The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-26

-Schoharie county still adheres
to the custom of 100 years ago of
beginning its Supreme court term on
Monday evening at Z o'clock.
Company basket ball team will
give one of their popular dances this
Thursday evening in the new arm
ory. Admission 20 cents. Ladies
free.
The men OF Seelyville will serve
their annual oyster supper on Thurs
day evening, February /. Proceeds
for the benefit of the Seelyville union
chapel.
A farmers institute was held at
Hamlin four days last week and they
proved to be very enjoyable and
profitable meetings. More of these
meetings should be held throughout
the county.
On February there will be a
conference of the executive commit
tee of the Sunday school workers of
Wayne county in the lecture room OF
the Honesdale Methodist Episcopal
church. In the evening Mrs. Bald
win, a field worker, will address the
public.
Arthur Gallo, young machin-
list of New York, was awarded ST.
639 by the Appellate Court for the
loss of his spleen which 1t was
alleged will limit his life to five
years. A surgeon was found to cut
out his spleen on account of injur-
les received from a fall and Gallo
sued the owner of the building for
$4,000 damages.
IN nf
week the Blooming Grove Park Club
Association will hold its annual ban
quet at Hotel Plaza, New York city.
Governor John X. Tener and United
I States Senator Boies Penrose will be
the guests of honor. The following
will be in attendance from Homes
dale and White Mills: c. II. and l..
j. Dorflinger, A. 7. Searle, Homer
Greene, and E. B. Hardenbergh.
John Keuling, of Hawley, has
! purchased a plot of ground near
Lake Fairview of John H. Sievers
and will erect thereon a hotel and
summer boarding house, says the
! Hawley Times. The foundation has
already been completed and work on
the building is expected to start as
soon as the weather will permit 1t
is Mr.. Keulings intention to have
the place ready for business by the
! opening of the coming summer sea-
! son.
Easter Sunday this year will
come one week earlier than last year,
being on the calendar for April Z.
! This will leave the opening of the
| Lenten season on Wednesday, Feb.
2S, when Ash Wednesday will be OBJ
served. The date of Easter Sunday
! is determined by the first full moon
that comes after March 81. Easter
Sunday is the Sunday following that
date. This year the first full moon
after March 81 will be on April l..
Last year it came on April 49,
The inspection conducted an
nually by the War Department will
be held for the headquarters band
and First Battalion, Friday, Febru-
airy l. Hospital corps detachment,
Tuesday, February 13; Second bat
talon, Monday, February 20; Co. l.,
Easton, Wednesday, February 21;
| Co. E, Honesdale, Thursday, Febru-
airy %. This inspection is an annual
affair, conducted by regular army Of
| ficers, who inspect property, muster
the men and pass on the fitness of
the regiment for actual field service.
Operations have ceased for a
time upon the Wilsonville dam pro-
ject with the exception of the lum-
bering end, which is under contract
to be removed within specified
time. The incorporators of the Pau
pack Power company are interested
in a plan to generate electricity from
refuse of mines at Mauch Chunk and
have sent their corps of helpers from
Wilsonville to that place. 1t is
claimed that those interested in the
enterprise at Wilsonville are not GER
tain what will be done with that
proposition.
Wayne county is we'll repre-
sented in the Scranton Trust com
pany of that city. Among the share
holders and directors appear the
names of Hon. A. T. Searle, Homes.
dale; Charles H. Dorhinger, White
Mills and F.. c. White, Hawley. The
two latter gentlemen were elected or
Saturday at the annual meeting tC
fill vacancies The annual report
made to the stockholders showed
satisfactory business and progress
of the company with a steady in
crease in business, assets and profits
The company Is paying dividend o
eight per cent. The directors viii
=. meet January 26 to elect officers anC
no changes are likely to be made.
The mysterious burning of sever
barns in the vicinity of Adelia, il
, Wayne county, within the past two
years, is unusual and is causing tht
= people of that community uneasiness
F. The general explanation of the fire
up to recently is that there are fir,
bugs in the neighborhood. Recent.
however, the theory has been ad
| yanCed that they are due to natura
= gas. On the fiat lands of that vicin
ity are deposits of coal. AMI l.
, Woodward, who lived in that vicinit.
few years ago, asserts that he ha
! seen the burning out of natural ga
there frequently. Many persons stat
that they have seen the blaze a
. night. The people of that section
, however, are divided in their opinion
, as to the origin of the mysteriou
fires.
The members of Protection En-
q A.