The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-27

| Juo MOlHtIb CluD at utI hOult Ut
Tyler Hill on Thursday afternoon
last.
There will be special mass at
8 O'Clock Thursday morning in st.
Mary Magdalen's church. Rev. DR..
Balta, pastor.
The fastest shorthand writing
ever done, II Is said, was accom-
plished by Nathan Behrin, a New
York court reporter, at a recent
contest held by the national short
hand reporters association. He
wrote 27S words a minute for five
minutes.
The Mergenthaler Linotype Co.,
of New York City, has arranged to
distribute among the printers of this
country $4,000 tickets of admission
to the National Printing and Adver-
tising Exposition to be held at the
Grand Central Palace, New York,
next April.
A partition is being built in the
center of the Ready Pay Store sep
arating the meat department from
the general store. b. l.. Holbert will
conduct the meat market, while his
brother, the proprietor of the store,
will look after the grocery depart
ment.
Mrs Melotte Mercer, bewildered
by fright, jumped from a buggy di-
reCtly in front of a passenger train
at Dubois and was instantly killed
The driver had forced the horse
across ahead of the train and the
| other occupants of the vehicle es-
capped. They had tried in vain to
prevent Mrs. Mercer from jumping.
A Chinese cook and a Japanese
waiter served Father Vaughn at an
Alaska dinner with caribou steak,
moose tenderloin, leg OF mountain
| sheep, grouse, wild duck, salmon,
crabs and brook trout. After that
and a few other things, he decided
the United States drove a good bar
gain when it purchased Alaska for
| $7,000,000.
An oil portrait of Bishop w. P.
Eveland was presented to Williams
| port Dickinson Seminary by DR.. S.
S. Koser and wife, Of Williamsport.
| The portrait was painted from life
during the summer, before Bishop
Eveland relinquished his duties as
president of the institution, by Miss
| Lucy Chaplin, directress of the art
| department.
Hon. F. p Kimble underwent
an operation last Friday at his
home. DR.. A. w. Smith, assisted by
DR.. Fox, of Scranton, performed the
| operation which was successful. Dr.
! F. w. Powell was the local doctor
| in attendance. Mr.. Kimbles many
| friends will be pleased to learn that
| he is getting along as well as could
| be expected.
The tenth anniversary of the
| Home Missionary Society of the
Methodist church will be held in the
church parlors on Tuesday evening,
| December g. A special program
will be rendered beginning at 7:45
o'clock The speaker of the even
| ing will be Mrs. w. w. Bass. The
! Central Glee club will also be an
attraction. Refreshments free.
| Everybody welcome.
The Methodist folks at Promp-
ton realized a neat sum from their
entertainment and supper on Thurs
day evening of last week. The
Central Glee Club rendered a num-
Der of selections which were heartily
applauded. w. B. Lesher was en-
I cored for every recitation and Miss
Dymond OF Waymart, greatly pleas
ed her audience. A number of
Honesdale people were present.
For Thanksgiving matinee and
evening the local basket ball team
have secured an attraction in the
Taylor team, which everyone should
see at least in one of the games.
The Taylor team is one of the best
amateur teams in the state-very
few being better-and the very fact
that the locals have proven them
selves their equals, or nearly so, by
playing them a tie game the first of
the season, is evidence that the
games will be well worth seeing and
shows that the locals are deserving
of good support. The Maple City
Five claim that they are going to
win at least one of these games, per-
haps both. At any rate they will be
two fast and exciting games.
The summer was suddenly
brought to a close during the early
hours of Sunday morning, when the
thermometer dropped several degrees
and snow fell during the morning,
the temperature lowering between 80
and 80 degrees. In the afternoon
ii was colder and the snowfall soon
averaged six inches on the level in
Honesdale. In many other places in
the county the average fall of snow
was about 8 inches. 1t continued to
fall all Sunday afternoon and Mon
day morning and about noon it
stopped. Telephone wires in many
parts of the county were down and
communication to several sections
was entirely cut off until Tuesday
night The storm is supposed to
have come from the Great Lakes and
it came without any forecast from
the weather bureau. One of the
unusual features of the storm was
the thunder storm which accom-
panied it and to this fact is credited
the cause of the many telephone
difficulties through the valley.
The killing of does is entirely
too general in the woods of the