The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-01

IN II. NOl Il FUR FAVE.
Among the passengers Monday
morning to leave for Gettysburg was
A. j. Mitchell of Damascus.
Miss Olive Rockwell entertained
a number of friends at her home on
Thursday evening in honor of Miss
Rehbein, of Brooklyn.
The Durland-Weston Shoe COM
pany closed down on Saturday noon
for its annual repair to equipment
The employees will therefore enjoy
a weeks vacation.
Negotiations are pending for
the purchase of one of Honesdale's
fine store buildings on lower Main
street. The deal will probably be
consummated on July 1.
The Honesdale base ball team
have rented the White Mills ball
ground for the season of 1913 and
games will be played there during
the summer on Sundays. The first
game will take place there next Sun
day.
Mrs. Caroline Oliver and F. G.
Oliver, of Haines, visited Sunday at
the home OF the formers daughter,
Mrs. Thomas Burrows. Mr.. Bur-
rows accompanied them home where
he will spend a few days.-Forest
City News.
The hour of Rev. DR.. Muir
docks meeting at Carley Brook for
July is changed from 10:90 a. m.
to 2:30 p. m. There will be no
preaching at Girdland that day, but
there will be service at West Da
mascus in the evening as usual.
Clusters Last Fight was the
moving picture leader at the Lyric
on Thursday and it was appropriate
on account of the fact that Wednes-
day, June %, was the thirty-seventh
anniversary of the battle that an
initiated Custer's small army. The
three reel picture was well received
by the large audience.
-Easton, Pa, can claim a school
superintendent whose term of SER
vice rivals anything here or abroad,
so far as is known. Sixty years in
one profession is in itself remarkable
enough, but when it is added that
Superintendent William w. Cotting-
hams record is of 60 years in the
same position, his case appears to be
unparalleled.
The advance detail of Company
e, which will leave on Tuesday af-
ternoon on the 4:30, for camp at
Selinsgrove, is composed of the
following boys: William Maloney,
Michael Stahl, James Austin, Chas.
Austin, Edward Jones, Joe McDer-
mott, Walter Hartman, Howard
Ashby, John Barnes, Edward Weist,
Albert Thomas.
There is more traffic on Main
street than any thoroughfare in
Honesdale. A paved street would
tighten the repair problem by about
$4,000 per year. Are you in favor
of paying this large amount out an
nually, when a similar sum in the
course of a few years would go a
long ways toward paying off $14,-
600 Indebtedness?
Much interest has been arous-
ed in Uniondale by the announce
ment that w. l. Morgan with Acollon
1925 II, and j. N. Corey with Billy
S. c., 2:21% and other horses of
note are to be raced on the Union
dale track on July 4. The announce
ment has not been made public, but
it is a sure enough go. All are train
ing and somebody is going to win
and lose.
New York City daily consumes
2,410,95S pounds of meat, 2,465,-
753 loaves of bread, 2,191,7S0
quarts of milk, 4,947,996 eggs, $780,
S22 pounds of butter, 410,959
pounds of fish, 342,465 pounds of
poultry. What an opportunity and
field for Wayne county farmers.
There are a number of farms in this
section that can be purchased rea-
sonably that would make ideal poul-
try farms.
When but three years old, Sam
SO, lost the sight of his left eye by
the penetration of knitting needle.
Last summer while enjoying a days
outing on the Little Ausable River
he went to the rescue of a wounded
crane and as he reached for the bird
it jabbed him in the right eye with
it's long bill destroying the sight of
that eye. Both eyes were operated
on and he is now able to read with
properly adjusted glasses.
AT the Lyric, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, July 3, 4 and 5, Jos.
Eckl will present another big five
act vaudeville show with four reels
of new motion pictures. The pro-
gram will be made up of Lillian
Loretto, child impersonator, singer
and dancer; Sam and Ida Murphy,
burlesque travestry artists De For
reste, European Novelty Sensation;
Barney Toy, comedy musical act and
the Four Brilliants in their comedy
playlet "The Uptown Flat" A matt
nee will be given on Saturday after
noon at 2:30.
Governor Edward F. Dunno
signed the equal suffarge bill Thurs
day last. By dipping pen in ink and
signing his name, the Illinois COVER
nor enfranchised one million, six
hundred thousand Illinois women,
more than doubling the number of
women entitled to vote in the United
States. Grouped about the Governor
were women of the suffrage lobby,
which has been called " the best
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