The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-14
Sept. "a is Rally day in the

ihNulit lulO Jnt sanity Ol Matthew's
II. Heusel, will meet Wednesday.
C. p. Searle and II. l.. Salmon
played the finals for the annual golf
club championship and cup Satur-
day. Searle won, 6 up and to
play.
Rev. W. II. Hitler announces
that Miss Payne, an experienced
missionary from Mexico, will speak
in the Methodist church Sunday
morning.
Conrad NJ Wulff of Seelyville
and Mrs. Karoline Mebs of Homes
dale were married at the Lutheran
parsonage Saturday evening at 8
by Rev. c. G. Miller.
Berry wants to burn newspap-
ermen at the stake. That's no pun
ishment for a newspaperman. He's
continually being attended to by
some of our very best little roast
ers.
The Wayne County Medical as
sociation will meet at the Allen
house Thursday. DR.. Miner of
Wilkes-Barr will be the outside
talker. He will discuss tubercu-
losis.
Texas Hose Co. No. 4 is going
to hold a social and dance once a
month all winter to raise money to-
ward the wiping out of the fire house
debt. Wednesday night the first one
will be held.
William E. Tingley, night jani-
tor of the d. & H. property, has
been promoted to billing clerk in the
freight office, succeeding c. c..
Weeks. Nelson Tingley succeeds his
son as watchman.
The proposed law to stop spit
ting on the sidewalk by making the
dirty trick a fineable offence has
worked well in Wilkes-Barre and
Pittston, and it should work we'll in
Honesdale. Decent citizens hope
for its early passage and enforce
ment.
The account of Buel e. Dodge,
trustee of Emanuel Jacobson, bank
rupt, was confirmed finally by the
district court Thursday and the same
day distribution to the creditors was
made. The smallest check was five
cents, the largest $22.5O. A divid-
end of l p per cent. was declared
by the referee.
1t is not denied by the young
man most involved in the statement
that one of the Honesdale Skat mem
bers who went to Newark, N. j.,
to attend the tournament and after
ward paid a visit to the metropolis
took SIS, good and lawful money
of the United States, on the trip
and got home with a sum less than
70 cents.
Judge Thornton has changed
the time for holding county court in
Sullivan county. He made that an
| nouncement last week. Court will
now be held the second Monday in
November, instead of the third Mon
day in October, and the third Monday
in February instead of the 4th Mon
day in January and the second Mon
day in May instead of the 4th Mon
day in April. The above arrange
ment will do away with the October
term this year.
The Central Labor union will
clear from $140 to $3.50 on the
Labor day picnic in Bellevue park
which was the most elaborate and
successful outing of the summer
There are still a few floating bills,
the general committee say, but the
Thursday night meeting gave clear
evidence of the profit mentioned,
| and the men who worked to make
the picnic a good thing are satisfied
with the financial as we'll as with
the other results.
Andrew Dibble, whose folks
live in Sullivan county, N. Y, though
he himself works as a carpenter at
Welcome lake, was in Honesdale
Sunday with a black or Canadian
squirrel an animal seldom seen in
these parts. He brought the fellow
from Smithport, this state, where
his niece breeds these Canadian
squirrels. The one Mr.. Dibble had
with him here is very tame, he
says, and will find his way home af-
ter an absence of hours.
The Honesdale Athletics, a team
partially composed of the real
Honesdale, went to Aldenville Sat
| urday in a double rig and whaled
the Aldenville Alerts, good coun-
try team, by the score of Is to 7
| in a game that had no very classy
| features save the coaching of
White. Gregor pitched a steady
southpaw game for Honesdale and
| Joe Jacobs caught him nicely. The
| battery for the Alerts was Dix and
Cole After the game the victors
were handsomely entertained by the
vanquished, the women friends of
the Alerts seeing that the Honesdale
team did not leave Aldenville with
out a nice little supper tucked away
under their belts.
The ordinance giving the Scran-
| ton and Lake Ariel Railroad COM
pany franchises to lay its tracks on
| styeral streets in South Scranton
| passed first and second reading in
| Scranton common council Friday
| night ID. Il. Evans of the Fifteenth
ward had an amendment requiring
that the company lay all its wires
| underground and pay the city So
600 a year after 1915 for the fran
| chises, but the Evans amendment
was tabled without anybody voting
| in its favor. Mr.. Moeller of the
| Nineteenth ward was the strongest
opponent of the Evans amendment.
mo other wires in South Scranton
are buried" he declared, land it
would be an injustice to the new
company to compel it to put the
wires underground.