Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-08-20

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tiOn in the Wayne county papers Of
the OiEer Of bonds % build the trolley
road from seeIeyviIio b J4awley. II
miles and $500. coo bonds Tho com.
pany iscapitalized ct eSo0. 900 and Of
course there win be sonss stock is.
red. We hardly understand how
our neighbOrs can alloS such gilt
edge Investments TO be hoatsd out
side. bon. Z. B. Hartsnbergh is
president of the company and that
fact should be ample TO satisfy local
investors of ths good faith and mer.
its of the scheme II is not quite
fair either to spend hundreds Of dol
lars advertising in city papers and
not give the home papers q large
rpell.
Senator PenrOse has gone to Mon.
tana satisfied that the chances for
success of the Republican ticket this
fall are excellent.
Destructive fires within the past
two weeks have visited several small
rr towns. Pike in Wyoming county
n. Y. was nearly wiped out Milton,
Deleware suffered great loss. There
are places here where a fire might do
much damage under unfavorable
conditions.
The stock market l. In a condition
now to be let severely alone by cOun
try spectators. If you go In you
will be very sure TO come out with
out your fleece. Rain it was said
this week covered a fan in the
market.
Horace o. Kipp. after spending
several days with friends here, has
retnrned with his family to oswego
N. Y.
Mrs. James Lauer, after spending
few weeks with lelatives at Pater.
son. N. ]. and Portland, Me-, re
turned home last wesk.
Postal cards are to be improved
next year SO they can be written on.
Now they make excellent blotters.
Don't worry about the cool weather
and an early autumn. We will have
probably the usual warm days in
September and August is not ended
yet.
Edward Beach, Of Newton, N. J.,
visited the family Of Councilman
W. q. Almer last Sunday.
It is said the new state road now
being built uear Culvers Lake will
be finished in couple of weeks and
all opened to public use.
Tie farmers picnic at ,Culvers
Lake last Saturday was largely at
tended. Estimates place the number
at over 5000. 1t was q great day for
Senatorial aspiranta to make hay
and they we're there with their
rakes.
Matamoras Borough Council has
oiled Pennsylvania Avenue.
Visitors from here to Monticello
last Sunday remarked that the con.
crete walls Of which the power house
was in part built showed no damage
by fire, while brick and stone walls
were badly damaged.
The council In 8 West Virginia
town has passed an ordinance forbid
ding horse women from riding as
tride through the corporate limits.
The ladies are excellent riders and
had mostly discarded the old fash
ioned side saddle and rode the
streets man fashion. They now de.
mand q repeal of the ordinance, and
say any way IL cannot be enforced.
That council OF patriarchs should
have a snap shot taken Of themselves
for general distribution.
The Cunsrd steamer Lucania was
partly burned last week ct her dock
in Liverpool. She was sunk to stop
the hre and afterwards raised.
The women OF Spokane recently
held a husband show" We are
glad that the poor husbands are get
ting a show at last.
Rep' rti Of 8 great increase Of rail.
way earnings this year incicate that
the prosperity prophets know whtt
they are talking about.
And now they are talking Of Hon.
A. Mitchell Palmer for the next dem
OcTatic candidate for governor. Well
they can hardly get better one. but
If he is 90 satisfactory in Congress
why don't they adopt the plan OF
holding on to q good thing there.
That would be both rhyme and rea.
son.
1t seems that the Spainards would
rather hght each other than the
Moors. Apparently, for very good
reasons.
A man down in Saltwater, N. j.,
killed a rattlosnake last week with
ten chimes attached.