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

, corner Of Sixth apd Ann streets and
will bnild q eoncrste block house on
them. There ss demand in town
for SnOdsrats sized houses for rent,
and also 70 accommodate city people
lookinR for summer houses. Such
buildings would be q profitable in
vestmsnt
W. Il. Smith OF Philadelphia, has
been appointed State Commissioner
Of banking in place Of J. A. Berkey
who was rather noted FOR absentse-
ism. Z
KIP. Huddy and wife spent sew
eral days recently at the Forest Lake
Club In Lackawaxen. The house
has about1OO guessa.
The Fiver aBove Port JsEvis is be-
ing fenced for cells and other fish. If
they are wise they will not attempt
any nsighborhood visiting this fall
but simply lie low in deep water,
and SO savs their hides. II does not
seem exactly right or fair TINT the
upljsr stretch Of the Delaware can be
50 thoroughly walled in with weirs
and the people below deprived OF
the privilege of fishing in that man-
ner. We ought to have our share of
the flsh.
Mrs. d. Keere, who was recent
" operated on for cancer in a New
York hospital, is dangerously i'll at
her home on Ann Street.
Branchvilie defeated Milford on
the latter's groonds last Saturday by
= score Of "a. Andy Coakley. who
swirled last year for the Chicago
Cubs, was on the mound for the vis-
itOrs and psOved puzzle to the local
swatsmithB.
The All Milford base ball team
viii play . nine from Dingman's
Ferry August rs. Admission 16 and
csc.
The POEt Jervis Telephone Com
pany has bought the local rights of
she hudson River Company and will
baiId q new building and increase its
capital 70 $50. 900.
The bridge across the river at
Dingman's Ferry is being rep'anked.
The game between Milford and
Pittsburg (colored) Giants which
played hero recently, tomorrow will
be one worth seeing and all lovers
Of the sport should be there. &
An Italian. who had been passing
counterfeit two dollar silver celtif-
Gates, was arrested in Philadelphia
this week Thirty. men engaged In
the same business have been caught
In New York. Tho bills are badly
executed aud can saeily be detected.
Easton manufacturers claim basil
ness has improved fifty per cent
within the past few weeks. With
enormous cropa which recent rains
have greatly helped the country can
not help being prosperous.
While 1t was sizzling hot in the
southwest this week, copious rains
fell here. New York had a deluge
Monday.
Horace q, Hand. for nearly thirty
years cashier Of the Wayne County
Savings Bank, died in Honesdale last
Monday sgsd over 70 years.
A boy ls years old, while in swim
ming near the former Naid of the
Mist landing at Niagara Falls last
Monday, yentured out TOO far and
was caught in the swift water and
carried through whirlpool rapids and
drowned. He swan perhaps
500 feet further than did the
aFeet English swimmer Capt. Webb
who attempted 10 swim the rapids
and was lost.
IL would be kindness to us and at
ths same time enable MS to comply
with the requirements Of the post
once department II those who are In
arrears Tor the Press would remit.
We are sveTse TO being insistent ana
It should not be necessary. Sub.
scnbsEa know how they stand with
regard 70 merchants and Others with
whom they deal and il would be
ehserful for newspapers ifthey would
remember the editors and pay with
she same Promptness for papers as
for groceries.
quite = number from town went
70 Monticello last Sunday eight sse-
ing, and report that the town looks
desnlats lndesd. The people how.
ever are making plans for new build
ings end probably the reiuvsnated
village viii greatly surpass the old
one In appearance. all except the
trees which Il will require years 10
replace.
Taking stones last year out Of the
river bed for the diks at Matanoras
has changed the appearance Of the
river considerably. Where there