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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-13

Correspondents from Fallsdale, Dre-
her, Harrisburg and Indian Orchard,
and an article on Improved Rural Line
Telephone service, will appear in Fri
days issue.
Alfred, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred.
Kreitner, of West street, met with an
accident on Saturday afternoon. The
boy was coasting down Fifteenth street
hill and was thrown from his sleigh, re-
ceiving a number of cuts about his face
and head. ..
The Hawley Times printed the fol-
lowing letter from ga Buyer" in its last
issue, but had good word to say in re-
ply, in defense of the merchants of that
borough:
"The merchants of this place would
like to know why the people of Hawley
go to Honesdale or Scranton to do their
buying. l don't think they would have
to wonder very much if they look at their
stocks and consider their high prices.
Two ladies went IN four different stores
to try and buy the simplest little thing
and could not get it. They had to go
home without it and wait until they
could go to Honesdale to get it. The
trolley between Honesdale and Hawley
would be o. X. for the poorer class of
people and bad for the Hawley merch-
ants. They would be compelled to carry
in stock what the people call for"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-13

/ The engagement of Miss Marjorie,
daughter of Cashier G. E. Spencer, Of
the Miners and Mechanics Bank, Car
bondale, to DIR. T. A. Rutherford, of
Scranton. is announced.
The January Term of the Federal
Court of the State is in session in Will
Transport. Commissioner ]. X. Horn
beck and H. P. Killam, both of Man
chester, this county, are grand jurors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Smith, OF
Lancaster, Pa, telegraphed the good
news of the arrival of young salesman
at their home on Thursday last. Mr..
Smith is son of E. T. Smith, of 18th
street.
George R. Valentine, general man.
ager of the Martin B. Brown Printing
Co., and wife, of New York, spent the
holidays with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. H. Mott,
of Goshen, N. Y. All are former Homes
dalers.
Mrs. Lewis B. Fitch and daughters,
of Skaneateles, N. Y, former residents
of Hawley, sailed from New York for
Europe on the Cunarder Caronia, on
Thursday last. They will remain on the
other side until October. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Martin, of Hawley, went to the
city to see the party off.
Mrs. Leopold Fuert1 and daughters
entertained over Sunday, Mrs. William
P. Boland and daughter Lucille, of Scran-
ton, and Monroe and William Fuerth,
nephews of Representative Fuerth, of
Wilkes-Barre. Miss Ettie G. Fuerth left
yesterday morning to attend a social
dance given in Masonic Hall, Wilkes
Barre.
Mrs. Charles L. Bassett went to
Wilkes-Barre, on Sunday last, to be with
her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bond, who
has been spending the winter with an
other daughter, Mrs. Geo. s. Spettigue,
and, on Monday, Mrs. Bond underwent
an operation at the Mercy Hospital in
that city. At this writing she is doing
as we'll as can be expected.
Sanford j. Miller, who will be pleas
antly remembered by the old patrons of
the Foster store, and who has been for
several years engaged in importing and
breeding Percheron, and ether high grade
horses, remembered his Honesdale
friends by holiday cards, wishing them
good health, happiness and abundant
property.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Bassett went to
Carley Brook on Friday last to he the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Darwin Penwar-
den for three days, and on Saturday H.
f. Bassett, Henry Knorr and Darwin
Penwardensucceededin in catching through
the ice 81 pickerel and l perch, total
weight of So pounds. On Monday, either
through too good luck or ill luck, Mr..
Bassett found himself handicapped by
an attack of rheumatism and under
physicians care.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-13
Meeting of the Borough Fathers.

