The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-26

The Honesdale National Bank
will be closed Tuesday, May 80,
Memorial Day.
At the Texas township poor
house farm near Indian Orchard,
there are at present fourteen in
mates, viz: seven men, six women
and one girl. The Oldest man is
one Joseph Lutz.
Bernard NJ. Rifkin, landscape
architect, of the firm of Bonsey and
Rifkin, Wilkes-Barre, arrived in
town Wednesday afternoon with a
crew of four men, to superintend the
trimming and cementing of the
maple and elm trees in the Maple
City.
w. J. Ball was overcome by the
heat, Monday while sitting on the
porch in front of Edward Dunning's
home, Church street, and fell off the
chair, striking on the back of his
head. The fall rendered him un-
conscious. A doctor was summoned
and he was restored to conscious
ness.
According to the statement of
State Treasurer c. F. Wright, issued
May 22, the state has money on de-
posit in Wayne County banks as fol-
lows: General Fund Honesdale Ma
tional Bank, $4,000; First Nation
al Bank, Hawley, $4,000; Singing
fund-Honesdale Dime Bank, $10,-
600; Wayne County Savings Bank,
$25, 700.
A mission conducted by two
fathers from the Franciscan monas-
terry in New York City will COM
mence Sunday, June 4, in st. Mary
Magdalena's R. C. church, and will
last one week. Instructions will be
given at a. m. and 8 a. M, 2 p.
m, and every evening at 1880
O'Clock, there will be a special SER
mon and benediction.
The Honesdale Milling COM
pany are rebuilding their storage
warehouse which was partly Destroy
ed by fire some weeks ago, on a
larger scale than before. 1t will
be two-story structure and the
dimensions are 3SX40 feet. A build
ing will also be edected by the COM
pany on the Main street lot pur-
chased from Henry Freund.
A. H. Wilkins, who has been
serving in different capacities in the
various departments of the Guerney
Electric Elevator Co.'s Works for
the past five weeks with a view of
gaining a general idea of the busi-
ness, entered upon his position as
foreman, Monday. Mr.. Wilkins is
thorough mechanic of many years
experience, having held responsiL' .
positions in the iron and steel in
dustries of Pittsburgh and Chicago.
Mr.. Wilkins, wife and daughter have
gone to housekeeping on West
Eleventh street and are welcome ad-
ditions to the population of the
Maple City.
Automobiles will notice with
| interest and measure of astonish-
mert, says the New York Times, that
a Supreme Court jury up in Delaware
county has decided that the color
of motor car, as we'll as the speed
with which it is driven, can be TAX
en- into account in considering the
extent of the owners responsibility
for the harm it does. For the jury
was of the opinion that it was the
violent color of a certain automo-
bile, no less than the rate at which
it was going, that frightened a GER
tain horse and led to a disastrous
smashup. Probably the jury is
right, but what of it. Horses are
capable of any stupidity and they
are never so happy as when they
can work themselves up into a
frenzy of fear, real or pretended,
over something quite harmless. 1t
is quite likely, therefore, that a
passionately red automobile would
scare many horses able to endure
with some approach to equanimity
the passing of one of less hectic
complexion. 1t does seem hard,
however, if the painting of motor
cars must be adjusted to the silly
| timidities of an obsolescent animal.
A like subserviency in the begin
ming would have banned the auto
mobile from every road, for all
horses started by having Mysteries
whenever they saw one of the ma
chimes, no matter what it's tint. If
they could, as most of them now
have, learned to tolerate the cars
of sober hue, they can do the same
for those that rival the rainbow.
And they should be made to do so,
Delaware county juries to the con-
trary Notwithstanding"
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