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The Republican journal., 1911-01-26
IN SEVEN SHIPWRECKS.
Capt. Alabama Gross Went to Sea When
He Was Is Years Old.


Captain Alabama Gross of Rockland,
whose life had been seven times imperil-
ed by shipwreck, died in hospital on
Staten Island, N. Y, January 18th, aged
II years. Capt. Gross was born in Or
land. He began his seafaring career at
the age of Is in the schooner Chieftain,
which was wrecked on Chatham bar in a
winter storm. The young seaman suf-
fered frozen hands, feet and ears.
He was in the schooner Mary Wise
when that vessel was run into off Cape
Cod. A steamer took the wrecked craft
in tow for IL hours, when the hawser
parted and the vessel with its suffering
crew went adrift. The crew were taken
off by Deer Isle brig.
In 1872 Capt. Gross was in the schoon-
er Richard Bullwinkle when twas wreck
ed on Bartlett's reef. The crew lost all
their effects. Two years later he was
wrecked on Sandy Hook in the Boston
brig John Aveles. The men were rescued
by volunteer life-savers from the shore.
In 1877 Capt. Gross was in command of
the schooner Post Boy when it was sunk
at Port Jefferson in a furious gale. The
vessel was raised and discharged, and in
the following year, with Capt. Gross still
in command, it became total loss on Of
ter island ledge.
The seventh and last shipwreck in
which Capt. Gross figured was the one
which came nearest to ending his sea-
faring career. While he was in command
of the schooner Lucy Jones that vessel
was sunk in collision with the steamer
City of Savannah near Cross Rip light:
house in February, 1892. The mate and
two seamen were drowned and Captain
Gross suffered three broken ribs.
Other vessels which he subsequently
commanded were the schooners Olive
Branch, S. ]. Lindsey and Mary Brew
er. During the past few years he ship
ped as steward, his last service being on
the Rockland- Rockport lime company's
barge No. 2.
Capt. Gross was member of Aurora
| Lodge, F. and A. M, and Knox Lodge,
I. o. o. F. He is survived by his wife
and two children.
The Republican journal., 1911-01-26
WINTERPoRTs EPWoRTH LEAGUE
An Interesting Contest Closes With Re-
ceptiOn.


ception.
The Red and Blue contest in which so
much interest has been manifested the
past three months by friends and patron
Of the Winterport chapter of the Fps
worth League and through the efforts of
which over three hundred new members
have been enrolled, was very pleasantly
and prettily closed on Saturday evening
! when the losing side rendered reception
to the winners Of the contest. AS the
guests entered the church auditorium at
O'Clock they were met by young lady
ushers gowned in white and wearing red
carnations. At little after O'Clock as
Mrs. Arthur Archer of Bangor took her
place at the organ, the reception line
formed, just inside the chancel rail. In
the reception line were Rev. and Mrs. A.
j. Lockhart, Miss Rose Eaton, Mrs. j..
H. Thayer, Miss Jennie C. Grant and
Mrs. John l. Frederic.
The young ladies were assisted by
young men in ushering to the reception
line, and when the guests were seated a
very pleasing program was given by
Messrs. Lougee, Hall, Eaton and Good
rich in quartet selections, Misses Lougee
and Hall in duet, readings by Mrs. ]. H.
Ihayer and Miss Frances Lougee, and
banjo selections by Frank Hardy, who by
means of a harmonica attachment played
his own accompaniment.
The welcome in behalf of the Reds
and the League unitedly was given by
Mrs. A. j. Lockhart and the response
was made by Rev. A. ]. Lockhart. At
the close of the program line was
formed to pass to the vestry, where re-
freshments were served. Mrs. A. j.
Lockhart, president of the league, led
the line, followed by Misses Rose Eaton
and Sophia Chase, captains of the con-
test, and then the Blues, as guests of
honor, followed by the Reds. The first
glimpse of the vestry revealed trans
formation from its customary dignity to
place of festive decorations and dainty
set tables where the guests were COM
fortably seated and abundantly served
with coffee, sandwiches and cake. The
guests have words of praise and appre-
| citation for the work done in their behalf
and unitedly it was voted one Of the most
pleasant evenings in the history of the
league.
The Republican journal., 1911-01-26
WINTER LAMBS IN MAINE.
How They Helped Young Farmer Jones
With His Start Toward Prosperity.

