The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-05
LAST YEARS NEWS
TERSELY TOLD
Matters of Local Interest
to You
OF HAPPENINGS
IN WAYNE COUNTY IN ITS
MANY TOWNS AND HAMLETS

COMPILATION OF HAPPENINGS
IN WAYNE COUNTY IN ITS
MANY TOWNS AND HAMLETS
During the year just closed Homes
Halle and Wayne county has expert
enced a number of changes. Death
has taken away a number of its
prominent men, while Times tide
has transformed things in general.
Among the items of interest to have
occurred we briefly give a resume of
he most important.
JANUARY, 1911.
Judge A. T. Searle received as
New Years present a commission
rom the State to serve during 1911
bnd continue as judge of the 22d
udcial district until the first Mon
lay in January, 1912.
Wayne and Pike, Wayne and
4ackawanna and Wallenpaupack
Telephone companies consolidated
hnd will be known as the Paupack
Telephone company.
Figures show it required s64,700
o run Wayne county in 1910.
Joseph E. Walsh and Miss Anna
III. Ennis, both of Honesdale, first
wedding of new year. They were
married Thursday, Jan. 5, by Rev.
T. M. Hanley.
Four Honesdale boys injured Jan
by explosion of dynamite caps
found after ice in river had been
Xlynamited.
Prof. Sidney Oliver died January A.
He was owner of a business school
n st. Louis and a former resident
pr Beach Lake.
William Penwarden, prominent
umberman and farmer, died at his
home at Carley Brook, January s,
4ged 81 years.
Jury drawn for Carl Howe trial in
Wayne county February IA.
Leona Lord pleads not guilty
when arranged before Judge Searle
4 response TO a question asked by
District Attorney Simons at the con-
lusion of the indictment charging
Ter with numbering Silas E. Lord on
fully 10, 1910, at Equinunk. Trial
bn.
James H. Fives, Jr., of Mt. Pleas
ant, is instantly killed near Tan
hers Falls, 14th, by wagon skidding
bn ice. He is thrown on his neck,
breaking it.
Miss Bessie Bellamy Ham and
Frank Hugus married, 18th, by Rev.
\. l.. Whitaker, in Honesdale.
Fred w. Murray, junior member
pr firm of Murray Company, died
4th, OF pneumonia, aged % years.
Mrs. Christian Dorainger, White
Mills, died the 10th. Wife of Chris
ian Dorfiinger, one of the pioneer
glass manufacturers of this coun-
Fry.
Jury renders verdict of guilty Of
nanslaughter on Leona Lord, gath.
S. r. Palmer, 80 years Erie agent
BIT Hawley, died 22d at Taylor.
Daniel Bingham, Hawley, insur-
hnce agent and newspaper CORES
bondent, died ED.
Jury find verdict for defendant in
famous alleged $4,000 breach OF
promise CASE osephine Olszefski
Us. William F. Taylor.
Mrs. Otis Avery died 25th in
Honesdale aged "a years. Wife of
pr. Otis Avery, inventor and dentist,
3ate OF Honesdale
R. A. Smith, justice of the peace,
f1onesdale, celebrates his S9th birth
lay on the 30th.
The Citizens subscription contest
closed the 3Oth. Successful contest
ants given Bermuda trip.
Sheriff NJ. Lee Braman took Leona
Lord TO the Eastern Penitentiary,
philadelphia, 30th, for the part she
Look in the fight when her brother
n-law was killed, July 10, 1910.
udge Searle sentenced her to an in
1eterminate sentence OF from three
TO twelve years at hard labor.
Richard l.. Oliver, Tyler Hill, died
he 27th, aged rs years.
FEBRUARY.
Rev. w. II. Swift, d. D., beloved
pastor of the Honesdale Presbyterian
Church, received hearty congratula-
ions in honor OF his 63rd birthday,
I'd inst.
Pomona Grange met at South Can
ban, 1st inst. Labor Grange wins
banner for most members.
Hawley postoffice burglarized and
MO worth OF stamps were taken.
New bank opened at Hawley.
Sam Reed pleads guilty on man
daughter charge and sent to Phila-
helphia penitentiary by Judge Searle
for a term OF from three to twelve
years, which is the last act OF the
Lord tragedy at Equinunk.
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