The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-07-24

A daughter has been born to
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Emory, of
| Honesdale, at the home of Mrs.
! Emory's mother in Scranton.
Have you made arrangements
] to spend a day or so in Honesdale
during the big celebration here the
latter part of August? If not be
sure and do so for it is going to be
some celebration.
The porch, which for 81 years
has stood in front of Hotel Wayne,
| is in process of repair. The timbers
in the porch have been rotting away
! for many years caused by being
sprinkled every day with hose. A
! new floor and timbers are being put
! in. MIR. Weaver will also give 1t a
fresh coat Of paint.
In the Tribune Republican S
"SCranton's Yesterdays" column,
taken from the same paper 80 years
| ago, it was stated that hay was sell
ing at five and one-half dollars a ton.
| Today the farmer is getting twenty
six to thirty dollars ton for his hay.
Isn't it funny what a difference just
few years make?
The State Railroad Commission
ers will probably not hold another
meeting this month un'ess a reply is
received from the officers of the
Ligonier Valley Railroad company on
the report made on the recent wreck
The report severely criticised the
management of the road for the
fatal accident. In case an answer is
made the commission may take fur
ther action.
On Thursday morning a freight
train pulled into Callicoon, N. Y,
with box car on fire. The fire was
noticed just east of Cochecton and
the train made haste to reach CALI
coon where it pulled under the wa
ter crane. The car was flied with
merchandise and that probably ignit-
ed. The Callicoon fire company came
to the assistance of the train and
succeeded in putting the fire out.
The murcury touched as low as
40 degrees in Honesdale Friday
night and it is stated on good au-
thority that Friday was the coolest
July day in some years. Saturday
was cool but the thermometer rose
tritle According to a local rec |
ord there have been only three days
in twenty years that the tempera-
ture went as low in July. The cause
the continuation of the cold wave |
that swept over the north eastern |
states bringing frost last Thursday |
In accordance with the an
nounCement made more than a |
month ago, the Pennsylvania Rail- |
road trains hauling dining and buff |
fet cars will eliminate strong drinks
from the bill of fare, the order is |
now in effect, and the first trains
without any strong drinks passed |
through Harrisburg last week. 1t .
was at first reported that only the .
Pennsylvania cars would be effected /
by this order, but Pullman cars are
now included, and the order is in eff /
feet on all trains east of Pittsburg.
The following from Wayne
county have filed their second pa
pers for naturalization with Prothono
tary w. j. Barnes: Paul Dieterich,
of Aldenville, born in Saxony, Ger
many; came to America Oct. 80,
1905; final hearing April IA, 1913.
Paul Daugerelo, of Aldenville, ma
tive of Crockey, Russia; came to
New York, May 81, 1904; final hear
ing, April IA, 1913. John Johnson,
of Hawley, native of Fageltofta,
Sweden; arrived at New York March
%, 1905; final eharing April IA,
1913. Nile Johnson, of White Mills,
native of Eda, Sweden; arrived at
New York, April "a, 1903. Final
hearing April IA, 1913.
The work of boring for foun-
dation for the dam site near Haw-
ley was finished on Thursday of last
week. The diamond drill and other
equipment have been shipped to
Sprague & Henwood of Scranton,
who had the contract to do the
work. The boring has been in pro-
gress continuously since the middle
of December and in all twenty-three
holes were bored an average depth
of about sixty feet. The deepest hole
is about ninety feet and the smallest
about forty-iVe feet. About eight
of the holes were drilled on the Pike
county side and the rest on the
Wayne side. In all of these places
the foundations were found fairly
satisfactory and in each case, after
going down a certain depth, solid
rock of sandstone was found.
Frank Finlon, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin Finlon, of Brooklyn
street, who is the superintendent of
Glen Echo Park, Washington, d. c.,
has designed and put into operation
at that place a new form of park
amusement that is rapidly gaining
favor with the people of the capital.
1t is called the Gravity Coaster"
and was designed from the old
gravity railroad between Honesdale
and Olyphart. This amusement was
opened at the early part of the sea-
son and Mr.. Finlon is being compli-
mented on all sides for tho dasipn
and construction of this new coast
err The ride, up and down the
planes and on the level stretches, is
nearly mile long. Mr.. Finlon was
formerly superintendent at Luna
Park, Scranton, and designed several
amusements while at that park.
On Saturday afternoon the ad-
vance guard of Company Z left for
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