The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-19


daughter. Mrs. Hines was formerly
Miss Margaret Mclaughlin of this
place.
The Carbondale Knitting Mill
company, which has been organized
little over a year, has voted to in
crease its capital stock from $4,000
to 100000.
Send your order for the twelve
page booklet containing thirty les
sons of the spelling contest. For par
ticulars see page six of to-day's Citi-
zen. The book is now on the press
and will be ready for delivery in a
few days.
Manager b. II. Dittrich receiv-
ed a telegram Thursday morning
announcing that the Philadelphia
Stock company would appear at the
Lyric all of next week in a roper
toire of fine plays. Seat sale opens
Monday morning at 9 o'clock.
Prices 10, 20 and 80 cents.
County Superintendent ]. J..
Koehler heartily approves the Citi-
zen's booklet containing 80 lessons
of the spelling contest. Pupils may
have lost the words that have ap-
peared in the paper, but by having
them in book form they are all to-
gether. The thirty lessons complete
for only DC or &c postpaid.
Elsewhere appears an incorpora-
tion notice for a charter for an in
tended corporation to be known as
the Cromwell Light, Heat and
Power Company" The incorpora-
tors are Catholine Lambert, j. Wal
lace Lambert and w f. Lambert,
Jr., and the plant will be located on
the Paupack on the site of the Haw-
ley Silk Mill.
President White, of the United
Mine Workers of America, states that
negotiations between the sub-com-
mittees are progressing satisfactorily,
but that ii will probably be several
days before any definite conclusion,
which can be presented to the full
committee, will be reached. He says
there is every indication that a set
tlement can be reached.
Mrs. Richard II. Simons, of
.Hamlin, died Sunday evening after a
short illness. The funeral was held
Thursday morning, and interment
made in Hamlin cemetery She is
survived by her husband and the FOL
lowing children: Friend of Ledge
dale; Artemus. of Hawley; Orien, of
Scranton; Mrs. Jennie Williams, at
home; Miss Heddy, of Scranton, and
Ella of Moscow. Pa. Deceased was
an aunt of District Attorney NJ. f.
Slnons of this place.
County Treasurer w. w. Wood
claims that while away from home
this week he talked 1000 miles on
l.. 4 i J. l. -.
per at the other end of the wire.
Heretofore the longest distance ever
to have been heard on a phone was
1000 miles or from New York to
Chicago. The additional distance is
made possible by a recent patent ac-
quired exclusively by the Bell Tele-
phone company and will revolution
ize long distance talking.
The greatest interest in the Ii
tanic disaster now centers in the ar
rival of the Carpathia in New York
with the survivors, so that it may be
known definitely by friends and rel
atives of people who sailed on the
Titanic who were saved. The Car
pathia is now steaming toward New
York, and is expeCed to reach port
late Thursday afternoon or early this
Friday morning. The ship will not
be halted at quarantine, but brought
direct to the Cunard pier in the
North river.
April 2S, next, minimum freight
charges on all railways will be in
creased from twenty-five to thirty
five cents. This is in accordance
with the interstate commerce com
missions official classification orders.
The rule provides that no single
package or small lot of freight of
one class will be taken at less than
100 pounds at first class rate, and in
no case will the charge of a single
consignment be less than 95 cents.
This order includes our local Erie
and D. & H. roads.
The management of the ever
popular Lake Lodore resort is max
ing extensive improvements upon the
buildings and grounds near that pop
ular picnic ground. The roller coast
er is undergoing repairs and the
sensational dips along its rounding
course are being made deeper, which
will please the pleasure seeker. The
gravel walk leading to the boat
house is being replaced with a
twelve foot board walk. A new dock
is also DelnB DullL at Ine ldnulnB.
The refreshment stand is being en-
larged in order to better accommo-
date the large crowds which are eX-
pected the coming season.
J. b. Nielsen, a former seaman,
in speaking of the recent fate of the
steamship Titanic in mid-ocean, says
that in his opinion it is early in the
year for icebergs to float so far
south They very seldom begin to
come south until the latter part OF
! May or the first of June. An iceberg
rests half under water and half above
and is like a solid rock. The ship
must have been going at a consider
able rate of speed to have caused so
| complete a destruction of her bow.
To give a clear idea of the size of
| the vessel imagine it on the main
street of Honesdale 1t would reach
| from Chambers drug store to Katz
| Brothers store. 1t was 175 feet in
height, from keel to the top of the
tunnels, and about "a feet in
| breadth.
Speaking of the spelling contest
Superintendent Koehler told a Citi-
/ a. haau