Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1910-03-04
BRIEF MENTION

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ter went to Boston last week where
Mrs. White will receive treatment
for her eyes which are affected with
erysipelas.
A. d. Brown has been coufined
part of the week by illness and went
to Port Jervis hospital for treatment.
II II. sanderson Of Walpole Mass,
a former resident Of tie county and
owner CT considerable real estate,
was in town this week.
Angelon Brothers went to the Ut
ley place in Delaware this week
where they have months work.
papering. painting and decorating.
The Mesdames Apgelon have gone
TO New York for a visit
james Stratford, aged 16 years,
had his skull fractured one day last
week by falling against shaft in
the stone planing mill at Parkers
Glen, and lies at the P ,rt Jervis
Hospital where he was taken for
treatment.
The Supreme Court says a contract
to perform work on Sunday, which
work is forbidden by the law Of the
state lis Illegal, aud there can be no
RI rJeovery thereon.
The plea Of meaning no harm is
one often advanced as an excuse for
wrOng-doing. A man of average in
te!ligencs who intends no wrong will
keep within due limits and not take
chances of wrong resulting Many are
too ofen satisfied with this vague
aud unmeaning excuse to their con.
science, but it has little weight eiiher
in reason or law.
50 much stir and aggressive action
have been reused over the infamous
"white slave traffic that TO the gen
eraI public the penalties inflicted on
those convicted Of the crime seem lu
dirrously inadequate. To break up
such threating danger to the whole
body public, with such systemetic
arrangements aud such far-reaching
influence, by few months in iii
will be found difficult, if not impos
sible. 1t is an offense calling for
years in the penitentiary- punish
ment of a deterrent effect.
Hogs have reached the highest
price on record. Strange! There
certainly is no scarcity of hogs.
The earth is to pass through the
tail of Halley's comet next May, but
these who are accustomed to the
trail of an automobile will not mind
1t.
By filling your stomach with pea
nuts and popcorn you will be able tc
pass meat market without blinking
1t is possible to effect material
reduction in the cost Of living if yor
can cultivate or reawaken an homes
aud sincere liking for old-fashioueC
hominy.
Burbank, the plant wiZird, has de
veloped a spineless cactus as substi
tuie for neat. 1t is going greatly t.
simplify matters If one can simply g
out in ones garden OF back yard ant
pull one's roast or juint fresh from l.
glowing.
immediately following the an
nouncement that Roosevelt woul'
return home in June, Congress be
gan preparing TO get ready to I'd
journ in May. Sometimes even G N
gress knows when TO quit.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilso
P, says some present troubles are due I
: the cost of high living as well as tn
high cost of living Aud the thot
well worth pondering.
Ministers ought TO be aviatorl
You can't keep good men down.
The gloomier the winter, tn
brighter the spring.
Only one eK-president is living, bl
three former mistresses of the Viii
House are living-Mrs Roosev ev el
Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs Garfield.
The postal savings bank bin HI
caused lot of extraxegence in Il
use of language The big banke
are mad clear through to think Il
people should have such a blessing
Postal Savings Banks.
1t becomes apparent that in II
State Of New York graft is not
modern discovery.
If the Ballinger Pinehot investig
tiOn should last 10 years, as acor
mitteeman predicts, would Alas
last that long or would it be gobbl
up by the Guggenheims in advan
of the finding of the courl?
Since the meat boycott was Inar
uraIed, meat has advanced &c
per pound. Perhaps, after all,
would have been safer saner to la
bueked the vegetable trust.
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