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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
Local and Personal

H.G. Morrison spent Sunday in Bris-
tol,
Jim HINT and son are back from
Hot Springs,
Mr., and Mrs. Leroy Heinz spent
Sunday in Erwin.
Mrs. Hoskins, of Knoxville, is visit
ing Mrs. j. w. Cox.
Steve Crigger spent Sunday with
homefollls at Abingdon.
AMI Smith is moving to his new
home on Holston avenue,
Robt. N. Dosser spent Sunday in
Morrstown with his brother.
Miss Lucy Patton, of Washington,
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Fred Artz.
WANTED-At once, a or 6 room
house. Apply to G., Comet office.
j. Norment Powell left the city for
the east on No. IL Monday afternoon.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Nc
Corllle, last Sunday morning, a daugh-
ter
Frank S. Miller is able to be on the
street again after an aggravated case of
fever.
John Sanders is confined to his bed
at the home of his daughter on Millard
street.
Mesdames James Kennedy and Mich
OILS, of New York, are visiting Mrs. G.
r.. Hurlbut.
Mrs. ID. Fl. Willard and son returned
Tuesday afternoon from visit TO New
port relatives.
Miss Sara McCown has been visiting
her sister at Jackson Institute ut Alb,
ingdon this week,
Capt. W. II. Hodges, of the local
military company, went to Nashville
today on military affairs.
T. A. Cox, S. L. Miller and A. S
Hartsell went to Nashville today tC
lOOk dllSl lOCdl ltSlSldIlOu'
NJ. l.. Fox, the industrial representa-
tive Of the Unaka corporation, made {
business trip to Knoxville today.
Miss Martha Allen Martin came
down from Martha Washington college
today to spend a few days with home
folks.
Hugh Hannah aud wife, of Knox
vile, and J. w. Hannah, of Greene
willie, were guests Of G. G. Hannah anC
family this week.
Special Towel Sale, Friday and Sat
urday, April % and "A, 100 dozen Hucl
Towels, 15c value only Sc. The Har
and Houston Store
The Johnson City friends of Mrs. w
l.. Mcfarland will regret to learn tina
she is seriously ill with pneumonia a
her home in Bristol.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
SIQO-Reward-$1O0.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
earA that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all it's
stages and that is Catarrh. ball's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitu-
tional disease requires constitutional treat
ment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying the
founoation of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature In doing It's ork. The
proprietors have so much faith In its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that 1t fails to cure Send for list
" testimonials. Address:
F J. CARNEY & co Toledo. o.
SOLD by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls f amlly Pills for constipation.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
DeVAULT & HAN
NAH DISSOLVE.

The announcement is made in a page
ad elsewhere in this issue that the firm
of DEFAULT Il Hannah will dissolve
partnership, Mr.. Hannah retiring. 1t
is stated that he will go back upon the
road as drummer and that Mr., De-
Vault will continue in business, but
will change the line. The firm has
only been in business short time and
has been doing well and the dissolu-
ton is by mutual consent and entirely
pleasant,
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
A YEAR IN COLLEGE.

$3.50 cash or year in college can be
easily earned by one young man or lady
in each county by September, 1909.
Plan does not interfere with other en-
ployment, and student can select the
school.
State name of institution you wish
to attend. No money required. For
particulars address, Morton H. Pemb-
erton, Jefferson City, Mo.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
EVANS-HILL co.
INCORPORATED

A charter has been granted by Sec
rotary of State Hallum w. Goodloe for
the Evans-Hill Company, of this city.
The capital stock is SIS, 600 and the in
corporators are r. H. Evans, Hugh NJ.
Hill, j. c. Stone, p. E. Divine and I.
A. Cox. The company has purchased
the grocery and bakery business of H.
w. Pardue and will assume charge
next Monday.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
HON. A. A. TAYLOR.

