The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-19

Bridge builders commenced
work Monday on the new foot bridge
opposite the head of Court street
and spending the Lackawaxen river.
All material is on the ground.
The infant child of. Conductor
and Mrs. Charles Hilton who was
born on Friday evening last, died
Sunday morning. Private services
will be held on Tuesday. The par
ents have the sympathy of the COM
munity in their bereavement.
The Carley Brook Junior
League will hold a festival on the
evening of August %, to help raise
money for painting the church. A
musical and literary entertainment
is being prepared for which no ad-
mission will be charged. Following
this all are invited to the social
where refreshments will be sold and
an apron sale conducted.
Mrs. Charles T. Bentley, Mrs.
Charles E. Volkhardt and the
Misses Mollie Parker and Mary Fos-
ter were the hostesses at a dinner
given on the hill Saturday night in
:
Mr.. John T. Fuller acted as toast
laid for "a, The ladies served a
delicious menu and the occasion was
most enjoyable one.
Miss Grace Depue, Of Strouds-
burg, one of the teachers at the pub
lie school, met with a peculiar acci-
dent on Monday afternoon while Wis
iting at the Gibbs Cut Glass factory,
this town. She was walking through
the finishing department and acci-
dentally placed her hand in a vat
containing strong acid, in which
glass is dipped to polish and clean
and she suffered painful burns
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Mrs. Rose E. Cavanaugh died
Thursday morning at her home in
Scranton, after a three days illness
of pneumonia. Mrs Cavanaugh was
a former resident of Hawley, but
went to Scranton about seven years
ago. She is survived by the follow
ing children: Agnes, Sadie and Mrs,
Mary E. Morrin and Harry, of Scran-
ton; Mrs. William Fitzpatrick OF
Hancock, n. Y; Daniel, of Hawley
a. oiilSo ohN OOhL VI lOOotOhs
| and William of Orlando, Florida.
AS the Chautauqua tickets are
selling very rapidly and all will be
disposed of, anyone wishing to Sc
cure same can get them from anyone
of the ticket sellers or ]. A. Fisch
at Honesdale Dime Bank. We
would urge our people to buy sea-
son tickets now as the number is
limited to 700 and after they are
sold no more season tickets can be
secured. The regular single admis-
sion prices, 80 and so cents, will
be charged after the Chautauqua
opens.
Five fine Holstein COWS, belong
ing to John Page, of Deposit, were
killed by lightning on the Panl Evans
farm on the Peters Pond road, dur.
ing the storm last Sunday morning
They were not discovered until the
following morning, when Fred ia
cobs, who was picking berries Oh
that hill, found them under an old
chestnut tree in the pasture. The
tree was also struck. The COWS were
valued at from $50 to $125 per head
and insured for $40 per head
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The following men became citi.
| zens at the naturalization court
| which was held here last week: Jacot
Oberle, John Glicha, Martin Kness
Paul Cos and John Doherty. Through
an error the names of Anton Vosel
Anton Berg, Frank Koenig and
Stephen Smidbauer were inserted
in place of the above. The last nam
| n1 I,nry La
required by law to become citizens
of the United States. They will
make application for final papers
next spring.
| Mrs. R. NJ. Bonner, of Scranton
has received news of the death OF
her brother, G. S. McMurray, in AL.
gona, Ia. Deceased was born in
Starrucca, Wayne county, and went
west in 1889 soon after the death OF
his first wife. He is survived by his
| wife and four sons, one in Washing
| ton, one in Council Bluffs, another
in Huron, S. D., and Glenn, at home;
two brothers, o. w. of Algona; Jos
H., of Jola, Kan; two sisters, Mrs
R. M. Bonner, of Scranton, and Mrs
Clarke Stanton, of Forest City.
Members of the Progressive and
Republican parties at a meeting al
Stroudsburg Thursday night decided
to fuse. The meeting, which was
held in the Hotel Fulmer, was large.
ly attended and was presided ovef
by Robert Brown. After the prop
osition had been thoroughly discuss
ed it was decided to get together on
the same candidates. Two sets OF
papers will be filed, one for each par
ty, but the same names will appear
on each and they will be divided be-
tween both in their political illegi-
ance.
Some children playing on the sec
ond floor of house on Walnut street
in Binghamton on Monday morning
of last week saw a rat run into hole
in the wall. They were determined
to get the rodent and so put some
refuse into the hole which opened in
to the wall. When they had filled up
| the hole they decided that the hest