Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-02-12
BRIEF MENTION


demonstration Of gun silsncer. m
invention to uinks noiseiess the die
charge Of riflo cartridge. II Is a siin
pie device consisting little cylii der
o,n,nining rells attached to the muz-
zle of the gun. ana Tetlures the noise
mada hY filing q standsri rifle oftle
Army 10 degree less than tic
swapping of a 1uge,I
Born Feb. s!h to Mark Ryder and
vile of this Boro Il son.
1hA South hiss Jim Crowed the
negroes and now Some OF the far
western States California. Nevada
and Oregon wait to do tile same
kind Of act for ;he JapS. The Pres
ident protests thatit iS sesirss treaty
regulations with that country and is
crying to prevent it.
The School Directors CoDvcBtinn
At Harrisburg last week did not com
init itself on the proposed new school
Law which makes radical changes in
the States educational system. II
school manngemans could be di.
vorced from politics ard only men
capable, qualified and iuierSial wsTe
e.ected as directors long step would
be taken toward advancing The cause
Of education, and Until people gen.
srslly awake to ihatfsct ard carry il
20 execution, new laws will NOT
greatly avail TO remedy sorae exist
ing evile.
MIsS Florence LltJimore has gone
on visit of several weeks with rel
Eiives in Hartford, Conu. She was
accompanied to New York by her
brother Joseph.
It is expected that within the next
year the total number of acres ia the
States forest reserves will reach one
million. THE average cost of the
land to date is So 25 p'racre
Speaker Cox wants $4,000 appro.
priated to pay expenses of Members
aud Senators to attend the inaugur
alton March An. Would they tlo
the state credit to that extent? Bot.
ter let all who want to attend cough
mp the same as common nortals
who do not draw pay from The state.
G. o. Armstrong recently visited
Philadc'phia for several days.
Governor Stuart, introducing Gif.
ford Pinchot last week when lie.
made an address in the House said
He was one of the most useful citl-
zens in the couutry-and about tho
same time when the Forestry bill
was before Congress- one of the west,
srn ueinhars declared that Pinchot
WIS doing his work only to obtain
the pOsItion Of Secretary Of Agricul-
ture. Tho West because the Forest
ry Department has largely curtailed
the unlawful use Of Government
lands is not friendly to its operations
They want liberty out there aud not
law in their business with the pub
lie domains.
Mrs. A. NJ Mettler has gone to
Pitiston to visit her brother Floyd
Jennings, who is seriously III. He
Haught select school in this place
some 40 weary ago,
Andrew }. Brink of Montague died
last Monday.
After next July the now stations
of sbe Erie in New York will be
open aud passengers then msy 20 to
either tho up or down town through
the Hudson tube. connections with
. which arc now being made in Jersey
City.
"rhe crop of tie farmer natures
every year and is taxed once the
crop Of tina forester natures once
about every fifty years and is taxed
every year. The crop of the farmer
is taxed when mature; the crop oi
the forester is taxed even while it il
growing. Is it just, is it fair? Car
we sxpect the farmers 10 take "
woodlot forestry under those oondi
tionsg A radical change in existing
tax laws must be made before W,
can make woodlot forestry appeal t,
the farmer and encourage the glow
ing Of trees ia the State -
Forest Leaves.
Governor Stuart says the annua
foods in Pennsylvania, especially il
the Piltsb1Tg disirict. causing los
of life and enormous destruclio ion O
property. cAuid be controlled in larg
degree, aud probably prevented b
proper forestation Of non-agrlculturs
lands in tho various watersheds.
"Denudation leaves naked soil
then outlying cute down TO the bar
rock then mean while the rock wasl
buries she bottom lands. Whe
she soil il gene, men mus. gni an
she process does not take long. ?"
President Roosevelt.
William Gehrig was arrested th
week charged with unlawfuliy ha'