The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-30
The Honesdale National Bank will
be closed on New Years Day. ..

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State will have a new ritual after the
first of this year. This is the first change
made in the ritual since the order was
organized ten years ago.
Fred. o. Colbert has sold his res
taurant business in Hawley to Louis
Geisler. Mr.. Colbert and wife will re-
move to Honesdale, and in April occupy
the restaurant building on Seventh
street recently purchased by him.
-Oneonta had a $1OO,O fire on Sun
day last, the Arlington hotel and seven
other buildings in the heart of the city
being destroyed. No lives were lost, but
many occupants of the hotel and of the
living apartments in the other buildings
had narrow escapes.
Candidates for nomination for bor-
ough and township offices are beginning
to make themselves known. Russell T..
Whitney has announced himself as a
candidate for the nomination for Tax
Collector, for the borough of Honesdale,
subject to the decision of the Republican
caucus. Fred. Cory is also in the field
for the same position.
The Erie's new tunnel at Otisville,
N. Y, is now being used for freight
trains. Railroad men say the tunnel is
one of the finest in the world. tits one
mile 200 feet in length, so straight that
one may stand at either end and look
clear through, and so high that brake
man can stand on top of box car and
pass through untouched.
-"In Eugene Walter, Messrs. Wagon
halls and Kemper have made find,
perhaps the best find of the season.
If he can do as well as this at his first
play, we can hope for much. And beg
gars can't be choosers. We are beg
gars." So writes Alan Dale in the
New York American. "Paid in Full"
will be seen at the Lyric on Thursday,
Dec. 3lst.
The Susquehanna basket ball team
scored a rattling victory over the Homes
dale five on Saturday the 10Th, at the
Railroad Y. M. G. A. rooms in the for
mer place. The score was fifty to eight.
The Honesdale players were Finerty,
|. f. Ross, r. f. Bader, center Brader,
|. g.; Vetter, r. e. Time of halves,
twenty minutes.
Fell township in Lackawanna coun-
ty, separated from Clinton in Wayne by
the Lackawanna river, has been divided
by the court into three election districts,
the portion cut off from the old second
district constituting third. The new
will consist of that portion of the old
district lying on the southerly side of the
Lackawanna river, are as follows: On
the south by the city line of the city of
Carbondale on the east by the county
line dividing the counties of Wayne and
Lackawanna; on the north and north
west by the Lackawanna river, extend
ing from the Wayne county line south
westerly to the Carbondale city line
The town hall is designated as the poll
ing place.
In the coming of Fanny Rice to the
Lyric Theatre on New Years Day, Fri
day, Jan. lst, the amusement seekers
have a treat in store for them, not alone
in the fact of Miss Rice herself, but in
the opportunity the lady is given to por-
tray her versatile art, as Nancy Patch,
the Shoemaker's wife, IN "a Day Off. ~
The play is of the best class of musical
comedies, and real story of interest
runs through the prologue and three
acts, abounding with comedy, pathos
and music. Fine opportunity is given
in the last act for Miss Rice, who viii
impersonate in midget mimic stage hei
famous Characterization which always
prove delight to ladies and children
With an excellent cast and complete
production, which is promised, an excep
tional offering seems assured.
leleplOHlC communication mas Deel
established between the Farview hospi.
tai site and Honesdale and Carbondale
A very commodious Office for the use OF
the superintendent of construction ha'
been made out of one of the building,
formerly located on the picnic grounds
1t was removed from there to site di
rectly opposite the proposed buildings
The stone to be used tor the foundation
walls is being delivered on the grounds
1t is native mountain stone which i
quarried near the site of the buildings
William Work, superintendent for tn
contractors, is said to be one of the bes
qualified men in the entire State. II
was at one time employed in the me
chanical department of the Delaware
Hudson company on the New York di
vision and has had charge of some o
the finest buildings in this and adjoinin,
states.
Personal.
"A. j. M. Scott, or "Dink, " is VISITING