The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-06-21


last years tally
The Phoebe Shows, the Pride OF
Lackawanna county, play here next
Saturday afternoon.
New concrete steps have replac-
ed the wooden steps to the entrance
of the Union chapel, Seelyville.
The game scheduled for July
Fourth between the Cuban Giants
and Honesdale has been cancelled.
For adoption children whose
ages are from 2 to il years at the
Home for the Friendless, Scranton,
Pa.
-Forty-six members of Protection
Engine company No. were meas
ured the first of the week for new
uniforms.
A class of fifty young people
received first communion at st.
Johns Roman Catholic church last
Sunday morning.
-Eben Keen accompanied B. H.
Dittrich to Philadelphia on Saturday
last, where the latter purchased a
new Maxwell car.
There will be a business meet
ing of the worshippers in the Indian
Orchard school house Thursday,
June %, at 8 p. m.
Elias Davis, Port Jervis, is
firing on the Honesdale Erie pas
senger engine in place of Wickham
Bross. who is enjoying a vacation.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
NJ. E. church will meet at Mrs.
James Birdsall's Thursday after
noon. Ladies of the Maccabees will
meet Thursday evening.
A petition for the transfer of
the hotel license of Francis J..
Hughes, Hawley borough, to Angela
Hughes, was filed June II in the
court of Quarter Sessions of Wayne
county.
The fortythird annual conven-
tion of the Pennsylvania State Den
tai society will be held at the Hotel
Casey in Scranton on Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday, June 2S, 29
and 80. All of the local dentists
will be present at the annual society
The body of the seven-year-old
girl, Antoinette Carbalotto, Old
Forge, who fell 25 feet into a mine,
was recovered Saturday at midnight
after 33 hours spent in digging for
the body. The little girl was play
ing in the yard and fell through an
opening in the earth
Notwithstanding the publicity
given in the local press concerning
the Erie's change of summer time
table, which went into effect last
Saturday morning, several passen-
gers missed their train to New York
and were compelled to wait until the
afternoon train. The summer
schedule on the Scranton division of
the Erie went into effect Saturday
morning. Trains now leave Scran-
ton as follows: 6 and $40 a. M,
1888 and 5;15 p. m. Sundays, 8 a.
m. and 1885 p. m.
Justice of the Peace and Mrs.
w. j. Barnes, Beachlake, are in
Chicago, attending the annual Cen
eral Conference of the Free Metho-
dist church, Mr.. Barnes being the
accredited delegate of the New York
conference. Three of their children
are students at Greenville College,
Illinois. Two of them, Misses Mar
cia and Grace, will graduate from
that institution of learning this
month. Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes will
stop over at Greenville on their
way home, and attend the com
exercises.
Fred Rickard is still carrying
the mail to Hoadleys via. star
route, where the mail matter in
placed on the Scranton Erie train.
This train now leaves Honesdale
daily at 6 o'clock p. M, and Mr..
R1ckard starts for Hoadleys a half
hour earlier to meet this very same
train at that place. He claims he
has received no notice from the
government to discontinue the SER
vice neither has Postmaster Allen
been notified to make the change.
Until then the service will remain
he same. Mr.. Rickard claims that
he expects to receive notice any
lay from the postal authorities to
discontinue his services. AS the
train is only for the summer he
states that perhaps the government
Will make no change in the deliv-
cry.
Probably for the first time in the
history of the Erie railroad it's
,hange of timetable went into eff
feet on Saturday instead of Sunday,
rs heretofore. Even old-time rail-
'oad employees claim they do not
'emember anything of the kind ever
occurring on the road.
The morning train now leaves
at 1920 instead of S:25:
arriving at 1:40 p. M, five minutes
ater than the winter schedule.
The afternoon train leaves Homes
iale seven minutes later than form
erly, going out now at 2:57. In the
evening it is scheduled to arrive
lere at 6:55, one minute earlier
han formerly.
In addition to the above mention
I'd trains, the Erie company has
made the Saturday only train a !
laily, arriving at $3.50 p. m, and
departing at 6 O'Clock.
This service is very much appre-
'iated by the business men of Homes
lale.
A swimming pool for the boys of
Ionesdale. What an ideal PROPOSE
ion?