The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-02-21
LOCAL NEWS

The Honesdale banks will be
closed Thursday, Washington's birth
day.
There were about % people
from Scranton and Wilkes-Barre
here attending the 24-hour race Sat
urday night.
-Remonstrances have been filed
with Prothonotary w. j. Barnes
against Charles E. Homan, Sterling,
and Michael F. Downs, OF Bucking
ham township. These gentlemen are
applying for licenses for the sale of
liquor.
Miss Isabel Harroun is still very
dangerously i'll of typhoid fever at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Grace
Harroun, on North Main street Miss
Harroun was recently brought to her
home from Philadelphia where she
was first taken sick.
An answer to the challenge OF
the Co. E Basket Ball team has been
received. The Co. E team challenged
any team within a radius OF 100
miles; the Rink team is less than one
mile away and ready to play as soon
as their series with the Alerts is over.
A great many people are having
trouble with frozen water pipes. 1t
is a common thing to see holes in the
streets dug for the purpose OF thaw-
ing them out. The fact that there is
no snow on the ground along with
the extremely cold weather OF late Is
accountable for this. Most of these
pipes are at least four feet under
ground.
j. L. Favreau, of the general
insurance adjustment bureau, of
Scranton, was in Honesdale on Fri
day last and allowed o. NJ. Spettigue
all the insurance he carried on his
store and contents, amounting to
4,O5O. He carried $4,000 on
stock and s5,O5O on the building.
Mr.. Spettigue's actual loss is esti-
mated at about $4,000.
The town council has three men
at their annual job of cutting chan
mel through the ice in Park Lake
between the dam and the bridge.
The ice Is thicker this year than
usual, being "a inches in some
places; in others, where the water is
shallow, it is frozen fast to the bot
tom of the river. If a sudden rain
should come it is very probable that
there would be another food.
Clean up the back yards now.
Every time there is the slightest thaw
clean up the back yard. Remove
the winters accumulation of refuse
at every opportunity. Do not wait
until decay results in foul odors and
the breeding of disease germs. Clean
up. The emphasis cannot be made
400 strong. AS the spring season ap-
Iroaches the dangers from neglected
piles Of refuse increase and it is only
by vigilance on the part of every
householder and every citizen that
\ the continued health of the town can
be assured
The International Sunshine So
ciety, a membership corporation in
corporated under the laws of the
state OF New York in 1900, began
doing the small things in life with
the object simply to incite its mem
| bers to the performances OF kind and
i helpful deeds. The aim was to
"Do the thing that is needed when
II is needed" The association Is de-
voting its work to the education OF
blind children and Is doing a good
work. The work of the society
reaches far and wide. They have
Offices at SO Fifth Avenue, New York
City.
The following ladies comprised
a party that enjoyed an excellent
supper and spent pleasant evening
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II.
Mumford, Dyberry, on Saturday:
Mrs. George B, Osborne, Mrs. Wy
man Kimble, Mrs. J. p. James, Mrs
Wallace Ham, Mrs. f. B. Spencer,
Mrs. T. A. Crossley, Mrs. f. B.
Whitney, Mrs. II. T. Menner. Mrs.
ID. II. Menner, Mrs. f. B. Galloway,
i Misses Nellie Genevieve Kimble,
Rena Edgett, Marion and Grace Will
der, Bessie Swift, Eta Nielsen.
Anna Williams, Carrie Smith, Mabel
| Reed.