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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
INDIAN ORCHARD.

Dave Oliver has been appointed
pathmaster for this part of Berlin
township, and is now mending the
way between the Old Red Rock
farm and the Grange Hall.
Minor Crosby and wife, of Alden
Vile, were calling on the latter's
mother at this place on Sunday last.
They also called on relatives at
Beach Lake.
Nettie Ham, who has been very
sick at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
John Brock of White Mills, returned
to her home at the Red Rock farm
on Sunday last.
Bert Dain and family, of Homes
dale, are spending several days with
Mrs. Dams parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Ham.
A great many from here attend
ed Boyd's sale at Boyd's Mills on
Wednesday last. Everything
brought fair prices
Mrs George Spry, of Chestnut
Lake, spent several days last week
with her mother at the home of her
brother, w. d. Buckingham al the
Chestnut Grove farm
The Odd Fellows of this place at
tended the banquet at Honesdale on
Monday evening of last week where
they were treated to a fine supper
and an excellent entertainment
Eulah Noble, of Fallsdale, and
Stella Buckingham are staying with
their grandfather, Samuel Saund-
ers.
Rebecca Buckingham of Newport
News, Virginia, is spending a few
days with relatives here
Rev John Tuthill, of Clifford
was a caller here on Wednesday OF
last week when he performed the
marriage ceremony of Fred Daniels
and Anna Troop, both of Berlin.
Mrs. Gutheil. of White Mills
visited her mother. Mrs. Rebecca
Leftwich, on Saturday.
Marshall Smith, who recently pur-
chased the George Bishop farm, is
making a great many improvements
on the same.
Mrs. William Colwill and son
Clarence, OF Torrey. were visitors al
the Altoona farm on Monday, so also
were Mr. and Mrs. C. o. Blake OF
Bethany.
Grace Smith, of Aldenville. was
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
APRIL WEATHER REPORT.

Total rainfall measured on thir-
teen days, traces four other days, is
4.13 inches, or Las inches more than
April average of 2.65 inches for Al
years; from 81 inch in 1896, to 5.07
inches in 1874, and FIVE inches last
year. There we're traces of snow on
the 9TH, and 29th. Last years rec
ord shows inch snow storm, Apr.
29th.
April Temperature-1910, highest
each day was registered from 35 de-
grees on the Sth, to so degrees on
the 5th; average 60.2 degrees; last
year thirty degrees the 10th. to 80
degrees the 18th; average 51.6 degs.
Highest on my record, for AZ years,
varies from 81 degrees in 1874, to SS
degrees April 18th, 1896. Lowest
was So degrees the 26th, down to 19
degrees the 18th; average 35.S de-
grees; and lowest last year was IL
degrees on the 18th. My lowest rec
ord in April is seven degrees on the
18th, 1874. Range this year was
four degrees on the 7th and Sth, to
a degrees on the 14th; average 24.3
degrees, last year, 1916 degrees.
Warmest day the 5th, mean Ga de-
grees, last year, the 18th, was warm
est day, mean g. degrees. This year
coldest day was the Sth, mean 33 de-
grees, and last year, the tenth, mean
% degrees. Mean for month was
4S.7 degrees, is SIS degrees above
April average of 429 degrees for 45
years; from 35 degrees in 1874, to
sos degrees in 1878. Last year it
was 419 degrees.
Twelve days were clear, eight fair
and ten cloudy; average fifty per
cent of sunshine. Prevailing winds
northwest and southeast nearly
equal. Last year II per cent. of sun
shine with only four clear days.
Last six days of March, twenty-one
to twenty-nine places reported 80 to
80 degrees temperatures; and first
six days of April. II to 26 places 80
to "a degrees. April 11th and 18th
sixteen places were reporting 80 to
. SS degrees and White River, Can
ada. twelve degrees on those two
mornings.
Fields and forests are slowly
changing from brown to green, and
many fruit trees are beginning to
blossom earlier than usual, with
very little damage by frosts in this
region, to first days of May.
THEODORE DAY.
Dyberry, May 2, 1910.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
ROCK LAKE.

