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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
OUT OF THE
GINGER JAR.


One may retail apples, but it is
impossible to re tail dog.
While few women are able to
write for the magazines, all can
write for catalogue.
The healthy youngster will not de-
sert the table so long as there is any
dessert in sight.
Elect that man to office who has
the courage to. be decent and honest
when nobody is looking.
A lie travels by aeroplane, while
truth trudges along with tagging
step, and yet it finally arrives.
To possess information is an inn
portant matter II is desirable even
for fence to be well posted.
If you will carefully count your
expenses you will seldom have occa-
sion to ask the bank to discount your
Dote.
On the very first of Jan.
A new diary he began;
But before the FIRST of Feb.
His well.mean' zeal began to ebb.
The hoaster's story of his life is
too much like the historical novel;
one part truth to three parts fiction.
The chestnut tree is exceedingly
popular with the small boy; but a
well-laden doughnut tree would give
him greater joy.
OF ell the monopOlists the one we
most detest is he who monopolizes
conversation and prevents us from
getting in our word.
AT last we have something to be-
really thankful for. Fashion has de.
creed that the rampant rat' and
the bulging bun" must go.
1t will require more than one cost
of whitewash to renovate some poll
ticians. Indeed. some of them need
disinfectant added to the lime.
Wiseacres advise US not to go to
extremes; but how can we comb our
hair or put on our shoes in the morn
ing without going to extremes?
1t was not "Mrs. Partington, but
some other woman who observed
that the Sterling family must have
been large aud very rich at one time,
Judging from the great quantity of
silverware marked with their name.
From January FARM JOURNAL.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
Farmers Institute

A farmers institute win be held in
the Paupac NJ E. Church Friday and
Saturday January 9th and 9TH. Ad-
dresses on dairying, poultry raising,
potato culture, and fruit growing
win be made by S. P. Woodman, Nj.
H. MoCuilum, j. F. Campbell aud
NJ. S. Bond all experienced aud prac-
tical men. The Saturday afternoon
session will be devoted exclusively to
educational interests.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
The Youths Companion Cal
endar For IoII

The publishers of The Youths
Cump9piop viii, as always at this
season, present 20 every subscriber
Whose subscription (sl.75) is paid for
1911 a beautiful Calendar for the
new year The picture panel repro
duces water. color painting Of an
old time garden in a flood of summer
with a background of Lom
hardy poplars through which one
catches a glimpse OF distant hills.
The picture being in - oolors, the
tones of the original are faithfully
reproduced
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
OBITUARY
WARREN X. VAN GoRDEN.

Warren, son of the late Randall
and Hannah L., Decker,) Van Cor
den, died at his home in Dingman's
Ferry, Pa, last Mond ~ after an ILL
ness of several months. He was an
enterprising young man, progressive
in his ideas and the community will
suffer great deprivation in his loss.
Four sisters survive him; Hattie,
Charlotte and Linda at home and Mrs
Floyd e. Bevans.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
A o6-Page Diary
For Our Readers.

We take pleasure in announcing
that our readers can secure a valua-
Bile 96-page diary for 1911 by sending
4 one-cent stamps to D. Swift & Co.,
Patent Lawyers, Washington. D. C.
This diary is worth 20 cents and con
tains memoranda and date for each
day IN the year; the census of 1900
and 1910 Of the States; nearly 800 of
the largest cities; synopsis OF useful
every day information; business
laws, postage rates and the amount
of corn, wheat, oats. tobacco and cot
ton produced 10 each State.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
Real Fstate Transfers.

Henry W. Richardson to William
A. Lamberf, 44O acres Thomas Conn
aroe No. % Shohola.
Daniel b. Olmsted to John Trump
l acre Milford township $40
Emil t. Riviere to John Drake aud
Fled Gebhardt, 252 acres Luke
Brodhead No / 5 Delaware.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

We have received a copy of a
pocket diary for 1911 containing "a
blank pages arranged for memoir
anda, cash account, etc, with oalen-
dar, common business laws and decis
ions in Patent Law, which will be
sent on receipt of stamp to any inven
tor, patentee or manufacturer. Ad.
dress G. A. Snow & Co., Patent Law
yers, Washington, d. G. Tho book
is such as frequently retails for 25c.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

