The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-04-26
LOCAL NEWS

night by the Jolly Phil Maher Co.
beginning May 4th the dentists
OF town will observe Saturday half
holiday.
The first May flowers of the
season were picked by many pleasure
seekers on Sunday. One party had
a small bunch of arbutus.
According 10 a Iasnion authority
styles in women's hats this year are
to be more sensible" Going to
raise garden truck on them?
A scientist claims to have dis
covered 1S,9S3,432 microbes on a
dollar bill. Probably he included
those who died of old age while he
was counting.
The Rink Five defeated the Ger
man Catholic club Friday night last
on the latter's floor in a rather
strenuous game, whose chief char
acteristic was roughness. Score, 2l
to IA.
In the past few days the Ameri-
can Locomotive company has taken
orders for fourteen locomotives for
shipment to Brazil, an order for
eight engines coming from the Cen
trail Railway of Brazil and six for the
Bohia Manas.
sections of Illinois and Indiana
had a severe tornado on Sunday
night. Seventy-two persons were
killed, two hundred injured, one
hundred houses demolished and ST.
100000 in property damage done as
a result of the storm. Alabama had
a cyclone Monday doing much dam
age.
The Crystal Cut Glass company
have moved their equipment from
the Farnham building, Westside
avenue, into the company's newly
purchased factory on Fourteenth
street. Operations will commence
this week with twenty frames all of
which will be confined to the first
floor.
John Mackin, sixty years old,
was burned TO death early Saturday
morning when fire practically de-
stroyed the Orpheum theatre, on
Front street, Port Jeryis, n. Y. The
dead man was the janitor of the
building and acted as night watch
man, being accustomed to sleep in
the building.
Not only school children ought
to get one of the booklets recon-
mended by Superintendent j. j.
Koehler, but every business man,
Stenographer and others should
have one on his or her desk. Only
five cents, postpaid for six cents.
Address Citizen Publishing Com
pany, HOnesdale, Pa.
Leo Campbell, formerly of this
place, who for some time has been
associated with Clarke Bros stores,
Scranton, has accepted a position as
manager of one of j. d. Williams
stores in that city. Mr.. Campbell s
many Honesdale friends will be elat-
ed to learn that he has secured this
good situation and wish him un-
bounded success.
On Sunday afternoon about
o'clock viii Riefler's automobile
driven by Miss Dorothy Riefer, ran
into the carriage of Frank Mang
who was accompanied by Henry
Qunlan, and badly wrecked both We
! hicles. The accident occurred neal
the residence of c. w. Dein. An
other carriage was descending the
hill and the Riefer automobile was
!, coming toward Honesdale. Miss
Refer saw that she could not GO
between the two vehicles so she ap'
piled the brakes but they failed &c
wheel of Mangs buggy and stopped
The auto contained five passengers
but no one was hurt.
Hon. A. T. Searle, president
judge of Wayne county, who heard
the Lackawanna county tipstaff case
handed down his decision on Mon.
day in favor of Thomas Law and
Henry Wetter. 1t had been the Gus.
tom in Lackawanna county for up,
wards of twenty years for the judges
to appoint men to look after the
janitorship of the chambers, court
rooms and jury rooms. Prior tC
twenty years ago the county com,
missioners used to make the ap,
pointment, but it happened thai
some of the men did not fulfill theil
duties as they should and the com
missioners handed over the ap-
pointment to the court. In discuss
ing the law in the case Judge Searlt
found that the act of 1884 gives the
court power to appoint tipstaffs, ant
the court is the sole judge of th'
ha