The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-04
-AttOrne ev-at-law

nSN' CudTleS was
the Presbyterian pastor here from
1861 to 1880, was in Honesdale
early in the week on business con-
nected with the trolley line. He
was entertained by the Golf club at
supper on Monday evening.
Homer Davenport, the cartoon
list, and author and stock raiser, who
recently gave an entertainment at
the Lyric under the auspices of the
Honesdale Realty Company, has sep
arated from his wife and moved his
fancy stock from Morris Plains to a
farm near Goshen, n. Y.
Miss Anna H. Brown returned on
Tuesday from a six weeks visit with
friends in Elmira and Greene, n. Y.
DR.. A. r. Dimock, of New York
city, spent the first of the week in
Waymart, as the guest of H. G.. En-
sign and family.
Miss Bertha Lane returned on
Monday from a visit with friends in
Port Jervis.
Miss c. Louise Hardenbergh is
spending the week with relatives at
Glenburn, Lackawanna county.
Misses Harriet and Ella Sharp
steen visited DR.. and Mrs. George
Rodman and family, of Hawley, the
first of the week.
Mrs. Harry w. Rowley and chill
dren, of Brooklyn, N. Y, are spending
some time with Mrs. NJ. L. Tracy, of
North Main street.
Mrs. John Congdon of East
street, is quite seriously i'll.
M. ]. Kelly left yesterday for
Mt. Clemens, Michigan, to join his
wife and children, who are visiting
at that place.
Miss Carrie Williams, of Stand
ing Stone, is spending few days in
this place.
Eugene Babbitt, clerk at Katz Bros.
store, is taking months vacation Mr..
Babbitt is recuperatng after slight
operation, which he recently under
went in Scranton.
Morris Freeman and son, Harry, left
Wednesday to attend the funeral of
relative in Paterson, N. j.
Mrs. John Bone, of Scranton, is Wis
iting at the home of her brother, Gilbert
White, of East street.
Miss Margaret Eberhardt is visiting
relatives in Scranton.
Thomas Wynn and son, Paul, of
CarbondaIe, spent Sunday with the
Misses Igo, of Erie street.
The Misses Weiss, who spent the
winter and spring in New York city,
have returned to their home in this
place.
Louis lleferich was business caller
in Scranton, on Wednesday.
Charles W. Douglass, whose death
is announced in another column, was a
railroad man for most of his adult life,
and yet met with only one severe acci-
dent. That was in the Carr's Rock
(now parker's Glcn) disaster, on the
morning Of April -, 1868, the wreck OF
which the writer, with many other
HOnesdalcrs, went down to see. Mr..
Douglass was returning home on No. II,
to Port Jervis, when the train was de-
rallied at Curr's Rock. The four rear
coaches were precipitated down an en-
bankment one hundred and eighty feet
to the Delaware river. Superintendent
Douglass was in the rear coach, which
together with the other coaches burned
at the edge of the river. Twenty-eight
passengers were killed and ninety-siX
were injured. Mr.. Douglass was taken
out of the burning coach by the engi-
neer, Henry Green, and Jay Lynch,
conductor of the sleeper. But one other
person was taken out of that coach alive,
man named Donahue from Oil City,.
Pa, whose back was broken. Mr..
Douglass's injuries consisted OF burns,
three broken ribs, dislocation of the
right shoulder and dislocation of the
right hip. The latter injury was over
looked by the surgeons, and not until
the trouble was located quite recently
by the N-ray was it known that the
right hip JOINT was dislocated, and in all
the years from 1868 he had endured un-
told suffering from trouble which emil
nent surgeons had failed to discover.
Miss Cora Eek is visiting the
family of her uncle in Port Jervis.
Gilbert White is visiting his
son Irving, in Rock Island, Ill.
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