The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-11-09
LOCAL MENTION. y

Miss Caroline L. Peterson Is in
New York city making purchases for
the holiday season.
Local superintendent Judson
Smith spent Saturday here in the in
terests of the Consolidated Telephone
Company.
From twenty Martha Washing
ton suppers S1O,3SO.22 have been
cleared, or an average profit of $500
per year.
Robert NJ Dorm has purchased
the advertising and distributing
rights for Honesdale and vicinity of
Mrs Isaac Forman.
The National Elevator and Ma
chine company on Tuesday received
a large upright boring mill from the
Griscoe Machine company to be used
for turning shears.
DIR. and Mrs. Webb, of Forest
City, and Miss Courtright, of Car
bondale, were numbered among the
out-of-town attendants at the funeral
of the late DR.. Searles.
one of our esteemed contempor-
aries omitted in a recent enumera-
ton of Wayne county folks" who
have ventured into musical compost
tion, the name of Mrs. Orpah Swim
gle, of Ariel.
The Wyoming conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church will
meet in annual session, commencing
March 29, 1911, in Owego, n. Y,
Bishop Robert Mcintyre being the
presiding officer.
Several Honesdale veterans are
planning to attend the dedication
exercises at Chattanooga, Tenn, for
which purpose the government has
granted free transportation. They
will leave New York November IL.
The Young Peoples Society of
st. Johns Lutheran church have
elected Royal Richenbaker and Geo.
Ripple as delegates, and VIII Hag-
gerty, as alternate, to the Fall con-
vention of the Northeastern district
of the Luther League at Scranton,
November 10.
In compliance with many re-
quests, the management of the Lyric
has decided to hold the curtain un-
til $50 instead of the usual time,
on Thursday evening, Nov. 10, when
"The Wolf " is the attraction here.
This is being done in order that
those attending the Mems Sup
per at the Presbyterian Chapel
may also take in the show. Per
sonal guarantee is given by Manager
Dittrich that THE Wolf will be
one of the best attractions and one
of the best theatrical events of the
season. The price of admission
will be gladly returned to those not
satisfied with the performance.
Monday night, horse attached
to an undertaking wagon belonging
to j. Samuel Brown, while standing
at the station, became frightened
either at the noise of an engine
blowing off steam, or got tired OF
being out in the cold, or else longed
to get back to the stable and finish
his supper-whether prompted by
any or all of these things, he dash
ed off up the road as fast as he
could go. Fortunately no one was
in the street at the time, and sc
Dobbin got home without damage
to himself, wagon or pedestrians
and stopped in front of his Master
place of business, with an air OF
"Well, here / am. What are you
going to do about it?"
Several individuals interested In
"Honesdale Beautiful" waited upoI
the county commissioners at theil
meeting last week and remarked up
on the fact that large piles of ashes
had been permitted to accumulate
at the rear of the court house, anC
suggested that they were proving
to be an eye-sore to pedestrians II
that vicinity and that it might be
good idea if they were removed. III
discussing the matter in the lobby o
one of our leading hotels promi
nent citizen pointed out a picture o
the Jeffries-JohnsOn pictures TO b'
exhibited here in the near future
and said he thought 1t might b'
better If protest was registered
against the fight pictures, since
the ashes we're put there for thu
convenience OF the farmers WHIT
came to town and hauled them away