Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-04-12
BRIEF MENTION

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Bridgeport, CT, Friday, April 5th, a
daughter.
A marriage license has been grated
to Myron A. Price and Barbara
Smith, both of Greentown, Pa.
The Jersey people are kicking very
hard over recently enacted law,
which prohibits spearing any kind
of fish.
Society women of Williamsport,
gave q negro minstrel show Tues-
day and made enough money to pay
a church debt
Eighteen BARRIERS who we're arrest
ed in Philadelphia for violating the
Sunday laws we're fined by the mag
istrnte 81 each.
Four hundred shad, averaging
eight pounds apiece, were caught
one day this week in Delaware Bay,
at Pennsville, N. ].
Note the new advertisement of
Schnfransky. the clothier, of Port
Jervis. He is ready to supply all
your wants in tnat line.
w. A. II. Mitchell is firmly at
tached TO a good SIZED abscess on his
back which has for several DAYS
been a painful companion.
The retail department stores in
New York and other cities are en-
tering into combine to harmonize
their interests ami pool their issues.
A man was fined SO. this week in
Scranton, for splitting on the side
walks. The ordinance forhidding
this filthy habit would be a good one
for every town.
Emperor William has decreed that
the English language shall be taught
in tine high schools of Germany, in
place of French which hereafter
shall be optional.
Madam Fauchere had an unfor
tunate fall Monday morning which
fractured some of her ribs. Owing to
her advanced age the accident be-
comes quite serious.
Monkeys are now the social fad
and the prices for them have rapid
ly advanced. 1t will be out of fash
ion this summer not to have little
Simian hanging by a ribbon.
Rev. R. B, Lock yood a former
pastor of the M. E. church here has
completed fifty years of ministerial
work and will retire this spring to
Stony Point, N. Y, where he has
purchased a home
The largest AMI best assortment
of ladies shirt waists ever brought to
this town may be found at T. Arm
strong g. Co.'S tore. The fine dis.
play in the window will give some
idea of their styles and colors.
The Governor has renppoinfed Dr..
N G. Sohaeffer Superintendent of
Public Instruction. He was first ar
pointed by Governor Pattison eight
years ago and four years ago was
reappointed by Governor Hastings.
FOwler's Mill, in Milford, Connect
icut, which have been in the family
since 1910, when the grist mill was
erected, twenty years after the Pill
grims landed, and which was the
second mill erected in this county, is
about to be torn down. The saw
mill erected adjacent was the first
operated in the Western Hemisphere.
Mrs. Theresa Cron, who was a
daughter of Daniel Decker, and form
erly resided in Delaware township,
this county, died at the home Of her
granddaughter, Mrs. Ford, in New
ark, Feb. 2S, aged over go years.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs.
Jane Lord, Of Middletown, n. Y.
The remains were inferred in the
Newton, N. j., cemetery.
The House has passed the bill to
impose one mill tax on the personal
property and capital stock of corpor-
ations. This is a scheme to raise
about two million dollars a year
for road purposes and if 1t passes
the Senate and becomes a law will
be great aid to road making and if
the money is properly expended, in
ton years should give us the best
roads in the United States.