The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-04-07

3.
The special preacher at Grace
Episcopal church, Friday, April Z,
will be the Rev. Edwin A. Gernant
Towanda.
A petition was filed Wednesday,
April 5, for the transfer of the hotel
license of Chas. F. Vert, of Dreher
township to Charles d. Smith.
The rehearsals for the minstrels
under the auspices of the Honesdale
baseball team, will commence this
Thursday evening.
-Oslek Tribe, No. 31S, |. o. r.
NJ, meets Thursday evening in the
adoption degree, when several pale
faces will be adopted, and the recent
ly-elected officers installed.
Mayor Abe Sahm, of Carbon
dale, says that he has the honor of
giving the first orders for the best
made shoe Honesdale has ever pro-
duced. 1t is the Chocolate King" a
new style just put out by the Union
Stamp Shoe Co.
"A grand ball, the first of the
season, will be held at Florence
Theatre, White Mills, by the White
Mills base ball club, Saturday even
ing, April 30. Refreshments will be
served. Music by Beilman's orches-
ira. Tickets, gentlemen csc; ladies
15c. Help a good thing. Be there.
According to Commissioners
Clerk, George P. Ross, he sent over
the bill of costs for jury, court Off
cials, ETC., amounting to over $500
incurred in the famous case of the
Commonwealth VS.. Carl Howe, tried
in Wayne county February IA, under
a change of venue, from Lackawan-
ma county, the following week after
the trial to the Lackawanna County
Commissioners, but they didn't pay
any attention to it.
To fittingly welcome their COM
rades, the men of Lieutenant Ezra S.
Griffin Post have asked the citizens
of Scranton to aid them in raising a
fund of $4,000 to provide for the re-
ception of the visiting veterans.
They point out that is is the first
time in quarter of a century that
the state encampment is to be held
there, and that in every likelihood it
will be the last time the veterans of
the state will pitch their tents here,
since death is gradually working
havoc in those already sadly thin
ned ranks that bore the shock and
brunt of many hard fought battle.
The Ninth Cavalry, the negro reg
iment, the presence of which in San
Antonio caused protest to be made
to President Taft by Congressman
Garner of the Brownsville district
and others, is in accordance with dis
positions already reported from
to leave San Antonio.
The regiment is going to do patrol
duty on the border, and there is rea-
son to believe that at least two
troops will go to Brownsville, the
town at the mouth of the Rio Grande,
which was the scene of the trouble
that caused battalion of the Twen-
ty-fifth Infantry, another negro regi-
ment, to be dismissed from the serv-
ice of the United States by President
The negro troopers, instead of ap-
pearing downcast at being ordered to
the desolate stations along the bor-
der, apparently welcome the change.
They had feared that they were to
be sent back to Wyoming instead of
upon this comparatively active SER
vice.
Col. John R. Marshall, the negro
commanding officer of the Eighth
Infantry, Illinois National Guard,
who came in last night, to-day re-
ported to the commanding officer of
the Eighteenth United States Infan-
try, the regiment to which he has
been assigned for the next two
weeks. In that regiment SO per
cent. of the officers are Southerners,
while the other Militia Colonel as
signed to the Eighteenth is Col. Gard
ner of North Carolina. The colored
officer has his meals sent to his tent,
while the North Carolina Colonel and
the other white officers assigned to
the regiment mess with the regular
officers. The negro keeps to himself
most of the time.
The lawmakers who have been
Trying 10 get LOSeCnef on Qate Tor
the primary elections appear to have
at last arrived at a decision that is
to a majority of the
members of the legislature, and un-
less something unexpected occurs
before the bill is placed in the hands
of the governor, the primaries this
year will be held on the last day in
September. Senator Tustin, who
last week introduced a bill fixing as
the primary date the first Saturday
in October, offered an amendment
Monday night when the bill was
taken up on third reading changing
the date to the last Saturday in Sep
tember of odd numbered years, leav-
ing unchanged the provision for the
April primary in even numbered
years. This arrangement was agreed
upon at a conference of Senator
Penrose with Philadelphia organiza-
tion leaders and it is therefore pret-
ty certain to pass both senate and
house and meet with the approval of
Governor Tener. To conform to the
new date, Tustin introduced a bill
fixing the registration days on