The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-20
LOCAL MENTION.

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Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Herzog on Sunday, a daughter.
-Haw.ey has three cases Of
diphtheria, all in the family of VIM.
Rangon.
Miss Margaret Siebold, OF Car
bondale, was the guest of Waymart
friends last week.
The moon-sign weather proph-
cts who said rain would come with
the change hit it surely this time
at least.
The ladies of the Methodist
church will furnish dinner and lunch
for 200 firemen on Wednesday of
Old Home Week.
At a meeting of the High School
Alumni, held last week, plans were
formulated for banquet, to be
given "Old Home Week"
The rain which fell this week
was most welcome, but it did not
wet very deep. Two inches below
the surface, the soil will be found
dry in most places.
Hartman, the tailor, who dis
appeared from Honesdale Aug. 5th,
is still among the missing. Mrs.
Hartman is closing up his business
affairs.
Preparations for the Old Home
Week celebration here are progress
ing. Every one who has duties to
perform to make the event success
full is busily engaged.
The following marriage license
was granted Tuesday by PrOthono-
tary NJ. j. Hanlan: Edward f.
Bader and Mary A. Jaynes, both OF
Honesdale.
THE Don't Tell My Wife" show
at the Lyric on Tuesday night, was
not just what the good-sized audi
ence anticipated. 1t might have
been worse.
-Weather-wise people predict hot
weather for the balance of this
month and during September. We
can endure a little warm weather
during the shortening days. We've
had but little, this season.
Rev. DR.. Henry Tuckley, super
intendent of the Binghamton Dis
trict of the Wyoming conference, is
suffering from a stroke of paralysis
which he sustained while at Dimock
camp-meeting, Tuesday last.
After four days of rain and
gloomy sky, the sun once more
smiles upon this section. The storm
was general in the Middle Atlantic
and New England States. 1t was
very much like September equinoc-
tial.
DR.. H. B. Ely, of this place, as
sisted DR.. E. B. Garvitt Wednesday
in setting a fractured leg of Will
liam, four-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Tuman. The limb was
placed in a cast. 1t was broken in
two midway between the hip and
knee.
1t is proposed that instead of
the unsanitary drinking cups on
railroad cars, that cups of paper, be
placed in penny-slot machine, for
the dry passenger. That is good
enough. Now provide clean drink
ing water and clean tanks and the
public will not wrangle about the
cent-a-piece cups.
"A Honesdale lady was yester-
day complaining to her milkman
about the thin condition of the
milk served her. The milkman, in
a jOcular mood, explained that it
was entirely due to dry weather,
and said that even the COWS felt so
sorry about their product, that they
wept. That's bad" said the lazy,
'but please don't let them cry into
my can any more"
The announcement is made Of
the marriage Of well-known news
paper man, formerly of Scranton
but now of Philadelphia, Mr.. Rich
ard j. Beamish, to Miss Maud
Wetherly, daughter of Mrs, William
Wetherly, of Philadelphia. Their
wedding tour will include France,
Switzerland, and Germany. Mr..
Beamish is a writer of good verse
and at one time was co-laborer
with Suui"l rrOthorOe in some inn
polOaut m1sical works, Mr.. Beamish
supplying the theme in verse to Alr.
PrCtlerOe's melody and harmony.