The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-24
LEST We FORGET.
An 0IdBethany Newspaper
Stage Journeylne Four Score Years
Aeo-Who Did the Advertising
In the Pioneer Days-A
Glimpse into the Past.


Philadelphia journals containing Wayne
county advertisements printed over
century ago, he is inclined to regard the
issue of the Wayne Enquirer, printed in
Bethany, January goth, 1881, William
Sasman publisher, as, on the whole, one
of the most interesting samples of the
pioneer weeklies of this section in his
collection.
The Enquirer of that date carried at its
mast head the Latin motto: "Salus Pop
uh Lee Suprema est, 1.-THE Welfare of
the People is the Supreme Law"-and it
is fair to say that judging from the copies
of the paper which have come into our
possession, the principle thus announced
as controlling the management of the
paper, was strictly adhered to.
The Enquirer was published at So per
year, payable in advance, or $3.50 if
paid at the close of the year, with the
absolute requirement that the postage
on call letters on business of the Office
must be paid" ..
Under the head of "Poetry" two songs
enliven the first page. These were fol-
lowed by the Adventure of Ranger"
an Indian story of the struggles of 1914,
occupying nearly the whole of the first
page, spare corner being given to an
anecdote of beggar, who promised in
return for slice of bread and cheese to
put his benefactress in possession of a
secret which would be of service to her
all the days of her life. His hunger ap-
peased, he impaired to her this bit of
practical information: "If you knot a
knot at the end of your thread, you will
never lose your first stitch" which is a
good hint even four score years later.
The second page. devoted to general
news, gives an account of the hanging OF
Edward Williams, a negro wife murderer,
at West Chester, this State, in which the
hangman, during the march to the gal
lows, is described as sitting in the cart
with the coffin, dressed like an old wo-
man, white blanket, squaw fashion,
thrown over his shoulders and pinned, a
straw bonnet on his head covered with
green silk, and the face much bedaubed
with paint-looking like the Devil, for
ugliness, while at the tail of the cart to
which he was tied, came the prisoner on
foot, the halter around his neck, white
cap on his head, over which was his hat,
white loose frock over his clothes, rol-
ling his eyes around on the multitude,
showing in a strange manner the clear
white" There is column article, taken
from the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser,
descriptive Of. the scenes in Dresden dur
ing the revolution in Saxony; lengthy
account of the ravages of cholera in In
dia and Russia "a report of the robbery
of the schooner Henry Clay by negro
pirates off St. Domingo, with shorter
stories of bank robbery in Maine, the
murder of Isaac Ellison in Mobile, and
the raising from the bottom of the Hud-
son river of the sloop Detroit, sunk by
the steamboat Congress in April,
1880.
On the third page tine election of Alex
ander Mahon, as State Treasurer, is an
nounced, and the proceedings of the
Legislature from January 4th to 8th,
given, during which session bill was
introduced by Representative Thomas
Fuller for the incorporation of COM
pany to build turnpike road from the
Lackawaxen turnpike near the farm of
Daniel Bunting to the new road from
Bethany to Honesdale. (The latter viii
lage was incorporated a borough in that
year, Another bill was introduced at
the instance of William Greele and Jacob
Faatz for the incorporation of the "Ger-
manville Glass Manufacturing Company
of Wayne County, "whose works for the
blowing of window glass, were in Dy-
berry township, at a point generally
known as The Old Glass Factory.
Then came two or three columns of
miscellaneous news, including murder
or two, and another execution (; notices
of the marriage by the Rev.. Charles H..
Hubbard of Eliphalet Wood to Miss
Elizabeth Edgett, and of Norman H.
Purple to Miss Eliza Ann, daughter of
1. Kilburn, and then the advertisements,
to-day the most interesting department
OF the old paper.
First with picture of four-horse,
old-style thorough-brace coach, with the
driver cracking whip as though he
were casting fly, comes the announce
ment of Abraham G. Sarven's Extend
ed Line of Stages, from the city of New
York through to Bethany, State of Penn
,sylvania, by the,way of Paterson, Pomp-
ton, Milford, Darlingville, Narrows of
the Lackawaxen, Honesdale and Beth
any," there to meet the Utica line.
Patronage was solicited for the line as
being considered the shortest route
and the cheapest now travelled" The
stages started from Hoboken every Tues
day, Thursday and Saturday, at four
o'clock in the morning, arriving at Deck
ertown at six O'Clock the same evening !;
left Deckertown every Monday, Wednes-