The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-18
LOCAL MENTION.

The Howell-keith Stock COM
pany are greatly pleasing good-sized
audiences at the Lyric this week.
-Chas. Rief is about to apply
for a patent on house window,
whereby either sash can be raised
or lowered without touching the
same
The February elections are now
thing of the past. Next Novem
Der we will have a chance to vote
for Governor, Congressman, State
Senator, and Representative.
Il suppose you carry a memen-
to of some sort in that locket of
yours?" Yes; ii is a lock of my
husbands hair" But your hus-
band is still alive" Yes, but his
hair is all gone"
The Presbyterian. Baptist and
Methodist young people will unite
in service in the Methodist League
room Sunday evening to begin
promptly at 1870. A very interest
ing meeting is being planned to
which all are cordially invited.
1t takes a rich man to draw a
check, a pretty girl to draw atten-
tion, horse to draw cart. porous
plaster to draw the skin, a topper to
draw a cork, free lunch to draw
crowd, and a well displayed adver-
tisement in this paper to draw trade.
Miss Mary Barnes, who lives
about two miles from Honesdale on
the Bethany road, was greatly sur
prised on Wednesday evening last
by two Jolly sleigh loads of young
people who came to her home and
gave her tin shower. The occasion
was a merry one and all left wish
ing that there were more tin showers
to follow.
A superstitious subscriber. who
found a spider in his paper, wants
TO know if it is considered a bad
emen. Nothing of the kind. The
spider was Just looking over the col
umns of the paper to see what mer-
chants were not advertising so that
it could spin its web across his
store door, and be free from disturb
ance.
The primaries for the fall cleo
ton are next in order on the politi-
cal calendar. They will be held in
June. Delegates to the State con-
yention, members of the county
committee, candidates for Congress-
man, State Senator and Representa-
tive to Legislature will be voted for
We have heard rumors of several
candidates for the latter Office, name
iy: w. E. Perham, of Niagara; w.
e. Ames and AL. Bishop of Hawley,
w. Brock Lesher of Sterling and
Buel Dodge of Honesdale.
-Honesdale will soon have an
ether industry. The Honesdale
Union-Stamp Shoe Co. viii be in
eorporated March Is. The incor-
porators are men who have a life
knowledge of shoe manufacturing,
but the names of few of them ap-
pear on the application for a char
ter. Those named are George P
Ross, commissioners clerk, II. NJ
Williams and w. J. Lane. The busi-
ness will be managed by expert shoe
manufacturers. There is but $40, 900
of the stock for sale and half of that
has already been taken
First Baptist Church. Services
for worship at 1O:3O a. m. and 1880
p. IN. Subject of morning sermon,
The Immediate and Personal Eff
feet of Revival" Sunday school
session at 11:45 o'clock. A special
missionary program will be render
ed. The Young Peoples Society will
attend a union meeting in the Meth
odist church at 6:3O p. IN.
The borough election resulted
in a clean sweep for the Republi-
can ticket with the exception of
John X. Seitz for town councilman
The victory was due to the fact that
George Penwarden, Independent
Republican, running on nomination
papers, had the support of the down
town Democrats, who. in splitting
their tickets to vote for him, failed
TO give the balance of their own
ticket proper support, then causing
the defeat of Charles McCarty for
town councilman and II. NJ. Stocker
and VIM. T. Moore for school di-
rectors. The Republicans had SO
straight votes, and the Democrats
only 23, which is the emblem of the
III.