The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-31
The Honesdale National bank
will be closed Monday, Labor day.


The Honesdale National bank
will be closed Monday, Labor day.
Mrs. ]. d. varcoe of waymart
was admitted to Emergency hospital
at Carbondale Monday for treat
ment.
The Jewish synagogue is being
painted and otherwise spruced up to
recover its appearance after the fire
of July II.
The funeral of Mrs. Benz Loris,
Sr., was held Monday morning at 9
o'clock from the German Catholic
church. Burial was here.
Miss Edna Katz informally en-
tertained a few friends at hurdy
gurdy porch party Monday evening
About eight couples enjoyed the
unique affair, which was very i'm
promptu.
The Ontario and Western rail-
road have just made a contract for
the double tracking of eleven miles
of their road in northern Wayne,
between Pleasant Mount and Win
wood.
Becoming effective Thursday,
John c. McAndrews has been ap-
pointed chief clerk to Trainmaster
J. j. Mantell of the Delaware divis-
ion of the Erie railroad, to succeed
Willis d. Garfield, who will remain
in the trainmaster's office as steno-
grapher.
There will be a ball game on
the silk mill fats Saturday after
noon, team opposing Honesdale to
be announced later. The Clinton,
Ct, team Capt. Kupfer expected can
not come, but he is hustling to get
a team from some place, and he
expects to succeed.
Emerson w. Gammell expected
to catch some fish in Rock lake,
where the bass are plentiful this
year, but his cronies in the court
house declare the gentleman return
ed with an empty basket because,
as they assrt, he spent too much
time singing and too little time fish
ing. When the singing subsided the
fish commenced to bite and DR.. Pow
ell, who was up to Camp Gammell
on days visit, got two handsome
ones. The Doctor is a fisherman,
not a singer.
George W. Taylor of Oregon
township has been appointed inspec-
tor of the work of construction of
the bridge over Hollister creek, in
Damascus township. John H. Med
erer of Hawley is the contractor.
The contract was sublet by him to
Chris Schroeder of Honesdale, but
the commissioners have no official
knowledge of this transaction,
E. S. Rice and family of Eastern
avenue, Carbondale, are spending
several weeks with relatives in
Rileyville.
Organizer James Kennedy re-
Gently organized Gaynor clubs at
Middletown, Warwick, Greycourt,
Goshen, Chester, Greenville and
Florida. In those places he found
strong sentiment for Mayor William
]. Gaynor of New York city for
Democratic nominee for governor of
this state. From various reports
throughout the state it is expected
that Mayor Gaynor will be nominat-
ed at the next state Democratic con-
vention.-Port Jervis Gazette.
The Skat club is planning a
Labor day outing that is bound to
be worth while. The members,
most of them, will take Erie trains
Saturday for New York and from
there they will go to Newark, N. j.,
famous town for tanneries and
Dutchmen, to pass the major por-
tion of the holiday. Monday and
Tuesday will see the Skats in
Honesdale again. Their August
outing at First pond was a hum
mer, both as regards the dinner and
as concerns the singing and other
festivities. The Newark outing
should prove equally enjoyable. The
doctor, the druggist, the two cloth
ing men and the hotel man expect
to take in this trip to the largest
city in Jersey.