Miss Margaret Kane, who spent
the past several months in New
York City, has returned to this
place.
Joseph Dooly, of New York City
visited last week at the nome of
his grandmother, Mrs. j. McLaugh-
lin.
Regina Kerlin, of Pleasant Mount,
spent Sunday with relatives in this
place.
Andrew Riley, of Carbondale, is
spending his vacation at the home
of his parents.
Joseph Fitzsimmons made a busi-
ness trip to Carbondale on Saturday.
Thecla McAvoy has returned to
her home here after completing a
successful term of school at Sher-
man, Pa.
Several from this place attended
the drama at Pleasant Mount on Fri
day evening.
Frederick Leonard visited rela-
tives in Scranton last week
James McVey and F. A. Mansfield
were callers in Forest City Saturday
and Sunday.
Friends and relatives from this
place attended the funeral of John
Downs at Hancock Tuesday. Mr.
Downs was a former resident of this
place and his many friends will be
grieved to learn of his sudden oemise
Hugh Kane has gone to Mt. Glenn
ems, Mich, for treatment. He was
accompanied by his wife.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
"A CHAT WITH
OUR NEIGHBORS

visitor among relatives here on
Sunday.
The Episcopal services at the
school house on Sunday were well
attended.
Florence Weber, of White Mills,
spent Sunday last at the home of
MIR. and Mrs. Switzer.
Elizabeth Switzer is spending sew
eral weeks with friends at Moosic.
Frances Gray, one of Berlin's best
teachers, is training the young ideas
of Pike county.
Thomas Varcoe and wife. of
Honesdale, were recent visitors at
the home of Mrs. Charles Smith.
w. II. Mitchell, of New York City,
is visiting relatives here.
May Richmond. of East Honesdale
spent Sunday and Monday with her
parents.
Kathryn Wagner, of Honesdale,
spent Sunday with her parents, c.
Wagner and wife.
Peter Nell of Hawley, was a busi-
ness caller here to-day.
John Penwarden of East Homes
dale, was renewing acquaintance
here on Monday.
Addie Jennings of Beach Grove,
spent Monday with Sarah Beardslee
Merchant Clark, of Boyds Mills
was a business caller here on Satur-
day.
Mrs Ficken, who has been sick
for several months, we are sorry to
say, is no better.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
USWICK & LAKEVILLE.

MIR. Frank Klein and son George,
of Brooklyn, n. Y, arrived at Us
wick on Wednesday of last week.
They were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
John Schleupner for a few days.
Louise Soderberg of New York
City, arrived at Uswick on Wednes-
day of last week.
Mrs. j. Ruescher and Mrs. Frank
Haney made a business trip to
Honesdale on Thursday of last week
Mr.. Seltzer, of Brooklyn, n. Y,
has exchanged his property in that
city for MIR. Spielvogels farm at this
place. Mr.. Klein is caring for the
place Tor a few weeks.
Mr. Spielvogle moved to Brooklyn
on Monday.
Miss Hazel James returned home
from Hawley on Saturday evening
Misses Virginia, Ella and Harriet
. Keith arrived at their home at U.s.
wick on Saturday to spend a week S
vacation.
Miss Jennie Crane expects to re-
turn home from Brooklyn, n. Y,
to-day.
MIR Schleupner recently purchas-
ed a horse or Mr.. c. Sanders.
Mrs. A. Goble spent Saturday at
tending the Rebekah association al
Wilkes-Barre.
Lester Carlton of Arlington, at.
tended services at the NJ. f. church
here on Sunday. They are moving
back from Philadelphia.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
HOW TO PREVENT
OATS SMUT.
} 3

Our oats have been infested with
smut the last few years. Could you
tell me what to treat the seed oats
with so as to prevent smut? If you
can, | shall be very thankful"
Thur wrote Juniata Valley farm
er to Professor H. A. Surface, State
Zoologist, Harrisburg, to which re-
quest for information the letter re-
piled as follows:
Replying to your recent letter
asking what to do for Oats Smut,
beg to say that this can be prevent
ed by soaking the seed oats in a weak
formalin solution, using one pint of
formalin to thirty gallons of water,
or in that proportion. Soak the seed
about forty minutes, having it in a
sack, so that you can put IL down
into a barrel containing the liquid
By lifting the sack up and down you
can get the liquid to penetrate
through the entire mass of seed At
ter it is well soaked. spread ii on a
clean barn floor and let II dry; then
go ahead and SOW it, and you will
have no Smut Ii 1t should dry too
slowly, shovel it over occasionally.
Exactly the same treatment is
recommended for seed potatoes, to
destroy the germs of blight or rot
that may be upon them. Formalin,
or formaldehyde, can be purchased
from leading drug firms. 1t is COM
monty used as a disinfectant. If
the dilute liquid is kept covered so
that the formalin fumes do not evap-
crate. it can be used over and over
again"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
THE
C RA M G Z:
CAUTION AS TO SPRAYING
BLOSSOMS.