Charley ones had always been GOOD
bow, as boys 90, but he had never taken
life very Seriously throughout, his
eighteen years. When he opened the
telegram handed him by the college post
man, and read that his father lay at
deaths door, it was the first real shock
of his career. An hour later he was
headed for the old farm in South China
as fast as the iron horse would carry him.
When he came back from the ceme-
terry few days later, he sat down with
his mother to do the first real heavy
thinking of his life, but he has been at it
steadily ever since. In addition to the
old farm, and its meager equipment,
William Jones had left good name, and
a little money in the bank, enough to
tide over a little while at least. Per-
maps the entire estate would have inven-
torled $500.
AS Charley sat there talking over the
future with his mother, he suddenly re-
fected that he was one of the very few
.syoung men who could command $500 of
capital before being old enough to vote.
So instead of chasing off after rainbows
and alleged opportunities, he decided to
make what he could of those right at
home. The first thing was to take an
account of the stock on hand.
Over in the back pasture there was a
flock of twelve grade Dorset sheep.
Every few minutes as Charley strolled
over the farm getting really acquainted
with it, his mind kept going back to
those sheep. When he thought of the
cows, the horse, the pigs or the chick
ems, there seemed some insuperable
obstacle in the way of developing that
branch of the business; but if the same
thing applied to sheep, he couldn't see it.
There were the old buildings to provide
ample shelter, crops ready to harvest fol-
the winters feeding, and stock enough
to give really good start.
All that winter while he was feeding
that little flock he studied sheep as he
had never studied anything before: Long
before spring he had made up his mint
exactly what he intended to DO, and tina
was to develop winter lamb business
First he figured that would balance hi
work between winter and summer better
then he thought he could see how il
The Republican journal., 1911-01-26

would eliminate the dog nuisance, and
lastly he had found that choice winter
lambs sell for prices that would buy
yearling heifers.
When the grass came the next spring,
| Charley Jones had twenty lambs to put
in the pasture, and all but five of them
were ewes. He sold the five in due sea-
son, but when the drover tried to buy the
others he turned a oeaf ear. 1t took a
lot of hard work and careful manage
ment to make both ends meet and carry
the increased flock through the next win
| ter, with no prospect of lambs in the
spring, but Charley had made up his
| mind to shift the breeding season to get
winter lambs the year after.
Early the next spring ne sowed big
patch of rape, to prepare for the special
two husky little lambs with appetites of
the first class. Not one had been chilled
during it's unreasonable advent into the
world, and once on their feet they had
grown amazingly.
Ground oats for grain ration began
when they were ten days old, and with
the roots and clover hay kept the little
fellows coming splendidly. Charley
watched them closely, and when about
two and one-half months old, began to
try them out with cracked corn. Ihey
took to it like ducks to water, and
| towards the last just seemed to stuff
| themselves with it for the fun of eating.
And they grew as fat as balls of butter.
Feb. 1st, Charley killed his first lamb.
1t weighed an even sixty pounds alive,
and dressed just half. He shipped it by
express to a reliable Boston house, and
received net returns of $14. 10. The last
lamb went March 18th, and brought the
bank account up to $463, for the forty
! two lambs.
All that was quite a few years ago.
Today Charley Jones winters over hun
dred breeding ewes in the best barn in
South China, keeps the man the year
round, has bought small farm adioin,,
ing, to say nothing about a multitude OF
improvements about the house. Of
course there is somebody besides the
dear mother to share the house now, and
two little youngsters trudge off to school
every day. Last, but not least, when the
mailman handed out an automobile cata-
log the other day, Charley Jones took it
and acted just as if he had been expect.
ing it.-John E. Taylor in the American
Cultivator.
The Republican journal., 1911-01-26
MAINE OYSTER-

In his report for the
1904, the commissioner OF
fisheries said he was SAT-
tiers could be cultivate
the shores of Maine, am .
not try it. The expeum
tried, and it seems to have
full. At any rate the corr
his recent report make
couraging statements ant
dictions.
Paintings have been MAJ
scot river, Damariscotta laN
locations, and Commisslou.r
enthusiastically announce
questions as to whether {,
be cultivated to advantage ia MH
been settled. Our experimrr's
scot river have done that, '
''In 1909 they tonged 600 .
the beds of that river. /"
took 5000 bushels. Thes.
of exceedingly fine quality
this river are nearly five 1
the crop will continue o.
properly cared for, the 0ueHt
greater each year than that
He also says they have trIy. ..
the oyster at other points
success, particularly in l'.
bay, where there are eXce.a.
Boston Herald.
The Republican journal., 1911-01-26

The year 1910 was the 2>t- B.. ,.5
Gloucester. Mass, has been esia. ..-
as fishing port. The amour.
brought in aggregated l2l, 9s4 s." ,'' ,s
being 10000 900 pounds less than '
the banner year, but the hgh a.5
brought by cod, mackerel, and ets. ss
in some measure compensate
decrease in the catch. Only 5'
of salt and 10000 barrels of .r's- .r,
erel were brought into the port ..
last year, making it the poorest o.'
for that particular fish.
The Republican journal., 1911-01-26
lOLEYS KIDNEY PILLS
EXTERMINATE THE MOTHS.

