The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-25
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Farmers Busy in Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects-ltems of Busi-
ness and Pleasure that Interest.
Morrisville will organize a village
improvement society.
After cutting tombstones at North
Wales for forty years, James Billiard
is retiring from the marble business.
Eggs are a drug in the West Chester
markets, and are selling at II and 20
cents.
Congress rules the country and
drives prices up" said Joseph Brewer,
of North Coventry, under Court ex-
animation for naturalization.
Perkasie demands a town flower,
and to get the sentiments of citizens
the First National Bank has sent out
blank coupons.
Building permits for work aggre-
eating $150,000 have been issued since
the first of the year by Building In
spector T. T. Williams, of Chester.
st. Luke's Lutheran Church, Easton,
has purchased additional ground ad-
joining it's property for a larger
church.
Robert Klotz, member of a prom
inent Easton family, is under arrest
on charge Of embezzling funds from
an insurance company.
At West Chester, Burgess Jefferis
caused the removal from billboards of
pictures advertising the Rosenthal
murder case at a local moving picture
show.
Charles Tate, grocer at Devon, was
arrested for selling an adulteration
called olive oil, that contained 95 per
cent cottonseed oil, and was fined $50
and $14 costs.
Quakertown High School students
have been offered prize of So by the
Woman's Club for the best essay on
How to Make Quakertown an Ideal
Town"
Having been arrested for embezzle-
ment, ex-Prothonotary Stephen X. Az
kinson, of Newtown, pleaded guilty to
the bill in the Judges chambers and
sentence was suspended.
Water mains burst at Yardley, and
1t was necessary to shut down for a
time the powerhouse of the New Jer-
sey & Pennsylvania Traction Corpora
tion, the building becoming flooded.
A bad landslide occurred on the
Eastern Pennsylvania Street Railway
between Mauch Chunk and Nesque-
honing, delaying traffic for several
hours.
Raymond Cattell, a young man of
West Chester, has brought suit against
the Sharples Separator Works for
$4,000 damages for injuries received
when his arm was badly mangled in
machine.
West Chester residents say that
among the most pressing needs Of the
town are: Trolley connections with
Wilmington. Government by COM
mission. Terminal facilities for troll
ley freight. More prompt payment of
small bills. DRY" weather at the
clubs. Four Fairgrounds at different
sections of the town. More strict en-
forcement of the anti-cigarette law.
Walter Rose, of Tarentum, has de-
parted for South Rumania, Europe,
where he is to be in the employ of the
Standard Oil Company to look after
its interests in the oil fields. Mr.. Rose
will have charge Of the drilling and
teach the art to the natives Of that
country. He sailed from New York
yesterday, and 1t will require IL days
to make the trip. Mr.. Rose has a
three-year contract with the Standard
Oil Company.
Harry Painter, a 23-year-old Perry
county citizen, had his first ride on a
railroad train to Harrisburg. He has
lived all his life just outside of New
Bloomfield, where he has heard the To-
comotives on the Susquehanna &
Western Railroad, but he never wan.
dered near enough to use the trains,
What makes 1t all the more remark
able is that Perry county has had
railroads for almost three-quarters OF
century, and New Bloomfield has