Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-01-17
BRIEF MENIION

One touch Of rumor makes the
the whole world chin.
The days are growing longer but
the cold is not growing stronger.
A large boarding house known as
Walnut Villa ia Port Jervis was
burned last Saturday evening.
E. S. Wolf has moved his ports-
bic mill from Dark Swamp to town
and will haul his logs down to cut
them up.
We are in receipt Of handy rail
way map Of Pennsylvania from
Major Isaac b Brown, deputy Sec
retary Of internal affairs.
Boring for oil has been commenced
in the Wyoming Valley and there is
considerable interest manifested by
land owners over the result.
Elijah B., brother Of Miss Jen-
ME Pine Of this place, died at his
home in Cuddebackville last Sunday
afternoon aged about 27 years.
John Wanamaker is a liberal adj
vertiser and pays over 81 600 day
for advertising his Philadelphia
store. He uses a page in FIVE differ
ent local papers
Henry c. Cunningham, one Of the
Oldest merchants in Port Jervis.
died at his home in that village
Monday, January 1s. aged about
seventy-four years.
The meetings for the election Of
directors for the several railroads
having their terminals here, adver-
tised for last Saturday, were for
some reason postponed.
Hon. J. B. Foraker has been re-
elected senator from Ohio, Arthur P.
German from Maryland, and James
B. McCreary from Kentucky. New
Jersey has not made an election.
A small company assembled at
the Homestead Monday night to CON
graduate A. d. Brown on the arrival
Of another birthday and to wish
him many occurrences of the event.
An Englishman, in conversation
with Mr.. Lincoln, said why, no
gentleman in England blacks his
own boots, you know" "Pshaw ~
replied Lincoln, whose boots do
they blarkP"
The county auditors this year
finished their work in the unusually
short space Of six days. This quick
result may perhaps be largely attrib-
uted to the efficiency Of their clerk,
Geo, r. Bull, Esq.
The r. W. G. M. Of New York
has sent out CIRCULARS informing
Masonic lodges that clandestine
lodges are being organized and
warning members to carefully ex.
anime all strangers claiming to be
Masons.
A bottle thrown in the Mackinaw
river in Illinois in 1900 was recently
found on the coast of California. 1t
had made the journey Of over ten
thousand miles without mishap and
the letter it contained was perfectly
dry and legihle.
1t is expected that the Blooming
Grove Park case will be argued at
Scranton next Monday before the
Superior court. Ex-Judge Willard
will probably argue the case for IIa-
zen and Ex-Attorney General Kirk
patrick for the association.
Hon. Jacob Klaer has bought
gas engine to furnish power for his
spoke mill, the inclement weather
It impossible to replace the
trunk which conveyed water to his
factory and which was swept away
by the food in December.
DR.. Alexander Hadden Of New
York, president of the Forest Lake
association in this county, is con-
a visit to the Pacific
coast in the near future. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Hadden,
for the benefit Of whose health the
trip will be undertaken.
Compromise in matters Of princi-
pie is always a failure. The policy
runs away with the principle, and
we find ourselves in the position Of
a negro who was fishing on the
coast Of Florida, when tarpon
caught hold Of his hook and pulled
him overheard He came to the
surface and spnttersd out; "What
[ wan to know, is dis niger fish
-n' or is dis fish a-niggerin. REV,
Henry Van Dyke
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