The march of the gypsy and brown
tail moth westward across New England
is attracting more general notice than
ever before. For many years the i'm
preston seemed to prevail that people in
the moth infested district around Boston
were unduly alarmed and that money
spent in fighting the pest was about the
same as wasted. Now that people lit
tie further west and north have had a
chance to see what the invasion means,
there is different tone to the comment.
The tendency seems to be to look to the
State to fight the pests. But neither
State nor government is trying to do all
the work. Their forces are contenting
themselves with checking the progress
of the moths as much as possible by
fighting them along the highways where
the danger of extension is greatest. The
towns must do their part and as a rule
the owner must fight the pest on his own
land. When the owner of fruit and
shade trees notices the little clumps of
leaves here and there throughout the
trees and on looking inside finds clus-
ter of the brown tail caterpilars there is
nothing for him to do but get long
handled tree primer, cut out every nest
and burn them. 1t means good many
days work on thousands of farms and
country places in central New England.
But if the work is neglected the problem
will be even more serious another season.
Usually the first season they appear on
farm there are only few nests, and if
these are cut out there may be only a
few the following season, but if they are
left to extend the pest there will be
scores and hundreds of nests in the in
tested trees another season. Ameri-
can Cultivator.
Many requests from catarrh sufferers
who use atomizers have caused US to put up
Liquid Cream Balm, new and convenient
form of Ely's Cream Balm, the only remedy
for Catarrh which can always be depended on.
In power to alay inflammation, to cleanse the
clogged ar-passages, to promote Free natural
breathing, the two forms of Cream Balm are
alike. Liquid Cream Balm is sold by all drug
gists for rs cents, including spraying tube.
Mailed by Ely Bros, Sc Warren Street, New
York.
The Republican journal., 1911-01-26
Children CIV
FOR FLETCHER'S
CA 8 7 Q r a

Gloucester Has a Poor Vest
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31
PAUPACK.
Especial to The Citizen.


PAUPACK, Pa, March 3O.-Mrs.
Williams has been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Gilpin in Hawley.
We are glad to hear that Miss
Frances Killam is out of the hospital
and will soon be home.
The Ladies' Aid met with Miss
Esther Killam Wednesday, March
20. The regular day being Thursday
but could not be held on that day
on account of e. A. Gumble's sale.
We are sorry to know that Miss
Louise Vetterleen is unable to teach
her term of school out. Miss Ida
Fowler will finish the term for her
Miss Mable Pellet returned to
Scranton after spending the week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. A
Pellet
Henry Fowler has gone to Kimbles
to work.
Mrs. Bennett has returned home
after spending a week in Milford.
Miss Almah Vetterlein came home
Tuesday after spending some time
with her sister in Scranton.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

Walter Whitney is spending a few
days with his mother in the Maple
City.
William Riefler, Jr., West Chester
Military Academy, is at the home of
his parents enjoying the Easter va
walton.
Miss Alice Comstock, who has been
spending some time in town, return
ed to her home in Scranton, Thurs
day.
Hon. and Mrs. John Kuhbach left
Sunday for a few days visit with
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kimble at To-
wanda.
Mrs. Louis Dandau returned to
her home in Scranton, Monday, after
few days visit at the home of her
parents here.
Miss Katherine Briggs returned
to her duties at Christ Hospital, Jer-
sey City, after a few days visit at
her home here.
Miss Larissa Place, who has been
spending some time with Mrs. J. a.
Brown, returned to her home in
Titnkhannock on Friday 'as.
Charles Cohen and mother, Noun
taindale, N. Y, returned home Mon
day morning after a few days visit
with Robert Cohen and wife on River
street.
B. F. Haines and Henry A. Ting
ley went to Scranton, Wednesday
morning where they are serving as
jurors in the United States Circuit
Court for the Middle District.
Mr.. and Mrs. Silas McMullen, Jr.,
left Monday morning for Washing
ton, d. c., where they will join Mr..
and Mrs. F. e. Dennis and enjoy a
few days recreation in the National
Capital.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

There is more Catarrh in this Sec
tion of the country than all other
diseases put together, and until the
last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For a great many years
doctors pronounced it local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by
constantly failing to cure with local
treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore
requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. j. Cheney e Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the
market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to teaspoonful.
1t acts directly on the blood and muc-
Gus surfaces of the system. They
offer one hundred dollars for auy case
it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address: F. ]. CHENEY & CO
Toledo, Ohio,
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills &. ""n-
stipatica.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31
SUNDAY SCHOOL, S
Special Column Every
Week For s. s. Items
QUESTIONS ANSWERED; SUCCESS
TIONS OFFERED; PLANS
DISCUSSED

