The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-08-10
LOCAL MENTION.


of the fools in the country think they
can beat a lawyer in eXpounding the
law. One-half think they can beat
the doctor in healing the sick. Two
thirds of them think they can put
the minister in a hole in preaching
the gospel, and all of them think
they can beat the editor in running
a newspaper.
The Kennedy reunion at Union
dale comes Thursday, Aug. IS.
Mrs. Cummings has received
from Arizona friends two tarantulas
and two horned toads.
The Honesdale-Hawley automo-
bile was out of commission a few
hours yesterday while new tires
were put on.
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The band concert to advertise
the Shoemakers' picnic at Lake Lo-
dore today drew a good crowd to the
station last night, for all there was
a smart rain falling. The candles
and the rockets went up well.
-Carbondale comes here Satur-
day for the fourth game in the series
of FIVE. The visitors will drive to
Honesdale and the game will be call
ed at 8. Carbondale has secured
some new blood and will make a
desperate effort to capture this
game.
Sundays New York Journal
gave an account of Prince, Bengal
tiger, attacking Mrs. Lesch at Hill
side Park, n. j., Saturday. The ami
NAL badly tore her left arm. Mrs.
Lesch, who is a Honesdale woman,
gave several performances with the
animal here last winter.
The fourth annual picnic OF
Labor Grange, No. 1858, will be held
in j. NJ. Burcher's grove at Calkins
Wednesday, Aug. II. Dinner will
be served on the grounds. The
Honesdale Fife and Drum corps
will be present A ball game will
take place. Everybody is invited.
-Four wagonloads of gypsies
went through Hawley, White Mills
and Honesdale to the fairgrounds
Monday. They had eight handsome
horses and a dozen comely women.
In the woods near Indian Orchard
n nf
the train was held up an hour to
search for them.
Wholesale prices on all grades
of butter jumped a cent a pound
Thursday, and the raise will result
in an increase in the retail price
of from . TO cents a pound. At
the Produce Exchange it was said
the increase in price of milk by To-
cal dealers had nothing to do with
the price of butter. At the close
of the market tub butter had ad-
vanced to 81 cents, from 80 cents,
and fancy prints had increased to
80 cents, from 81 cents, wholesale.
This is a high price for butter at
this time of the year, but the sea-
son during Whlch the price OF DuI-
ter increases is approaching and the
advance is merely a little prema-
ture, it was said by dealers.
E. E. Long, the Geneva, N. r.
moving machine salesman who for
the past five weeks has been work.
ing this county, caught finger in
one of his own machines last week
and he had to lay over in Honesdale
Saturday to have the injured diget
treated. He sent for DR.. Harry B.
Searles, who bound up the finger
Sunday afternoon at the CONNER
cial hotel. Mr.. Long, one of the
most joyial of travelling men,
laughed loud and long when told
by some local men in Landlord
Weayer's Office that the coroner had
been summoned to attend to his
injuries. Among Wayne county
farmers as well as through a wider
territory in which he operates Mr..
Long has made a great many per-
sonal friends.