The Cuban situation is exciting
much interest in political and official
ilfe. President Taft stopped in Cuba
on bis recent return from Panama.
He talked with representatives of
both factions. The President of
Cuba, it seems, wants to perpetuate
his presidency by reelection. Presi.
dent Taft, perhaps, does not consider
this unnatural, but the ways and
tricks of perpetuation in Cuba, ln
Mexico, in Central America, IN fact
wherever Spanish precedents and
customs prevail, are not according to
Apglo-Saxon ideals, although they
may find parallels in Anglo-Snxon
pr9ctice Our grandmotherly inter
est in our Latin neighhors may yet
result in our giving them a Porto
Rico or Philippine government under
the flag. There have been official
denials of early Intervention in Cab
an affairs. Nevertheless, it is known
chat the entire American battleship
fleet with twelve or fifteen hundred
marines aboard will be at Guantan
amo early in January and it is said
that five thousand United States sol
diers fully equipped can be landed in
Cuba in three days.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
NEWS FROM
WASHINGTON

Congress has adjourned for the
holidays and is devoting itself in a
versatile way, according to individ-
MI tastes, to the enjoyment Of Xmas
festivities. An unusually large con-
tingent will remain in Washington.
This was not the way in days of
yore, when free railroad passes or
bribes were as thick as leaves in
Velambroae. Now let the various
constituencies of our ninety million
nation send members to Congress un-
tainted with other insiduous bribery
and we will have still other reforms
and>be farther from the decline and
fall which historians say is inherent
in all nations.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
WANTRDl

LADY or GENTLEMAN, canvas
ser to sell GUARANTEED goods OF
merit. Our new book "Piling Dol
lars" explains everything. It's free
Rhoads g. Seyfried,
6-S-il Branch, Pa.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
Dividend Declared.


The First National Bank Of Milford,
Pa.
Milford, Pa, Dec. q, 1910
The Board Of Directors have this
day declared a Semi-annual dividend
of S96 payable on January 3rd, 1911.
The transfer books will remain closed
until that date.
JOHN G. WARNER,
Cashier.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

Notwithstanding this country has
the best fire fighting equipment in
the world, it each year loses more
than two hundred millions of dollars
by fire. This is four or five times as
much as is lost in all the European
countries. The president of one Of
the fire insurance companies has said
that if the loss by fire in this country
could be cut down to seventy five
millions year, the saving would be
equivalent to adding a billion of dol
lars to the wealth of the country
every ten years, The conditions are
bad, but better than in farmer years,
for concrete and steel are to some ex-
tent protecting cities from the holo-
causts of former days.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

missouri, harmon or Ohlo, Gaynor
of New York and Wilson of N. j.
The war scare so prominent two
weeks ago has been pretty effectual-
ly smothered. Coming as 1t did on
the heels of Mr.. Carnegie's ten-mi-
lion donation to the cause of peace,
it had all the effect of contrast and
incongruity. The President. the
Secretary of War and Gen. Wood
have hastened to disclaim any anx-
iety with reference to the safety of
the country. Milltarists, and these
are quite numerous, are positive in
their statements that our condition is
one of defenselesness against the
warlike nation of the Orient, between
which and our nearest shore there
are nearly 5000 miles of salt water.
1t is glibly asserted that Japan can
land two hundred thousand troops on
the Pacific coast before we would be
aule to send ten thousand soldiers
across the continent to the defense of
Seattle, San Francisco and Los An
geles. But the situation is very
much like that of England with ref
erenee to Germany. a great Ger
man strategist is quoted as saying
that he had planned half a dozen
campaigns for landing two or three
hundred thousand troops in England
but had never been able to work out
plan for getting them safely out. 1t
is only day or night from a Ger
man to an English port, While from
Japanese to an American port is
fifteen days.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30
Election Of Managers.

The ANIMAL election for Managers
Of she Milford Cemetery Association
viii be held at the Office of Geo. r.
Bull in the borough Of Milford on
Monday, JAM 2nd, 1911, between
the honrs Of and P. NJ.
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
C1.-.-s..--
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

ADVERTISE IN THE
PIKE COUNTY PRESS
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

. Subscribe for the Press.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

Mr.. Bryan is out in a disclaimer of
further presidential aspiration and
he has named four candidates who in
the order given are, IN his opinion,
eligible to the office. We have heard
of them before. They are Folk of
Missouri, Harmon of Ohio, Gaynor
of New York and Wilson of N. j.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-12-30

Milford, Pa, Dec. 10th, 1910.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
Job Done Quickly.
Falls and Cuts Head.

