Pike County Dispatch from Milford, Pennsylvania • 1

All the News of Town and County and Entertaining Miscellany. Five Cents a Copy. 83rd YEAR. MILFORD, PIKE THURSDAY, HAY 20, 1909 NO. 26 Subscription $1.50 a Year.

SOFT DRINKS MUST BE PURE IN FUTURE TIMELY TOPICS OF PLANT PESTS To Prevent Damage from Moths. Prof. Surface Tells How to Destroy Codling Moth ing the present season a temporary structure has been completed and i6 ready for occupancy. These quarters are 65x40 feet and include a dining room, which will seat 50 guests, an office and wine room. For sleeping rooms quarters have been provided in the bowling alleys and individual cottages, and will also accommodate about 50, It is expected that this will be sufficient since there are seldom more than 50 guests at the Park at one time.

NEW CLUB HOUSE TO COST $75,000 Handsomely Appointed Building to Be Erected by Blooming Grove Club WILL BE FINISHED BY FALL pounds to fifty gallons, but I am now well satisfied that if you use a good quality of arsenate of lead, one pound in fifty gallons will do the work perfectly. This is what I shall use in our demonstration orchards this year and I am satisfied that we will have as good results as we had last year from the two pounds to fifty gallons. In using the arsenate of lead, I would recommend adding it to Bordeaux mixture, and using the combined preparation. Make the Bordeaux with three pounds of bluestone and four of lime in fifty gallons of water, and add a pound of arsenate of lead to this, the same as though it were plain water instead or Bordeaux. This formula is all right for potatoes, apples, pears and quinces, but for peaches and plums the blue-stone should be reduced to one-half the amount here mentioned.

It is considered that in spraying smooth plants like cabbage, the smooth fruits of plum and grape, on which Paris green does not stick, arsenate of lead is better, as this poison does stick and, consequently, kills the pests where other materials could not be used vith satisfactory results. It has been said by some that arsenate of lead and Bordeaux will not go well together for chemical or other seasons, but I know that we used them last year in combination and destroyed 95 to 98 per cent, of the codling moth in nearly all our demonstration orchards over this State, and we are so well satisfied with the results from the practical side, that we are recommending this, and can not for a moment doubt the advisability of the combination. The arsenate of lead will not injure chickens by sprinkling grass under trees sprayed with it, as they will not eat enough grass with it to be injured. Of course, if any animals or fowls should drmk water that is strongly impregnated by the poison they would be injured or killed. 7-; VV i Also, the possibility of injuring cattle is very slight indeed.

If orchards should have a considerable quantity of long grass when spraying is done, and should be sprayed in such a way that this grass is thoroughly covered with any arsenical poison, and the cattle be permitted to eat it before rains wash it, there might be danger of injury. I have known of but one case of poisoning, and that was when a cow was permitted to drink the preparation after it had been mixed and left standing in a barrel in the orchard. This was, of course, due to carelessness and not to application as a spray." I REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Placed on Record for the Week Ending May 19 Mary A. Keller and husband to William Eberling of Brooklyn, 4 acres in Shohola township. Dated March 22, 1909.

Mary A. Keller and husband to Charles Buhrmeister, 3 acres 89 perches in Shohola township. Dated April 14, 1909. John W. Blitz et ux.

to Joseph W. Swaine, of Monroe county. 174 acres 86 perches. Consideration $250. Dated April 24, 1909.

Emmett L. Parks to Wm. W. N. Smith of Brooklyn, town lots in Lincoln Park.

Dated Feb. 15, 1908. Heirs of George W. Kimble to Horace G. Kimble of Port Jervis, one acre 85 perches in Lackawaxen township.

Dated April 1, 1909. William E. Wood et ux. to Mary B. Mullery, quit claim to 5,000 sq.

ft. of land near Mast Hope. Dated May 11, 1897. Fannie Kyte and husband of Mil-ford to Horace I. Beemer of Newton, N.

lots 121 and 122 on Division street, Matamoras. Dated May 18, 1909. RUNAWAY ACCIDENT Mrs. B.J. Conwell and Daughter Thrown from Wagon Mrs.

Bernard J. Conwell and daughter Nellie of Dingman township had a narrow escape from fatal injuries in a runaway accident in this village Monday afternoon. They were returning home, after a shopping trip here, riding in a light buggy. When turning into Harford street at the post office corner the shaft bolt came out, allowing the right side of the shafts to drop and strike the horse's legs. The animal became frightened and ran away.