The town council meet in regular ses-
sion on Thursday evening last, Jan. 9TH,
all members being present, with the ex-
ception of councilman John l.. Burcher.
The minutes of the last regular meeting
Dec. Sd, and special meeting, Dec. 23d,
were read and approved.
Treasurer Penwarden reported bal
ance of borough funds in his hands of
$2,2l9.64, including 5000 paid in by
Frederick Saunders, County Treasurer,
balance of license money for the year
1908. The treasurer also reported the
payment to him by Collector A. F. Voigt
of $A2.43 taxes of 1907 and $236. .26 for
taxes of 1908, and also returned scrip for
$27.30 to apply on taxes of 1907.
Burgess Thos. j. Ham reported col
lection of license fees from G. Schroeder,
Oneida theatre, $l5; Benz. Fl. Dittrich,
Lyric, $6; F. j. Reynolds, Nickelet, So
Theatorium, So amounting in all to $25,
which amount was paid over to the
treasurer.
Chas. j. Weaver, foreman of Protec-
ton Engine Co., No. 3, and John M.
Lyons, engineer, appeared before the
council in behalf of the fire department,
asking for better alarm service, and
that the streets and stations along the
Lackawaxen river be kept in proper con-
dition so that the engines can be placed
in position for effective service in case
of fires also that the ice be kept cut, so
that the suction hose can be used with
the least possible delay when emergen-
cies arise. The secretary was directed
to notify the street commissioner to give
the requests prompt attention.
Martin B. Allen introduced George l..
Mckay, of George L. Mckay & Co.
dealers in stocks and bonds at 20 Broad
street, New York, who stated that the
Lackawaxen Valley Railroad Co. had
succeeded to- the interests of the Homes
dale and Hawley Railroad Co., and ask
ed that the franchise granted the latter
corporation three years ago be modified
and repassed to suit the conditions made
necessary by the change of ownership.
when the council adionrned, it was to
meet on Friday evening, for the consid-
Grafton of Mr.. McKay's propositions,
and at that time new ordinance was
agreed upon, which will be found in our
advertising columns.)
The following bills were presented,
read, and ordered paid:
Honesdale Electric Light Company,
$232.77 Graham Watts, $3.50; Kraft 4
Conger, $40; Honesdale Garage and
Machine Shops, $S; W. E. Burcher, So ;
w. G. Ball, $3.50; Charles Truscott,
1925 (; Frank McMullen, $l4 street
work, $45.S8 Kreitner Bros, $3.50 ].
M. Lyons, $25 John Carroll, $12.60
Harry Rockwell, $7.25 IF. Murtha, 81 80.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-13
Sportln6 NOteA.

The Honesdale basket ball team went
to White Mile Saturday evening and
played the team of that town tie game
27-27. The contest Was one of the fast
est and most interesting played in that
town this season. Another game will be
played in a few weeks. The following
players constituted The locals line up !;
Vetter, Weaver, Finnerty, Bader and
Schuerholz.
John l.. Cunningham, local
"Scrapper" went to WIlkes-Barre ON
Thursday, where he was matched to
meet kid" Gates, of Parsons, before
the Peerless Atheletic club.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-13
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Rev. DIR. w. H. Swift will begin next
Sunday morning a series of sermons on
"What Shall l Believer "What Shall
l Believe About God?"
In the evening he will preach the first
of series of sermons on "The Man
Born Blind, ia Goth Century Inter
pretation."
The Special Picture Sermons at the
Baptist church are being continued this
week, with interest. Every one invited.
FOR JOB PRINTING call at the The
Citizen Office. Bill Heads, Statements,
Letter Heads, Circulars, Hand Bills,
Public Sale Bills, Programs, Ticket, Etc.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-01-13

MENNER & Co. will close out lot of
single suits for Ladies and Misses at less
than cost. 4lei7
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11

and has pointed out that it could be
done much cheaper in this way as
we'll as much better. And that ditch
should not be ordered until complete
typographical survey has been had
showing where the bitches should be
located to drain the wet land and all
of the wet land of county.
1t hopes that the cycle of extreme
moisture has passed and that when
it comes again there will be cheap
er and safer system of drainage pos
sible for the land owners than we
now have. 1t regrets that many a
land owner will be forced to pay the
cost of experiments we have been
and are now making in order to get
land in shape for tillage and that he
is quite likely in the future to have
to pay another bill to correct many
of the mistakes that have been
made.
Sooner or later Redwood county
will be as fully drained as any part
of the older states and when it is
there will be no $50 land to be
picked up within it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
That Grand Stand Appropriation.

