The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-26
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

John d. Bryant is erecting a
partition in District Attorney NJ. E.
Simons' office.
The institute comprising the
districts of Paupack, Palmyra, White
Mills and Hawley was held in White
Mills on Saturday, Jan. 20.
A nomination of new officers
for the Sodility in st. Mary Magda-
lens church was held on Sunday.
G. F. Purdy of Ridge street, is SER
iously i'll.
The president of the Honesdale
improvement Association desires the
members to continue holding the
chain teas. The treasury is almost
deplete owing to the expenditure of
large sum of money last season
which was used in trimming the
trees in the parks.
Five indictments were returned
by the grand jury sitting at Towan-
da, Bradford county, on Monday,
against the former officers of the
Keystone Guard The men are charg-
ed with conspiring to defraud policy
holders of the beneficial organiza-
ton.
Judge Searle is sitting in the
courts of Lackawanna county this
week
Andrew Thompson went to Scran-
ton Tuesday to attend the funeral of
the late Alexander w. Dickson.
D. j. Branning has purchased the
Vandermark property at Hawley. Mr..
Vandermark and family will move to
Hoboken, N. Y, soon.
Misses Nellie and Kathryn Dor
finger, of White Mills, sailed We'd
nesday for Bermuda, where they will
spend the forthcoming month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Mang and
Mrs. Adam Felix of this city, attend
ed the funeral of the formers son,
the late Anthony Mang at Port Jer-
Wis on Monday.
Mesdames Hermon SChuerholz,
Tressa Weiger, Messrs. Laurence and
Fred Weiger attended the funeral of
the late Louis Foster at Scranton on
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Quick, OF
Brookton, n. Y, are the perents of a
son born, recently Mrs. Quick was
formerly Miss Grace Reidman, of
Honesdale.
Mrs. George Johns returned to
her home in New York Thursday af-
ter an extended visit with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Chambers,
on Fourteenth street.
w. w. Kimble, the newly appoint
ed mercantile appraiser, spent this
week in town visiting the different
merchants. On Monday next he in
tenus to canvass the northern part of
the county.
G. E. Bates, of the Delaware &
Hudson road, and Representative
Ashley of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, both of Scranton, were
business callers in Honesdale and VII
cinity, Wednesday.
John Boyd spent Saturday and
Sunday in Scranton with his little
son Allan, who is in the hospital,
having had an operation on the
bones of his leg. His condition is
reported to be very favorable.
William j. Beehn, of Newfound-
land, met with a painful accident on
Wednesday afternoon of last week
while helping to put a load of ice
into DR.. F. Gilpins ice house. While
ice was being showed up into the
building one of the cakes fell and
struck Beehn on the cheek bone, shat
tering it and making very painful
wound. DR.. A. J Simons was called
and rendered surgical aid. Mr. Beehn
is now slowly recovering from the
wound.
r. T. Whitney, Scranton, manager
of the Tiona Oil company, was a re-
cent caller in Honesdale. Mr.. Whit
ney witnessed Fitzgerald, the ath-
lete, make his almost fatal dive in
Scranton last Friday night. FitZ-
gerald was not in the contest for
diving, but had promised his friends
that he would give a demonstration.
Despite the requests of the managers
and others Mr.. Fitzgerald dove into
a tank of one of Scranton's amuse-
ment houses, and fractured a veter-
brae of his neck.