William Stricken, Pip Gaines street,
Davenport. was injured Tuesday eve
ming at 1880 O'Clock when he tried to
board a Bridge line car at Nineteenth
street and Second avenue in this city.
1t is said that he tried to jump on the
car while it was going slowly, and was
thrown to the ground. and suffered a
cut or the head. He was taken to the
police station in Davenport, where a
physician was called and closed the
wound with enc stitch. The man was
then taken to his home His injuries
are not considered serious.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
How To Cure
Your Own Kidneys
Best That the Worlds Best Kidney
Specialists Could Give You.

Here les the best remedy for your
Kidneys. backachc. and tu" diseases tuat
come from bad kidneys that tho world
greatest brains can Civ" you. Take ad-
vantage OF d. cat TINS ont and Keep %.
If your kidneys are too Gar gone. moth
ing else may save you. II then rc-tf
with your Maker.
Now. If you have pain iu tho small 81
your back. a. times or constantly. a. TIM
urine Is prpfUso or ScautN. ID ~ iE smolEy
or cloudy after Dr. stands q f"w hours.
or has q bad OdOr. Dr ~ YOU have pai'I
tism auNwher". the chances arc almos'
100 60 that vour kIducVs arc clougrd
with body poi~nU- ~ various kinds
Bladder troubles. rl,uWIti su. Bright
disease. aud so or. como from bad. dy
ing kidneys. They can't throw out 90.
Uoisous.
stop everything oisr YOU may he talk
ing cor your kidneys. bladder or rhru-
mItism stop, I'ut your whole heart
and soul IN the following treatment .f1J
go 20 bed tonight never more dolibtir.
for moment that YOU VIII bC quiCiI.
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60 to your druggist and ask him for
DR. Dcrby's Kidney pills. nothing more
Every box, every pill is guaranteed.
You VIII SHY 10 is the greatest remedy
that mHu usts ever found. some or the
most prominent men and women Of tho
country believe Iu them because thcr
have beer cured by them.
Or. Dcrby'S IS duCy Pills arc rafr
give no bad after effects. in tho FIRST
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Dr. Dcrby'S Is idnCs Pills arc sold br
all druggists-Gn pills-fn DAYS treat
Medicine Co. Eaton Rapids. Mich. IL
you want TO fest them first. lust ask
your druggist Cor free sample pack
age.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
MEETING TO FORM A
FEDERAL UNION HERE
Tri-City Laboring Men Called To
gcthcr Tomorrow Evening at
Industrial Hall.

Tomorrow evening a meeting is TO
be he'd at fhe Rock Island Industrial
home for the purpose OF organizing
a Tri-City Federal Labor union, the
membership to include men engaged
in crafts that are not organized in this
viciu,v. The Federal union is agiliat-
ed With the American Federation of
Labor A charter has been received
here and it is aimed to embrace in
the membership of the new body all
workiIgmen of union principles whose
vocaticns are such that they are not
now classified into individual unions.
TheI meeting tomorrow evening is
called for O'Clock
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
TO-DAY IN THE MARKETS

