The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-23

car of the e. w. Gammell agency.
Miss Elizabeth Campbell will
give talk in the Methodist church
Sunday on India the Land of Sor-
rows"
The Citizen congratulates Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Decker on their
forty-sixth wedding anniversary,
which took place May 14th.
There will be a meeting of the
Spanish war veterans at the Armory
on Thursday evening of this week.
Matters pertaining to Memorial Day
will be discussed. 1t is hoped that
a large number of the members will
be in attendance.
Just to show that universal suf-
frage does not enter strongly into
the minds of Honesdale school girls,
| Professor H. A. Oday took a vote of
the entire school Thursday morning.
There were only about a dozen, and
mostly boys at that who wanted
votes for women. The girls as a
whole did not want it.
BY a vote of 159 to 6 the House
passed the Senate bill to give juries
in murder trials the right to deter
| mine whether a person convicted of
murder in the first degree should
suffer death or life Imprisonment.
j. B. X. Scott stated that it was de-
sired to get the bill to the Governor
that he might consider it along with
the electrocution bill.
The case of Daniel Giles vs.
Ruel Wilcox was presented for set
tlement on Tuesday morning to a
board of arbitrators composed of T.
| Y. Boyd, F. H. Crago and Attorney
R. M. Stocker. The case is a suit in
ejectment from land located near
Mt. Pleasant village. The evidence
was heard but a decision will be
postponed until next week when it is
hoped that satisfactory settlement
will be reached.
An encampment of artillery
will open in the Pocono mountains
this summer not far from the bord-
ers of Wayne county. Major G. P.
Summerall will be in charge of the
encampment which will open on
June Is and continue until October
1. The purpose of it is to teach
maneuvers and rifle practice. The
camp will cover a tract of land of
10000 acres about half mile from
Tobyhanna, Monroe county.
The farm house, occupied by
Felix Heinle and sons, Jacob and
John, on the new Cochecton turn
pike, at Fosterdale, caught fire from
the chimney at about breakfast time
last Sunday morning and was burn
ed with nearly all it's contents. The
fire, when discovered, had such
start that fighting it was useless.
The property was insured in the Cal
licoon Mutual for 500 or $500.
The Heinle's, who are staying with
neighbors, will rebuild.
w. E. Avery informs The Citi-
zen that his strawberry crop has
been badly affected by the frost. He
says that ten bushels will probably
be the extent of the crop, whereas
in former years it has run into hun
dreds of bushels. All fruit will be
scarce, he says, except trees located
upon high ground. He thinks ap-
pies will be few this fall Mr..
Avery's father expects to harvest 400
to 500 bushels of peaches the COM
ing season, whereas in other years
1000 to 5000 bushels have been
gathered.
On the authority of a we'll
known Democrat of Honesdale, the
Wayne county Democrats will have
a candidate in the field for State
Senator this year in the person of
VIM. j. Ferber. The Monroe politi-
clans will have something to think
about If they figure on the Senator
ship for another year as Mr.. Ferber
is no novice in politics and knows
how to play the game. We also un-
derstand that Samuel Saunders of
Berlin and Judson Tiffany of Pleas
ant Mount, may enter the race for
Representative.
On Thursday The Citizen office
had very pleasant call form w. B.
AnkarStran, inspector for the Mer-
genthaler Linotype Co. of New York
City. Mr.. Ankarstran gave The Citi-
zen's linotype most careful inspec-
ton, declaring it to be in splendid
condition. AS one of these up-to-
date machines represents as much
value as a good-sized Wayne county
farm, say about $4,000 in round
figures, it naturally makes Mr..
Thompson, our man in charge, feel
like patting himself on the back to
have such an o. X. passed over to
his credit.
The 63d annual commencement
of Bucknell University will occur
June IS. 1t is expected that on that
date will be completed the series of
efforts to raise 100000 for the in
stitution. The sum of $4,000 has
been secured in cash or legally bind
ing subscriptions, and there is con-
fidence that the remaining 100000
will be secured by Commencement
Day. Mr.. David Porter Leas, of
philadelphia, will be the guest of
honor, it being the fiftieth anniver-
sary of his graduation and the thir-
ty-second of his services as treas
urer
A Bradford county man killed
two foxes, took the pelts to a justice
who cut off the ears and burned
them according to law and drew the
certificates for 50 each, which the
hunter presented to the county com
missioners, who declined to pay the
noXious animal bounty because the