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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
HoNEsDALE WAYNE CO.. PA. FRIDAY DECEMBER 8,
FOREIGNER HELD
Arrested For Yasrancy
Sheriff Braman's Star BOarder Has
Voracious Appetite.

Life on the lonely hem1ock bar
rens of Clinton township was too
much for one Michael Schlinkszy, a
young man about rs years of age,
who wandered up and down, up and
down the hills and dales near Brown
town looking for something to eat,
and finding nothing.
Farmers wives returning from a
neighborly visit were frightened to
see a gaunt, unkempt, ragged figure
pop out upon them at the lonely
places in the road.
They told their husbands about the
strange nocturnal prowler. AS a re-
suit the public officers got busy, and
Michael, Observation-Disclosures
npronounceable last name, was hal
ed before Squire S. j. Stanton on
the charge of vagrancy, roaming
through the township of Clinton
frightening women, etc.
Constable Cowperthwaite brought
him to honesdale, Tuesday night, and
turned him over to the tender mer-
cies of Sheriff M. Lee Braman. Half
starved as the young foreigner was,
he made prompt use of the Sheriff s
hospitality by eating three suppers.
1t was pitiful to see him gorge after
his long fast.
Sheriff Braman told Citizen man
that if his latest star boarders ap-
petite does not diminish, he will
be forced to put in a double supply
of potatoes for the Winter!
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
"THE COUNTRY ROY.n

Edgar Selmyn's popular comedy
THE Country Boy" will be the at
traction at the Lyric, Tuesday, Dec.
~. The story of "The Country Boy
is that of young man from small
town in New York, who goes to the
metropolis to win his fortune. In
New York he is enthralled by the
maelstrom and loses sight of the
stimulus for his ambition by attach
ing himself to a chorus girl. He soon
comes to the end of his rope and is
about to make away with himself
when he is caught in the firm grip
of a man with a healthy and optim-
istic view of life
The company includes Grace
Campbell, Wilfred Lytell, Stapleton
Kent, Lowell Oldham, Muriel Bishop,
Lizzie Mccall, William Morren, and
Rosamond Carpenter.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
BOARD OF TRADE
BULLETIN.
900 oo 700 o o 90 ,

An extra cipher crept into the total
number of shares of Globe Yarn COM
pany stock that is for sale. Instead
of $4,000 shares it should have read
1900. The stock is selling rapidly
and those who desire to get in " on
the ground floor" had better sub
scribe at once. w. w. Wood, of
Honesdale, county treasurer-elect, is
in charge of the sale of stock. A
postal will reach him.
Number of shares for sale Decem-
Der 1, 1900; sold 450,. leaving a
balance of $50 shares. II this not a
good start? Keep in minoNthat the
Globe Yarn company is established
and is doing profitable business. II
the people of the town desire an
other industry in Honesdale, one that
will leave dollars and cents in the
town, then now is the time to act. A
share of stock costs only $40 and
surely there is nobody SO poor but
what he can afford to buy a few
shares. Industrial Agent Wood is
very much elated over the prospects
OF securing the new industry. KeeI
his spirit up by subscribing for some
stock. Before you know it the stock
will have been sold and then every
body will be happy.
Are you counting upon the IS gold
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
DEATH SUMMONS
JOHN c. R|EFLER
PrOminentWa WayneCOuntean
Dies Wednesday
COMMUNITY MOURNS THE LOSS
OF INFLUENTIAL CITIZEN
PIONEER ACID MANUFACTURE
Err AT TANNER FALLS.

The many friends of John G..
Riefler were shocked to learn of his
death, after a brief illness, Wednes-
day morning at half-past eleven
O'Clock, in the fifty-eighth year of his
age.
In the demise of Mr.. Riefer, the
community and the county at large
is called upon to mourn the loss of
one of us most prominent and influ-
ential citizens.
Born July Is, 1854, at Carley
Brook, Wayne county, he was mar
ried to Frances Schoonover, May
1889. Six children survive, viz:
Florence, Dorothy, Delcy, Robert,
John and Edward.
Mr.. Riefler received his early edu-
cation in the public schools and at
the German school of Honesdale. At
an early age he was appointed over
seer for his fathers numbering in
terests, continuing in that position
until the purchase of the Tanners
Falls tract, and the inaugurating of
the acid factory at that place. He
filled many public offices both in the
township and in the county, notably
serving as County Treasurer for one
term. He was the Tanners Falls
postmaster for many years.
Mr.. Riefler was staunch Repub-
lican. Socially he was affiliated with
the Heptasophs, Exchange club and F
& A. M, Honesdale Lodge, No. 218.
Funeral services will be held at his
home on North Main street, Friday
afternoon at 1880 o'clock, Doctor
Swift officiating. The services at
Glen Dyberry will be in charge of the
MasonS
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
The Preliminary Contest.