Speaking of Hon. A. A. Taylor's new
lecture, 1.-THE Passing of the Sword, |"
the Nashville Banner pays Mr.. Taylor
the following deserved compliment:
"Mr. Taylor really made one Of the
hits of the season. He is splendid
orator and a man of pleasing and even
magnetic personality, His lecture was
a fitting ending for a successful course,
and. both he and Manager DeLong
Rice are to be congratulated"
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
WATAUGA LODGE 219
LO.O.F. WILL CELEBRA TE

On next Monday night Watauga
Lodge, No. 219, l. o. o. F., will hold
its annual celebration in the lodge
room, Faw building, Market street.
Speeches will be made by s. w. Price
and H. H. Dyer. All Odd Fellows are
requested to be present. Following
the entertainment there will be feast
for the inner man, at which the editor
of The Comet is invited to be present,
and will be on hand. r
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
ABINGDON MINISTER
CALLED TO THIS CITY

The First Presbyterian Church, of
this city, has called Rev. VIM. Crow,
of Abingdon, Va, to the pastorate of
this church. He is a native of Ken
lucky and very able divine and the
congregation is fortunate in securing
him. He will preach his first sermon
next Sunday morning.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
WASHINGTON COUNTY'S
PORTION SCHOOL FUND

The semi-annual apportionment of
interest on the school fund has been
made by Comptroller Dibrell and I'M
der it Washington county will receive
his check for $779.3O on July l.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22
LAW COURT HELD
SHORT SESSION MONDAY

Law court convened last Monday and
A. r. Johnson was elected by the bar
to preside in the absence of Judge Ty-
Ter, who is still in Florida in the inter-
est of his health. Several cases were
tried and the causes of litigants adj
Vanced.s
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1909-04-22

FOR SALE-My household goods and
everything necessary for housekeep-
ing at auction on Public Square, john
son City, Tenn, Saturday, April "a,
1909, at 10 a. m. f. /. Deaderick. Up
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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
Your Fate is In Your Hand.

Open your hand and observe
closely.
You will notice in your hand, and
in every hand you may examine,
three lines very plainly marked.
They are called the three vital lines,
and are on every human hand from
birth. You may distinguish them
just as clearly on the hand of a lit
tie babe as upon your hand.
The deep line running around the
ball of the thumb is called the Line
of Life. 1t is clear and deep and
red? Then you are person of an
excellent constitution, good health,
and will live to good old age.
Are there small lines crossing the
Life Line near it's beginning? If
so you had many short illnesses
when a child; if there is no space or
break in the Life Line near them,
they are not serious. A break in
the lines always means very
serious illness. If a break occurs
in the line in both hands, great dan
ger of death from accident is shown.
upN eti u lloIll lllS
Line of Life mean success in life;
downward branches mean failures,
or some grief or unhappiness; time
determined by position on the line.
Lines going across the ball of the
thumb (Mount of Venus), and
crossing the Life Line, signify i'm
portant events in your life. A line
plainly marked starting near the
second joint of the thumb and run
ming across the Mount of Venus and
crossing the Life Line, means a
marriage.
To determine whether the mar
riage brings happiness, look at the
little cushion directly under the in
dex finger, or Jupiter. This little
finger is called the Mount of Japi-
ter, and a little cross on this mount
signifies a happy marriage.
Some palmists consider the
thumb to be such a wonderful in
dex that they claim to judge cor
rectly from it, without seeing any
other portion of the hand, the men,
tai, moral, and physical traits of its
owner Each phalange has it's sig
MITIGATION. From the tip to the first
joint is called strength of character,
determination, will-power, etc., so
we see it is well to have this first
phalange we'll developed. The sec
ond phalange represents logic, or
reasoning power, and concentration
of thought.-The New Idea Wo-
mems Magazine for October.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
COURT NOTES.

Argument court was held on
Wednesday. Owing to the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. Geo. s.
Purdy, Hon. Henry NJ. Edwards,
President Judge of the 45th Judi
cial District, presided.
In the matter of bond of Elwin
Butler, bookkeeper of Honesdale
Dime Bank: Bond filed and ap-
proved.
Clarissa G. Miller VS.. Daisy Haf-
fer and Jennie V. Meyers: Masters S
report of distribution confirmed.
Toledo Computing Scale Co. VS..
3. L. Holbert: Rule granted on
plaintiff, to show cause why it shall
not give security for costs.
Petition read and filed and sale
order of real estate of Eugene Les
her, a week-minded person.
F. P. Kimble appointed master in
case of Katie Dean, libellant, VS..
Samuel Dean, respondent.
In matter of order for fixing trial
list for October term, order made
and filed.
bulC dhICu oh ploluIlhS W
show cause why judgment should
not be opened in case of Lucy A.
Wright, Mary N. Alberty and Emily
L. Wright VS.. William G. Steven
son.
In matter of petition of Emma
Hoadley for hearing of Ida Hoad-
ley, an unmanagable child. The
latter was placed on probation for
three months.
In matter of Damascus poor dis
trict VS.. John Ryan: Rev. Thomas
NJ. Hanley appointed trustee.
In matter of appointment of
guardian for George R. Nelson, a
feeble-minded person: Lafayette A.
Nelson appointed guardian. =.
Petition to vacate and relay a
part of public road in Lebanon town
ship. w. A. Gaylord, L. S. Collins
and Richard Dusenberre, appraisers.
Edward Deitzer appointed guard
ian of William, Catherine, Martin
and Alfred Boeth, minor children OF
Mary Magdalena Boeth.
The petition of Clarence F. Ell
more and Egbert A. Elmore, minor
children of Marcus and Jennie E
Elmore: Charles H. Dorflinger ap-
pointed guardian.
F. w. Bunnell appointed guard
ian of George and John Merz, and
Elizabeth Merz, minor children OF
John Merz.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
First Baptist Church.

