The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-17
LOCAL MENTION.

Thanksgiving Day next week.
The football season will close
on Thanksgiving day.
"A daughter was born on We'd
nesday to Mr.. and Mrs. Willard
Birdsall.
The weather during Institute
week was excellent and the teach
ers enjoyed their visit to Homes
dale.
The Amity Social club have is
sued invitations to their annual ball
which will be held Wednesday even
ing, Nov. Gath.
The standard from which the
English yard measure is taken was
the arm of King Henry l., which
was exactly three feet in length.
State Prison has several men
who were sent there simply because
they had Administer desires and rag
carpet capacities.
Marriage licenses have been
granted to Ambrose A. Keleher and
Minnie F. Roegner of Honesdale;
James Soden and Josephine Carpen-
ter, of Starrucca.
Last Sunday at the meetin'
house Elder Hudnutt proposed that
the church give something for the
orphans. Deacon Stubbs, our local
philanthropist, arose and proposed
that they give three cheers for the
orphans.
For some reason the COM
mendable entertainments of Insti-
tute week at the Lyric were poorly
attended by the town people, but
on Thursday evening there was a
well-filled house who were not over
pleased with the show.
The Semi-Annual meeting of
Wayne County Pennsylvania Society
of New York City will be held on
Tuesday, November 16, 1909, at
$3.50 p. m, at the Hotel Manhattan,
corner 42nd street and Madison
Avenue, New York City.
The Rev. DR.. Finks gave an il
lustrated lecture Sunday night at the
Presbyterian church on the "Moun-
taineers of North Carolina" On Sun
day night he lectured on Alaska"
and accompanied his lecture with
views that gave his audience an in
sight into that wonderful section of
our country.
F. T. McGuier, of Philadelphia,
has received the contract to rebuild
the Blooming Grove club house at
that place. Contract price, $4,000.
Work on the excavation for the
basement was commenced one day
last week. The clubs former house
was destroyed by fire last February.
An unknown man, presumed to
be foreigner, was struck by a
north-bound freight train near Arch
bald on Sunday night about 10
o'clock. Both arms and legs were
severed from the body and the mans
head fractured. He died at the
State Hospital, in Scranton, shortly
afterwards.
On Friday last, a masked ban
dit, working alone, stole between
$4,000 and $4,000 in cash and
bonds from the home of Schuyler
Rainier, 72 years old, a wealthy
farmer, residing near Florence, Bur-
lington county, N. j. The robber,
after locking the farmers aged wife
into room dynamited the safe and
got the cash and escaped. Don't
keep your money in the house.
The open season for deer in
this state begins on Monday next
and continues until the end of No
vember. Each hunter is allowed to
kill but one deer, which in every in
stance must be a buck with horns
Dogs must not be used. Reports
from all parts of Pike county where
the deer abound are to the effect
that the big game is more plentiful
than ever, Local hunters are ready
for the fray.
AT the Wayne County School
Directors meeting, which was held
last week in the High school audi.
torium, the following officers were
elected: President, r. NJ. Stocker;
first vice president, Thomas Dunn;
second vice president, Edward Deit'
zer; treasurer, Fred Saunders; secre'
tary, A. M. Leine; delegates to the
Directors Convention which will be
held In Harrisburg, A. w. Emo, l. ]
Many, Thomas Smith, George Eber.
hardt, Edward Deitzer, e. R. Bodie
and L. Atkinson.
The wave of great movement
which has been spreading over this
country, has reached Scranton, anG
on November 22nd and Gath a con
vention of the Laymen of Northeast
ern Pennsylvania will be held, the
outcome of which will be far-reach
ing in its effect upon the people o.
this section of our State. The con
vention will be opened with ban
quet to which all laymen are invited
A registration fee of $1.00 will b.
charged which includes the banquet
Regular sessions of the convention
will be held in the Elm Park Metho
dist church. A cordial invitation 4
extended to the laymen of Wayn'
county, and William B. Holmes ant