The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-10-20
NEWS

Grace Episcopal church, Sun
day, Oct %: Services at 1920 a.
m. and 1880 p. m; Sunday School
at IL NJ.
The many friends of Mrs. r. j.
Miller will regret to learn that she
is confined to her bed by severe
attack of illness.
The arc lamp at the corner of
Church and Tenth street has been
extended to the center of the street,
affording better light in that vicin-
ity.
The knights of st. Paul will
hold a supper for members and in
vited guests Tuesday, Oct. "a, at
1880 p. m, in the Parish rooms of
Grace church.
Frank j. Varcoe is building a
concrete bridge in the borough of
Waymart. The bridge spans the
small creek running through the
center of the town.
Central Methodist Episcopal
church, Rev. Will H. Hitler, pastor.
Morning service at 10:30 o'clock.
~ M. Evening service at 1880
o'clock.
The Ladies' improvement Asso-
citation of East Honesdale meet this
Thursday evening for the pur-
pose of considering a proposition
made to them by the Electric COM
pany to light East Honesdale with
electricity.
Ira Ritch, of Hawley, was ar
rested last Saturday and brought to
Honesdale on charge of wife beat
ing. Ritch was taken before Judge
Searle Wednesday morning by Dis
trict Attorney M. E. Simons and
pleaded guilty to the charge. The
sentence was suspended and Ritch
was recommitted to the Jail.
William Maxwell, of Towanda
became the Republican nominee for
Judge of Bradford county Wednes-
day by drawing lots with Judge A.
d. flaming, with whom he tied for
the nomination. Both received 81
2S4 votes at the primary and under
the law had to draw lots in the pres
ence of the secretary of the common
wealth. Maxwell won.
The marriage of Miss Minnie
Miller, of Lakeville, to David Finkel-
stein, of Scranton, occurred Tuesday
evening at the brides residence, in
the presence of number of friends
of the contracting couple. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. Mazur
of Scranton. The bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. S. Miller,
of Lakeville. After the ceremony,
Mr. and Mrs. Finkelstein left on a
wedding tour that will include Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and Washington.
They will take up their residence in
Hawley, where they have furnished
a home.
William H. Ham, one of Homes
dale's best known citizens and form
er councilman of this borough, stated
to a Citizen representative on Tues
day that upon his recommendation
the borough purchased steam fire
engines to replace the hand pumps.
The boys" he stated, became
lazy and would not work at fires.
The borough could not stand for
anything like this as the town might
burn up just on account of the lack
of ambition on the part of the fire.
men by not working the pump en-
gine. l believe it was in 1862 when
i was on the council and / held out
for steamers to replace the old pump
engines. 1t was two years after
wards before the steamers were or
dered. The Atkinson was pur-
chased first and this was followed
shortly by the 'R. w. Ham / was
thinking how nice it would be and it
would also furnish something for the
people to talk about if the firemen
in their parade on Friday would di-
vide their procession into sections.
For instance, in the first section have
men carrying pals, representing the
bucket brigade. Then If an old pump
engine could be secured or rigged
up it would demonstrate in a way
the facilities we used to have to
fight fires. In second division
the firemen could wear red shirts and
caps; showing an advance. The
third section could represent some
of the Oldest members of the ori-
ginal companies, Nos. l, 2 and 3,
and the fourth section would consist
of the up-to-date firemen with their
chemical engines and other modern
apparatus for fighting fire."