The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-07

at the court house next Tuesday
A spreading oak sixty feet high
will contain about six million leaves
Not one single Fourth of July
accident was reported in Baltimore
A large Hamburg restaurant is
housed in a building of compressed
paper.
Mrs. James Bush will entertain
Friday evening in honor of Miss
Ruth Gran.
Tribes inhabiting barren
lands of vast distances are said to
have the best sight.
The Lutheran Sunday school
Class will hold a social on Bader's
lawn, July II, when refreshments
will be served.
The Honesdale Footwear COM
pany's factory is closed for two
weeks and the Durland-Weston Shoe
shop for one week.
The Roller Rink will suspend
operations Friday night, when a
benefit will be given in the Lyric
for the Boy Scouts.
Paper in a wire holder at the
rear of Dunkleberg's market became
ignited by spontaneous combustion
Monday morning, owing to the in
tense heat.
Judge A. T. Searle is holding
common pleas court in Scranton this
week for Judge Edwards by special
appointment of Chief Justice Fell,
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Emma Taylor entertained
a number of her friends at cards
Monday evening. A porch supper
was served during the same after
noon by the hostess.
Wednesday, August 20, will be
Merchants Day" in Honesdale and
Carbondale. A committee expects to
obtain the signatures of all business
places to close for that day.
Speaker Champ Clark is losing
a thousand dollars week because
Congress is remaining in session. He
had contract with Chicago lect-
ure bureau to take the platform on
July l.
Adam Schilling of this place was
operated upon for appendicitis in a
hospital in Scranton a few days ago.
Not a bushel of old or new po-
tatoes could be secured in Honesdale
on Tuesday.
Hon. P. A. Clark claims this is
the hottest July he remember since
his boyhood days, over so years ago,
when the mercury registered about
the same as it did on the Fourth and
a few days since.
B. H. Dittrich is entertaining for
90, - 81
were taken to Laurel Lake in his car
on Wednesday,: Kenneth Uglow,
Robert Dorm, Jr., Robert Heft, Vim
cent Carroll and August Barberi.
John Ray, press agent for the
Biester Combined Shows, who are
giving nightly exhibitions in Homes
dale, was taken to one of the Scran-
ton hospitals, Wednesday, suffering
from bad attack of typhoid fever
There promises to be an excit-
ing game full of interest played on
the Honesdale diamond Saturday
afternoon at 8 o'clock when the For
est City team will endeavor to carry
off the honors of the day. When the
local team played against Forest
City few weeks ago an amateur
record was made in that the nine
innings were played in 60 minutes.
DR.. H. B. Ely operated Thursday
morning upon Mrs. Benjamin Frey,
Berlin township, for the resection of
two ribs on the right side and open
ing up of the pleural cavity. The
operation was performed upon Mrs. |
Frey with the hopes of giving her
relief, she being a suffer
Of a malignant disease. DR.. Ely was
assisted by Miss Catherine Hattler.
Some time on the Fourth over in |
Pittsburg the children of Charles |
Marlowe of North Versailles town
ship removed the powder from some |
and put it in their
fathers smoking tobacco that stood |
IN a mantel shelf. In the evening
when Marlowe lighted his pipe, the
)ipe was shattered, his whiskers and |
what little hair he had on his head |
being burned off.
Out in California the earth
quake of last Saturday did consider
lble damage at Lick Observatory on |
Mount Hamilton. The 36-inch tele-
scope was moved three-quarters of |
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bier, but was restored without |
rouble. The case of the Riefer
lock was wrecked and minor dam
lge was done the working parts.
This was the worst shock experience
I'd since San Francisco was partially
destroyed.
The Knockers Club" celebrat-
I'd the ever-glorious Fourth by hold
ng lawn festival in the evening at
!. S. Flyers, 81 Thirteenth street.
Dainty refreshments were served.
Members and invited guests who par
icipated in the jolly social gathering
we're: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Fryer,
lr. and Mrs. Harry Richards, Mr..
md Mrs. Harry Weaver, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Bader, Mr.. and Mrs.
.ohn Boyd, Mr.. and Mrs. George p.
Ross, Mr.. and Mrs. George Spetti-
que, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Ross.
-Thirty-one relatives met at the
lome of Mrs. r. B. Roe, Dyberry
Boulevard, July 4, and enjoyed the
lay together, the occasion being a
euniOn of the Roe family,