The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-23


ISOLATION held their annual reunion
1t Tunkhannock on Wednesday.
A barn belonging to Charles
Mignerey, Arlington, was damaged |
by lightning in storm on August
Sth.
The Whatsoever Circle of the |
Methodist church will serve meals |
IN the Foster building during the |
.hree days of the celebration.
-Masons are laying brick on Mar
tin Caufeld's addition to his large |
shop at this place The wall is re-
nforced with iron "T' beams.
The sixteenth annual reunion of
the descendants of Joseph and
Rhena Lee will be held in Todd's
grove at Uniondale, August 80,
1912. A large and early attendance
Is requested. r. N. Lee, secretary.
A. w. Abrams, proprietor of the
Clothing store, has pur-
chased a new Maxwell five-passenger
car of the Murray agency.
Mr.. Abrams and p. r. Murray, Jr.,
motored from Philadelphia to Homes
dale, arriving here Monday evening.
Clinton Loomis, Tunkhan-
mock high school student, attempted
to commit suicide by hanging him
self in the barn at his home at Lem
on, Wyoming county. He was cut
down before life was extinct, but is
still in a precarious condition. No
reason is assigned for his action.
Arnold Lohmann, the we'll
known violinist of Scranton, will be
given a try-out by a New York
,InN-i1la mo nrnlipn n tn
taking up a stage career. He will
attempt a violin virtuoso sketch.
Lohmann is one of the foremost
violinists in this region. Mr.. Lob
mann's many Honesdale friends wish
him merited success in his venture.
Eastman Kodak company's
earnings are running larger than
last year. The common stock div
idend declarations are already 35
per cent, compared with 80 per cent.
for the same period in 1911. The
corporation is manufacturing at the
rate of 800, 100000 feet of film a
year. The increase in earnings is.
due to the demand for moving pic
lures.
Martin Hennigan, of Dunmore,
has started suit against the Pennsyl-
vania Coal company for $4,000
damages for the loss of an arm.
Hennigan, who is about forty, was
employed at a colliery of the COM
pany in Dunmore, a year ago, and
was engaged at a hopper car when
an inexperienced workman dropped
the bottom of the car, crushing Hen
nigans arm so seriously that ampu-
tation resulted. John J. Toohey is
his attorney.
About 5000 notices have been
sent out to creditors of the bankrupt
concern of Knapp Brothers, stating
that on August 81, at $3.50 O'Clock
in the Referees chambers, a hear
ing will be held for cause to be
shown why an order should not be
issued improving the intermediate
account of the trustee of said bank
rupts contained in the petition of
William NJ. Gregory; also making
allowances for attorney and counsel
and directing a payment of a 7h
per cent. dividend to the creditors.
William johnson, of New York,
left on Thursday for Shohola Glen,
When the train stopped at Port Jer-
Wis he got off to get glass of milk,
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car seat. Upon his return to the
station he boarded an eastbound
train instead of the westbound for
Shohola, and the first thing he knew
he was on his way back to New York
again. He got off at Middletown
and finding that there were no more
trains to that place until Friday
morning, he put up at a hotel there
The editor had a dream, says an
exchange. He dreamed he was in
heaven. Theodore Roosevelt arriv-
ed In that blessed abode. The ex-
president insisted upon reorganiz-
ing the Heavenly Choir. He called
for ten thousand tenor singers, ten
thousand soprano singers, ten thous'
and alto singers, ten thousand bari
tone singers, and lined them up fol
practice. But, Mr.. Roosevelt" said
st. Peter, you have no bass sing
ers." 80, never mind" said the
self-appointed director, I'LL sing
| bass"
Leonard Eighmy, who is en-
ployed by George Happ, the baker
| is very much interested in the story
of the burning of the bowling alley
and ice cream store at Beachlake
/ Pa, where three boys lost theil
lives. Before coming to this city t
live, Mr.. Eighmy owned the property
on which stood the building, and th'
horrible story now being published
about it naturally gives him
shock. Mr.. and Mrs. Eighmy wen
to housekeeping there and after
wards sold the property to Mr.. Ives
Port Jervis Gazette.
A recent bulletin of the Censu
Bureau shows that there has been
marked increase in the past decad
in the number of American cities o
over $4,000 population. The Unitet
States has 229 of these, or mucl
more than any other country of tn
world, except China. Almost ever,
State has one or more of these cite
but Massachusetts leads all tn
rest, with twenty-five of them, o
much more than are found in Ney
York, Pennsylvania, Illinois or Ohio
States which lead it in aggregat
number of inhabitants. Massachu