The regular hours for worship are
1880 a. m. and 1880 p. m. In the
morning the pastor will preach the
sermon; subject, "Our Only Source
OF Truth" At the evening service
the Rev. Charles E, Cordo, D. D.,
pastor of the First Baptist church
Manayunk, Philadelphia, will preach
his subject being "The Great Race"
The session of the Bible school will
be held at 11:45 o'clock. The
meeting of the Young Peoples So
ciety will be held at $3.50 p. m. The
leader is Walter Kimble; subject
Vanity Fair" Lessons on the
Pilgrims Progress" series. A cor
dial welcome is extended to all
services.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
Hudson-Fulton Celebration.

Come to the Brooklyn Eagle Of
flee. 26 East Twenty-third street,
opposite Metropolitan Tower, Man.
haitian, or Second Floor, World
Building, City Hall Square, Man.
haitian, for full information about
boarding houses and furnished
rooms in New York City during the
great Exposition. Get a free pro-
gramme of events. No charge for
the service, and a pleasure to help
you.
BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
Annual Meeting of Protection En-
gine Co. No. 8.

The annual meeting of Protection
Engine Co. No. was held on Tues
day evening at the engine house.
The reports of the secretary, treas
urer and other officers were received
and read. The various committees
reported and business for the past
year was closed up, showing the
condition of the company to be in
excellent shape which reflected
credit upon the retiring officers. The
election of officers for the ensuing
year resulted as follows: MIR. Ernest
Dudley, the present chairman, de-
clining a reelection, w. w. Wood
was elected President; w. j. Fer
ber, Vice President; Frank Schuer-
holz was reelected secretary against
his strenuous objections. Wyman
Kimble declining a reelection for
Treasurer, w. A. Bader was elected
to succeed him. Trustees Chas.
Grey, ]. H. Carroll and George
Bergman were reelected. R. H.
Brown was elected Foreman; Andy
Carroll 1st Assistant Foreman;
Leonard Slater End Assistant Fore
man; ]. H. Lyons, Engineer; j. H.
Carroll and VIM. Ball assistant
engineers; Harry Rockwell and
Chas. Trescott, Stokers. H. Oday
and Joseph Chambers were elected
auditors.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
PERSONAL MENTION.

Hon. F. P. Kimble left Monday
for a few days soujourn in New
Jersey.
D. H. Hartman, of Newark, n.
j., was a business caller in town
this week.
Mrs. Isiah Snyder and daughter
of Harrisburg, who have been en-
joying the past two weeks here,
leave for their home to-day.
DR.. Moses Jacobs of Nashville,
Tenn, who has been the guest of his
parents on Seventh street, returned
to that city on Monday.
Miss Emma Menner left on Mon
day for Binghamton, N. Y, where
she has gone to spend a few days
with her sister, Mrs. Fred James,
Miss Amanda Norton, who has
been spending few weeks with her
cousin, Leon H. Ross and wife, will
return this week to her home in
Clinton.
DR.. Richard Gibbons, the eminent
surgeon, of New York, left for
Rochester, Mimi, where he will
spend ten days before returning to
his home in the metropolis.
Miss Isabel Harroun has returned
to her home here after spending the
summer at Fern Hill and Crystal
Lake. She will leave in a short
time for West Chester State Normal
school.
East Lynne" the play that will
live forever, the play in which the
most favous actresses and actors of
the country have appeared, will
be performed in this place on Mon
day night next.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
Reunion of Colonel Durland's Old
Repiment.

