The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-01-12

cupying the Offices formerly occupied
by Judge Searle.
Mrs. Crissman, mother of
Frank Crissman, formerly host of the
Allen House, died last week at Mil
ford, aged S5 years.
The Aldenville LIZ lies Aid So
ciety will meet at them. e. parsonage,
Bethany, Thursday, Jan. 13, for din
din. Everybody welcome.
The Mayor of Seelyville made
us a pleasant call on Monday He
is strongly in favor of changing the
law that makes it penalty to catch
bait fish with a net.
Officers elected at the spring
election will serve as follows: Jus
tice of the Peace, six years; election
officers, two years; school directors
and councilman, four years.
Company e will have their regu-
lar spring inspection on Thursday
evening, January 27th. The inspec-
tion will be made by Capt. Taggart
of the Regular Army.
The Ladies of the Maccabees
will hold their regular review on
Thursday evening, Jan. 13, in the /.
o. o. F. Hall. All members are re-
to be present,
Rev. Cody is to lecture at Orson
on Wednesday evening, January 20.
His subject will be Personal Expert
ences on the Prairies of the Great
A. j. Stober, who was elected
state Treasurer of Pennsylvania at
the last election, was found dead in
bed at his home in Lancaster on
Monday morning. The cause of death
was heart disease. He would have
been 6S years ole, on January goth.
-"Quit the booze or lose your
job" is the latest order of the Read
ing Coal Company to it's fire bosses
throughout the region. The order
was effective after January 1st. Af-
ter that date saloon-keepers will be
barred as contract miners under this
company.
w. c. Cruiser, for many years
editor and publisher of the Mont
rose Democrat, has sold out his in
terest in the paper to his son, Ray
d. Cruiser, and Chas. S. Gardner,
young men who have been associat-
ed with him in the publication of the
paper for several years.
Patrick Mack, aged 81 years,
the oldest communicant of st. Pat
rick's church, West Scranton, walked
to Mass on Christmas morning. He
was three years old when his father
first took him to Mass on Christmas
day, in Ireland. He has not missed
a Christmas Mass since then, "a
years ago.
-Seelyville thought they had a
fire on their hands Sunday afternoon
when the Chapel bell rang out of
season, accompanied by roaring
noise which was caused by Edward
Ordnung blowing steam through the
steam pipes of the mill in order to
get up a good circulation and main
-ain proper temperature.
The case of Henry and Leo
rheobald versus the Honesdale Con-
solidated Electric Light, Heat and
Power company, to recover one
months wages from above company
for work, was decided in favor of
Messrs. Theobald by Justice Ham.
G. A. McCarty appeared for the plain
tiff and f. C. Mumford for the COM
pany.
After October 1st next the town
Of Hancock, n. Y, located at the
junction of the East and West
of the Delaware River, is
expected to go dry" The bibulous
residents of the village are basing
heir hopes for future drinks upon
he erection of new hotel in Buck
ngham township, Wayne county, Pa.
A suspension bridge spans the Della
ware at this point.-EXchange
The Seelyville Fire Company
ire very carefully considering the
style of apparatus best adapted for
heir particular locality. There is an
automobile fire engine now built
which can out-do the best steam en-
zine in throwing a stream of water;
s always ready to travel, and car
les a few chemical tanks that are
landy when fire is in its incipiency,
,r when a fire is too far away from
good water supply.
From an apparently reliable
ource, The Citizen learns that some
# the big milk dealers in New York
re sending a new kind of milk bot
le to their plants in this county.
I takes five of these bottles to hold
quart OF milk and they are retailed
n New York at nickle each, bring
ng the price OF milk to the consum-
r Vp to 25 cents per quart. While !
he attorney general OF New York is
investigating the milk question, it
night be well to investigate the size
+ the milk bottles.
By April /, the Scranton Auto
mobile Association expects to have a |
und OF $4,000 for good roads in
Is treasury. Part of this sum will |
e expended on the work of build |
ng a good road over the Pocono |
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