The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-26

on Dunkleberg's windows this morn
ing?
Charles II. Dorflinger, White
Mills, has purchased a new 30
jackson seven-passenger touring
car.
w. j. Ref received $500 in
surance on stock and $4,000 on
building Thursday morning, the loss
being paid in full.
About eight weeks of cold wave
predictions are due us. In the mean
time we may be able to enjoy little
of that new maple sugar.
Frank Warfeld, a leading Off
cial of the Central Railroad company,
dropped dead at Hecla Station while
returning with friends from a coun-
try dinner.
Another case of measles is re-
ported in Honesdale and the home of
Mrs. Allan Carr, on corner of Fifth
and South Main streets, has been
closed by quarantine.
Sylvia Neville, executrix of es-
! tate of the late Thomas Neville,
! transferred Sc acres in Sterling
township to Antoni Toelinz, consid-
Grafton being $4,000.
-Milanville has an opening for a
good physician, as there is no one
| there practicing regularly and peo-
| pie of that community are desirous
of having a resident physician.
! Joseph Strassner, who for II
years has had his tailor shop in the
Reitenauer building, Main street,
! will remove the contC4ts to his home
on Church street in a few days.
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Preparations are being made for
the annual Martha Washington sup
| per and bazaar, which will be served
! by the ladies of the Presbyterian
church, Thursday afternoon and
evening, February %.
The United States Governmen
at Pittsburg, began l 6 suits against
the Erie Railroad company to re-
cover $4,000 penalty for keeping
firemen employed during longer con-
secutiye hours than the law permit
The fire insurance adjusters
have settled with J. A. Bodie, Sr.,
for $1,000 that amount being the in
surance he carried upon the contents
of his studio. 1t is claimed that 9TH
er losses will be paid in full today.
The University of Paris is the
ldl StSI univ NeISlly III Lue WOTlu WIFI
1000 students. Carlo is next with
900, and st. Petersburg, 5000 Co.
lumbia University has 5000 stu
dents.
The death of Olive Calkin, oc-
CURED on Sunday evening at the
home of her sister-inlaw, Mrs. Sarah
Calkins at Fosterdale, n. Y. The
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church on Wednesday afternoon and
interment was made in Milanville
cemetery.
E. H. Cortright, manager of the
roller rink, has offered the rink for a
benefit game of basket ball to be
played between Seelyville and Homes
dale. The total receipts of the even
ing will go to Mrs. George j. Berg
mann. The offer was made last
Tuesday night to the fremen by Mr..
Cortright.
Capt. julius Silgreaves, a Con-
federate veteran, seventy-four years
old, whose company was in the attack
at Fort Sumter in 1861, and who
was credited by some with having
fired the first gun on the fort, died
suddenly while sitting at his editorial
desk in the office of an art publiCa-
ton, on Tuesday
Miss Nettie Ham, of Beach Lake
and John Haggerty, of White Mills,
were married Wednesday afternoon
at o'clock by Rev. c. c. Miller,
pastor of st. John Evangelical Lu-
theran church, Honesdale. The
couple was attended by Fred Hagger-
ty, brother of the bridegroom, and
Miss Erma Ham, sister of the bride
!, The couple will go to housekeeping in
, the Ham homestead.
: Palmer Robacker, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. f. Robacker, of Dreher
and Miss Angie Biesecker only
daughter of Horace Biesecker, OF
Paradise, Monroe county, were mar.
= ried on Wednesday of last week The
, marriage was held at the home oi
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Seig, grand.
: parents of the bride and groom
, Rev. Edmund Schwarz, pastor of the
! MOravian church officiated.
} A narrow guage railroad is being
built from Burnt Mill" a short dis
tance above ClemO on the Scranton
5 branch of the Wyoming division O.
= the Erie railroad, to No. IS plane O
the old Pennsylvania railroad The
I road will be about four miles Ions
! and will be used to convey Goa
| screenings and siftings from plane Is
to Burnt Mill. At the latter place
, shoots will be erected and the Goa
= refuse will be loaded from the small
= dumps into larger cars on the Erie
= railroad, 1t is claimed that Scran
ton men are interested in the pro
g jeCt.
e -Edtor b. f. Haines and Jane
Y c. Birdsall left Thursday noon to at
. tend the funeral of Mrs. George w
! Twitmyer, in Wilmington, Del, whicl
. will be held Friday afternoon. Tn,
=. deceased was the beloved wife o
Y Prof. G. w. Twitmyer, who for man,
s years was principal of the Honesdal
S public schools. No particulars hav
e been received regarding Mrs. Twit
{ myers sudden death. Besides he
/, husband, three sons, e. b. Twitmyer
n of University of Pennsylvania, Phila
S delphia, and Joseph and George, o
Buffalo, y. Y, survive. Fuller par
t. ticulars in our next issue.
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