The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-05
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The Delaware continues to yield
up some of the biggest bass lies that
ever were sprung on this continent.
1t is delightfully."- refreshing, dur
ing the enervating August days, to
know the one real pious penpusher
of the Wayne county press admits
people read The Citizen.
Army authorities are trying to
find out whether blondes or bru-
nettes make the best fighters. One
glance at Jack Johnson ought to
convince them.
Hawley has trotted out the best
snake story so far this summer.
Altoona Mirror, which bemoans the
shortage in real good snake stor-
les, please copy.
Mrs. Kicker is running for gov
effective way to run the state would
be to marry some man and then
get him elected governor
What became of ten million dol
lars Wabash stock2" demands
headline. Without knowing any
thing about it, we are willing to
paper man got the money.
Boston, it is said, will make an
attempt to revive the curfew. A
very sensible idea-for Boston.
Anyone who wishes to stay up later
than o'clock in Boston is daffy
and should be sent to bed.
Certain lawyers in this town were
dee-lighted today, when the order
went forth that the attaches of the
Fourth Estate were not to hear one
syllable of Mrs. Lords effort to get
out of Jail on habeas corpus.
You can't spit on the sidewalk in
GllISlOn uOM any lllOiC llloil sOu ONh
in Wilkes-Barre. The fine is 81.
Why is anybody permitted to make
the walks of Honesdale, far more
beautiful town, the target for their
vehement expectorations?
Now, what an objectionable over
sight it was when the Carbondale
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a singing match with Honesdale yo-
cal talent, failed to ask the distin-
guished federal practitioner now in
our midst" to render his jovial bass
stanzas Locked in the Stable with
the Sheep"
The straw hat has finally reached
the divorce court. But it is mans
straw hat The wife of a Chester
resident left home last summer
when her husband bought a new
hat. The hat led to a quarrel, and
the husband was granted a divorce.
1t was the last straw" that broke
the back of hitherto happy home.
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ginia, who succeeds John w. Dan
iel, the Lame Lion" in the United
States senate, never has had any
Washington experience, but his wife
is accounted the most beautiful
woman in the Old Dominion. The
family argument will help Senator
Swanson just as it helped Gov.
Swanson.
Carbondale. we give you one more
chance to be decent. Play clean
ball this time and the past-though
it's a mean one-can be forgotten
as 1t already has been forgiven.
Throw balls, not stones, next Sun
day. Knock the Bounce sphere, not
the opposing players, this time.
We should hate to cut you out of
our baseball future forever.
We lost four games over in Sui
livan county, just out of gallantry
to the pretty girls from the city
who'd feel awfully about it If their
Jimmyboys should get larruped by
a team from the glass shops and
] hayiields of Wayne county; but we
made up for lost time by taking the
Millers into camp twice, once on
their grounds and once on our own.
And we've got the championship OF
Wayne for a whole year, If we
couldn't get the summer champion
ship of Sullivan. Oh, vi, vi, vi,
vi, vi!