Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-03-12
BRIEF MENTION

tNC 4 AIcAubn----a9 A. AANuN
SecretarS-S L hunt.
Tressurer-H. WOhibrandt.
Foremap--Ed NcMurray.
LIST Assistani-W. A. Il. Mitchell
2nd Assisiant-Chas Clark.
Police. 81. Ludwig. Maurice
Steele, Fred Kurtz, S l. Hunt.
VanDerMark Hose has elected as
officers. the following.
FUreIuen-J. +. Terwilliger.
Isl Assisiant-J. B. McCarty.
2nd Assistant-Chas Brink.
Serretsry-A. Middangh.
.Trsasurer-F. "a. Beck.
Sieward-Johu Showers.
Poiice-Louis deBerhle, John Ful
Ter.
DIR b. B. Reed and wife expect to
leave next week for Atlantic City to
remain a month.
Also sn act TO permit county audi
tors TO employ an attorney to advise
th IN as TO their duties and defend
their reports il appealed from.
S!Cha,les E Thornton. of Milford
has been awarded the contract to
carry the mails between this place
aud Port Jervis for the next 4 years
Il; u compensation Of $500 year.
William Steele, Milford's crack
pitcher, hes engaged with a club at
Altoona, Pa, for the coming season,
aud will go tu Roanoke, Va. March
Both for practice.
Centre Square Hotel entertained o
large company Tuesday evening.
Mrs Maria Westfall has returned
home from Hornell, n. Y.
The Milford basket ball team will
try conclusions with one from White
Mills, Pa, tomorrow evening In
Browns Hall Admission 25c.
e An act is before the House proyiG-
ing that opinions on religious matters
shall not affect the competency or
credibility OF witnesses. II may be
recalled that some time ago DIR. Per.
sifor Fruzsr, the great ink expert
was discredited in court because of
his uDbelief and the court decline d
30 hear his testimony. II may be all
right to pass laws saying the cre6i.
bility of such persons shall not be af-
facte3, hut the law may not affect
the minds of jurynen before whom
suoh persons testify.
An act to amend the Uniform pri
mary law declares that only the
names of the ca 1didates who receive
a plurality of votes shall be printed
OH the ticket and that all other can.
didates voted for shall abide by the
result Of such election. That will
sbut cut soreheads, perhaps.
State Highway Commissioner
Hunter is booked for ali address be-
fore convention of supervisors to be
held at Stroudsburg March is.
1t is dollar wheat alright now and
down In Berks county millsrs are
Offering 81 25 and farmers are hold.
ing back fora rise. Corn sells for so
cents.
Eugene Kinney of Monroe county
has offered a bill in the House to pre-
vent miscegenation of blacks and
whites by marriage.
A bill now before the legislature
amends the act providing that courts
may settle disputes as to the reason
abIeuess of the amount of license tees
be Teen municipal corporations, tel.
egraph, telephone aud power com.
.panies by extending its provisions to
witer, gas and other companies and
corporations occupying public high.
ways.
Hon Jacob C. Prics, Senator from
Sussex county, N. ]. is being spoken
of as his own successor for ~ third
term. He has given very general
Satisfaction and has 80 well conducted
himself that there appears to be a
preynleni sentiment TO return him.
1t is most excellent plan to con
tinue men in Representative Office
when they prove themselves woTths,
Their acquaintance with the routine
aud with public men and offairs /.
OF great value in aiding proper leg
islation.
Wade WestbFook Of Montague wal
somewhat injnred Tuesday ia Por
Jergis by falling from a wagon.
Gabriel Lndium of Vantage town
ship n. J. died last Saturday Of par
alysis aged 60 years.
Next Wednesday will ba ST Pa,
riok's day, not only in the mornin
but all "ay.
George T. Oliver ~ Pittsburgh hsi
been elected U S Senator to filI til,
vacancy caused by the resiguatiou o
Hon P, c. Knox. who entered Presi
dent Tsft's oahiret ns s eseiary o
State Oliver aiIl serve two year
aud Thea iis good Lye 10 him.