that in 1900 over 267@ million
o tons were mined worth nearly 800
5 million dollars. Pennsylvania led in
j the amount produced with over 81
d million tons of anthracite and nearly
80 million tons of bituminous.
= Twenty-eight states mined the rest.
+ While tanked up to his fullest
c capacity last evening, Philip Meisen-
s helder amused himself by throwing
a dead rattlesnake which he carried
+ in his pockets, his boots being al
4 ready full of live snakes, around
= peoples s necks. He was interrupted
a in his diversion by Officer Wood
f: and escorted to the lookup and this
a morning the burgess imposed a fine
D of SO.
Clarence Dewitt, whose radiant
: orbs are barely free from the penum-
e bral shades cast upon them by the
, dexter fin of J. A. Watts last week
while in little discussion over a
b telephone wire, had his opponent
D hailed before Esquire Schorr last eve
ming on a charge of assault and bat
terry. After hearing the respective
stories of the disputants the justice
concluded there were two sides to
every johnny cake and that i'm this
> instance Watts had the butter on his
and discharged him but to teach him
the lesson not to deal too harshly
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