Under Ariel items in the Wayne
County Herald of Nov. 10, referring
to the preliminary contest held at
Sterling on Nov 3, we read that
. the contest was very unsatisfactory
on account of two of the judges be-
ing from Sterling township. The
judge from Gouldsboro was unable
to attend, so Prof Sipe had to select
another judge to represent him, and
unfortunately he secured a man, who
after the contest, was found to be a
director of Sterling" Now, in the
first place it was unfair on the part
OF Mr.. Reimer to suggest to me the
man he did as a judge, because
director would naturally favor repre-
sentatives from his own district. The
fault of the whole matter lies with
Ariel rather than with Sterling.
1T might be well, in order that the
people may know the conditions and
decide for themselves who is to
blame for the unfairness of the con-
test, to explain why Gouldsboro had
no judge and why the people of Ariel
are saying that the contest was un-
fair.
Two weeks before the contest /
wrote letter to Mr.. Storm, the
chairman, for information about
judges and other arrangements con-
cerning the contest. This letter
was never answered. Then ! wrote
to Mr.. Reimer from whom l received
word two days before the contest
that each school was to select a
judge and Mr.. Storm was to select
the fifth. This was a very short no.
tice and l was unable to get a suit
able judge to represent us. Furth-
er, as j understand, this fifth Judge
was to have been an impartial one.
Instead of an impartial judge Mr..
Storm procured Rev. Morrison, who
for certain reasons would not give
fair decision to Gouldsboro. This
judge told me himself that 1--WE
came down here (Sterling) tonight
to knock out Gouldsboro." l have
reasons to believe that he meant
exactly what he said. Literally, they
knocked OUT Gouldsboro, but they
did not do it fairly. 1t appears very
plain to me why Ariel should say
that the contest was unsatisfactory.
The fact that Mr.. Storm did not an
swer my letter and that he selected
Rev. Morrison as the fifth judge go to
show that, if each district would
have had its judge, and if each judge
would have worked in the interest of
his own district, as the chairman
thought they should, regardless of
merit, with the knock out" spirit of
the Ariel judges, Ariel would have
received both honors, thing that
they thought they would be able to
do.
Now, l have been requested not
to let this feeling of dissatisfaction
get out among the schools of the
county because it would be a severe
criticism upon the schools of Wayne
! county. / am sorry if it becomes a
criticism upon the educational inter-
ests but l feel that it is proper that
the other High schools of the coun-
ty should know that the representa-
tives from the southern district were
not fairly chosen.
(Signed)
H. w. SIPE.
GOuldshoro Pa
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08

lis Une Olu-tIne religion,
It's good enough for mel"
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we
could get all these politicians, all
these lawyers? 1t would be the
greatest blessing that would come
to Honesdale?"
Declaring that he was not bring
ing new doctrine, but that he was
around to proclaim the gospel that
brings salvation from sin, and to
preach the good old-time religion,
Rev. A. G. Miller, of Phillipsburg,
N. j., who is the presiding elder of
the Wilkes-Barre district of the
Free Methodist church, inaugurated
a series of gospel meetings Wednes-
day night in a hall at 526 Main
street, by delivering a powerful SER
mon before a small congregation.
Rev. R. c. Smith, Beachlake, and
Rev. C. H. Brien, Honesdale, also
assisted in the service which was at
tended by four middle-aged women,
three middle-aged men, one report
er and one little boy.
Taking as his text 'They that
have the form of godliness and
denying the power from such turn
away" Elder Miller compared the
ulSIlHS ulSnluS CudIdCLeIISLICS Ol T6dl
and of nominal Christians.
Doctor Miller remarked that in
his travels up and down this section
of country for twenty-seven years,
he once in a while found a fanatic
A fanatic, in his opinion, is man
who gets twisted in his mental con-
dition and sees things hindforemost.
'If all the nominal Christians
Whn fill tho ah o1 cni irit =
ual-minded what different conditions
we'd have in politics, business and
religion.
There are three kinds of form
alists, viz. the consistent, the world
ly-conformed and the emotional"
Speaking of the "worldly-conform-
ed variety" Doctor Miller said: "If
they can get a preacher who'll come
around and explain away the word
of God; they'll pay him a good sal
ary.
You have to get up an oyster
supper to get money out of some
Christians. The nominal Christian
serves God out of fear. The real
Christian serves God out of love.
Real religion lifts a man up in har-
mony with God"
1t was "the good old-time relig-
ion" that Pastor Miller preached.
What the congregation lacked in
numbers it more than made up in
spiritual enthusiasm. Sister Smith
prayed fervently. There was old
fashioned singing. Doctor Miller,
white-haired saint that he is, is
himself a living epistle of the glori-
Gus gospel he processes. And sing
ing? Well that refrain, so dear to
the hearts of believers in old-time
religion, is ringing in the reporters
ears yet. Do you know the words,
neighbor? Did you ever help to
sing that inspiring old-time hymn
with the catching chorus:
"All other ground is sinking sand!
All other ground is sinking sand!"
If you didn't. "It's never too late
to mend" you know.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
DON'T BELONG TO
MEDICAL COMBINE
Madame BrOCkway Doc
tors With Herbs
COMES ALL THE WAY FROM
SCRANTON TO CURE THE
ACHES AND ILLS OF SUFFER-
ING HUMANITY MEDICINES
AT 81 PER BOTTLE.
Madam Brockway will be at
Charles McArdle's hotel,

