The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-02
LOCAL MENTION.
Items of Interest HereabOuts and
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day for November, which were twelve
more than for the entire month of 0cto-
Der, and ten more than for the corre-
spending month last year. As conse-
quence OF this alarming increase, the
bureau OF health and physicians OF the
city admit that the situation is grave
one, and that they are apprehensive OF
an epidemic, although every effort is be-
ing made to check the spread of the
dread disease.
Joseph Kreider, of Mast Hope, sub
mitted to an operation for the removal
OF an abdominal tumor at DR.. Laffin's
hospital, Narrowsburg, last week, and is
already able to walk about.
On Wednesday last Harry Blow, a
a Burlington, \. j., drug clerk, wounded
a gray squirrel while cunning in the
woods near that place. To his astonish-
ment, the squirrel, apparently in the
greatest fury, ran down the tree from its
nest, leaped at the hunter and bit him
through the thumb, tearing the flesh and
splintering the bone so badly as to ne
cessitate amputation of the member.
The managers OF the Honesdale
banks are showing good judgment in ad-
vertising their several institutions in the
papers OF Hawley, Callicoon and other
nearby places.
On Saturday before Thanksgiving,
J. II. Hartman, a Stroudsburg butcher,
brought drove of 250 turkeys to that
place from Bradford county. Fifty or
sixty years ago such droves, and often
larger ones, passed through this county,
on their way to city markets. Local
poultry raisers on such occasions found
it necessary to pen their birds, as other
wise they were sure to join the passing
army. The droves always halted at sun
down, and roasted until the next morn
ing. quite percentage of them falling
victims to foxes and other predatory
animals during the night but, owing to
accessions from farmyards alorg the
route, the losses were not only made up,
but the fiocks were usually bigger nu-
merically at the ending than at the be-
ginning of their long journey.
I The bills for the advertising of the
proposed constitutional amendments in
advance OF the last election are now be-
ing gone over at the Capitol. There
were about 260 papers that published
the advertisement. The cost may ap-
proximate $50, 900, or even some thous-
ands more. This indicates an average
price of about $575 for each paper. As
the advertising must be done all over
again next year, it is evident that con-
stitutional amendments are rather an ex
pensive luxury.
A new counterfeit S. silver certificate
(Indian head) has been detected in cir
culation. The counterfeit note purport:
to be one of those authorized by the ac
of August I, 1885, series of 1899, checl
letter u, face plate number ,, back plate
: number 666, with portrait of Onepapa
The officials declare it dangerous pho
tomechanical production printed on ont
piece of heavy bond paper, but defec
: in the plate gives the Indian chief
cross-eyed expression. The blue sea
closely approXimates the genuine in color
but is badly printed, being coarse AM
rough, with many broken lines. Fh
back of the note is very deceptive piec
of work, and except for being lighter i
!, color, appears much like the genuine
} There appears to have been no atteml
l. to initiate the distributed silk fiber.
The Hawley Times gives particular
Y of two wrecks in the Erie yard at tn;
: place on Sunday and Tuesday morning
of last week. The first was a rear ell
; near HIN tower between 400 and 81
. O'Clock Sunday morning. Engineer Fran
, Bond, with engine | $50 ran into Coz
y ductor j. P. Kelev's train. The engil
u was derailed and quite badly damage
. the caboose and one car were demolishe
and several cars were derailed. Fort
> nately no one was in the caboose whit
~ the accident occurred, as the membe
, of the crew had just finished switchin
-, Engineer Bond escaped withs light bruis
= to his back. The damage amounted
~ about $500. The Port Jervis wrecke
cleared the wreck. Another wreck c
. Cured near the West Hawley railro'
=. bridge about 600 O'Clock Tuesday NOR
- ing. T. Delaney's train was going ea
D from Honesdale, and while Conduct
20 Buckley was making up his train it W
backed down into the side of Delaney
loaded train while it was in motto
Three cars were damaged and one "
he destroyed. Considerable damage "
IL also done to the tubing and wires OF
all yard signal system and the tracks. DaI
age amounted to about $400. The trac
NV were cleared when the morning passe
ne ger trains arrived, so there was no del
er in passenger service on account of