The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-09-28
Congressman Pratt was 1,


Quite a number of people have
remarked that the boom for hospi-
tai would launch more successfully
after election. t.-
Miss Lottie Denhart. daughter
of MIR and Mrs. Max Denhart, and
Otto Whitmore, a glass cutter, were
married in Scranton on Saturday,
September "a.
The following letters remain
uncalled for at the Honesdale post
office: Mrs. Robert ID. Carter, T.
c. Gordman, Mrs. John Henderson,
Mrs. Joseph Mandsley, Mr.. ]. p.
Roberts, George Wheeler.
The loss of Mrs. Rose, incurred
at the fire which burned her two
barns, has not been adjusted as yet.
The two barns which we're burned
were insured for $500 and not for
$1,15O as previously stated.
John F. Blake of Union was in
town last week and while driving a
team of horses who had an aversion
to automobiles, he delivered several
Democratic speeches for the bene-
fit of the horses and men who held
the wheel of the autos.
Fred Hubbard of Carbondale was
arrested for speeding his auto in the
borough by Policeman Canivan and
fined $40 by Burgess Kuhbach. a
repetition of the offcnse is $25. This
is the first fine imposed under that
borough ordinance.
The United Shoe Machinery
company (which is the trusD have
purchased for ten million dollars all
the patents of Thomas Plants Won
der Working Machine company
which gives them absolute control
of all the shoe making machinery
business of this and other countries.
&C. E. Dodge has just returned
from an extended trip covering the
Carolinas, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma,
Omaha and other points. He found
the southern people cordial and de-
sirous of having northern people
come among them. The lands in
Oklahoma and Texas are getting high
but in the older states, especially
Mississippi, lands are cheap
The firm of Douglass & Vale
will soon be carrying on the business
formerly carried on by the Uniondale
Planning Mill company. Both men,
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Lebanon township and will take
charge of their new enterprise on
Oct. 10. They are both hard work.
ing men and will no doubt conduct
successfully the new business which
they are to embark in.
At a meeting of the sharehold-
ers of the new state bank to be es-
tablished in Hawley, held at Schard's
hall on Thursday afternoon, the fol-
lowing directors were elected: J. S.
O'Connor, NJ. J. Lynn, T. F. Mangan,
NJ. j. Leonard, ]. F. Drake, Samuel
Vennie, NJ. Wood, Isaac Male, Michael
Corcoran, P. J. Bower, Henry Won
Franck, William Schardt, P. r.
Cross, Miles Rowland, w. Kiesler.
The county institute will be
held Nov. 14-1S at the High school
auditorium, Honesdale. An interest
ing and instructive program has been
arranged. DR.. |. w. Howerth of the
Educational Commission, Illinois,
DR.. j. T. MacFarlane, president of
the Brockport, IN. " State Normal
school and Prof. John T. Watkins of
Scranton are the instructors for the
day sessions. The annual convention
of the directors association will be
held November Is and 10.
-AnnuaI convention of the Wayne
County Sunday School association
will be held Friday, Sept. 80, at the
Methodist Episcopal church, Damas-
Gus, sessions at II a. m, 2 and 7.30
p. m. The Erie Railroad company
having refused to hold the main line
train at LackawaXen to connect with
To- Ip1A
it will be necessary for delegates
from Honesdale, White Mills, Haw-
ley and points on the Wyoming divi-
sion to arrange in some other way to
reach Damascus.
Patrick McCarty, owner of the
old Guckenberger brewery property,
wishes us to correct the statement
made in our last issue regarding the
improvement of that property. He
and not F. w. Bunnell is the owner
and he is tearing down the old
building but has not decided just
what he will erect thereon, but he
has under consideration the build
ing of three fiat tenement buildings
and is also willing to give a factory
site to some concern. Patrick Nc
Carthy is one of our progressive
citizens who is willing to do much
for the benefit of the community.
Although the farmers of Lam
caster county are offering $3.50 a
day and board for laboring men to
assist in housing their tobacco crops
only a few workers for the tobacco
fields are being secured. The 1910
crop in that section is the largest
in years and even the figure of $3,-
100000 for the entire planting will
be far exceeded. Frost appeared in
different parts of the county last
week and tobacco growers are offer
ing higher wages for help than ever
before heard of in Lancaster coun-
ty. From all the counties come
similar reports of the difficulty ex-
perienced in getting any help, let
alone help that will stay.