The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-06


The ladies of Captain James
Ham Circle, G.. A. r., will hold an
election of officers on Friday after
noon.
The organ for st. Johns Lu-
theran church arrived on Wednes-
day from Hagerstown, Md, and will
be put in position within the next
ten days.
Vegetables soup will be sold at
the home of Mrs. George p. Ross
Friday, December 6, from 10 o'clock
on. Fifteen cents per quart, two
quarts 25 cents.
Mrs. j. B. Sumner, of Bingham
ton, mother of Mrs. T. A. Crossley,
of this place, is slowly improving,
much to the qualification of her
many Honesdale friends.
During the month of November
just closed twenty-one licenses to
wed were issued by Prothonotary
w. j. Barnes. This is an increase
of six over the same month last
year.
AT the invitation of Mrs. Homer
Greene, many of her friends met DR..
William Elliot Griffis at her resi-
dence yesterday afternoon and
heard him talk on the Art of Hol-
land"
At a recent meeting of the di-
rectors of the Honesdale Light,
Heat and Power company it was de-
cided to discontinue the meter rent
on both gas an electricity after De-
! Cember l.
The viewers who were inspect
| ing the stone arch bridge over the
creek at Acto, reported satisfactorily
the first of the week. The viewers
were William II. Lee, w. A. Gaylord,
Isaac b. Sandercock.
Christopher Bergman suffered
painful injury the first of the week
while repairing a pump on the prop
erty of VIM. Hattler He fell and hit
his thumb on a sharp stone and
severed it from the hand.
Mrs. zimmerman, President OF
! the w. C. T. U. of Monroe county,
will be here to attend the regular
meeting held at Mrs. Bush's home
on Sixteenth street All members
requested to be present.
State Game Commission Secre-
tary Kalbfus Wednesday received a
report from the State game warden
! in Pike county, in which he sent
word that seyenty-four bucks were
| killed in Pike against twenty-seven
! last year. The shooting of num-
Der of does was also reported.
There were two marriage Ii
censes issued in Prothonotary w. j
Barnes office on November 2S, which
were given out to-day. They were
! Ia ~ TO
Vile, and Miss Marella London, o.
Lakeville; Lewis Jackson, of Noun
Cobb, and Miss Daisy London, O.
Hancock Hollow.
Preliminary steps toward {
proper observance of the anniversar!
of the issuance of the emancipation
proclamation by President LincolI
| were taken at a meeting of the In
ter Denominational Ministerial Asso
citation recently in Harrisburg. Tht
celebration of the fiftieth anniver
sary will start early in the mornin!
of January 1, 1913, and continu,
during the day.
Patrick Burke, who claimed h
hailed from Scranton, appeared be
fore Burgess c. A. McCarty on Wed
nesday, charged with vagrancy. AT
ter a hearing Burgess McCarty CAV,
Chief of Police j. ]. Canivan tn
price of ticket to Hawley. Burk
was taken to the train and left tow
that afternoon. He said he had
brother living at Kimbles and woul,
walk there from Hawley.
The Honesdale Free Library
which opened on November 19, nov
has 29S borrowers. There ar
about $50 books given out eac
week The new books of fiction, 70
which the readers pay two cents pc
day, are very popular. Manage
Dittrich of the opera house very ger
erously offered to run a slide at tn
moving pictures telling hours tha
the library is being kept open.
: Oakley Megargle, one of tn
oldest residents of Sterling, died a
his late home there Monday evening
Dec. 2, at the advanced age of eigt
ty years. Mr.. Megargle was a life
long resident of Sterling and wa
born on Dec. 10, 1882. A numbe
of years ago his wife died. He
survived by five sons: Harry, Hol
ton, Archie and Milo also one daugf
ter, Mrs. Versia Shaffer, all of Ster
lHB. ne was d veteran OF the ClN
= war. The funeral services were hel
/, in Sterling. Interment in Sterlin
l cemetery.
l james May Duane, sixty-on
years old, a member of the bankin
a firm of Brown Brothers & Co., {
= New York, died Tuesday at his hon
4 No. 1O9 East Sixty-fifth street. II
4 had been i'll for a week. Mr.. DuaI
was born in Honesdale, Pa, and
= we'll known in this section. He ha
4 been with Brown Brothers & &C
s since 1887, and a partner sine
!. 1895. He was a director of the l.
= high Coal and Navigation compan,
the Lehigh and Hudson River Raj
o road company, and the Lehigh al
. New England Railroad compan.
:. and a trustee of the United Stat
a branch of the Sun insurance offic
= of London. Mr.. Duane is survive
. by his wife, who was Miss KatheriI
{ L. p. Higginson, of New York; OF
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