The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-30
LOCAL MENTION.


promises to be of the kind that will
keep you guessing until the last heat.
Every horse is goer and every driv-
er is out after the purse.
-Man-haters will have the op-
portunity of their lives to hear their
natural enemy denounced when
Girls" is presented at the Lyric in
the near future.
Richard Dusinberre, who is now
occupying an important position in
Stroudsburg, is in town preparing
his household goods for shipment to
his new home at Stroudsburg.
The regular quarterly sacra-
mental service will be held Oct. 2
at Damascus NJ. E. church at II a.
m; Galilee at 2.30 p. m. and Abra-
Evansville at Z p. m. Everybody in
vited to attend.
The Lehigh Valley railroad is
having it's sills boiled in a compound
of asphalt and chemicals. When
these are used the spikes with which
they are fastened are stamped
1910" so that record can be kept
upon the life of the treated tie. The
Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway
is also treating it's ties with chemi-
of lumber has compelled this course.
A peculiar cattle disease affect
ing the eyes has broken out in the
herd of Harry Vandruff, near West
town. n. Y. Four of the cattle are
affected in one eye. The services of
DR.. John Mccoy of Sussex were call
ed into requisitiOn. A white film
grows over one of the eyes, rendering
the cow blind, which lasts about nine
days One of the peculiarities of the
disease is that only one eye is af-
feCted.
No crowd turns out to see him
come; no bugles drown the echoing
drum; no plaudits fall in vocal show
ers; no maidens strew his way with
flowers; no police sergeant's phalanx
stood to hold in check the multitude;
no delegation came to meet; alone
he hoofed it down the street; alone
before the clerks he stands and pens
his name with trembling hands. Awe
struck he hears that magnate say:
Front! nine ought forty! right
away" Alone he climbs the distant
stairs and no one knows and no one
cares-the baseball man in winter
time.
Everybody can make a predic-
ton but everybody cannot be cor
rect Taking the goose bone as his
guide well-known predictor of Con-
nors Crossing, has found evidence
of what he terms an early fall. He
has killed the goose, examined the
bone and then compared his results
with the atmospheric conditions and
comes TO the conclusion that we will
have an early fall and severe win
ter. He noticed that the black birds
and the robins are congregating and
are ready to migrate at any time.
This latter fact he concludes is suf-
ficient evidence.
Allan Madden, who for the past
two years has been the editor and
manager of the NewbuTgh Evening
Union, has resigned his position to
take effect within the next week or
two. Mr.. Madden will be succeeded
by w. T. Doty, of the Port Jeryis
Union. Mr.. Madden came here from
Fishkill where he was editor of The
journal for two years. He has not
yet announced his plans, but it is un-
derstood he will take charge of the
reportorial department of the Union.
A report on the street was to the et-
feet that Mr.. Mclean had purchas-
ed the interest held in the Union by
Mr.. Brewster, and would place his
sons in direct charge. This was
later denied by both interested per-
sons, they announcing that no change
whatever in interest as to prophet
orship, policy or other matters was
contemplated. Mr.. Doty comes here
as an experienced newspaper man
to take up the business end of the
concern and direct its editorial ut
terances. Mr.. Doty is one of the
oldest journalists in Orange county.
-Newburgh Journal