The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-12-16

IN st. Mary Magdalenas church during
January 1st, I'd, and Sd.
The skating on Park Lake was very
good during most of the past week, and
the young people took full advantage Of
it.
Moscow, Lackawanna county, near
our county line, has been created a
borough by decree issued byJudge H.
NJ. Edwards.
"A new post office has been establish
ed on the other side of the Delaware
from Lackawaxen station, to be known
as Minisink Ford. Anthony Smith is
the first postmaster.
On Saturday morning last Louis j /.
Dorfinger had the misfortune to slip on
the tiled floor of his bath room, in his
residence, corner of 10th and Court
streets, and falling, sustain severe
cut and bruise over one of his eyes.
Notice has been given of an unusu-
ally large number of changes in rates
adopted by the American, National,
Wells-Fargo and United States Express
Companies. The changes by the Amer
ican and National Companies are gen.
orally an increase to sixty cents per one
hundred pounds on merchandise between
various Offices where formerly the rate
was fifty cents.
The four Honesdale banks have
combined capital of $375, 900 an aggre-
gate surplus of $475, 900 undivided
profits amounting to $l53,363 and total
resources summing up S., 1851 ,227. Their
total deposits are 81 1902 1855 their loans
So, ,5l3, 1928, and their holding of invest
ment securities, $2,l19,312. Cash on
hand and due from banks at last report
1896, 734. This Is splendid showing.
Grace Church Parish Aid Society
cleared upwards of $500 at their annual
bazaar and supper on Thursday after
noon and evening last, and the musical
entertainment given under the auspices
of the M. E. church choir the next eve-
ming netted more than $75 for the organ
fund. This, too, while there were we'll
patronized theatre and moving picture
attractions in town.
"A permanent organization of the
Scranton Fire Insurance Company was
effected at meeting in that city on
Tuesday afternoon, December, Sth. The
officers are Henry f. Gilpin, President
Adam Splitter, First Vice President
John Kuhbach, Second Vice President;
r. X. Cramer, Secretary and F. j. Bis
hop, M. D., Treasurer. Hon. George
w. Kipp, Hon. Z. B. Hardenbergh,
Hon. John Kuhbach and Adam Splitter
are four of the eleven directors.
The "high works" at the summit of
the Del. and Hud. pocket dumping
grounds opposite Blandin, have been
taken down and the lumber is being
shipped to Carbondale. The immense
trestling, mainly about thirty feet high
and several hundred feet in length, con-
tained hundreds of thousands of feet of
tirst-class lumber. As there were no
vi lCHOlle Ill lIlt Itlb
timber sustained very little damage from
the use to which it was put, and, owing
to the advance in hemlock, is perhaps
more valuable now than when the high
works were built.
Miss Maggie Daley, who made the
thrilling balloon ascent from the Lake
Lodore park two years since, and sub
sequently had two or three hair-breadth
escapes from death by mishaps to her
air-ship and once from being shot to
death by her lover-assistant, while w.
F. Dorm, of Honesdale, was her press
and booking agent, is again brought into
notice by suit brought by Mrs. Mary A.
Roper, of Brooklyn, NY, who istryingto
convince jury in the Supreme court at
Kingston, N. Y, that her feelings were
lacerated to the extent of $25 900 when
her foot was entangled in the anchor
rope of balloon and she was carried
skyward in an inverted and uncomfor-
table position in the presence of more
than 5000 persons. The Agricultural
Society of Ulster county, under whose
auspices the balloon ascension was Civ
en-, is the defendant. The suit is the
sequel to a story which thrilled the coun-
try on the morning of Aug. 30, 1907, the
day after Mrs. Roper, under protest,
accompanied the balloon skyward. Miss
Daley was about to make an ascension
at the Ellenville fair, when the specta-
tors crowded about the inflated balloon.
Mrs. Roper happened to be so located
that when the ropes were released and
the gas-bag shot skyward, the line at
tached to its top, with a small bag OF
sand dangling at its end to capsize the
balloon after the parachute leap, caught
around one of her ankles, and she sailed
away, head downward. Miss Daley re-
allied the danger to both, knowing that
if she cut loose her parachute her acci-
dental passenger would surely be dashed
to death, and tlat if she did not there
was no telling how either of them could
ever expect to reach the ground alive.