The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-08-02

The retail price of milk In
Honesdale advanced to seven cents
per quart on Tuesday, being a one
cent raise.
The net proceeds of the picnic
held by st. Mary Magdalen's congre-
cation last Thursday amounted to
$61O.25.
A band concert will be given in
the interest of the Business Mems
association Tuesday evening near
the city hall.
The following are enjoying a
few days outing at Duck Harbor:
Emanuel Freeman, Leon Katz, Chas.
Fletcher, of this place, and William
Hattler, Baltimore.
Clarence D. Fortnam will ex-
hibit a portion of his thoroughbred
Holstein herd at the Wayne county
fair. Mr.. Fortnam's herd is as fine
as any in the county.
-Honesdale won from White
Mills on Sunday by the score of 6
to 5, The game was snappy and
well played on both sides. A good
game is assured next Saturday when
White Mills comes to Honesdale.
Frank Thomas has opened a
fine sand bank in the side hill op-
posite his home. Mr.. Thomas says
that parties have tested the sand and
claim that it is the best they have
ever seen. The first was used on
the new Fowler building.
The Business Mems Association
sent up three miniature balloons on
Monday night, one from East
Honesdale, the second from Homes
dale and another at Seelyville,
Placards in the balloons bearing two
of the merchants names giving
prizes if returned have been found
while the balloon sent up at Seely-
ing been found.
w. o. Rock, travelling passenger
agent of the Erie railroad with head
quarters at New York, was a bust.
ness caller in Honesdale on Friday
Mr.. Rock Informed e. w. Gammell
secretary of the Wayne Agricultural
society, that the Scranton train ar.
irving at Hawley at 10:49 would be
continued to Honesdale on Tuesday
Wednesday and Thursday, of the
four days of the fair.
William Hennegan, aged nine
teen, plead guilty before Squire L.
G.. Dimock, Waymart, to the charge
of loaning or hiring a horse o,
Sinquett and Wonnaoott, liverymen
a few hours on July %, taking the
horse to Scranton and selling i
there. Unable to furnish bail HI
was brought to Honesdale Monda.
evening, by the Waymart constable
Joseph Danque, and lodged IN tn,
county Jail.
! AT the regular monthly meet
] ing of the Honesdale improvement
association, held Monday evening, i
was decided to ask Mayor Kuhbacl
4 that he enforce the law as to auto
mobiles running faster than the Law
prohibits. Some of the member
claim that there is too much racint
upon our streets, which endanger
| life. Several numbers of cars hav
been received and arrests are ex
pected to follow.
Mrs. Joseph Bower. who ha
been visiting here, was called to he
home in Newburg, n. Y, Sunday, b
a telegram stating that her husband
Joseph Bower, had been injured
Relatives here do not know how ser
ious Mr.. Bowers injuries are, bu
his friends claim that both legs wer
cut off by the cars. He was work
ing in the Erie yard near Newburgl
when the accident occurred. MI
Bower had been spending his vaca
tion in Honesdale and returne
home Friday
Stephen Bergman, plumbe
employed by o. NJ. Spettigue, wa
taken suddenly i'll Friday night a
11;30. His physician, DR.. w. I
McOonvill, was called who after a
examination advised an immediat
operation. DR.. Charles Thompson
of Scranton, was summoned and a
4 o'clock Saturday afternoon a sur
gical operation was performed.
| gastric ulcer OF the stomach ha
caused a perioration of it's Innings
The aperture was closed and MI
Bergman is doing as nicely as ca
be expected. Although very weak
he is holding his own.
While reEurning home Frida
evening from Il two weeks outing a
1 Asbury Park MIR. A. f. Steinman an
\ party met with an accident to thei
/ auto when about two miles this sid
| of Hancock. The car contained MI
and Mrs. Steinman, daughter, Mis-
Ida, and Miss Lonnelle Lovejoy, Q
this place, and Mrs. Knapp an
child, OF Passaic, New Jersey, wit
Robert Hampstead as driver. In al
tempting to pass team on Sands
hill, about two miles this side q
Hancock, the auto was run into tn
ditch and stopped. The occupants G
| thH ear all got ont eYpant fhe driver
When he attempted to start the ma
chine again to get it into the roa
he found the brakes would not hol
it on the steep grade, and rathe
than let it run wild down the hill
| he turned it into the bank. The ma
chine was overturned, breaking tn
| top, steering wheel and mud guards
but luckily no one was hurt.-De
posit Courier Journal. The Stein
mans lived in Honesdaie for Hum
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