The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-28
George Nicholson was a Carbondale
visitor on Sunday.

George Nicholson was Carbondale
visitor on Sunday.
Mrs. W. B. Holmes was in Oxford,
Chester Co., Pa, yesterday, attending
the sessions of the Home Missionary So
ciety of the Synod of Penn'a.
Geo. A. Swepeniser, of Milford, has
been appointed Chief Burgess of that
borough, to fill the vacancy caused by
the death of Thomas Armstrong.
Miss Margaret McGettigan, a trained
nurse, has returned to Scranton, after
having been professionally engaged in
lIoncsdale, for the past three months.
Rev. DIR. Richard S. Holmes, of
Philadelphia, editor of "The Wcstmin-
stcr'' will preach in the Presbyterian
church, next Sunday morning. Sub
ject, THE Race Question.
Martin Rehbein, of the firm of Reh-
bein Brothers, Piano Manufacturers, and
sister, Miss Florence Rehbein, of Brook
lyn, Y. Y, are visiting at the home of
August ]. Rehbein, East street.
MIR. and Mrs. T. A. Lighthiser, Mrs,
Bussa, Mrs. VIM. Bader, and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Kuhbach, of Honesdale, at
tended the funeral of the late Mrs. Geo.
Awee, in Hawley, on Friday last.
Daniel Crandall, of Waymart, who
had been under treatment for typhoid
fever at the Emergency Hospital in Car
bondale, for some time, was discharged
from that institution on Friday last.
&C. w. Teed, of Walton, and his
daughter, Mrs. Edward Payson Woods,
with her daughter, of Los Angeles, Cal,
paid a visit last week to Mrs. Teed' e
mother and sister, in Equinunk.
Thomas Sheridan. Joseph Rosar
and Charles Bruner, of the South Side,
Scranton, spent last week hunting in
Wayne county. They bagged twenty
one rabbits, six pheasants and number
of squirrels.
Mrs. Herman Harmes, of Bethany
who had been an inmate of DIR. Burns
hospital, Scranton, where she submitted
To a severe case of skin grating, return
ed home, last week, greatly improved
in health.
Col. Ezra Ripple, postmaster o
Scranton, and a member of the Cover
nor's staff, is i'll at his home in the Lack
awanna county seat. Col. Ripple is one
OF the best known Guardsmen in tht
State, and has many friends on Capito
Hill.
Norman Jump and wife, who left
1 Equinunk for Colorado twenty-thret
years ago, and remained twenty-ont
years before coming east and locating il
Utica, n. Y, have been recently renew
ing old acquaintance in the northern
part of the county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hix, of Middletown
n. V, died in that city on wednesda,
evening last. She was the eldest daugh
ter OF Horace and Mahala Thompson
and was born at Hopewell, Orange Co.
n. V, Jan. 81, 1897. She married Ga
briel Horton, in 1859, becoming a wido,
four years later, and in November, lS7S
marrying Eben Hix, who survives he
with one son. Mrs. Hix was n sister q
Justice of the Peace, John ii. Thompson
of Hawley. She is also survived by tw
sisters.
John c. Westbrook, Jr., the Demo
cratic candidate Tor Prothonotary of Pix
county, was student at the Prompto
Normal School, while that institutio
was under the control of Hon. +. /
Kimble. His uncle, the late John {
Westbrook, held the office for upward
of forty years, and the present candidat
is certain of his fourth election, havin
been successfully chosen in 1899, 100
and 1906. The duties are combined wit
Register and Recorder, and Clerk of tn
|, Courts.