Xn front of Gregory's feed store the wagon cramped "and was overturned, Mrs." Conwell and her daughter being thrown out. They landed violently on the hard road bed. The shaft on the left side broke and freed the horse from the wagon, when it continued its mad race as far as the Bertraud home, near Union school house, three miles distant, where it was caught by James Ryder. The shafts were still attached to the horse, which was quite seriously cut and injured about the body and legs. Mrs.

Conwell and daughter were assisted into Gregory's feed store. The- former was cut and bruised about the head and face, while the daughter sustained injuries to her knee and arm. No bones were broken. They were both greatly shocked for a few moments but soon recovered and were able to return home within a half hour after the accident. BUSHKILL COMMENCEMENT Two Young Ladies Graduated Monday Evening Miss Clara Nyce was valedictorian and Miss Josephine B.

Smith saluta-torian of a class of two which this year graduated from the Bushkill public schools. The exercises were held in the Bushkill Reformed church on Monday evening. The program Music. Salutatory, "True Greatness," Josephine B. Smith.

Solo, Miss Helen Quick. Essay, "Wealth," G. Russei Nyce. Piano Duet, Selected. Essay, "What Shall We Do With the Boys," Adelaide P.

Beers. Duet, Selected. Valedictory, "The Progress of Humanity," Clara Nyce. Address to Graduates. Presentation of Diplomas.

Music. The class motto was "Omnia vincit labor;" colors, pink and green; class flower, the carnation. Commissioner Foust to Enforce the New Gerberich Act in Vigorous Fashion DEALERS SHOULD TAKE NOTE Harrisburg, May 18. Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust, speaking of the Gerberich bill prohibiting the adulteration and misbranding of non-alcoholic drinks, says that the law will be strictly enforced. Already the special agents of the Dairy and Food Division have taken samples of soft drinks in practically every county in the state.

These samples number 600, one-third of which have been found upon analysis to contain ingredients which made their sale a violation of the laws. Suits have consequently been brought or else have been ordered to be brought. According to Foust, some of the concoctions had no natural qualities whatever, bring the grossest sort of a fraud upon the man who revels in the drink which refreshes but does not becloud the brain. "A not uncommon combination which our chemists have found," said Commissioner Foust yesterday, "is composed of water as a basis of the drink, with the other qualities obtained by using artificial coloring matter, artificial flavorings and artificial sweetening in the form of saccharin. That concoction makes a drink which hasn't one particle of natural quality and, aside from its deleterious nature, it is an utter fraud upon the purchaser who believes and has reason to believe that he is getting an adequate return for his money.

"These conditions will not be tolerated," continued the Dairy and Food Commissioner, "and the quicker the manufacturers of these drinks discontinue their nefarious practices the better it will be for all concerned. We have been without a law covering non-alcoholic drinks for about four years, but now that we have a law its provisions must be complied with. "These preparations must be true to name and must be labeled in a manner to show their real character. Compounds, imitations and blends may be prepared and sold, when properly labeled as such, provided they contain nothing that is injurious to health. Purchasers must know just what they are buying.

"Many chemical preservatives are prohibited by name in the new law, and all others that are deleterious to health are prohibited under the general provision, which reads, 'or other added substance deleterious to and the opinion of the Supreme Court in the Kevin case." Commissioners' Pay Increased Governor Stuart has signed the bill regulating salaries of county commissioners according to population of the various counties. In counties with more than 50,000 population, the salary will be 81,200 per year. In counties with more than 25,000 population to 50,000 population $1,000 and in counties with less than 25,000 the salary will be $800. This will increase the value of the office in Pike county, but it will not apply to present incumbents, it is understood. Fire Warden Act Repealed The County Commissioners this week received a letter from T.

A. Crichton, deputy auditor general, advising them "that by an act approved May 12, 1909, the act of April 25, 1907, authorizing constables of boroughs and townships to act as fire wardens has been repealed. No bills, therefore, paid by you for any work of this character done after May 12 will be passed by this department." Advs. in Dispatch bring results. ALL QUESTIONS ANSWERED Any of the readers of this paper desiring information in regard to the enemies and diseases of fruit trees, or other plants of the garden and farm, should write at once to Prof.

H. A. Surface, State Zoologist, Harris burg, who takes pleasure in answering questions on such matters. Prof. Surface is daily in receipt of letters from all over the State, which cover a wide range of subjects, from spraying for the destruction of San Jose scale and oyster shell bark louse to the ridding of cellars of rats and mice.

