The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-03-29

If tailor pressed three suits an
hour how many would cider press?
Born, a son, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Marshall B. Warfield, Carley Brook,
on Tuesday.
House for sale or rent? Ad-
vertise in the Cent-a-Word column of
The Citizen.
There will be spelling contest
in the Texas school on Cherry Ridge
road on March 20.
The Cent-a-Word column of The
Citizen is just the place for you to
/ advertise your wants.
"A marriage license was granted
the 27th to John f. Savitz and Mrs.
Marietta Damato. both of Warden.
Ray Hambley, who was recently
operated upon in DR.. Burns private
| hospital In Scranton, returned home
on Monday evening.
The Citizen contained over 81
columns of advertising in its We'd
nesday issue. Don't you realize the
necessity of advertising, Mr.. Mer-
chant?
Samuel S. Garfield, late OF Ros-
coe, but formerly of this place, ar
rived Tuesday. He is emplyed by G.
Smith & Son on their farm in Dy-
berry township.
j. Rubin and r. Rubin, glaciers,
have come to this place from Da-
mascus and have opened up a shop at
1923 Main street. They will do
general repair business besides
handling all kinds of glass.
The members of the Whatsoever
Il.
elect officers Friday afternoon for
the ensuing year. A supper will af-
terwards be served to the members
and their husbands and gentlemen
friends.
Merritt c. speidel, editor and
publisher of the Piqua (O) Daily
Call, and Miss Edna Meredith, also
of PiQua, will be married on April
"a. The bridegroom-to-be is we'll
known in Honesdale, having visited
here on several occasions.
Druggist John r. Brady of this
place, and Mrs. Violet Lane, of Jer-
myn, were married in Wilkes-Barre
by Rev. Charles Reichardt on Mon
day After a brief bridal tour to
Washington, D. c., Mr.. and Mrs.
Brady returned to Honesdale on
Wednesday,
The fire department automobile,
Scranton, has been equipped with
big locomotive bell, the hoarse
throated siren having been displaced.
Equipments which will register every
fire alarm in the newspaper offices
of that city will be shipped from the
factory in few days.
One hundred years ago, April
|, the capitol of Pennsylvania was
removed from Lancaster to Harris
burg, thirty wagon loads of state
papers being carted over land. For
many years the capitol building oc-
cupied the site of the present Dau-
phin county court house.
Now is the time to swat the fly,
when one can be found. Every fly
killed in March and April will reduce
next summers supply by few
thousand. Fly experts say that the
crusade of determination should be-
gin before the pesky things are num-
erous enough to make a noise in the
house like a swarm of bees.
The equipment for generating
electricity for homes on display in
the window of E. w. Gammell, Main
street, has caused considerable COM
ment during the past few days. 1T
consists of 3 " horse power gaso-
line engine, generator, set of batter
les and switchboard. 1t is capable of
furnishing electricity for 80 incan-
descent lamps.
In 1866 there were nineteen
tanneries in Wayne county, several
of them being the largest in the
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nual output was over $2,000,000. |
Sole leather was mainly tanned. Not
a single tannery is now in existence
in Wayne county, owing to the gen
eral absence of hemlock bark, what |
little there is being shipped away to
distant points.
The teachers examining board of
the twenty-first district was announc- |
ed on Wednesday. Mark Greasy, of
Hawley, is chairman. The members !
are Floyd Taylor, of Forest City, and
M. ]. Floyd, of Taylor, who will act |
as secretary. The examinations will |
be taken by about 200 teachers, some |
for permanent certificates and others
to add necessary subjects to the list |
which they are qualified by previous
certificates to teach.
Twenty water companies, which |
have secured charters in the last ten |
years and never laid a foot of pipe |
or constructed a water plant, are to |
be wiped off the States charter |
books next month. The preliminary
steps will be taken shortly by the |
State Water Supply Commission
whose engineers have been looking
up data concerning the numerous
water companies granted charters
since 1890 and the commission will |
request the Attorney Generals De-
partment to institute quo warranto
proceedings to take away the char
ters.