The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-11-10

ing at the Presbyterian chapel.
Everybody invited. Meetings are
very entertaining.
Master Mechanic McAndrew of
the D. & H. r. r. has resigned and
is succeeded by j. j. Reid, former
M. M. of the Missouri & Pacific R.
r. at Fort Worth.
Teachers are using the entrance
on Eleventh street, through the old
brick building, on account of the
workmen putting in new tiling in
the vestibules in the new building.
In our last issue the word
chimney was omitted from the item
regarding the High school building.
The additional ten foot was placed
on the chimney and not on the
building.
Robert Marsh, of Honesdale,
and Anna d. Shoots, of jeanette,
were married at the Presbyterian
parsonage Saturday, Nov. 9Th. The
ceremony was performed by Rev.
w. H. Swift.
Port Jervis made a pretty clean
sweep electing the entire Republi-
can ticket. The board of aldermen
will stand six Republican and two
Democrats, and three of the four
supervisors are Republican.
Hancock, Cadasia, Tustin, Never
sink and Bethel all decided to go or
remain dry, at the last election,
while Liberty, Highland, Fallsburgh
and Rockland decided to retain the
license.
Annual supper and sale of
needlework suitable for Christmas
gifts will be held by the Parish
Aid Society of Grace church in Sun
day school rooms, Thursday, Nov,
18th.
Wayne County Pomona Grange
No. Al, will meet with Pleasant Val
ley Grange, at Dyberry, Pa, on
Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. II
and Is. Election of officers will also
take place at this time.
The ballot this year in New
York was feet long, 13 inches wide
and contained 20 columns of differ
ent party emblems. Gaynor was
nominated by factions and Ban
nard by 4. 1t surpassed for size
anything heretofore used. 1t put
ours in the shade several degrees.
There was bad mixup in the
Sullivan county IN. Y.) ballots on
the local option question. Through
an error of the printer the towns of
Thompson, Forrestburg and FIRE.
mont were debarred from deciding
this question, SO that special cleo
tion will be necessary to give the
people of these towns an opportunity
of settling the local option issue.
-Reifier & Sons at Tanners Falls
have their acid factories in full blast.
load of charcoal per day. AS soon
as the state road is finished in Dy-
berry township, they will consider
the proposition to use a traction en-
gine, which will do the work of ten
teams in hauling to and from the
depot at Honesdale to their factory.
Feast and your friends are
many; fast and they cut you dead;
they'll not get mad if you treat them
bad, so long as their stomachs are
fed. Steal If you get million, for
then you can furnish bail; it's the
great big thief who gets out on
leave, while the little ones get to
jail. Advertise and the dollars
come to you; quit and they fail to
come in, for what care the men who
have money to spend, for the men
who don't care to see them.
-Adolph Moskewitz, of Manay-
unk, an Odd Fellow, was sent to
prison for contempt of court. He
was plaintiff in case and was suing
his former employers for money due.
The defense was he was dishonest
and had stolen more money than the
firm owed him. He succeeded in
getting a verdict, but was caught by
the judge and lawyer of the defend
ants, giving secret sign of distress
used by the Odd Fellows to the jury.
When questioned he admitted he had
done so and gave as his excuse that
he was in distress and needed the
help OF the jury.
The New York Sun started a
discussion on the question, What is
gentleman" 1t has proved to be
very interesting and animated. One
correspondent sent in the following
definition, which does not seem to
have been surpassed thus far: "A
man that's clean inside and out;
neither looks up to the rich nor
down to the poor; who can lose
without squealing and who can win
without Dragging; who is consider
ate of women, children and old peo-
pie; who is too brave to lie, too
generous to cheat, and who takes
his share of the world and lets other
people have theirs"
Former County Treasurer of
Lackawanna was drowned at Lock-
lin Lake, Lakeville, this county, on
last Thursday. 1t appears while
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