The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-15

"A well-selected travelling library
has been received for use at Christ
church, Indian Orchard, and its Sun
| day school, for the next six months.
Its use is free to ALL
The Woman's Home Missionary
Society Of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Scranton district will meet
at the Asbury church, Scranton, on
Thursday, November 21st. Basket
lunch.
The Bloomsbury State Normal
graduates and students will hold a
banquet on Thursday evening in the
parlors of the Presbyterian chapel
The young ladies' auxiliary will
serve the banquet.
The price of anthracite was ad-
vanced by dealers in New York on
Tuesday to 81 ton, while in many
of the surrounding towns a rate of
SIS is in force. The dealers say they
can not get enough coal.
-Yeggmen blew open the safe in
the postoffice at Liverpool, a village
across the lake from Syracuse early
Tuesday morning, and got away with
$4,000 in booty-S3,300 in postal
savings and $1,000 in stamps.
Telephone The Citizen items of
news, advertisements or job work,
using either the Bell or Consolidated
phones. We are never too busy to
take news over the phone, and al
ways prompt to execute orders.
Charles Rubin, Jr., of Chicago,
ten years old, was held by the police
after an electrical runabout he was
driving struck pole and was wreck
ed. He is credited with being the
youngest automobile thief on rec
ord.
A few days since a freight car
from western railroad was in the
local yard. Before the car door
could be opened 1t was necessary to
pump compressed air from an en-
gine, turn a valve, and then the door
opened easily.
The Hartfords, male quartette,
pleased very large audience at the
High School Auditorium Wednesday
evening. The selections were all
good and at no time during the en-
tertainment did the interest of the
audience subside.
Mrs. c. H. Roberts, of Wynne-
wood, Montgomery county, Pa, who
has been a guest of Miss c. Lou
Hardenbergh the past few days, left
Thursday for New York City. From
the metropolis she will go to Maine
woods, where Mr.. Roberts has a !
hunting camp.
Lawrence Weidner, of Texas
township, street commissioner for
Honesdale, is now conveying his
corps of helpers from one part of the |.
town to another in an automobile he |
recently purchased of E. w. Gam !
nell. The street commissioner can
now tell where the holes, unhidden |
rocks and thank-you-marm cross !
walks are located.
Otto Tyler, who resides across /
the Delaware near Callicoon, n. Y, !
shot large raccoon that tipped the .
scales at thirty pounds. 1t was evil
dent that the coon had at some time
been captured in trap as one of the
forelegs was missing. The coon"
was placed on exhibition and was
realty admired by local sportsmen
who were also envious as this
makes only the seventh coon that
Mr.. Tyler bagged this fall.
j. B. Belts, assistant state COM
missioner of education, has upheld
the refusal of Leofric Temple, form
erly pupil at the Cedar Grove pub
lie school, of Newark, N. j., to
swear allegiance to the American
flag, and ordered that young Temple
be received back in the school from
which he was recently expelled.
Young Temple is the son of a former
officer in the British army. He said
he was acting under his fathers in
in refusing to swear allie
glance to the flag. The father is
still British subject.
The election board of Pittston
2ity has been summoned to appear
before court. The order was issued
Saturday noon by Judge Strauss. A
contest has been started to deter
mine the legally elected representa-
i've in the legislature from the Third
district. The official count gives the
place to Patrick Wynne, of Inker-
man, Washington party candidate,
by a small margin over Attorney
Connig, of Plains, Democratic nomi-
lee. Conniff is suspicious of the
Fifth ward, Pittston City. This is
he same ward which caused trouble
1T the primary last June, and whose
entire count was EFrown out by the
'ouTt.
i was pleased to meet ]. E.
of Honesdale, in town
Mr.. Richmond is prob
lbly best known to many readers as
he author OF number of interesting
articles on travel which appeared
'ome time ago in The Scranton Trib-
Inc. l understand that he contem-
Ilates publishing the series in book
orm illustrated by reproductions Of
'hotos taken when on the tours that I
covered nearly every portion of
North America and Alaska to the
ropics. l am sure that the collec-
ion of stories of the experiences will
,e most entertaining and be ap-
'reciated by the many friends of Mr..
both in this city and
nesdale-Stroller' Column Trib- !
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