The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-29
The barber shops of Honesdale

The barber shops of Honesdale
will be closed Memorial Day.
The Amity club realized about
S170 on their minstrel show on
Thursday evening last.
Pomona Grange No. Al will
meet with Pleasant Valley Grange at
Dyberry on Friday, June Z.
The Honesdale Golf club will
have an outing and some luncheon
at the club house on Memorial Day.
Freeman orchestra played at
the commencement exercises for the
Aldenville High school on Friday
evening
The ladies of the Methodist
church will hold their annual straw
berry festival in the church parlors
Thursday evening, June 6.
Owing to Memorial Day falling
upon Thursday, The Citizens regu-
lar press day for its Friday issue,
the paper will reach its subscribers
few hours later.
-Carbondale is planning to have
an Old Home Week celebration, in
August or September, to mark the
twentieth anniversary of the Mitch
ell Hose Company.
Prof. H. A. Oday's summer
school will be held for a month af-
ter the closing of the present term
of school. He will then go to State
College where he will take a special
summer course of study.
A new siding has been built on
the lHonesdale branch of the Della
ware q Hudson railroad at Farview.
1t is called the crazy switch on
account of its connection with the
new asylum, says the Carbondale
Leader.
A change of timetable went in
to effect on Sunday last on the
Pennsylvania division of the Della
ware and Hudson railroad. There
is no difference in the arriving and
departing of the Honesdale daily
and Sunday trains.
Lightning struck a large hem
lock tree near the home of James
Hensey, Bethany, on Friday. Mrs.
William Hensey, the formers moth
er, was standing on the porch when
the bolt descended and felt the
shock. She was uninjured. The
tree was shattered.
The members of the graduating
took dinner at the Hotel Wayne on
Saturday and afterward had their
pictures taken. The party consisted
of Misses Ruth NJ. Gaylord, Harriet
White, Ada V. Hopkins, Messrs. w.
o. Treverton, -"Fqrles Kennedy,
Lois l.. Norton, Keitn Arnold, Frank
Burrin and A. L. Miller.
ALL contributors to the building
af = MI -, In ~
chard, are invited to meet with the
auditing committee in the basement
of the church next Saturday evening,
June l, at 1880, to examine the ac-
counts of receipts and disburse-
ments. This will be the final audit
ing before the conservation of the
church, which will occur on June 3.
During the summer vacation the
spelling lessons of the school con-
test will not be printed in the local
papers. Lessons IL and AZ, which
will appear in this weeks papers,
will be the last until next Septem-
Der, when we will resume printing
them. You should not allow your
self to get rusty during vacation
time so send &c in stamps and re-
ceive by return mail a copy of The
Citizens Spelling book.
&C. II. Bennett, of Lakewood,
was in Honesdale on Tuesday and
took out a warrant alleging assault
Bennett, of Lakewood. Mr.. Ben
nett states that on Saturday of last
week the above named parties did
him greviOus bodily harm and in
fiicted wounds upon his person by
stoning. A hearing will be used be-
fore Esquire r. A. Smith on Tues
day, June 4, at 10 o'clock in Homes
dale.
The home of Jerome Tonkin
was wrecked at Herrick Centre on
Friday last by being struck by
lightning. A fire was started, but
by prompt action the conhagration
was eXtinguished. The occurrence
seemed most phenomenal, as it was
the only flash of lightning in a con-
siderable time, and scarcely a drop
of rain fell. 1t seemed in reality
like a bolt from the blue" The
house was insured from loss by
lightning.
Nineteen pupils of Miss Mabel
Broad, took part in a recital, CIV
en- at the home of Mrs. Henry r.
Shirley, Main street, on Friday even
ing last. The program was we'll rem
dered, and greatly pleased the par
ents and friends of those who par
ticipated in it. The following took
part: Charlotte Transue, Marjorie
Ward, Marjorie Smith, Leah Kim
BILE, Katherine Shirley, Isabel Shir-
ley, Helen Burns, Evelyn Seitz,
Goldie Abrams, Mildred Jones,
Jeanette Ref, Mary RiXton, Vir-
ginia Brown, Katherine Penwarden,
Earle Arnold, Miss Broad, Florence
Morrison, Maud Daley, Eda Krantz,
Alicia Krantz and Dorothy Reichen-
bacher.
A reception Of the Blessed Vir-
gins Sodality of St Mary Magda-
lens church was held in the church,
Sunday evening at 7:30. About
forty young ladies were received into
the order. A splendid sermon was
delivered to the Socialists by Rev
DR.. j. W. Balta, which was very i'm
pressive. Following the sermon was
special music for the occasion, and