The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-10-06
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.

Mrs. Jno. Congdon is quite i'll.
"A good many strange faces are
seen in town this week on account
of the fair.
Nearly half or 61 Of the 1877
pupils enrolled in the Honesdale
High school are nonresident.
Kathryn, the eight-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Shirley is ill with diphtheria. Anti
toxin is being used as a final resort.
There will be a special and inn
portant business meeting of the
members of Company E on Monday
evening, Oct. II. Refreshments
will be served.
The Wayne Concrete Company
have engaged six out of town
masons to erect the double house of
Fred Rickert and also the dwelling
of Mrs. Theresa Green.
Next Sunday will be rally day
at the Methodist church. A good
programme has been arranged.
Rally big and little, young and old,
Start the winter sessions with a
big attendance.
DIR. E. Downton and wife, of
Starrucca, accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. D. Miller, Esq, of Thomp-
son, made an automobile trip to
Honesdale and registered at the
Allen House on Sunday.
-Honesdale streets have pre-
sented an unusual sight for the past
few days. Droves of cows, bulls,
sheep and wagon loads of chickens,
ducks, etc., have monopolized Main
street-all on their way to the Fair
grounds.
"A special train will leave Car
bondale on the D. & H., Oct. 5, 8,
and T. at IL o'clock a. M, and leave
Honesdale at p. m. The Erie will
also run specials on the same days
! from Hawley, leaving there at a.
m and leaving Honesdale at 7:1O
p. m.
Charging 25c for ride from
Honesdale to the Fair ground and
25c to return is very near highway
robbery and the Fair officials and
Honesdale authorities should refuse
to grant licenses to any one who will
not serve the public at reasonable
price. Twenty-Five cents for the
round trip is fair price.
There was one of the old-fash-
ioned gravity runaways at Farv1eW
Saturday afternoon. A train of six
fiat cars loaded with terra Gotta for
the new asylum got away from the
control of the crew, ran down
steep incline and piled up at the
foot. The engineer, Jacobus, had
narrow escape, and only saved his
life by jumping.
The fair this year will be
hummer. Everything will be on
bigger and better scale than ever.
Don't miss coming. Old Billy Fer
guson is making the biggest effort
of his life to have this Fair the
crowning event of his life, and
Emerson Gammell has had high
pressure move on for months doing
things to bring about success.
On September 26th barn of
A. E. Kellogg at Winwood was
burned. A. F. Kelsey, who rents
the property, on October 2, notified
M. H. Davis, justice of the peace,
that he had found in the ruins a
number of bones which he believed
to be human bones. Mr.. Davis, &C
companied by several others, visited
the place, and being unable to de-
termine whether the bones were
those of a human being called in
Dr.. Merriman who claimed that
they were. They were gathered up
and placed in the Doctors care for
preservation and District Attorney
Simons was notified of the circum-
stance.
One of the lady boarders at the
Wayne Hotel was awakened from a
sound sleep on Sunday morning by
voice which sounded as If it came
from under her bed. After gaining
sufficient composure and noticing
that the voice was not of threaten
ing nature, she bounded out of bed
to investigate, when she discover
ed that the voice proceeded from the
room Immediately below and belong
ed to a young minister who was get
ting ready to preach to his people
and was rehearsing his sermon.
Andy Carnegie pays $4,000 per year
to have one of New York's celebrat-
ed organists awaken him with music
each morning at his home on Fifth
Avenue, but here's case where the
music of the human voice, in SER
monizing tones does the awakening