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

j. A. Bodie, Sr., was in Wilkes
Barre over Sunday.
Mrs. Frank P. McKanna is quite
ill at her home on Ridge street.
Judge A. T. Searle expects to hold
court in Philadelphia this week.
c. M. Harris has purchased Ford
touring car of Emerson w. Gammell.
Hon. G. A. McCarty was called to
Stroudsburg on Monday on legal
business.
Miss Laura Rehbein, of Brooklyn,
is guest of Miss Evelyn Seitz on
East street.
Miss Louise Franz, of Wilkes-Bar-
re, is guest of Mrs. G. j. Kelley on
West street.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Walters, of
Jermyn, spent Saturday in Honesdale
with friends.
George Hayward returned home
on Friday>evening of last week, after
a months absence.
Andrew Mattress, who recently
fractured the bones of his ankle, is
able to be out on crutches.
B. F. Haines spent few days last
week in Philadelphia in the interest
of the Progressive movement.
Mrs. Fred Rieher and son, Stan
ley, expect to leave the latter part
of this week for Jeanette, Pa, to
join her husband.
Frederika Turner, now a trained
nurse in New York City, is spending
two weeks vacation with her aunt,
- c4r
Mrs. James Murray was called to
the Emergency Hospital, Carbondale,
Monday afternoon. Her husband,
whose leg was recently amputated,
is not so well.
Hon. j. G. Birdsall was in Phila-
delphia last week. While in the
Quaker City he attended the Pro-
gressive banquet, given in the int ar
ests of that party.
George Spettigue, travelling sales
man for the Sherman Williams Paint
company, was greeting friends here
Friday and Saturday after an alb
sence of several months.
William Loris, of Brooklyn, has
re-entered the employ of the Gurney
people here after an absence of four
duties in the near future.
Russell Burcher, who for some
time has been wire chief of the Con-
solidated Telephone company, is in
New York City where he is taking
an advanced mechanical course. He
is succeeded by Michael Cannon.
Misses Merle Goodnough, Anita
Clark, Lena Pethick, Louisa Sheard
and Junanita Branning, all of Da-
mascus township, who are students
at the Bloomsbury Normal school,
are spending the Easter vacation at
home.
DR.. Russell Wall, of Moses hospi-
tai, Scranton, operated upon Mrs.
Daniel Peil, of River street, Sunday
morning for strangulated hernia.
Mrs. Peil is doing nicely, much to
the qualification of her many
friends.
Thomas Crossley, who was re-
Gently operated upon in DR.. Reed
Burns hospital, Scranton, is rapid
ly recovering. He is able to walk
around his room and is nicely i'm
proving. He hopes to be home in
the near future.
Mrs. Frank Starbuck, of Orange
street, has returned from a visit of
some weeks with relatives and
friends in Honesdale. Her daughter,
Miss Gertrude Starbuck, who was al
so visiting in Honesdale, returned
with her mother.-Port Jervis
Union.
Jacob and Henry Riefler of Carley
Brook, and two of Wayne county's
most enterprising farmers, accom-
panied by their aunt, MIS-. Stitch, of
Titusville, left Monday morning for
New York City. Tuesday they will
sail on the Kaiser Wilhelm for Bre-
men, Germany. From there they
will go to Gomaringen, Wittenberg,
Germany, where Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Riefer, parents of the boys, live.
Jacob has not visited the Fatherland
since coming to America 80 years
ago and Henry has not returned in
20 years. Both gentlemen are hard
working farmers and The Citizen ex-
tends bon voyage and hopes they
will enjoy their earned vacation.
The party expects to be absent un-
til the middle of May.