The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-27
For Prothonotary, W
JOHN N. SHARPSTEEN. IN
HAWLEY.
[special TO The Citizen.l

seems to be waxing hotter every day.
Just because one or two persons
who, as they say, don't care whether
there Is any school at all, are whoop-
ing for the election of a candidate
for some personal reason or for the
regard he has for him, is no evidence
that the candidate is opposed to the
advancement of the standard of edu-
cation. The candidate in mind has
taught twenty terms and served as
school director ten years and does
not entertain any such a thought,
but is in favor of strict economy as
far as consistent and the very best
schools that can be had for the price
G. e. Martz, Blakely, former vice
principal of the Hawley schools, paid
a visit to friends here during the
week. Mrs. James Stevenson gave a
dinner at which he was the guest of
honor Thursday evening. Mr.. Martz
enters Yale college this week.
G.. A. Kessler, Atco, returned home
Friday after brief sojourn here and
at Honesdale.
Mrs. Hannah Layton and Mrs.
Goodman, Wangum avenue, visited
the county seat on Tuesday.
Mrs. Stephen Spruks and niece,
Miss Alta Spruks, Scranton, were in
town Wednesday.
Agnus Wicker, Wilkes-Barre, ar
rived Saturday morning to assist her
sister in making final arrangements
for closing the parental home for
the winter. They left on the even
ing train for the above place.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. V. Atkinson have
closed their cottage at Fairview
Lake and returned to town.
Mine host, George Kohlman, pro-
prietor of the Kohlman House, at
tended the recent horse races at
Wilkes-Barre.
Mrs. Augusta Geary leaves Satur-
day for Cleveland, Ohio, where she
expects to make her future perman-
ent home. She will visit friends in
the Electric City and other cities en-
route.
Gustave Buck, Scranton, and a
young lady friend of his sisters, Miss
Sammers, Pittston, were guests al
the Buck home on Barker street
over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Purdy, OF
Seelyville, spent Sunday with R. w
Murphy and wife.
years of age, died suddenly Monday
morning at her home on Bone Ridge
She was born in Germany, came to
this country when a young girl, and
for the greater part of her life lived
on the farm where she died.
Lucy Shelley and Grace Unger
passed Saturday and Sunday with
friends at Lakeville and UsWicks
Do Ie9N,,
is constructing the new state dam at
Promise Land Pond. He has force
of about 20 men and is pushing the
work rapidly.
Edgar Wilson, game warden at
Forest Lake, has an acre of potatoes
which will yield him ITO bushels.
Christina Everding has been very
i'll of ptomaine poisoning and is now
under the care of DR.. A. H. CATER
all.
Our popular Erie avenue grocer,
H. B. Everding, is doing a rushing
business in his newly-furnished
store. With other improvements he
has added a new bookkeeping ac-
count system, giving slips with each
purchase.
Henry Eek is now able to supply
the people with a long-felt need, that
OF conveyance in his automobile to
the nearby points of interest.
Winfield Baisden, the Eddy livery
man, owing to the increase of his
business of late, will soon add to his
livery seven horses and large coach
which will come from Scranton. He
also contemplates adding an auto.
We are in sympathy with John
Brown as the mushrooms are gone
for this year.
George Voorhis, Allendale, N. j.,
who has been visiting his wife's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hoover,
while here enjoyed several fishing
excursions to nearby ponds. At
Promise Land Pond he caught his
first big fish, a pickerel, weighing
Az pounds. At the same time
Henry Eek, while standing on a log,
got hold of a large pickerel and in
trying to land it was pulled into the
water headlong. They brought
home 33 pickerel and nearly 100 cat
fish. Mr.. Voorhis returned home on
Saturday well pleased with his sport
Sidney Brink, Scranton, is visiting
his brother, Seth Brink. He will re-
turn to his home on Tuesday.
Lena Ebert, hair dresser, Brook
lyn, is visiting at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Miller of the East
side.
VIM. Rouse, who has been employ
ed in Newark, N. j., has accepted a
position at the same business at
Montreal, Canada. His wife will re-
main for few weeks here with her
mother, Mrs. Ekbeck, and then will
join her husband at that place.
Michael Sheridan is accompanying
G. A. McCarty, candidate for Judge,
through the southern section of the
county.
Mrs. Caroline Harris, Lakeville,
also E. B. Hollister, of Hollister-
vile, were entertained at the home
of Mrs. Angeline Bell, Thursday.
Mrs. Quincy, Honesdale, is a
visitor at tn home of her son, w. A.
Quincy, on Church street.
The rooms formerly occupied by
the postoffice in the Teeter building,
corner of Church street and Main
avenue, have been completely trans
formed by carpenters and painters,
and now present a thorough up-to-
date appearance in which Eugene
Spaul now displays the latest fall
styles in gentlemen's furnishings,
having opened his clothing store
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