Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-06-17

StrJudsburg was in town yesterday
delivering a popular brand Of beer.
From appearances and recent devel-
epments flying machines will soon be
competitors OF the auto, for like the
girl in the circus they ''fiy through
the air with the greatest OF ease"
A small boy in a school wrote a
composition on Quakers and wound
up by saying, "Quakers never quar-
rel, never get into fights, sever claw
and never scratch. Paw is a Quaker
but really don't think Nav Is.
The warden Of the Trenton N. J.
prison is more than amodel Lous :
keeper. In his report he shows that
he hss fed prisoners lat an average
cost Of about three and a quarter
cents q meal. He,gives his charges
beef, fish. coffees bgsad and soup, and
bis recipe for. doing this at so little
cost weuld command a high figure
in many families.
The suggestions made by the
court as to cutting brush along roads
should be regarded by supervisors.
Il ia an easy aud cheap method of
making them safer, ana at the rate
autos run alobg them and around
short curves there should be every
possible opportunity afforded for a
a view as far ahead as can be.
Riding bicycles at night without
lights ON the Borough streets prevails
and it Is a dangerous practice and
against the law. An accident is re-
ported as happening one night this
week in whick a mans horse was
frightened aud he was thrown from
the wagon from this cause We
noted two riders going at a rapid
rate late one evening without lights
and they had been riding for several
hours. Enforce the law as to this
and also riding on sidewalks. Safety
demands 1t.
John T. Van Etten of Port Jeryis
was in town Wednesday.
A Fiat car driven by De Palma
won the hill climbing contest at
Wilkes Barre Tuesday in 1923 min.
The total number of passengers
carried by street cars in 1907 was
nearly tea billion.
Archie Steele left town this week
for Philadelphia to accept a position
in . garage.
Flea beetles, which both jump and
fly, eat little holes in leaves of plants
making them appear as though COW
cred with little brown spots. They
often attack potatoes and the means
of getting rid of them is to spray
with mixture Of an ounce of arsen.
ate of lead to one gallon of water, or
three pounds Of the arsenate to fifty
gallons of bordeaux mixture. This
is also remedy for blight.
Edward A. Mead of New York
will give reading "The Servant in
the House" in the Presbyterian
church Monday evening, June 27th.
he Is an excellent impersonator of
character and reads with a thorough
understanding of his subject, bring.
ing out forcefHlly the shades of
meaning and portrayinR with vivid
ness the emotions OF the various
characters who are speaking.
Roosevelt will arrive tomorrow
and great preparations are being
made for his reception. A war ship
will fire salute of twenty .one
guns. No man has been more cor.
daily received abroad than he and
no recent home coming OF an Amer
ioan citizen has been so generally and
cordially welcomed.
Charles Person and family will
occupy the house on Broad street,
which James P. Van Etten who goes
TO his new house on Hartford street
will vacate in day or two.
In 1880 the Behring sea was inhab
tied by no less than two and q half
million seals, but bY 1910 the mum.
ber had been reduced tol5O, 900. The
rest have been slaughtered as moth
ers or starved as offspring and Japan,
Great Britain aud the United States
are responsible for the destruction.
Prof Robert Kook, the discoVerer
Of the iacillis of disease and the
remedies, died May 9th. He also
was the dlsooverer Of tuberculin in
the treatment OF tuberculosis.
A Women's Great Idea