A word of caution still seems nee
essary in regard to the spraying of
fruit blossoms, as requests for in
formation are being continually re-
ceived by H. A. Surface, Harrisburg,
couched in language like the follow
ing:
in your March Bulletin for spray
ing you recommend arsenate of lead
in spraying for codling moth. Now
should it be used where there are
bees? Would it have any effect on
the bees or on the honey?"
To all such inquiries Professor Sur
face has but one reply. He says:
1T is very important not only for the
sake of the bees, but also for the sake
of the fruit, that no spraying be done
on any blossoms that are expanded,
and which are in condition to be
visited by bees. No real fruit grow
er ever sprays his trees while in
bloom. The spraying should Ue done
just after the blossoms fall, but not
while the flowers are open. 1t is
liable not only to kill the bees, which
are SSSChlldl III Idli SlhS bhC poilCh
from flower to flower, and thus insur-
ing good crop of fruit, but it is also
liable to destroy the setting of the
fruit itself, to spray the blossoms.
Il certainly feel it my duty to eau
tion all persons against spraying
trees of any kind while in bloom, un-
less they wish to destroy their fruit
crop as well as the very necessary
bees that perorm such an important
service by insurng the fertilizing OF
| fruits"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
LOOKOUT.

Millard Teeple, of Pond Eddy,
visited his parents, e. Teeple and
wife, on Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. j. Branning is at Lordville
helping to care for her son, William
Branning, who was thrown from a
load of stone and badly hurt one day
last week
L. Hinkley moved his family from
this place to Kellam's on Tuesday.
Mrs. Jennette Fletcher, who spent
the winter with her daughter, Mrs.
Darwin Toms, Monroeville, Ohio, re-
turned to Union on Friday. She
will have a sale to dispose of her
household goods and will make Ohio
her future home.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06
DAMAGE BY
EARTH WORMS.

A letter was received by Prof. II.
A. Surface, from Altoona, Pa, IN
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-06

The Seelyville Fire Company
will have a ball in their hall next
Friday night. adv.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01

n asst week was so filled with wed
ding festivities that there was
IL little time for anything else.
!. Everybody ,'.mho was invited and al
great many who were not attended
one wedding ceremony after another
with a remarkable degree of enthusi-
assn. The Draper Shields wedding
was the largest event of the week.
hut there was a succession OF charm
ing entertainments all week. a good
~ number of the society folk OF Rich-
nlond are in Washington attending the
Council OF Colonial Danes, and they
have been most charmingly entertain
ed during their stay. Mrs. Taft was
hostess of a very handsome reception
In their honor. and any number OF
beautifully appointed luncheons and
dinners have been rendered the presl-
dent, Mrs. William Ruffin Cox, OF
Richmond lust at present telephone
invitations to informal entertainment.
arc considered far more fashionable
for society is expected to be on tn,
wing and merely living through wha
is known as the SILLY season." New
ertheless there have been some yer,
handsome affairs recently, NOTABLE
among which was very attractiv,
dance given by Miss Imogene War
wick at the Hermitage Golf Club o.
Thursday evening complimentary t,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-01

Miss Fannie Grant. OF San Diego, Cal.
Miss Grant is daughter OF ULYSSES
S. Grant. Jr., and a granddaughter
of General Grant. and is one OF the
most prominent young women in the
country She has recently returned
from, visit in Europe. part of which
time she was guest OF her aunt,
Mrs. Potter Palmer, OF Chicago. Miss
Grant attended Chevy Chase School
in Washington with Miss Warwick,
and has visited here before. The club
was attractively decorated for tho oc-
casion, and Miss Grant, who was beau.
tifully gowned in pale green satin and
crystal, received with the young hos.
tess, who also wore green satin, he,
fr6ck being ornamented with one
large crimson rose.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sidney Dayen
port, Mr.. and Mrs. Hunsdon Cary. anf
Mrs. Byrd Warwick chaperoned tn,
| affair.
The guests included: Misses Elcano
Lindsay, Anne Keith Royal, Fanni
Miller. Martha Bell of stanton
Nancy Patton. Nora Randolph, Ann
Traylor. Jellis Scott. Virginia Wat
'kins, Sylvia Augustine. Augusta Free
man, Libby Wingo and Evelyn Byr,
| Warwick; Bernard Jones, Talmag
Donnan. John Wingo, Edward Chris
tlan' Edward Breeden. William Gil
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
FIGHT SUFFERS
THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY

