The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-07-24

Meet me at Honesdale on Aug.
81, 2S and 20.
Let the Citizen Publishing Co.
do your printing.
S. o. Porter. the popular hotel
man of Long Eddy, N. Y, has pur-
chased the Preston Kellam property
at that place which was foreclosed by
c. G.. Armstrong.
Hon. William d. b. Ainey has
been appointed a delegate to the con-
ference of Interparliamentary Union
to be held at Geneva, Switzerland,
September IS, 10 and 20, to repre-
sent the American Group of Inter
national Arbitration.
On Thursday of last week nine
persons were drowned in a cloud
burst at Brown Run. John Ray
mond, during the storm, went to the
barn to look after the stock. When
he failed to return, rescurers, in
Guiding his wife, six children and
his father and a brother of the wife,
who went in search, were all car
ried away by the flood.
Constable Fred w. Short, of
Canaan, brought John Meehan, to
Honesdale on Monday and had him
lodged in the county jail. Meehan
was arrested in Canaan a few days
ago on a charge of highway robbery
preferred against him by George X.
Odell, of Carbondale. The hearing
was held before Justice of the
Peace e. E. Weed of Canaan, and
the man will be held for the grand
jury.
Murray J. Davidson, editor of
the Sullivan County Republican and
secretary of the Republican Publish
ing Company of Monticello, N. Y,
has rendered his resignation and will
leave for Warren, Pa, where he has
secured a position as superintendent
of large cold storage plant, says
the Sullivan County Democrat of
Tuesday. Mr.. Davidson has been
connected with the Republican for
the past three years.
A series of eight baseball games
between White Mills and Hawley has
been arranged. The first game will
be played on Athletic Field next Sat-
urday afternoon and the second will
take place at White Mills Sunday af-
ternoon. Both teams will have their
strongest lineups on the diamond and
the contests of next Saturday and
Sunday promise to be unusually fast
and interesting. Come and help the
boys along and encourage the sport.
Paul Hines, the little son of Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Hines, of Hall
stead, was killed on Wednesday of
last week while playing in the street
by being run over by a delivery
ran in front of the wagon and the
horse knocked him down and before
the driver realized what had hap
pened the wheels had passed over
the body of the child. The body was
badly crushed and death was in
stantaneous.
In accordance with a resolution
passed by the Wayne County Demo-
cratic committee, Chairman Leopold
Fuerth has appointed the following
executive committee: F. P. kimble,
Charles A. McCarty, Walter Bayly,
Honesdale; P. H. Kearney, Hawley;
DR.. Cook, South Canaan; George
Knorr, Lebanon; Samuel Saunders,
Berlin. The chairman also appoint
ed M. j. Hanlan, r. NJ. Stocker and
Charles l.. Dunning a committee on
changing the county rules of the
party.
Mr.. Greasy, former principal of
the Hawley schools, has received
number of flattering offers of posi-
tions and he has accepted one from
the Chestertown CMd.) school board
which selected him from a long list
of applicants. Mr.. Greasy will be
paid a larger salary then he was re-
ceiving in Hawley and his new field
of labor is a decided advance over
the old. Mr.. Creasy's case demon
strates that man of good character
and ability will have little trouble in
securing good position.
Shortly before one o'clock on
Saturday afternoon the big 29ton
steam shovel at work on the Haw- |
ley Coal COmpany's washer, about |
two and a half miles above Hawley, |
tipped over while men were moving |
it. Peter Deitzer, the engineer, was
in the cab at the time and when the !
big shovel toppled over and went |
down the embankment, he was
forced to remain in the cab where |
he was severely scalded by the |
steam and it was about ten minutes
before the men could get him out. |
DR.. Voigt, the company's physician,
his burns and he was TAX
en- to Scranton for treatment. An
other man received burns on the |
arms and shoulder.
The old whitened mahogany |
desk which has done duty for the
Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives since the opening of the new |
State CaDitOl will give Way within q |
few months to handsome bronze af- |
fair which is now under construction |
by the Art Metal Construction COM
pany, of jamestown, y. Y. The con- |
tract was let short time ago and |
will be part of the improvements to /.
the chamber of the House. The desk /
will be about the same size as the |
present one, but will be handsomely |
containing a shield with |
the State arms in the center and |
hanked by lions. 1t will be the |