The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-16

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story.
The Red Men will hold their in
stallation of officers at their hall this
evening and it will be followed by a
banquet.
"A marriage license was issued
| in Scranton on Thursday last to
Raymond j. Kleckner and Miss
Florence c. Watson, both of Homes
! dale.
The Knockers Club gave Mrs.
Geo. p. Ross party in honor OF her
birthday on Monday evening. After
playing Five Hundred, dainty re-
| freshments were enjoyed.
The Whatsoever Circle of the
Methodist church realized over $50
| from the rummage sale which they
conducted in the Penwarden building
during the past few days.
Allen Lawrence, of Scranton,
| has announced a sale of farming
! implements and stock at the Law
renee farm, one mile north of Beth
any, at 1880 p. m. on Wednesday,
October 80.
Mr.. Farmer, you are one of the
majority of voters of the country, and
you are to decide the result of the
election. Are you going to endanger
your present prosperity by making a
change? Why change?
Shall we have four years of Will
sons untried theories, or four years
of Roosevelt's radicalism and re-
venge, or shall we have a continua-
tion of the safe and businesslike
policies of President Taft?
stephen Robbins, of Jermyn, a
former resident of near Fortenia,
this county, was killed in some un-
known manner Sunday evening near
his late home in Jermyn. He is sur
vived by his wife and six children.
Charles Weinberg, of White
Mills, who has been in Corning, N.
Y, for the past three months, Is
visiting his parents there. He will
go from there to Somerville, Mass,
where he has obtained employment.
Court convened at 2 O'Clock
Monday afternoon and the members
of the Wayne county bar were pres
ent to discuss the cases to come be-
fore the court week after next for
trial. There will be seven common
wealth cases and seven trial cases to
come before the October term of
court.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Schiess-
Ter of East Extension street, cele-
brated their 25th wedding anniver-
sary on Monday evening by enter
tanning about 35 of their neighbors
and friends. After a very pleasant
evening, dainty refreshments were
served. The Citizen congratulates
Mr. and Mrs. Schiessler and wishes
them another 20 years of happy
wedlock.
The basket ball game advertis-
ed last Saturday night as the open
ing game of the season, was only
a preliminary, or sort of a practice,
game between two teams of little ex-
perience who called themselves the
Rink Five Juniors and the Defend
ers. The former team won by the
score of 9 to 3. The real opening of
the basket ball season will be about
October 25th when the Maple City
Five" last years Rink Five" will
probably battle against Taylor last
years champions of Laekawanna
and Luzerne counties. The Maple
City Five have arranged to rent the
Rink outright on the nights they
play basket ball, not being employ
ed by the Rink management this
year.
During the past week work at
the Elevator site has progressed ra-
pidly. The north, east and west walls
of the main shop foundation of the
building is completed and the first
course of brick has been laid upon
these walls. The interior column
footings are ready for the structural
steel work and grading the shop
floor is now being done. All except
two footings for the building in the
main shop, which is 212x160 feet,
have been dug and columns erected.
Some difficulty has been experienced
by water in digging, but by means
OF a steam cyphon the water is with
drawn without any difficulty and
much easier and faster than by hand
pump. The sills for the factory are
being constructed of concrete. They
are faced with white cement and
sand and give the appearance of
sand stone.
Philip Bartlett, formerly of
Prompton, was arrested in Homes
dale on Monday morning by Officer ].
j. Canivan, charged with deserting
his wife and family and making
away with the formers horse and
DuSSy dI west damascus on the 22d
OF September last. A hearing of the
case was held in Squire Robert A.
Smiths office at the court house on
Monday afternoon. Peter II. Iloff,
attorney, represented the plaintiff.
After hearing the evidence Bartlett
was committed to jail, having failed
to put up the required amount of
bail. Mrs. Bartlett alleges that on
September 22, her husband desert
ed her and her six children and went
off taking with him a horse and
buggy belonging to her. She brought
the action to recover the horse but
as Bartlett has probably sold the
horse no trace of its present owner
can be found. The case will prob
ably go to court.
The Honesdale Consolidated
Electric Light, Heat and Power
Company have ordered two lighting