A case in point may be mentioned: To Prevent Damage from Moths A physician wrote to inquire "whether or not camphor is the best preventive of moths in cases containing clothing." As this is the season of the year when winter clothing is being put away until needed again, and housekeepers want to know how to keep the moths from destroying the same, the Professor's answer is apropos. He replied as follows: "As a preventive of moths in cases containing clothing, there is nothing like making the cases in which they are packed so tight that the moth can not enter to lay her eggs, from which eggs the larvae come. I prefer nap-thaline balls to camphor, but if the garments are wrapped in newspapers and put in a protected case and this Bealed with strips of paper pasted over the cracks at every possible point of entry, to keep out the moths, there will be no danger of the moths developing. Camphor or napthaline balls can be used in the packages also, but these alone will not prevent the occurrence of the moths, nor destroy the moth larvae after they have entered. The chief point in protecting fabrics from destruction by moths is to keep them in a vessel where the little winged moth can not enter to lay its eggs.

An aid to this is the use of some substance like the balls above mentioned, which act as a repellant. After the clothing is attacked destroy the pests at once by fumigating with bisulfid of carbon." The State Zoologist of Pennsyl vania recommends one pound of this liquid to each 100 cubic feet of space, either sprinkled on cloth or poured into shallow vessels placed on it. To Destroy Codling Moth Prof. Surface prefers arsenate of Jead to Paris green for adding to the Bordeaux mixture to be used in killing fruit and foliage eating insects. In answering a letter received from a farmer requesting information in regard to arsenate of lead, the Professor wrote as follows "Concerning the use of arsenate of lead, I beg to say that it is, as you know, an arsenical poison which takes the place of Paris green or London purple.

It is generally prepared in paste form, coming in vessels, containing enough water to cover it. The proper way to use it is to stir it into a thin paste with a slight quantity of water, using a paddle so that it can be ground against the sides of the vessel containing it, making a paste and thus breaking the lumps. After a uniform paste is made, with the lumps all crushed, more water can be added and this then should be stirred, poured and strained into the spray tank. It can then be used the same as Paris green. Being partly suspended and partly dissolved in the water it sticks better than Paris green, and this means that it is more liable to poisoa the pests for which it is applied.

The formulae for the arsenate of lead vary a great deal. Some persons recommend as high as three pounds to fifty gallons of water, while many give the standard formula as two HYMENEAL Harsell Mott Miss Marie Jeanette, youngest daughter of the late Hon. and Mrs. Chas. P.

Mott. was quietly married on Monday at 2.30 in the afternoon to Norman Harsell of New York and this village, at her home on Harford street. The house was beautifully decorated with apple blossoms, white lilacs and bridal wreath, the ceremony, performed by the Rev. Chas. A.

While of the Presbyterian church, being in front of a bower of pink and white blossoms. The bride, who entered the parlor on the arm of her brother-in-law, Arthur Bull Sullivan, who gave her in marriage, was attired in a purple traveling gown with hat to match. After the ceremony the family and a few intimate friendB adjourned to the dining room, where a light collation was served, and the health of the bride and groom was drunk in cur rant wine put up by the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Miranda Schim-mel, in 1854. At four o'clock Mr.

and Mrs. Harsell left for New York city, from whence on Wednesday they sailed for a several weeks' visit to Bermuda. On their return they will probably spend the summer in Milford. Matinee Races May 31 The Pike County Racing Association has arranged for a meeting at the driving park near town on Monday, May 31, beginning promptly at 2 p. m.

There will be three events, 2.30, 2.45 and 3.00 classes and an afternoon of fine sport is anticipated. The admission is 25 cents; children 15 cents; grandstand 15 cents; box seats 25 cents. A number of local horses have been entered in the 3.00 class. The track is in the pink of condition. Entries close on May 26.

John R. Thornton is secretary of the new organization. HARRY MORGAN INJURED Hurled from Stage When Auto Scared His Horses Harry Morgan, who drives the mail stage between this village and Ding-man's Ferry, was again the victim of a runaway accident on the river road last Thursday afternoon, sustaining injuries which have since compelled him to resort to crutches in order to attend to his business. Harry was on the return trip to Dingman's Ferry and when just below the farm of Bernaldi McCarty an automobile driven by Harry L. Briscoe passed him.

The roadway at that point was very narrow and Harry's horses became frightened and reared. The neckyoke strop broke, allowing the tongue to drop and plunge into the bank along the road. The pulling of the team caused the tongue to buckle, raising the front of the wagon from the ground and throwing Harry into the air, from whence he landed heavily on the ground nearby. In the meantime the horses got loose from the wagon and ran as far as Conashaugh Spring House, where they came to a standstill. At the latter place Harry procured another wagon.

