The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-01-31
Friday is Cnndlemas Day.

Mr.. Taft pardons an innocent
! New York man, in prison eleven
months on young woman's charge.
The members of Co. II are re-
quested to appear at the entertain
ment at the Lyric Theatre on We'd
nesday evening in full dress uniform.
! Senator Gore, of Oklahoma, de-
! Tended Gov. Wilson by saying the lat
ter's offense lay in telling the truth
when he replied to Col. Harvey,
Governor Tener accepted the
resignation of Judge Stout, of Bucks
county and appointed as his successor
! William c. Ryan of Doylestown, now
! District Attorney.
The last big time before Lent
will be a masquerade ball at the new
armory on Park street, Tuesday
evening, Feb. 20. For further par
! ticulars see large posters.
The Parish Hall Senior basket
/ ball team will play against the
urday evening of this week at s
o'clock in the school basement
The eighteenth birthday of
Joseph Choate, one of the leaders of
the bar of the United States, was
] \.
was once Ambassador to Great Brit
ain.
The basket ball game between
the Rink Five and White Mills which
was to have taken place this evening,
! Tuesday, is postponed owing to the
! illness Of a member of the White
| Mills team.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York
was made a grandfather last week by
the arrival of an eight-pound boy in
the home of his daughter, Mrs. w.
| Seward Webb, formerly Miss Ger
! trude Gaynor.
-Clemont j. Coughey was given
a judgment of $33, 900 against Ar
thus V. Lewis, former State Senator
of Nevada, in an action brought to
recover s150,000 which was claimed
the Senator owed him on a sale of
stocks. The plaintiff lives in Erie,
| Pa.
The seventh letter of the alphabet
lost its tooth on our linotype machine,
! Monday, which accounts for an un-
avOidable delay. We have been com
PEELED to write part of our news without
the use of this important letter. The
water is never missed until the sprin
! (seNenth letter) runs dry.
The State Directors Associa-
! tion will meet in Harrisburg, Feb.
l and 2. The delegates from Wayne
county elected at the Directors AS
ISOLATION last November, are as fol-
lows: Rehen Lancaster, South Sterl-
ing; George Ehrhardt, Newfound-
land; Fred LaPoint, Honesdale; A.
w. Emo, Seelyville.
Sheriff Frank C. Kimble left
! Tuesday morning for Philadelphia.
| He took with him his first convict,
William Marks, the "peg-leger" who
was sentenced at January court to
| serve two terms in the Eastern Peni-
tentiary for larceny and receiving
in connection with the Dymond store
robbery at Waymart, Oct. 19, 1911.
Keep your eye open for the ground
hog. He is scheduled to make his ap-
pearance on Friday of this week. Ac-
cording to tradition, if he sees his shad-
ow, we will have six weeks more of
winter, while if he should not see it he
will stay out and an early spring is look
ed forward to. All signs have failed
this winter, still we can resort to the
ground hog.
The completion of four-fifths of
the excavation for the Panama Canal
was the record January l, 1912.
Since beginning their work in May,
| 1904, the engineers have taken 15S,-
! 10, 1868 cubic yards of material out
of the canal bed. The French en-
! yards, but of this only 29,90S,O0O
yards was of value.
james c. Crossley, son of Thos.
| Crossley, of this place, has formed a
partnership with young man by
name of Hale and they have embark
ed in the job printing business in
! Chicago. The former, for many
years, has been a successful solicitor
for one of the largest printing es-
adjustments in the Windy City. The
! Citizen wishes the new firm merited
! success.
In honor of the first anniversary of
their marriage Mr.. and Mrs. James Mil
Ter entertained few friends and neigh
bors last Saturday night. Progressive
five hundred was played, Mrs. Harry
! Weaver winning first page. Those pres
ent were: Mrs. Louisa Whitney, Mrs
VIM. Bader, Mrs. q. p. Ross, Mrs
! Harry Richards, Mrs. Leon Ross, Mrs
Harry Weaver and Mrs. 7. Griffiths Of
| Waymart.
Speaker Champ Clark last week
| confirmed reports that he and form
er Governor Joseph w. Folk had
agreed to end their fight and stake
their respective candidates for the
| Democratic Presidential nomination
on the outcome of the approaching
convention of Missouri Democrats at
Poplin. If this convention should
/ indorse Governor Folk, Mr.. Clark
said he would forbid the further use
of his name.
Wayne county's many spring water
lakes furnish ice for the Lackawanna
! Valley, besides thousands of tons of the
commodity that is shipped to other
cities in different territories. Tho prin-
cipal lakes harvested from are Lodore,
Maplewood, Poyntelle and Arial. The
large storage houses of the Lodore I'm
provement company now contain 3d.
600 tons of the purest ice that has ever
been harvested off Keen Lake. The
cutting was completed today.
At a special meeting of the Busi-
ness Mems Association, held Wednes-
day evening, January "a, for the pur-