Chicago. Dec. S.-Following are the
quotations on the market today:
Wheat.
December. 921s, 921A. DIS, %.
May, 90. 961a, 961s. 961s.
July, 1855. 9334. 93$s, 93$s.
Corn.
December. ASS. 45s4. 45H, 1855.
May, ass, 4734, 478s, 479s.
July 4Sas. 1885, As, 1875.
Oats.
December, 3112. BIZ. 31H, 311f.
May. 34ss. 34$s, "a. 34ts.
July, 341s. 3l1a. 81, "a.
Pork.
January. 1920. 1882. 1920. 1925.
May, 1920, 1875, I'LL, 1880.
Lard.
January, 9.S5. $50. 9S2. 9.S7.
May. go. 9.s2. go. 977.
Ribs.
January $50. 9.72. $50. 9.65.
May, $50, $40, $50, 9.S7.
Receipts today-Wheat II, corn
3S4. oats 233. hogs 10000, cattle
5000. sheep $4,000.
Estimated receipts Friday-Hogs
$4,000.
Hog market opened weak. Hogs
left over $500. Light us a 80.
mixed and butchers 72O a go, good
heavy 7.15 a $50, rough heavy 4. ,
G7.3O.
Cattle market opened steady.
Sheep market opened weak.
Omaha-Hogs 5000, cattle $500.
Kansas City-Hogs 1000, cattle
1000.
Hog market closed slow and weak.
Bulk sales 7.4O67.5O, light 7.15 a
1871, mixed and butchers 7.15 q.
7.35. good heavy 7.15 a 7.55, rough
heavy 7.15 a 7.30.
Cattle market closed steady.
Sheep market closed strong.
Northwestern receipts-Minneap
lis. today 24O, last week 1873, last
year Al. Duluth, today AZ last week
100, last year AZ.
Liverpool opening cables-Wheat Y
lower, corn a lower
Liverpool closing II to q
lower. corn u lower.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
ARMED FOOTPADS
ROB PEDESTRIAN
w. n. Wilson, Plow Shop En-
ploye, Held UP at Thirteenth
Street and Second Avenue.
$21 is TAKEN FROM HIM
On Way Home at 1880 at Night
When Two Masked Strangers
Surprise Him,

w. H. Wilson, eos Seventh street,
while on his way to his home at
1890 last night, was held up by
two strange men at the corner of
Thirteenth street and Second ave-
nue. and robbed of s21, all of the
money he had with him.
AS he was passing the corner on
the south side of the avenue the two
strangers stepped in front of him
and as one thrust revolver in his
face commanded him to hold up his
hands. at the same time admonishing
him not to make an Outcry.
Wilson obeyed when he saw that
there was no one to whom he might
appeal for assistance in sight. AS
one of the footpads held the gun
under his nose the other rifled Will
sons pockets.
No Light on Corner.
81 had read of holdups before. but
never realized what ones experience
is until last night" Wilson, who re-
ported the case to the police said.
"As it happened, there is no light
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08

Aledo. ILL.,, Dec. 8 Especial The
annual banquet given by the stew
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08

pound; geese &c to 10c; turkeys 16c
per pound.
Fresh eggs, 35c.
Potatoes, per bushel, 40c.
Butter, dairy Csc to 29c; creamery
32c.
Lard-13c to lac.
Onions, 75c.
Feed and Fuel.
Corn. per bushel, 45c and COO.
Oats. BIC.
Forage-Timothy hay, SIC TO $3.50;
clover hay. $15; straw, IS
Wood-S4.50 per load.
Coal-Lump, per busnel, 15c; slack.
&c
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08

at the corner of Thirteenth street
and Second avenue. | had come up
town to pay a bill at a store. After
wards ! attended the second per-
Torrance at the Majestic theatre. IT
was my intention to take a car to
my home, but when one was not in
sight as I reached Second avenue and
Eighteenth street, l decided to walk.
/ was sauntering along at a pretty
good gait, with such an experience
furthest from my thoughts when |
suddenly looked into the barrel of
an ugly revolver. Naturally it mo-
mentariIy took my breath away. and
| don't believe l could have shouted
for help If / wanted to.
Job Done Quickly.
THE Job was done pretty quickly
and the fellows acted as if they were
old heads at the business. They talk
ed softly to me, and only a few
words were spoken. l had nothing
to say under the circumstances.
Both men had their faces covered
with masks. After they had taken
my money away from me they or
dered me to proceed quietly on my
way, and they disappeared down
Thirteenth street, going south.
am employed at the Rock Island
Pillow company shops"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
Davenport Couple Married.

Ra;pn Henry of Davenport and Miss
Stella Stage of Mitchell, S. D., were
united in marriage this morning at II
o'clock, Justice of the Peace P. H.
Wells officiating at his Office. The
couple will reside in Davenport.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08

