The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-12-17

William F. Riefer has purchas-
ed the mill at East Honesdale known
as the Penwarden Mill.
DIR. F. w. Powell has been ap-
pointed examining surgeon at this
place for the Pension Department
The Ray house on East Exten-
sion street has been purchased by
Samuel Tolley; consideration $250O.
w. j. Ferber and Jonas Katz
have been appointed to audit the ac-
counts of the Honesdale and Texas
Poor Board.
Squire Smith united In marriage
Miss Maude McAdams of West Daven-
port, N. Y, and Fred Clifford, of
Equinunk, on Monday.
The White Ribboners will meet
at the Methodist parsonage Thurs
day afternoon, Dec. FL, at three
o'clock. The subject will be World
Wide Temperance"
"A. c. Brugler, of Foxboro, N. Y.
who represents the Waldorf Shirt
Waist Co., died suddenly after his
return from western trip at the
Syracuse Hospital. Mr.. Brugler was
well known in Honesdale as a popu-
lar salesman.
The Scranton Truth published
S0-page edition on Wednesday even
ing to celebrate its twenty-fifth an
niversary. We congratulate the
Truth on its silver jubilee and for
the excellent edition it produced in
honor of the event.
Three wars are occupying the
attention Of the American people at
the present time-the war in Mica
ragua; the base ball war over the
election of President of the Nation
al Association and the war against
the Steel Trust by the American
Federation of Labor.
On December "a. 1909, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank NJ. Hagaman will have
been welded for twenty-five years.
They will celebrate the silver an
niversary of this event at their home,
1921 Main street, at p. m. on that
day. Invitations have been extend
ed to their many friends.
The Daughters of the Revolution
may have a chapter in Honesdale
very soon. Miss Harriet Rockwell
has been appointed Regent and the
necessary twelve charter members
great-granddaugh of Jabez
Rockwell of Revolutionary fame.
Seven hundred missionaries left
Philadelphia Thursday morning on
the United States Transport Prairie.
They were disguised as soldiers and
carried guns in lieu of Bibles. They
are to undertake the conversion of
Zelaya, troublesome heather and
his army of adherents in Nicaragua.
According to a recent decision
of the courts, man who wants to
go faster than his neighbor who is
ahead of him on the road, has right
to pass. If he is prevented by the
other and an accident happens be-
cause of the latter's interference,
the obstructionest is responsible for
the damage.
The following marriage licenses
have been granted at Prothonotary
Hanlan's Office: Erastus Seeley and
Pansy M. Hale, both of Hawley, Pa;
Willie Caufield and Louise Rutledge,
both of Galilee; Bert Milten and
Maude Odell, both of Whites Valley;
Forrest Woodward and Harriet Ros-
evcur, both of Bodys Mills; Herbert
e. Sherwood, of Creamton, and
Gladys Miller of Whites Valley.
The members of the Scranton
Poultry and Pet association are plan
ming for a more pretentious show
than ever on Jan. II to %, and it is
expected that fully 1,400 birds will
be on exhibition. There has been an
actual cash loss in the last four poul-
try shows held in Scranton but this
did not dampen the ardor of the
members in making the next display
still larger than those before.
The following transfers of real
estate have been recorded in Register
and Recorder Gammel's office: G. w.
Peil and wne, Margaret A. Peil, of
Honesdale, to Catherine V. Warwick
of Cold Spring, house and lot on
Spring street, Honesdale; considera-
tion $2500; to Conrad Swingle, land
in Lake township; consideration
$500; Horace G. Young to Frank
Hollenback, twelve acres of land at
Farview; consideration 500.
"A new railway locomotive is be-
ing developed by the Baldwin COM
pany that will relegate all locomo-
tives at the present time in use to the
scrap heap. This new ideal iron
horse will be double in tractive pow
er to anything now in use and will
equal in efficiency what is known as
the Mallet compound type, which is
a far larger machine. So rapidly are
new inventions displacing almost
every description of machines that
even progressive men fear to place
orders lest what they buy may be
speedily supplanted by something
new.
-Adolph Schneider, whose home