The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-04
The Supreme Court decides that
:. f. Wright is State Treasurer.

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-Oran Sutton is now foreman of
the machine shop at the Elevator
Works
Fred Schoell is now the owner
of the Halfway House, having pur-
chased same from Victor Miesler;
consideration $4,000.
On Saturday last. Patrick Igo
was removed to the Sanitarium at
Danville by Patrick McNally and
Poor. Director j. l.. Burcher.
The American Flint Glass
Workers Union will hold a ball in
O'Connell's hall on Friday evening,
May 18th. Music and dancing.
e. f. Freer, who has been fore
man of the machine shop of the Ma
tional Elevator Co., resigned, and
left for his home at Kingston, N. Y,
on Saturday.
Toledo, Ohio, is happy over our
strike and trouble in the glass cut
ting industry. This is the home
town of the Libby and other cut glass
zer, Luckock, halls from.
The town council are trying to
better Main street and have placed
car load of cracked stone, which they
received from some place in the val
ley, on that portion of Main street
near the Commercial Hotel.
The glass cutters, who are on
strike, received checks on the Homes
dale Dime Bank on Saturday. The
checks were for S17, S14, and $S,
being three weeks pay. The latter
amount was the pay the apprentices
received
The baseball season opened on
Saturday afternoon on the silk mill
ground. Carbondale was the con-
testing team. but both teams were
very soft, Carbondale being the soft
est The score was, Honesdale IA,
Carbondale ..
Express Messenger William d.
Lewis of the National Express Co..
on the Honesdale Branch of the d.
& H., has been promoted to a better
position. He will be SUCCEEDED by
F. NJ. Killem, a former messenger
on the branch
An old man named Mullen, at
least sixty years old, was arrested
night for intoxication. He was CIV
en- a hearing and fined $40. Not
having the money he was placed in
charge of Street Commissioner Weld
ner to work out his fine.
Rev. H. Liebeck, of Albany, n.
Y, preached in st. Johns Lutheran
church on Sunday morning and even
ing. His sermon in the morning was
delivered in German, while the even
ing discourse was in English. Both
services were we'll attended by con-
gregations that were greatly pleased.
According to the Bradford
Star, when the census was taken in
1890 there were five negro slaves
in Bradford county. Two were
owned by William Houck, of Stand
ing Stone, and DR.. Stephen Hopkins
and Guy Maxwell of Athens, and
Adam Mann, of Wysox, each owned
one slave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Gardner
and Mrs. Wesley Gardner and son
Perry, of Scranton, were in this
place last week packing the house
hold effects of Benjamin Gardner
preparatory to his removal to Fac
toryville where he will make his
home with his sister, Mrs. Gilmore.
Mr.. Gardner is one of the Maple
City's highest esteemed pioneer resi-
dents. and his removal is deeply
regretted.
The Montrose Democrat, of a.
recent date, says: w. A. Cooley is
the possessor of a relic of a number
of generations which he exhibited
in this office the first of the week, in
the form of a pocketbook made from
the skin of a colored man that was
hung for the murder of the Vaness
family, of Newark, N. j., in 1888,
he being the first colored man
hung in that state. This pocket
book was given as a present to the
late Amos Cooley's great grand
father and has been handed down
until now it is the property of w.
A. Cooley.
"A castle of the Knights of st.
Paul, for boys from - to 16 years
of age, will be organized in the Sun
day school rooms of Grace Episcopal
church on Thursday, May s, ar 1880
d. m. A delegation of about fifteen
are expected from Trinity church,
Carbondale including the Rector,
Rev. II. Il. Robbins, to organize the
new castle, to exemplify the mystic
rites of the order and probably to
install officers. Afterwards the
visiting knights and the newly made
Knights will have a feast. The Car
bondale boys are to bring with them
all necessary paraphernalia and re-
gala.
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