The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-15

lne SeNenun annual report Ol IHS
State Education Department for the
school year ending July 81, 1910,
shows a total increase of. 25,251 in
the attendance at all of the schools
of the State, including the higher
institutions. The total number of
students in attendance during the
past year was 1,S66,160. There
were 52,075 teachers employed dur
ing the past year, being an increase
of 1,2S7. The total expenditures
for the year were 423,S25.14,
showing a decrease of $2,272,392.24
over the year preceding.
Miss Cora Decker, of the Albright
Library, Scranton, spent the week
end and Sunday, as the guest of her
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. G. w.
Decker, Fifteenth street.
~. r. Butler and son, Pleasant
Mount were callers at this Office
Saturday morning.
George W. Kimble, White Mills,
was in town Saturday afternoon.
The March trial list was made up,
Monday.
The commonwealth bill of costs
in the case of Samuel N Reed, who
pleaded guilty of manslaughter in
the case of the Commonwealth VS..
Samuel n. Reed, Will Lord prosecu-
tor, and was sentenced to an indie
terminate term in the Eastern Peni-
tentiary of from fourteen months to
twelve years, for completely in the
big fight at Equinunk, July 10,
1910, when Silas e. Lord received
a blow in the head, either from a
pick or a hoe, from the effects of
which he died twelve days later,
was filed Friday, February 10, in,
the Office of the Clerk of the Courts,
and amounted to S1S9.44.
James Elverson, Sr, proprietor
and editor of the Philadelphia In
quirer, died at his home at Philadel-
three years. He had been i'll for
chased the controlling interest in
the Inquirer in 1899 Among his
earlier ventures in the publishing
field were the Saturday Night, a
story paper which he established in
1865, and Golden Days, we'll
known juvenile publication which
he started in 1880. Born in Eng
land he came to this country in
1S47. He began life as a messenger
boy in Newark, N. j. He was a
telegraph operator at the age of six
teen, and before he was twenty he
was made manager of the Console
dated offices in Newark. At the out
break of the Civil war he went to
Washington as the manager of the
American Telegraph company and
personally handled much of the i'm
portant business of the departments
He was in close touch with the Lin
coin administration and was on in
innate terms with the president and
members of the cabinet.
An extra session of Congress after
the 4th of March is more than prob
able. Congress is pulling in several
different directions. Certain Sena-
tors and members of the lower
House are kicking and baking. The
lesson of the last Congressional cleo
ton is unheeded or misunderstood.
Such a self-evident proposition as
the desirability of reciprocity with
Canada is opposed by Senator from
Texas and the Speaker of the House
from Illinois and by a recently
elected Senator from Massachusetts;
and all of them have some backing
in Congress. Senator Bailey of Tex
as and Senator Brown of Nebraska
have both given the Senate to un-
derstand that they are itching to
filibuster, and it is evident that
within the three short weeks re-
naming the appropriation bills can
not be passed without making con-
cessions to recalcitrant elements in
Congress.
At a meeting of the town council
of Honesdale and the supervisors of
Texas township, held at the town
hall Thursday afternoon it was
agreed that application be made to
the State Highway commissioner for
the paving of Main street, Honesdale;
and also by the Texas township su-
pervisors for the road leading north
from the borough line, Main street,
to the Dyberry township line, to join
with the State road, constructed
there last summer Mayor John Kuh-
bach and G.. A. McCarty, borough
solicitor, were appointed commit
tee some weeks ago to devise some
plan by which Main street could be
paved by State aid and the meeting
referred to was called for the pur-
pose of deciding upon a line of ac-
tion by the committee.
Last Sunday, all members of the
church received copies of the annual
report of the treasurer of First Pres
byterian Society of Honesdale, Pa,
for the year ending February s,
1911, which is as follows: Receipts
Balance on hand close of last
year, $131.66; our II share Sunday
morning collections, $6S7.43; La
dies Aid Society, $4,000; Borrowed
from Wayne County Savings Bank,
$500; Our share of collections at
Union meetinsg, $25.18; Pew Rem
tails, $2670.12. Disbursements
Pastors salary and pulpit supply,
$2025; Music, $251.17; Lighting,
$685.; Water Rent, SAP; Repairs
and Improvements, $276.60; Incl
dentals, $92.71; Interest, $63OS;
Carting, 1920; Insurance, $362;
Janitor, 1924; Heating, S235; Bal
ance cash on hand, $44.6S. The
debt on the church is now S400 This