The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-03

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sat up nearly an hour on Thursday.
DIR. Eliot, of Harvard, says there
is no hell. Evidently he has never
encountered clothesline in the back
yard on a dark night or experienced
running a newspaper.
The first Friedewald reading of
the Honesdale series, will be given
at the High School, Saturday, Janu-
ary 4th, at 3:15 p. m. sharp. Course
tickets may be secured from Miss
Mollie Menner, or Miss S. Louise
Hardenbergh, Single admission at
the door.
January 20 has been fixed by
the Supreme Court for hearing at
Philadelphia the appeal of the State
from the decision of the Dauphin
county court in what is known as
the criminal insane maintenance
case. This is to determine the
amount counties must pay for main
tenance of criminal insane.
John Shaffer, of South Canaan,
who was adjudged insane by COM
mission on Monday and ordered re-
moved to the State hospital for the
insane at Rittersville by the poor
board of that township, was taken
to Rittersville Wednesday by one
of the poor directors. He will re-
main there until he is legally dis
charged.
Every enlisted man of the Ma
tional Guard of Pennsylvania prob
ably will be equipped with one of the
new olive drab rubber ponchos with
in the next month. These ponchos
are similar to those in use in the
regular army and will replace the
familiar rubber which has been part
of the equipment since before the
Spanish war.
A $500 fine was received at the
office of the State Game Commission
mans Ferry, having come from
man who said that he had shot a
doe and informed on himself The
man had shot the animal when
state policeman and a game warden
were behind him and hastened to
inform against himself in order to
avid being arrested.
George Polchrian, an Austrian,
is in Goshen Jail where he was TAX
en- a few days ago, after being found
living in a cave near Tuxedo. Two
hunters found him. Remnants of
food were found in the cave which
he had begged from people in the vi
cinity. The man seemed to be in a
state of bewilderment. Questioning
brought out that he has a wife and
six children living in Austria. He
will be kept in jail to await further
developments.-EX.
Tracy A. Lighthiser, through
the Buy-U-A-Home Realty Company,
on Thursday, purchased the S. w.
Powell three-story brick building To-
Gated at 633 Main street. The lot
is 25X100 feet, upon which is
erected a store building 25x75 feet.
the baker, now occupies
the first floor; Charles Patterson the
second suite and Mrs. Biddle the
third floor. The building is in first
class condition and is located in one
of the busiest sections in Honesdale.
Mr.. Lighthiser read the advertise
ment in The Citizen in the Buy-U-
A-Home company's real estate ad.
1t pays to advertise in The Citizen.
In San Francisco DR.. David
Starr Jordan is preparing a bomb
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that is expected to blast holes in the
worlds opinion of itself DR.. Jor-
dan is, among other things, presi-
dent of the eugenics commission of
the American Breeders association,
ten for them. After tracing the an
cestral history of about one thous-
and American families, representing
cnunrnl illinn nf hn hoc n
ed these conclusions:
Scranton society with it's out
of-town guests danced the old year
out and the new year in at the an
nual Bachelors ball in the Armory
Tuesday night. Eclipsing all previous
affairs in brilliancy and elaborate
ness the event was a great social
success. The boxes, thirty-six in
number were arranged on three
sides of the ball room. Raised Just
a step from the dance floor and
marked off by ropes of pine set up
on short pedestals at regular in
terVals, the scene perfected present
ed more of a real ball room effect
than anything else. Ranging from
behind the boxes a forest like hedge
of spruce marked off a pretty walk.
Separating the boxes and facing the
dance space were jardinieres of
needle pines.
1t is remarkable how varied the
scenes are of the stories which the
Companion announces for
1913. Labrador is the background
of The Wilderness Castaways," by
Dillon Wallace; a Maryland planta-
ton, that of " The ColonePs Ex-
pertinent" by Edith Barnard De-
lano; Louisiana, that OF The
Game-Warden Series," by Charles
Tenney Jackson; and South Caro-
lima, that of " Old Plantation Days"
Missouri appears in group of
stories of the pioneers, and New
England in Tales of the Old
Farm" by the always popular C. A.
Stephens. Mrs. Ella Peattie's story
moves between New York City and
In every sense of the
word, The Youths Companion is the
national family paper.