The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-03-06

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/ ed the lady members of the KnoC kers
! club at five hundred Tuesday after
noon at her home on East street.
The Grand Union ca companys
| stores throughout the United States
were closed tor a few hours Monday
| afternoon during the funeral OF its
president, w. J. Burke.
The Wayne County Savings
Bank has PAID its depositors inter-
est amounting to 81 1,32O,OoI17 since
! the bank began business November
/, 1S'4, to the present time.
! The date OF the deciding game
/ for the championship OF Wayne
county between the Alerts and the
Rink Five, has been postponed from
Tuesday night until Thursday, Mar.
Z. 1t will be played at the Rink.
The Lenten services in St.
! Johns Catholic church Wednesday
evening VIII begin at 1880, will con-
sist of beads. Father O'Toole Will
preach the sermon, subject, " Crea-
tion of Man" following by benedic-
| ton.
-Firemen running from the hose
house at Seelyville to assist in rails
| ing a horse that had fallen in the
yard of James Birdsall Monday
morning, was sufficient evidence for
some parties to start a rumor that
there was a fire at Mr.. Birdsalrs
/ home.
The following from out of town
attended the funeral of the late Mrs.
Edward Murtha on Thursday: Mr.
and Mrs. F. NJ. Monaghan, Daniel
Monaghan, Mr.. Kallighan, Alex Law,
and George Law, of Scranton; Mrs.
John Pidgeon, Leo Dowd, Joseph
Duggan, and Mrs. Henry Maddigan,
of Carbondale.
Petitions of F. Manner, Republi-
can alternate delegate for the 14th
Congressional district to the Ma
tional convention is on file at the
commissioners office. Also that of
A. V. Tyler, Tyler Hill, alternate
delegate to the Prohibitive National
conl ention, representing the 14th
Congressional district and Wayne
county delegate to the State Prohibi-
tion convention.
The Methodist church at Lanes
boro, Susquehanna county, celebrat-
ed its one hundredth anniversary of
its formation on Sunday evening and
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"reminiscences were part of the
program and Rev. J. r. Wagner,
pastor of the church thirty years afo,
and Rev. H. l.. Hubbard, pastor of
the church twenty years ago, spoke
to the large congregation.
D. & H. Division Freight and
Passenger Agent &. E. Bates, of
Scranton, was a caller in town on
Saturday. 1t is rumored that the d.
q H. expects to install freight sta
tion and switch as well as an agent
at Seelyville. There certainly is con-
siderable incoming and outgoing
freight which could be handled at
Seelyville as G. Smith & Sons, BIRD
sail Bros and T. b. Clark & co. are
all large shippers.
Wyoming Conference opens in
Scranton, Tuesday, March 19. The
sessions will be held in Elm Park
church, Bishop Earl Cranston of
Washington, d. C., presiding. The
special features are the anniversary
meeting of the Board of Foreign
Missions Wednesday evening, March
20; the Preachers Aid Society,
Thursday evening; Board of Mis-
sions meeting, Friday evening; Ep-
worth League anniN ersary, Saturday
evening, and the Sunday School an
niN ersary on Sunday evening. The
| Laymen's meeting will be held
Thursday and Friday in Emmanuel
Baptist church, a block away from
Elm Park church.
The census bureau has issued a
gloom statement regarding tur-
key culture. According to its report
there were 6,594,695 turkeys on
farms in the United States in 1900
and only 3,68S,70S in 1910. The
number of ducks decreased with al
most similar speed. In 1900 there
were 4,7S5,S10, while in 1910 there
were only 2,906,525. The geese,
never plentiful, have gone more
slowly. In 1900 there were 5,676,-
lSS and last year there were 4,43l,-
$50. Poultry is doing we'll, how
ever. In 1900, 233,566,021 graced
the poultry map, and in 1910 the
number of the feathered tribe had
increased to 2S0,345,132,
Voters who cast their ballots for
the majority of Keystone candidates
last November will be deprived of
voice in the nomination of Presiden-
tial candidates, since under a strict
Interpretation of the primary cleo
tion law the Keystone voters will not
be permitted to vote for the national
delegates on either the Democratic
or Republican primary ballot, says
the Philadelphia Ledger. This fact
was brought to the attention of Key
stone party leaders recently and it
was admitted that the effect would
be to weaken the Keystone party in
the coming primary elect tion. In po-
litical circles it is believed that this
may mean the ultimate disintregra
ton of the party.
-Corbtt & Stuart, the well-known
acid factory men, are planning to
build at Campbell Brook, a small
station of the Delaware & Eastern,
below townsville, the largest acid
factory of any now in existence. The
firm owns thousands of acres of
woodland along the main line and
the Andes branch and these will be
cleared, the marketable lumber sold
and the rest OF the timber worked up
at the acid factory. 1t is stated that
the denuding of the forests of the
East Branch will probably outlast the
nraSpnt PanpratiOn COrhatt g. StaW-