Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-10-11
BRIEF MENTION.

Born, Go Charles b. McCarty ard
wife. Saturday Oct 5, daughter.
Mrs. Frank Fletcher recently ro.
turned home from a pleasant visit
with her parents in New York.
The driving park association will
hold its last race for the season Sat
urday afternoon, Oct. 70, at 2
O'Clock.
Secretary of State Hay is to re-
ceive the degree of Doctor of Laws
at New Haven on the occasion of
the Yale bi-oentenary.
The cup, for the possession of
which so many millions have been
spent, is a rather insignificant piece
of plate of no great artistic beauty,
and of no special pecuniary value.
The Girls club of the Episcopal
church held an oyster supper in the
basement of the church on Thurs
day evening from to 8. The sup
per was served by Frank Van
Campen.
On Sunday evening, October 6,
Rev. Geo. Gillespie of Port Jervis
preached in the Presbyterian church
and declared the pulpit vacant with
the permission of Presbytery to fur
nish supplies until the spring ses-
sion.
The Pfohibitionists of Pike coun-
ty have filed papers nominating the
Following ticket Associate Judge,
Rev. G. E. Scudder of Milford
Sheriff, J. F. Huntington of Milford !;
Coroner, A, Griswold of Lacka-
waxen township
Samuel Detrick, executor of the
late Daniel W. Fisher, will sell at his
residence in Dingman township Oct.
II beginning at 2 pollock p. m. lot
of personal property, consisting of
corn in the shock, beds, bedding,
stove, barrels, etc. Terms cash.
Presumably early in the morning
before the family had arisen a
pheasant came crashing through one
of the large bed room windows of
the home of j H. Van Etten scat
tering glass and feathers over the
bed and room and alarming the
household by the unusual noise.
The bird was secured and found to
be unhurt. 1t was Gagged as curl
osity.
At the sixth annual exhibition of
the Orange County Horse Show as
sociation held at Goshen on Satur-
day afternoon last it is estimated
that there we're 5000 people in at
tendance. Governor Odell of New
York state with Mrs. Odell and
daughter, Estelle, accompanied by a
large party, also a large number of
people prominent in New York 30
ciety we're among those in attend
ance.
A leading city newspaper has been
for the past twenty years preserving
the statistics of lynching in the
United States. There has been CON
siderable improvement made in the
past ten years. In the more advanced
districts lynchings are growing less
frequent and in the next decade we
may hope for still greater improve
ment since pubic sentiment has be-
come so pronounced on this subject
and speaks out clearly and strongly
against Judge Lynch.
Fine canned peas, equal to French,
1910. can at Mitchell's.
The recent race between the Col
umbia and Shamrock II. was the
closest in the history of information
al contests. The Columbia won the
third and deciding contest by Al
seconds, so for another year at least
the Americas cup is safe. Sham
rock II. is by odds the best boat that
ever came to our waters, just as Sir
Thomas Upton is himself the finest
English yachtsmRn who has sought
the cup. Among the many suitors
the American cup has had there has
been none the American public
would have been more willing to
SEQ win the trophy than Sir Thomas
Upton.
For Chase & Sanborn's teas and
cotfees go to Armstrong g Co.
The swiftness with which the
assassin of President Mckinley has
been tried, convicted and sentenced,
as we'll as the dignity and impartial
ity with which the trial was con-
Quoted, gives new respect for the
] law anu AoA eh0 AobAOuS VI oouA q
Of justice. On Sept. the crime
was committed, the president died
on Sept. IA, the assassin was con,
J victed on Sept. 25 and on the 27th
was sentenced to suffer the extreme
penalty of the law during the weel
beginning Oct. 2s The trial Of
Czolgosz is contrasted with that 0.
Guiteau which dragged along foi
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