Madam BrockWay Will be at
Charles McArdle's hotel,
Thursday, Dec. z, between the
hours of 10 a. m. and p. m.
This apparently harmless little
advertisement which appeared in one
of the county papers last Friday
aroused the curiosity of a Citizen
man who went around Thursday af-
ternoon to the National Hotel, Sixth
and Church streets, to find out what
it all meant.
He was directed to Room II, Sec
ond Floor. Answering his timid
rap on the door, Madame Brockway
herself appeared and told the report
er:
You can sit right here. I'll see
you in a minute"
The reporter meekly sat down on
hall chair to cool his heels, while
the Madame attended to the wants
of several patients. 1t was wom-
ans minute, and everybody knows
how long that is. Finally the visi-
tors left and the reporter entered
the sanctum, and made his mission
known.
Il don't belong to the combine of
DOCTORS" said Madame Brockway in
response to question. "I'm a
doctor. l live at 229 w. Drinker
street, Scranton. I'm manufac-
turer of medicine. That's my busi-
ness. I'm a specialist on tubercu-
losis, rheumatism and kidney
trouble.
'I've been in business all my life.
l went to a hospital in Philadelphia
when l was 12. / graduated as a
trained nurse when / was 16. I'm
half Indian. / make all my medi-
cines from roots and herbs. / use
no drugs at all.
81 wouldn't look at drugs. L
don't doctor like doctors. l don't
charge for consultation or examina-
tion or calls. l simply manufacture
my goods and give my patients
what they need. l am not what you
call practising.
81 come here once a month This
is my second visit. My own prepara-
tions are mostly 81 a bottle. My
"Wild Grass Tonic" is for gall
stones. My pulmonary Tonic" is
for tuberculosis. My "Cure Cut" is
for female weakness"
Doctoring is to a certain extent
matter of faith. If you have faith in
herbs and drugs as a cure-all, you
may be interested to know that Ma
dame Brockway will be at the same
place on the First Thursday in
January, 1912.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
FUNERAL OF G. ID. KNAPP.

Funeral services for Mail Clerk
Clarence e. Knapp, who was asphyx-
lated Monday night at a lodging
house in Wilkes-Barre, will be held
at his late home, 329 Cliff street,
Friday morning at IL o'clock, Rev.
VIII H. Hitler, officiating. The re-
mains will be taken to Carbondale
on the noon train where interment
will be made. Out-of-town rela-
tives who have come on to attend
the funeral include Mr.. and Mrs. L.
j. Keller, H. c. Keller. Marguerite
Keller, Jamison City; T. M. Keller.
South Canaan, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lawrence Keller, Carbondale.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
To Raise Standard For Pharmacists

To RAISE standard For Pharmacists.
Miss Anna E. Bigart, formerly of
this place, now of Carbondale, was
among those to pass the examina-
tion for registered pharmacists.
While in Honesdale Miss Bigart was
employed in Buel Dodge's drug store.
OF 60 applicants for registered phar-
macists 81 were successful. Miss
Bigart was the only young lady in the
class.
The Bureau of Professional Educa-
tion of Pennsylvania has determined
upon completed first year high
school course, or it's equivalent, for
licensure to practice pharmacy. In
accordance with this standard the
boarde adopted a new rule that APP
plicants for license as assistant phar-
macist, applying after March l, 1912,
and applicants for license as phar-
macist, matriculating after July,
1911, must have a certificate of pre-
liminary educational qualifications
issued by said bureau.
The next examination will be the
last one to which applicants for as
sistant's license will be admitted
without first obtaining this certifi-
cate. 1t will be conducted in Har-
risburg on Saturday, February II,
1912.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
1912 Traffic Regulations For Auto
mobiles.

