The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-14
Surveying for Big Power Reservoir.

Surveying for Big Power Reservoir.
Eight surveyors are at Shohola
Falls, Pike county, said to be pre-
pairing for the proposed reservoir
about three miles square and 40 to
so feet deep. the water to be used for
the generation of electrical power.
1t is said Pennsylvania capitalists are
financing the scheme. The prelimi-
nary surveys we're made last winter
by City Engineer Irving RICHTER Of
Port Jervis and County Surveyor
Frank Schorr of Pike county. The
falls are 500 feet above Shohola.
Miss Mary James of Bohemia kill
ed a rattler six feet long one day
recently. She is certainly the boss
snake killer around here. Hardly a
week passes during the summer
without her putting one or more
snakes out of existence. She has
killed so many of one kind or an
other since the warm weather began
that she has lost count of them
Milford Dispatch.
The Seven Day Baptist church at
Uniondale has been an imposing fig
ure in the Burdick settlement for
more than a half century. The Bur-
dick fathers were wont to worship
there and they have long since passed
the way of the world. The second
and third generations declined to
bold the peculiar faith of their faith
ers and the edifice was closed several
years ago except in case of funerals.
1t was the closing that induced E. B.
Saunders, of Ashway, R. l., who is
secretary of the Seventh Day Baptist
Missionary society, to make use of
the material. A gang of men have
been at work the past week razing
it and getting it ready for trans
portation to New Era, N. j., where it
will be rebuilt and used as mission
chapel for Italians.
A sad accident occurred, Thursday,
to little Fred Howell, son of Herbert
Howell, of Gibson township. He
went to the field after a horse, when
he received injuries resulting in his
death on Sunday. His absence was
noted by his mother and after an in
term of nearly two hours, search
was instituted. He was found un-
conscious with his head bleeding pro-
fusely. He had been kicked by a
the head literally crushed.-Forest
City News.
A sad accident which drew forth
the sympathy of the community oc-
Cured on Thursday afternoon, be-
tween five and six o'clock, when
Bruce, the seven-year-old son of
Contractor and Mrs. E. A. Bloxham,
was instantly killed and John, the
little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony
Zaller, had his right leg broken.
These boys with several companions
were playing ball in the road be-
tween the BloXham plant and the
Erie station. The two boys were
waiting their turn to bat and seat
ed themselves on a couple of planks
at the base of a pile of 6x4 plank. |
Several other children were playing
on top of the lumber and it is pre-
sumed that their movements unbal- |
anced the pile and three layers top
derneath, completely burying them !
from view. Wesley Budd ran to tell |
Mrs. Bloxham, his mother, of the ac-
cident and they with some neighbors |
uncovered the little fellows and |
found one dead and the other writh-
ing in pain. One of the heavy sticks |
had fractured the skull of Bruce |
Bloxham and death was undoubted-
ly instantaneous.
At the July meeting of the Board |
of Directors of the Northeastern |
Oan nc vl " nj
committee composed of Prof. G. A. |
Stearns, of Kingsley, w. E. Perham,
Niagara, E. A. Smith, Heart Lake, |
G. E. Gardner, Esq, and F. r. Geld
er, of Forest City, were appointed to !
make a revision of the bylaws and |
report to the next annual meeting of |
the stockholders of the company in
January.
Possibly no announcement that has
been made in Christ Episcopal |
church, Stroudsburg, was received !
with the same degree of regret as
that which was given out on Sunday |
that the popular, dearly loved rec
tor, Rev. II. BroWnlee Smith, had re-
signed on the first of August, to take
effect the first of September. He is
can desire to have, one
1t is hard to let go. But he has a
place that has fine inducements at
Hull's Cove, a prominent summer re-
sort of Maine, the parish being
Church of the Father of Hulrs Cove,
with a beautiful rectory all furnish
ed. The church is endowed
Monroe Record.
Hay Fair, Corn Failed.
Haying is a thing OF the past.
While the crop is not a record break
or it is much better than last year.