The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-11

The Havens company expect all
the material for the new Gurney
Electric Elevator plant this week. |
DR.. II. B. Ely received fine
deer by express last Friday and it
hung on display in front of Dein's |
meat market. The deer was killed |
in Pike county about two weeks |
ago. I
Mrs. John Morgan, of Ariel, |
was severely burned about the face |
as a result of throwing a bundle of |
papers in the fire which contained |
some powder that she did not know |
was concealed in it, on Monday. DR.. |
Bang of that place attended her.
The linemen of the Honesdale |
Consolidated Light, Heat and Power
Company are fixing the poles to run
wire to the new Gurney Electric
Elevator Works, to whom they will
supply power. There will be direct
line run from the electric plant to
the elevator works on lower Main
street.
benjamin Gardner, of Factory
vile, for several years a resident of
Honesdale, on Monday, through the
Buy-U-A-Home Realty company,
sold his property, located at the
corner of East and Fourteenth
streets, to Edwin b. Galloway. The
latter took immediate possession,
but will not occupy the dwelling un-
til April 1st next.
--Honesdale Aerie No. 109, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, met on Mon
day evening and elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year;
Past president, w. f. Bales; presi-
dent, Thomas Salmon; Vice-persi-
dent, Joseph Schiessler; treasurer,
Fred S. Corey; secretary, Philip w.
Slater; chaplain, Henry Rodine;
outside guard, Ed Warwick; inside
guard, l.. Wagner; physician, DR.. P.
f. Griffin; trustees, John Theobald,
Benz. Loris, l.. c. Weniger.
In honor of their election as trus-
tees of the Presbyterian church,
of Hawley, Chas. S. Houck, w. f.
Suydam, Jr., r. w. Murphy and
Harry j. Atkinson will give a smok
er and social in the lecture room of
the Presbyterian church on Tuesday
evening, Dec. 10th, at 8 p. m. Re-
feshment will be served and a good
time is anticipated. All the men
connected with or interested in the
Presbyterian church are cordially in
vited.
At Towanda, Bradford county,
Miss Mary Deegan, of Laquin, was in
a dentists chair having some work
done when she swallowed the small
drill which the operator was using.
The drill loosened from the socket
and fell into the woman's mouth and
it was gone before she realized that
she had swallowed it. The young
lady was taken to the Sayre hospital,
and after the use of the X-ray ma
chine the tool was extracted from
her throat. No serious result is eX
pected.
On Friday, Nov 22, Louis
Dreisbach, a veterinarian of Schuyl-
kill Haven, Schuylkill county, plead
guilty to the charge of having vio-
lated section one of the act of March
80, 1905, in failing to report to the
Secretary of the State Livestock
Sanitary Board a case of CHAMBERS
in a horse owned by a client of his.
The hearing was held before the
Justice of the Peace, F. S. Freiler,
of Pottsville. After pleading guilty,
DR.. Dreisbach paid a fine and the
costs of prosecution in accordance
lated.
-Twenty-one boys, most of whom
are members of the NJ. E. Sunday
school of Hawley have organized a
literary and social club, which will
be conducted under the direction of
Rev. d. S. MacKellar. They have
rented the building owned by Mrs.
Jennie Bingham on Maple avenue.
Ill, al
lows: President, Ronald Collum;
secretary, Frederick Freethy; treas
club has organized a basket ball
team and expect to practice at Belle
monte hall.
Not only fruit shippers, but others
as we'll will be interested in the re-
cent decision of the Commerce
Court, refusing the application of the
Florida East Coast Railroad for a
permanent injunction against the In
| terstate Commerce Commission from
enforcing its order reducing rates on
! pineapples, oranges and vegetables
| to northern destinations. The rail
road alleged that the rates meant
"confiscation" and it said that ii
|
! to receive returns on an investment
of which its costly "oyer-sea" eXten-
sion to Key West was a part. The
Court denied that this extension fig
ured in the matter.
1t is possible that o. E. Will
liams, Scranton aviator, will spend
the winter at Wilkes-Barre and vi
cinity, and open a passenger carry
ing business. The local inventor ac'
companied by his pilot, Filing o
Weeks, if they decide to go into thi!
line, will establish headquarters a
the stone bridge, Forty Fort, where
much time was spent last winter
A regular fee would be charged tC
those who want to ride in tht
clouds while instruction would alsC
be included. The plans call fol
daily rides to points up and dowI
the valley. If the demand is large
enough, the airship line will be es
tahlishpd within the near future.