The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-02-24

! 1.-The revival services in the M, E.
church will commence this Wednesday
evening, and continue until March 18th.
The Superior Court of Penn'a meets
in Scranton, Monday, March 1st, to hear
cases from Wayne, Pike, Columbia, Lu-
zerne,. Lackawanna, Montour and Sus-
quehanna counties.
Thomas Bracey has purchased the
Lackawanna Steam Laundry agency of
Sidney Policy. Mr.. Bracey took charge
of the business last week.
LAT a meeting of the fourth quarterly
conference of the Methodist church, last
Saturday evening, it was voted to ask
Rev. VIM. H. Hitler to remain another
year.
5-M. B. Allen has been elected Presi-
dent Of the Equity Mines Syndicate
This concern owns and is developing
large gold and silver mines in Nevada,
and have the only large coal property in
that section of the country.
--Adolph P. Schneider, of Honesdale,
and for several years a member of the
locai base ball team, will captain the
Lafayette College team this season. The
college expects TO have a strong team this
year and will meet most of the larger
university teams of the East.
-Bregstein Bros. have opened store in
Callicoon N. Y. for the sale of the stock
which they purchased at the Bankrupt
sale OF Peter Hittinger, Of Hawley.
s--A H. Davenport, who was born and
lived in Clinton. township this county,
and afterwards went to Duluth Mime
sofa, called at THE CITIZEN Office on
Friday. His many friends will be glad
to know that he has been very success
full in his new home, being employed by
Unole Sam in the mail service and from
what we know of his straightforward
and energetic method of doing things,
he ls destined to go up higher in any
ine Of work he undertakes. Wayne
couPty boys as rule succeed and they
dot This big country all over and we are
proud Of their records.
.ea&Hev. DR.. Moses D. Fuller, Supt. of
EhsA Ho1esdale District of the M. E.
church, oficiated in the Bethany church,
last, ,Sypday morning, and IN the Homes
Hal& &chureh in the evening. He served
W hearmy of Uncle Sam, during the
civil war, enlisting at the age of 16 years,
lin Coz H, SD Penn'a Volunteers, being
mustered in Nov. 4, 1861, and discharged
July II, 1865. A few years after his re-
turn he enlisted under the banner of the
Lord, and ever since has been one of his
most faithful and energetic followers.
-Lackawanna county will ask for an
additional law judge. Members of the bar
are signing petition to the Legislature
setting forth that the civil courts are
eighteen, months behind in their work,
and at almost every term it becomes nec-
essary to summon Judge from neigh
boring county. 1t is pointed out that
there are five judges in the adjoining
county of Luzerne, while the business oi
the Lackawanna courts is much heavier
and there are only four.
AT Montrose last week, F. ]. Skeels,
of Hartford, who was convicted of selling
liquor without license, was sentenced
to pay a; fine of $500 and costs of prose
cution and be imprisoned in the county
Jail for period of three months.
Eugene Nolan, proprietor of the
Hotel Belvidere, Hawley, has sold his
good will to G. P. Woods, formerly pro-
prietor of the Shohola House, Pike
1 County. Mr.. Nolan goes West soon te
,eugage in the knitting business.
"A former resident of neighborine
Wayne county village, was convicted il
the Susquehanna county court, last week
of selling liquor without license, ant
sentenced to pay fine of $500, costs O
prosecution and imprisonment in the
county jail for three months.
, George P. Ross, who has been thu
, | llOhCSudiC correspondent lOi OiiC GNOi VI
American for a number of years, ha'
resigned because he will not stand al
foster father for a lot of political articles
he does not write. If somebody nov
wants the job of being the known repre-
, sentative of that journal behind whom
anonymous writer's may hide, the job il
open.
The Scranton Republican very sensi
bly, says:
"a great many of our contemporarie
} are raving about the laxity of public of
ficials in permitting full swing to cheal
public dances. But how are they to b.
legally prevented. Our young peopl
have onstitutionalrig rights as well as thei
elders and one of theseis the right Il
assemble in a social way and to dane
and chat and laugh and make merry
E II there were less rot printed about tn
a harm done by such assemblages ant
, greater effort made to elevate the ton