Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1904-04-29
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS

extending its main up Catharine to
Sixth street
Shiffer Bros. have the contract to
build new Episcopal church in
stroudsburg, the first Of the kind to
be erected there.
A marriage license was issued this
week by the Clerk to William j..
Mccarthy Of Port Jervls and Mary
Altman Of Matamoras.
Stockholders Of the Milford Water
Company will hold the annual cleo
tion for officers at the Office of C. w.
Bull, Esq, Monday evening May I'd.
It is reported that Robert w. Reid
viii Improve his lots, recently purchas-
ed, by building a dwelling and that
he intends making the poultry busi-
ness a speciality.
Senator Quay has returned to
Washington from Atlantic City with
health not improved. The salt air
did not effect any benefit to his
enfeebled condition.
The Erie made no charge for time
or tools Of their expert dynamiters or
for transporting the material to blast
out channel in the ice gorge at Port
Jervis. This liberality is character
istic and opportune.
Auditor General Hardenbergh.
whose term of office will expire next
Monday, was presented by the EN-
ployees of his office with case Of
table silver and a handsome ma
hogany grandfathers clock.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the company for erecting a
bridge over the river Delaware near
the town of Milford will be held
Monday, May 2nd, at the Office of J.
H. Van Etten, secretary, at p. m.
Directors of the Chester, Pa, Rural
cemetery have decided to remove all
mounds of graves in the strangers
section and will ask lot holders also
to have the mounds removed as they
believe the graveyard would be made
more beautiful if all graves were
leveled.
George Lessels of Brooklyn, who
was at one time proprietor of the
Delaware House at Lackawaxen, was
found dead in bed at the Carlton
House, Williamsburg, N. Y, last
Friday. Doctors attribute his death
to cyanide of potassium, but members
Of his family say 1t was caused by
heart trouble.
The will Of James Bosler, late of
this borough, has been admitted to
probate. After giving $75 TO his
daughter, Sarah A. Brink, for her
care while i'll, he devlses all the rest
Of his estate to his two daughters,
Sarah A. Brink and Anna Bell
Lynch, share and share alike, and
appoints William Mitchell, executor.
Clerk Westbrook was astounded
this week when called on to grant a
marriage license, the first since Jan.
7th. With leap year one quarter
gone and only one license it seems as
II the young ladies Of Pike looked on
marriage as failure. A man who
regarded his judgment as quite in
fallible was asked if he never made a
mistake and promptly owned up to
two, one before and one after marri-
age, and the girls here appear even
wiser than the man.
The Borough Board of Health at its
regular meeting Monday evening
resolved to make a tour Of inspection,
Wednesday, May 4th, to examine the
sanitary condition Of the town. 1t is
Of public interest and welfare that
anything which might be unwhole-
some or obnoxious to health be remov-
ed and every inhabitant should, not
only for individual but for general
protection from disease, aid in keeping
our town as cleanly as possible. This
ought to be public pride.
The BOoklovers Magazine for May
contains an excellent character sketch
Of Senator NJ. S. Quay by Jas. NJ.
Rogers. He describes the Senator as
''a cross between the Egyptian Sphinx
and a stroke of creased lightning, )"
and says the reason why he has 50 long
maintained his position is due to the
fact that Che has looked after his state
and has given the people what they
want, though not what some estimable
and ultra reformers think they ought
to want"
Albert Koepping, who shot and
killed Jobn MARITIME at Port Jervis
Feb. 10, 1908. was tried and con-
vioted Of the crime and sentenced
to be eleetroouted, appealed from