The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-18

ty-fOur men TO meet on June ana
forty-eight to meet on June 16.
"A marriage license has been is
sued in Lackawanna county to Frank
M. Gleason, South Canaan, and Miss
Mabelle Matthews, South Canaan.
A marriage license was issued
by Prothonotary w. J. Barnes Fri
day to Claude Lesher, Ariel, and
Pearl May Chivers, of the same place.
A special meeting of the Titus
Mission band of the Presbyterian
church will be held at the home of
Mrs. VIM. Kreitner Tuesday evening,
March IS.
Frank G. Burch, insurance ad-
juster of Philadelphia, came to-day
to complete the adjustment of the
loss caused by the fire in the Homes
dale Footwear Company.
The funeral of Mrs. Alysina B.
Hadsall, of Uniondale, sister of DR..
Reed Burns, of Scranton, was held
at Uniondale at IL o'clock Saturday
morning. Services were private.
The many friends of Attorney
r. M. Salmon will be gratified to
learn that he is showing a marked
improvement in his illness. He is
confined to his bed with pneumonia.
Attention! Members of Hose
Co. No. 1 will meet at their truck
house on Tuesday at 1 o'clock to at
tend the funeral of the late F. w.
Bunnell. Kindly wear caps and
badges.
Judge Fuller, of Wilkes-Barre,
has issued an order to transfer Mich
ae1 Riley, Harry Stout, James Camp
bell and James Mclaughlin from
Danville to the Criminal Insane hos
pital at Farview.
The last will and testament of
Richard c. Freethy was entered for
probate to-day. The sole beneficiary
under the will was Louise Freethy
Kimble, his daughter, who was be-
queathed all property. She was also
made executrix under the terms of
the will
The Epworth League of the
Methodist church will hold a social
in the parlors of the church this
Tuesday evening. A very interesting
program has been prepared. w. B.
Lesher, Register and Recorder, will
delight the audience with several
readings.
"A. Torzillo, of Stroudsburg,
who for 25 years has conducted a
fruit stand at that place, has rent
ed the H. G. Rettew store on Main
street. Mr.. Torzillo is the father-in-
law of A. Todd, the cobbler. Mr..
Rettew will continue to keep his
hardware shop in this building.
EKreitner Bros. are converting
the second floor of the Baumann
building, opposite Sixth street, into
a two tenement fiat. Each apart
ment will have six rooms and a bath.
The fight of stairs on the north side
of the building will be removed to
the rear of the building. The south
store will be remodeled, and placed
in first-class condition.
The question of how much the
sheriff shall be paid for boarding
prisoners was before the Jefferson
county court last week. The COM
missioners said so cents a day was
too much, and wanted it cut to %.
The sheriff complained that 25 was
not enough, owing to the small num-
ber of regular boarders. The Judge
fixed the rate at 40 cents.
Samuel A. Keagle, convicted of
second degree murder for the killing
of Norman P. Hill, and recommended
by the jury to the mercy of the court,
was sentenced by Judge Whitehead
at Williamsport on Friday morning
to not less than four years nor more
than six years in the eastern peniten-
tiary, in solitary confinement, with
hard labor. The maximum sentence
that can be meted out to a man con-
victed of second degree murder is
twenty years.
William Smith, the well-known
lumberman of Damascus township,
has commenced work in his new
steam saw mill near Tyler Hill. Mr..
Smith has full force of men work
ing for him and expects to do a large
business in the way of cutting lum-
Der. William Applegate, formerly
of Columbia county, but who for the
past nine months has been working
for Mr.. Smith, is considered one of
the best men at the trade in this
section. He has been a sawyer for
the past fifteen years.
-Coatesville's lynching and tor
turing on August 13, 1911, of Zach
Walker, the negro, who in a drunken
rage, shot that towns model police
man, figured largely in causing the
revocation in court of all the five
hotel liquor licenses in that borough.
This same barbaric event, which
caused Governor Tener in January to
recommend the revocation of Coates
ville's borough, charter, was the
actuating basis of a county wide no.
license campaign. The result of
the work started at that time, was
the revoking of licenses of six other
hotels, three of them in West Ches-
ter, two among the county's oldest
and most famous hostelries.
If a new bill that has been in
troduced in the legislature become
law, train crews will have much bet
ter cabooses than they use now. The
law will require all railroad cabooses
to be of steel construction, and at
least twenty-four feet long. Each
caboose will be equipped with not
less than four berths, six feet, two
inches in length, and will contain a