The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-23
Did you hear the thunder We'd
nesday night?

Did you hear the thunder We'd
nesday night?
Hear DR.. Cook, the explorer, at
the Lyric Monday night.
The new bungalow OF Conductor
Ward of the ID. & II. line, is nearing
completion.
Spencer Bros. have rented the
store in the Lyric building, recently
made vacant by the Electric Light
company.
%. NJ. Spettigue will also occupy
the third floor in the Ref building
in connection with the three floors of
his own building.
The Rev. A. l.. Whitaker will
hold services at the Indian Orchard
school house, Sunday, Feb. 25, $3.50
p. m. All are invited
-Invocavit, Feb %, at st. Johns
Evangelical Lutheran church, Rev.
G.. c. Miller, pastor. Chief service
Gedevke! Vesper service-The
Royal Entry.
Green's Novelty store window is
appropriately trimmed for Washing
tons birthday. 1t was decorated by
Frank Green who Is an artistic win
dow decorator.
Mrs. Henry Inch, Waymart, re-
ceived word of the death of her moth
er, Mrs. Hannah Day, of South Ca
naan. She was eighty-nine years of
age. The funeral took place last
Sunday.
S. f. Morrison recently thawed
out IL feet of frozen water pipe in
1 / minutes with a steam apparatus.
1t has been kept busy night and day
in performing the functions for
which it was invented.
Herman Myer, proprietor of the
Oak Cafe, is in Scranton. 1t is ru-
mored that parties are negotiating
for his place of business here and
that he also proposes making a
change in the near future.
Wayne County Pomona will
meet with Harvest Grange at Maple
wood on Wednesday evening, Feb.
2S. All grange reports should be re-
turned Immediately to r.. E. Kins-
man, secretary, Honesdale.
At 7:30 o'clock Saturday even
ing, Feb. "a, quarterly conference of
the NJ. K. church at Waymart will be
held in the church parlors. 1t is
necessary that all the officials be
present to conclude the business of
the fiscal years.
C. S. Weston, of Scranton, a
member of the board of directors of
the First National Bank for several
years, was elected to the Office of
vice-president of that institution on
Monday afternoon at regular meet
ing of the directors.
Rev. B. P. Ripley, of Hawley,
a n rasSad tho nnntiDrr nf Mot holds
Clergy at Scranton on Monday and
spoke on the Personal Habits That
Hinder" The meeting was compos-
ed of ministers of the Scranton dis
trict and met in the Myrtle street
church.
On Monday evening a sleighride
party went to Hawley and had
delightful time. The party was COM
posed of Misses Loretta Murray,
Marcella Duff, Mae McGraw, Loretta
Rickert, Gertrude Duff, Regina Muir
ray, Agatha McGraw and Lucy
Murtha.
Wedding announcements have
been received in Honesdale from Mr..
and Mrs. William Henry Stephens,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, telling their
friends of the marriage of their eld-
est daughter, Grace Amy, to Alfred
William Greener, which occurred on
Tuesday, February 20. The bride
! was a former resident of Honesdale.
Her many friends and relatives here
extend congratulations.
BENZ njamin Loris, whose death
! occurred on Tuesday morning, and of
which an account was given in this
paper of Wednesday, was a sufferer
| from loss of sight and had only one
arm, caused from the exploding of a
gun in firing a salute at the funeral
of Captain Joseph Loeven, on Feb.
| Is, 1867. To show respects to the
| departed captain who was a favorite
around this place at that time, it
was decided to fire salute over his
grave. He was in command of ar
| tillery so the salute was to be fired
| from an old canon. The piece was
manned by Ben Jamin Loris, Anthony
Boas and John Bales. Mr.. Loris
handled the long ramrod with which
! the charge was to be tamped Mr..
Bales was assigned the duty of hold
ing a finger over the vent of the
gun, which was necessary to prevent
premature discharge. Loris was
putting in a charge in the ancient
gun, when Bales removed his finger
| from Lne vent on account Vi Ine lIon
becoming hot. The gun doomed on
the instant, blowing away the right
arm of the late Mr.. Loris and at the
same time it destroyed his sight, so
that of late years he was just able
to distinguish darkness from day
! light. The funeral services were
held in st. Mary Magdalen's church
on Friday morning at 10 o'clock,
Rev. DR.. Balta, officiating. Inter-
ment was made in the German Cath