The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-15

school rooms of Grace Episcopal
church on Friday afternoon.
The Hdnesdale school board
members will hold their regular
monthly meeting in the High school
building on Thursday evening.
Miss Amy Cory entertained the
Five Hundred Club at her home Fri
day evening. Prizes were won by
Miss Bessie Lawyer and Mrs. Otto
Weaver.
Mrs. Anna B. Powell, of Darby,
ninety-five years of age, died on
New Years day. She had lived in
the one house all her life. She died
in the same room where she was
born.
"A successful program was held
in the High school auditorium Fri
day afternoon. Music was furnished
by the high school orchestra and
recitations, essays and orations were
given by the pupils.
The following marriage license
was granted in Susquehanna county:
Clarence S. Bullock, Waymart, and
Pearl L. Burdick, New Milford.
Last year 290 marriage licenses were
granted in Susquehanna county.
-Honesdale's Sunday schools
elected delegates to the district con-
vention, which will be held at White
Mills on Thursday of this (week.
Outside of the delegates a special
invitation is extended to the public
to attend.
An appeal was filed by the
Pennsylvania Coal Company frdm
the action of court in the case of
William j. Ramble VS.. Pennsylvania
Coal Company. The appeal will be
heard in the Superior court on the
first Monday in March.
E. H. Rogers, reputed to be the
oldest resident of Montrose, died at
his home there Friday evening. He
was a lifelong resident of that place
and in his earlier days was one of
the famous wagon makers of the
country He was SO years old.
The Wednesday evening SER
vice at Grace Episcopal church will
be omitted because former rector
Dr.. George c. Hall will preach on
Friday evening at seven thirty. The
congregation will meet DR.. Hall in
the rectory after the service. DR..
Hall left Honesdale about eighteen
years ago.
Ludwig G. Gebhart, Erie freight
agent at Hancock, has been promo
ted to the position of station agent
at Shohola, Pa, by the officials, and
left last week to assume the duties
of his new position last week. Mr..
Gebhart was sent to Hancock from
Narrowsburg, his place of nativity,
ten years ago last August.
The American Knitting Mill
Company, owing to new business has
found it necessary to broaden out
and acquire additional property to
take care of the same. On Saturday
the company purchased a piece of
land adjacent to their present large
factory property, the use of which
has not as yet been definitely de-
cided.
Leon G. Bidwell, of Maplewood,
a lumberman, has filed a petition in
with Referee w. H. Lee.
Mr.. BidWelIs assets consist of team
of horses, harness and wagon,
amounting to $3.50, while his liabili-
ties are $2,697.40. The first meet
ing of the creditors VIII be held in
the referees office, Honesdale, on
Monday, January 27.
-Four more patients were taken
to the State Hospital at Farview
Thursday afternoon from Danville.
They were in charge of a deputy
sheriff of Monroe county. None
of them are violent. Charles Gull
berson, of Stroudsburg, who had a
mania for setting fire in that town
some time ago, is one of the new
patients. The other patients are
Samuel Bells, John Hohenshield
and Irwin Altmose.
George E. Bates, division
freight and passenger agent of the
Delaware & Hudson Railroad COM
pany, was attending to business in
Honesdale Friday and while in town
he called at The Citizen office. He
stated that the Delaware & Hudson
company have just closed one of the
most successful years of business in
its history. Freight facilities are
better than ever and the company in
tends to give to Honesdale and
Wayne county patrons the best of
service during the coming year.
Two important orders in the
case against Charles June Knapp,
former president of the defunct
Trust Company, were
signed by Justice Gladding in Su-
preme Court in Binghamton last
week on application of District At
torney Meagher. Their effect is to
make the order of the Court of APP
peals the order of the Supreme
Court of this county. Mr.. Knapp
must now appear before Justice
Gladding in the Supreme Court on
Tuesday, January IA, to plead
Deposit Courier-Journal.
The following is the program of
readings to be given in the Homes
dale High school every other Sat
urday afternoon beginning at 3:15:
January IS, "The Promised Land"
by Mary Antin; February 1, "The
Servant In the House." by Charles
Ram Kennedy; February Is, "The
Terrible Meek" by Charles Ram
Kennedy; March l, "Marlowe," by
Josephine Preston Peabody; March
Is, THE Singing Man." by jose
L.