The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-24
Born, a son, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Leon Ross, Thursday morning.

Rev. DR.. Van Krug will preach
at Cold Spring on Sunday morning,
at Rileyville in the afternoon and
Siko in the evening.
"A long train of empty freight
and coal cars were hauled over the
Moosic Wednesday from Honesdale.
The Honesdale Improvement AS
sociation netted $50 from their card
party given last Thursday evening
There will be shadow pie So
cial at the home of Leslie Vail, Riley
vile, on Friday evening, May "a;
proceeds to go to the l.. T. L.
David Fisher and family will re-
move their household effects into
Mrs. Margaret Balls house, corner of
East and High street, on Monday.
The Ladies' Circle, G. A. r., are
requested to attend the Memorial ser
vices in st. Johns Lutheran church
in body next Sunday evening at
1880 o'clock.
Rev. Will II. Hitler, pastor of
the Central Methodist Episcopal
church, will preach the baccalaureate
sermon to the Pleasant Mount class
1912, on Sunday evening
Rev. w. VI. Hitler will marry
Miss Alta Spruks and Malcome Rich
ardson in the German Presbyterian
church Thursday evening. He will
be assisted by Pastor Nordt of that
church.
Mrs. Herbert Ross and children,
Ronald, Kenneth and Kathleen of
Chestnut street, left Port Jervis, N.
Y, on train No l Sunday to visit
their aunt, Miss McGue at her sum-
mer home near Damascus, Pa.
The seventh annual convention
of the Brotherhood of Railway Me-
chanics opened in Reading on Mon
day to last a week. 1t is fraternal
and beneficial organization. Chas.
S. Kelso, of Philadelphia, is presi-
dent. Nearly one hundred dele
gates are present.
A mammoth ash tree on the
property of DR. Bausman, at Millers-
Vile. one of the Oldest in the state,
was cut down by Albert Mower and
Thomas Stuart, of Lancaster. The
tree was planted by a Bausman, of
a generation ago and grew to an
feet of lumber was obtained from
it and it weighed 4,500 pounds. 1t
was reduced to lumber at the Mill
Greek saw mill.
%. NJ. Spettigue received a tele-
gram on Wednesday announcing the
death of Gilbert Knapp, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles r. Knapp, of De-
troit, Mich, formerly of Honesdale.
The young man died of typhoid fe-
yer. He was % years of age and
was born here. Besides his parents,
one brother, Robert, and sister, Jes-
sic, survive. The young man spent
some time last year in Honesdale.
He was studying to become an archi-
tect. Burial will probably be made
in Detroit.
There is a movement on foot to
construct a macadam road from the
state road leading to Gouldsboro
over the old plank road as far as the
village of Tobyhanna, by the Scran-
ton Auto club. The road would
mean much to the section over
which there would be considerable
traffic at certain times of the year,
especially. The road would be about
five miles in length and the cost of
its improvement as planned would
be in the neighborhood of $4,000.
A petition has been circulated in
Coolbaugh township and has been
signed by about ninety per cent. of
the property holders there. The un-
derstanding is that the roads con-
structiOn plans shall permit of town
ship residents going over it free of
toll; the outsider to be charged a
80 20 hp Of
the roads construction in some
years time.
Mrs. Sallie Shireman, residing
at Maytown, who is one of the many
poultry fanciers in that section,
three weeks ago set a chicken with
fifteen of her eggs and to her sur
prise there are now walking about
sixteen fine, healthy chicks. The
one egg hatched two chicks, which,
when eXtricated from the shell were
held together at the wings by
web. This was cut and today they
are the liyeliest two of the flock.
Never in the history of the oldest
residents in that section has this oc-
Cured. Many eggs hatch deformed
twin chicks that die in the shell, but
these are the first two that lived.
John Shank, Sr., who will soon be
SO years old, says he never heard
of this, although he was farmer
nearly all his life.
Harry Levering's heroic but fu-
tile attempt to save the life of a
4-year-old boy, nearly cost the
brakeman his life Tuesday afternoon
at Canton, twenty miles from To-
wanda. The boy, tOddled out on the
tracks in front of a heavy train on
the down grade. Three engines were
at the head Of the train, and its
momentum was such that it was i'm
possible for the enginemen to check
its speed. The brakeman ran to the
pilot of the front engine, leaped well
ahead and made running dive for
the boy, but missed his grasp, and
the engine bore down on the boy
and ground him to pieces. The
brakeman escaped with few
scratches The boy was the son of a
Russian emigrant who moved to
Canton several days ago. His moth
er witnessed the accident.
The twenty-third anniversary
program of the EpwOrth League of
Orson was held in the NJ. E. church