The Honesdale citizen. [volume] (Honesdale, Pa.) 1873-1908, 1908-09-24
Personal and lmpersonal.

that upon that occasion the iron and
eteel mngnate, who ia very wealthy
man, presented TO his two eone and two
daughters, a, OoO,O 900 each. They were
the only guests at the celebration. Mre
Singer ie very wealthy woman in her
own right.
j. X. Hcrnbcck, OF Equinunk, had
O trotter at the Greene, n. Y, fair, last
week, and while speeding on the track.
stepped ou email round stone breaking
lite right fore leg The horse was valued
at 5000, being fast stopper. The
horse was afterwards put up at auction
and sold for $1O5.
In order to accommodate people
from the southern part OF Wayne, flaw
ley and vicinity, who wish to attend the
fair on Wednesday, Sept. 3Oth, the Erie
Railroad company will run special
train from Hhwley at 10 q. m, which
will return ct p. m.
There will be no entrance fee charged
for racing horses. at the coming fair, ae
has been the custom 10 the past. There
will be the following races Tueaday,
2:40 and 2:l9 classes; puree, $500 in each
race. Wednesday, horses owned and
trained in county thirty days before
race. Five years old or under with no
record, purec, 300. Thursdsy, Oct. let
225 claee and free for all purses, t2OO.
-In 1775 the lowest water mark 10
the Delaware river was made at Mill
Rift, o short distance above Port Jer-
Wis. This mark has not been visible
since that date until last Sunday, when
the water became 80 low it was plainly
discernable, after a lapse Of 1873 yeare.
In discharging Palmer Lucky,
who had been sentenced to an impris
onment OF 2s days by a Monroe county
justice for snnring suckers, and was
taken before Judge G. B. Staples on a
writ OF habcas corpus, the latter ga id
\ that the local authorities we're "strain- |
% ct a gnat and swallowing q camel"
Hanuot see" said he, why a man
y. iolates the fsh or game law lie a
Aand ought to 60 to the peniten
+. h Continuing, he said he thought
sh and game laws should be
s. y, except that portion OF the
4dws prohibiting the dynamiting OF
streams. and then allow a man to fish
or hunt rs he pleased or stop hunting
aud fiehing altogether for a number OF
years. He could not understand why
a man was sent to jail for such minor
offense as snaring suckers when other
gross violations Of the aw we're allowed
to paes by unnoticed.
Hon. Clifford Pinchot, Chief Fores-
ter, and DIR. Magee, Secretary Of the In
land Water Ways Commission. were ID
Milford, on Monday of last week, and
the former gave his old townsmen an
intcrcetipg talk on forestry, in which,
dwelling on the annual damage caused
by forest free, no eaid that in Pennsyl
vania and the East they destroy the
timber, both the old and the seedlings,
thus preventing re-foI esting, and burn
up the humus or forest sponge which
holds the water and 80 contribute to
floods. In the South fire destroys the
timber from which rosin and turpentine
is obtained and IN the Rocky Mountain
States it destroys the wood, water and
grass on which the etockmen depend for
grazing their herds. The mountains
hold the water which is used to irrigate
the deserts lying between, they also fur
nlsh grass, and If fires burn of the tim
Der there is no water for irrigation and
tho afOnEnn 10 dOuhlx- ipinroa E,.oa
the past year have caused one million
dollars damage. At the present rate OF
destruction Of timber by fires and waste
full cutting the supply in the country,
unless present methods are discontinued
and the timber lands are better conserv-
ed, will not laet more than O generation.
1t lie said of one OF the great depart
ment stores OF London that it refuses no
order up TO an outfit for menagerie.
We don't know that Philadelphia can
put up 30 big a proposition in the man.
moth order line, but when it gets down
to fish VERNE it comes pretty close TO
reaching the limit Of the other extreme
A large department concern IN the City
fishing tackle OF every description adde:
IA very important part OF your outfit:
we have live bait. Minnows, 25 cents
dozen; helgramites, 80 cents a dozen :;
frogs, Go cents dozen; worms, 30 cents
hundred. Aside from its oddity we
give this iuforma ion TO- the bsncfit OF
our local fishermen, who find angle
worm digging with the earth fairly
baked to depth Of three feet, back
lreakiug work-and this in the height
the bass fishing season, too. A
'city clergyman who once upon time
accepted a nonesdale pastorate, and
cultivated the Manso garden, ordered
his bean poles from New York Why
not loQkzke1klT State metropolis 'ar our
O. -.
ING at Ne Nm in Maurha.
owned .nH ocI 'cp Ay
was destroy ed OS axe, Il;
h, while the family were
ADg IN some unknown
any OF the household
Saved. $3.50 10 cold cast
~ umed.
30 The ent number of the Jour
nal OF tho American Medical Associa
tion, some statistics are given regard
ing accidents July L. 1905 1t is shown
that 1853 persons lost their lives from
the use OF explosives; 800 were injur
Cd, OF whom eleven were totally blind.
O1, 93 lost one eye, 81 lost an arm, leE
- or hand, whilo l24 lost one or NOR
nogers.
zyAlny Pennsylvania Oranges vii
urge thenext legislature to create tn
once OF dairy commissioner. who shal
deal only with dairy products, butte
and butter substitutes, such as oleo
margarine, renovated butter. adulteI
And hutlAF milk oFaam condanaa