The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-03-08


play the Rink Five the deciding game
of their series and the winner has
good chance to be called Champions
of Wayne County for this season.
A hot game is assured.
Architect Harry f. Weaver is
employed at the Gurney Electric
Elevator company, working on spec
ial pans in connection with the pro-
posed new elevator works to be
erected at this place.
The Gurney Electric Elevator
Co. have purchased a new four-wheel
platform truck which has a capacity
of 5000 pounds and weighs two tons.
1t is manufactured by the Shadbolt
Manufacturing Co. of Brooklyn, N.
Y.
Adam Metzger, Jr., who has
been a travelling salesman for the
Honesdale Shoe Co. for the past
eighteen years, will now represent
Barker Brown & Co., of Hunting
ton, Ind, and will assume his old
territory.
The state game commission has
reports showing that fines aggregat-
ing $500 have been imposed as the
result of prosecutions instituted dur
ing the past season by wardens of
the department for violations of the
game laws in the state.
The Citizen notes with pleasure
that Rev. John r. Atkinson, rector
of ST. Luke's parish, Scranton, has
sufficiently regained his impaired
health to resume his duties. Dr. At
kinson's many Wayne county friends
will be elated to learn of his recov-
cry.
The young people of the Alden
vile High school will present
drama entitled THE Black Heifer"
at Mount Pleasant on Thursday,
March IA. The drama is in three
acts and carries l 5 people. 1t will
be presented in the |. o. o. F. hall
in Aldenville on March IL. Dorin's
Orchestra will furnish music.
The second spelling contest was
held at River Road school house and
about seventy-four contestants start
ed. Supt. Koehler was there. The
winner was Mildred Murray from
Methodist Hill; second, Millie Dir
lam; third, Kathryn Bishop, of the
Leonardsville school, Miss Bishop
was winner of the first contest. The
next contest will be held at Genung
Hill school March 90, at 2:3O o'clock.
Warren Samson, who was close win
1t is stated on good authority
that the railroads of Pennsylvania
have a supply of coal on hand to last
one month. The storage capacity of
the several railroads engaged in
carrying anthracite and their operat-
ing companies is: Lehigh Valley
ID OF 10
1,11O,OO0 tons; Pennsylvania (Sus-
quehanna Coal Coz $4,000; Erie,
pennsylvania Coal Coz $4,000
tons; Delaware and Hudson, 270, 700
tons; Lehigh Coal and Navigation
Co., 100000 tons; Lackawanna, 2OO,-
900 tons; Ontario and Western,
10000 tons; total, 5,590,000 tons.
This is almost one months demand.
The following program was rem
dered at the High school last Friday
afternoon: Solo (piano), Hllda
Dunn; biography of Milton" Sum-
ner Crossley; "A Contract" Helen
Emo; solo (Piano), Priscilla Lam
Labor" William Dein; STORY of Ly-
cidas,' Rose O'Neill; solo (piano)
Dorothy Stanley; The Outbursts of
Lycidas," John Kilroe; Scene in the
Palace of Comus," Mildred Jones;
trio, Alice and Blanche Sluman, Lulu
Richard; THE Rescue of the Lady"
Pearl Curtis; solo (piano), Annie
Lambert. The musical part OF the
program was arranged by Mrs. RIGHT
myer and was by her pupils.
Patent medicines and other pat
ented articles may be sold without
reference to the prices fixed by the
patentee. This was the opinion hand
ed down recently by Justice Wright
in the equity court at Washington
when he refused the application of
drug manufacturing concern for an
injunction to prevent a local druggist
from cutting prices without the
manufacturers permission. The
court declared that the patentee of an
article could control the price by
which it should be sold by "licen-
se," but that once the article had
fund it's way to the open market by
outright purchase all right to fix the
price passed from the patentee.
Following the lead of Pennsyl-
vania, there has been introduced into
the Constitutional convention OF Ohio
an educational system based largely
on the plan OF Ine IeuuSy wanna
School Code. 1t provides for State
Board of Education of at least five
members to be appointed by the Gov
ernor; also for a permanent state
school fund to be made up in part
of revenues derived from lands re-
forested by the state in the future.
Recently there was introduced into
the legislature of Massachusetts a
bill identical with the Pennsylvania
Code provision requiring an inspec-
tion of institutions wholly or par
TALLY supported by the state and
maintaining educational departments
not now supervised by public school
authorities. Pennsylvania has over a
hundred such institutions receiving
appropriations for maintenance
amounting to over five millions of
dollars.
The property of the Bayless Pulp
& Paper company of Austin, the
breaking of whose dam on the af-
ternoon of September 80, caused the
awful Austin disaster, has been sold
for $4,000, under foreclosure. This
sale IL is belieVed will be the initia-