Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1903-07-17
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

Note the ad. elsewhere girl wanted.
This is an excellent opportunity.
Milford thermometers registered
as low as as yesterday morning.
e. A. Greening announces his
withdrawal as a candidate for Jury
Commissioner.
Senator Thomas q. Platt of New
York celebrated his SEVENTEEN birth
day Wednesday.
Don't forget the one dollar Bing-
hamton excursion leaving Port Jer-
Wis, Sunday, July 10th.
Dingman township authorities
elsewhere advertise bonds for sale.
These should be a good and safe
investment.
The First National Bank of
Stroudsburg opened a savings de-
partment July 9Th and began paying
interest at 3 per cent.
There will be races at the Driving
Park July 25th. Three class it is
hoped VIII be filled and furnish an
afternoon of enjoyment.
Governor Pennypaoler, breaking
the unbroken custom in this respect,
reviewed the state troops at Camp
Hastings seated in a carriage.
In game of base ball between
the boys of camp Yapeechu and
Bluff House guests last Monday the
latter we're "waxea" by a score of
1s to 8.
The supreme court has adjourned
for the summer without handing
down an opinion IN the Blooming
Grove Park case. 1t will not meet
again until October.
The will of Martha Hornbeck, late
of Delaware township, decd, has
been probated. Several bequests are
made to relatives and Lucian West
brook is appointed executor.
An exchange says We note four
things that are common to all
sections of the country, whether
north or south-the box elder tree,
the Virginia creeper, the fool-girl
hanging around the postofice and
the beer keg.
Since July fourth there have been
thirty fatal cases of tetanus, or lock
jaw, in this state caused by injuries
made by toy pistols and there are
several more boys and adults who
are suffering from the same cause.
1t is said that book publishers
porDose to fight the department
stores in the retail book business,
and the library associations threaten
to go to England for their books OF
American publishers are not more
liberal in concessions.
w. F. O'Neill, a leading lawyer ot
Middletown, N. Y, died at his home
last Friday morning. He was borr
at Monticello about 81 years ago
His widow and two daughters sur
vive him, also sister, Mrs. Johr
Ratcliffe. of this place, and foul
half sisters.
If a estate gas inspector" comes
around and wants to make an in
spection fire him. Because Prof. E
L. Kemp, principal of the East
Stroudsburg state normal, allowed
one of these sharps to enter his
room last Saturday he will have t71
less to spend on his vacation.
Lightning last Friday performed q
number of capers in and around
Honesdale. No one was injured
but the subtle fuid was very prom.
iscuous in its attentions and struck
in n large number Of places loing
some damage to buildings, but
strange to say none were burned
Ovide Dupre, Esq. an attorney
at law with offices at 29O Broadway
who for several summers has beer
guest at Chestnut Grove House
in Dingman, and was again this
year, died suddenly Monday after
noon, July 18th, of apoplexy, aged
about 81 years. The remains were
taken to New York for interment.
The old rule to SOW buckwheat
when the chestnut trees are il
blossom, which Is usually about
July fourth, would need to be mod.
flied this year. Now past the mid
die of July. the chestnut blossom is
about in the stage it generally is tel
days earlier. This may presage a
late fall and if so the crop win b,
all right.
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