The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-12-20

The wyoming conference OF the
Methodist church will be held in
Wilkes-Barre beginning April g..
Bishop Joseph F. Berry will preside.
The milk dealers have announc-
ed that they will make no delivery
on Christmas day but will make
double delivery on the day before
Christmas.
Democratic County Chairman
Leopold Fuerth left Wednesday for
Harrisburg where he attended a
meeting of the State Democratic
committee on Thursday.
C. w. Dein purchased a fine
yoke of steers on Wednesday. They
are four years old and are twins.
The two weigh 5000 pounds. Mr.
Dein had their picture taken.
In the Elm Park parsonage
Monday afternoon, Rev. George
Wood Anderson, d. D., of Scran-
ton, united in marriage Victor
White of Carbondale and Miss Mary
Bigelow of Waymart.
President Taft Monday named
Dr. Carl Alsberg to succeed DR.. Har-
vey w. Wiley as chief of the Chem
| istry Bureau of the Department of
Agriculture and chief administra-
tor of the Pure Food law.
DR.. Chris Barager, formerly of
Hazelton, has opened offices in the
Foster building over the old postof-
fee. He comes we'll recommended
from Hazelton and will undoubted-
ly enjoy a large patronage here.
The Carbonate knitting mills
has an order from Sam Budd, the
great Madison Square haberdasher,
of New York, to make up one of
! their best knit overcoats for Christy
, Matthewson, pioneer pitcher of the
New York Giants.
John Dorcan, of Roscoe, was
| instantly killed and Michael Koder-
onia of Brownsville, was probably
! fatally hurt and Mary Koderonia was
J badly cut when they were struck by
a Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston
railroad train on a grade crossing
near Roscoe on Monday.
Joseph Billings, of Carbondale,
met with a peculiar accident while
| hunting in Wayne county last week.
| He was standing on an old log,
which broke under him to the
ground and fractured three of his
ribs. Before the accident occurred
Two hundred dollars were paid
in fines by two Monroe hunters for
violating the game law. Frank
/ Houston, of Shawnee, and Luther
! Michaels, of Middle Smithfield town
ship, were the offenders. Both shot
a doe in mistake for a buck. Hous-
| ton claimed the doe and buck were
close together and that he tried to
Il, lot Ii 11
| er.
John f. Baldwin, father of John
| r. Baldwin, proprietor of the Manor
| House, at Livingston Manor, died
Sunday evening from the infirmities
of old age, in his 6Sth year. The
deceased was one of the old pioneers
of Sullivan county and years ago
| numbered and RATED it along the
! Delaware. He began steering - 6
when a boy of IS and was consider
| ed one of the most expert helmsmen
| along the river.
Tuesday morning the new State
Hospital for the criminal insane at
Faryiew received its first patient,
B. Frank Smith, who two years ago
| killed his father and brother-in-law
at Uniontown, Fayette county. To
| the causal observer Smith shows lit
| tie signs of insanity. He was a
school teacher before he went sud-
| denly insane. He talks fluently and
intelligently on many subjects. A
| remarkable thing about his appear
ance is that his hair is gray on one
| side of his head and black on the
| other. More patients will arrive this
week. About sixty commitments are
expected.
| According to information gained
| recently by Citizen reporter, there
| is at least one of our local indus
tries which is about to close a very
! prosperous year. This is the Homes
dale Union Stamp Shoe Co., manu-
facturers of Mems, Youths and
Boys Shoes of all kinds. We under
stand that the volume of business
done in 1912 was over one-third
greater than that of 1911, and the
| fact that one of their statesmen, Chas
Bushwaller, last week made a new
record for weekly sales of several
hundred dollars greater than the
previous one, shows that their bust
ness is still on the gain, and Decem-
ber is one of the hardest months in
the year for the manufactures to
| sell SHOtS'
William Williamson, of Dick.
son City, formerly an engineer al
Hotel Casey, Scranton, has been ap'
pointed assistant engineer at the
State Asylum for Criminal Insane al
Farview. Mr.. Williamson received
notice of his appointment and to re.
port at the asylum at once from DR.
II. c. Fitzsimmons, the superintend'
ent. There were more than 10C
applicants for the position, but the
selection of Mr.. Williamson will ad
nit of no argument that he received
the position through pull" He II
one of the most competent and
thorough stationary engineers in the
valley, a high class mechanic, ant
has had a wide experience in elec
trical engines and a sound knowl
edge of all the operations of sta
tionary equipment generally.
The funeral of Rowland Simp