The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-28
The civic committee of the

Tine CIVIC committee OF the
State Federation Of Women's clubs,
Of which Miss Caroline Petersen, of
this place, is member, suggests
Saturday, May 1, as Municipal
House Cleaning Day" The Homes
dale Improvement association,
through the courtesy OF the press,
desires to impress upon those less
interested in the towns welfare the
prosperity and advantages of con-
tributing a halliday ON the above
mentioned date, for the purpose of
cleaning up their yards, and clear
ing UP the stray bits of paper that
are eyesores to the residents.
Honesdale, which is classed as the
famous model town for civic pride,
ought not to be urged in this mat
ter, but as the day has been set
apart by the State Federation, the To-
cal association requests that the call
may be complied with. The local
association is desirous of having
all who can to help personally in
picking up papers in streets, alleys
and parks near their homes. 1t
wants the help of the school chill
dren, who are never-tiring workers;
it asks that the physicians of the
town cooperate to the extent of i'm
pressing the public with the practi-
cal advantages of health in the OBJ
servanoe of the day; 1t wants the
cooperation of the press in adver-
tising the date of the Municipal
House Cleaning Day, Saturday, May
1st, as day not to be forgotten.
The literary contest between the
high schools of Honesdale, Carbon
dale, and Dunmore will take place
at the Lyceum Theatre, Scranton,
on Friday evening. The following
are the contestants from Honesdale:
Defamation, Joseph Jacobs; recita-
tion, Beatrice Rehbein: essay, Abb
gail Baird. 1t is expected that a
large number of people from Homes
dale will attend the contest.
Rev. H. P. Blunt, of Grocer
Theological Seminary, has declined
the call to the pastorate of the
Honesdale Baptist church. He has
accepted a call to Minot, North
Dakota.
Senator Miles c. Rowland of
the Wayne-Monroe-Carbon-Pike dis
trict of Pennsylvania has been
honored by an appointment on a
committee to investigate the poor
houses in Philadelphia county with
a view to placing them all under
one head. There are five senators
on the committee and all are Re-
publicans except Mr.. Rowland.
The committee expect to begin their
work on Monday next.
The following from out-of-town
attended the funeral of Mrs. Bridget
Moran, on Friday: Mrs. Phoebe
Cummings, Mrs. Mary Ennis, Mich
ael Coar, Mrs. John Heffron, Peter
Ennis, James Moran, Andrew Ly-
mott, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas DON
nelly, Name, Elizabeth, Helen,
Thomas and Charles Donnelly, of
Scranton; Mrs. Maurice Kane, Mr..
and Mrs. James Ganley, of Port Jer-
Wis; Mrs. Anna Clune, Mrs. Andrew
Moran, Mr.. and Mrs. James Sullivan,
of New York City, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Dennis Moran, of Rock Lake.
After a winters diet of meat and
cereal food, succulent vegetable matter
is a necessity, and "greens," coming
after the winter vegetables are gone,
and before the new summer crop has
appeared, make healthful change. Any
wild or cultivated plant whose leaves
are edible at all, is good for green's.
Many of the best greens are wild plants.
Dandelions, wild mustard, lettuce, sor-
rel, lambs quarter, marrow" dock,
plantain, milk-weed, ,'cress pepper grass)
and purslane are all good. Spinach is
the commonest of all domestic greens.
Many plants have curative value, and
many old-fashioned people often credit
their health to an annual course of dan
delion green's in the spring.
The hundreds who were anxious to
see the departure of the Russell Dow
special wedding train on Thursday night
last, and assembled at the depot for that
purpose, were nicely fooled. There
seemed to be considerable delay in the
arrival of the wedding party at the sta
ton, and the special engine kept up a
continuousracket with its exhaust cough
ing and sneezing, and by making occa-
sional runs up the track and back
with the empty passenger coach. The
crowd was patient and good natured,
however, and were content to wait as
long as necessary for the opportunity to
shower their rice, confetti and old slip
pers on the happy couple. Meanwhile
the bridal party and immediate friends
quietly proceededt to the D. & H. crossing
at Chapel street, and when the cars made
little longer trip than before, quickly
got aboard, and were off for Carbondale,
exploding lot of track torpedoes as a
parting salute, leaving their disappointed
well-wishers to disperse at their leisure.
Hon. w. G. Norton has sold the
Ridge" farm in Clinton township