The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-01-11


Holgate, Thursday.
The Business Mems Association
meets Wednesday evening at the
usual time and place.
Read the notice about Veteran
Bolkcom, and send him a postal
card with your greetings.
1t is rumored that NJ. D. Kelly
and Clinton Doyle, Nicholson, will
lease the Commercial Hotel.
The annual meeting of the
Greater HoDesdale Board of Trade
will be held Friday evening.
Wayne County Pomona Grange,
Number Al, will meet with Hope
Grange at South Canaan, Jan. 20.
One day last week seven shares
of Wayne County Bank stock, par
value 500, were sold for $3.50 each.
MIR. and Mrs. Samuel Gregory,
River street, are rejoicing over the
advent last Monday of baby daugh-
ter.
The Honesdale National Bank
declared it's usual dividend of per
cent. regular, and 2 " per cent. ex
ira.
The Ladies' Aid of st. Johns
Lutheran church will serve coffee
and luncheon Thursday afternoon
at the church parlors.
George Lighthiser, Sr., Friday
evening fell at the corner of DR.. G.
R. Brady's home and received a
slight injury of the head.
Mrs. c. ]. Weaver and family
have leased rooms in the Doherty
apartment on Eighth street and will
occupy same Immediately.
"A daughter has been born to
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Schuller, of 1874
Wildwood avenue, Upper Montclair,
~ j., January 3, 1911. Both par
ents were former Honesdalians.
County Detective N. B. Spencer
on Saturday quarantined the Van
Steenberg home in Texas No. 4,
where their fourteen-year-old daugh-
ter, Alice, is suffering from typhoid
fever.
The annual meeting of the
Honesdale branch of the w. c. S. P.
G. A. will be held Friday afternoon,
January 13, at 2 o'clock at the City
Hall. All members are requested
W DS pIeSSul.
At the regular meeting Monday
night, Honesdale Aerie, No. 1858,
Fraternal Order of Eagles, installed
their officers for the ensuing year.
After the meeting progressive poin-
chile contest was held followed by a
sumptuous banquet.
"A $50 note struck off by the
Confederate States of America, near
ly so years ago and which has been
doing modern duty as bonafide cur
rency, has fallen into the hands of
the Harrisburg police. 1t is known
positively that the note changed
hands half dozen times within the
past week, people receiving it in ex-
change for goods of value unsus-
pectingly.
j. Freer, son of Oliver Freer,
dislocated his shoulder last Thurs
day evening. He was coming down
hill with horse and buggy near AL
denville when the wagon skidded on
the ice. Mr.. Freer put out his arm
to make brake of the wheel, when
sudden jerk pulled his shoulder
out of joint. DR.. P. B. Peterson
gave him an anaesthetic and reduc-
ed the dislocation.
Samuel Morrison, who for ten
years was chief plumber with a
plumbing house in Philadelphia, and
for the past sixteen years has held
the same position with o. NJ. Spet-
tigue, of this place, resigned his
position on Saturday and will in the
near future open a shop here for
the manufacture of patent boiler
and steam apparatus. His successor
has not yet been appointed.
Leonard Sefing, representing the
Orphans Home and the Home for
the Aged at Germantown, Philadel-
phia, spent the weekend with Rev.
and Mrs. C. c. Miller. Mr.. SEEING
came here to look after the welfare
of Mrs. Miller, sister of the late
Helene Bodemar, and to make ar
rangements for her removal to the
Home. This institution is an insti.
tuition of the Lutheran church.
The two cent club is a popular
organization at Milton, there being
five of these clubs in the town, which
during the week distributed over $2,-
900 among their members. Each
member begins with a deposit of two
cents, and each Saturday two cents
is added-thus, two cents, four cents
six, eight, ten and so on until the
! fifty second payment is $1.04, total.
ing$2756, which comes in handy
Fabout Christmas. 1t is an excellent
plan to save money for the holidays
without any serious inconvenience.
Paul NJ. Rainey, of West Hobok,
en-, who is a son of Rev. Jas. Rainey
former resident here, is inventor
of a device for producing an cleo
trio spark in automobile engines
which it is said will do away with
the spark plug and its connecting
wires and batteries. If it proves al
successful in practical service as il
now appears, it should materially re
duce not only the cost of construct
ing automobiles, but trouble in run
ming them. Mr.. Rainey, in company
with another young man, has applied
for patent on the device and will
endeavor to put it on the market. HI
is also inventor of an improvement tt
telephone mechanism that commendI
itself to workers in that line.-Tunk
hammock Republican and New Age
] The father of the above named in
ventor, Rev. James Rainey, is nov
pastor of the Aldenville Baptis