The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-06-21
Patrick O'Neill, Cold Spring,
'und two-headed robin Monday

Patrick O'Neill Cold Spring,
found a two-headed robin Monday
morning.
The Erie railroad, it is claim
ed, recently paid the Catholic
church in Jersey City $4,000 for
damages done by smoke from its
engines burning soft coal.
NO preaching at Damascus Bap-
tist church next Sunday, June %.
Pastor Minch being at the Great
World Alliance in Philadelphia. to-
gether with Orville Welsh, Tyler
Hill.
Marriage licenses have been
granted to Judson G. Burcher,
Scranton, and Eula j. Lovelass,
Fallsdale; also to Mamie Cook,
Scranton, and Argues Schneider,
Clemo.
w. L. Comfort resigned his
position as porter at the Hotel
Wayne Saturday and left for We'll
come Lake, Pike county, the same
day, where he entered the employ
of j. c. Casey.
The following advertised letters
remain at the postoffice: Elton
Compton, Miss Dollie Elliot, Mrs. NJ.
Brown, Patrick Mcdonald, Mrs. Mary
e. Nestelle, Levi Plant, H. F. Pres
ton, Eberly C. Skinner.
Warren Norton, son of Myron
Norton, Clinton, graduated last
Thursday from Keystone Academy
with high honors, winning the prizes
for excellence in Latin and Oratory
He expects to enter college this
Fall.
-"Dewdropin" camp, located on
one of the most beautiful hills sur
rounding picturesque Honesdale,
added dignity to their camp the first
of the week by unfurling Old Glory
to the breeze. The flag floats from
3O-foot staff and can be seen from
any point of the town We will drop
in some day, boys.
Murphy, whose home is at
White Mills, and who caught for the
Honesdale team several seasons ago,
is a Villanova College man who is
well thought of by Connie Mack. 1t
is the intention of Manager Cross,
OF the Scranton team, who has bor-
rowed him from the Athletics to
shove him into the right garden,
where Mecherly is a stranger and
Carroll not satisfactory to date.
Special orders No. 120 of the
War Department, dated May 90. di-
rect the transfer of Major Edgar
Jadwin, Resident Engineer at Girls
tobal. from the canal work, as soon
as his services can be spared. Ma
Jor Jadwin will report to the Chief
of Engineers at Washington for as
signment to duty.-The Canal Rec
ord. Major Jadwin is a son of
Hon. G. c. Jadwin, the weu-known
Honesdale pharmacist.
benjamin H. Helwig, the paint
er, has a dog which is faithful to his
master. One day last week Mr.. Hell
wig had accession to go to Promp-
ton to finish some work. The dog
followed him to the train and as he
boarded it he bade the faithful pet
go home. When he reached his des-
tination he had occasion to go to
nearby house to get some brushes
He had left other material near the
track. After an absence of about
hve minutes he found the dog
guarding his belongings.
The tongue of large sprink-
iIhS wagon owned Dy T.. A. COrtright
d Son, was broken Monday morning
in slight runaway which occurred
in front of the Main street watering
station.
A new horse, hitched to the
borough street sprinkler for the
first time, looked around and seeing
water descend in way he had new
er seen before, took fright and GAL
loped away from the impending
flood.
His mad race was of short dura-
tion however. His mate, more ac-
customed to the sound of falling
water, didn't want to go. And so
the horse on the offside, the new
horse, showed the team right into
tree, seventy-five feet from the
starting point, breaking the tongue
of the wagon. Driver Sam Wadge
caught the frightened animals. And
If the strees of Honesdale were only
partially sprinkled on Monday
blame it on the Temperance" horse
who didn't take to being on the wa
ter wagon.