The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-31

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quite i'll with pneumonia. .r..
Mrs. Silas McMullen, Jr., en-
tertained number of Carbondale
ladies at luncheon at her home on
Main street Thursday afternoon.
The Bell Telephone Company
have just about completed their line
into Mt. Pleasant from Carbondale.
The next step will be to connect Mt.
Pleasant with Honesdale.
BY an agreement between The
Columbian Protective Association
and Theresa Gerety and Rena Cong
don the two cases were continued
until next term of court.
The Adult Bible class of the
Presbyterian Sunday school met in
the Chapel Tuesday evening and held
social and business meeting. DR..
Swift has charge of the class.
Mrs. E. L. Peck of Hawley and
Mrs. Silas McMullen, Jr., were
among those who attended a bridge
party given by Mrs. G. w. Perkins
of Carbondale on Tuesday evening.
Harry P. Deck has just COM
pleted a hot water heating system
in the Cortright garage; also a vapor
CICohl hCullhS III IhC OSl
dence of William Birdsall at Seely-
vile.
The funeral of the late Joseph
Kerl, who was found dead near his
home on Sunday morning, was held
in st. Mary Magdalen's church We'd
nesday morning. DR.. ]. w. Balta
officiated. There was a very large
attendance.
Isaiah Shaffer, aged seventy
five years, died at his home in GRAY
ity Sunday. The funeral services
were held in the South Canaan M. E.
church Wednesday morning at eleven
o'clock. 1nterment was made in
East Canaan cemetery.
H. G. Many will be the new
member of the board of auditors of
Bethany borough. He was appoint
ed by the court Monday to fill the
vacancy in the board on account of
A. o. Blake being treasurer of the
borough and unable to act as audi
tor.
A divorce was granted on Tues
day by Judge Searle to Margaret
Uberaner from her husband, Max j.
Uberaner. The charge was cruel and
barbarous treatment. They were
married July 81, 1906, and have
one child. Mrs. Uberener lives in
Hawley.
The following examinations will
be held in the grammar school:
February 5, forenoon, arithmetic;
Wednesday, Feb. 5, afternoon, gram
mar; Thursday forenoon, history and
geography; afternoon, physiology
and reading; Friday, Feb. 7, fore
noon, mental; afternoon, spelling.
State Senator Harvey Huffman
from the fourteenth district compris-
ing the counties of Carbon, Monroe,
Pike and Wayne, has been placed on
the following Senate committees:
Forestry, Game and Fisheries, Judi
ciary General, Judicial Apportion-
ment, Legislative Apportionment,
Public Roads and Highways.
Frederick Wagner, founder and
publisher of the Scranton Wochen-
blatt, one of that city's pioneer resi-
dents, identified generally with the
growth and progress of Scranton,
died early Wednesday morning at
his home on Monroe avenue. He
was IS years of age. Mr.. Wagner
came to Scranton at the close of the
Civil war.
Have you seen the list of new
books of Fiction at the Honesdale
Free Library? Don't neglect to be-
come interested. This week the fol-
lowing new publications were re-
ceived: Valients of Virginia by Hal
lie E. Rives; Tangles, by Margaret
Cameron; Scientific Sprague, by
Francis Lynde; The Lost World, by
A. Conan Doyle; Mr.. Achilles, by
Jeanette Lee; The Rich Mrs. Bur
goyne, by Kathleen Norris.
Several Scranton men were in
Harrisburg Saturday evening looking
| after the interests of a bill for a Ii
cense of 81 for all hunters except
| ing farmers on their own farms. The
proceeds of the licenses are to be
used in preparing a bounty fund and
in engaging game wardens in addi-
ton to the eight now employed by
the state. David Pritchard, presi-
dent of the Sportsmen's organiza-
| tion of Lackawanna county, and H.
| S. Newton, of Scott township, were
there in the interests of the bill.
"A citation was directed by Judge
Searle to be issued for Samuel Smell
and William w. Harrison, overseers
| Ol Jl6 pOOl VI IllllSolONC, houlil' 'il
county, to appear before the court OF
this county second Monday of March
to show cause why order for removal
of Henry Reedy and Mrs. Henry
Reedy into their custody should not
be issued. Henry Reedy was for
some time a resident of Salem town
ship and his wife was sent to Hill
grove farm, a hospital for feeble
minded, and Salem township incur
red the expense. Reedy is now a
resident of Sullivan county and that
county is supposed to pay for the
support of Mrs. Reedy.
Mrs. Marie V. Swartz, aged
eighty-seven years, and the last
charter member of the Dunmore
Presbyterian church, died at her
home there late Saturday night. II
was in Mrs. Swartzs home that the
organization meetings for the