The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-09

for the coming election.
Mrs. Chas. E. Mills, of Court
street, will give "thimble tea" on
Thursday afternoon to some forty of
her lady friends.
Alex. Voigt has sold his res
taurant and hotel to Frederick w.
Michaels, owner of the Irving Cliff
Bottling Works.
Lake Lodore will be improved
so as to make it more attractive
this season. About $4,000 will be
expended in improvements.
DR.. Harry Many suffered ampu-
tation of the first Joint of the fore
finger on Saturday, the operation be-
ing performed by Or. A. w. Smith,
of Scranton, assisted by DR. Powell
and DR.. Ely of this place
The Honesdale National Bank
will be closed on the following legal
holidays in the month of February:
Saturday. 18Th, Lincolns birthday;
Tuesday, 18th, election day; Tues
day, 22d, Washington's birthday.
Lawrence Senft is candidate
! for Justice of the Peace in Damascus
township. His experience of over
twenty years in the civil and criminal
! courts of New York City would be
very valuable to him in straighten-
ing out legal tangles in that town
ship.
Car No. so, of the old Delaware
and Hudson Gravity Railroad, and
! formerly used by the officials of that
/ corporation, in travelling to and fro
/ between Carbondale and Honesdale,
is now doing duty as lunch wagon
/ at Peckville, a purpose for which it
is well adapted.
Judge A. T. Searle, Rev. w. II.
Hitler, Rev. w II. Swift, w. f. Suy-
dam, Earl Sherwood were among
/ those to attend the banquet of the
/ Wayne County Pennsylvania society
of New York city at Hotel Manhat-
tan. Judge Searle, Rev Swift and
Rev. Hitler gave addresses.
At a meeting of the Nature
/ Club of Doylestown, it was suggest
ed that the borough council pass an
ordinance taxing cats, similar to the
manner in which CANNES are taxed.
/ If such a law would be passed, the
club believes there would not be so
many half-starved cats roaming
| about ready to prey on young chick
/ ems and birds. The cats will NO
doubt hold an indignation meeting
/ in Doylestown's back yards.
A campaign to abolish high
school commencements and so dis
/ peuse with the advice of and the un-
| necessary expense of the graduates,
| has been launched in Towanda,
/ Bradford county. One of the papers
( of that growing town is back of the
movement to cut out speeches and
/ essays and the mailing of several
hundred engraved invitations, be-
sides curtailing other incidental eX-
/ penses which are burdensOme for
many of the graduates.
Homer Dav, nport, the cartoon
list. who has farm near Goshen,
was fined $3.50 by Supreme Court
| Justice Newburger in New York
City Tuesday, for his failure to pay
/ alimony to his wife, Daisy B. Da-
venport, at the rate of $400 a month
! pending her suit for a separation.
/ The sheriff was directed to arrest
the cartoonist and keep him in Lud-
low street Jail until the fine is paid
/ Homer's cartoon of that Judge will
require no further inspiration than
the above.
The remains Of three persons
arrived in Honesdale on Friday for
/ interment, namely, those of Samuel
j. Freeman, of New York. The fun
eral was held Sunday afternoon from
the residence of Morris Freeman
on Court street. Edward Bracey
died in Newark, n. j., on February
2nd, aged SO years. The remains
arrived via Erie on Friday afternoon
and interment made in St. Johns
/ Catholic cemetery on Saturday af-
ternoon. Two sisters. Mrs. Austin
! Ginley of Carbondale, and MISS
Kathryn of Honesdale, also one
brother, Michael, of Shelly, Ohio
survive. The remains of DR.. Hen
wood, of Buffalo, n. Y, also arrived
Friday afternoon and were placed in
Glen Dyberry vault.
1t is to be regretted that clouds
obscure Comet A 1910 these past
few evenings. Only a few evenings
since this comet could have been
! seen by our people in our county had
the sky been clear. The comet is
now about 6O,OOO,OOO miles from the
earth. travelling, according to tho
latest calculations about forty-one
miles a second. 1t passed perhilion
or nearest point to the sun, on Jan
nth at a distance of a little less
than 100000 miles, and by the
end of February will be some 120,.
100000 miles from the sun anC
100000 miles from the earth
The comet is now in the constella
tion Pegasus, or the Flying Horse
and sets about p. m, that is, fol
the head, the tail, of course, point
ing up, remains above the horizon
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