GInnyus, ginnyus,
Take care of your car
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

son fight planned for July 4
at San Francisco?
Is San Francisco too pure and
good to be the scene of a prize
fight? Not at all. An honest
prize fight in San Francisco,
VIII. raise the ethical tone of
the town and improve its
reputation. 1t will bring there
an improving company of vis-
itors who may exercise a
civilizlng influence upon its
institutions.
The Jeffries-Johnson mill is
merely new bit of treat
mcnt for San Francisco. An
other earthquake would not
do. Her system could not
stand it. The fight will be
Just mild jar to wake her
up a little Don't meddlc
with it, please, Alessrs. Min
listers You don't know San
Francisco. and how can you
Judge of her needs?
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
ADDRESS TO
SOFT BOILED EGG

Northward, where rolls the
mighty Klamath, greatest OF Cali
fornia rivers, | came into the din
ing room one morning and found
Al Cumming talking to him
self with no other audience
than a pair OF soft boiled eggs.
CAPTAIN Charles Fletcher Taylor
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
By Edward f. CahiIl

confined get in the required
blow upon the point OF the
others jaw, momentarily para
lying the pneumogastrlc
nerve. the latter will undergo
sort of hypnosis while-the
referee is counting 10, the
judges will declare him de-
feated and in few minutes
thereafter he will be smilingly
shaking his rivals hand and
they will both be con ngratu-
lating each other upon the
size of the gate.
To call this playful per-
formance brutal, "a disgrace
to civilization, which the
morality respect, education
and nobility of the youth OF
the land appeal to have
stopped, might seem to some
a somewhat strained use of
the word
SO we may understand that
people are coming from the ends
of the earth to witness brlet
hypnosis induced Ly temporary
paralysis of the pneumogastric
nerve. There will be no buckets
of blood, my reverend friends.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

FTER a brief divorce from the
communion of sinners one learns
with amusement that deeper con-
sternation was thrown into the
swirl Of the great white way by
Governor Gillett's declaration that
the fight would be fake than by
all the fulminations, commina-
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19
ANOTHER SMITH

This is at least moderately
funny, professionally funny, but,
like the cream that COMES in bot
ties, seems rather thin. But per-
haps the professionally humorous
view is more effective than that
Of the uneasy reformers who are
forever seeking some means to
regulate the sins of their friends.
So we find Representative Smith
not our Snlitll--introducing a
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

reading stuff and in. despair | tackled the train
butchers library. 1t was an extraordinary colIec-
tion-Laura Jean Lbbey, the Duchess, selection
OF Buffalo Bill literature, books that you would
be found dead with uniform and irredecmabe col
lection of unrnitigated trash The remarkable thing
about it its uniformity OF worthlessness In
an unexpected sense the Hartman roads appear to
have standardized the travellers literature Doubt
less they keep what people on trains want to buy.
After had gone down the line the butcher who
civil and obiging fellow, asked me in a
surprised sort OF way:
What kind of books do you read, anyway"
That stumped me and ran
"Oh, give me magazine l said By way Of a
weak compromise.
TRIANGULAR PANIC
On the little Sacramento the fishing is best about
dusk and that sometimes involves a walk home in
the dark along the railroad track 1t happened one
evening that Roscoe Havens and John Cadmau were
trudging home near tunnel 9-the hoodoo tunnel
when they saw man who looked like a suspicious
character standing by the entrance
Il don't like the looks of it., said Cadman Its
holdup sure
When they came up to the man ne asked if there
was not road around the tunnel. He was afraid
to go through. Havens showed him where there
outside trail that would take him around
but he displayed no disposition to go that way and
when they started to walk through the tunnel he
followed them. Cadnan got out his knife and
Havens drew his hatchet.
If you meet man coming the other way. John.
you stick him with the knife and I'll smash this
fellow with the hatchet,' said Havens, outlining the
plan OF campaign
When they got through at the other end the
STRANGER sank down on nile of rocks and ,-iD;rc
the sweat from his brow calculated Good Godr
He more scared than the other two.
But I've often wondered, said Havens telling
the story, what would have happened had we
chanced to meet another man coming through the
tunnel
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19


