The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-19

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son.
The Merry Heart club returned
Saturday from 10 days outing at
Elk Lake.
Cashier c. A. Emery has pur-
chased a new Stanley steamer Tor
pedo runabout 1912 model, which is
beauty.
j. NJ. Branning and Hattie A.
Knapp, both of Lookout, were mar
ried last Friday by Justice of the
Peace w. H. Ham.
"A marriage license was issued
Tuesday, July IS, to William NJ.
Harris, Ithaca, N. Y, and Alpha G.
Rockwell, Honesdale.
The Herbeck-Demer company
of Hallstead, has taken out dissolu-
tion papers and the Demers have
made arrangements to occupy an
other factory at Great Bend.
Miss Emma Seaman, of this
place, purchased the Charles Reihm
farm in Berlin township, at Sheriff's
sale, Friday afternoon, for 500.
The farm consists of 81 acres.
The Demer brothers have pur-
chased the equipment of the cut
glass shop formerly operated at
Clark's Summit by William Kohlus,
and removed same to Great Bend,
where it is expected they will be in
operation within ten days.
IS. T. Ham, John Erik, c. e.
Bates and John Rickert represented
the Honesdale Business Mems asso-
citation in Carbondale on Monday
evening, making final arrangements
for the Merchants Day picnic at
Lake Lodore on August 2.
The Business Mems association
are more than gratified with the
support they have and are receiving
in regards to their picnic which will
be held at Lake Lodore August 2.
The stores will be universally clos
ed. There are about a half dozen
business houses who have not as yet
complied with the request.
&C. E. Van Horne received a tele-
gram Tuesday morning that his
house in Susquehanna that was re-
aged by fire Monday night. The
home of George Sando, located next
to Mr.. Van Horne's tenement house,
work hard to save the Van Horn
dwelling it was somewhat damaged.
The remains of Miss Gibbie Hol-
bert arrived on Sunday evenings Erie
train from Los Angeles, Cal. The
funeral was held Tuesday morning in
the Presbyterian chapel, Rev. w. H.
Swift officiating. Interment was
made at Indian Orchard. Miss Hol-
bert was we'll known in Honesdale,
where she lived many years. She
was sister of Decater Holbert of
this place.
Three automobile parties regis
tered at the Allen House on Sunday,
all of whom were from Carbondale.
One party consisted of A. Hitler,
Mrs. j. Hover, Mrs. w. H. Hitler and
Paul w. Hitler; another, Mr.. and
Mrs. George ]. Benton, Carbondale,
and Mr.. and Mrs. M. Tylor, Forest
City; Superintendent and Mrs. c. z.
Burr, Mrs. G. e. Ferris, Burr Portee,
DR.. and Mrs. ]. A. Patten.
Another redeeming feature of
oiled streets is the dry sidewalks i'm
mediately following rain. BY re-
moving light collection of the
dust the crosswalks are as dry as
the Main street walks. The towns
people are pleased over the success
of the experiment on the two
blocks recently and many have ex-
pressed desire to see the remainder
of Main street oiled.
Pitcher Schneider, Honesdale,
who hurled for Syracuse last year
under the name of Dank, has quit
base ball for the present at least,
and is now an electrical engineer for
the Westinghouse company, of AL
lentoWn. Manager Deal made an eff
fort last week to get him to return
to the Salt City and help out the
team, but he would not do this and
notified Deal to that effect on Tues
day. He went to Wilkes-Barre and
Reading from Lafayette College
Scranton Times.
Carl Prosch, the ingenious dec
orator and superintendent of the
Honesdale Decorating company's
plant at this place, recently secur-
ed a patent for a design on a glass
vessel. The Scientific American of
July 10 contained the following rela-
tive to the design: THE design in
this case is representative of a wine
glass or goblet, along very graceful
and simple lines, the ornamentation
comprising band encircling the ar
ticle near the rim, the band being
decorated with a flower repeated and
separated by INTERVENING laces."
The full crew law, new state
measure, went into effect in Penn
sylvania Sunday at 12 o'clock mid
night. The law calls for an extra
man on every car on a train of from
three to five cars or over. The law
has not as yet been signed by Gov.
Dix, but all trains operated by the
Erie railroad in the state of Pennsyl-
vania took on an extra man on trains
of three to five cars, Monday.
Tuesday mornings Honesdale Erie
train had its first "full'' crew under
the new law. James Curran, of this
place, who has recently been en-
ployed on passenger and freight
trains on the main line of the Erie,
donned the blue suit as the extra
man on the Honesdale train. He is
second brakeman, Philip Dean being
fret hra