The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-12-28
All the banks will be closed on

The Greek restaurant is closed.
/ The Sheriff has an execution against
the proprietor.
The knights of st. Paul will
meet Thursday December 2y, Mt 1880
D. m, in Grace church Sunday school
room.
The advance sale of seats for
/ Ian Robertson in the Passing of the
Third Floor Back gives promise to
/ a season record breaker at the Lyric.
The Presbyterian Sunday school
. held their Christmas festival on
Tuesday evening. A pleasing pro-
gram was presented. Children and
/ parents all had good time.
Adam Pride, the old veteran,
who resides on Spring street, is very
/ i'll. He has lost his eyesight, being
/ totally blind, and old age with all its
infirmities is fast overcoming him.
Protection Engine Co. No. 3
hold their annual social on Friday
evening at the engine rooms. Mem
bers and their wives and lady
! friends are expected to be present.
Isaac r. Kimble, who live on the
State road between Honesdale and
, Seelyville. while out walking Satur-
day evening, about p. M, fell and
I broke his hip. He was hurt badly.
MIR. Joseph Strassner, the we'll
known tailor of Main street, while
on his way home Tuesday, fell on
the sidewalk in front of Miss Peter
sens residence and cut his head
badly.
At Grace Episcopal church: New
. Years Eve, t1:30, half-hour SER
vice; New Years Day, 10:30, Holy
Communion and sermon; IL NJ,
Sunday school; 1880 p. m, Evening
Prayer and sermon.
Appropriate services were held
in the Honesdale churches on christ
mas day. The musical programs
were very elaborate, and the rendi-
ton of them was treat to the
different congregations.
They are cutting channel
through the ice on Park Lake so as
to be ready in case of a thaw. The
town council does not intend to have
any blockade in the river which will
cause trouble and damage.
The members of the Baptist
Sunday school will hold their annual
Christmas social on Thursday even
ing, December 29, at 1880 o'clock.
/, Refreshments will be served and a
) general good time is expected in the
chapel.
The useful life need not neces-
sarily be brilliant one. Frequent
ly it is lived in obscurity. But the
impress it makes upon the human
nature by which it is surrounded
will count for good through all the
, coming years.
The college Days" troupe gave
matinee on Monday afternoon and
the play was so far below being in
teresting that Manager Dittrich can
celled their evening engagement. The
troupe is stranded here, and looking
for means to get out of town.
The only clergyman who will
sit in the House of Representative
at Harrisburg during the coming
legislative session is the Rev. Thos
J. Ferguson, a Presbyterian minister
who was elected as a Republican
over Rev. r. E. Campbell, Democrat
Monday was a day of downfalls
and many of our good, staid people
, sat down upon the sidewalks of oul
town very uncermoniously. The
snow that fell covered the ice-claC
see some of our people fail to stand
on slippery places.
H H. Wilcox Clinton, recently
! killed a crossed Berkshire and Tam.
worth pig a year old that dressed
$50 pounds and a full blood Berk.
shire of the same age that weighed
500 pounds. The TamwOrth hog
was introduced to this vicinity by w
c. Norton and is said to produce q
, fine quality of hams and bacon as
well as running well to quantity.
The Christmas service at Grace
/ Episcopal church was most laudablt
for the day on which our Savior was
, born. Special music was under the
leadership of Miss Mabel Broad
Solos were rendered by Miss Jennie
Hageman and Charles Truscott
Rev. Albert Whitaker delivered al
eloquent sermon at the morning ser
vice, using as his text, Let us now
go even now unto Bethlehem" The
Christmas Carols were sung by the
Sunday school at 8 p. N. at which
time the Christmas candies were Civ
en- the children.
The annual meeting of the
State Teachers League of Pennsyl
. yania will be held at the Lochie
, hotel, Harrisburg, on Thursday
December 20, when matters pertain,
ing to the advancement of the pro
posed school code and teachers re
tirement fund legislation will be dis
cussed. The league, which was Or
p ganiZed in Harrisburg a year ago
is composed of representatives o.
various teachers societies through
= out the State The date has beer
fixed because it is expected that
most of the States school teachers
> will be in Harrisburg for the annua
meeting of the Pennsylvania State
Educational association.
The Bond family consisting Of
twenty-four relatives, had a family
reunion and on Christmas day the
party gathered around a special
feast most tastefully gotten up by
Mrs. Mary A. Weaver proprietor o.
the Commercial motel. The follow
ing guests were present: Mr.. anC
Mrs. w. b. Coleman, daughter Vera
and two sons, Floyd and George
: Nyack, n. Y, and the following
,, Honesdale relatives: Mr.. and Mrs