1OI2 ITdtnC Negotiations FOf AUTO
mobiles.
l. On discovering an approaching
team the automobilist must stop on
the off side and cover his machine
with a tarpaulin painted to CORES
pond with the scenery.
2. The speed limit on country
roads this year will be a secret, and
the penalty for violation will be
$1,000.
3. In case an automobile makes a
team run away the penalty will be
$4,000 for the first mile, 500 for
the second mile, and 5000 for the
third mile that the team runs, in ad-
dition to the usual damages.
4. On approaching a corner where
he cannot command a view of the
road ahead the automobilist must
stop not less than 100 yards from
the turn, toot his horn, ring a bell,
fire a revolver, halloo, and send up
three bombs at intervals of FIVE
minutes.
5. Automobiles must be seasonably
painted; that is, so they will merge
with the pastoral ensemble and not
be startling. They must be green in
spring, golden in summer, red in
autumn and white in winter.
6. Automobiles running on the
country roads at night must send up
red rocket every mile and wait ten
minutes for the road to clear. They
may then proceed carefully, blowing
their horns and shooting Roman
candles.
z. In case a horse will not pass
an automobile, Notwithstanding the
scenic tarpaulin, the automobilist
will take the machine apart as rapid
ly as possible and conceal the parts
in the grass.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
School Directors Organize
Honesdale Board Meets Monday
Night and Elects Officers.

N1gnt ana ELECTS OncerS.
The County Seat Board of School
Directors met Monday night in the
library room at the Honesdale High
School Building, and reorganized un-
der the New School Code, by electing
Fred G. Schoell, President; T. B.
Clark, vice-president; A. M. Leine,
secretary, and w. ]. Ward, treasur-
er.
Messrs, Joshua A. Brown and W.
j. Ward were appointed committee
to draw up appropriate resolutions
on the retirement of the President
of the old Board, Judge A. T. Searle,
who served as a Honesdale school
director continuously, for a period of
twenty-one years.
Adjournment was then taken until
Thursday night when business of
considerable Importance will be
transacted.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08

M. e. Simons, county chairman,
assessment, $3.50; travelling expen-
ses, $17.50; watchers at polls; $17;
transportation of voters to and from
polls, $40; for disseminating infor-
nation to the public and printing.
$3.50; telephone 81; stenographer
and clerk hire, s45; total. $544.15.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
Erie Man Gets Hause,s job.

Harrisburg, Dec. 6.-Thomas M.
Williamson, former Philadelphian,
city, was to-day appointed chief clerk
ment, succeeding N. e. Hause, of
Wayne county, who resigned some
time ago. He will assume his Of
flee at once.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
HOW DEMOCRATIC
"S1,572" WENT
bl,OO9.29 For Teams and
watchers"

bOUNTY COMMITTEE SPENT LOTS
OF MONEY FOR PRINTERS INK
DIDN'T ADVERTISE IN "THE
CITIZEN" - RESULT: ONLY
ELECTED ONE CANDIDATE.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
PEOPLES FORUM.

The Citizen Publishing Com
pany assumes no measure of re-
sponsibility for any articles
which may appear in this col
umn.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08

H. P. Johns and E. w. Cole, of
Forest City, who comprise the firm
Of Johns & Cole, purchased the tim
ber on 200 acres of w. j. Barnes,
Berlin township, for $500, Thurs
day This firm also bought the tim
ber on the farm of e. e. Avery, Ber-
lin township. Consideration, 1900.
piece which the Board is offering for
a slogan for Honesdale? If so you
had better send your slogan to the
secretary of the Board before Christ
mas. Think.
The people of Honesdale ought to
purchase the product of the local
manufactures instead of buying for
eign made articles.
How many are wearing Honesdale
made shoes, knit goods, pants and
shirts, underwear,-are smoking
Honesdale made cigars, riding in
Honesdale wagons and elevators
buy Honesdale axes, cut glass, wheel
barrows, etc.? How many people of
Honesdale buy their groceries, fur
niture and dress goods here? TO
make a town boom, its residents
ought to spend their money where
they earn 1t.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08
OUT CUNNING FOR
THE POLITICIANS! !
Elder Miller Goes After
Big Game !!

