The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-13


next Wednesday evening.
Jos. Bodie, Jr., and Frank A.
Jenkins attended a dance at Alden
Vile Wednesday evening.
Miss Annie Tyler. of Galilee, is
assisting MIR. and Mrs. J. o. Terrell
in closing out their store goods.
Maurice. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. b. Roadknight, has recovered
from a severe attack of diphtheria.
Jesse Sherwood, Preston's wide
awake constable, brought a prisoner
to Hotel Braman charged with steal
ing.
The apple crop in Pennsylvania
is expected to be a Secord breaker
according to reports received at the
Department of Agriculture.
The strike of the glass cutters
at Hawley has come to an end. Most
all of the men have returned to work,
MIR. Gibbs taking back all whom he
could employ.
The White RibbOners of Homes
dale will entertain the county con-
vention of the Loyal Temperance
Legion in the lecture room of the
Methodist church on May 31st
Game Warden Shoemaker arrest
ed on Tuesday two men who were
fined twenty dollars and Tuesday
evening he arrested six more at Lake
Lodore, all for violating the fish and
game laws.
The New York minister who
said "Pittsburg is the city where
they make iron and--steel for a
living" has given to the public about
the wittiest gem we have read in a
long time.
The hotel conducted by Charles
F. Myers on Willow avenue was pur-
chased of Mrs. Christine Soeryel by
f. w. Bunnell. Possession given
June 1st Size of lot is S2x264.
Price paid was $470.
Because of the local option
meeting in the court house Tuesday
evening, May 18th, the White Rib
boners will hold their meeting at
Mrs. Browns on High street on
Tuesday evening, May oath.
The funeral of George Decker
took place at o'clock Wednesday
afternoon, Rev. w. H. Hitler, pastor
of NJ. e. church, officiating. Inter-
ment in Indian Orchard cemetery.
He was a member of the Red Men
and also of Alert Fire company, both
of which attended the funeral in a
body.
A few days ago a rather bash
full young woman went into a store
carrying three chickens. She inquir-
ed the price of chickens and at the
same time put them on the counter.
feet were tied, and asked if they
would lay there. She bit her hand
kerchief and said: mo. sir. they are
roosters."
.a Fred Brown and wife, of Phila-
delphia, have arrived in Honesdale
for the summer. Mr.. Brown will
run the road machine for Seaman,
Irwin & Brenneman, who are build
ing the new state road. 1t will be
necessary to remove between six and
seven thousand cubic feet of earth
and rock before it's foundation and
construction can be commenced.
Whenever you hear man glori-
flying the past and driveling of the
good old days, you may be sure that
mans physical and intellectual pow
ers are waning, and that he is strag-
Cling farther and farther behind in
the rush of the worlds progress.
The best thing about the good old
days is that they have not a return
ticket
Milton Pelton, aged 20 years of
Hawley, was drowned in the Lacka-
waXen river near the Eddy on We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock. He
was subject to epileptic fits and while
seized with one fell into the river
and was drowned before aid could
reach him. Coroner H. B. Searle of
Honesdale, was notified and proceed
ed to the place, empanelled a jury
who rendered a verdict of accidental
death by drowning.
Tuesdays Tribune-Republica
contained a photograph of Miss
Charlotte Hand, daughter of Mr., and
Mrs. Charles Hand, of Brooklyn, n.
Y, she being one of six college girls
to break athletic records, having won
the running broad jump, and was
second in the standing broad jump
at Vassar on Saturday. Miss
Hand is well known in Honesdale,
having visited on many occasions
her grandfather, the late Horace c.
Hand.
While Mr. and Mrs Edward
Penniman were celebrating their
golden wedding on Tuesday evening,
May 10th, word was received from
Brooklyn that Mr.. Penniman's only
sister, Mrs. Warren X. Dimock, was
dying. This sad news was kept from
him so as not to mar the pleasure of
the occasion. Mrs. Dimock died
about II o'clock that evening The