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

scranton and WlnWOod.
The Knights of st. George are
planning for a special time, which
they propose having July 18th.
Three prominent visitors expect to
be present and make addresses,
among them being Organizer Ryman,
Pittsburg.
Only 26O tickets were sold to
Lake Lodore on the Fourth at the
Honesdale station, compared with
600 and 700 in former years. Sta
tistics are not at hand as to the
scores who motored or drove to that
lively summer resort.
Sample conversation between
two politicians as they meet on Main
street nowadays:
Mr.. Allow is the political out
look?"
Mr.. B.-"The outlook don't both
er me yet. It's too early. It's too
hot"
Henry Baker, Gravity, while
moving down weeds in the ceme-
terry near his home, severely cut his
knee with scythe one day recently.
The limb is badly swollen and
gives Mr.. Baker much pain. He
had just recovered from a fall in a
barn, when he was badly bruised
and shaken up.
"A. w. Long, Scranton, district
engineer, and the other local en-
ployes of the state highway depart
ment were notified not to work af-
ter June 80, unless they receive no.
tice of reappOintment,
The others are: P. A. Street, field
engineer; Walter Bircher, draughts-
man; o. R. Pease and Morris Ting
ley, inspectors.
E. NJ. Bigelow, Pittsburg, is the
new highway commissioner and the
notice came from him. 1t does not
necessarily mean the letting out of
the local men, as such notice is gen.
orally given with the change of ad-
of heads of depart
ments.
The last official act of Mr.. Long
was to recommend the contract for
a mile of road in Susquehanna coun-
ty to T. S. Newman, Athens, Pa.
The distribution of township ap-
priations till June 80, 1918, in this
and surrounding counties, is as fol-
lows:
Lackawanna, $9,452; Wyoming,
s2O,999; Wayne, $27,961; Susque-
hanna, S40,775; Monroe, $7,S96.
Two hundred couple attended the
first annual military ball in the new
S35, 900 Park Place Armory last
Friday evening.
In honor of the gala event, the
drill hall was simply but appropri-
ately decorated with large flags and
bunting.
Between the acts, light refresh
ments were served in the basement.
Terpsichorean music was furnish
ed by an orchestra hidden behind
bank of palms. The players were
Jos. A. Bodie, Jr., at the piano;
Fred Sonner, Leon Katz, Jeff Free
man, violinists; Henry Rehbein and
John Bussa, clarionetists; A. NJ.
Leine, cellist; Henry Wagner, from
bone; R. F. Dorm, drums.
The affair, which netted Company
E, Thirteenth Infantry, $3.50, was
in charge of committees consisting
Of Thomas Kelly, Earl Schenck, Ed.
Doney (music); Charles Faatz,
(program) Dan Faatz (decora-
tions); Michael Stahl (refresh-
ments).
Several of the original Seventy
miners" graced the occasion by
their presence.
The German Catholic baseball
club journeyed to Liberty, n. Y,
and played two games on the Fourth.
The team had hard luck, losing both
games to their opponents. The
morning game Honesdale got four
runs against Liberty's fourteen. Lall
pitched. Seventeen hits were secur-
ed off of Lall, while Honesdale got
nine.
The afternoon game, pitched by
Welch, was exciting, eleven innings
being played before the final score
was made by Liberty. 1t stood )
o 6 in Liberty's favor. The home
Boys claim that by an unfair decision
of the umpire they lost their second
game, which by rights belonged to
They spoke in words of
highest praise for the Liberty team
lut doubted the decisions of the |
umpire, which they claim were in
many instances not fair. Honesdales |
lineup: Welch and Lall, pitchers;
catcher; Gutheil, first base
nan; Polt, second baseman; Tu-
nan, third baseman; Holl, leftfield-
II; Warner, center fielder; Herzog, |
Kupfer, shortstop.
The team left Monday afternoon |
~ the way of the Erie road and ar
lived home Wednesday afternoon.
The n. Y. American of re-
ent date contains a story of inter
'st to Maple City folks, since the
mother of Benjamin Heine was for
nerly a Miss Clara Falk, Homes
lale.
The article follows:
Benjamin Heine, of No. 5O3
Broadway, New York, in the whole
ale line, took his old friend Flor
nee w. Mccarthy, Ga mani, who is
Baltimore lace cerchant, aboard
he White Star liner Adriatic yester-
lay, Mr.. Mccarthy starting on a
European tour.
Mr.. Heine dashed down the gang
flank at the "all-ashore" bugle, and
an into another man hurrying
board. When the New Yorker got
o the bottom of the plank he re-
0pm hapa6 tba man ba had huOnnad |