The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-08-13
soro ,oors s0o Edward Marshall

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the Lily Lot. Tying II bit OF twlne De-
hind its head he dragged it up to War
fields tavern in the village, where 1t
was on exhibition for some hours, ap-
parently ee dead as a door nail A
curious onlooker, however, gave the
serpent q prod ON its tail, and like q
stroke of lightning the head flew around
aud hit the cane whack that would
have meant serious business il 1t had
struck hesh instead Of wood, Now
comes down from Susquehanna county.
this additional warning to handlers oil
venomous reptiles, dead or alive.
George VanDemark on Monday kill
ed a large rattlesnake in tho woods just
East OF Hellstoad, SusquchannH county,
| and took it to town III Il neal SACK lor
exhibition. While in the acL OF taking
the serpent out OF tho beg to pat 1t into
a box in the presence OF large crowo
on Main street, the snake mule dash
at Mr.. Hand, one of the bystanders. IL
sank it's fangs in Mr.. Hands trousers
narrowly escapI nR biting him.
The Owls" is the name OF new
secret society now being organized in
various towns in Northeastern PenDsyl-
vania.
| Tho Del. Il Hud Co. are at once to
develop the largo tract Of coal lande
which they purchased in Schuy kill
county, some two years ago, at an OK
pcnse of &l7, ,OOO,nOO.
"A Taft and Sher man club hos beer
organized at East Honesdale with the
following officers:
Fletcher w. Bunnell President; f
$ Whitaker, August Bregstein, Ste
phen Bergman, Alex. Starr enu Lnr
Stark, Vice Presidents; Louis Heilrich,
Secretary, with Ell. E Buunell, Assls-
tant; Chas w. Short, Financial SeCre-
tary, and Leonard Guckenberger, Treae-
urer.
The club now has q membership OF
day. Their headquarters are 10 Chas
+. Meyers building, with reading room
open every afternoon and evening.
One day last week Leo j. and Em
NETT Megivern, sons Of James B. Nc
gioern, OF Cold Spring, killed rattle
snake OF the farm, three and u half feet
in length with seven rattles. The rep
tIIe had been seen on the place we's |
previously. So far as We are luformct
this is the frat instance of raltiesnak |
being found ia Lebanon township, uf
nearer tn the whortleborry regions o. |
the Moosic, or the scrub oak hills Of
Texas and Palmyra.
ALI OF tho recent bids on tho pro.
posed hospital for the criminal inannc
Vt FarView, have been thrown aside |
for some irregularity, and new bids are
to be called for. which will delay III,
work about month. A number OF
Philadelphia, Pittsburg and New York
city contractors visited the proposed
'iln last Friday afternoon, 30 az to te
better prepared to bid intelligently on
tha work.
The production of Anthracite coal
IN Pennsylvania, during the month o
July, was 4 BAL SOC, as compared with
5fd9 ,O34. for the corresponding period
of 1907, showing loss of 1877 52S tons.
mouths of THE year is 81 2o9. 9ls tons
to 3S COG 26b tons to the corresponding
date OF 1907, showing decrease of /,
39G 3l7 tons
If Honosdale ever could be said to
have had Il street gamin, after tho pat.
tern of Victor Hugo's Gsvroche, Alex.
or "Elky" Shaspiro certainly filed The |
bill A son OF Barnet Shsspiro, OF Lady
W jod Lane, he was one OF our first stree |
boot blacks md general messengers,
good ball player, as the game ran then |
and an all round handy boy, useful III |
hundreds of ways and not much more |
nischievous than the average While |
'till youth he went to New ork and |
III, n ext heard OF him was that no had |
n trried, and was on the high road to |
fortune according to some because he |
nal m married rich wife but as the
aVont proves. because he bad in himself |
tho elements OF success. L. is nearly |
thirty years since he lefG nonesdale, |
ini twelve years since h, has boan u |
visitor here, but himself and brother
Saul are now making u weeks visit
with their aged parents on LIdywo1d |
Lane, and ara being warmly welco nsd
by their old-tins friends. The eldsr,
Alexander, or "Eiky," ID the proprietor
OF fine furnishing goods establishment
mt 122 Canal street, Now York, and Saul
Is employed at 405 Fifth avenue
-B,sides tho tw) Ho1a,ille games.
reported in another column the Cata
sauqua ballvteam had contest with
the Hawley club on Friday, On the
grounds of the latter, winning out by
score OF TO 4. The game was notable
for errors on both sides. On Sunday
afternoon tho visitors were badly boat
en- on the Waite Mills grounds by the
local team, the score standing 3 to in
favor Of the home team at the close.
The attendance at the latter game was
very large, many coming up from Haw-
ley, and the train from Honesdale be-
ing crowded to its utmost capacity, be-
sides the large number who made the
tive'mile trip to the grounds by auto
mobile and other private conveyaucas.
However invincible the Catasauqua
team may be elsewhere, it is eviden
that it ia out-classed by the principal
clubs in this neck o'woods. Tho players
are nice lot OF boys, however, and
made themselves very agreeable, social.
ly, while here. Ga Thursday evening,
through the courtesy OF MauaRers
Dittrich, OF tho Lyric and Murray, OF
the Murray Mackey Co. they occupied
four boxes at the theatre. The Hawley
ieam, with Hattler az catcher, journey.
ed to Port JervIs on Saturday and were
whiteWashed, the Ports pIlng up nine
ruus to their string OF goose eggs.
The CITIZEN, few weeks ago, gave
an account OF the b. tden death in New
York city OF Charles II. Sears OF Scran-
ton, son Of the late Justus sears, of
PromDtOD this county Grover y