The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-02-10

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The Honesdale National Bank will
be closed on the following legal holidays |
in this month: Friday. Feb. 18th, Lin
coins birthday: Tuesday, Feb. 10th,
election day; Monday, February 22nd,
Waehington's birthday.
e. e. Jones, of Susquehanna, has
introduced a bill in the legislature pro-
viding for a State commission to buy
State fair site, erect buildings and start
a fair. The bill carries an appropria-
ton of $225, 900. This is a measure that
Hon. w. c. Norton, of Clinton town
ship, this county, has been interested in
for several years, and if State fair is
created it will undoubtedly be largely
through his efforts.
The State Highway Department to-
day issued blanks to the supervisors of
the l,54S townships of the State requir-
ing reports from them about the amount
of cash tax levied and collected for road
purposes. This is done under the act
of 1905 and if they make return they
get Is per cent. of the money from the
State. Two years ago many reported,
but others have failed, being evidently
under the impression that one report is
enough. If they do not report this year
they lose the appropriation.
Mrs. Griffith Van Fleet, of Great
Bend, who was shot by her husband,
fortnight ago, the latter then putting a
/ bullet through his brain, is dead. Van
Fleet came home drunk, found his wife
reading her Bible, chased her from the
house with gun and shot her. He then
walked up to her, gave her kick and
said, "Lay there and die and I'll 60
home and do the same myself" Van
fleet carried out his threat. Mrs. Van
Fleet was discovered in the snow, on the
roadway, and removed to the hospital,
at Susquehanna, where she died.
The anniversary, February. number
of ''The jewelers. Circular" is one of
the best printed, artistically illustrated
and generally interesting magazines we
have seen in many a day. The cover
illustration of a Salome-dressed mer-
maid admiring herself in hand-glass,
Is real work of art, creditable alike to
| 10 the painter and the printer. We were
glad to find the advertisements of e.
Dorflinger & Sons, of White Mills and
New York, Kelly & Steinman. of Homes
dali, and ArthurE. o. 'Connor, of Goshen,
n. v, nicely displayed in its pages.
. The Mining Department of the State
Y. NJ. c. A, with headquarters al
Wilkes Barre, has started what is known
as the Anthracite Bible Readers Move
ment. 1t is the purpose of the commit
tee to extend this movement from every
Association center in the region to all the
small mining communities. The plan ii
very simple and practical and is meeting
with a hearty response from the men il
the communities where it has been pre-
sented. The movement enlists the in
terest of those who are not in the habi
of giving time TO regular Bible study
James ID. Dryden, of PittstOn, has beer
engaged by the committee TO lead in tn
: promotion of the movement Throughout
3 the entire Anthracite field.
It Pomona Grange, for some reasol
8 with which We have not been made wise
e has not furnished THE CITIZEN with ;
/ report of the proceedings at its recen
e convention, and hence We are unable t.
l. give the address delivered by Rev. j. b
Cody in detail; but we are at least lib
d eral enough to say that Mr.. Cody's tall
f. was most instructive and uplifting one
= one calculated to do immense good +
r the agriculturalists of Wayne county
# from little to big, and one which we hop
II will be taken seriously by every tiller O
j. the soil in this region, from kitchel
IS gardener to the observation-disclosures farm
" er. Mr.. Cody is a muscular preacher
e and talks just as forcibly from tn
e shoulder as from the heart from be
hind the moving machine or hen-coO
!, as the pulpit; and people who have tel
II restial as well as celestial interests q
"a stake will do well 10 listen 10 him. HI
r. excellent speech will be found in tn
n columns of our more favored contempt
eI raries.
ut The practical abandonment of VIII:
s has always been known as the ''Hawley
la depot at the Eddy, by closing the tick
h and freight offices at that station, don
" please the residents of our sister bOroug
a little bit. At an indignation meetir
} held recently, the Erie Company W:
~ handled without gloves, and the Tim
ar makes it pretty plain that the scorir
m was well deserved. Passages from Il
a. original contract between that corpor
70 ton and the borough were read, fro
ID which it clearly appeared that the rigI
e. of way originally granted to the con
It. pany was from the Paupack river bridi
ms to the railroad bridge near the gla
ouI e6a ,,.o. koS