The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-06
LOCAL MENTION.

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featuring company, on Monday last,
the old officers were reelected, and the
name of the concern was changed to
Durland, Weston & Co.
The Foreign Missionary Society met
at the home of Mrs. Perry A. Clark, of
Dyberry Place, on Monday afternoon.
After the usual business was transacted,
I the hostess treated the members to an
English lunch, served on her rare and
beautiful old English china.
&C. Smith & Son, the enterprising
manufacturing and importing butter and
cheese firm of Seelyville, have followed
their annual custom by sending their
thousand patrons renewal calendar pads
for 1909, for use in the neat glass paper
I weight receptacles furnished by them
several wears ago.
The Wayne County Savings Bank
has declared a semi-annual dividend of
twelve per cent, which speaks well for
the good management and prosperity of
that institution. This, it must be under
stood, is after paying or crediting to
savings depositors, the sum of over
sixty thousand dollars, as interest on
their deposits during the past year.
4 The stockholders of the Wayne Co.
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany met at the Office of the Secretary,
Hon. Perry A. Clark, on Monday last,
and reelected the old board of directors.
The board organized by the election Of
H. G. Jackson, of Damascus, President;
E. T. Tiffany, Pleasant Mount, Vice
President; John II. Ames, Hawley,
Treasurer, and Perry A. Clark, Homes
dale, Secretary.
Eugene V. Coleman, of the Irving
Cut Glass Company, of this place, has
gone south to establish branch of the
firm business at Alton, Georgia. The
train upon which he was riding, while
on his way, was wrecked, and the engi-
neer and two other men killed. Fortu-
nately Mr.. Coleman was dining at the
time of the accident, and, as the buffet
car was not involved in the wreck, he
ESCAPED uninjured.
The second annual public speaking
contest of the Honesdale, Carbondale
and Dunmore High schools will be held
i'm Dunmore on Friday evening, April Is.
The subject in the essay contest will be,
Pennsylvania in Art" Three scholars,
one from each high school, will write es-
says on that subject and read them on
the evening of the contest. The three
essays are to be in the hands ofthe judges
on April 8. The selection for the reci-
tation contest will be Albert G. Green's s
poem, "The Baron's Last Banquet. -
A part of Webster's reply to Hayne will
be the selection for the defamation con-
test.
Most of the counties which adopted
i the new primary method for the nomin-
& alton of candidates for borough and
Stownship officers, have returned to the
h old way, the practice of naming candi-
dates in caucus; and consequently the
6 great bulk Of local tickets in Pennsyl-
vania will be so nominated. Honesdale
i is still selecting its candidates by the old
method, and the caucuses of the Repub-
lican and Democratic organizations will
be held at date not as yet determined
upon, but in time for the selections to be
officially certified to the county commits
sioners' office. Up to this writing there
seems to be but little rivalry for nomin-
! ations on either ticket, with the bare eX-
ception of the tax collectorship. The
term OF the present burgess expiring
this year, and, the law precluding his re-
election, there may be some strife for
the honor of that position but names
4 have not as yet been forthcoming. In
fact the Office does not appear to have
been regarded as a political one in the
past, the incumbents having been about
equally divided between the parties
since the creation of the borough, and
it is not likely there will be any great
struggle for it now. The new borough
law, under which Honesdale has been
for the past three years conducting its
affairs, imposes some duties upon the
burgess unknown to past incumbents,
and consequently a slight salary has
been attached to the office, but the
emolument will hardly be regarded as ex-
cessive pay for the extra services requir-
ed. Yet as town councilmen, school
directors, collector, auditor, constable
and other officers are to be chosen, as
well as burgess, all citizens of both
parties interested in the prosperity of the
town as well as in their personal well
fare, should make it point to attend
the caucuses of their respective parties
and, so far as in their power, see to a
that good tickets are put in nomination.