The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-25
"A white Christmas.


Harry Palmer, of Dyberry, on Mon
day.
WHAT Happened to Mary" is
cleverly written story appearing in
the Ladies' World for January by
Mrs. Helen Lathrop Swoyer of this
place.
If you have never seen a banana
tree growing look in the window of
Marvin, the florist, on Main street,
and see a beautiful specimen of this
tropical fruit tree.
The new two manual pipe organ
which was set up in st. Johns Luth
eran church last week, was conse-
Grated Sunday morning, when Rev.
C.. c. Miller gave an eloquent ad-
dress and sermon.
Joseph Westbrook misstepped as
he was coming out of Jacob Smiths
shoe tsore Monday evening and
struck his head on the sidewalk, re-
ceived a severe bruise over his eye.
He was removed to his home on 9th
street.
Out of a large class taking an
examination recently in the Michi-
gan Law School, at Ann Arbor, one
of the graduates OF the Honesdale
High School received 90 90 in Mod
ern Economics" while the average
of the class was 65 %.
Grace Episcopal church, Sun
day after Christmas, services at
! 10:30 a. m. and 1880 p. m. At 1870
there will be special Christmas mu-
| sic by the Junior choir. A solo will
be rendered by Miss Reif; violin
obligato, William Ref; also some
carefully practiced anthems
We deem it a privilege to pub
! lish today a letter written from the
! battlefield of Antietam fifty years ago
! by our esteemed townsman, j. E.
Richmond. We are sure that our
readers will derive much benefit
from the description of the field after
the battle and the condition of al
fairs in the Union army at that time.
Mr.. Richmond was a merchant resid-
ing in Carbondale and went off TO
the war as one of the Wurts guards
Tony Tusco, an Italian OF
Bloominghurgh, is in the Sullivan
county Jail at Monticello on the
charge of train wrecking. 1t is al
legged that he placed two railroad
spikes with washers on them be-
tween the joints of two connection
rails on the main line, in such q
way as would be calculated to ditch
a train. 1t so happened the obstruc.
tion was hit by a slow moving
freight train and the impact was moi
great enough to cause derailment
consequently there were no serious
results. 1t is presumed the inten,
ton was to wreck one of the pas.
senger trains and had a passenger
train ran into it instead of the
freight, it might have resulted in g
serious fatality. Tusco claims he i:
entirely innocent.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lindsay
Sr., of Keen, celebrated their 55ti
1 wedding anniversary at their home
on Sunday last. Those present from
Honesdale were Mr.. and Mrs. Jane:
Lindsay, Jr., and Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Hilton. Mr.. and Mrs. Lind
say were married in Carbondale 81
years ago Christmas Day. They
have spent a number of years in the
western states and in California. Mr.
Lindsay following his trade, that o.
a blacksmith. While the glow of the
forge is fading from the senior Lind
says eyes, he and his faithful help
mate are enjoying the evening O
their life in their happy and com
modious home at Keen. The CitizeI
and its many readers offer the sea
sons greetings and sincerely hope
that both bride and bridegroom o
over half century ago will be spar
ed to enjoy many more like occa
, sions.
: The present congress (Demo
cratic) during the last session passeC
a bill allowing American shipbuilder
, to import free of duty any articl,
that was needed or used in the con
, struction or equipment of any neV
ship. The first one to take advant
age of the bill is the United. State
Navy, as the following extract from ;
letter received by one of our manu-
factuTers will show:
Dear Sir:
) We regret to inform you that tn
Navy Department has decided to us
J imported glassware for the year
= 1918. We recently put in one propa
= on American glass and we found tn
/ government had changed the speci
t fication for the new bids, eliminat
ing the word Domestic; we felt
2 necessary to put in a proposal ol
r. foreign glass, both with and withou
duty. Possibly you are aware tha
! there is a provision in the act pass
r ed by Congress at the last session
known as the Panama Canal bill
! which may allow all goods for ship
l to be brought in free of duty"
( The New York Sun referring to tn
/ bill shortly after it was passed b
, Congress, said that we could eXpeC
: to see American warships flying tn