The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-02-03

This is appeal week, and COmmis-
eioners Hornbeck, Vaudeville and Mad
den will be at the Court House every
day, to listen to taxpayers complaints.
I Fred. Reynolds has leased Oneida
Hall, on Sixth street, and on Monday
evening opened vaudeville theatre in
that place of amusement, which will
hereafter be known as the "Family
Theatre"
The officers of the Pleasant Mount
Water and Light Co. are, j. ID. Bren-
nan, president J. E. Tiffany, secretary;
]. w. Bunnell, treasurer. The company
proposes to furnish the village with wa'er
either by a driven well or reservoir.
Pleasant Mt. is well named, and we are
much pleased to note these evidences of
improvement.
-Hittinger & Ham, agents at White
Mills, Pa, delivered last week to Sam
uel b. WOodmansee cash for his en-
dowment maturing, and to the benefici-
ary of Frederick Werner, deceased, the
amount of his policy, both of which were
in the old Penn Mutual this making a
total of $4,000 that this agency has
paid to residents of the county within
the last elk months.
On Friday afternoon last thes:ollow-
ing members of the Sophomore Glass
recited Lowell's "vision of Sir Laun-
fal": Agnes Carr. Merton Garfield, Nor
man Mcintyre, Regina Murray, Clara
Dills, Anna Doherty and Florence Krei-
ter. Harriet Arnold receited 1.-THE
Courtin'," by the same author, Alice
Oakes, Josephine Seitz, Una Gieseke,
Harriet Carroll and Eda Krantz sang a
song, entitled "The Fountain, words
composed by Lowell. ..
The alumni and old students OF
Wyoming Seminary are being solicited
to contribute to an endowment fund OF
five thousand dollars for the benefit of
the institution to which SO many of them
are so greatly indebted. The scheme is
to secure from them pledges of S., and
multiples of that sum each, payable
when subscribed or by installments with
in period of five years. Rev. E. A.
Martin is travelling in the interests of the
Seminary and will doubtless bring the
plan to successful conclusion.
The first preliminary contest for the
Dunmore- Carbondale- -Honesdale contest
has been held. Those winning the Dec
lamation Contest are Frederick Frey,
Coe Lemnitzer. William Pethick, Roy
Leinback, Leon Hagaman, Fred. Os-
borne, Albert Krantz, Charles Markle,
George Harris, Nelson Lambert, Mervin
Bunnell, Harland Histed, Walter Nealy,
Joseph Jacobs and Conrad Dirlam.
Those chosen in the recitation contest are
Lillian Barbieri, Helen Beck, Marion
Charlesworth, Charlotte O'Connell, Clara
Saunders, Beatrice Rehbein, Agnes Carr
Florence Hitler, Julia Storms, Florence
Clark, Dolla Cody, Rose Dirlam, Bessie
Kimble, Regina Murray, Grace Wilder
Gertrude Krantz, Matilda Kreiter, Marie
Bracy, Gertrude Murrman, Marguerite
Moran, Kathryn Nicholson, Blanche
Sluman, Sarah Menner and Ida Stein
man.
We are pleased to call special atten
ton to the entertainment TO be given by
the well-known cartoonist, traveller ant
lecturer, Homer Davenport, at the Lyric
Theatre, on Friday evening, Feb. 9Th, o
this week, at eight O'Clock. BY the terms
of the lease between the Honesdale Re
atty Company and Benjamin II. Dittrich
the Company is entitled to the theatr'
for two evenings each year for its owl
profit and benefit, and this entertain
ment has been secured under that ar
rangement. Mr.. Davenport will take TO
his main subject ARABIA, Its Horses
: the Habits and Customs of Its Tribes.
Through his personal friendship witt
President Roosevelt, thereby obtaining
an introduction to the Sultan, he wa
enabled to come into closer contact wit
the people of the Arabian desert tha
any other foreigner. He will accompan
his lecture with many stereopticon views
and give exhibitions of his wonderfu
skill as a cartoonist. The entertainer
will be both interesting and instructive
J and furthermore should be largely al
tended for the reason that the proceed
will accrue TO the benefit of the Homes
t dale Realty Company.
The Kitchener Biscuit Co., of We:
: Pittston, was aconsiderable loser throug
) the recent Italian earthquake. The com
} pany had purchased a large quantity G
} wild lemon, an expensive favoring eS
: tract used in the bakery business
r Twenty copper vessels, each cOntainin
25 pounds OF wild lemon, consigned t
S the Kitchener Biscuit company, were il
transit. They were on the docks a
, Messina, Italy, ready for loading on
S vessel when the earthquake occurred
and the docks were destroyed. The ez
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