The Forty-first Annual Reunion
of the Seventeenth Regiment, Penn.
sylvania Volunteers Cavalry Asso-
citation, will meet in the parlor OF
the Eagle Hotel, Gettysburg, Pa,
Friday and Saturday, Sept. II and
IS, 1909. Since the last reunion
the following deaths have been re-
ported:
Samuel Richardson, Co. K, AL
E. Strawberry St., Lancaster, Pa,
Nov. -, 1908.
William B. Grouse, Co. G, Car
Isle, Pa, Nov. 13, 1908.
Lieut.. Stanley B. Mitchell, Bing-
hamton, N. Y, Dec. 27, 1908.
William Reed, Co. I, Dec. 81,
1908.
John Frownfelter, Co. F, Dec. 81,
1908.
Samuel Gonder, Co. G, Waynes-
boro, Pa, Jan. 80, 1909.
Samuel Mcdonald, Co. L, May II,
1909.
William Swisher, Co. G, Meneger
Wyandotte Co., Kansas.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
MILLIONS OF SNAKES.
Bumper Crop of Rattlesnake Oil
Harvested at Mill Rift.

Harvested at Mill Rift.
The atmosphere in this hamlet
and in Pike county in general is
powerfully redolent of rattlesnakes
and copperheads. The drouth has
drafted the serpents from the dried
out uplands to the less-dried-out
lowlands, and our citizens are har-
vesting snakes to beat the band that
plays to the haying gang. The story
of the snake harvest, told in plain
and truthful and unfurbelowed
words, would seem almost as incredi-
BILE as the yarns told over in The
Bush and The Hook and The Basin
by those ablebodied and powerful
minded stoveside hunters and sports
men who have so long rassleu with
Truth and sent her shrieking to the
tall timber. Billee Padgett has
swiped several rattlers, Mrs. Pad
gett one, Mrs, Beck one, Howard
Allen three, Sol Hazelton three,
Sam Wilson four, Billee Adams
three, John Sawyer two, George
Padgett one, Marty Quinn two,
Floyd Goodby one, John Davies one,
Hawley Doty several copperheads
and rattlers, Laish Hazelton four or
five, and almost every man, women
and child has killed five to ten of
the harmless snakes, and still there
is no visible decrease in our snake
population!
How many snakes are there in
Pike county? That's not difficult
at all. The average of snakes to
the acre seems to be about like this:
Rattlers $50, copperheads 80, black
snakes 200, miscellaneous snakes
of the harmless kinds 420. The
county has about 100000 acres, all
fine snake preserve, and it is dead
easy to arithmeticize the above av-
erage into totals, and the outcome
shows the snake population of Pike
to be about as follows: Rattlers
1876, 100000, copperheads S1,vOO,-
600, blacksnakes ov,0OO,0OO, and
| miscellaneous snakes 100000,
a total of probably 7S3,0O0,OO0
snakes for Pike. This is going
some! 1t indicates that no close
season is needed to preserve our
| serpent population. AS the human
beings in Pike number about o.
600, it follows that there are ST.
600 serpents to each man, woman
| and child in Pike. The recent Hor-
ace Greedy once asseverated ora
cularly that Pike contained 100
| gallons of applejack to every SPELL
ing book, and ten rattlesnakes to
every Republican in the county. We
flatter ourselves that our figures
prove Horace to have been very
distant from base.
The believers in "rattlesnake
oil' as an infallible prophylactic for
| rheumatism and earache are storag-
ing oceans of the oleaginous ex-
tract of the defunctified rattlers.
The women folks say that the men
folks are filling all their fruit jars,
jell-glasses. pitchers, jugs, crooks,
pans, pals and other vessels with
the pesky rattler oil, and loading
their closets, pantries, garrets.
shelves, and swingshelves with the
filled vessels, right now when they,
the women folks, need the vessels
and the space for canning peaches
and other truck for the coming win
| ter The owners of the miraculous
| oil hold it at 81 per ounce. AS
| there must be several tons of the
Oil in The Rift, it is pizen easy to
see that John D. Rockefeller is
not the only rocky feller who has
hit it up high in oil-AIill Rift
correspondent Port Jervis Union.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene
Coleman, daughter, on Monday.
Fred Suydam is spending a few
days in Scranton.
Fred Krantz made a business trip
to Boston this week.
Daniel Monaghan, of Scranton, is
spending a few days in town.
Miss Anna Connolly left Thursday
for a few days visit in New York
City.
Ray Brown has returned to Eas-
ton to resume his studies at Lafay-
ette College.
James Clark has returned to his
home in Philadelphia after a visit
with his uncle, Edward Clark, of
Cliff street.
Misses Madeline O'Connell and
Helen Jacobs have resigned their
positions at the Bell Telephone ex-
change at this place.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
Joseph Jordan, Scranton's Lost Boy,

