The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-01-14

Je0lA.
The Midnight Sons will enter
tain their friends at dance in the
Lyric hall this evening.
"A number of poultry admirers
from Honesdale will attend the
poultry show at Scranton next week.
The Business Mems Association
held a regular meeting in the city
hall on Wednesday evening, after
which a social time was enjoyed.
Last evening Miss Doretta
O'Connell entertained a number of
friends at cards at her home on
Church street.
Erie telegraph operators will
work nine hours each day, the eight
hour law being declared uncon-
stitutional
Clifford Pinchot, who has been
removed by President Taft from the
position of Chief Forester, is son
of Edgar Pinchot, who lived at Mil
ford, Pike county. Clifford is a mil
lionaire.
The following directors were
elected by the stockholders of the
Wayne County Savings Bank on
Tuesday, January 18th: W. B..
Holmes, A. T. Searle, Fl. S. Salmon,
w f. Suydam, F. p. Kimble, T. B.
Clark, II. j. Conger, c. j. Smith.
The d. & II. are getting out a
splendid illustrated summer resort
directory and make a very generous
offer to hotel and boarding house
proprietors who send full informa-
tion of their resorts to A. A. Heard,
General Passenger Agent, Albany,
y. Y. 4w5
In the matter of order of fixing
days when naturalization cases shall
be heard in the Court of Common
Pleas of Wayne county, the order of
April 10, 1909, was revoked and the
second Monday of April and August,
respectively. in each year fixed as
days when naturalization cases shall
be heard.
The speakers at the Honesdale
and Hawley Sunday School conven-
tions to be held respectively on Jan.
goth and 21st, will be w. G. Landes,
State Secretary, Rev. Clinton B.
Henry and Mrs. C. B. Henry of Scran-
ton, Miss Laura Kennedy of Bing-
hamton, Mrs. George C. Abrahams of
Damascus, and several local speak
ers.
The new we'll at the Mount
Pleasant Fish Hatchery was tested
in the presence of Fish Commission
er Meehan last week and has been ac-
cepted. The depth of the well is $50
feet and it flowed 160 gallons per
minute or $500 per hour The test
lasted ten continuous hours and the
total amount of water that flowed was
$4,000 gallons. The water is forced
up by air pressure.
Some of the Honesdale investors
who are interested in the Chicago
Subway stocks and bonds, will ac-
company a number of Scranton cap
italists, who also are interested in the
same properties, to Chicago to look
over the properties of the company.
They will go in special car. Homer
Greene, John d. Weston, and cashier
Fisch of the Dime bank, will be
among those who will go from here.
They leave about the 18th inst.
The following officers of the
Honesdale Aerie Fraternal Order OF
Eagles were installed by the Grand
nil oh q Wnnj-
ger, Past Worthy President, John
Weiser, President, Frank Lesch;
vice president; w. H. Burkhart,
secretary and trustee; j. r. Kimble,
treasurer; julius Keltz, chaplain;
Fred Lees and F. w. Bunnell, trus-
tees; Mr.. Kuhn and Mr.. Nonemacher,
guards, and Fred Weinger, conduc-
tor
The annual election of the
Wayne Cut Glass Company was held
on Tuesday, January llth, and the
following officers were unanimously
elected for the ensuing year: j. Sam
uel Brown, President; John II.
Weaver, Sr., Treasurer; John Kuh-
bach, First Vice President; John
II. Weaver, Jr., Second Vice Presi-
dent; John A. Kimble, Secretary and
Manager. This company has had a
very prosperous year and also been
running about sixty frames and the
outlook for the coming year is very
encouraging.
-Christy Mathewson, Honesdale's
old pitcher, has just completed the
manuscript of a base ball story for
boys of all ages, and it is the promise
of his publishers that it will be ready
in February. This will be the first
of a series of boys stories on sports,
to be known as The Matty Books"
Associated with the Father of the
Fade-away in the preparation of
THE Matty Books" is w. w. Aulick,
the sporting writer, who will act as
editor of the various publications.
Matty, in speaking of his position,
says he hopes the official scorers
won't mark up too many errors
against him. Il don't claim to be
in the literary League