! SzsESEa--SKESZxS
EGOTISM.
OF all the bores about the worst
Is he who tells his troubles first
Who will insist on being heard,
And yet you cannot get in a word.
Whose tale of woes for hours endures,
While you are aching to tell yours.
Who talks and talks about himself.
And puts you meanwhile on the shelf
Nor thinks of giving way to you,
Although you have some troubles, too
OF all the bores he heads the list
Confound the blooming egotist!
-SomervilIe Journal.
/ Go
! And
/ DaTce
After
Skating
At -he rink
Saturday night.
Cut
Down
Your loan rates.
Kerler & Co. make rugs.
Carpenter Coal company
Sell coal. Phone west 295.
Buy home of Reidy Bros.
Tri-city Towel Supply company.
For express, call Spencer & Trefz
Open every evening, Cut Rate Loan
20.
McCahes are in need of cash girls.
Apply at once.
Coal from Price banks, 1915 per
ten. Old phone S93-Y.
Mound City paints may cost a little
more but! III & Ehleb.
Pictures of all kinds; also artistic
raining done to order at McCabes.
Let William Johnson DO your tin and
furnace work. 1916 Third avenue.
No trouble to prepare Mrs. Aus
tins famous buckwhcat flour. All
I grocers.
II. T. Siemon wants your tin and
furnace work. 1526-152S Fourth ave-
nue..
No trouble to prepare Mrs. Aus
tins famous buckwheat -four. All
grocers.
Thanks be given 10 the Cut Rate
Loan Co, cheapest loan company in
the state.
No trouble to prepare Mrs. Aus
tins famous buckwheat flour. All
grocers.
What a snap We did and would have
if that old Cut Rate Loan company
was out of the way.
Doll wigs, switches, puffs and curls
made of combings and cut hair at Miss
Toliver's Hair Store, 1889 Second
avenue.
! Carpenter Coal company, 1928
Twentieth street, old phone West
295. We handle best grades of hard
and soft coal. Our motto, Satisfied
Customers"
The Ladies' Aid society of Memorial
Christian church will hold a sample
sale all day Saturday Dec 10 at the
church. The patronage of all friends
is solicited.
"OA We of little faith you can be
independent now. Everybody can get
a loaa with the cut rates we are Civ
ing on furniture, pianos. etc. No time
lost; open evenings until . o'clock.
1S0fh Second avenue. w. III.
A sensation in the loan business,
The Cut Rate Loan company, has es-
tablished new record for the num-
Der of loans made in one month hav-
ing r|de during the month of Novem-
Der. go loans. This is more than
double the number of loans made by
all other loans companies in Rock Is
land combined. it shows conclusive
Iy that the new plans and low rates,
this pew company is Offering is just
what the people want and appreciate.
If yoI need a loan favor us with a
call. We will be glad to give you our
rot
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
Will Be Thoroughly Cleaned.

Kerlcr & Co. have been awarded
the carpet cleaning at the New Har-
per. All carpets will be taken UP.
thoroughly cleaned and renovated
and relaid by them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
Notice to Dealers in Electric Motors

Sealed proposals will be received at
the city clerks office until ) o'clock
D. m, Dec. u, 1910, for one 50 h. p,
phase, 440 volt, 60 cycle. 1900 r. p.
NJ, A c.. electric motor, installed on
propar sub-base with auto starter, cir
cult iTcaker, pulley and all necessary
wiring in conduit. Bidder to take
city's motor now in sewer pump house,
as part payment, and must state in bid
how much is allowed for old motor.
The City reserves the right to reject
any CT all bids.
NJ. T. RUDGREN, City Clerk
Rock Island, III Dec, :, 1910.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
Mercer Supervisors Feast.

WILLIAM PAYNE. w. NJ.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08

Liverpool opening cables-Wheat !
lower, corn a lower.
Liverpool closing Il to z
lower. corn u lower
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS.

Dec. S.-Following are the quota
tons on the local market today:
Live Poultry-Old hens 1Oc. springs
15c to lie per pound. ducks loo per
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08

ard of the Mercer county poor farm,
w. p. Zontmire. TO the board of sup
orvisors. took place yesterday. About
40 county officers ana politicians
we're entertained.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
Notice to Masons.

Members of Rock Island lodge No
G5S, y +. & a. NJ, are requested 70
meet at Masonic temple Friday, Dec
.. at p. m, for the purpose of at
tending the funeral of Brother Cyrus
Valentine. Members of Trio lodge No
81, \. J.. &: a. NJ, and sojourning Mas
ons are invited to join with us. BY
order of
WILLIAM PAYNE. w. NJ.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-12-08
New York Stocks.

New York, Dec. S.-Following are
quotations on the stock market today:
Union Pacific .... .............1 6S14
U. S. Steel preferred .,.,..,,.,.115A