The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-12
LOCAL NEWS

Traces of frost were seen in
parts of Wayne county Saturday,
Sunday and Monday morning.
The county commissioners of
Lackawanna county have purchased
a touring car to be used by the coun-
ty officials for county purposes.
Damascus people are very pro-
gressive and in that section of the
county it would be hard indeed to
find a farmer who is behind with his
work.
Congressman w. ID. B. Ainey,
an alumnus of Lehigh University,
vii deliver the alumni address before
that body at the annual banquet on
Tuesday, June II.
The fiftieth anniversary of Mil
ford Lodge, F. and A. NJ, occurs on
June "a. Several members of the
local lodge, Hawley and Ariel lodges
are planning to attend
Don't forget to pay your mer-
camille tax, which was due May 1st
You can save justice costs by set
tling in full before July /, the last
day for payment of same.
Fred Gieher, one of Honesdale's S
most popular tailors, is tearing down
his old residence on West street, and
expects to build a new, modern resi-
dence on the old site. Edward
Pierce, of Carbondale, has the con-
tract for the work and will begin as
soon as possible.
A delegation representing Free
dom Lodge of Odd Fellows attended
the funeral of Delbert Mcintyre
Beachlake, a member of the local
lodge, who was buried on Monday.
The Odd Fellows had charge of the
services at the grave. Interment
was made at Indian Orchard.
"A rousing Board of Trade meet
ing is looked forward to on Friday
evening of this week. Every mem
Der of the board should be present.
If you are interested in your town,
and every public-spirited citizen
ought to be, come and learn what
the Board of Trade is doing for the
town.
Thomas Jordan and George Mil
Ter, of Carbondale, recently caught a
fine string of bullheads from Lake
Lodore. Among the number caught
were four catfish that weighed 20
pounds. We always knew there
were some big ones in that lake,
but there are bigger ones" told
about them.
The Thirteenth regiment, of
which Company E is a unit, made an
excellent record on rife range last
season. The annual report accounts
for 72S members of the regiment
with a figure of 1920, as compared
with S5.47 for the previous year.
Eighty-one men qualified as expert
2S7 as marksmen.
Changes of revolutionary
character are to be made in the mo-
tive power of the Lackawanna rail-
road involving the re-equipment of
it's present locomotives and an initial
expenditure of close to 100000 for
engines of a new and distinct type
which will work a reduction in the
cost of fuel and add materially to
the tractive power of the company's
engines.
The school directors of Berlin
township have voted in favor of
erecting a new two-room school
building, thereby replacing three
separate school buildings in the
township. The proposed school will
be built at Beachlake and under the
provisions of the new school code
law. The rooms will be for primary
and grammar pupils use. Architect
II. f. Weaver has drawn plans for
the proposed new school.
The Citizen takes pleasure in
presenting to its readers a full re-
port of class exercises, which occur
red in the High school auditorium
on Monday night of this week, to-
gether with Rev. A. l.. Whittaker's S
baccalaureate sermon to the class of
1912. There will be an extra edi-
tion published and every graduate
and his or her friends can have
copies by coming to this office. This
is the largest class to graduate from
the school and everybody will want
a picture of the class. Get the
Citizen and it will furnish you with
a complete story of commencement
week as well as a picture of the
graduating class and faculty of the
High school.
M. f. Simons, district attorney
OF Wayne county, while on his way
home from Binghamton, n. Y, in
his new auto, a four-passenger Ford,
met with a serious accident about
seven miles from Herrick Center on
Friday. Mr.. Simons was driving the
car anu MI D AoIAiOhS '" "S "AoC IL
the auto at the time of the accident
Near Herrick Center, on turning up
a narrow road on his way TO Homes
dale, he discovered that he had TAX
en- the wrong road home and at
tempted to turn around, and in so
doing the car ran off the embank-
ment into a ditch where IL was COM
pletely turned over, pinning the oc-
cupants underneath 1t. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Simons escaped with very
slight bruises and returned to Homes
dale on Friday evening. Their car
brought home by the managers OF
local garage.