The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-24

| the White Mills bakery. He VIII
take possession May 1.
! A display advertisement in The
Citizen will sell your merchandise.
Try it and be convinced
Hancock experienced a $4,000
fire last Monday, when a storage
building and three barns were de-
stroyed.
A marriage license has been
granted to Raymond X. Johnson and
Miss Pearl |. Lord, both of Bing
hamton. N. Y.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. f. w.
Fogwell. Birmingame, Kansas, son.
| The mother was formerly Miss Kate
Brady, of this place.
The Young Mems Guild of st.
Johns church will hold a banquet
on Wednesday evening in the
church parlors.
Ground was broken Saturday
| for W. b. Holmes new garage and
store house on East street. The
building will be 32x72 feet and will
be of brick.
lightning recently damaged the
| home of Henry Soden, Starrucca. 1t
was covered by insurance carried in
| Fire Insurance company.
DO you konw the value of The
! Citizens columns for advertising
! purposes? Phone us your cent-a
word ads. We have both the Bell,
1871, and Consolidated 1O1.
"A number OF improvements are
| contemplated being made on the
! Honesdale-TeXas Aims House at
! Berlin. The poor board is in ses
sion this Tuesday afternoon.
The d. & H. R. r. Co. is erect
! ing a new depot at Prompton of the
! Bungalow type and when completed
will be the envy of all the stations
| between Hubbard's and Honesdale.
B. l.. Holbert, proprietor of the
| Ready Pay Store, has filed a petition
in voluntary bankruptcy in the Mid
! die District of Pennsylvania in the
United States court. Liabilities, ST.
53G20; assets, s145S.50.
Fred Zwick, plumber in the
! employe of o. NJ. Spettigue, sprained
| his right ankle in the basement of
the new store Monday morning. He
was removed to his boarding house
! by his landlord, F. w. Bunnell.
Miss Hazel France, of Hollister-
vile, and Irvan Kimble, of Moscow,
were united in marriage on We'd
nesday last at the home of Mr.. and
! Mrs. Charles France at Hollister-
ville Rev. J. d. Frey, of Madison
vile officiating.
In recent article published in
| The Citizen the altitude of Homes
/ dale was given as 1872 feet 1t
! should have read 972 feet. The
| transposition of the first two fig
ures made this fair town 200 feet
! lower than she is.
The Young Mems Guild of st.
| Johns Lutheran church are making
| big preparations for their annual
! banquet to be held on Wednesday
evening. Rev. l. c. Hoffman, of
Philadelphia, Homer Greene and w.
! w. Wood will be the speakers.
David Noyes while in the Gem
etery, Sunday afternoon, was seized
with an attack of coughing. He was
! lying upon the ground and unable to
gain his equilibrium, his lower limbs
being affected. The bus was sent
! for, but when it arrived Mr.. Noyes
| had recovered.
Captain c. ]. Kelley, of Com
pany E, has received orders from
| headquarters to take an inventory of
| ammunition, ETC., and send a requisi-
tion for supplies. Captain Kelley has
compiled with the request. He de-
sires ten more recruits at once and
| should a call come, so more men
will be wanted.
The remains of Mrs. Robert
! Knapp, of MiddletoWn, n. Y, will
! be brought to Honesdale, Wednes-
day, for interment. The deceased
was a former resident of Honesdale
and the widow of Robert Knapp who
at one time lived at Prompton. One
| daughter, Mrs. Helen Hyde, of
Middletown, n. Y, survives.
After an illness of only five days
Frank Holbert died at his home in
Equinunk Sunday, April IA, death
resulting from pneumonia. Deceas-
ed, who was aged II years, is surviv-
ed by his wife. His remains were
| taken to LackawaXen where the fun
eral service and interment took
place. Deceased was an uncle of
! Fred R. Holbert of Hancock, who
with his wife, attended the funeral.
Hancock Herald
Senator Nelson, chairman of the
senate commerce commission, an
nounced on Friday of last week a
subcommittee which will make an
! investigation of the Titanic ship
wreck and plans for making safer
ocean travel, provided by the resolu-
! tion of Senator William Alden Smith,
| passed by the Senate on Thursday
last. The subcommittee consists of
Smith (Rep. Mich.) Perkins (Rep.,
! Cali Bourne (Rep., Ore); Burton
! CRep.. Ohio); Simmons Dem, n.
| c.; Newlands CDem., NebD; Fletch-
er CDem., Fla.)
Miss Vera Murray entertained
twelve of her young lady friends at
| her home last Thursday night in
honor of her birthday. During the
evening cards were played and
prizes were awarded to Miss Harriet
Arnold and Miss Mary Reardon.
! Delicious refreshments were sery-
ed, the table being daintily decorat-
ed Those presnt We're: Misses Mary
and Vera Reardon, Florence Ell
dred, Harriet Arnold, Gertrude