We are nearing the time when
many Sunday schools of the county
will elect their officers for the fol-
lowing year. In how many of these
will be elected a superintendent to
take charge of the Home Depart
ment? In other words, how many
schools of your district have Home
Departments?
| believe the Orson district will
elect six. One more is in prospect.
Probably two or three now will be
added to the list before the Spring
conventions. (The H. d. Supt. of
that district is an intimate acquaint-
ance so | happen to know all about
the work which hasn't been done
there).
That the work may be successful
ly started in the different schools
a little care at the outset seems
necessary.
AS we undertake the work in
schools that are new to us seek the
acquaintance of the most active
workers, explaining the object of a
Home Department to them. Then
fix upon some day to visit the school
and if possible organize there a
Home Department Be ready il
possible to answer all questions. The
directions contained in The Home
Department" leaflet sent out by the
Sunday School Association free OF
charge are convenient for explaining
the work. Also most of the denomi-
national houses sending out Sunday
school supplies, will send samples
of Home Department supplies for al
most nothing.
1t is we'll to procure as many diff
ferent samples as possible. These
will supply us with all the second
hand information that we need
Much more can be acquired by work
ing.
When visiting a school we should
display samples especially of repor
envelopes and Home Department
Quarterlies from the publishing
house from which that school gets it,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31
EASTERN STAR PICNIC.

A meeting of the Order Eastern
Star Picnic Association of Northeast
ern Pennsylvania was held at the
Harrison House in Carbondale on
Saturday afternoon, March 1S. The
meeting was called to order by the
President, Mrs. Anna NJ Noble, of
Laurel Chapter, No. 81, Waymart,
and the following officers and dele
gates were present: Mrs. Anna M.
Noble, Mrs Emma Hopkins, Iva Will
cox and 4. j. Wilcox of Laurel Chap
ter No. 81, Waymart; Mrs. Lillis Rey-
nolds and Mrs. Brandon of Garnet
Chapter No. Sc, Carbondale; Mrs.
Gertrude Maxey and Mae. X. Maxey
of Ruby Chapter No. 23, Forest City;
Miss Ritter of Pride of Orient Chap
ter No. T. Peckville; Hannah e.
Chase, of Annetta Chapter No. 10,
Scranton, and Wilford Fletcher of
Martha Washington Chapter No. 3,
Scranton. Minutes of the last pic
mic held in 1910 at Lewis Lake were
read by the secretary, Mae X. Maxey
of Forest City.
A. J. Wilcox then gave a brief
sketch of the object of this Associa-
ton, also stating some results hoped
to be attained by this picnic which
will be held at Lake Lodore the last
of June. The subject was then
thoroughly discussed by the dele
gates present. Brother Fletcher was
appointed chairman of the commit
tee on transportation, also to secure
date with the Lake Lodore Com
pany. 1t was decided to extend an
invitation to the Masonic fraternity
to attend the picnic. There being no
further business the meeting was ad-
journed.
IVA p. WILCOX,
/, Secretary Laurel Chapter, No. go,
Eastern Star, Waymart, Pa.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

supplies. Leave the sample with
them if they wish it.
Think of i'll The standard set for
us is thirty-three Home Departments
in Wayne this year. We can get
them. Shall we?
l should be glad to help in the
work anywhere that / can if you
will write.
Yours Fraternally,
(MRS.) JUNE GOULD.
County Superintendent Home De-
partment Work
Winwood, Pa
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31
PERSONAL

