The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-11-11

pool table outfit was sold to Ernest Mil
Ter, of Inglehardt, for 800.
October 3Oth, 1908, there were no.
9l2 idle freight cars in the United States.
In April, 1908, they numbered 4l3,600.
The ladies of Seelyville cleared $74.60
by their supper and sale of candy, in
their pretty chapel, last Thursday even
ing.
The 10Th annual banquet of the Ex-
change Club will be held at the Allen
House, on Thursday evening. Nov. 18th,
at O'Clock, sharp.
Pennsylvania is to erect State me-
mortal on the Gettysburg battlefield, on
knoll near Hancock Avenue, on the
scene of the third days battle. 1t will
cost $l25 200.
The Florence silk mill, Katz' under
wear establishment, and Honesdale's
nine cut glass factories are now running
on full time, and with large number of
orders to fill.
Hull Brothers, of Waymart, grew
$50, 900 heads of celery the past season.
They have recently erected building
for storingNa portion of their crop for
winter use.
We may not have rs much to be
thankful for as some of the rest of you
do when the 26th rolls around, but we
still have life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness left us and, after all, what
more is there?
james Ryan, formerly of Lordville,
n. Y, was arrested at Cadosia by Con-
stable Isaac Ennist, of Hale Eddy on a
charge of desertion from the L. S. Ser
vice. He was member of Co. G, Sd
Cavalry, stationed in the vicinity of New
York city.
A young man named NJ. w. Gill,
recently arrived from Ireland, was walk
ing with four others on the tracks of the
Erie, mile this side of Mill Rift, on
Monday last, when he was struck by a
passing train and killed, his body being
horribly mangled. The party were on
their way to a lumber camp back of Sho-
hola.
The treasurers of the six political
parties which conducted the campaign
in Pennsylvania, will file expense ac-
counts at the Office of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth within thirty days.
The candidates for State offices will do
the same, but Congressional, Senatorial
and Representative candidates will file
their accounts in their respective coun-
ties.
Sheriff Roadknight, accompanied by
John J. Theobald, left on Monday
morning last for Philadelphia with the
tramp prisoners, Dominic Early and
Barney Gable, who confessed to looting
car on the o. & w. railroad on the
18th of fOctober last, and were sentenced
to serve three years each in the Eastern
penitentiary.
-Honesdale polled $50 votes for Presi-
dent at the late election, and Damascus
township 800 yet Honesdale has only
one voting district while Damascus has
five. Bethany, with 81 votes requires
as many election officers as Honesdale
with nearly twenty times as many bal
lots to count. Texas, which surrounds
Honesdale, polled 1868 votes and has
;,&r hn 81,
the county seat should have at least
three.
The return judge of Wayne appoint
ed by the court to meet the other return
judges of the congressional district at
Montrose, to compute the congressional
vote, was II. Wilson, and the return
Judge appointed to meet the other re-
turn judges of the Senatorial district at
Stroudsburg, to compute the senatorial
vote, was Herman Harmes. Tuesday,
at . p. NJ, was the time fixed for their
meeting.
On Thursday last, while hunting in
the northern part of the county, Joseph
j. Kern, who represents f. Robinson &
Sons brewery, in Pittston, met with
bad accident. He was passing
through the woods with his gun on his
left arm, when it slipped, and striking
the ground was discharged, the charge
tearing away the fingers of the left hand
with the exception of the thumb. Some
of the shot also lodged in the right arm.
Mr.. Kern, who was stopping at Win
wood, was taken home on Saturday.
The I'd annual convention of the
Central Penn'a Local Assembly of the
Brotherhood of st. Andrew, comprising
chapters in Honesdale, Scranton, Wilkes
Barre, Pottsville, Reading, Bethlehem,
Allentown, Lebanon, Mauch Chunk,
Minersville, Ashland and Jennyn, will
convene in the Church oGthe Good Shep-
herd, Green Ridge, on Saturday and Sum
day, Nov. 2lst and 22d. Paul W. Gard
ner, of Scranton, former Honesdaler,
is President of the organization.
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