The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-21


ing Monday, December 26.
Saturday morning was the cold
est in the month, the thermometer
registering eight degrees below zero,
at Hawley.
George w. Slauson. Elmira, n.
Y, a sewing machine expert of 35
years experience, is spending some
time in town.
Health Officer N. B. Spencer last
Friday quarantined, for measles,
Dena, wife of Joseph w. Seitz, 400
Grove street.
Winter in dead earnest set in
Friday, December 16, when the ther-
mometer registered one degree above
zero at Z a. m.
Circulation Manager e. Burke,
of the SCRANTON TIMES. was an
early Monday morning business call
er in the Maple City.
One of the laborers in the en-
ploy of the Honesdale Consolidated
Water Company froze his right foot
severely last Thursday night.
The pension roll has been de-
creased in this immediate vicinity
by the death of nine veterans and
widows during the past six weeks.
Pleasant Valley Grange will hold
election of officers Friday evening,
December 23. All members are re-
quested to be present. Refreshments
will be served
Appendicitis is still the most
popular disease, according to the re-
port of the University of Pennsylva-
mia for the year of 1909-1910, which
has just appeared OF a total of 331
operations, 316 were for appendicitis.
w. H. Bullock has returned
from an extended business trip to
Pottsville and the Schuylkill Valley.
He says they have more snow down
there than in Wayne county, and
that the temperature there fell sew
eral mornings ago to ten below
zero.
The Wayne County Medical AS
sociation met last Thursday, in
quarterly session, at the Allen
House. DR.. A. j. Winebrake spoke
no THE Use and Abuse of Obstetri-
cal Forceps In Labor" They
enjoyed the lecture, interchange of
views and lastly but not leastly," a
good dinner.
Our carriers are paid weekly for
delivering THE CITIZEN to the
homes of subscribers, and conse-
quently the management has not
been in the habit of issuing any holi-
day calendars. If however any one
feels inclined to remember them, at
this season, we are sure they will not
object in the least.
-Messrs. George MacFarlane, S.
j. Henderson, of Phoenixville; John
Mitchell and Richard Driscoll, mem
bers of State Highway Civil En-
gineers' corps, who had been max
ing a map survey of Wayne county
for the past several months, have
completed their work and returned
to the Scranton office Thursday
IAN interesting stereopticon lee
ture on The Battle of Gettysburg"
was delivered before a large and ap-
preciative audience in the NJ E.
church, Waymart, Monday evening
by the Rev. H. w. Thomas, Hartford.
Fifty views were shown by Rev.
Thomas, who for many years resid-
ed in Gettysburg, where he acquired
abundant local color for his lecture.
Miss Alice Groves entertained
the B. T. girls at her home on Ter
race street, Thursday evening. The
members present were: Misses Name
Gully, president; Alice Duff, vice
president; Alice Groves, secretary;
Lucy Butler, Mary Coggins, Regina
Murray, Kate Mangan, Agatha Man
/ ger, Margaret Moran and Agatha
Butler. Dainty refreshments were
served.
The National Elevator and Ma
chine Company are making efforts,
we are informed, to purchase the
flats" near the Union Station. 1t
is said they will leave town, if they
can't get them. 1t is their intention,
| it is said, to erect a building near
| the station, inasmuch as they are put
| to considerable inconvenience and ex-
| pense in carting their machinery
! from their present location to the
freight depot.
! The pleasure of a trip to New
| York was marred for Mr.. and Mrs.
! H. Scott Salmon, who left for the
metropolis last Thursday, by a sad
/ mishap which befell Mrs. Salmon on
the afternoon of their arrival there
AS they were descending one of the
tube" entrances, Mrs. Salmon trip,
ped and fell, dislocating her collar
bone. Dr. Gibbons was summoned
who reduced the fracture and mace
Mrs. Salmon as comfortable as pos
sible. Mr.. and Mrs. Salmon arrived
home Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. o. Richards
Ely, Nevada, are visiting at the home
of his brother, Harry Fl. Richards
2 East street. On Thursday, MIR
Richards and wife will leave for the
Wyoming Valley, where they will
visit relatives and friends in Scranton
and Wilkes-Barre, the latter being
Mr.. Richards place of abode before
he left for the far west about eigh,
teen years ago. For the past two
years he has been employed by the
Steptoe Smelling and Mining Co. as
master mechanic. This mining com
pany owns the second largest copper
smelteT in the world. 1t was owing
to poor health that Mr.. Richards re
signed his position, resolving to sci
out, and visit the East with the ex
pectation of locating in Scranton ol
Wilkes-Barre. After leaving their
! Nevada home thqV visited at Sal