The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-02
LOCAL NEWS.

kOOAL lNEWos
The Republican Club have placed
new sign over the entrance of their
headquarters.
Martin Caumeld has just erected a
handsome granite monument over six
feet high, on the Birdsrll plot, in Glen
Dyberry. -.
Tho lIonesdale .provement Socie-
ty is requested to meet in the lodge
rooms in the Independent building, Tues
day, Oct. 9th, at O'Clock. A large at
tendance is desired.
Friday, Oct. I'd, we I'll have BUS
ter Brown" at the Lyric 'heatre, with
Master Reed in the titl, part. This
is one of the best of the many musical
comedies that are now bidding for favor.
The chorus we are promised is said to be
large and most comely of face and form.
This attraction should offer us an en-
joyable evening at the playhouse.
in 1890 there were only % miles of
railroad in the United States; at present
there are some 100000 miles in opera
ton. The Lackawanna is the highest
priced railroad stock in the world. The
par value of its shares is $50, and the
price now ranges from $500 to $500. Its
dividends are enormous. Its capital
stock is only $26, 100000. The road is
owned by the Rockefellers, Stillmans,
Astors and others.
-Freeman's popular Theatoriam and
Nickelette moving picture shows open
every night, are maintaining their popu-
1arity, Notwithstanding the attractive
ness of more costly entertainments. "The
Blue and the Gray; or the Days of 81, !"
on exhibition the balance of the week,
will undoubtedly capture the old SOL
diers, all of whom are cordially invited
by the management to attend without
cost.
Last Sundays Philadelphia Press
contained very interesting illustrated
article in which Frank G. Carpenter gave
an account of the Kimberly diamond
mines OF South Africa, from which $25,
OOO, 900 worth of glittering gems are pro-
duced annually. Among the pictures of
Americans at Kimberly, the portrait of
John T. Fuller, manager of the Dutoits-
pan mine, is recognizable in group of
three of the local officials. 1t was with
Mr.. Fuller, who is a son-in-law of An
drew Thompson of this place, and now
here with his wife and child, that Mr..
Carpenter explored the underground
Workings of the Dutoitspan, one of the
largest diamond mines of the world, the
profit on the ore raised daily amounting
to $37 900, or 25 cents minute, week in
and week out. Over $1OO,OO month
for wages and $45, 900 for other expenses,
is also paid from the product of the
blue ground. Mr.. Fuller is graduate
of the Lehigh University, and had had
considerable experience in the DeBeers
mines before his marriage. Kimberly
has wide streets and amusement grounds
theatre, churches and hotels. The city
is lighted by electricity and has all mod
ern improvements, water being brought
from the Vaal river, seventeen miles
away.
The will of the late John Riefer has
been probated. 1t was made August
26th last, and witnessed by Homer
Greene and Walter NJ. Fowler. The ex,
ecutors are his children, John G. Rief1er,
William F. Riefler and Emma E. Taylor,
and his son-in-law, f. Darwin Penwar.
den. First he provides that his burial
plot in the Lutheran cemetery shall have
perpetual care, by the deposit of $1OC
with the Scranton Trust Company, the
income of which ia to be used for tha
purpose. To his daughter Lydia HI
gives all the furniture, plate, crockery
linen and other personal property in hi
dwelling at the time of his decease, will
the exception of money, bonds or other
securities or personal papers. His ex
ecutors are to manage his share in th'
firm of Rieher & Sons, Incorporated, in
the interest of his daughter Lydia, pay
ing her the income derived therefrom a
long as she lives. At her death, if sh'
dies without issue, the bequeathed prop
erty reverts to the general estate for dis
trbution among the other heirs. Will
the exceptions named above, all of th'
decedent's property is given to his living
children and tho children of such as ar,
deceased, the former to share alike anC
the latter to take equal parts of TIN
share to which the parent, if living
would have been entitled. Vernon Ref
Ter, grandson, who has already beer
equitably provided for, is excepted
from this arrangement.