Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1904-04-08
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS


has retired from the position.
John G. Warner is having the
outside color of his house changed
with a coat Of fresh paint.
Assistant Postmaster f. B. Thrall
will remove and occupy a house on
Water street near the upper mill.
The will Of Helen X. Kellam, late
Of Palmyra, decd, has been probated.
She devises all her estate to her
sister, Lucy X. Williams.
A large raft succeeded in passing
the railroad bridge at Matamoras
Wednesday. 1t ran on the New
York side OF the pier and had a close
shave.
Seven bridges have been built
across the Delaware connecting
Cochecton and Damascus. The last
was seven and a half feet higher than
the first.
The democntic county committee
organized this week by elechng G..
A. Swepeniser, chairman; j. c..
Watson, secretary; and f. A. Beck
treasurer.
Michael Sawyer a native of Mill
Rift, this county, died at Estherville,
Iowa, last Saturday aged about 20
years, of paralysis John n. Sawyer
of Mill Rift is brother.
The Wayne county democratic com
mittee has passed a resolution favoring
w. r. Hearst for President, o. l..
Rowland was chosen elector and Hon.
J. G. Hill national committeeman.
The court has decided that the
coal combine must exhibit its agree
ments to the Interstate Commerce
Commission. If it is found that the
coal roads have been operated as a
pool the penalty is $500 fine for each
offense.
IT. w. Buchanan is this week
removing his household goods from
Yonkers, N. Y, his former home, to
his farm in Dingman township where
he will reside, and probably engage
in the business Of keeping summer
boarders.
A horse driven by Mrs. b. E..
Brown was frightened Monday on
Mott street by a motor cycle. but she
managed to alight from the vehicle
with her little son without injury.
The wagon was subsequently upset
and damaged.
The bill appropriating $3.50 to
build dykes at Port Jervis along the
Delaware river has passed the Senate
and will pass the Assembly. Bill.
have also been passed making appro.
priations to improve the channel Of
the Neversink.
A. B. Gaumell, a prominent either
of Wayne county, was found dead
last Saturday evening in acow stable
where he had been striken with heart
trouble. He was a Royal Arch
Mason and had filed a number Of
county offices. His age was SO years.
Ten thousand applications for patent
are held up in the United State
Patent Office on account of informal
presentation or unskillful prosecution.
c. A. Snow & Co., Patent Lawyers Of
Washington make a speciality of such
cases, fees moderate and contingent on
success.
The canal bed in many places
along the Delaware and Lackawaxen
rivers is completely washed away
The tow path was used as a road and
was a great convenience to people
who viii now be compelled to drive
several miles further to reach
certain points, besides having hilly
and bad roads.
Typhoid fever is largely on the
increase in Philadelphia. In foul
days 245 persons have been stricken
with the disease. This evil is attri-
buted to Schuylkill water which
became impregnated with refuse
swept in the river during the food oI
March thirteenth.
Hon. Frank Reeder Of Northampton
and A. r. Britain, Esd, Of Monroe
have been elected delegates to the
national convention from this con
gressional district and Thomas Whit
ton Of Carbon and w. A. II. Mitchell
Of Pike alternates. Archibald Johns
ton Of Bethlehem was selected fol
Presidential elector.
Rats from the upper Delaware, o.
which number have been .fioated
down, are obliged to land above Pori
Jervis because Of the obstruction tC
the channel By the railroad bridge
which lies ia such a position that 1t 1.
impossible for them to get through.
Some Of the able engineers who
assisted in getting the whole bridge
in the stream ought 10 be able "a
engineer an end Of It out,