The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-02-03
LOCAL MENTION.

Frank Hollenbeck has supplied for
the Allen House Extension, 5000 feet OF
winter cut lumber from his Prompton
mills, much of it from two to four inches
thick, and 26 feet in length, and all of
the finest quality.
-rexas No. Fire Co. will give their
grand annual masquerade ball in their
new and elegant hall on Union Hill, on
Wednesday night, February 18th. The
music will be furnished by the orchestra
of the Lyric theatre, and no pains will
be spared to make tine occasion an en-
joyable one. Admission, 25 cents.
"A huge rat which had preempted
the right-hand pocket of VIM. Pierce's
overcoat one day last week, tried titles
with him when he thrust his cold digits
into the comfortable retreat to such
effect that a spirited suit in ejectment
ollowed. In the end the rodent suffer
cd defeat through being chokedto death,
but Mr.. Pierce found it necessary to HE
himself to hospit;lw with badly chew
cd finger and scratched hand.
On Monday of last week Hon. c..
d. Brodhead, retired jurist and prom
inent resident of Stroudsburg, while
experimenting some plumbing work in
the NJ. f. church, stumbled over a step,
and, falling headlong to the floor, broke
I his right arm near the shoulder. Judge
Brodhead, though eighty years of age,
& took his mishap very philosophically,
! simply remarking, Il am glad its an
arm and awfully glad it is not leg"
i We are to have an interesting celes-
tial display this fall, Halley's Comet, by
some supposed to be the Star OF Bethle-
+ hem, being due to appear, visible to the
naked eye, about midway between the
PIeiades and Hyades, on the west OF
j Castor and Pollux in Gemini, in Oct.
This sky wanderer comes around once
in seventy-five years, and it has been
observed at these intervals since the
fifteenth century. Records show its
probable return many centuries earlier.
: 1t last visited us in 1885.
Yesterday was Candlemas Day, OF
which the church celebrates the purifi
cation of the Virgin Mary. 1t took it:
name from the fact that the candles for
the altar and other sacred uses are bless
ed on the I'd of February. 1t has greaI
significance to many, who believe that
groundhogs and other hibernating ami.
mails, emerge from their holes and denf
s pn that day, and, if the sun is shining sc
hat they can see their shadows, they &c
back for another six weeks sleep, as We
will have so much additional winter
weather.
The new Honesdale directory show
he town to have a population of 7,Sl0
ret in the New York Tribune Almanac
which givesa table of hundreds of towns
md cities with populations below % ,OO|
We are not considered worthy of men
ion at all. Archibald is credited will
1896 AvOca, 3,4S7; Berwick, 1916
3lakely, 3,9I5; Bloomsbury, $3.50
dickson, 1913; Edwardsville, 5,l65
'orest City, 1919; Freeland, 5,254
Kingston, 3.846 Luzerne, S,Sl7 Maucl
Chunk, 1923; Old Forge, $3.50 Oily
|hant, &, ,lSO +; Sayre, 8, ,243 Stroudsburg
,45O; Susquehanna, 3,SlS; Taylor, a.,
Is TOwanda, 1858 West Pittston, g.,
46: WintOn, S,425 HOnesdale, O,OOO
ere are twenty bOroughs in this vicin
y, all with populations much smalle
1An the latest canvass shows HOnesdal'
have, yet all exploited As entitled Il
place in the Tribune AlmAnac-One o
be most widely circulated statistieA
|Orks in the cOuntry-while our beauti
i, and enterprising and thrifty town I
ptirely ignored Who can doubt thA
suffer 10 corIsequencef ''+''''