The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-06

| Richard Dusinberre announces him.
self as q candidate for tax collector for
the borough of Honesdale.
/ The Ladies' Circle of the G. A. r.
of HonesdaEe are making arrangements
for an appropriate celebration of the
hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's
birthday on Friday, February 18th, next.
BY request the performance at the
Lyric Theatre on Monday evening, Jan.
l1th, will not begin until $3.50 in order
that the business men and their clerks
can attend the play, Yorke and Adams
playing the Ponies,
The directors of the Honesdale Con-
solidated Water Co. met on Monday last
and organised for the year as follows:
President, s. A. McMullen, Sr. Vice
Presidents, John D. Weston, Thomas
Medland Secretary, Charles j. Smith /;
Treasurer, E. G. Mumford; Superinten-
dent, s. A. McMullen, Jr.
:. The reelected board of County
Commissioners met at the Court House
on Monday last and organized by the
elections Of John E. Vaudeville as Presi-
dent. The. appointments were as fol-
low: George P. Ross, Clerk; E. G.
Mumford, Solicitor Isaac H. Ball, jan
itor H. B., Ely, M. D., Jail Physician.
"A note from G. S. Penwarden, Sec
retary, informs us that the annual ban
quet of the Wayne County Pennsylvania
Society Of New York City will be held
some time during the month of Febru-
ary, concerning which special notice
will be issued as soon as the details have
been completed by the Dinner Com
mittee.
Gilbert Coleman, negro, who muir
dered his wife by striking her on the
head with fiat iron, and then stab
bing her in the throat, leaving the knife
sticking in the dead woman's neck, was
captured in the caboose OF west bound
freight train at Callicoon on Thursday
night last. He made full confession
OF his crime, and was taken back to
New York for trial.
AT a meeting of the stockholders of
the Creamery and Cheese Factory Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company, held in
Honesdale on Tuesday last, the old
board Of directors was reelected, and
the following officers were chosen for
1909: Perry A. Clark, President Chas.
j. Smith, Vice President Emerson w.
Gammell, Treasurer; W. F.. Perham,
'Secretary.
Postmaster Allen has received bull
letin which provides for the payment
of rewards for the arrest and conviction
of any person or persons who interfere
with the government mails. The rewards
are as follows: One thousand dollars
for the arrest and conviction of any per-
son who robs mail car attached to a
railroad train or for the arrest and con-
'tictioD of any person or persons who
wounds anyone having the custody of
government mails. Five hundred dol
lars for the arrest and conviction of any,
one who robs mails while being conveyed
over a post route. Two hundred and
fifty dollars for the conviction of anyone
who attempts to rob the mails being
conveyed over post route. Not more
than 5000 norless than $50 for the arrest
and conviction of anyone who breaks
into postoffice. If the postoffice safe
be broken open the maximum sum is to
be paid. Not less than $50 or more than
5000 for the arrest and conviction of any
star route carrier who steals from the
mails, and the same price for the con-
viction of anyone who has stolen from
postoffice messenger or from a mail bag
at railway station.