The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-07-03

lHe aln WllH JeTnyH.
The Merry Hearts leave to-
morrow for a ten days camping at
Elk Lake.
The Five Hundred club will
meet at the home of Miss Letitia
Green on Thursday night
The Cadets OF st. Johns r. c.
church will hold a picnic at Belle
vue Park on Saturday, July 13.
The borough council are erect
ing guards at the foot of streets fac
ing the Lackawaxen river, down
town.
Before laying down The Citizen
inspect the inside pages. There is
considerable valuable information to
be found on them.
The county commissioners of
Wayne county are holding a busi-
ness meeting in their office at the
court house to-day.
j. A. Bodie expects to be To-
Gated in his new studio, corner of
Seventh and Main streets, by the
middle of the month.
AT a special meeting of the
borough council held Monday morn
ing the ordinance closing lower
Main street was passed.
Owing to the exceedingly heavy
traffic on the Erie railroad the trains
have been delayed in arriving in
Honesdale during the past few days.
The following letters are adver-
tised at the postoffice for week end
ing July 1; Mrs. Andrews, L. A.
Cole. Say advertised NJ. B. Allen.
Postmaster.
The Free Methodists of Beach
lake will hold a picnic July in the
Vine Hill grove. Prothonotary w.
J. Barnes will deliver an address
during the day.
Miss Agnes Olszefski and Gus
tave Kittel, both prominent young
people of Honesdale, will be mar
ried on Wednesday of this week by
Rev. DR.. j. w. Balta.
An innovation on the Black Dia-
mond Express trains Of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, is the serving of a
four O'Clock tea each day free to all
passengers who care for it.
General orders have been issued
by Major General c. B. Dougherty,
commanding the National Guard, to
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in honor of Ex-Governor Edwin S.
Stuart.
Owing to the Fourth falling on
press day, Fridays issue of The
Citizen will be printed one day later.
We hope all our friends, subscribers
and readers will enjoy a safe and
sane day.
Corn is backward throughout
the county owing to so much rain
in the spring. The average height
is not over eight inches. Rev.
Charles White. of Dyberry, has the
finest corn we have seen.
The Binghamton Evening Her.
aid has suspended publication. The
last issue was printed Saturday af-
ternoon. The paper has been COM
bined with the Binghamton Repub-
lican, morning publication.
President Underwood of the
Erie railroad has been telling his
friends that he expects great business
activity in the Fall, if the crops full
fill their present promise. What Mr..
Underwood predicts is very interest
ing because of the uniform accuracy
of his forecasts in the past.
Tuesday the county commits
sioners met in regular monthly ses-
sion. In the afternoon the commits
sioners went to Hawley and inspect
ed the bridge that spans the Middle
Creek near the West HaWley sta
ton. 1t will be repaired and prob
ably placed on a level with the
tsreet.
-Amasa w. Rude, of Pleasant
Mount township, died at her home
on Saturday morning, aged seventy
eight years, three months and
twelve days. The funeral services
were held on Monday, Rev. ]. H.
Pope, officiating. Deceased is sur
vived by one brother, Myron E., OF
Whites Valley. Interment was made
in Pleasant Mount.
Miss Jane D. Hagaman attend
ed the Senior recital of the Allen
Freeman Studios Friday evening,
and greatly pleased a large audi
ence by her rendition of the follow
ing numbers: "Oh That We Two
Were Maying," Gounod; "Impati-
ence," Schubert; "Obstination," de
Fontanasilles; Sweet Goodnight"
Massenet; The Little Red Lark"
Old Irish Air.
The automobile ordinance of
Honesdale is being strictly enforc-
ed. Burgess McCarty has the names
of three local owners of machines
who have been sprinting it. The re-
ports are filed with the burgess for
further action. The police have
been authorized to arrest anyone
violating the borough automobile or
dinance of travelling faster than l2
miles per hour.
Two young couples came to the
ProthonOtary' Office on Tuesday
morning and wanted to get marriage
licenses. The two young ladies were
under age, and had failed to get
mammals consent before they left
home and the license was for that
reason refused. All four went away
not in the least discouraged but
probably realizing that their
troubles were just beginning.
A cOrns OF SurypVOrS cOmnOsed