The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-22


-Myron e. Dodge is getting along
nicely and in few days will be al
lowed to sit up.
Rev. George S. Wendell will
hold services at Dyberry Baptist
church on Sunday at $50 p. m.
The ball game with Carbondale
Saturday afternoon will be called at
2.3O. Carbondale expects to send
from 800 to 500 rooters.
Fred c. Shoell. the barber, is
making preparations to install
modern steam heating plant for his
entire building, shop, telephone Of
fee, home and ALL o. NJ. Spettigue
has the contract.
The Toasted Corn Flake COM
pany have an auto delivery wagon
in Honesdale this week This COM
pany has several of these machines
in operation and claim that they beat
the horse or locomotive as a means
of carrying their statesmen and sell
ing the goods.
Burglars got into the grocery
store of Crosby & McGinniss some
time Wednesday night and gobbled
about IS worth of candy, cigars and
small sweet stuff. A back window
was found half out and the fellows
that got in, probably boys, stood on
box and went through the window
that way, leaving no clue of any
consequence.
The treasury department at
Washington has issued warning to
the authorities against a counter
felt 81 bill said to be in circulation.
So far as known none has yet been
discovered in this vicinity, but
sharp lookout is being kept in view
of the recent operations of New
York gang in this part of the state
some of whom were sent to the fed
eral prison for a long term.
Borough Solicitor Charles A.
McCarty was called on today to give
an opinion as to the proposed
changes in the grade in front of P.
e. McGranaghan's property on South
Main street Mr.. McGranaghan
claims water flows back into his
eavespipe and is likely to damage
his property. Mr.. McCarty told the
street commissioner he preferred to
render a written opinion, and this
he will probably do presently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark V. Richards
and son James leave Port Jervis on
train Saturday afternoon for Piqua,
o. On Monday Mr.. Richards will as
sumo his new duties as managing
editor of the Piqua Daily Call. They
go week earlier by reason of the
fact that President Merritt c. Spei-
del expects to attend the Republican
state convention as one of the dele
gates from Miami county. The con-
vention will be in session at Colum-
bus the greater part of the week.
Wednesday morning while at
work in the laboratory of his drug
store o. T. Chambers met with a
painful accident. He was mixing
some soda syrup in a gallon glass
jar when the jar slipped from his
hand and in trying to catch it the
jar struck the end of a table and the
pieces of glass cut Mr.. Chambers
left hand between the thumb and
forefnger, also between the two
middle fingers. DR.. H. B. Ely was
called and found it necessary to take
seven stitches in the hand to close
the wounds.
C. E. Webb of New York, one
of the leading hotel men of the
country, is in Scranton negotiating,
it is said, for the management of
Hotel Jermyn. A conference was
held between the executors of the
Jermyn estate, F. S. Godfrey, the
present lessee of the property, and
Mr.. Webb, with the object, it is un-
derstood, of acting on a proposition
made Mr.. Godfrey to Immediately
turn over the lease of the property
to the Jermyn estate. Mr.. Webb's
home is in Ellenville, N. Y. He has
been manager of the Ansonia in New
York and he was at one time stew
ard in the Plaza hotel in that city.
He has also managed hotels in Nor
folk, Va, and other large cities.
Joseph Ackerman, Charles Nc
Cam, Sr., p. f. McCann, p. j. Nc
Donough and G. A. Shevlin of New
York left Carbondale Monday after
noon about o'clock on a fishing
trip. They returned about / in the
evening. During their trip they sue
ceeded in getting 40 pounds of bass
and trout, and there was much
speculation among their friends as
to where they had made the haul.
Later, however, it developed that
the fish had been presented to the
fishermen by James Riley, father-in-
law of Mr.. Ackerman, who is spend
ing the summer at Pleasant Mount.
One of the bass, it is claimed,
seven pounds and two
ounces, another weighed five pounds,
and a third weighed nearly four
pounds.
Attorney e. c. Mumford and c. !
NJ. Betz went fishing Wednesday
and were gone all day. They were