The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-20

George Graham has sold his
place at Pleasant Mt. to r. w. DEMO
and in the fall will move to Homes
dale. He for some years was in
charge of the Grange, a large estate
near Dundaff.
---Applicantion has been made for
a charter by J. ID. Weston, e. c..
Mumford, o. NJ Spettigue and A. l..
Bishop for the purpose of establish
ing an automobile line between
Mast Hope and the Forest Lake club
house.
The Pike County Press print
ing office has been moved from the
Brown building in Milford to its
new home on Ann street and the
paper will be issued from that place.
The Citizen wishes its interesting
exchange continued excellence in it's
new home.
A lawn social under the aus
pices of the Y. NJ. b. c. of the NJ. e.
Sunday school will be held on DR..
Buffers lawn Thursday night. Ice
cream and cake will be sold. Should
the evening be stormy, the cream
Will be served on the porches of the
neighbors. Music during the entire
evening. A good time is assured.
Congressman William s. Bennett,
for whom a gubernatorial boom was
formally launched a month ago, has
engaged Albert S. Falck to manage
a campaign to land the Republican
nomination for him. Mr.. Falck is
supervisor of the census in the New
York district and is a close personal
and political friend of MIR. Bennet.
w. A. Sluman, who gives much
of his time to it's affairs, is author
ity for the statement that the Fourth
of July picnic held by Texas Hose
company, No. 4, in Bellevue park
cleared S1OS.50 to be exact This
the company's house. The past two
years $1,000 has been spent by the
company in this way.
The state highway department,
through its superintendent, Joseph
w. Hunter, has agreed to pay three
state roads before the roads are ac-
cepted by county commissions and
supervisors, the township and coun-
ty in which the road is located, pay
ing one-eighth each. The cost of
oiling roads is $500 per mile.
"A case of smallpox was reported
at Starrucca last week. The patient
is Edward Hobbs, of Endicott, N. Y,
a shoemaker, aged "a years. He
was visiting at the home of his
father-in-law, Fred Stone, when
stricken. The case is a mild one
and it is thought that Hobbs con-
tracted the disease before he went
to Starrucca.
The backwardness of the sea-
son is blamed for driving at least
one summer hotel proprietor to the
wall. Mark j. French, proprietor of
the Ward house, Towanda, one of the
best known hotels in this part of the
state, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy, saying the dull and late sea-
son forced him to it. French lists
his liabilities at $4,000 and his
assets at $4,000.
-Lehigh county farmers are
alarmed about the ravages of a new
kind of corn pest. 1t is somewhat
like cutworm, and some plants are
damaged so badly that they will not
yield. The time is a critical one,
as the plants are not strong enough
to withstand the ravages of the
worm, and it is too late to replant
corn. Samples of the worm have
been sent to Professor Surface, the !
state zoologist, with requests for in
structions how to destroy the pest.
Former Editor Nelson j. Spen-
Ger, who was raised at Damascus
and sowed and reaped in that part
of Wayne county when he was a boy, |
went up there last week to help out /
in the family haying. He wishes
now that he had stayed quietly in |
Honesdale. While pitching on the |
cart Mr. Spencer thrust a tine of a |
hayhook into his left hand. He .
came back to Honesdale with a sore
hand and bandage, but he went to
work when he got here. The hand |
does not bother him a great deal.
Seaman, Irwin and Brenneman |
had cavern on the Dyberry state |
road Just beyond the fair grounds |
Thursday that will set them back .
some, though the firm at once put .
all their men at that point and got .
the ditch boxed up and a pump |
started. The cave-in extended near |
ly 100 feet along the road and was
caused by a thin streak of quick
sand the contractors did not know
about until the other day. The !
whole job is to be $500 feet. Thir-
ty-three hundred, or about 40 per
cent. is down. 1t is still hard to
get the needed help and the con-
tractors are taking on every suit
able man they can get. They would
like so, but the force seldom goes
to 40. The meanest part of the job
is the part they are on now.
Folks down town in the busi-
ness quarter may or may not know
1t, but there is a whole lot of naked