The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-28
LOCAL MENTION.

A sprinkling of ashes or saw
dust on icy pavements would not
make your neighbor want to indulge
in profanity.
The fortune left to the mother
Christian Science church by Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy, it's founder, is
reckoned at nearly S2,0O0,0GG.
Elmer B. Mckee, one of the best
know newspaper men of northeastern
Pennsylvania, died last Tuesday
night at his home in Towanda. For
many years he was the editor and
proprietor of the Towanda Daily
Review.
The Rileyville L. T. L. Dramatic
Club will produce the temperance
drama, "Out in the Streets" at the
Calkins church Friday evening, Dec.
80. Specialties will be introduced be-
tween the acts. Curtain rises at s
o'clock Admission, children Is
cents, adults 25 cents.
Things are looking up" politi-
cally in Wayne county among the
candidates, and about the first of the
year it is likely the initial prepara-
tions for the primaries of Saturday,
June 8, will be opened, although for
months past the intention of a num-
ber of aspirants for county offices
had been known.
Last Thursday evening the New
England society of Northeastern
Pennsylvania held it's twenty-fourth
annual banquet at the Hotel Jermyn,
Scranton. About 120 descendants
of the Pilgrim Fathers enjoyed the
feast of reason and flow of soul"
Honesdale being represented by
Henry Zenas Russell and John D..
Weston.
Ring down the curtain. We
can't sing tonight" That's what
happened to the College Days Co.
which were booked for the Lyric
on Xmas afternoon and evening. Far
be it from that they couldn't sing in
the afternoon. This so-called musi-
cal comedy was the poorest thing
that ever came to Honesdale. Plain
ly speaking it was Punk"
The indications are that the bill
increasing pensions of Civil War vet
Grams on account of age will come up
for consideration in the House early
in January, 1t is estimated that the
passage of this bill would add S45,-
100000 to the pension roll. Rep
resentative Cooper, Wisconsin, last
week introduced a resolution de-
signed to expedite the passage of the
measure.
The School Directors Depart
ment of the State Educational Asso-
citation will meet in the fifteenth an
nual convention in Assembly Hall,
High School building, Harrisburg,
Pa, Thursday and Friday, Feb. 2
and 8, 1911. The following have
been elected as delegates from
Wayne county: Z. X. Bodie, Promp-
on; r. B. Simons, Sterling; w. w.
Lesher, Sterling; James Moylan,
Canaan; Robert Whitaker, Dreher.
This is an important meeting and it
is the desire of school men to have
all the delegates present.
The travelling public will save
more than 81 100000 annually as the
result Of an order issued by the In
terstate Commerce Commission Mon
day, reducing the charge for upper
Pullman berths to so per cent. of
the charge made for lower berths.
The commission also gave tentative
approval to a new schedule of rates
fixed by the Pullman Company, re-
ducing the cost of lower berths to 50
for a 12-hour ride. The reduction
will affect every line over which
Pullman cars are operated in the
United States except the New Haven,
the Great Northern and the MilWau-
kee railroads.
VIII the actions in equity
brought by the Attorney Generals
Department for the recovery of mil
lions of dollars alleged to have been
wrongfully taken in the furnishing
of the Capitol be settled before the
present administration goes out of
office? This question is being asked
on Capitol Hin many times a day as
the days Of the Stuart administration
draw to close, While Attorney
General Todd denies that any over
lures have been made to him, and the
people about his department will not
talk of the matter, il is generally
known that settlement is in the air.
That some "feelers" have been
thrown out is pretty generally be-
lieyed and il would not be surprising
to hear of the matter being taken up
at no far future day. As the prose
cutions was instituted in the admin
istration of Governor Stuart, it would
be only reasonable to suppose that
General Todd would desire TO bring
them to a conclusion which would be
fair TO all parties before he retires
from office.