Fergus Falls Journal:
1t is to be regretted that the at
torney general has delayed his opin-
ion as to the validity of the approp-
ration Of 100000 for grand stand
and bleachers at the state fair
grounds until so late a day that no
action can be brought to test its val
idity in court. The appropriation is
available Monday morning and it is
safe to say that it will be drawn ear
ly. The matter ought to be put up
to the supreme court and watch it
wiggle around so as to hold this ap-
preparation valid. The views of the
court on some of the questions which
are largely questions of opinion rath.
er than questions of pure law are so
repugnant to ordinary common
horse sense that it would be inter-
esting to see and study it's views on
the constitutionality of building a
grand stand and bleachers at the
state fair grounds. In order to
"help out" in certain places the
court has taken an absurd position at
various times and assubsequentcase
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11

Some have commenced to wonder
who will be the next Representative
from Redwood county to the legisla-
ture. 1t is our opinion that C. M.
BendiXen will not be candidate for
a third term. We will suggest the
name of one for that office who has
been a highly respected citizen of
the county for over thirty years-a
gentleman of ability and integrity
who would be untiring in his labors
to represent the people of the coln-
ty, and his name is James Aiken of
Redwood Falls. We are satisfied
that he could be elected if he would
make the race for the office. Lam
berton Star.
Good gracious Star, why don't
you let Jim" alone. AS long as
he is the only newspaper man in
Redwood county that taking in the
Expo" let him enjoy his trip
Morgan Messenger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
have arisen they have followed along

have arisen they have followed along
the path started until they have got
onto very peculiar ground. This
was the case with decision in regard
to special legislation" originally
decided to help out the Minneapolis
court house. Another instance was
the certificate of Indebtedness"
case originally decided to let the
construction of the state capitol go
on. Following their first blunder
they have gone on and on along the
same line until they have nullified
the plain intent of the people as ex-
pressed in the constitution. In de-
Gliding that the state can build a race
track but cannot build a public high
way it would seem that our highest
court and the attorney generals Of
flee had reached the limit. The at
torney general says that the su-
preme court has held the state fair
is one of the departments of the
state and the legislature has the
right to appropriate money to build
anything which the fancy Of the
managers devises whether a grand
stand, a race track, or a high trapeze
for the wonderful aggregation ofper-
formers which will be assembled to-
gether to advance the interests of ag-
riculture. These are not works of in
ternal improvement but the high
ways over which the farmer hauls
his products to market and the
bitches which would make the soil
more productive and the taxable
wealth of the state greater are
works Of internal Improvement"
and are forbidden. Where, O where
is Captain Hart?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11

with the spirit and tone of the edi-
torial and especially with the clos
ing apostrophe to Captain Hart"
This paper thought at the time of
the disbarment proceedings that
Captain Hart" had acted in an I'M
professional manner and deserved
about ten times the punishment he
received.
1t agrees that the supreme court
in certain decisions has gone to the
verge of absurdity in holding certain
legislation, needed because of the
graft and extravaganza of city and
state government, to be constitu-
tional. 1t thinks that the state fair
has been unduly favored both in
legislation and decisions to uphold
it.
Above all, that it is time that the
country members before making
any more appropriations to the state
fair demand that business be done
without the loosness, to use no
harsher term, that has marked the
administration of that organization.
1t does not think it essential that
half of the east side of Minneapolis
be bought up for the use of the I'm
iversity at the expense Of the state
and it's the position of this paper
that in building the magnificent
state capitol building the state has
done its full share for St. Paul and
is opposed to making market for
all the surrounding property under
the plea of worthy approaches" by
entering the state as promiscuous
purchaser.
If our country members will 60
to the next and following sessions
with the determination that they
will not allow any more of this kind
of DOODLE" we fancy we can get
along nicely without the pork bar
rel" In fact that legislation has
been the bride to country members
to let about any thing go through +
for the benefit of the real estate
spectators of the city and to pro-
vide fat salaries to some fellows who
run the state fair.
It was fool thing to vote the big
appropriation for grand stand and
bleachers and if the legislature had .
not passed it the Fergus Falls Jour
nal would have no occasion to hale
old Captain Hart" from a richly
deserved oblivion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
A Mans Opinion of Carrie Nation.

