The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-01-07
LOCAL MENTION.

Archibald MarKleS is seriously
i'll at his home on Fourth street.
The six months old infant of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert eager, of Main
street, has diphtheria.
BE sure and sign your name to
your correspondence or TO any mat
ter which you wish published.
Divorces are on the increase in
Wayne county, eight having been
granted by our court during the year
1909.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Honesdale Baptist church will serve
a Boston Tea Tuesday, Jan. 25th, in
the Chapel.
William Penwarden of Carley
Brook, the veteran lumberman, dis
tributed $4,000 in cash among his
six children, each receiving $1,000.
Mrs. Emily Searle, mother of
Judge Searle, is reported as improv-
ing rapidly. She has been i'll for
long time at her native home in
Danvers, Mass.
Marriage licenses have been
granted to George Schurer and Au-
gusta Rose, both of Hawley; Pierce
Courtenay of Pueblo, Col, and Hazel
Tenant of Honesdale.
The Honesdale National BanA
declared a semi-annual dividend of
and per cent. The Wayne Coun-
ty Savings Bank has declared a
semi-annual dividend of IL per cent.
The Lutheran church will hold
services each Sunday morning at
1890 and evening at 1880 to which
an invitation is extended to all. Con-
hrmation class every Saturday af-
ternoon at 2:30.
Darius o. Mills died in Califor-
nia. He is the philanthropist who
built the Mills Hotels in New York
City, where a poor man could obtain
a room and all the advantages of a
hotel for twenty cents night.
Announcement has been made
Of the coming marriage of Miss
Cornelia Alice Young to Bailey Van
deholf of New York. Miss Young is
the daughter of our respected former
townsman, Mr.. Horace G. loung,
now of Albany.
The Wayne County Creamery
Mutual Fire Insurance company
elected officers as follows Tuesday
afternoon: p. A. Clark, president; c.
j. Smith, vice president; w. E. Per-
ham, secretary; E. w. Gammen,
treasurer.
1t was announced from the pull
pit of the Presbyterian church that
the sum of $4,000 had been subscrib-
ed to pay the church Indebtedness
and that the first installment is due
during this month. The other in
stallments are due April, July, anu
October of this year.
The travelling statesmen of
Honesdale and their name is legion,
are on the move, many OF them
starting out this week on their ini-
tial trip for the year. These are the
men who coax the outside dollar to
visit us. We note that Thomas Fin
nerty and C. b. Henderson (Clark &
Co.'s new mem left this week on
their respective trips.
Last Friday evening Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. II. Hawken, of East street
we're pleasantly surprised by about
twenty of their neighbors who came
for the sole purpose Of being with
them in the last hours of the old
year. Cards and refreshments were
in order from 1909 until the usher
ing in of 1910 when all resolved to
start the new year right by returning
home early.
The building formerly owned by
the Honesdale Glove and Mitten Co.
has been purchased by the Seelyville
Fire Company; consideration said to
be $4,000. AS soon as vacated by the
Glove and Mitten company it will be
altered so as to provide suitable and
up-to-date quarters for the firemen
and their apparatus. The company
number between 80 and so members
and deserve liberal and hearty sup
port from the SeelyVille property
owners which they no doubt will re-
eeive.