The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-19
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county, and $40, 600 for dixie at Mata-
moras, Pike county.
kid Cunningham, OF this place, who
advertises his fighting weight at ia
pounds, offers to accept the challenge of
Pete Sharonis, OF Forest City, for pugi-
listic encounter, before any club offering
suitable purse, barring the Peerless
A. c., of Wilkes-Barre.
Horace Dexter, OF Girdland, was
brought before Justice of the Peace, K.
A. Smith, on Wednesday afternoon,
charged with threatening to kill j. W.
Mills, and also assault and battery. An
other charge of cruelty to animals was
brought against him it being claimed
that he does not feed his cattle, and has
turned them out of the barn and has re-
fused to shelter them. He was held in
$500 bail for q hearing Thursday after
noon.
At special meeting of Alert Fire
Co., of East Honesdale, on Tuesday
evening, March 10Th, relief association
was organized, with the following tenn
porary officers: r. w. Penwarden,
president Ed. F. Short, vice president;
Ray ]. Brown, secretary; Henry Rhode,
treasurer. A meeting of the association
will be held on Tuesday evening next,
at which time every member of Alert
fyo so t1 hn fnr tho
purpose of making arrangements for an
entertainment to be given on Easter
Wednesday evening, April l4th, 1909.
Next Monday will begin the second
half OF the Lenten Season, and the eyes
of young people especially will be turn
ed toward the brightness of the Easter.
rather than retrospectively at the peni-
titential days of the fast. But it must
not be forgotten that Lent means more
than the annual period of repentance
for sins. It means breathing spell in
festivities, season of repair-to clothes
and body and nerves-and a time for
thought on matters that are crowded
out of mind during the other days of the
year. There are but two churches which
prescribe season of repentance, but
all churches celebrate the close of it, for
Easter Sunday marks the beginning of
spring. the official beginning, if you
please. Strictly speaking, repentance
should not be boarded up for Lent
forty days of good deeds will not atone
foi more than 300 days of wickedness.
But since the poor receive little con-
sideration on those days, and Lent is
supposed to stimulate simplicity and
good sense, nobody believes it is a super
fuous custom even after the question of
religion has been disposed of. Some
thing rs needed to call halt on late
hours, over-feeding and too much ex-
citement. We do not take our pleasures
in moderation, sandwiching them in so
that hours of rest are not seriously dis
turbed. We do not alternate periods of
excitement with intervals of relaxation
If we did there would be no necessity
for long rests and complete change Of
habit.
One of the largest public sales held
in Wayne county in many day will
take place on what has been for years
popularity known as "The Whitney
Farm" near Fortenia, on Tuesday Mar.
30th.' The sale will include the farm
and the rare supply of live stock, vehi-
cles and agricultural implements on the
premises, which are mentioned in some
detail in an advertisement in another
column. Very liberal terms of payment
are offered, and doubtless the sale will
attract large crowd of buyers.
The Third Brigade of the Pennsyl
vania National Guard, which includes
the Thirteenth Regiment, to which Co.
E, of Honesdale belongs, will, it is prob
able again hold its annual encampmen
at Mt. Gretna, although the site has moi
as yet been definitely selected. Th'
Cornwall and Lebanon railroad, which
runs its track along the edge of the en-
campment site, has made a generous
offer has been regarded as so un
usually liberal that the First Brigade will
also probably go there for its annual en-
campment. 1t has not been decided a
to whether the two brig AIDES shall en-
camp the same week at Gretna, o
whether the First Brigade shall take III
the site the week following the encamp
!, ment of the Third Brigade.
1t seems quite like meeting a friend
when taking a trip skyward in NeN
York hotel, apartment house or oflic
building, to see National Elevator an
Machine Co., Honesdale, Pa" smilin
at you from the side of the lift. Anon
the prominent structures which our loca
mandatory is now supplying wit
elevators are the Waldorf Astoria hote
of New York, and the Jersey City cour
l house.
j. B. Fitzsimmons, a resident c
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