The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-11-09

HOneSdale-Start now!
Miss Emma Il. Taylor was ten
dered delightful agate shower"
several nights ago.
The men of the First Presbyter-
ian church will banquet Thursday
evening, Nov. 10 at $3.50 o'clock.
Tickets. 90 cents.
Hon. Benjamin II. Jones sue
ceeds the late Judge John Lynch as
additional law judge of Luzerne
county.
The fifteenth annual Wayne
county school directors convention
will be held in the High school,
November Is and 19.
County Superintendent ]. j.
Koehler encountered huge snow
drifts in the course of his visits last
week to several rural schools.
james Boyle, delivery boy at the
Wayne County Cooperative store,
has accepted position in New York,
and is succeeded by Leo Buckley.
Mrs. S. j. Katz has learned of
the rapid recovery of her brother,
Sidney Samuels, who recently was
operated upon for appendicitis In
New York city.
The sale held at the parlors
of Grace church, Friday afternoon,
was well attended, in spite of the in
clement weather, and proved to be
social as we'll as a financial success.
A District Sunday School Con-
vention, is being held in the Galilee
Methodist Episcopal church to-day
Wednesday,. Morning, afternoon
and evening sessions are scheduled.
The recent M. E. Mems Aut-
umnal supper at Hawley was a great
success. The net proceeds reached
1926. The men are being congratu-
lated on the happy result of their
efforts.
The next meeting of the Wayne
County Medical Association will be
held the third Thursday in December,
when DR.. Winebrake, Of Scranton,
is expected to speak on THE Use of
the Forceps."
Edward E. Payne, Scranton, is
the new division agent for the D. and
H. R. R. Co., with headquarters at
Carbondale, and jurisdiction cover
ing the Honesdale and Nineveh
branches of the Pennsylvania Divis-
ion.
Thursday afternoon Protection
| Engine Company No. 8 answered an
alarm of fire at the home of Freder-
| ick Smith, 529 River street. The
blaze, which was a slight one, was
put out before the Fire Company ar
rived.
will all members who are col
lecting weeks and days on the hos
pital calendars please try to col
lect their money and bring it to a
meeting at the lower hall Friday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock? Wom-
ems Hospital Auxiliary.
Il guess the fire was in the
stove alright" remarked a number
of disgusted spectators who answered
fire alarm last Thursday afternoon
at 4 o'clock, running to Sixth street
at the bridge corner through the
rain and slush only to find that there
was no fire.
Mrs. Emma G. Secor has leased
her rooms to A. A. Oehlart, the en-
graver and repairer in Rowland s
new jewelry store, who with his wife
and little daughter will take posses
sion soon after the middle of the
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in business in Scranton.
The Rev. Edwin MacMinn, who
| is very we'll remembered here as the
! former successful pastor of the
Honesdale First Baptist church, has
resigned his charge at Dalton,
Lackawanna county, to accept a
unanimous and entirely unsolicited
call from Kearney, Nebraska.
The Cluthe Institute of New
York City has an interesting adver-
! tisement on page 5 of this issue,
| Those afflicted will do we'll to care
fully read the offer of this well
known concern. They ask nothing
except that you send for their book
which is mailed free upon request.
George Keller, who in company
with Fred G. Rickard, last Friday
delivered the ballots in the southern
end of the county, reports that they
came across drifts so deep that they
had to get help to be shoveled out.
T. F. Mangan, of Hawley, trans.
acted business in Honesdale, Friday
Harry T. Madden, of Scranton
sang Friday afternoon at the High
school. In the evening he appeared
DeIOTe large duuleHCe III the LyTlC
Theatre introducing "In Dear OLD
Wayne" His rendition of the
charming song was well received
and Mr.. Madden was heartily encor'
ed.
The Sunday edition of the Scran'
ton Tribune-Republican sang its
"swan song" October 80. 1t expired
peacefully after an existence of only
nine months. Its newsy pages anC
homemade" stories will be greatly
missed. Here's hoping that it may
yet rise like a Phoenix" from it'
ashes.
Daniel Brown, of Lebanon
township, has been furnishing the
turkeys for the annual Martha
Washington supper in the FRS
Presbyterian church for a number o.
years. 1t is said that the church
women will be compelled to pay
thirty-five cents pound, this year
for their fowls.
Fully eight inches of snow fel
Thursday night, the fieecy fakes
commencing to fall Thursday noon