The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-24

| hamton, delivered two eloquent SER
mons in the Methodist church on
Sunday, occupying the pulpit morn
| ing and evening.
Several freight cars are filled
with ice daily by the Lake Lodore
! improvement company at Keene and
! shipped via Delaware & Hudson to
valley towns and cities.
j. A. Bodie, the photographer,
has purchased the equipment of U.
G. Ridgeway's gallery, lower Main
street. He has leased the place for
an indefinite period.
Representative Charles Bigart
paid Mrs. George J. Bergman $400
on Monday, the amount of insurance
carried by her late husband in the
/ Prudential Life Insurance company.
There will be very important
meeting of the Honesdale Business
Mems association at City Hall this
(Tuesday) evening. All the mem
bers are urgently requested to at
tend.
-Lehigh Valley Transit Company
at an important meeting in Allen
town recently, makes further pur-
| chases of the Montgomery Transit
Company to pave way for the new
road to Philadelphia.
Edward Deitzer has purchased
the equipment of the West Side Shoe
store. Scranton, and in a short time
expects to open a branch store to
his large Honesdale shoe store.
Surely Honesdale is growing.
A sleighride party composed of
about 28 people from here were en-
tertained at the home of Mrs. Frank
Mang of Fortenia on Thursday
evening last. Card and other games
were INDUCED in, after which
dainty luncheon was served.
Rev. H. G. Harmed, superin-
tendent of the Bible society, Scran-
ton, distributed in December, 1911,
over fourteen hundred volumes of
the Scriptures, and about thirty
thousand valumes in thirty-one Ian
guages in five years, ending Decem-
Der 81, 1911.
Miss Mabel Broad, who suffered
heavy loss in the Red Stone Front
block, recovered some of her music
on Monday. She had several dol
lars worth on trial and practically
all was ruined Miss Broad now has
her musical studio in her home on
Thirteenth street.
-Alva Masker lives on a farm at
Uswick, Wayne county. The cold was
so intense at his place on Saturday
night of last week that a colt that
was nearly year old was frozen to
death. A COW was so badly frozen
that it had to be killed. His chick
ems were frozen on their roosts.
William L. carey, Justice of the
Peace of the borough of Sayre, was
recently admitted to the practice of
law in the courts of Bradford county
The motion for Mr.. Carey's admis-
sion to the bar was made by Hon. E.
M. Dunham, formerly presiding Judge
OF Sullivan-Wyoming judicial dis
trict.
The Electric City Male Quar-
tete entertained a few of their
friends at Taeubner's last Friday
evening. Their songs were all well
rendered and very clever. The
quartette will make another visit to
Honesdale in the near future. A
banquet was served after the musi-
cal treat. ,,.I
Henry Pruemers has purchased
the stock recently held by John
Weaver, Jr., in the Wayne Cut Glass
company, Towanda. The former has
been elected vice-president and assist
ant cashier of that company. He has
purchased the dwelling recently va
Gated by Mr.. Weaver and will oc-
cupy same April 1st.
Reports of the death of Micajah
Wise, aged 109 years, Wayne coun-
tvs grand old man, who is now
III tnrr l. fc -,
N. Y, are erroneous, according to
Mr.. Wise. Within the past two
weeks he drove from his home to
Narrowsburg, n. Y, distance of
ten miles, to get a supply of feed for
the stock on the farm.
"A fourth-class postmaster ex-
animation will be held at Honesdale
on Saturday, Feb. IT, 1912, for the
purpose of filling contemplated va
vancy in the position of fourth-class
postmaster of Glass A at White Mills,
Pa. The compensation of the office
is 500 per year. Full information
can be secured from the postmaster
at Honesdale or White Mills.
What might have resulted in a
! very serious accident for a number
| of HOnesdale boys, occurred on Sun
! udS HlSHI. n party OF boys were
coasting down the Cherry Ridge hill
and their sled ran into the open bug
! gy of George Dirlam. The buggy
was overturned and badly smashed
and the horse bruised on the legs.
| The boys escaped without injury as
did Mr.. Dirlam.
-SiXty-one years ago in April,
1851, occurred the greatest fire
Honesdale has ever suffered. The
fire started in the building owned
by the father of p. r. Murray and
swept through the lower part of
town. The losses which were scat
tered among about siXty-four differ
ent people aggregated in the neigh
borhood of 1000 and about S55,-
600 of which was covered in insur-
anCe.
An enthusiastic Loyal Temper
ance Legion of about forty members
has recently been organized at Beach
lake. The Legion is presided over
by VIM. j. Davey and meetings are
held every two weeks. The last
meeting was held at the home of Mr..
Ives and though the weather was Sc