The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-05-31

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renovation. Among the improve
ments will be the refrescoing of that
edificc.
The Erie railroad is carrying
hundreds of foreigners to western
homes at the present time, says re-
cent issue of the Susquehanna Tran
script. The other day three trains
of immigrants of ten cars each pass
ed through that city. All the pas
sengers had recently arrived from
foreign parts and were seeking new
homes on the western farm lands.
A stranger visited Honesdale on
Saturday last, waited upon the presi
dent of the Board of Trade and
modestly CD asked for $3.50 that he
might start a broom factory in
Honesdale. 1t was not quite time
for the visitor to make "clean
sweep of the town so the stranger
left Honesdale minus his desired
amount and undoubtedly had a diff
ferent feeling about the town than
before he entered.
Miss Blanche H. Pearce, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. William f.
Pearce, of this place, has completed
the public school music supervision
course at Combs conservatory of
music, Philadelphia, and will return
home in a few days. Miss Pearce
was presented with a supervision GER
titicate and is now qualified to teach
same in any school. The commence
ment exercises were held last Tues
day evening.
The National Federation of Re-
tail Merchants is spreading like
mustard seed. State declarations are
forming through the Mississippi val
ley, and elsewhere. The general OBJ
ject is to promote the mutual inter-
ests of retail merchants. The speci-
tic purposes are to fight the catalog
houses and the parcels post. Iowa
alone has 100000 retail merchants,
and it is hoped to bring most of them
into the organization.
Work on the proposed coal mine
at Lakewood was commenced on
Wednesday and an engineer, who had
arrived there on Monday, started
drilling in an effort to locate coal
in paying quantities. If a profitable
vein is found work will start immed-
lately and it is predicted that the
little village of Lakewood will take
quite a jump on the map. About
$500 has been raised by interested
parties in that locality for the drill
ing.
Last year there were in Penn
sylvania "a districts, represented by
149 schools, in which the minimum
school term of Z months could not
be maintained by levying the maxi
mum amount of tax under the old
law. Many of these schools are in
mountainous regions where there are
few people and where the value of
property is very low. The State
Board of Education will ask the next
Legislature to give consideration to
the question of providing proper faci-
lities for these unfortunately situated
districts.
The handicap golf tournament
given on the Honesdale Golf Links
Memorial Day resulted as follows:
First prize, golf balls, n. F. Lord,
Chall les H. Eypper, H. S. Salmon,
George Hayward, F. S. Merritt.
Ladies, golf balls, first prize won by
Miss Edith X. Swift, Mrs. Rebecca
II. Fuller, Miss Mollie Menner. An
excellent supper was served to eighty
members and friends Those in
charge were: Mrs. Carl Prosch, Mrs.
H. A. Oday, Mrs. Rebecca Fuller,
Miss Florence Brown, Miss Dorothy
Menner.
Miss Lois Tiffany, daughter of
Emery Tiffany, of Pleasant Mount,
and young lady friend, figured We'd
nesday in a thrilling runaway. The
4-orse and wagon belonged to Mr..
Tiffany and while descending the
west side of Belmont hill the hold
back broke. This frightened the
horse and it ran furiously down the
steep hill, crossing the Ontario and
Western Railroad tracks to Herrick
Centre, stopping of its own accord
at the postoffice in that village.
Mr.. Tiffany's friend was thrown
from the wagon and quite badly
bruised. Miss Tiffany, however,
pulled hard on the reins and man
aged to keep the horse in the road.
Fortunately there was no train near
the o. & w. tracks when Miss Tiff
fany's runaway horse crossed them.
She was uninjured. The wagon was
almost a wreck. Miss Tiffany re-
mained in the buggy during the
wild runaway.
The quinquennial celebration of
the graduates of the Pleasant Mount
Academy and High school of that
village was largely attended on Tues
day evening of this week in the Odd
Fellows hall at that place. A busi-
ness meeting preceded the banquet
and it was presided over by j. E.
Tiffany Election of officers result
ed as follows: J. +. Tiffany, presi-
dent; y. j. Spencer, vice-president;
Miss Bessie MOase, secretary; Miss
Loretta Riley, treasurer. DR.. Niles
OF Carbondale was toastmaster of the
banquet. Rev. Mccarthy offered
prayer. Toasts were given by Hon.
j. ID. Brannan, Rev. James Pope,
Rev. Hunter, Principal Dietrich, n.
r. Bigelow; DR.. Walter and Scott
Spencer, Carbondale; DR.. S. Y. Ken
nedy, Of Gloyersyille, y. y; Mrs. w.
p. Perham, Niagara; Mrs. A. J.
G. Dix, y. j. Spencer, Honesdale;
Prof. J. II. Kennedy. Firth's orches-
ira furnished music.
Thomas F. Gallagher has been
appointed local division superintend-
ent of the Consolidated Telephone
Company, being transferred from
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