The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-20

Saturday, September 29. The ori-
ginal year is 5672.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. l.. S.
Partridge, Park Place and East
street, last Friday a son.
The Parish Aid society of Grace
church will hold their annual supper
and sale Thursday, Nov. %,
According to statements SUBJ
mitted to the comptroller, Scranton's
National banks show a total of $685.
100000 in resources.
The ladies' aid will meet at
Mrs. Henry Hogencamp's on Thurs
day, at Steene. Dinner will be serv-
ed. Ladies please bring their Thin
bles.
The Young Mems Bible class of
the Methodist church realized about
$25 from their entertainment and
social in the church parlors last
Thursday evening.
-6,420 wills have been recorded
in Wayne county since about 1898.
During the year 1910, 147 wills were
admitted to probate in the Office of
Register of Wills and Recorder of
Deeds, e. w. Gammell
The following letters remain un-
called for at the postoffice: Ed. Grid
line, Indian Orchard; Mrs. Philip
Houck, Mrs. Effie Markle, Michael
Stone, M. D., Miss Eliza Vastbinder.
M. B. Allen, Postmaster.
The Clinton Cut Glass company
is operating "a frames and is maxi
ing preparations to erect Is more.
Business is booming at Aldenville,
10 oh hot of he
prosperity of the community.
The Champion Grange of Grid
land postponed their picnic until
Sept. 21. If stormy, the next fair
day. Dancing afternoon and even
ing. Supper at $50 p. m. Charles
P. Searle, Esq, will be the speaker.
The different aviators who are
on their fight from New York to
the Pacific coast could cut off or
make their trips shorter by follow
ing the Erie tracks Honesdaleward
from Lackawaxen, instead of going
up the Delaware valley.
The Citizen has inaugurated a
new department. Who's Who and
tics" 1t is interesting for the can
uiudISo oSShiu5 uOIlludIlOH duu
election of office. Rates will cheer
fully be given upon application.
Richard w. Pethick, of Carbon
dale, brother of Mrs. S. T. Ham, of
this place, fell in his furniture store
on Wednesday last and fractured his
left leg. He was using a chair as a
support while talking over a tele-
phone. In turning away the chair
Il 4, s,.l, DIT alr t~
fall.
Marriage licenses were issued,
Saturday, September 16, to Cleve-
land Rodgers, Brooklyn, N. Y, and
Miss Antoinette Sylvia Durland,
Honesdale; also to John H. Gump-
per, White Mills, and Miss Minnie
Seelig, Honesdale; also to Henry G..
Bales and Miss Mary Ecker, both
of Honesdale.
There will be a Mems supper
held in the parish rooms of Grace
Episcopal church, Friday evening"
October 6, at o'clock. Men of ma
tional prominence, like William R.
Butler, Mauch Chunk, Rev. j. r.
Atkinson, Scranton, and Homer
Greene, of this place, will be the
speakers of the evening.
"A Honesdale subscriber of The
Citizen, who recently left Honesdale,
left word at this office to forward
the paper during his absence, that
he could not get along without it..
Mr.. Reader, you too probably cannot
afford to miss an issue, especially
from now on. We will send The
Citizen to January l, 1912, for 25
cents.
The Honesdale Consolidated
Electric Light, Heat and Power COM
pany and the Consolidated Telephone
company are Jointly making improve
ments between High and Park streets
on Main street. The electric wires
will be strung on the upper arms of
the poles, while the telephone single
wires are being placed in a cable un-
derneath.
1t is said that there is nothing
new under the sun but according to
press reports an organization calling
themselves the Hussars," or sing
ing band, bid fair by their original
act to disprove the statement. The
success attained by this production
is causing widespread comment. 1t
will probably be seen in Honesdale
the coming season.
Five applicants from Ariel,
Messrs. Earl Curtis, E. o. Edward,
w. c. Schatfer, F. G. Robacker, S.
R. Tressler, appeared before Miss
Margaret Griffin, of the Honesdale
postoffice, who is secretary of the
Civil Service Board, at City Hall, last
Saturday morning, where they took
the civil service examinations for the
position of rural mail carrier at
Ariel.
The one-cent-a-word column of
The Citizen is a business getter. Re-
Gently the Wayne Milling company
inserted a small adlet advertising
lime for sale. The manager told a
Citizen man that he had orders for
the ten carloads of lime that the
mill purchased for the trade. If you
have anything you wish to sell, in
sert an ad. in The Citizen, display
or otherwise.
There seems to be a misunder-
standing about the positions of
names on the primary ballot.
Neither the commissioners nor their
clerk have any discretion about that.
The law specifies that names shall