The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-07-16
Personal and lmpersonal.

Mrc. 1. N. Forman, l57 Cottage street,
HOnesdRle.
: Personal and lmpersonal.
The Honesdale glass cutting shops
will resume work next Monday.
-etate engineers were in Honesdale,
last week, looking over the proposed
routes of the new State roads in Wayne
county.
There will be shore dinner at Bun
nell's pond, tomorrow, Friday evening,
for the benefit Of the Cottage and Cliff
streets Improvement Association. The
public are invited.
1T now looks as though Scranton
end Binghamton would be connected by
q through trolley line by the close Of
another year.
The widow Of ex President Cleve
land set good example for many others
to follow. The funeral OF her distin-
guished husband was absolutely free
from oil ostentation or anything par
taking of the nature Of display.
Tho Democratic State Committee
will meet in Harrisburg, on Wednesday,
July 22d, to choose State Chairman.
Henry Dearborn, York county
farmer, while using reaper in his wheat
field, July 9th, came across the dead
body of his little son, lying near the
standing grain, with his head nearly
h cd ruh 10
at play, had gone into the field, laid
down and gone to sleep, unknown to the
Mortified father.
The Radnor, Del. Co., Pa, health
officer, received the following explicit
communication, last week:
Dear Sir-This is to notify you that
my boy EphrRim is down with the
measles. as required by the new law"
Willis Sharpe Kilmer, the patent
medicine man of Binghamton. made
the run in his auto, last week, from
New York city to his home, q distance
of 300 miles, in ten hours.
Rural free delivery started only ten
years ago, and has now assumed man.
emoth proportions. Originally only $10,-
NO was appropriated to establish an ex-
Detrimental route, and this year e36, bb7,-
boo is set aside for tho maintenance and
extension of the service There are now
b,145 carriers. besides large force of
clerks.
"A new order 10 the post Office de-
ftment went into effect July 1st. By
terms Of the now order defaoed
lamp is hereafter worthless. Should q
Sorner be torn of, no matter how small,
For the stamp mutilated in any other
way, it cannot be longer used. All let
ters bearing such stamps will hereafter
be held at the local Office two weeks for
delivery, and at the end of such period
il not claimed, will be sent to the dead
letter Office.
"A party of autoists from West Vir-
ginia passed through Honesdale last Fri
day morning. The first question they
asked upon reaching this vicinity, was,
"Where is Gibbs's auto hospital locat-
cdr They we're properly directed, and
after brief delay, were soon happily
on their way TO the Lackawanna Valley.
More people are killed in the United
States evAsKa year through Fourth Of
July cels than were killed in
any battle of the Revolutionary war,
and the total number of casualties of
Fourth of July celebrations during the
last four years is more than double the
total losses Of the Americans during the
eight years Of the Revolutionary war.
The LuEerne county Jail is well
patronized at present, having no less
than 200 inmates, goodly number Of
them being of the Black Hand brand.
The Wayne County Commissioners
have appSoved Of the following appli-
cations for State roads, and forwarded
the same to Highway Commissioner
Hunter, at Harrisburg:
10 Honesdale, from the S Seelyville road
to Texas, taking in Main street, $500
feet.
From Texas line, north of the borough
OF Honesdale, to Tanner Falls, 26 400
feet.
In Clinton township. from the Lacka-
wanna creek ut Forest City to the North
and South turnpike, at Il. B. Curtis's,
19, 400 feet.
In Texas, from the Palmyra line on
the Honesdale aud Hawley road, through
White Mills and north $3.50 feet.
In Texas, from the Hermann bridge
tasowpSAat Bunnelltown, e.
900 feet.
In Oregon, from the Berlin line on the
Carley Brook road to VIM. Penwarden's 3
1900 feet.
Thousands Of young shad put in thu
Delaware river last spring, by the U.
Fish Commission, have died from SOM
unknown cause.
The hotels and boarding houses O
Beach Lake are rapidly filling up witt
city people.
The Laurel Lake House, in Damas
Gus. near Tyler Hill, most delig htfu
summer resort, is entertaining a goodly
number OF GU ssts.
Business is certainly reviving il
Pittsburg ami vicinity, no less than bO
600 skilled Workmen having resume
their lAbors in the iron and steel mill
OF that section, last week.
According to Poor's Manual, an 81
knoWledged authority on railroad
there were 22S. 12s miles Of railroad
operation in the United States, for Il
year ending June 80 1907. with lot
capitalization OF SIS. sos. 1851, ,437 tt
gross earnings for the year were 81, 60i
767 bO3, or a net sum Of t96l, ,354, Is
The net railway mileage OF the countl
exceeds that OF all Europe.