The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-07-30
LOCAL MENTION.
Scranton cats are aflicted with
lockjaw. Happy Scranton.

-NluSJy"LWO ueBTeeS III Tie
shade, was the temperature record
in this place and vicinity yesterday.
The hay crop in this locality
is, we are informed, excellent. The
dry weather, evidently, did not harm
that.
Girls, Margaret Mixter says that
a good way to avoid wrinkles is to
wash the face in spring water, and
springs, about here are plentiful.
Don't forget the ice-cream fes-
tival of the Ladies' Improvement
Society, Texas No. 4, at Bellevue
Park, Saturday evening, July 81.
Down at Stroudsburg, they
catch eels four feet long and rattle
snakes five feet and nine inches in
length-or else the Jeffersonian is
a-an economist of truth.
AS we go to press with The
Citizen, the Old Home Week COM
mittee of arrangements is busily
comforting over progress made and
to be made. viii tell you about it.
ANY business man or other
resident who opposes Old Home
Week or any other celebration which
will bring people to Honesdale, is
no friend of the town. Remember
that, fellow citizens.
-"Auxetophone" is the name of
a new musical instrument. The
long word means big noise" Queer
name for a musical" machine, but
it is applicable to many already in
vented.
Director of Public Works Ter
williger has informed the Mayor of
Scranton, that decision has been
reached which will allow public
bathing in Lake Lincoln on Sunday.
That's surely sensible.
If you own bee and that bee
goes over into your neighbor's yard
and stings him, are you liable for
damages? That's the query that is
puzzling a Connecticut court, just
at present. What do you think?
On Saturday afternoon the
Honesdale team will play White
Mills at Athletic Park. The local
team was recently organized and is
composed of a number of promising
youngsters. The visitors will have
their strongest lineup with them.
The Erie Railroad last week
issued an order that all inspectors
along the line, car inspectors, etc,
must take the eye and ear eXamina-
ton. Consequently there is an
exodus of such employees to Jersey
City.
The dead body of Sarah
Thomas, aged II, was found float
ing in the reservoir at Wilkes Barre
on Monday last. There were no
marks of violence, to indicate foul
play, yet there are suspicious that
she did not drown herself.
w. H. Hall, of Indian Orchard,
will paint the Henwood bridge, the
bottom and top girders of the Main
street bridge, bottom of the Farm
ham and the ends of the Herman
bridges, all two coats, for $3.50.
There was one other bid for the
work at 1925.
In answer to a query received
by mail, we will say that the State
Department will pay no bounties for
killing wildcats, foxes and other
noXious animals, until the Legisla-
ture appropriates money with which
to pay. The last session of Legisla-
ture failed to make any appropria-
ton for that purpose.
Lee Fie, Honesdale's Chinese
laundryman, has bought an automo-
bile, whereat the Scranton Tribune
uses half column of it's valuable
space to shrek at the Outrage"
The idea of a Chinaman owning a
choo-choo! We are not an advocate
OF the Celestial breed, but it occurs
to us that the Tribune's space might
have been used to better advantage.
The Wellsboro Agitator tells of
man in that locality who is the
proprietor of a temperance hotel,
who recently elected from his stom-
ach snake more than a foot in
length. If it hadn't been that the
Temperance house" was thrown in
with that item-well, one might
have been little ''leary' about the
fact as stated.
The third of a series of in
tereStlng articles on Western travel,
written by our townsman, Mr.. A.
j. Rehbein, appears on the third page
of this issue. Mr.. Rehbein has the
happy faculty of making the reader
see what he describes. His refer
ences to former Honesdale residents,
whom he found in the west, are also
of local interest.
-Montrose, capitol of Susque-
hanna county, and, heretofore, a
resort for summer boarders, is said
to be dead" this season. Rev. DR..
Torrey, the evangelist, is blamed
for this state of affairs, says a pub
lication of that county, his labors
having produced "dampening eff
feet" on the gayety of that town.
We think that is a libel. Montrose
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