The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-21
DELAWARE VALLEY DOINGS
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sal, and Pert Personals to Please
the People.
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DamasCus. Amg. .

Hadsall has been here several weeks. /
Both were formerly of Damascus.
The Methodist people are making
much needed and extensive repairs
on their church edifice. The front
of the basement will be mostly glass
when completed.
Miss Korna Keesler, of Canas
tota. n. Y, and brother, Donald, are
visiting at the home of their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. b. Keesler.
Miss Lille Appley, matron in
charity home in Mount Clair, N. j.,
is here at the home Of her brother,
Amasa. She is accompanied by one
of the boys of the institution. The
children are kept at that institution
until the age of fourteen, then they
are placed in good families. Both
sex are received but kept in separate
wards
/ c. II. Valentine, undertaken, has
everything neat and clean around his
establishment
Auto owners ought to accumulate
some of the filthy" at the rate of
81 an hour toting Joy riders.
A. V. Tyler has another new
branch of employment. 1t is col
lecting beech branches to a firm in
Brooklyn, n. Y. They are used for
decorating purposes. The branches
and leaves are subjected to a treat
ment and the leaves dyed the desir-
ed shade needed for any particular
use to which they may be put. The
branches are cut from three to six
feet as desired and carefully packed
in crates and shipped in this man
ner. Mr.. Tyler says these crates get
badly smashed when sent by local
freight and hereafter he will ship
only in car lots. He has been ship
ping rhododendron plants for sew
eral years on an extensive scale.
The Bischoff Bros. are trying a
piece of alfalfa. They have their
house full of boarders the entire sea-
son through. Five new arrivals are
booked for Monday OF this week,
They never advertise, well-pleased
patrons send others.
Royal ]. Gregg, wife and two chill
dren, of Providence, r. l., are at the
home of Mr.. Gregg's parents, w. A.
Gregg and wife. Mrs. R. j. Gregg
made an extended visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. d. NJ. Benja-
min, of Union, n. Y. They intend
to remain here two weeks.
The people of Damascus township
ought to give their poormasters,
Messrs. j. NJ. Pollock and n. P. Den
mis-, for the careful and judicial full
tillment of their duties. 1t certainly
must be gratifying to the taxpayers
to know that they have no poor tax
; to pay this year, an occurrence that
many of them have never before.
Some from this section intend to
see the grand celebration to take
place at the county seat" next week
Earl Barnes visited his father, w
j. Barnes, of Honesdale, last week
The genial face and portly form
of our popular and efficient sheriff
f. c. Kimble, was seen in several
places in Damascus last week. There
, is game out here and our wide.
awake officials have an eye on it
That is what we have them for.
A brother of the Bischoff's recent
ly visited them. He motored here
|. from Baltimore, Nd, in a Ford car
the machine registering 500 miles
;. and everything and machinery of the
car working like clock work. He
: made the entire trip without acci
I dent or incident.
A pickup nine went from here
!. last Thursday to cross bats with the
{ Long Eddy nine. We have no
5 learned what the score was.
4 years was the foreman in E. Beacf
i & Sons, Rock Glen Stamp tannery
: at Milanville, is now here looking
up what few of his old friends anC
I acquaintance are still left this sidt
of the Great Divide. His wife whC
was Carrie, a daughter of the late
Clinton Skinner. The home of Mr.
Cornish has been in Orlando, Flori
, da, for several years. While Geo
d c. Abraham and wife were south ;
l year ago, they visited this couple
l at their southern home. He mus
Z find that during his absence of ,
u quarter of century the ravages o
. Time must be great. The old tan
merry with which he was once 81
familiar in all its parts, has Ions
since been razed and an acid factor!
=, erected near the same old spot
Long ranks of cord wood supplant
the huge stacks of hemlock bark, OLE
n faces have disappeared, old lanC
e marks have been effaced.
r Relatives from Connecticut are
5 visiting at the home of w. l.. Jack
!, son.
). Henry Baehrer recently lost hi
n watch. 1t was picked up betweel
i Mr.. Baehrer's harness shop and T
y l.. Pethick's blacksmith shop, by
/ travelling man on his way to Milan
5 vile. A phone message sent aheat
S told who the time piece belonged Il
n and the gentleman promptly sen
n it back to Mr.. Baehrer. Mr. BaehTe
4 had slipped the watch past his pock
ct instead of into it,
n Marvin n. Brigham will be the in
l. structor in the Tyler Hill school tn
e coming school year. Mr.. Brigham
e holds a state certificate and has beel
IS in the profession for many years.
It John S. Mosher is entertaining
e sister and sister-in-law from tn
?. west.
Mrs. Ernest LaWton of Contra
t New York state, and family, ar
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