The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-04-15


There were no church services
in the Presbyterian church Sunday
on account of the illness of DR.. W..
H. Swift.
-Towanda, that hustling Brad
ford county town, has secured a new
industry in the form of large hos
iery establishment.
The public school entertainment
in the auditorium last Friday even
ing was we'll attended and the in
teresting program reflected much
credit on teachers and pupils alike.
Music was furnished by the High
school orchestra.
Mr.. Cox, the Salvation Army
representative of Scranton, will be in
Honesdale all this week collecting
papers, magazines, books, old
clothes, etc., and will make calls
around town with a wagon. If you
have any of these articles to give
have them ready for him.
AN adjourned session of the last
quarterly conference of the Central
Methodist Episcopal church will be
held this (Monday) evening at 8
o'clock in the Methodist parsonage.
At this time the business of the year
will be settled and reports given.
Organization Of the official board
will also be held.
Before this week will have fin
ished Honesdale may know who its
new postmaster will be. The ap-
pointment is looked forward to with
unusual interest. There are several
candidates in the field and despite
this President Wilson may give the
Office to some party who has not Pc
titioned the public for it.
AS an offset to the great dam
age by Spring floods, the absence of
floating ice or of ice gorges on prac-
tically all of the great streams of the
country over the greater portion of
their courses is certainly a compen-
sating factor not to be ignored. Had
there been this usual element added
to the enormous flow of water, the
destruction would have been a great
deal more thorough, as well as more
extensive,
Through Judge Smith, attorney
for the Osterhout estate, says the
Sullivan County Democrat, Jacob
near Maplewood last week to Eugene
Dillingham;. There are $50 acres in
the farm and while under the cir
cumstances the price is considered
adequate, it is also considered to be
cheap farm for the purchaser. Mr..
Billingham expects to establish a
fruit farm and raise squads.
The Hawley Times says that
Ferdinand ]. Crockenberg, of Scran-
ton, formerly proprietor of the Eddy
hotel at Hawley, has leased the
Lackawanna hotel, on Crystal street,
East Stroudsburg, from George w.
Febel, owner and proprietor, for the
term of five years. He took posses
sion yesterday, April IA. Mr.. Crock
enberg has purchased all the furni-
ture and fixtures in the hotel and
contemplates making a number of
improvements about the place.
Two laborers tearing down a
stone wall in Goshen found a pack
age containing $1,000 worth of jew
elry. There were gold watches, stick
pins, hat pins, breast pins, rings and
other articles. The matter was re-
ported to the Goshen police, and on
one of the pieces was found engraved
the name, Eva Keyes," and inquiry
disclosed that a woman of that name
had for several years been an inmate
of the Interpines Sanitarium, and is
now confined in the Poughkeepsie
State Hospital.
The Kimble & Decker Silk COM
pany has sold it's mill at Middletown,
N. Y, to the Middletown Self-Lock-
ing Burr Manufacturing company.
Possession will be given about June
1. The Kimble G Decker company
decided some time ago to abandon
the Middletown building and move
the machinery to Moscow, where
they have a new mill, and will take
advantage of the lull in the silk bus
mess caused by the strike to make
the transfer. The Middletown mill
will be kept in operation until it
completes the work for which it has
immediate demand.
General orders will shortly be
issued from national headquarters
announcing that Battery B, Pitts
burgh, and Battery G, Phoenixville,
will not encamp with brigade organi-
cations, but will encamp from July
2 l to 20 with United States army ar
tillery at Tobyhanna in the Pocono
mountains. The orders will desig-
nate the encampments of brigade or
ganizations as follows: First brigade,
Mt. Gretna, July 10 to 26. Second
brigade, Erie, July to 12. Third
brigade, Selinsville, July 5 to IL.
Fourth brigade, Selinsgrove, July 19
to 90. Company E, of Honesdale,
will encamp at Selinsgrove with the
Thirteenth regiment.
Governor Tener is giving his
support to the Boy Scout movement.
The Scout Bulletin of last week says:
Ten Governors of the United States
are behind the scout movement and
are doing everything in their power
to help it. They like its principles
and the manner in which it sunNlies
fun for the boys. Those men are
Governors Eugene Foss of Massa-
chusetts, John K. Tener of Pennsyl-
Vania, Ben w. Hooper of Tennessee,