WuH OpiiIUlI vi SoiItt NdtIUH.
The very large throng at the tent
indicated that everybody was curious
to see the heroine Of the Ratchet.
Those who attended heard a queer
tumble of fanaticism. personal lau-
dation and general inyective at
about everybody who had any stand
ing in the land. There is evidently
a strain Of insanity coupled with
good intentions.
In her speech she gave everybody
to understand that she had been
forced to weep at the grave Of a
drunken husband. AS matter of
fact her former better half is very
much alive and very decent sort of
man. He couldn't live with Car
RE and got divorce, or she did.
Her claim to martyrdom rests on
her unsupported word. If she is to
be believed, the conduct of the sher-
ifs in the different jails she has been
invited to dwell in for longer and
shorter terms was more inhumdn
than those corrected by the reform
ers of old. She pictures a state of
things only equalled by Dickens.
She evidently believes they are true.
If one would only remember her
uncalled for slam at her husband
they would be slow to accept every
thing as true that did not stand the
test of experience. We had always
supposed they were fairly civilized
down in Kansas, about as much as
we are in Minnesota. Never, in all
the history of Redwood county, has
any sheriff abused any prisoner as
Carrie claims to have been tortured
in Wicheta and other places. 1t is
safe to assume that her story arous-
es only mirth anywhere the scene is
laid. 1t is quite certain that the
people of Kansas never allowed
buildings to be used for jaiIs that
had water standing oyer the floors,
filled with vermin, etc. There new
er have been any such outrageous
places in Minnesota and it is very
unlikely that they ever existed in
Kansas.
To take her seriously is to believe
that she is untruthful and intention
ally deceives. Just as Joan of Arc
saw visions and had dreams that
drove her to do a great work for
France, just so the fancies and
dreams of Carrie made her willing
to undertake kind of work that
drew attention to the evils of the
saloons. Both were unbalanced
and hence were able to do things
and accomplish results sane and
normal person would not have un-
dertaken. When one sees her as
she is there is nothing to shock one
in her peddling of hatchets and
books. She is not to be judged by
standards set for normal people.
She believes she was the subject of
prophecy in the Bible, she fancies
that she hears calls from the AL
mighty, she supposes that she has
been set apart as Paul and Elijah
were. No one who understood her
would dream of being offended at
the TRADE she turned loose the Sec
ond day on the Masons and on her
own sex.
Honor her for what she wishes to
do and excuse her for what she can
not help doing and regard her as a
mentally unbalanced woman with
considerable natural ability and one
will be doing simple justice to
unique figure in our national life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
THE OPEN DITCH.

The Gazette is of the opinion that
too many of our farmers are overly
prejudiced against open bitches and
that in many cases they have de-
manded tile branches where an open
ditch would have been more valuable
for their farms. To run a twelve
inch tile to a slough covering many
acres and receiving the drainage of
hundreds more, with the expecta-
ton that the outlet will be sufficient
to make the slough safe PROPOSE
ton for crops is to invite disappoint-
ment. With any excessive rain the
slough is bound to fill faster than
the one drain can carry it off and
the water must remain until it has
time to drain through it. 1t will be
better than no drainage, as in or
binary seasons the water will run off
in time to permit hay to be cut and
pasturage will be possible.
But the time has gone by when
Redwood county will depend much
upon slough hay or wild feed. The
land will be wanted to raise crops
in system of crop rotation. To
get in that condition there must be
system of drainage sufficient so
water will not flood and kill grain or
tame hay crops.
With the high price of fuel, and it
is likely to be higher in the future,
the shrewd farmer will look about
for his future summer fuel. Along
those open bitches he can plant will
lows, like those DR.. Gibson has on
Mill street in this city, and in fifteen
years, without expense, can cut
along the line of his drain all the
fuel needed for summer use. By
putting in native elm or ash he can
have later more valuable wood for
use.
There is no shrewder Judge of real
estate in this county than Ex-Mayor
Lines and he has expressed his opin-
ion that by taking advantage of the
open bitches needed to run off the
water quickly would pay rather bet
ter than so much cultivated land
would yield.
One tile put through a large
slough will not sufficiently drain it
for crops but there must be numer-
Gus side tile branches draining into
the main line and this must be large
enough to take the water as fast as
the smaller lines can discharge it.
Unless this is done the side drains
cannot run the water off. Half Of
the complaint today on bitches that
have been put in is that after rain
the upper and smaller sloughs are
flooded and it is generally charged
that the main tile are filled up when
they are simply overtaxed and can
not carry off all the water that is
poured into them. The remedy will
be found in larger open bitches at
these points.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
Safe ard Sure.