tions launched by the embattled pulpit To be
sure the governor has protested that he never said
anything OF the sort, but in fine these official de-
mails come so easy thai an uncomfortable sense OF
insecurity pursues the faithful such as not even
the assurances OF Billy Jordan may dispel.
A LEGAL WINK
The law OF California specifically approves and
permits fake fight and, of course, if Governor
Gillett had information in this line he was right
in saying that he had no power to stop the exh-
bition. Il IS view that should commend itself
TO the attention OF clamorous pulpit because if,
in fact the fight is or was to be nothing more than
a harmless pleasure excursion it merits all The
approval that goes out to strictly moral circus
But some people are hard to please.
WHAT IS A FIGHT?
Now it appears that the governor is no longer
certain-if he ever was certain-tllat the fight is
TO be fake and he wants the supreme court to
tell him what is fight and what is not fight
1t IS very awkward situation for an august trbu-
nal We-as1 for blood and they give us lawsuit
HOPING FOR THE WORST
It IS very evident that the whole civilized world
from Nome to London town. from Melbourne to
Podunk, takes very little stock in the fake theory
and hopes for the worst Every daily newspaper
in New York city will be represented by special
writers besides an army of subs. Most OF them are
here already and the fight will be given more space
than the republican national convention The war
between Russia and Japan was small affair COM
pared with this battle
At your breakfast table every morning is served
picture-two or three pictures-of hairy man
with legs like fire hydrant occasionally mitigated
by the counterfeit presentment of Jim Corbctt's
piPestems The unwilling conclusion is forced on
us that the prime of physical development is con
sderably out of drawing Imagine Jeffrics mod
eled in clay or plaster cast OF Corbett on the
mantelpiece.
FIGHT SUFFERS
My interest in the affair is that OF the rustic
who sits by the river bank wondering when the
waters will roll by, but apparently the stream flows
and will flow on, world without end The food of
fight stuff" never seems to run dry and continue
marvel at the unfaing ingenuity of the youthful
geniuses-s that the right plural, Mr. McClatcfy?
who every morning serve up the romance of the
ring. Not elbow, yot an elbow. Their muscu-
lar industry recalls the most famous OF short poem:
Ginnyus, gnnyus,
Take of your carcuss.
THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-19

bill in congress to forbid the transmission of prize
fight news under the interstate commerce clause
OF the constitution OF this legislative excursion
the New York World remarks
If regulator commerce congress can guide the
tastes OF the people in the matter OF newspaper read
ng protecting, for example the innocent populace OF
New York from the communicating influence of San
Francisco it will soon have its hands continental
task III regeneration 1t not stop with
sorshp People eat things, drink things, things
and do things that execrable. The commerce
clause duly eNerted by congress will locazc every
of them
statesman of Mr.. Smiths austere virtue and cor
ideas shonld have no difficulty in that case in
making lines look like the Chinese wall at
the time the Boxers addressed themselves the for
eign devils At home i'll Connecticut. New Jersey,
Iowa., Indiana or Kentucky might rcd
neckte, eat onions for breakfast smoke rope carry
flask in his hip pocket pick his teeth with jack
knife and be model citizen, but when he the
boundary Mr. Smiths interstate morals and etiquette
act would apply aud the heavy hand of government
would fall on him.
OUR SMITH
Our Mr.. Smith is different and processes him
self first class fighting man with chip on each
shoulder. He docs not even ask Billy Jordan to
issue his challenges In recent declaration of
made on the floor OF congress he announced
that if he wished to run for office he would open
his campaign by slapping the face OF every editor
III tS ulSlilCl TlOlH TIE SclleIdl editorial tone
in the eighth district I supposed he had promised
to make them all postmastcrs. Is this fight or
fake?
PONTIUS GILLETT
In the meantime Rev Charles Edward Locke, a
noted divine OF Los Angeles, took occasion to call
Governor Glett a modern Pontius Plate and
asked his congregation pray for the states chief
executive wonder If that would do- (;1Iett a,,f
good.
Indeed the quality OF Doctor Lockes language
appears to have been somewhat strained and pitched
in key too shrill. quote the conclusion OF his
serrnon.a as reported IN the Los Angeles Herald:
Governor Glctt should forget Pilates wicked
and cowardly completely in the tragedy of Christs cru
cilxon If he should rise to his sublime and gigantic
opportunity the politicians toughs would
throw him down, but the law abiding people Of the
state vocid mmortalzc him He has great chance
II hope he will be equal to it! Let us pray for him
IN TERMS OF SCIENCE
The Detroit Free Press speaking Of the clerical
effort to stop the fight, puts it this way:
SO far as California is concerned their effort is
likely TO be quite i'll vain. The law OF that state pro-
scribes prize fights. but describes them in such a
manner put the proposed contest clearly in the
list OF innocent athletic exercises and indeed it will be
little spite of the size and strength of the CON
testants and the vigor of their blows. They will not
seriously hurt each other Should of them within
the prescribed IS rounds to which the game to be
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