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

All the banks close Monday
legal holiday.
Captain James Ham Circle, La
dies of the G. A. R., will meet this
(Friday) afternoon at O'CLOCK.
Rev. A. L. Whitaker will hold
services in the Presbyterian church
at Waymart Sunday at 3 p. m.
On and after July the doors
of the postoffice lobby will be locked
at p. m. The earlier train service
on the Erie from New York is re-
sponsible for this, and patrons will
govern themselves accordingly.
The Seelyville Fire company's
ice cream social and dance comes
tonight. The eating is on the lawn,
if the weather holds fine. The dane
ing will be in the hall
The plum crop Will be a light
crop this year in Wayne county, say
the farmers who go in for fruit. The
cold spring was a freezer for the
plums and those that do reach the
market will be small sfffairs.
Next Sunday there will be spec
ial services in the Presbyterian
church. Communion will be cele-
brated at 1890. In the evening, at
7.S0, DR.. Swift will speak on "The
Threshold of independence Day"
Judge James ]. o'Neill at Scran-
ton Wednesday granted a decree in
divorce to Belle King, of Wayne
county, from Michael King. They
were married Aug. s, 1900, and
separated in Oct. 1905. Desertion
was alleged.
DR.. George c. Butler returned
yesterday from the meeting of the
state dentists in Harrisburg, report
ing a fine time and a very profitable
gathering of the tooth surgeons of
Pennsylvania. He did not make the
trip in the new steam auto the
Buffers have just bought, but he
thinks another year he may steam
to the convention if he goes at all
Irving Stark of East Honesdale,
with his family, started to drive
home from the circus late Tuesday
night and on Church street ran into
hole, although the hole was prop
perly marked and lighted He was
not hurt by the turnover and neither
was anybody else in the carriage,
but the back of the seat was smash
ed and the whole Stark party was
badly scared. They woke up half
the neighborhood before the carriage
could be gotten out of the hole and
the journey to East Honesdale re-
sumed.
Wild Strawberries are still be-
ing plucked on Irving cliff and other
elevations, and the boys and girls
uend some of their spare time
tramping, climbing and picking. The
cultivated berries have been quite
plentiful and cheap. They have
sold at 10 cents a box for a matter
of 10 days or fortnight past
Honesdale housewives started their
strawberry canning about as soon as
the 10-cent period arrived. Next
winter, or even before then, those
dark red berries in their own rich,
satisfactory syrup Will taste good
TO every man and woman who is not
a crank on the subject of grub.
"A delightful reception was ten
dered Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wetter at
their cottage at Lake Ariel Sunday.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Wetter, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
w. Wetter, Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Wetter, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Kuhn,
Mr., and Mrs. Edward Wetter, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry j. Wetter, Mr.. and
Mrs, John Hefty, Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam Eden, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Ratchford, Mr.. and Mrs. James
Garry, Misses Charlotte Wetter
Maude Kramer, Anna Wetter, Mar
garet Rofan, Mamie Hefty, Anna
Hefty, Hilda Wetter, Marion Ratch-
ford, Genevieve Ratchford, Sadie
Ratchford, James Ratehford and
John Carroll.