The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-01

Cledu up yOuT CelldTS, DdCk anu
front yards.
beginning Saturday, May 4, the
offices at the court house will OBJ
serve Saturday half-holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Bisbing, of
Hoadleys, are the parents of a son
born on Sunday, April 2S.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Bodie, of
East street, are the parents of a
son born on Sunday, April 2S.
The first convention of the
coroners of Pennsylvania will meet in
Harrisburg May 22nd and 23rd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Koss, of
spring street, are the happy parents
of daughter born on Monday, April
90.
Gerard Cannivan will open a
branch agency of the Hessling
Candy Co, of Wilkes-Barre at his
home.
AS a birthday gift Miss Eva
Wilson was the happy recipient of a
Victor Victrola on Friday from her
father.
The ice season opens May 1st.
If the present weather continues
long the iceman sales will not start
with a rush.
England is severely irritated
by the method adopted by the Sen
ate Committee inquiring into the
loss of the Titanic.
-Roadknights cafe is undergo
ing many improvements in the way
of redecoration and a new steel
ceiling is being put on.
pOc+ II n anita On ~
run for Congress against A. Mitchell
Palmer and he got beaten, too. Pal
mer's account has not been filed.
The Oregon l.. T. l.. will hold
their tenth silver medal contest in
the Cherry Ridge Grange hall on
Friday evening, May 3. Admission
10 cents.
The first hearing of the credi-
tors in the B. l.. Holbert bankruptcy
case will he held on Tuesday, May
Z, in the Office of w. II. Lee, referee
in bankruptcy.
Patrick Lynott and daughters,
Misses Anna and Mayme, expect to
attend the funeral of their cousin,
the late Andrew Coyne, in Scranton,
on Wednesday.
Have the ashes and tin cans re-
moved from your back yards. They
are not only an eyesore to your
premises, but breed mosquitoes and
the typhoid fly
The following unclaimed letters
remain uncalled for at the Homes
dale postoffice: George Hazard,
Mark Koehler, Miss NJ. Martin.
When asking say advertised"
Mrs. James Harvey, of Texas
township, was operated upon for
gallstones by DR.. c. E. Thomson, of
Scranton, assisted by Drs. l.. B.
Nielsen and F. w. Powell, on Friday
last.
Buffalo Bills Wild West show
and Pawnee Bills Far West show
passed through this place early on
Friday morning. The show was in
Scranton on Thursday. The train
consisted of forty-seven cars.
Mary L. Baschon ct ux. of Haw-
ley to Richard G. Phillips and Fri
Trivelpiece, all the trees, timber and
lumber of 14Sh acres in Lacka-
waxen township. Consideration
$500. Term 5 years. Dated March
Is, 1912. Deed recorded in Sullivan
county.
Cole & Johns have this week
purchased a lumber tract of H. l..
Kennedy in Pleasant Mount town
ship. Consideration $3.50. The
piece contains about one hundred
acres and is as fine a piece of stand
ing timber as can be found in the
township.-Forest City News.
The Sand Pond property in
Cherry Ridge township, which has
been seized as the property of Earl
w. Bishop and the Clemo Real Es-
tate company, terre tenant, at the
suit of James A. Bigart, assigned
to Ezra H. Ripple and others, will
be sold by Sheriff Kimble, on Tues
day, May Z, at II a. m.
Referee in Bankruptcy w. H.
Lee left Tuesday morning for Mil
ford where a hearing of the credi-
tors of Richard E. Humbert estate
was helu. A petition was presented
for the sale of personal property.
Mr.. Humbert conducted a summer
boarding hotel at Milford. His Ii
abilities are $21, 900 and assets S22,-
1862.
Andrew P. Coyne, a well-known
resident of West Scranton, died very
suddenly sunday morning dJ MS
home there and is survived by the
following children: Elizabeth, Mary,
Marcella, Helen, Robert and An
drew. Mr.. Coyne was born in
Honesdale and will be remembered
by many of the older residents of
this place.
There is a movement on foot to
erect a monument to Major Butt,
who was military aide to President
Taft. The National Guard of Penn
sylyania have taken up the matter.
Truly, if any man who ever lived
deserved a monument and the undy-
ing admiration-the affection-the
reverence of his fellowmen, that man
was Major Archibald Butt.
On Saturday afternoon the
funeral of the late Nicholas Niert
was held from his late home here.
The services were conducted by Rev.
c. c. Miller, pastor of st. Johns
Lutheran church. Interment was
made in the German Lutheran ceme-
terry. Mr.. Niert was born in Ger
many May 3, 1927, and was a resi-
a ,F a,