The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-25


Rev. r. d. Minch will occupy the
pulpit of the Baptist church on Sunday,
Dec. 9th, morning and evening, and
also on Wednesday evening, Dec. 30th.
Hon. Leopold Euerth has sold his
three-story building, on 7th street, to
Fred. Colbert, of Hawley. Possession to
be given April LIST, 1900. The property
is at present under lease to John Theo-
bald.
Paul Graf, barber in the employ
of John Happ, Port Jervis, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor at ll;45 O'Clock on Tuesday MORN
ing. He severed his neck from ear to
ear, cutting thjugular vein and caro-
It'd artery and ending his life Instant
ly.
Although this is Friday, it is not q
fast day in the Catholic church, special
dispensation of Pope Plus X allowing
the eating of meat. Fasting from meat
on Friday is disciplinary matter in the
Catholic church. 1t is always the SUBJ
ject of dispensation when Christmas
falls on that day.
Following are the newly elected Of
ficers of the Honesdale Baptist Bible
school; Superintendent, F. H. Trask ;
assistant, Rev. R. D. Minch secretary,
Miss Leila Ridd treasurer, George Per-
ham: librarian, Miss Nellie Kimble;
pianists, Misses Bertha Plume and
Gladys Mantle.
That Finding" does not warrant
excepting" was made apparent last
week when James Fish, 10 years old, of
Elmira, picked up lady's handbag
containing 1O.42, and spent most of the
money, instead of making an effort to
find the owner after she advertised her
loss. He was jailed for larceny.
The successful comedy drama,
''My Dixie Grip has been appropriate
ly described as "a Play of the South"
with the green hills of Kentucky as its
background. 1t is a comedy drama,
dealing with the varying fortunes of
Dixie, waif, who is made the victim
of schemers and plotters, but finally
comes into her rights. "My Dixie Girl"
will be seen here to-day, Friday, Dec.
25th, matinee and night, at the Lyric,
theatre.
An alarm of fire shortly after IL
O'Clock, yesterday forenoon, brought out
the department, including the Alert Hook
and Ladder Co.. OF East Honesdale. An
immense crowd of people followed the
fremen to the foot of Main street, where
it was discovered that the occasion for
the alarm had been slight blaze in a
pantry, which was extinguished by the
family with but little trouble. The dam
age was trifling.
F. j. Reynolds, of Scranton, Pa,
has purchased the Theatorium and Nick.
elette and will remodel them and carry
on the amusement business in both
places. AS Mr.. Reynolds has six Other
places of amusement which have beer
successfully patroniZed, we are assured
that nothing will be left undone to make
both of the above places attractive an6
interesting to the amusement loving pub
lie. The Nickelette will have moving pic
lures exclusively, with a change every
day, while the Theatorium will be de
voted to vaudeville and moving pictures
"A. o. Blake is good loser. H,
made gallant fight for the Office Of
Register and Recorder, and only lost the
battle because he was pitted against al
unusually strong man. But he ism
going about with long face on accoun
of his defeat. On Tuesday last he cir.
culated among THE CITIZEN force,
loaded up with cigars and confection
as though he were the advance agent o
Santa Claus, and it is safe to say tina
all hands-including the girls-will vot
for him next time he is candidate.
What the borough of Honesdale sad
ly needs is decent lockup-one com
plying with the requirements of the law
The most modern structure of this kint
is the steel cage, with which not onl
hundreds of smaller cities have supple,
themselves, but with which many large
prisons have been equipped. They ar
furnished with sleeping, eating and toi
let conveniences, something impossibl
with our present basement lookup. Mat
amoras, in Pike county, has placed
steel cage for lookup in the buildin
occupied by the Justices for holdin
court, and last week the city clerk @
Binghamton was directed by the boar
of contract and supply to advertise 70
proposals for large steel cage with fou
steel cells to be placed in the Muncipf
building, to be used for a city lookup
the total cost of the improvement, in
: Guiding plumbing, being estimated a
81 200.
Personal.
Martin B. Allen is in New York city