The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-02
: Personal gg Pertinent :

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One of the decidedly pleasant
sights on Honesdale streets the past
few days has been the familiar face,
with it's kindly and pleasant smile, of
Thomas Crossley, who for many
years has been the travelling repre-
sentative of W. B. Holmes & Co.,
Honesdale's old and we'll known
wholesale establishment. Probably
no business house ever sent out a
more faithful or more popular rep
resentative. He has always been a
welcome visitor at every store on his
itinerary; but for several weeks he
has not made his rounds of CONNER
cial calls, and those who have look
ed for his periodical visits have felt
that something important had drop
ped right out of their lives. The
writer doesn't know that Mr.. Cross
ley ever reads the Apocryphal books
of the Bible or not. Most Protest
ants let that part of the Big Book
alone. In one of its books that is
called Ecclesiasticus, in the 3Sth
chapter, the 18th verse reads like
this: He that sinneth before his
Maker, let him fall into the hand
of the physician" Now, as Sin is
declared to be "the transgression of
the law" and a common, everyday
doctor is introduced in the express
sion, after results would seem to
warrant the assumption that Mr..
Crossley had failed to eat some of
the breakfast foods, or other arti-
cles, that he had sold to his clientele
I OF merchants, and thus had COM
mitted a physiological sin that neces-
y STATED his falling into the hands of
4 the physician. That was possibly
i why he had to go to private hospi-
tai in Scranton, and that was the
probable reason surgical operation
became necessary; but he is back in
= Honesdale once more, recovering
rapidly and is now a long ways on
the road to recovery. 1t will not be
many days now ere Mr. Crossley will
be ION the job" again, carrying cheer
to the merchants of northeastern
Pennsylvania, who will all gladly
welcome his periodical visit once
more.
Henry Jennings! Oh, yes; we
Beech Grove in the days when
Chauncey D. Brooks, Clarence Bush
nell, Frank Brooks, the Bodies, the
Robinsons, the Blakes and other
good people used to walk into
Prompton to attend the Wayne
County Normal school, when Dan
iel G. Allen was County Superin-
tendent and James Bellknap, Prof.
Butler, Prof. Colcord, Prof. Bur-
well and some others were teaching
The teachers at the Normal seat of
knowledge. And so, after your
years of experience away from the
+ scenes of your childhood, you are
pack in old Wayne county to stay.
light on the old spot at Beech Grove
That's good, too Well, it certainly
S delightful to meet you and your
rood wife on the streets of Homes
ale. And your greeting is as cheer
ul as it was in the days when you
aught school up at Hoadleys and we
vent pigeon hunting together in the
eech woods on the road to what is
ow known as Lake Clemo, but
Fhich in those days was known by
he unpretentious name of Sand
ond. That your stay in Old Wayne
hay be long and very pleasant is the
hrnest wish of the writer, who likes
b wake up occasionally and find that
pine pleasant dream has become a
Pality.
When P. ]. Keary walked into the
tizen office one day last week he
as right fresh from the healthful
eights of his residence at Bone
idge, near Hawley, and all hands
ere glad over his little visit. At
r he had told us what he knew
out the new copper mine near his
rm, he mentioned little incident
OF hi 1ac ct
II that brought down the house"
me Bone Ridgers were out coon
nting by the light of the moon.
lie hunters passed over a field of
5 broad acres that was Uttered all
Ter with round cobble stones-just
T. out the size of base balls, and they
lrvelled over the fact that so care
and particular farmer as is Mr.
ary should allow them to remain
en- Mr.. X. smiled broadly, yet sad,
as he said: What those hunters
bk for stones were not stones at all
ley were passing over my potato
III from which 1 had dug about
ZEE hundred bushels of rotten po,
oes and left them on the ground
ey were frozen as hard as stones
t was all"
Dne of the most interested of the
+ thousand people who met at the
plant of the Gurney Elevator
npany on Wednesday night, Apr
was Joseph Sheard the postmas
of Fallsdale, who came to Homes
~ for the special purpose of at
ding "the doings" and taking &
p at the up-to-date structure
re is certainly more than one
son why Mr.. Sheard attended
doings," and you don't have t.
ss why, either, when you recollec
he is not only Fallsdale's post