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

Years Day.
Start the new year right by sub
scribing for The Citizen.
The Gurney Electric Elevator
Co. will work on New Years Day,
owing to a rush of business.
Leslie Decker met with painful
accident Wednesday of last week
when he slipped and fell, striking
his head.
The Scranton Poultry show will
be held the week of January IA.
There will probably be several en-
tries from Honesdale. ...
According to new law which
goes into effect in New York state
June 1, 1918, bread must be sold by
weight after that date.
There will be a supper at the
Calkins Grange Hall on Friday
evening, Jan. 8. Benefit of R. d.
Minch. Everybody invited.
Charles Chandler, of Uniondale,
died at his home on Tuesday last,
aged So years. Mrs. Truman Whit
ing, of Starrucca, is sister of the
deceased.
DR.. G. ]. Hunt, associate chief
medical inspector, has returned to
Harrisburg from Wayne county,
where he investigated the smallpox
situation
Owing to the smallpox epidemic
at Hancock, the o. & w. has order
ed all station and train employees be-
tween Middletown and Scranton, and
their families, to visit the railroad
nj, TIT ho uoooinotnd
SO much has been said about
the intricacies of the parcel post
system which will be put in opera
ton Wednesday that its simplicity
will amaze those who have been
led to believe they are going to have
trouble in utilizing it's advantages.
Descriptions of its details are more
confusing than their application.
The sixty-third and most sue
cessful annual meeting of the Penn
sylvania State Educational Associa-
tion ended at noon Saturday in Har-
risburg after Pittsburg had been
chosen for the place of the 1918
meeting and resolutions adopted
cautioning the legislature against
making ill-considered amendments
to the school code.
From an interview in recent
issue of a Philadelphia paper with
Connie Mack of the former World S
champion Athletics" it appears
that Eddie Murphy of White Mills is
sure of his job in right field next
year. Mack seems to have very
good opinion of Murphy and says
that he is just the man for whom he
has been looking to lead off his bat
ting order.
There were more Red Cross
Christmas stamps sold during 1912
than in any year in the history OF
tuberculosis work in Pennsylvania.
Nearly 100000 more seals were dis
tributed and placed on sale than dur
ing any former year. Over three
millions stamps were in the different
stores for distribution. One reason
for the increased sale is the publicity
given through the press.
The "Almeda," a three-story
summer boarding house at Jeffer-
sonville, Sullivan county, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday, Dec.
81, entailing several thousand dol
lars loss. Its capacity was 200
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was due to an explosion of an oil
lamp placed near the pipes to keep
the water from freezing. Insurance
to the amount of $4,000 is claimed
to have been carried on the building
by it's owner, John Beck, Sr. The
house cost $4,000 to build. The
property was recently listed with the
Buy-U-A-Home Realty Company of
this place.
Thirteen of the counties of the
State have received their appropria-
tions from the State in aid of agri-
cultural fairs and settlements will
| probably be made on Others within a
short time. But one is under inves-
tigation of charges by the Auditor
General. Last year at this time four
complaints were pending and inves-
LEGATIONS being made of charges that
| gambling was permitted on the fair
grounds. In some of these cases it
was proved that games of chance
were allowed and the exhibitions lost
the State money. The effect of this
stand has been that couple of fairs
which had figured in previous COM
plants and against which charges
would have been filed did not make
any application to their county com
missioners for State appropriations
The county wherein an investigation
is under way is Tioga.
Manager William D. Fitzgerald
who is regarded very genius of de-
tail thoroughness in his theatrical
enterprises, will present Rose Mel.
ville's production of isis Hopkins
at the Lyric theatre on Friday, Jan
8. This is good news for Honesdale
theatregoers for plays of isis Hop
kins" merit are few and far be-
tween" Here is a stage diversion
that has every element of pure
downright entertainment without 6
moment of vulgarity or boisterous
ness. There is laughter in its every
phase, a tear now and then to vary
the emotions, and withal it is one o.
the most interesting, unforgetablt
comedy dramas that ever won popu
larity. 1t is a veritable chunk O.
Indiana life, picked up in Poseyvillt
and spirited away for preservation IL