The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-03

Edw. d. Katz is on a short busi-
ness trip to Scranton and Wilkes
Barre.
William Freund, who is suffering
from pleuro-pneumonia is slowly re-
covering.
Homer McCarty, Carbondale. pass
ed Sunday at the home of Charles A.
McCarty, on Wood avenue.
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A local convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor societies of the
Honesdale district will be held at
the Seelyville Chapel, Sunday even
ing, February 5, at 1880 o'clock
Addresses will be delivered by a
number of prominent speakers, and
an interesting program rendered.
Erwin c. Bodie, president of the
County G. E. Societies, will preside
On Thursday and Friday of this
week the Roman Catholic churches
will observe Candelmas day (Purifi-
cation of B, V. Nary and st. Blases
day, two of the important feasts of
the church, and each having it's own
significance in the church ritual
Thursday is Candlemas day at which
time the years supply of candles for
church and home use is blessed in
special service. st. Blase's day oc-
ours on Friday, and it is on this day
that the Catholics observe the SER
vice of throat blessing, long prac-
ticed in their churches. The usual
Sacred Heart devotion will be held
on that day, it also being the first
Friday of the month.
On account of the Anti-Saloon
League meeting at the Court House,
Tuesday, the Mothers Reception of
the w. C. T. U. will be held at Mrs.
Augustus Rehbein's, East street,
Monday evening, February 6. Mu-
sic, Recitations, Reading, and re-
freshments are part of the program.
All mothers are invited, whether
temperance workers or not. Every
body come.
The condition of the Most Rev.
Patrick John Ryan, archbishop of
Philadelphia, is extremely critical
and he may pass away at any mo-
ment.
One of the most important meas
ures introduced in the Legislature,
Monday, was that relating to the is
suance of marriage licenses. This
came from Senator Powell, of Allie
gheny, and provides:
No license to marry shall be is
sued where either of the contracting
parties is an imbecile, epileptic, of
unsound mind or under guardianship
as person of unsound mind, nor to
any male person who is or has been
within five years an inmate of any
county asylum or home for INDECENT
persons, unless it satisfactorily ap-
pears that the cause of such condi-
tions has been removed and that
such male applicant is able to sup
port family and likely to so con-
tinue; nor shall any license issue
when either of the contracting par
ties is afflicted with transmissable
disease, or at the time of making
application is under the influence of
intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug.
IF persons residing in this state
go to another State with the intent
of avoiding the provision above
quoted and there have their marriage
solemnized the marriage shall be
void If the parties return to Penn
sylvania to reside"
Il predict We'll have more Win
ter in March than any time yet,"
said Peter H. Cole, assessor for
Manchester Township, Number 2,
who came to Honesdale, Monday to
attend the tax appeal hearings be-
fore the County Commissioners at
the Court House this week, to a re-
porter for THE CITIZEN. 1--WE had
cold enough November and Decem-
ber.'
Mr.. Cole grew quite reminiscent
as he talked to the newspaper man
I'm "buckwheat farmer" of
Wayne county. If l live until next
Summer I'll be 81. I'll be good
for this pension. joe Cannon put
it through the House, but Pm afraid
the Senate won't pass it. I've liv-
ed in Wayne county thirty-two
years first off, so I'm pretty near a
resident of Wayne county. l am a
Republican and a veteran of the
Civil War. l could tell soldier as
far as I seen him just by looking at
him.
I'm here to attend the appeals
from my town." continued Mr.. Cole,
who has been an assessor of Man
chester Number for thirteen years
judge of election, registration as
SCISSOR, and other township offices too
numerous to mention.
My grandfather was a Justice of
the Peace. l was a boy probably
about fourteen or sixteen years old,
and | can always remember hearing
man swear before my grandfather.
There was six weeks good sleighing
in March, and l think that's what
We'll have this year.
When asked as to whether his
hens were laying, he replied,
They're getting out some," but he
remarked regretfully, they got down
to two cents piece last week from
forty-tive cents dozen.
tIt'C hnon