The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-11-20

The first snow of the season
covered the ground Sunday morn
ing.
Parcels post will be installed
in the Honesdale and other postof-
fees in the United States January
1st next.
Charles Spry, of Laurella, has
purchased the William Ives store
and dwelling at Beach Lake. Mr..
Ives and family will move into the
dwelling vacated by Miss Dunn and
Roy Spry.
On Thursday, November 21st,
the Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church of Scranton district will meet
at the Asbury church, Scranton.
Basket lunch.
Doyle Hummell, of Phillips
burg, killed a twenty-seven pound
wild turkey few days ago near
Martha Furnace and took home with
him bunch of honeysuckle bios
SONS found on the mountain.
The last will and testament of
Elizabeth A. Bennett, late of Homes
dale, was filed in the Recorders Of
flee last Thursday. Letters Of ad-
ministration applied for Emerson w.
Gammell and Lottie Bennett.
The Honesdale Free library will
be open to the public every Tuesday
and Friday afternoon from 3 to
o'clock. 1t is hoped that the library
will be patronized. There are
number of good books in the IL
brary.
A large steam shovel weighing
n n W
ley last week by the Hawley Coal
Company. 1t was unloaded and
taken to the place above there
where the company is loading cars
with culm.
Work on the erection of a ma
chine shop to cover 1900 feet of
floor space, as an addition to the
Williamsport plant of the National
Foundry company, has been begun
and will be rushed. Further extern
sion is contemplated.
There will be something doing
all day at Prompton on Thursday,
Nov 21. At noon there will be a
chicken dinner. In the afternoon
a fair and lunch at $3.50. In the
evening the Honesdale Glee choir
will entertain. w. B. Lesher will
also Tecite.
In one of the little farm towns
in Pennsylvania they have set the
hens working for the church. Every
member of the local Methodist
church has agreed to contribute
every egg laid on a Sunday. The
returns the first day would seem to
indicate that the hens understood
and approved
The Milford property was sold
at Sheriffs sale at the Pike County
Court House, the purchaser being A.
d. Seaver, of Brooklyn, one of the
judgment creditors. The price bid
was $3.50, but the property is still
subject to the claim of S9,4O4 held
by the Wayne County Savings Bank.
-Stroudsburg Press.
The last day for filing campaign
expenses by candidates in this dis
trict was Wednesday, Nov. 13. MIR.
Joel G. Hill, candidate for congress,
has filed his expense account. The
expenditures were as follows: Print
ing and advertising, S205; hotel
carfare, auto and livery hire, $251,-
so; county chairman, $500; total,
$S56.S0.
The following letters remain
uncalled for in the Honesdale post
office, weeking ending November IS,
1912: Ralph Altano (two), Orrin
Bishop, John M. Boyers, Mrs. K.
Branning, j. Allen Enana, NJ. Wern-
berg, Jonas Westfield, Lee Williams
NJ. b. Allen postmaster. In calling
for any of the above please say "ad-
vertised."
The Catholic Club, of Scranton,
will be the Maple City's Five oppon-
ents at basket ball next Saturday
evening at the rink. The game will
be called at $3.50 sharp. Skating
before and after the game. The
lineup is a strong one and is claim
ed to be second to none in the Elec-
tric City. A most exciting and inter-
esting game is promised.
In our last issue we made three
typographical errors in our report of
the teachers institute and we wish
to correct these errors because they
were of such a nature as to entirely
change the meaning of the sentences
in which they occurred. We there
fore give them correctly as they
were given US by the reporter. In
Hon. MIR. Ainey's speech 1.-THE honor
of war; should read the horror OF
war" In DR.. McFarlane's descrip-
ton of a trip across the Rocky
Mountains the account should read
I'VE climb and climb and sin drops
behind" In Supt. Tietrick's discus
sion, "A Law of Teaching" a SEN
tence should stand: 1T is not fair
to magnify the weaknesses of the
children and hold them up before
them"
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