The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-25
LOCAL MENTION.

-Scrantonians in Honesdale over
Sunday were L. ID. Rock, F. l..
Smith, e. A. Hawley.
The jurors on the Lord trial
drew $3.50 for their pay, exclusive of
travelling expenses,
Morrison & Canivan have placed
a new furnace in U. S. Beers resi-
dence on Fifteenth street.
The Seelyville Basketball team
will play the White Mills Stars at
White Mills next Saturday.
D. James Colgate, Hawley's eff
hcient postmaster, has been reap
pointed by President Taft for four
years more.
Pearl Van Gorder and Leonard
Roegner are now Mr.. and Mrs. Leon
ard Roegner and live on West street,
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth.
Alex Voigt has become a Haw-
leyite again, having removed to that
borough lately. His children are
all there and his desire is to be with
them.
Hon. H. c. Jackson has been ap-
pointed on the following very i'm
portant committees: Agriculture,
Printing, Corporations, Public Build
ings and Public Roads.
Frank Voltair, superintendent
of the National Elevator and Ma
chine Company's Works, has ten
dered his resignation to accept
position with a large manufacturing
concern in Chicago.
-Ex-Commissioner James Keen,
of Keene, is now a great grand-fath-
er. Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Spear, of
Unionville, Connecticut, his grand
children, having been blessed with a
nice little boy. Hurrah!
The freshman class of the
Honesdale High school conducted an
elaborate social at the High school
building last Friday night. A first
class program was enjoyed by about
fifty young people Games were
played throughout the evening.
Dates for state medical and
dental examinations have been fix
ed as follows: State Medical Board
at Philadelphia and Pittsburg; State
Homeopathic Board at Philadelphia,
and State Eclectic Board at Harris
burg June 27 and 80; State Dental
Board at Philadelphia and Pitts
burg, June IA to II.
"A special car arrived over the
Erie at 3:15 Friday afternoon and
left for Carbondale on the d. & II.
railroad. Several Erie officials were
aboard, d. V. Owens, superintendent
of Maintenance of way; A. f. Trim
BILE, division engineer, and Frank
Skinner, supervisor, and several 9TH
ers. There was a rumor abroad
that the Erie and d. & H. were 60
ing to run coal via Honesdale again,
but this was denied by the officials.
William L. Ferguson, who has
been confined to his bed for over
six weeks, owing to a fall on the
ice which cracked the socket joint
of his foot, is improving. Although
SO years old, his eagerness to be up
and doing is just as intense as that
of a young men. He expects to be
sitting up this week, although he is
weak on his feet. His mental
strength and brightness has not di-
minished AMI his ability to attend
to any business that does not re-
quire manual labor is just as good
as ever.
There is desire being expressed
by some of the baseball enthusiasts
to form a baseball league to take in
dWlSyB w hlIC
Lake Ariel, Waymart, Aldenville, and
Pleasant Mount. With six good
teams, a league could be organized
that will give us good games every
Saturday. Why not make a call for
representatives from these places to
meet and talk the matter over. Send
in your communications to THE
CITIZEN and we will arrange a
meeting. Aldenville has already
been heard from.
Friends of the administration
have made it known in an emphatic
manner that President Taft intends
to stand for denomination in 1912,
They expect Mr.. Taft will have the
support of Col. Roosevelt. The Presi-
dent is now in an optimistic frame of
mind, and looks forward to a Repub-
lican victory in 1912. A few weeks
ago the situation did not look prom
ising to the President. He believed
that the November defeat presaged
another disaster in the national cam
paign to follow. Even at that time
the President is known to have told
friends that he will accept the nomi-
nation, even in the face of certain
defeat, if the convention places the
standard in his hands