The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-07-26

The Golf club will give card
party at the club rooms on Friday
evening to the members and guests.
Miss Margaret Carr has resign
ed her position as nurse at the Miss
| Mae Weston home on Park street
and Mrs. Brering, of Clemo, is fill
! ing the vacancy.
"A party of little folks were en-
tertained at the home of Mrs. l. A.
Hartman on Wednesday evening in
| honor of her little daughter, Mil
dred's first birthday.
The lawn social held on Henry
| owens lawn on Wednesday even
! ing was a great success and a neat
sum was realized for church pur-
poses. The ladies of the Lutheran
church were hostesses.
The Maple City Drum Corps will
hold an ice cream social on the lawn
near the Baptist church this (Thurs-
day. evening, when everybody is in
vited. The Drum Corps is a useful
organization for our town and de-
serves the support of the people.
Come out tonight and help the boys
along.
The State Forestry Department
will soon take over the Pine Grove
/ Furnace tract in Cumberland and
Adams counties, the largest tract Sc
cured for the State in years, the
search of title and other work hav-
ing been completed. When this is
done the State will have over 1,000,-
600 acres of forest land and will add
to its holdings a property which will
be considerable of an income pro-
ducer.
The following Scranton people
are staying at the Columbia Hotel,
Lake Ariel, this week: E. G. Burke,
H. S. Wentz, J. II. Hall, Alice Kelly,
Marjorie Farrell, John Farrell Jas.
McLain, William O'Boyle, E. j. Nc
! Gingan, Arthur o. Reese, Horace l..
Smith, Annie l.. Allen, Nancy John
son, Sherried H. Watson, J. A. Nee
ham, Blanch Smith, Regina Murphy,
Mary Law, Mr.. and Mrs. J. J.
White.
After a bitter fight OF over two
years Peter r. Pickelle of New York
and Milford, Pa, has succeeded in
breaking his fathers will. Owing to
the wealth and social prominence of
the family in the Hoosier State the
proceedings were watched with inter
est. Mr.. Pickelle made his own de-
fence and literally tore the document
into shreds. The Supreme Court or
dered a stay saying that a brilliant
lawyer was lost to the world" Mr..
Pickelle's defence was manly, cour-
ageous and most tter."-From In
dianapolis, July II.
An account in the Tribune Re
publican of a hard shelled egg with
in a hard shelled egg, caught the at
tention of men in the store of Geo.
w. Sweigart, of Bloomsbury. I'm
willing to admit that this hard she'll
ed egg within a hard shelled egg
closed the argument that there was
something new under the sun, they
literally dug up a potato within a
potato and sent it to Scranton for
inspection. They are seed potatoes,
both the inside and the outside OF
this potato duet. The inside potato
grew to such proportions that it
has projected on either side OF the
outside covering.
According to our correspondent
from South Canaan, Horton Megar-
gel, who resides a short distance
from the East school house at that
place, has been having more than his
share of ill-luck recently. One oi
the items from the gatherings in
forms us that Mr.. Megargel and his
five children have had the old-fash.
ioned kind of measles but happily are
able to be around again. Another
item is to the effect that Mr.. Megar
gel lost five cows in a terrific cleo
; trical storm last week. The loss o.
five cows is a severe blow to Mr.
Megargel, especially at this time af
ter he and his family were recover
ing from the seige of sickness. Mr.
Megargel has the sincere sympathy
of his neighborhood and friends il
his misfortune.-Carbondale Leader
The case of Nellie O'Kiefe VS.
the township of Teas will be arbi
trated. On Thursday morning w. B
Lesher, T. Y. Boyd and Geo. Rose
were appointed arbitrators. The
hearing of the case will be held il
the jury room at the court house OF
Friday morning, August 90, at II
o'clock. The case is a damage sui
brought by Nellie O'Kiefe to recov
er damages to the amount of $4,000
from the township of Texas for al
legged injuries caused her by negli
gence of the township in keeping VI
highway near Bethany. She al
leges that on November IL, 1911
while on her way to Bethany sht
lost a parcel. She got out of tn,
buggy to recover it and in the dark
ness stepped off an embankment oil
the side of the road, breaking tn,
ankle bone in her foot. She ha
never fully recovered from the acci
dent.