The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-08-30
NEWS

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Bunting, East Honesdale, Monday
morning, a son.
"A marriage license was granted,
Friday, to DR.. Joseph Cohen, Ber-
wick, and Miss Grace Vaughn, a
trained nurse of Carbondale.
james McGrann, an orphan who
has been in the family of P. j.
Skelly the past few years, fell on
Thursday last and fractured his left
arm at the wrist. Drs. F. w. Pow
ell and L. B. Nielsen were called.
Miss Grace Giles, Pleasant
Mount, and one of Wayne's best
teachers, has accepted a position as
teacher at Gunnison, Col. Miss
Giles has spent the past year at Den
yer and has greatly improved in
health.
The Postoffice Department is
daily establishing postal savings de-
positories in it's first and second
class Offices. Twenty cities will open
postal banks September 20 and fifty
of these banks will be established in
second-class cities September %. AL
though not second-class city,
Honesdale is rated in this class ow-
ing to the amount of sales made.
The first-clasS repositories now num-
ber 140 and the second-class 1,750.
Gabriel Westfall, veteran of
the Civil war, formerly of Wayne
county, recently died in Spanaway,
California. Mr.. Westfall was 83
years of age, having been born
March II, 1928. Mr.. Westfall had
hnnn
ceived a stroke of apoplexy about a
ed was a soldier of the Cross as
we'll as serving his country under
the Stars and Stripes in 81. Mr..
Westfall has been ON the Pacific
coast about twenty years.
"A meeting of the Democratic
chairman of the seventh division of
the State committee was held at
Wilkes-Barre on Friday to make ar
rangements for the Democratic Con-
gressional campaign. An innova-
tion has been made from former
customs and a committeeman was
appointed to take charge of the
Congressional contest in the dis
trict. j. NJ. Kelly of Susquehanna,
was selected for that purpose. Dem
McCarty was in attendance at the
meeting and moved for the appoint
ment of Mr.. Kelly. 1t was unani-
mously carried. The Democrats are
arranging for a vigorous congress
sional campaign.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Bondy,
New York City, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Gross, of Worcester, Mass,
and William Weiss, New York, were
guests part of Saturday and Sunday
of the Misses Tillie and Carrie
Weiss, Park street. The party mo-
tored to Honesdale in Mr.. Bondy's
Pierce-Arrow car from Greenwich,
Conn, Saturday, coming by the
way of Milford, where they returned
Sunday afternoon. The gentlemen
OF the party are captains of indus
try, Mr.. Bondy being an extensive
cigar manufacturer, having sever
al thousand people in his employ.
He owns large cigar factories in.
New York, Bethlehem and Nanti-
coke. The latter was founded last
February and now gives employ
ment to over 400 hands. Mr.. Gross
is manufacturer of the noted firm
of Norcross Bros, contractors, who
recently erected the public library on
Fifth Avenue. His concern is at
present rebuilding the st. Thomas
church ON Fifth Avenue at 53d
street, which was recently burned.
1t will be of stone, inside and out
and will cost a million and a half
dollars. Norcross Bros. have secur-
ed the marble work on the new $S,-
100000 museum of Natural History
in Chicago, which was given to that
city by the late Marshall Field.
The party was very much enthused
over their trip to Honesdale.