The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-11-20
FOR SALE.-House. 1913 Court st. c.
Bentley, Honesdale, Pa.
LOCAL MENTION.


ed monthly magazine, edited by Alfred
Henry Lewis, will be sent as premium
to each of the first hundred friends of
THE CITIZEN who sends us one dollar
and half, either for new subscrip-
ton or as an advance payment for a
name already on our list. Be one of
the hundred
The Amity Social Club will hold
their annual ball, Thanksgiving Eve,
Nov. 25th, at Lyric hail.
John L. Meyer, of East Honesdale,
is having installed in his home ain up-to-
date steam heating furnace.
The Honesdale Band played at a
concert in White Mills, Saturday even
ing. Prof. Wagner had charge of the
concert.
Rev. J. r. Atkinson, of Elizabeth,
N. j., will hold service in the Indian
Orchard school house, Sunday, at $3.50
Pm. The Sunday school will meet three
quarters of an hour earlier.
Theodore Lisken, practical uphol-
sterer and cabinet maker, will open a
shop at $50 Main street, on Saturday,
Nov. 21st, for work of above character.
Mr.. Lisken is a man of experience and
work intrusted to him will be satisfac-
torily done at reasonable rates.
The following epitaph is inscribed
on an old tombstone in the Platea, Erie
county, Pa, cemetery:
''Mary E. is my name, America is my
nation, Lockport is my dwelling place,
and Christ is my salvation. Now l
am dead and in my grave and all my
bones are rotten. Then on this stone
you will see my name when am quite
forgotten"
Mary Helpin, of Binghamton, aged
about 70 years, was committed to the
Broome county poor house, few days
ago. She was covered with rags, and
her person was in an extremely filthy
condition. When her clothing was re-
moved there was found concealed in va.
rious pockets 1875 90 in bills, all of them
badly soiled. The money will be utilized
for maintaining the old woman while
she is an inmate at the county farm.
1t is contended that the year 1908
just one hundred years ago, gave more
celebrities and persons of genius to the
world than any other year of the nine
teenth century. Among those who were
born in that memorable year were
Abraham Lincoln, Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Ewart
Gladstone, Charles Darwin, Lord
Houghton, Alfred Tennyson, Edward
Fitzgerald, Professor Blackie, Mary
Cowden Clarke and Felix Mendelssohn.
Commencing with our Thanksgiving
number, which will be an eight pag,
paper, with illuminated cover, we will
begin an absorbingly interesting seria
story by Robert w. Chambers, entitled
"The Younger Set," and also serie
of Character Sketches of Wayne coun
tvs prominent and successful men
These biographical articles will be pre-
pared with great care and from tn
most reliable data, and cannot fail Il
be not only interesting but inspirationa
to the rising generation. AS Characte
Building is being taught by example il
the schools throughout this county, w
will make strong personal appeal t.
every school teacher in Wayne count.
to arrange to have these sketches rea'
to their scholars, and special copies o
the articles will be prepared to distrib
ute free among the pupils, with a view
to impressing the young people o
Wayne County with the opportunities
that lie at their door; of the superio
chances of succeeding in life through I
a cultivation OF the many traits OF char
acter which the successful men OF thei
own county have demonstrated to b'
factors In life's success.