The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-05-12

ternoon at the home of Mrs. w. J..
Van Keuren, Ills Court street.
There will be an ice cream So
cial at W. d. Buckingham Wednes-
day evening, May II. Proceeds for
Bethel organ fund.
The commencement exercises of
the Gouldsboro High school will be
held Monday evening, May %, in the
High school building.
Married at the Presbyterian
manse by Rev. w. II. Swift, We'd
nesday forenoon, Franklin Bodie,
Prompton, and Miss Amanda Dunn,
Carbondale.
The Honesdale School Directors
at their meeting last Tuesday, voted
to close school at noon on Friday
so that the teachers could attend
the County Association at Pleasant
Mount.
At a joint meeting of the Citi-
zen's Committee and the Company E
committee held Tuesday evening,
local armory board: Chairman, Cap
First Lieutenant, w. H. Mumford
John d. Weston and E. b. Harden
bergh
The Jr. o. U. A. NJ, Honesdale
Council No. $50, will hold a special
Friday evening in Freedom
Hall when addresses will be deliver
ed by State Counsellor B. Frank
Meyer, Wilkes-Barre; state counsel
lor's secretary, Charles H. Hall,
Philadelphia, and by Judge Vosburg,
Scranton. A feature of the evening
will be good music.
Prof. H. a. Oday and Mrs. Alma
J. G. Dix have completed arrange
mentS for their Summer School for
Teachers. The term will open
Monday, June 10, and continue five
weeks. Glasses will be formed in
all subjects required for provision
al certificate. This will make the
seventh session of this popular
school which has done much for the
.eachers of the county.
The concert to be given at the
lyric tonight by Madam Helen Ber-
ram and Louis Baker Phillips will
attract large number of our music
owing people. This is certainly a
'ery rare opportunity for patrons of
he theatre to hear some exceptional
y fine singing and piano playing
Madam Bertram comes to Honesdale
With fine reputation and will in all
be heard in grand opera
n the near future.
The Kansas City Times of Tues
lay, May 2, contains an extended
account of the celebration by Mr.. and
Mrs. Russell d. Bassett of the twen-
y-fifth anniversary of their marriage
friday, April 2S, at their home,
'731 Brooklyn Avenue. The affair
vas an all-day one, anu was largely
lttended. Mr.. and Mrs. Bassett re-
eived a large number of handsome
md costly presents in compliment
If their silver wedding. Russell |
3assett is a former resident of |
Ionesdale, who followed Horace
ireeley's advice to go West, where
Ie has made good. He is a brother
# Charles l.. and Herbert Bassett
# the Maple City.
An enthusiastic reception by a |
arge crowd was given the high |
chool entertainment in the audi |
orium Friday evening. The musical
peretta, entitled Mother Goose and |
company, in which nearly seventy
i've little girls and boys took part, |
vas especially well rendered. The |
asst of characters was as follows:
Gertrude, Jessie Toms; Mother |
loose, Marjorie Smith; The Old /
Woman Who Lived In a Shoe, Hilda |
'rosch; Old King Cole, Stanley !
Decker; The "Fiddlers Three" Arno
'anKeuren, Ford Whitaker, Donald
er; Mrs. Jack Spratt, Helen Nc
iuire; Mistress Mary, Alicia Krantz;
liss Muffett, Elizabeth Bullock; Bo
'eep, Bertha Liene; Simple Simon,
.eo Connolly; Boy Blue, Philip
lrantz; Jack Horner, Frank Carroll;
lobby Shafto, Alfred Kreitner; Jack,
Toward Archer; Gill, Evalyn Seitz;
ommy Tucker, Maurice Road
night; Violets, Grace Dunn, Ger
rude Fryer; Poppies, Katharine Par
ridge, Camilla Connolly; Roses,
eannette Burns, Anita Krantz; Sun
overs, Lillian Babbitt, Doris Cong
on; Carnations, Helen Jackson,
lima Miller.
Fifty children assisted in the
horuses. A novel part of the pro-
ram was the Folk dances, Danish,
wedish, German and Hungarian in
-hich the following took part: Mil
red Ward, Louise Bishop, Margaret
harlesworth, Elsa Prosch, Frances
rosch, Hortense McKenna, Isabel
ickert, Carlotta Bayley, Olive Rock
ell, Jeanette Ref.
Recitations were given by Eva
Beatrice Mundy and Mar
aret Charlesworth. Their clear
oices and correct enunciation won
'ud applause from the audience
here were choruses by the
Ugh school, girls chorus, double
lale quartette and also by the
rades.
The program was interspersed with
lusic by Dorin's Juvenile orchestra.
An especially pleasing part of the
rogram was the singing which was
charge of Miss Clark and Miss