The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-03

a picnic at Fiddler's Elbow Friday.
The drum corps holds a picnic
in Bellevue park Saturday, Aug.
6. There will be music by Maple
City orchestra. Ladies free.
Don't fail to go to the Enter
prise Grange picnic in Taylor's
grove on Wednesday, Aug. 10.
Good dinner and interesting exer-
cises.
The Bell Telephone company
are moving their office from the Fos-
ter building to the Schoell building,
corner of Main and Tenth streets,
today.
Newton Palmer, Syracuse, N.
Y, restaurant man, and Miss Flor
ence Tyler of Damascus took out a
marriage license in Honesdale Mon
day. They will be married this
week in Damascus.
Dance and ice cream social by
the Seelyville Fire company Fri
day night. The cream will be eaten
on the lawn and the dancing will
be in the new hall. whose floor is so
smooth and exhilerating.
Tn the Valley Mong the Penn
sylvania Hills" the song that made
a big hit in Scranton last week, is
now in Carbondale. 1t ought to
make out as well as In Good Old
Colorado" and "My Little Georgia
Rose"
Patrick f. Leonard and Mich
ael f. Coyne have leased Hotel
Flynn from To F. Flynn and will
take possession this week. Mr..
Flynn will go on his farm in Buck
ingham township. Certain rooms
in the hotel he reserves for the use
of himself and his family.
"A rattlesnake was killed re-
Gently while making its way across
the school grounds to enter the
building. Remarkable how a good,
up-to-date school building attracts.
One of the directors of the school
whose veracity is beyond repreach
tells the above story and insists that
it is true.-Hawley Times.
A terrible storm passed over
Deposit, n. Y, Wednesday night
doing much damage. The house OF
Mr.. Warner was struck, the light
ming going through a bedroom win
dow and burning the bedclothes and
| destroying the furniture. Another
incident was reported near Deposit
when seven cows were struck in a
! field.
The freight agents of the Erie
railroad have received from head
quarters a bit of information they
view with pride and satisfaction. The
Erie operated 295 fast freight sec
| tions during the month of June ant
but four failed to reach their destina
tion in time for advertised mark
cts. All connections were made
and this record has probably never
been equalled.
Mrs. Henrietta Pohle, aged 81
years and four months, died at he
home on Cliff street Friday morn
ing. She was born in German!
April 13, 1924, and came to thi
country with her husband and fou
children in 1854. Her husband dieC
in 1882. She is survived by one son
William of Honesdale, and fiv,
daughters: Mrs. Chris. Hartung AM
dale, Mrs. Edward Peterlein o
Grand Rapids, Mich, Mrs. Josepl
KrantZ of Carbondale and Mrs
Charles Harper of Brooklyn. Twen
ty grandchildren and II great grand
children also survive. The funera
was held from st. Johns Lutheran
church Sunday afternoon, Rev. c
C. Miller officiating. Interment il
the Lutheran cemetery.
When Judge Searle went to tn
postoffice Monday morning the frs
thing he pulled out of the box wa
an invitation to the annual feast o
victuals and flow of avoirdupois O
the New England Fat Mems asso
citation at Music hall, Boston, thi
month. The judge, a New Eng
lander by raising and education
knows many of the men that belon
W the dSSOCIdIlOu anu he is bllSlDl
to join it, but he will not go. r
belong to the New England Fa
Mems association it is necessary t
be white man, 200 pounds or owe
(avOirdupois, not drugstore weight
good-natured and fond of an old
fashioned Northeastern clam an
bluetish dinner. 1t is hoped the as
sociation may be able to get Pres
. dent Taft for guest this time, a
Beverly, the summer White House
is not far from this years dinner
Mr.. Taft weighs 500 and the assc
citation wants his presence badl!
In 1908, when he was running fo
, president, he received an earnes
request from the president of tn
Fat Men to go TO the gathering 6
st. Johnsbury, VT, but he facetiou!
ly declined by saying that froI
Washington to the north woods {
Vermont was too strenuous a sun
mer trip for a fairly busy man {
800.