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

road as well as in town since his
last call here.
Sixteen members of the ladies
club of Milford drove to Bushkill
Tuesday and enjoyed a dinner at
the Peters House.
The Sterlingworth Supply Conn
pany Of Easton has the contract for
the eight steel bridges on the Della
ware valley railroad.
Kurt Rudolph Sternberg has been
appointed by the trustee in bank
ruptcy manager of the Deerpark
Brewing company and the business
will be continued as usual.
The school directors of the indie.
pendent District of Milford met last
Tuesday and organized for the en-
suing year by electing B. E. Brown,
President, DR.. H. E. Emerson, Sec
retary, and Dunham Gregory, Treas
urer.
Rev. L. L. Taylor, a former pas
tor of the Reformed church at Port
Jervis, but lately of Montclair, N.
j., has accepted a call to the vacant
pulpit of the Puritan Congregation
nj church of Brooklyn, N. Y, at a
salary of $4,000,
The Driving Park and Athletic
Association contemplates erecting a
fence along the track next the road.
1t will be eight hundred feet long
and seven high. Advertisements
are being solicited with which to
adorn its exterior.
President Mckinley has issued a
statement regarding the suggestion
that he might be a candidate for a
third term in which he says: II will
say now once for all expressing a
long and settled conviction that I
not only am not and will not be a
candidate for third term but would
not accept a nomination if it were
rendered me-"
Children's day exercises were OBJ
served in Dingman township last
Sunday afternoon, William Angle
supe rintendent, and were of a very
interesting nature. The school is
large and enthusiastic and has sever
al efficient workers, among them
being John Durling and wife.
The body of Florence Debevoise.
who probably committed suicide
May 2 by throwing herself in the
Neversink river at Port Jervis, was
found floating in the stream at Tri-
States last Friday and recovered. It
is said that her father, who now
lives near Greenville, at one time
resided in Milford.
T. ]. Morris of Nanticoke, Pa. ,
teacher of languages in the high
school there and a son of Rev. S.
Morris of Port Jervis, has been in
vited by friends to be their guest on
a trip to San Francisco, Cal. They
go as delegates to the National Con
vention of the Epworth League
which meets in that city July 18th.
One of the finest young maple
trees on Centre Square was badly
barked Tuesday by a horse attached
to a beer wagon from Port Jervis.
The fine for suffering a horse to re
main in such manner so as to gnaw,
bite, rub, or muUilate, a tree is So
and it should be imposed. In this
instance the team was left without
being tied.
The fremen are arranging for a
grand fourth of July celebration and
have appointed committees to secure
the necessary funds. Already suf-
ficient has been subscribed to insure
the success of the project and we
will no doubt witness a glorious
jubilee on that day. Details and
program will be given when fur
ther arrangements are completed.
A committee comprising Geo. A.
Swepeniser, G. Frank Rowland and
W, F, Beck has been appointed to
meet similar committees from the
other counties composing the eighth
congressional district to fix on a
basis Of rotation for the office of
congressman and also determine the
number Of conferees which each
county shall be entitled TO in the
Democratic conference.
The DeiiHeator for July, published
by the Butterick company Of New
York, is on our table and is truly a
handsome number. The fashion
plates are something to please the
eye and satisfy the taste of any wo-
man while the three-eolor illustra-
tions of the article on the Pan
American exposition are gems of the
printers art. The magazine also
contains considerable interesting
reading matter in the way of short
stories and would be an agreeable
companion to consult in Willing
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