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

LOCAL MENTION.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Ross will en-
tertain at their home on East street
this (Tuesday) evening.
j. Oscar Terrell, who has been
on the sick list for several weeks, is
reported as slightly improved.
-Coe Leminitzer, Honesdale
boy, who is a student at Cornell, has
been taken down with typhoid fever.
District Superintendent Dr.. L.
C. Murdoch will occupy the pulpit
Of the Central M. E. church next
Sunday morning.
Last Wednesday evening Dr.. P.
b. Peterson entertained the mem
bers of the Wayne County Medical
society at his home on Main street.
The sympathy of this commun-
ity go out to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. j..
Ward in the affliction which has
come to them in the injury received
by their son, Alfred.
Over 800 citizens have already
signed a petition asking the court
to appoint viewers to erect a foot
bridge across Park Lake between
Court street and Dyberry Place.
Reserved seats for the lecture
by DR.. Amsbary on Thursday night
are on sale at Chambers drug store.
Take your ticket with you when you
go and get reserved seat.
Cards have been received from
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Frederick
Wright, Susquehanna, announcing
the marriage of their daughter, Flor
ence, to Dd. James Hutton Curtis, on
Thursday, January 3, at Susque-
hanna.
On account of the revival meet
ings now in progress the lecture at
the High school Thursday night will
not commence until S:35 o'clock.
This will give people an opportunity
to attend the church service and still
not miss the lecture.
-"More popular than Capt. Hob
son, DR.. Mcintyre or Col. Bain," is
what a Chautauqua manager said of
DR.. Amsbary, who is to lecture at
the High School next Thursday
night. Reserved seats now on sale
at Chambers drug store, so cents.
If the people of Honesdale do
not take more interest in the High
School Lyceum Course, the High
school will lose about $500. The
auditorium seats over 600 and it
ought to be filled at the lecture, on
Thursday night, by DR.. Amsbary.
At the annual meeting of the
Honesdale National Bank held this
(Tuesday) morning, these directors
were elected: Henry q. Russell, e.
F. Torrey, Horace T. Menner, Louis
j. Dorflinger, Andrew Thompson,
Homer Greene, James C.. Birdsall,
Edmund B. Hardenbergh, and Philip
r. Murray.
Mrs. Joseph A. Bodie entertain
ed Thursday evening in compliment
of Miss Bessie Ham, who is to be
married January II, to Frank HUI
gus. The invited guests were Mes
danes Louise Suydam, Edith Hull,
Rebecca Fuller, Eleanor Peterson,
Mary Bentley and Misses Mary Men
ner and Grace Salmon.
AT the annual congregational
meeting of = st. Johns Evangelical
Lutheran church, held last Sunday
these officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Edward Welsh; treasurer, Con-
rad Roeschleu; secretary, Theodore
Dreyer; trustees, William Haggerty
G. VIM. Peil, George Ripple and IT.
vim A. Hartman. A new constitution
was also adopted.
The we'll diggers who are sink.
ing an artesian we'll for John Strong
man, New York, at his summer home
in Bethany, had the misfortune tc
lose their drill. 1t became discon.
nected from the drill rope and fell
into the well, a distance of 165 feet
Mr.. Long, the driller, has gone tc
East Stroudsburg for tackle to fish
the drill out.
The managers of the Higf
School Lyceum course, have been
unfortunate in the matter of wealth
er for the first two numbers of theil
course, and consequently have hat
very small audiences. The mex
number will be given Thursday
night, and it is desired that the au
ditorium be filled. Tickets for th'
three remaining numbers are onl!
rs cents; for Thursday night, AZ
cents.
George A. Glenn & Co., Phil
adelphia contracting firm, having
failed to complete its contract at thu
new State hospital for the crimina
insane, at Farview, within the speci
fed time, January 1, this year, thu
state commission that is supervising
the work of construction has declar
ed the contract forfeited and is nov
getting ready to advertise for bid
for the completion of the contract.
The American Knitting Com
pany on January 8, reelected the OLE
board of directors, to wit: VIM. b
Holmes, G. w. Sell, Philip Krantz
f. p. Kimble, John H, Weaver, Johl
Kuhbach and Asa p. Bryant. Afte
the election the board organized
making William B. Holmes, pTesi
dent, Philip Krantz, vice-presiden
and manager, and Asa e. Bryan
secretary and treasurer. The repor
of the manager for the year ending
December 81, 1910, showed the plan
was well managed and in a prosper
GUS condition.