The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-04-19

Victor Meszler, Cliff street, is
to his home by severe at
tack of illness.
Street Commissioner Lawrence
Weidner has three teams and four
men at work scraping the mud from
the streets of Honesdale.
There will be a roller skating
contest at the rink" Wednesday
night, the winner of which will re-
ceive a Sc pair of club skates.
A marriage license was issued
Monday, April II, to H. Simonson,
East Branch, ~ Y, and Mrs. Mary
Priscilla Rydstrom, Honesdale.
Next Sunday evening Freedom
Lodge /. o. o. f. will celebrate their
92d anniversary by attending SER
vices in st. Johns Lutheran church.
The many friends of Christie
pher Lowe are rejoiced to see him
home again from Mercy Hospital,
Wilkes-Barre, much improved in
health and strength.
Patsy" the $3.50 fire horse,
who was badly burned in the $10,-
900 barn fire Wednesday night, was
chloroformed last Saturday night
and put out of his misery.
Rev. w. II. Swift, D. D., pastor
of the First Presbyterian church, and
his delegate, r. NJ. Stocker, Esq, are
attending the Spring session of the
Lackawanna Presbytery at Green
Ridge.
At the mid-week meeting in the
Presbyterian Chapel. Wednesday
evening, Andrew Thompson will
speak on Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Canal" He has recently visited
these interesting points.
The body of the Rev. Samuel q.
Simpkins, a NJ E. pastor who died
at Hawley December %, 1910, which
has been reposing in the vault at
Glen Dyberry all winter, was inferred
in the cemetery adjoining, Tuesday
afternoon.
The health of the inhabitants of
Honesdale borough has been unusual
ly good during the new year, accord
ing to the secretary of the Board of
Health, DR.. w. T. McConvill, who
states that only one case of contagi-
Gus disease has been reported to him
since January l.
C. A. Cortright & Son, whose
livery was destroyed last Wednesday
evening by an alleged incendiary
fire, commenced operations Monday
on the old site for the erection of a
60x70 foot concrete barn, to be used
as an automobile garage, with an un-
derground stable for livery pur-
poses.
In st. Johns Evangelical Lu-
theran church, Easter Sunday, Rev.
c. C. Miller, pastor, there were twen-
ty-four accessions by confirmation,
and four by letter, viz: Miss Lizzie
Vented, John Fisher, Mrs. Henry
Henke, Miss Clara Schmiedt. The
choir was augmented by two violin
lists, Royal Reichenbacher and Chas.
Seitz.
Wedding invitations are out an
nouncing the marriage of Miss
Blanche Kessler Coons to DR.. Frank
Howard Anthony at the home of her
sisters family, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Wilbur Wilmer, 1921 Ross Avenue,
Dallas, Texas, on the evening of
Tuesday, April IS, at s o'clock Miss
Coons is granddaughter of Mrs. M.
P. Kessler, Main street, Honesdale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coons will be at home
after May l, at 1901 Cadiz street,
Dallas, Texas.
The financial statement for con-
ference year ending April /, 1911, of
the Central Methodist Episcopal
church, Honesdale, Pa, District At
torney M. E. Simons, treasurer
shows total receipts for the year of
S2623.59, and total expenditures of
$2622.77. r. ]. Penwarden, treas
urer of the Board of Trustees, re-
ports receipts of $3366.93, and ex-
penditures of $333S.03. For bene-
violence during the year $1130, was
contributed, large items of which
"SAO III VI Sieoi anu lloIhC
sions, $3.50 each. The Ladies' Aid
society, Mrs. R. j. Penwarden, treas
urer, raised $29S.47 during the
year. The Whatsoever Circle, Car
rie e. Bryant, treasurer, cleared
S4S9.13. The Epworth League, Ella
Sharpstein, treasurer, raised S36.57
The Sunday school, Henry Dexter
treasurer, contributed $221.57.
Our friend Haines, of the
Wayne Independent, Honesdale, says
that "one of the recent political
events in Pennsylvania was a call
received on the last night of March
by the editor of the Philadelphia
North American from Senator Pen.
rose" Brother Haines evidently
forgot that the last night of March
is the eve of All Fools Day, and
swallowed the whole story. Kindly
remember that Senator Penrose is
not built that way.-[East Strouds,
burg Press and Jeffersonian