Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-01-02
BRIEF MENTION.

Rev e M Smead was out with
party, bear hunting near town
Wednesday morning He saw bruin
three times but failed to get shot.
Thomas Patton, grand treasurer
of the Masonic lodge, is dead at his
home in Philadelphia He was
prominent member Of the fraternity
and was also a Knight Templar
Judge Thomas A. Morrison of
McKean county has been appointed
by Governor Stone to- fill the vacancy
on the supreme court bench occa-
stoned bv the retirement of Hon,
John !. Mitchell.
Randolph Travis of Montague, N
j., of one quail fame, has been i'll
for several weeks and having spent
all his available means has become
a township charge. 1t is hoped that
he may soon recover and be released
from his unfortunate condition.
Sheriff Merviue at Stroudsburg
has read the death warrant to
Charles Grether who evidenced no
emotion at hearing It. He has, how.
ever, asked the ministers of the
several churches to call on him and
has requested their prayers.
By a recent donation of $500, 600
home will be established in Phila-
delphia for the orphan girls Of Free
Masons. Nearly o hundred thousand
dollars were already donated and
these sums will erect and endow
the finest institution of the kind in
this or any other country
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, wild
ow of John c. Fremont, called the
Pathfinder" by reason of his ex
plorations of the paths from Sante
Sacramento, died recently at her
Fe to home in Los Angeles. Cal
ifornia. According to her request
her body was cremated.
The Presbyterian Sunday school
last Sabbath elected as officers for
the ensuing year, superintendent, j.
F. huntington assistant, Rev E.
NJ. Smead secretary and librarian,
F. W. Cross treasurer, w. A. Il.
Mitchell organists, Miss Susie
Seeley and Mrs. j. c. Westbrook.
The supper Saturday evening,
Dec. 81, at tile Crissman House was
an unqualified fraternal success.
About forty sat down to the repast
which was in every particular and
detail most excellent, and reflected
infinite credit both on the proprietor
and his corps of assistants. The
music furnished by the Misses Katie
and Minnie Beck was in fine taste
and greatly enjoyed Altogether
the occasion will be a memorable
one TO those participating.
1t is believed that David Bennett
Hill is a democrat still-quite still.
Your ordinary free-trade or low
tariff expert is the man who will tell
you that it is mere fallacy to prefer
facts to ideas.
"What is prosperity" asks the
Chicago News. Prosperity is a con
dition which democrats can view
only from the outside.
, "Unmitigated Chumps'' is the tern
credited to Senator Hanna as describ
ing the people who are trying t.
boom him for the presidency.
f Nebraska is trying TO loan $500, OOl
to Massachusetts. This is a sad blow
: to any horny-handed plain peopl
who wear silk night shirts and mill
$3.50 cows, nee heifers.
It looks now as if the Venezuela
s matter might be adjusted withou
s bloody war. The Venezuelans ar
J. very anxious to escape internationa
difficulties, as they hope otherwise {
get another revolution started With
"a reasonable time, providing tn
present one peters out.
Reformer Jerome appears to b
: ready to reform himself, and quI
. fussing over the wickedness Of Ne'
2 York. He says that the Metropol
3 has $50, 600 men who are determine
9 to have a drink on Sundays; thl
q there are 5000 saloons and 500
d policemen. The sunday-closing prol
= OsitiOn is big one.
y Finds Way 10 Live Long
y The startling announcement of
discovery that will surely lengthe