The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-21
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REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy in Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy bjects-Items Of Busi-
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ness and Pleasure that intereat.
Curtis Hills baby suffered a broken
arm when lifted, at Berwick.
The Navigation Company's Panther
Creek collieries closed for three days.
Catawissas dog quarantine yields
twenty-five killings of unmuzzled ours
in day, for fear of hydrophobia.
Thirty infants are reported to have
died in Schuylkill county in year
through midwives' ignorance.
His hand frozen on a recent cold
night Policeman j. P. Gro, of Lewis
town, may lose it by amputation.
A party of fifty students from State
College spent a day in Allentown,
visiting the city's industries.
The Lebanon Valley division of the
Reading Railway transported 1000
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soft coal.
After firing at fleeing burglar at
his home at Chester, William P. Ma
guire found a slouch hat in his yard
with bullet hole through the crown.
Coatesville hotel keepers, indignant
over the activity of no license work
ers, have Gagged" all license remon-
strants, some of whom have tried to
buy drinks.
The Town Council of Northampton
has declined to grant franchises to
allow the new electrical transmits
sion line of the Lehigh Coal and Navi-
cation Company to enter the borough.
George A. Stein, father of Landlord
Charles e. Stein, of Weissport, COM
mitted suicide by shooting when told
by his son, for who n he was tending
bar, that he had another man in his
place.
J. H. Wilhelm, of Mauch Chunk, for
many years paymaster for the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company, recently
celebrated his eighty-third birthday
anniversary. He is still in the best of
health and Spirits.
In pen thirty by ten feet in ex-
tent, Samuel Miller, near Spring
Grove, York county, will try to breed
exclusively a black variety of skunks,
the skins of which are worth $5
apiece.
Adam Gable, merchant, Of Mount
Carmel, already has a flock of spring
chickens hatched. Mr.. Gable is a
great chicken fancier and has a spe-
cial room fitted with steam heat in
which he keeps the chicks.
United States Secret Service men
have been unable to locate or arrest
the writer's of anonymous letters to
Hazleton officials. The writer's either
give the officials advice or else a Sc
we're roasting.
At Scranton, Viola Wells, Titanic
disaster waif, was orphaned again,
when the man who adopted her, John
A. Rady, was killed by machinery in
the Lackawanna mills, where he was
a foreman.
Mayor Tyler believes that the Office
of Alderman in cities like New Castle
should be abolished and also that the
Police Court business should be di-
vorced from the Mayors duties. He
believes that number of Police
Magistrates should supplant the AL
dermen and also take the police work
off the Mayors shoulders in cities of
the size of New Castle. He is taking
the matter up with a view to having a
bill introduced in the State Legisla-
ture to provide for this change.
The Rev. ]. NJ. Price is the Oldest
minister in the United Evangelical
Conference, in session at Milton, hav-
ing been born near Bloomsbury, Feb
ruary 4, 1888. He learned the printers
trade in the office of The Columbia
Democrat. Not being ablt to endure
the confinement, the physician Or
dered him to an outdoor life. It be-
ing in the days of the civil war, he
enlisted in 1861 for three years
term in the service of the United
States. During his service he was
wounded at Gettysburg and Fort
Steadman. He returned in 1865, re-
stored to health. He was converted at
Lime Ridge on February 4, 1866.
An Allentown Bible class taught by
Miss Sallie Heckrotte has secured
handkerchiefs from Mrs. Wilson and
Mrs. Taft, which will be notable ar
ticles to be sold at fair.