The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-04-08

County savings BANK at Lnelr TeBu-
lar meeting held Monday morning,
passed resolutions upon the late j.
Pierpont Morgan.
Mr.. E. G. Shelley of Port Jervis,
who spent few days with relatives
in Hawley, Pa, last week, returned
home Monday. Mr.. Shelley was call
ed to Hawley on account of the criti-
cal illness of his brother, John
Shelley.
Distracted by the fear that he
would never regain his health, John
]. Bradley, aged 35 years, a victim
of the white plague" committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the head with revolver at about 5
o'clock Thursday afternoon at his
home in Newburgh. The bullet en-
tered his right temple and pierced
his brain. He died. within ten min
utes after he fired the shot which
ended his life. He committed the
act while he was alone in his room.
One of the worst mud slides
which has been known in years oc-
Cured on the Ontario and Western
track at what is known as Early's
Mountain about two miles south of
Fish's Eddy, the south bound track
being practically covered with mud,
rocks and trees for a distance of half
mile. Trains were handled on sin
gle track orders, the north bound
track being under the supervision of
train crew acting as pilot over the
single track section.
The Bryant building located
upon Main street and lately occupied
by Miss Kate McKenna as a millinery
store and tenement house is being
torn down. The rear portion, a
story high, is the only part that is
being razed The new proprietor is
undecided at present just what he
will do, but it is expected that the
main building in front will be moved
to the rear and a new structure will
be erected upon it's site. This is one
of Honsedale's oldest buildings. 1t
was built by John H. and Richard
H. Dunning in 1885.
The D. e. H. have decided to
build a new station at Olyphant, and
the people of that town are rejoicing,
for new and up-to-date station has
long been needed. If the borough
will allow the company to straighten
out one of its streets, work on the
new uepOI Will D6 COluuueuCeu DIT
once. The building will be of con-
crete up to the window sills and
brick above with two waiting rooms,
baggage rooms, ticket office, toilet
rooms and a concrete platform. The
building will be well lighted and
heated with steam or hot water.
The furniture of Alexis La
Blanc, who is doing experimental
work at the Gurney Electric Elevator
plant, arrived in Honesdale last week
from New York and was conveyed to
the Sigmund Katz house, corner of
Main and Fifteenth streets, Satur-
day. The furniture came in large
car-like moving vans from the Bowl
ing Green Storage company, New
York The vans, which were sealed
like any car, were placed on a truck
| wagon and then the furniture was
| removed. This is the first time that
vans of this kind were seen in Homes
| dale.
The Belmont Rural Telephone
company has completed their line
from Orson, Pa, to the Belmont
Four Corners near Pleasant Mount.
This company will furnish service
to the following subscribers: T. F.
Meagher, Thos. Coyle, John Meagher,
D. T. Dalton, Maurice Meagher, John
i Onofrey, Henry Ihlefeldt, H. o. Nc
Cabe, M. j. Dunn, B. Connor. This
company's lines, all of which have
been constructed by the subscribers
| during the past few months termin-
ate in Pleasant Mount, Pa, and are
connected with the Bell Telephone
| Company's Central office at Pleas
ant Mount. T. A. Garvey, local man
ager for the Bell Telephone COM
pany, reports unusual progress of
rural telephone development
throughout Northern Wayne county.
Mrs. Salo Friedewald delightful
ly entertained large number of
| ladies in the High school auditorium
Saturday afternoon by the reading
of The Singing Man, and other poems
of Josephine Preston Peabody. The
Singing Man is poem depicting the
I conditions of labor. 1t is a very fine
example of the poetic treatment of a
theme that is attracting worldwide
interest at the present time. Mrs,
Friedewald's delightful interpreta-
tion of many smaller poems by the
same author were very pleasantly re-
ceived by those present. The next
reading will take place next Satur-
day afternoon according to the reg
ular program and will be an inter
probation of "The House of Usna,'
which was written by Fiona Mac
Leod, the personality assumed by Mr.
William Sharp.
Sheriff Reynolds and c. M
Buckingham, of Uniondale, were in
Philadelphia Monday and transferr-
ed James Gallagher from the East
ern penitentiary to the asylum al
Danville. Gallagher had been in the
hispital for some months, and while
violent at times, had greatly improv-
ed, but appeared melancholy. Some
time ago he developed a penchant
for eating lead pencils, and physi-
clans and attendants were kept busy
keeping him from this form of diet
Sheriff Reynolds says there are l,
450 prisoners in the penitentiary al
present, 81 of whom are serving life
| sentences Thirty women nrisOners