If POLITICIANS AND LAWYERS
COULD BE CAUGHT WOULD BE
BIG BLESSING TO HONESDALE
SMALL CROWD ATTENDS RE-
VIVAL OPENING.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08

THE Country Boy" is the show
for the money.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-12-08

"'Tis the old-time religion,
"ris the Old-time religion
'Tis the Old-time religion,
It's good enough for mel"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

chair in the parlor of the hotel the
exponent of anarchy said things about
the church system that fairly snapped.
With a conviction that aroused appar
emily her entire soul, she flayed the
prohibitory law and lauded the modern
drama as the highest educational insti-
tuition of the world.
With but one day in the week that
working man may call his own" said
Miss Goldman, "the church would say
to that man, you shall and you shall
not They would make of his one day
a day of discomfort, of anguish and not
of pleasure and recreation. They would
close to him the parks. the music hall
and the theater, to which the rich
drones of the nation may flock the re-
naming six days. They would say to
him that no matter what your desires
your ambitions and your needs, these
laws must be obeyed because we made
them.
There is just one local condition that
l will discuss in my lectures here. That
Is the prohibitory law. Think of a
great state like Kansas that would leg
lslate In man a moral in which he
does not believe. Do you believe that
man cannot eat and drink that which
suits his desire so long as he does not
wrong his neighbor or himself. why,
last week we were in Leavenworth In
one day we saw 40 drunk men. Right
In your great prohibitory state. never
oehN elS IldIly QTunkSH men IN New
York in two weeks-and New York with
her open saloons. Do you ask us to re-
spect law that suits your whirn and
not ours? Is there any wonder our
cause VIII grow when the corruption
OF the nation is heaped up to dog the
laborlng man, who is always the suf-
ferer?''
For an hour Emma Goldman told
her views on public matters. She is a
rather short. stout little woman of
German Russian descent. In her talk
Is Just the slightest Russian accent,
She talks with a deep conviction and
does not dodge issues. Som etimes she
almost rises from her chair and ges-
tlculates excitedly as she discusses
What she believes to be a national
wrong. Her command of English is
good. That of her press agent is not
so fiattering. DR.. Reitman OCCASION
ally breaks in on the discussion with
an excited splash of English that is
anything but the finish article. Yet
Reltman is playing an active part in
the Goldman campaign. 1t was he
VINO tramDed the continent and knows
human nature possibly better than he
car explain. Since the Haymarket
riots In Chicago in 1884, Reitman has
commanded public attention at varied
intervals. Four years ago Reitman led
me parade of the unemployed, when
tney tramped the streets in Chicago
When the police interfered, Reitman
rebelled and was roughly handled in
the mixup.
Emma Goldman has been on her
present trip since early in January
receipts from the tour. she says, will
pc used in launching the new anarch-
ISL publication in New York Her To-
peka visit is not under the auspices of
any organization, but was promoted,
she claims, from desire tc visit KAN
sas and study conditions. Her first
speech will be given in Luken's opera
mouse in North Topeka this evening,
1ollowed by a second lecture Tuesday
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

on how to make dynamite and black
powder. 1 don't advocate the use Of
the bomb, or the taking of life Neither
do I denounce it, and Miss Goldman'' )
sharp gray eyes snapped as she said 1t,
because it has accomplished mighty
purpose. Every great cause was won
by Just the methods that the anarchists
has pursued in their campaign.
DenoUnceS Police and Military.
Then Miss Goldman denounced the
system of taxation, the maintenance of
police forces, of standing armies and
what she termed the persecutory poll
c'es of the federal courts. She says
conditions can be regulated, that peo-
pie should obey laws not because the
laws and the courts say they must, but
because they reverence and respect
them.
'eThe emotions of the ignorant man"
continued Miss Goldman, ARE continu-
ally kept at a high pitch by the most
blood -curdling stories about anarch-
ism. Not a thing too outrageous to be
employed against this philosophy and
its exponents. For this reason anarchy
represents to the unthinking what the
proverbiaI bad man does to the child
a black monster bent on swallowing
everything-in short destruction and
violence"
There is no sympathy in the heart
of Emma Goldman for the church and
for the things which she terms the
Sunday blue laws" Sitting on