Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1904-03-11
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES
Blue birds, robins and ice gcrges
we're contenporaneous this week.

Frank Keller, Esq, Peter Shields
and John Hess Of Shohola drove to
town Wednesday.
Chas. DeKay Townsend and family
have gone to Atlantic City to spend a
couple Of months.
Dr.. w. B. Kenworthey is contem-
plating trip south for a few days
respite from work and for recreation.
John Detrick has filed his bond
and been duly qualified as one Of the
overseers OF the poor OF Milford bor-
ough.
Letters of administration on the
estate Of John M. Smith, late Of
Greene, decd, have been granted to
Emile Vuille, Jr.
The 80 annual fair of the Monroe
county agricultural society will be
held at Stroudsburg, Monroe county,
Sept. G, z, 8, 9 and 10.
Rev. George Burslem of Princeton
Seminary occupied the pulpit of the
Presbyterian church last Sunday in
the absence of Mr.. Smead
Miss Alice Ryman, who has been
visiting friends in Newark for the
past few days, suffered considerably
with blood poisoning in her finger
Mail service between here and Port
Jervis was resumed yesterday by the
aid of small boats crossing the river,
the waters of which are fast subsid-
ing to the normal condition.
Miss Ann Baker, who has been
spending some weeks in the south,
returned home last Saturday She
was accompanied here by her cousin,
Rebecca Baker, Of Philadelphia.
Miss Mabel Guinnip, teacher of the
intermediate department in the pub
lie school, after an absence OF couple
Of weeks at her home in Wayne
county, has resumed her position.
Rev. p. NJ. Smead, who came up
from New York Tuesday and crossed
to Matamoras just before the bridge
was carried off, was detained there
by the flood and reached town
yesterday.
MatamOras people are aroused be-
cause of a lack of water for fire pur-
poses and at a meeting held last week
a committee was appointed to solicit
subscriptions to purchase some kind Of
fire apparatus.
Letters testamentary on the estate oi
Josephine Martin, late of Palmyra
, decd, have been granted to Frank
Martin, executor. The whole estate
is bequeathed to her two children
George w. and Alice Ruth Martin.
! The Senior class of the Yale Fores
+ School will arrive here April goth, {,
E remain two months. Any one having
S lands which they desire mapped will
t plans for forest management viii
e receive attention by addressing thu
! school at New Haven.
= Samuel A. J.. Conkling, a prominen
4 citizen of Port Jervis, died at hi
e home in that village Friday, Marcl
S 4, after a long illness oceasioned b.
! ! an injury received last October Will
e experimenting the construction Of
n grave in Laurel Grove cemetery. Hi
age was about SO years.
It is pretty safe to predict tina
the Milford, Matamoras and Ne1
York Railroad Company will not b
running Pullman cars from here t
\ Port Jervis by April 1st The coll
~ weather is nearly over and tn
2 choice season for that company t
It work is about ended for the tim
-. being
y The sympathy Of the majority Of tn
# people cannot but be with the bray
T. little Japs, in their life and deaf
= struggle, when it is remembered tn,
n n Of all the powers signing the treaty
n Peldng, she is the only one to tai
nj official note of the fact that Russia hi
broken her solemn pledge to evacuar
., Manchuria. The treaty Of Pekir
~ ~ provided that the troops Of all Il
10 powers should definitely withdm
~ from the Chinese Empire-those
Russia, Japan, Great Britain, anu a
y the rest including our own. On
q Russia has remained, violating h
s. solemn pledge to the world.
~ Heeling-in Trees
Sc When you get trees from Il
'st nursery, do not plant them hurrie'
ly Heel them in, choosing a dr.
a. sheltered place open a trench, ID
Ii in the trees, in an inclined positiC
q, so that the tops viii protect OF
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