The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-24


be held at Nay Aug park Wednes-
day, Aug. 81.
Rev. G. S. Wendell will conduct
services and preach at the Berlin
Baptist church Sunday next at 2.30
p. m.
Services will be held at the First
Baptist church Sunday at 1890 a.
m. and 730 p. m. The pastor, Rev.
G. s. Wendell, will preach. Sunday
school at 11.45 p. m.
Timothy ID. O'Connell found out
the name of the young fellows who
stole small quantity of liquor from
his saloon on South Main street. An
empty bottle discovered in the loft of
barn was the clue. The youngsters
will not be prosecuted, but Mr.. O'Con-
nell has notified one of them never
to darken the door of the American
house again.
Mayor John Kuhbach, who
spends much of his time driving, ex-
tended his route Sunday by going to
Lake Como and Niagara. He COW
cred something like SO miles of
Wayne county roads and Monday
was willing to be quoted as saying
that he not only had bon ton out
ing the day before but that he
found a great many good pieces OF
road up the county.
Jacob Theobald, the barber
with the fine disposition, has put a
new sign, a tasty blue and white af-
fair, over his door to notify people
that Mr.. Theobald has been there l 3
years and is still staving faces and
cutting hair at the old spot. Bart.
Mitchell painted the sign and it is
one of his best jobs. He has done
a good bit of nice work in the sign
painting line for Honesdale busi-
ness men since he came here few
weeks ago.
The Kirsham Motor Manufac-
turing company of York is said to
be desirous of locating in Scranton.
The report is to the effect that the
company is negotiating for the pur~
chase of the plant of the Kemmer-
er Iron company, which occupies
the old South Mill site, The COM
pany viii employ 400 men if it gets
the plant, for which it has said to
have Offered 100000 The COM
pany has enjoyed much prosperity
and regards Scranton as good
place to manufacture motors.
Two young advertising distribu-
tors who went ''up the county" last
week with a double rig were over
taken by a violent rainstorm and
tried to get shelter at farmhouse.
They did not get in, for the farmer
and his family took them for spot
ters or suspicious characters, but
they slept on the porch the balance
of the night and tried to grin and
make the best of it.. They tell this
joke freely, at their own expense,
and say that next time they will take
a tent along and sleep under can
wEs.
George Keller, who was briefly
written up in one of The Citizens
feature columns last week, informs
the editoT he has been an honest
horsedealer for years, that he has
brought more good horses into
HonesdaAe than Lee Braman ever
did or ever Will, THAI he had
chance to knock Braman 5000 worth
ON a horse trade this week and
didn't accept the chance, that any
official in the courthouse would
1,y y e. n
if he got pulled by Braman or any
other officer, and that the first and
last murder cases that he knows
about in this county were from Man
chester township. The courthouse
family, from Squire Smith down, ALI
like Mr. Keller and say that he never
hits a critic in the back.
The Nickelet viii he opened
again, probably Saturday, though
Fred w. Michels, who is interested,
thing could be made ready by that
time. AT their meeting with Mr..
Groves, the lessee of the property,
in Scranton Thursday MIR. Michels
and Chris. Hartung made arrange
ments mutually satisfactory for the
resumption of business at the little
picture house. Mr. Michels in out
lining his plans Monday said the
Nickelet would have a singer as well
as a pianist and that illustrated
songs would have a prominent place
on the program. He added that he
had contracted for plenty of the
latest pictures and would make the
house the equal of any place of its
kind in this part of the state. He
is advertising for piano player and
a singer in this issue of The Citi- |
zen.
State Highway Engineer Arthur
w. Long of Scranton is very opti- |
mistic over the prospect of the Dy-
berry state road reaching compile
ton by Nov. /. Seaman, Irwin and |
Brenneman, the contractors, have
had a tough job back along, for
early in July they struck the vein
Of quicksand near the fairgrounds
and about 100 feet of road went