The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-18

The Citizen has received a
number of complimentary remarks
concerning our Christmas edition,
which we issued last Friday.
Thanks.
The business at the postoffice is
commencing to assume the proper
tions which are the despair of the
clerks. People are sending pack
ages away by the hundreds and there
are all kinds and sizes. Somehow
or other, the evening appears to be
the popular time to ship stuff away
by post.
"A person who sends a Christ
mas gift by mail and does not ad-
dress 1t plainly had better save his
money and not send it at all. Post
master General Hitchcock announces
that last year more than $1,000 holi-
day gifts were sent to the dead letter
office. There are a good many fool
ways of spending money, but one of
the most foolish is to send a Christ
mas present to the dead letter office.
Pennsylvania will be well taken
care of at the Panama-Pacific EXPOSE
tion in San Francisco in 1915 If the
plans of the commission executive
committee, which met in Philadel-
phia last week are carried out The
committee will ask the next legisla-
ture for an appropriation of not over
100000 so that it may erect fit
ting building and make appropriate
exhibits. The State spent quarter
of a million and more at Chicago and
100000 at st. Louis.
The case of Earl Benton of Apex
VS.. the Erie Railroad was called for
trial at Monticello Tuesday of last
week. Edward Doolittle of Hancock
was one of the witnesses for the
plaintiff. Mr.. Benton was return
ing from Deposit one night a year
ago last summer, and while crossing
the Erie tracks a short distance east
of Deposit, ditched his auto. Before
he could get it out of the way
freight train struck and smashed the
machine. The suit is for the pur-
pose of recovery for damages.
-Inez Citizen, aged six years, of
Pittston, died on Friday last as the
result of being accidentally shot by
her 11-year-old brother. Recently
the little tot was playfully coaxing
her brother to play with her. The
Gazette reports the sad shooting as
follows: Sister, if you don't stop
teasing me, I'll shoot you," he said,
and pointed his Flobert rife at the
child. The boy had loaded it and
forgotten that important factor.
The weapon was discharged and the
bullet struck the child in the neck.
She was rushed to the Pittston hos
pital, where she was nursed back on
the road to recovery before her
mother, Mrs. Mary Gitzen( took her
home about a week ago. A few days
ago pneumonia set in and death re-
suited.
Clarence d. Fortnam, proprie-
tor of Farview Stock Farm at Tyler
Hill, recently purchased a $1,000
bull calf of the Fred F. Field
Holstein Company, of Brockton,
tered Holstein cattle. This calf's
sire was the famous 100000 bull
whose daughters are breaking all
records every few weeks in produc-
ing butter and milk. His dam is a
daughter of the famous Pietertje
Hengeroed Count De Kol, the only
sire who has sired IA daughters to
produce 100 pounds of milk in one
day and 80 pounds of butter in seven
days. The fourteen nearest official
ly tested dams in this young calfs
pedigree have records averaging 26
to 80 pounds of butter in seven days
and "a pounds of milk in one day.
This combination is very rarely
found in a herd sire. Calves sired
by this royal youngster will bring
high prices in the sale ring. Thomas
D. Griffith, proprietor of the Tyler
farm, near Tyler Hill, has taken a
share in this youngster.