The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-13

Save car fare by. purchasing
your merchandise at home.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. ii M. Blake, near Bethany, on
Saturday
Fred Bryant has purchased
1913 model REQ, five passenger tour
ing car of e. w. Gammell.
The supper held at the Bethany
Methodist parsonage Wednesday
| night was largely attended by
Honesdale persons.
Good reports come from Geo.
Buerket, who is now in Washington,
ID. c., in preparatory school, where
he is qualifying himself to enter
West Point.
The many attractive window
displays one sees passing up or down
our main street are sufficient proof
that our merchants put much COM
mercial value to the holidays
Horace Malloy, who spent a few
days in the county Jail for being in
toxicated and disorderly on the
streets, and who was released Mon
day was again brought before Bur-
CESS c. A. McCarty on Tuesday. He
was released after having signed the
pledge.
There is possibility of another
passenger train being operated up
on the Honesdale branch of the Del
aware and Hudson railroad when
the Criminal Insane Hospital at
Farview is opened. The increased
traffic on the branch gives founda-
tion to this rumor.
Charles Ettinger, who for the
past few years has been car repairer
for the Erie and Delaware and Hud-
son companies at this place, has
been transferred to Dunmore. This
made a vacancy, which was filled by
Fred Whitaker, Delaware and
Hudson freight platform employe.
Fred Wilmore has succeeded Mr..
Whitaker.
"A kerosene lamp exploded in
the home of Frederick j. Walter on
River street Tuesday evening about
10 O'Clock and caused small
blaze which was soon extinguished
without much damage being done
One of the members of the family
seized the lamp and threw it out of
| doors. The woodwork and curtains
caught fire but were smothered by
a rug. No one of the family was
seriously injured, other than a few
| burns on the hands received when
extinguishing the fire.
At a meeting of the Business
Mems Association held last We'd
| nesday evening the committee ap-
pointed to make ARRANGEMENTS upon
abolishing the meter rents reported
that they had waited upon the
| Electric Light company and made
satisfactory arrangements for the
/ discontinuance of said gas and cleo
tricity meter rents. The matter of
merchants purchasing tickets, and
supporting organizations and the
like in the way of donations, etc,
was discussed but no definite action
was taken. Committees were ap-
pointed to wait upon the merchants
and business men of Honesdale re-
garding the matter.
President H. F. Gurney, of the
Gurney Electric Elevator company of
this place, met with the board of
| directors of that institution on Tues
day afternoon to consider business
propositions pertaining to the old
plant, where elevators are now being
built. 1t was the concensus of opin-
ion of the board that it wanted to
manufacture the best article possible
when the shop would become va
Gated. Mr.. Gurney told a Citizen
/ representative that he had two or
three good propositions in view, but
that the board had not decided upon
any as yet. The prospects for Homes
dale are exceedingly bright. 1t is
possible that the proposed new in
dustry will by no means be a small
one.
A petition is being circulated
| by w. H. Dunn, of Beachlake, for the
establishing of a state highway un-
der the provisions of the Sproul bill
| between Indian Orchard and Mar
rowsburg. A state road is already
laid out between Honesdale and In
ian Orchard and the proposed piece
of highway between that point and
! the Delaware valley covers a dis.
tance of about twelve miles. This
is unquestionably one of the most
extensively Travelled highways in
Wayne county. The petition is nu-
merously signed by residents both of
Wayne county and Sullivan county.
In order to secure this piece of road
as state highway, an amendment
to the Sproul act will have to be
passed by the coming session of the
legislature.