Judge Alonzo T. Searle spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in Scranton.
w. d. Orr, Calkins, transacted
business in Honesdale, Monday.
Lewis R. Geissler was a Hawleyite
in Honesdale, Wednesday.
DR.. A. c. Voigt, Hawley, was in
town, Wednesday.
Miss Beatrice Havey spent Tues
day in Scranton.
Miss Margaret Hagan spent Tues
day in Scranton.
T. B. Clark transacted business in
Scranton, Tuesday.
George Kohlmann, Hawley, was
in town, Wednesday.
E. A. Finnerty, Scranton, was in
town on business Tuesday.
R. T. Whitney, Scranton, was a
Honesdale visitor over Sunday.
DR.. A. R. Dimon, New York, was
Tuesday caller in the Maple City.
Lewis Kelsey, Starrucca, transact
ed business in Honesdale, Monday.
Geo. A. Milligan, Scranton, was
Tuesday business caller in Honesdale
Henry LINER Scranton, transact
ed business in Honesdale, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Peabody re-
turned to Carbondale Tuesday, after
weeks stay in Honesdale.
Robert Laird, Scranton, was a
Monday business caller in the Maple
City.
Harry Miller, Baltimore, Md, is
spending two weeks in the Maple
City.
Miss Hattie Brown, Nanticoke, is
visiting relatives and friends in this
place.
P. F.. Madigan, Winwood, was a
| Tuesday business caller in the Maple
City.
Floyd Bliss, Elmira, n. Y, was a
| business man in town on Wednes-
day.
Andrew O'Connell, Carbondale,
transacted business in town, Tues
day.
f. j. Vincent Scranton, was a
Tuesday business caller in the Maple
City.
Robert O'Connell left Wednesday
| Oh u ~ " 4NS"
York city.
Charles F. Vaughn, Waterloo, N
Y, transacted business in town on
Wednesday.
William R. Williams, Scranton
was a Wednesday business caller in
Honesdale.
| Mrs. Charles McArdle is convalesc-
ing slowly from a severe attack o1
rheumatism.
August Hartung, Callicoon, N. Y.
recently spent few days with rela
tives here.
H. w. Hefele, New York City, was
Wednesday business caller in the
Maple City.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Strongman
New York, passed the weekend will
relatives here.
Contractor Adam Schroeder, Scran
ton, was Tuesday business caller II
the Maple City.
R. NJ. Salmon, Esq, was bust
} ness caller in Scranton the latte
part of the week.
Miss Daisy e. Lyman, Hazleton
= was the guest of Honesdale friend
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Paul Schmuck, Brooklyn, N. Y
attended the funeral of his nephew
, Frank, last Wednesday.
> r. H. Patterson returned to Scran
, ton Saturday after spending tn
week in town on business.
t Howard j. K. Kitch visited hi
I parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Fitcf
at Carbondale, over Sunday.
/, Miss Madeline O'Connell, of tn
East Stroudsburg State Normal,
home for the Spring vacation.
Mayor John Kuhbach returned o
y Tuesday evening from a visit to tt
s wanda where he attended a meetin
: of the directors of the Wayne CT
Glass Company.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

LEGAL BLANKS for sale at The
Citizen office: Land Contracts,
Leases, Judgment Notes, Warrantee
Deeds, Bonds, transcripts, sum
mons, Attachments, Subpoenas, La
Dor Claim Deeds, Commitments, Ex-
eeutions, Collectors and Constables'
Sales. Tax Collector Warrants,
Criminal Warrants, Etc.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

TWELVE CLOTH TRESPASS no.
tices printed for 81, at The Citizen
office, six for rs cents. Name OF
owners, township wherein land is sit
uated and law pertaining to trespass-
ing, printed thereon.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

FOR SALE-Kelly & Steinman
brick factory building, including en-
gine, boiler and shafting. Inquire OF
7 a Robinson. soft.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

SAP PANS, BUCKETS AND SPOUTS
at prices lower than you are ac-
eustomed to pay. See Murray Co.,
Honesdale, Pa. zltl
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

HARNESS, COLLARS, STRAPS,
work and all kinds of horse goods
can be found in good variety at
Murray Co., Honesdale, Pa. 21tf
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31
PIANO TUNING.

w. R. Luis, expert piano tuner, is
at the notel Wayne. Local and fac
tory references. All work guaran-
teed. Call, phone or write.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

HAVE THAT PIANO TUNED !
will be in Honesdale Monday, April
3. Address postal card Hotel
Wayne, Samuel S. Wint, Piano Tun-
er.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

$4,000 buys 439-acre farm about 80
acres clear, the rest in timber,
good water, house and barn; situate
near White Mills, Pa. Inquire OF
w. X. Hittinger, White Mills Pa.
14tf.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

FOR SALE-Country store proper
ty, with or without stock OF
groceries. Business established 30
years. j. E. CROSS, Sterling, Pa
22t5.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

FOR RENT-A ten-room house with
all modern improvements, lnclud-
ing electric lights, situated on River
street Inquire of Jacob Demer,
642 River street.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

WANTED-1000 watches to repair.
Pfomptness and satisfaction guar
anteed. ROWLAND, 1927 Main
street. z4to'
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-03-31

UNCLE JOE STRAIN of Columbian
Wyandots. Eggs for Matching and
stock for sale. My birds are brel
trom New York, Chicago, Boston ana
Scranton winners. Correspondence
solicited. Joseph Stephens, Box 5-B,
White Mills, Pa. 23tl