~ '
Joseph Jordan, eldest son of Mr..
and Mrs. P. j. Jordan, of 1923
North Main avenue, Scranton, who
disappeared from home on August
8, was found this morning about
$3.50 o'clock at Waterville, New
York. He is being detained here
in charge of chief of police Hugh
Jones, awaiting the arrival of his
uncle, Martin Walsh, of Parsons.
Young Jordan talked with a re-
porter this morning, giving in con-
siderable detail his trip from Scran-
ton up to the time he was located,
declaring he was on his way home
when two farmers with whom he
rode from the hop fields recognized
him as the missing boy and turned
him over to the chief of police.
II walked to Dalton" he said,
"and got D., L. & w. train out of
there early in the evening as far as
New Milford. l stayed at New Mil
ford all night and got to Bingham
ton the next day, Saturday, walking
and riding part of the way. Then l
went to Vestal, and after working
a week there rode freight ia
Waterville, where I went picking
hops. was on my way home to-
day, as I finished my job in the hop
fields"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-09-17
LOCAL MENTION.
All the rage-24 for % cents.

All the rage-24 for 20 cents.
Fair time-Oct. 4, 5, 6 ana T..
H. F. Weaver has finished plans
for the erection of a modern dwell
ing for John Strongman to be erect
ed on West street, opposite the
residence of DR.. R. w. Brady.
The Scranton Republican is
sued on Wednesday an industrial
edition of twenty-eight pages. 1t
was all excellent production through
out.
Graham Watts is eXcavating
for the cellar of a double house
which he contemplates erecting on
his property on East street exten-
sion this fall.
There will be no preaching SER
vices in the Methodist church next
Sunday, Sept. 19. The congrega-
tion will unite in union services at
the Presbyterian church.
Wayne County Christian En-
deavor convention, which convenes
on Tuesday, Sept. 2S, at the Pres
byterian chapel, have arranged a
program which will be very interest
ing.
On Saturday at $3.50 p. m. the
All White Mills team will cross bats
with the High school team of this
place at Athletic Park. Come out
and support the boys and help them
to pay expenses.
The prices farmers can get for
their milk for the next six months
are as follows: Oct. $50, Nov. 100,
Dec. 1855, Jany 1876; Feby 100, and
March 10. This will average at
least four cents a quart.
-Chas. w. Weston, former
Honesdale boy, now Superintendent
of the Carbondale Gas Company,
has purchased the beautiful resi-
dence of Charles R. Smith, on South
Part street, Carbondale.
Bethany, with a population less
than 100, has set an example for
Honesdale in good roads. Work
has commenced in that small but
old town for mile of macadam
road to be built on the main street.
Lovers of the emotional drama,
and their names are legion, will be
pleased to learn that the greatest
of all emotional dramas, East
Lynne" will be at the Lyric Thea
tre next Monday, Sept. 20. The
engagement is for one night only
and the following special prices
will prevail-15, 25, 35, and so
cents.
Two young men entered the
Honesdale restaurant last Sunday
evening about II o'clock and being
under the influence of liquor, the
proprietor, George Coston, refused
to serve them. They picked a quar-
rel with Theodore Colodronis who
was being served and dared him to
come out of the place. AS soon as
he reached the sidewalk they threw
him through a large plate glass
window of the Boston store which
is next door to the restaurant.
Our new High school was
formally opened Tuesday morning.
Besides the school directors there
was present a number of the par
ents and friends of the pupils. Mr..
r. M. Stocker made a few remarks
in which he spoke of the interest
that the boys should take in the new
building by properly caring for same.
Hon. F. p Kimble spoke upon the
value of time to the pupils. VIII.
Ham made a few remarks, upon
"Old Times" he being the only sur
viving school director of 48 years
ago. The school opened with 1876
schools in the High school proper
and 337 in the grades, making a to-
tai of 472. ....