The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-31

the entrance of the Union depot.
Mrs. George =. Ross entertained
the Knockers Club" Monday evening.
Ice twenty-four inches thick Is
being harvested on the Hudson
river.
Place an adlet in the Classified
want column of The Citizen and you
Will rent your rooms or sell your
property.
Albert Blandin, formerly of
Honesdale, now living in Scranton,
holds the highest record of bowling
in that city.
The funeral of the late Barney
Kimmet of Hawley was held in st.
Philomena church on Friday morning
OF last week.
The peach crop of many sec
tions of the country is reported to
have been totally destroyed by the
severe weather recently
The game between Honesdale and
Seelyville for the benefit of Mrs. George
Bergman will probably be played at
the rink Friday night next.
A sleighload of young people
went to Hawley last Thursday even
ing and attended the opening of the
new roller skating rink at that place.
New York women are being
asked to stop buying and eating the
high-priced butter. A boycott has
been declared there against the CO.
cent product.
Even if a house is not wired for
electricity a woman may use a motor
to drive her sewing machine, for a
storage battery driven motor for the
purpose has been invented.
Timothy Hearst, while here last
week, promised to send a prize for the
progressive euChre to be held in the new
armory, Feb. &, under the auspices Of
Father O'Too's congregation.
The Allied Civic Bodies of Penn
sylvania, meeting in Lancaster,
adopted resolutions favoring COM
missioner rule in cities of the third
class and for the initiation, referen-
DUN and recall
The funeral of Albert Bishop,
who died at his home on Cliff street
last Tuesday morning, was held on
Thursday at the NJ. Z. church. Rev.
w. H. Hitler ofIiciated. Interment
was made in Riverdale cemetery.
Rev. Samuel Tolley, who is pas
tor of the Methodist church, at
Equinunk, will occupy the pulpit of
the Honesdale Methodist church next
Sunday morning, the occasion being
the observance of his 18th birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Doetch were Civ
en- surprise on Wednesday evening
when about thirty-five of their
friends arrived. The evening was
spent in playing cards and other
games and afterwards refreshmegnts
were served.
Can any reader of The Citizen give
this office any particulars regarding the
recent death of Nathan S. Young, a
former resident of Dyberry township?
He was ex-member of Company NJ,
18th Pennsylvania Calvary. Kindly give
place of death, date, etc.
Colonel Joseph U. Crawford,
consulting engineer of the Imperial
Government Railways of Japan, re-
ceived a cablegram from Toxic re-
Gently advising him that an order for
100 miles of steel rails and fasten-
ings had been placed with the United
States Steel Corporation.
Up to September 2S the Oldest
veteran of the Civil war was Edward
Ireson Goldsmith, of Lynn, Mass,
says the New York Mail. Goldsmith
was born in Lynn on May 20, LIP,
and enlisted in the Twenty-third
Massachusetts volunteers in Novem-
Der, 1861. He was then 40 years
old.
Bishop Talbot will celebrate his
silver jubilee of elevation to the
Episcopate, May 81 and %. The
diocese is raising $4,000 in honor
of the event. Four-fifths of it will
go toward increasing the diocesan en-
dowment fund and the balance to
liquidate debt on the Episcopal
residence.
While the main office of the
Equitable Life Assurance Society in
New York city was being destroyed
by fire on January 8 officials in
charge of the main office with a force
of clerks were paying claims. Chas.
H. Higgins, one agent, received
payment for a claim on the morning
of January while the fire was at its
height.
Two hundred sparrows of the
thousands which infest the public
square, in Wilkes-BaTre, were killed
one night last week. The slayers
work at night with shot guns equip
ped with Maxim silencers, so as not
to disturb the neighborhood. Mayor
Kosek happened along at a late hour
and seeing what was going on, took
a shot himself and brought down a
dozen.
Through an old Chicago news
paper found in the bottom of
weather beaten prairie schooner"
Mrs. b. l.. Marks is enabled to re-
store, after nineteen years, three
rings lost at the Columbian Exposi-
tion by Mrs. II. c. Turner, of Louis
vile. So torn was the paper that the
address given in Mrs. Turner's adver-
tisement for her property read:-
Mrs. Tur-, Third street, Louis
Vile"
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew J. Van
Gorder, of Scranton, celebrated the
fftieth anniversary of their marriage
on Saturday afternoon and evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Van Gorder were mar
ried at Hollisterville, this county,
January 81, 1862, by Rev. Reanold