Among the medicines that are recon-
mended and endorsed by physicians and
nurses IS kemp's Balsam, the best cough
cure. For many years it has been regarded
by doctors as the medicine most likely to
cure coughs, and it has a strong hold on the
esteem of all well-informed people. When
Kemps'Balsam cannot cure cough we shall
be at a loss to know what will. At druggists
and dealers, % cents. 2-1O
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
Robt. Hoppenrath
the German Shoemaker

is still repairing shoes at the
Heilman & belong shoe store
Maybe you have old shoes
which would serve you we'll if
they were only repaired.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
THE SUPREME COURT.

In another column The Gazette
reproduces an article from the Fer
gus Falls Journal, sent to it with the
suggestion that it be printed as an
editorial.
The Gazette is not in sympathy
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-08-11
DRAINAGE.

During the past four years from
25 to 33B per cent of farm lands in
Redwood county has been too wet
for profitable farming. Much of it
has been so under water that it has
raised nothing. Were it not for the
fact that there are spots in about
every field of grain in this county
that have been damaged by floods,
Redwood county would this year
harvest the biggest crop all through
it has ever raised.
The waste from wet lands has
been appalling and the main differ
ence in value between Redwood
lands and those of the most ia
vored place in Iowa, Illinois or In
diana is that in those states for years
there has been continued tiling and
drainage until the lowest land is the
most productive. Even in dry years
it is claimed that the underdrainage
enables the land to withstand drouth
much better than before.
Those states had their period of
wasteful drainage just as we have
had and how to drain has been
taught by years Of experiments, Of
ten costly. Probably one-half of the
money spent in Redwood county in
securing drainage has been wasted.
Where the sloughs have been close
to water courses and it was not ne.
cessary to cut through any consider
able ridges the pillow bitches have
done good work, otherwise they
have failed. Where tile bitches
have been put in deep enough and
large enough they have satisfied the
farmer investing in them, in a good
many cases they have not worked
as expected. And where the eXpen-
sive dredge bitches have been carved
through hills to make square fields
there has been trouble and where
the tile branches have tipped the sod
up at the surface the farmer has
either prayed or sworn, according to
his religious training.
The safest way for a number of
farmers desiring drainage would be
to secure a complete, systematic
survey first, and then to have the
prosed ditch large enough and deep
enough and with fall enough so
that they know the water can be
carried off and not merely trans
ferred from one farm to another.
If they cannot be assured of that it
is hardly worth while to go into
drainage at all. The trouble has
been that the petition as a rule has
been filed describing the course
of the ditch with just enough of a
survey to be enabled to describe the
course they fancy they want.
Rushed into, the thing is jangle
all the way through and often ends
in more or less of failure. It's a
good thing to know what you want
to build before you engage the car
penter and begin hauling timber.
It's just as wise to investigate condi-
lions before signing a petition and
for this reason: The petitioners
have put up a bond to pay expenses.
then survey is made; viewers are
appointed and lot of expense made
which, even if the ditch is of doubt
full value. it seems rather hard to
saddle on few of the most enter
prising men of that community and
so doubtful ditch is ordered.
The Gazette has believed that the
initial expense of surveys should be
paid either by the state or county
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