The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-26
Before, During and After
the War.
JUST A REMINDER OF THE DATES
From 1914 Down, i'm Five Year
Jumps-Incidents of Local ln-
tercst Covering TwO-thirds
of u Century.

Rurdy anu i" - MulnlOru, Nv cNeCul'lo
of Beers estate.
Ball game between Honesdale Eagles
and Wyoming Seminary club, former
winning 3 to =.
Walter l.. Nains's circus advertised.
Honesdalp Telephone Co. chartered.
Erie RR. excursion, Honesdale to
Ross Park, Binghamton.
Elijah Rickard and son Bert quite
badly injured in a runaway accident in
Cherry Ridge.
Remains of Berton Mclean, victim of a
railroad accident at Lanesboro, brought
to Cherry Ridge for interment.
Hardware store of Dodge * Erik bur-
glarized. Goods to the amount of 5000
stolen.
Hon. A. b. Gammell, of Bethany,
drawn to serve on U. 5. District Court
Jury. Mr.. Gammell died on the I'd of
the previous month.
Honesdale defeated the Scranton Alum
nj at base ball-9 to 5.
The body of Michael Bellman, drowned
four weeks previously, found in the
Lackawaxen at Hawley.
Bishop Talbot confirmed class of
nineteen at Grace church.
Miss Katharine Riefler sailed for Ger
many to visit her parents in Wurtem-
berg.
Mrs. Fred. |. Keen broke both bones
of her right forearm by a fall.
Ten years ago:
Cold snap; fires needed in residences
and places of business.
National Elevator Works employing &c
skilled workmen, having greatly increas-
ed the output of the establishment.
Philip Hagen died in East Honesdale,
aged 81 years.
Thomas Quincy died in Honesdale,
aged SO years.
Daniel Taylor's house on Union Hill,
burned.
John ("Blind') McCarty, an old resi-
dent of Honesdale, died in Scranton,
aged so years.
Mrs. F. b. Penniman celebrated her
S9th birthday, Saturday. May 9th. (She
will be 80 to-morrow.)
Mrs. William b. Holmes visited her
daughter, Mrs. f. G. Mills, in Boston,
who was quite i'll.
James II. Pinckney resigned his po-
stion at the Gravity station, and entered
the employ of the Durland-Thompson
Shoe Co.
Rev. J. V. Moylan, assistant of Rev.
Thomas NJ. Hanley, OF st. Johns Or.
CO. church, transferred to Scranton.
Fifteen years ago:
Mrs. Francis II. Crago died in Alden
vile, aged "A years and i months.
Prohibition convention in the Court
House, f. X. Curtis, of Berlin, presd-
ing. VIM. II. Moore, of South Canaan,
nominated for Associate Judge, and S.
p. Jones, of Buckingham, and John S.
Welsh for Representatives.
MIS-. LuClllId llsue locdIusict uleu III
Dyberry. Interment at Indian Orchard.
Eliza X. Jervis, widow of John B..
Jervis, in whose honor Port Jervis was
named, died at Rome, N. V, in her 84th
year.
Geo. II. Lancaster, of Dreher, repre-
sented Wayne county in the Republican
Convention Of II rriS Shl1rn
Andrew B. Dunsmore, of Wellsboro,
Tioga county, and Miss Sadie f. Ball, of
East street, married at the home of the
bride.
Mrs. Patrick Gibney died, aged IS
years.
Extensive fire in the Petersen Nielsen
building, Main street. Among the prin-
cipal sufferers, besides the owners of the
building, were the Knights of Honor,
Royal Arcanum, Royal Oak Benefit
League, Heptasophs and the Exchange
Club, whose lodge rooms were in the
second and third stories.
Charter granted to the Honesdale
Electric Railway Company; capital, $780,
OOO.
John S. Jadwin died in Carbondale.
aged 40 years. He was brother of Hon.
G. G. Jadwin.
The Kirmess given with great success,
realizing a net profit of 81, 100.
Edward Goodman's suit for damages
for injuries received against the d. & H.
Canal Co., tried. Verdict for SIS, 900 in
favor of Goodman.
Twenty years ago:
The Irving Cliff hotel burned on Tues
day evening, May 2Sth. 1t was to have
been formally opened by ]. w. Almy,
on the 22d of the next month. The
property was valued at 100000. The
total insurance was $4,000.
Martin Knee taken to the Huntingdon