The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-11-18

hanging himself with knotted twine tied
to bedstead, at his home at that place.
The post office ana store at High
Lake, Buckingham township, was bur-
glarized on the night of Nov, 18th. The
thieves got away with a quantity of
stamps, jewelry and other articles from
the store. There is no clue to the rob-
bers.
On Friday last William Penwarden,
of Carley Brook, brought down for ship
ment his yearly drove of young cattle,
about twenty head. They
were handsome lot of animals and so
full of misc lief that considerable difficulty
was experienced in getting them aboard
the cars.
The Commissioners of Wayne and
counties and the Erie Of
ficials having failed to meet at Carbon
dale last week to settle matters connected
with the proposed county bridge at For
est City, as was expected, it is now un-
derstood that the conference will be held
some time next week.
The Delaware & Eastern Railroad
has awarded the contract for the con-
struction of its upper line from Grand
Gorge to Schenectady to W. j. Oliver.
1t is confidently stated that service will
be installed to Schenectady by next year,
and from WilkesB Barre, through Wayne
county, within two years.
-Spruks Brothers, of Scranton, but
former residents of Honesdale, and An
drew Pave of Long Eddy, N. Y, who
recently became possessors of the old
Del. & Hud. canal aqueduct over the
Delaware river, at Lackawaxen, have
converted it into toll bridge. 1t was
entirely rebuilt just previous to the aban-
donment of the canal in 1898.
A slight wreck occurred on Thurs
day night last, at Farview, one car in an
east bound train jumping the tracks.
Richard j. Dyer, fireman, was thrown
from the train and sustained slight in
juries. DR.. w. J. Lowry, the company
physician, attended to his injuries and
removed the injured man to his home
in Carbondale. His condition is not Sc
rious.
Over 700 Republicans of Bradford
county disfranchised themselves on all
but the presidential electors, at the re-
cent election, by wrong marking of their
ballots. Col. c. c. Pratt's majority for
Congress was thus reduced by several
hundreds. Probably there were thous-
ands of other similar cases throughout
the State, in voting for electors. Some
500 Susquehanna county Republicans
and nearly 800 in Wayne made the same
error.
The stockholders of the First National
Bank of Forest City have decided to
double the amount of the capital stock
of that institution, making it $50, 900 in
stead of $25, 200. OF the amount of the
increase, $40, 600 will be distributed as a
dividend, the balance to be paid in in
cash. With the original capital the bank
has been markedly successful, having
accumulated a surplus fund of $25, 900,
and undivided profits of from So 900 to
$4,000.
ga resident of Hawley, while dig
ging a well for Charles Mitchell, at Hol,
listerville, had pretty close call, one
day last week. He was at the bottom
of the well engaged in loading up large
bucket with earth and stone. A link in
the chain gave way, letting the bucket
and contents fall back into the excava-
ton. Fortunately the man was standing
close to the side, or he would have met
with instant death. AS it was he escaped
with several broken ribs, and severe in
iuries to his back and side.
Frank G. Farnham, of this place,
has had issued to him under date of
November Sd, two additional patents on
the process of dipping cut glass in an
acid bath, while in course of manufac-
ture. This makes seven patents which
he has secured covering this invention,
and as these are the only ones in ex-
istence protecting the process, which is
of the utmost importance to the cut
glass industry of the United States, we
may well take pride in the inventive
genius of our townsman.
&C. A. Cortright & Sons, produce
dealers and fruit shippers of this place,
inform us that during the month ending
November 9TH, last, they shipped from
Wayne county, mainly from Honesdale,
thirty-five cars of apples, with an aver
age OF two hundred barrels to the car
an aggregate of 1000 barrels, or 81 ,OOC
bushels. They have also shipped from
Honesdale fifteen car loads of rutabagas
averaging seven hundred bushels to the
car, total of $500 bushels. This dis
poses of the story that there were nC
apples in Wayne county this year.
Within a radius of fifteen miles o,
Susquehanna, the Canawacta Rod and
Gun Club, has, within the Dast wear