The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-06

the Cnerry Rldge PUBIC SCHOOLS
will open Monday, September Is.
"A balcony is being added to the
Fuerth building on Seventh street.
The Texas township public
schools will open Monday, Sept. IL.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Greater Honesdale Board of
Trade will be held on Friday evening
of this week.
Wheeler Smith, who was put
in the Wayne county Jail, August
23, for being drunk and disorderly,
was released from prison Tuesday
morning, Sept. 5.
The members of the G. /. c..
and Cresant classes, Siko Sunday
school, will hold an ice cream social
in Grange Hall, Dyberry, Wednes-
day evening, Sept. 6. All are in
vited.
Harvest Grange will hold their
picnic Thursday, Sept. Z. State and
local speakers will be present and a
literary and musical program will be
rendered. Everyone is cordially in
vited to be present.
Marriage licenses were issued,
Tuesday, to William Bullcocks, a
Cornwall, N. Y, grocer, and Miss
Grace Male, a Hawley teacher; also
to George NJ. Reafler and Miss Anna
Schilling, both of Hawley.
-Messrs. Walter Mahon, Lake
Winola, Clarence E. Decker, Los
Angeles, Cal, Willard P. Coon,
Clarks Green, and G. w. Decker, of
Honesdale, composed a party who
motored from Clarks Green to this
place on Sunday. The first three
named will spend a few days fishing
on Wayne county lakes.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McCusker,
Preston township, celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary at their
home last Thursday. About 100
invited guests helped to make the
occasion a joyous one. The Citizen
extends congratulations and hope
this venerable couple will enjoy
many more years of their life with
their relatives and friends.
Republican State Chairman
Henry F. Walton has fixed Wednes-
day, Sept. 6, as the time and Hotel
Oakland, Susquehanna, as the place
for holding the Congressional con-
ference to nominate candidate to
fill the Congressional vacancy in this
district M. E. Simons, Honesdale,
and Victor A. Decker, Esq, of Haw-
ley, are the conferees from Wayne
county.
At a meeting of the programme
committee, consisting of Prof. Mark
Greasy, Hawley, chairman, and Miss
Anna Seaman, Honesdale, secretary,
held Saturday afternoon in the Coun-
ty superintendent office, it was de-
cided to hold the annual meeting OF
the Wayne County Teachers asso-
citation on the first Friday evening
and Saturday morning in October at
Newfoundland.
The Gravity association, COM
posed of runners on the railroads
formerly operated by gravity instead
of steam, held their annual picnic at
Ney Aug park on Saturday. There
were men present who ran on the d.
& H. gravity in the 40s when horses
handled the empty cars from Homes
dale to Waymart. A. G. Snyder, OF
Dunmore, was, reelected president,
and c. P. Savage, of Dunmore, sec
retary. .,
"A motor boat race at Fairview
Lake, Labor Day, the first of a series
of three races, attracted considerable
attention and created much enthu-
siasm. There were four contestants
namely, Brooklyn Y. NJ. G. A. camp
boat, A. Stilger, New York city, A
H. Avery and Joseph Murray, Haw-
ley. The handicap race of the series
was won by Joseph Murray, having
made the course, about five miles, in
35 minutes and As seconds. His
starting time was 2.445S.
"A peep into the first deed book
on file in the register and recorders
office, when Wayne was known as
Northampton county and comprised
Wayne and Pike besides Northamp.
ton, revealed a number of interesting
and out-of-the-ordinary features
The deeds were written in pen and
ink and had the appearance of an en-,
graved piece of art-more the work
of an artisan than recorder. Ther
in those days it is evident that the
register and recorder necessarily
was good penman. Every page Of
the old docket was evenly written
the letters being shaded and the ap
pearance was beautiful. John Broad
head recorded the first deed dated
July 10, 1897, which was transferred
from John Biddis, of Northampton
to James Humes, of Milford, for LAND
in northampton county, considera
tion being $42. A page averaged
$40 words, IA words to the line ant
60 lines to the page. At another
place in the book appeared the title
of the deed written in capital letters
which is very odd.