Milford, Pike County PA News From the Past
Transcribed by Nancy Piper unless otherwise noted
Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) June 19 1869
Milford Items
Our Milford correspondent send us this morning the following items:
The cables for the new suspension bridge across the Delaware, at this point, are being conveyed down to the river.
Two gentlemen of Milford, named Whitlock, yesterday caught one hundred and twenty-five perch, and one hundred trout, in Porter's Pond.
Milford is now putting on lively airs. People from the city are arriving in large numbers, many of whom are unable to find accommodations. The rooms at the hotels and private boarding houses are either filled or engaged, so that the stay of many, who come late, will be necessarity of short duration.
Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) February 5, 1870
Milford Tidings
In our last, we reported the burning of J. C. Partridge's house and barn. Later advices state it was only the barn that was burned.
A smash-up occurred on the stage line running between Milford and Port Jervis on Wednesday last, caused by one of the coach wheels running off near Buttermilk Falls, dashing the driver, Mr. Findley, against the bank, severely injuring his shoulder. He is now doing well.
Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) March 3, 1870
Tidings from Milford
Mr. Noah Carpenter, an aged citizen of this village, while going down the hill at the road of Ann-st, on the 19th ult., fell a distance of some ten feet, breaking three of his ribs and cutting his head quite severely. We are glad to learn hi is improving.
A boy named Ernest Beck, jr., while getting a pail of water near the shute at the lower grist mill last week, slipped and was prostrated to the bottom into the water. Although in imminent danger he was rescued from drowning by Mr. R. B. Thrall, who happened to notice his fall.
We learn that a child of Mr. George De(?), of Blooming Grove, this county, was severely burned about the face and hands, the 19th ult., by falling on a stove.
A horse belonging to Mr. Lorens Andrews of this village, was killed last week by falling down an embankment.
Evening Gazette (Port Jervis, New York) March 31, 1870
Milford News
Whooping cough is prevailing to a great extent in Milford.
We learn from the Milford Herald that a lad named George Westfall, of Milford, on Monday has his shoulder blade broken and received severe injuries about the head by being carelessly thrown against the stone steps in front of Col. Nyce's law office by another boy.
On Tuesday last the roof of Kiner's spoke factory caught fire from the sparks of the chimneys, but it was discovered and extinguished before much damage was done. The wind was blowing severely at the time, and had the flames got under headway all the buildings in that vicinity must have inevitably been burned. Our citizens with their water pails were promptly on hand. The Herald from which we clip the above, enquires if it would not be well to borrow a little enterprise from the neighboring village of Metamoras, and secure an effective fire engine.