Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-01-21
BRIEF MENTION

ANAgAAAAA AAOaAN1A1e WaA1 NsAAA ~ 49,
Y. recently TO consult q surgeon re
garding his injured leg has returned
home with little hope Of much i'm
provement.
A number of Port Jervis ladies
were entertained last Friday by
Miss Huldah Bull. They enjoyed =
flne ride in ia SHOW storm aud her hos
pltality as we'll
r. b. Morse Of N Y has concluded
not TO sell his house on Fourth st.
Milford has too many attractions for
him 20 relinquish his summer home
hore.
Varying the customs Of holding
caurts of appeals in the several town
ships. this year the County Commits
siOners will set at their Office In Mil
ford An advertisement elsewhere
gives the dates for the different town
ships.
Miss Harmon, who has been visit
ing in New York for the past week
h's returned TO town.
Battle Snake Bill Van Horn, who
is known here, is now a guest Of
Warren County, N. J. for six months
for lifting chickens. An iihprovi-
dent former allowed them 20 rOost on
g rail likely and Bill inadvertently
carried off the rail aud incidentally
the chickens. His companian in the
raid got year and a half in the pen
itentlsry.
Directors and Superintendents OF
the State Educational Association
will hold their Annual Convention
Thursday and FridA February 10
and ii at Harrisburg.
Benjamin Mettler has taken posi.
tlon with the Malvern Gorden Co.
at Port Jervis and came up from N.
Y yesterday TO begin work.
George P. Van wyck of Washing
ton Is a guest in town
E E. Steele was injured by a fall
N the ice this week and Is confined
% the house.
President Taft In his annual mes.
sage said the loss to the Post Of1cs
department growing out of the trans
mission Of second class matter, heWl
papers and periodicals, at one cent
pound amounts TO sixty three mil.
lion dollars a year. The average
cost Of transportation is more than
cents . pound. Tho Farm Journal
produces facts and figures to prove
that this statement is not true iT
fact, that other matter in the mai
service Is more likely the cause Of thu
deficiency, and 1t deprecates adding
any burden to publishers of newr
papers by an increase of postage OF
: their publications.
Professor Surface, State Zoologist
has heen makiug q study of peacl
trees infected with yellows b,
inolines to the belief that If trees ar,
out back, the brush carried out,ant
burned and the trees muiched will
stable manure and In the spring thl
soil dressed with complete fertilize
in which nitrogen predominated mos
OF the trees would be cured.
Miss Leila Gregory has gone +
New York to accept position.
Talk in political circles now is tha
Delaware county may have OandI
dates for governor on both tickets
Senator W. q. Sproul on the republi
can and ex treasurer w. Il. Berry o
the Democratic. This would nc
leave room for Hon. A. Mitchell {
Monroe, but there are democrats 1
the district who want TO send hiI
back to Congress. just how Hon. )
Davis Brodhead or Northampton G
DIR H. Shull of Monroe might vie'
such an attempt can easily be sul
missed. MutchIer might not asseI
either and that would make hi
path back rather roekey. Palmer
a good congres, ,man as Democrat
members go and II we must hav
one Of his stripe from this district h
sizes up with any the party has her
70 sent.
Joseph baltimore spent the latt'
part of last week In New York.
Roscoe GOurlay is spending Ct
week in New York visiting frienI
and relatives
Mrs. c. G. Tyler and son ConVers
who have been visiting relatives
town for the past moAth have r
turned TO New York.
BENZ Mettler has relinauished b
position in New York sni returns
home.
The Delaware Water Gap boroul
council has passed an ordinance ov
the veto Of the burgess TO allow d
trolley road to run through the Ga
This permits building a link viii
will connect Strondsburg with Phi
delphia bV trolley.