Fortunately there were no passengers in the stage when the accident happened and Mr. Briscoe very considerately stopped and rendered what assistance he could. Friday Harry's leg gave him such pain that he consulted a doctor, when it was found that a couple of bones in his ankle were broken. This is the second time within a few weeks that the stage team has been fright- ened by a passing automobile. I The Blooming Grove Hunting and Fishing Club, whose membership is made up almost entirely in Philadelphia, New York and Trenton, has completed arrangements for the erection in the centre of its immense Pike county reserve what will be one of the most magnificent hunt club houses in the eastern part of Pennsylvania, says the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

Work will he begun at once on the new building, which is to be finished by fall, at a cost of $75,000. The new structure is to be built on the site of the old club house which was destroyed by fire last February and will mark the central point in the game and fish preserve of 31,000 acres which the club holds. Many features of the proposed building are unique in structures designed for this purpose. The building, while twelve miles from the nearest railroad station, and in the heart of Pike county, will be a model of comfort and as thoroughly equip ped as a first class hotel. Among the Philadelphians who are members of the Blooming Grove Club are Herman Hessenbruch, president of the German Hospital George A.

Shoemaker, George B. Evans, Carl B. Wolf, G. R. Redman, of the Otis Elevator Rudolph Wolf, Henry Poth, HeDry Dreer, H.

E. Passavant and Otto Wolf. The club was organized Over twenty-five "years' ago1 and the old club house, which burned down last February, had been in use twenty years, almost to the minute, when it was destroyed. The building about to be erected will be three stories in height and its architecture will be an artistic adaptation of the old Spanish style. It will contain fifty bedrooms, a dining-room with seating room for 150 persons and an immense hall or exchange besides numerous gun-rooms, billiard rooms, parlors and reception-rooms.

One of the unusual features will be a glass-enclosed and refrigerated room in which fruits of the hunt may be displayed and kept for a long time if desired. This room will be centrally located and will be surrounded by a promenade from which a view of the interior may be had. The entire building will be beautifully furnished and will contain every possible provision for the comfort of the club members and their guests. The nearest railway station to the club house is Glen Eyre, twelve miles distant, and from here the way to the club is through a veritable wilderness. The preserve of the club is estimated to hold 2,000 head of deer and almost limitless supplies of smaller game.

It contains, besides, trout streams that have been stocked and left to develop for four years be fore being used. The preserve has seven lakes, the largest of which is almost two miles around. In this lake are what are said to be the finest small mouth black basa in the state. The government agents seeking specimens for breeding got them from the club and as a return courtesy sent the club the beginning of a magnificent line of trout now to be found in the streams of the preserve. The new club house was designed, and will be erected under the supervision of D.

Knickerbacker Boyd, who is president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. It will have a frontage of 170 feet exclusive of sixteen foot porches at each ent, and will be built of stone and plaster with roofs of red tile. Temporary Club House In order to take care of the mem bers of the Blooming Grove club dur RIVERSIDE HOTEL SOLD Paul Schanno Acquires Famous Hostelry Near Bushkill By the terms t)f a deal consummated last week in the law offices of Eilenberger Huffman, at Strouds-burp, Paul Schanno comes into possession of the famous Riverside Hotel property, a mile above Bushkill. The grantor C. C.

Shinn of Atlantic City, who at one time conducted the place, and the sale price was $12,000. Pierre M. Nilis, formerly of the Crissman House here, has been managing the hostelry, which he opened np for business early in the spring. Mr. Nilis will continue the management for the present, at least.

Possession is given Mr. Schanno in 30 days. Paul Schanno, the new owner, until a year ago was the owner of the Maple Grove house. It is understood that a plan of improvement has been decided on which will make the Riverside one of the most up to date in this county. Brink Pleads Not Guilty Henry Brink, indicted for the murder of Jerome Cooperman near Port Jervis on the night of January 8, was arraigned before Judge Morschauser at Newburgh, N.

last Wednesday afternoon. He entered a plea of not guilty and Wilton Bennet was assigned as counsel for him. Brink will be tried at the October term. Subscribe for Milford Dispatch. Staples for Supreme Court? Judge C.

B. Staples was mentioned prominently at the meeting of the Democratic State committee at Har-risburg last week as the party candidate for supreme court justice..