The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-07-20

-Carbondale' uniformed Wood
men of the World will picnic at
Lake Lodore Tuesday, Aug. 2, prob
ably going down in a special train
The Midnight Sons dance prov
ed a great success Friday evening
On Saturday a daughter was
born to MIR. and Mrs Richard Hart
nett.
Hon. William Stiles Bennett ar
rived in town last night, and will
remain here over Sunday with his
family and relatives.-Port Jervis
Gazette. Mrs. Bennett and the chill
dren will stay all summer. The
Bennets left Washington July /.
Another change is due in Della
ware and Hudson agencies. c. NJ.
Miller goes back to Jermyn, L. Ed
wards goes to Mayfield, and Layton
jenkins goes back to the agency at
Peckville. In the clerk line E. G.
Miller, now at Peckville, goes to
Jermyn.
William Stewart of Atco died
in the Deerpark sanitarium Friday
of peritonitis after a short sickness.
He was g years old. A private SER
vice was held in the chapel of c. /.
Terwilliger & Son, and the inter
ment was in Laurel Grove cemetery.
Ten steel passenger coaches
have been ordered from the Pull
man company by the Lackawanna
railroad. The order calls for deliv-
cry by October 1. Other roads
have found the steel coach to have
an advantage over the wooden car
and the Lackawanna will make a
test.
The huckleberry season is un-
der full sway and each day large
quantities of the delicious blueber-
ries are taken to the local markets
by a big army of pickers. Those
who are qualified to speak say the
crop this year will be a fairly good
one, although it will not be
bumper crop by any means.
A committee in charge of Car
bondale's Merchants day at Lake
Lodore is making elaborate prepara-
tions for the big outing, which will
be held Wednesday, Aug. 3. Sever
al athletic events are being arrang-
ed and some valuable prizes are to
reward the winners. The merchants
of Honesdale will join the Carbon
dale merchants this year.
In this county the Republican
insurgent movement has taken no
hold, says a political writer in the
Scranton Truth. John X. Tener is
greatly admired in Lackawanna and
his associates on the state ticket are
recognized also as men of high char
acter, who command the respect of
the voters of the state. They will
receive a large vote in this county.
T. H. Leach, the nineteenth
station agent for the Delaware G.
Hudson at Peckville in six months,
has disappeared, and with his dis
appearance Auditors Brown and
Conack of the Albany headquarters
have been making an examination of
the books. No official announce
ment of the result has yet been CIV
en-, but an effort is being made to
find Leach to give him chance to
clear himself of grave charges.
Leach was formerly station agent
for the Erie at Uniondale.
That friend of everybody's,
Harold d. Cooper, who has been en-
ployed in the Northern Electric sta
tion in Clark's Summit since the sta
tion was built, has accepted a posi-
tion with the Consolidated Telephone
in Scranton and will leave
the coming month. Though his
many friends dislike to lose him,
they all wish him success in his new
position and hope Glen Capwell, |
who has been hired to fill his place,
will prove as jovial as Mr.. Cooper
did.
A crazy woman claiming Scran-
ton as her home showed up in Cen
tral park Friday night and proceed
ed to scare or disgust decent peo-
pie by performing a skirt dance near
the fountain. County Detective
Nick Spencer, who was sent for, saw
at once that the woman, who owned
up to being 6S years old, was not
sound, so he locked her up
over night and Saturday noon
bought her a ticket to Scranton and
put her on the 1926 train, first noti-
flying the conductor and brakeman
as to the nature of their passengers
peculiarities. The woman made lit
tie fuss when it came time for the
officer to put her on the train, but
she was somewhat argumentative
and disputatious when taken into
custody She told Mr.. Spencer she |
wouldn't go to the coop except in |
the patrol wagon. He told her the |
patrol was out of order
and the trip to cell was made on
foot.
AT Williams pond the bass |
fishing is going to be something i'm |
mense just so soon as a few rains |
raise the water. The fish simply |
will not bite on hot, dusty days, and |
fishermen who went out |