Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1902-10-10
sANpYsTON.

pleasure now that the law pays a
bounty Of three dollars for every fox
killed. All the hunter has to do is
to take the pelt before justice of
the peace, who will cut the ears
off and burn them, and get his or
der on the collector for the amount.
Foxes will be looked after this fall.
The team of Wash. Depue took
fright near the res idenoe Of Charles
Bensley and ran away. The driver
turned them into a. fence corner
near the Layton church and that
stopped them. Nothing of any &C
count was broken.
In my last 1 mentioned George
Heine as one of the painters on the
Van Sickle buildings. He is not
on the job and report says he is go.
ing to remove. 20 Trenton, N. J.,
soon.
Candidates for county offices were
in evidence in this town on Satur-
day aud as usual it was "What will
you haveP'' and the barkeeper did
the rest But it is a good while be-
tween drinks and election is a good
ways off.
A little rum and an old grudge
started a fight at Layton on Satur-
day night, and in few minutes a
second fight was in progress. On
one side the parties were sober and
on the other intoxicated. It is a
shame that people must be nagged
into a fight simply because one
party Is full of rum.
The Vantage Recorder in its last
issue gives a talk on the abandoned
farms in this section over along the
mountain. AT the present day the
boys of the farm are hocking to the
cities to avoid the drudgery of the
farm. Anyone knowing this section
intimately forty or fifty years age
will at once miss the many tenant
houses scattered all along our val
ley, but today most of them have
gone to decay and the few that are
left are not habitable. The burning
of new grounds years ago was a
common occurrence but now it is a
rarity, and the brush are crowding
the farming lands closer each year
and on many farms can be seen
fields of brush where once waved
fields of grain. In 1910 Sandyston
had a population of 1909, which the
census of 1900 gives only 939.
Which goes to show that we are
retrograding in population as well
as in cultivated lands.
The new owners of the Hudson
River telephone company are intent
upon putting their line in good or
der. Last week another gang of
men passed through here number
ing the poles and making map of
the line in this county Talking
over their wires is a pleasuse now.
A. s. ROsenkrans and wife of
Norfolk, Va, has been taking an
extended wedding trip and is al
present visiting friends and rela-
tives in Sussex. Bsrt is running a
first class laundry at Norfolk and
with great success.
James J. Shotwell of Tuttle's
Corner had the misfortune to lose
one of his match team horses tn,
past week and as usual in such losses
it was the best horse.
/ am afraid the buckwheat ha
been ruined by the continuous wet
weather. Most of 1t has been rolled
for some time aud now the sprouts
are 80 badly grown together that i
will hardly pay for the threshing
The condition that it is in oapno
produce good -four.
The ladies of Peters Valley will
hold a chicken potpie supper on Fri
day evening, Oct 18th, at the resi-
dence of Abram johnson. You car
rest assured of good time ant
plenty of chicken as the Peters Val
ley people always fill the bill in tn
eating line.
Mrs. Hammond of Deckertown i
spending a few weeks visitinI
friends in Sandyston. Some year
ago she was q resident Of this town
The loud strident notes Of Bryan
ism rise anon upon the still air eve
as OF yore but they fail to max
the oldtime echo from orag to crag