The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-02-01
Clarence Galloway has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Ma
tional Elevator Works.

Clarence Galloway has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Ma
tional Elevator Works.
Quite a number of Honesdale
people wore a pink carnation Sun
day in honor of the anniversary of
the late President William McKin-
ley. Mr. Mckinley would have been
sixty-nine years of age, January 80,
had he lived.
Due to the recent thaw and
heavy rains, the Lackawaxen rose
rapidly Saturday morning and for a
time threatened to overflow its
banks. With the control of this
raging stream the town council have
wrestled for many years.
A "cut glass trust" is among
the possibilities of the leading in
dustry of Wayne county. 1t is ru-
mored that a number of the smaller
concerns are to be absorbed by the
largest two corporations engaged in
the manufacture of cut glass.
According to the latest census,
there are 1856 Protestant denomina-
tions in the United States, and sects
are constantly on the increase in
spite of all the talk of unity. There
are sixteen kinds of Baptists, thirty
four of Lutherans, fifteen of Metho-
dists, and twelve of Presbyterians.
John Long, Hanover, Great
Sachem of Pennsylvania, will be here
next Thursday night to officially visit
Oslek Tribe No. 31S, j. o. r. M, in
stall the new officers, and talk on
the unwritten work. After the ses-
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will banquet.
"A twelve-team baseball league
is among the possibilities in Wayne
county. The towns mentioned in
connection with the proposed asso-
citation are: Honesdale, Hawley,
White Mills, Ariel, Waymart, Alden
vile. Pleasant Mount, Damascus,
Shehawken, Equinunk, Lake Como
and Lakeville. The proposed troll
ley will touch many of these towns
Out in the state of Washington,
where women have the right of suf-
frage, there is liable to be trouble
over the full exercise of the rights
that usually go with the ballots as
the women object to jury service
The courts have difficulty enough
with men on this jury business but
what they are to do with the women
is now giving considerable uneasi-
ness.
The State Board of Agriculture
selected Lancaster as the place for
meeting in 1912 at their annual ses-
sions held at Harrisburg last week
The following officers were elected:
Vice-presidents, George G. Hutchi-
son, Warriors Mark; A. j. Kahler
Hughesville, and Peter Gearhart,
Clearfield; executive committee, H.
E. Conrad, West Grove, chairman;
j. A. Herr, Mill Hall; a. P. Young,
Millville; Matthew Rodgers, Mexico;
NJ. NJ, Naginey, Milroy; R. J. Weld
Sugar Grove, and d. A. Knuppen-
burg, Lake Carey. Governor Tener
is president eX officio.
Quite unique is the record of
Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew
art, retained by Governor Tener as
the head of the National Guard of
the state. General Stewart recently,
for the fifth time, WAS sworn in as
the commanding officer, next to the
governor, of the citizen soldiery of
Pennsylvania. In point of service,
General Stewart is the Oldest officer
tL IhS hSdu VI Tic utIbdIlulSnI DIT Lie
capitol. He served two terms as
secretary of Internal Affairs, resign
ing in 1895 to accept the adjutant
generalship in Governor Hastings
cabinet. He continued in the posi-
tion during the Stone, Pennypacker
and Stuart administrations. Gener-
al Stewart fought in the Civil war
and was in active command of the
PpnnGUlV1nia trnnnE 1urino n
Spanish-American war He is a past
grand commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
Two weeks later than last year
will come the first day of the holy
season of Lent this year. Last year
the Lenten season opened February
18th. This year the opening day will
be March /. Easter Sunday this
year will fall on April l6. The time
of the Lenten season is regulated by
the moon. Easter Sunday annually
falls on the first Sunday after the
first full moon coming later than
March 21. The first fun moon after
March 21 this year will be on April
l3. The season of Lent is the most
important in the calendar of the
Catholic church. 1t is observed with
special services Holy Thursday,
Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Eas-
ter Sunday, Passion Sunday and
Palm Sunday are the most promi-
nent days of the season. Good Fri
day is the most sorrowful day in the
church, this marking the anniver-
sary of the death of Christ upon the
cross. The most joyous day is Eas-
ter Sunday.
The Fifth Annual Banquet of
The Wayne County Pennsylvania
Society of New York City will be held
on Wednesday evening, the eighth
of February, 1911, at seven o'clock
at the Hotel Manhattan, corner of
Madison Avenue and 42nd street,
New York City. Among the guests
of honor and speakers will be:
Homer Greene, Lift. D., lawyer and
author, Honesdale; Right Reverend
M. j. Hoban, Bishop, Scranton Dio-
cese; Hon. Charles r. White, Tax
Commissioner, President Delaware
Valley Society; Hon. William A.
Prendergast, Comptroller of The
City of New York. The price of the
dinner tickets has been fixed at four
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