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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
STERLING HIGH SCHOOL COM
MENCEMENT.

The fifth annual commencement
exercises. of the Sterling High
school was held last Friday evening,
May 2, in the Sterling Methodist
church. That edifice was filled to it's
utmost capacity. The exercises
proved to be the best ever heard in
a small town. They were high in
character and evidenced consider
able time in preparation, rejecting
considerable credit upon the princi-
pal of the school. The Juvenile Or
chestra, under the dictatorship of F.
A. Jenkins, of Honesdale, rendered
excellent music for the occasion.
DR.. l.. l.. Sprague of Wyoming
Seminary, delivered a scholarly ad-
dress. The graduating class con-
sisted of five boys and two girls and
is the largest to have been gradu-
uated from this school in five
years The program is as follows:
Orchestra.
Invocation, Rev. j. A. Tuthill.
Presidents Address-Ellis Uban.
Grafton, George Cross-Internation
al Arbitration and Peace.
Solo-Ethel Meyers.
Grafton, Karl Simons-The Care OF
the Orchard an Important Factor
in Modern Agriculture.
Essay, Ethel Meyers-Present Pos
sibilities of Our Nation.
rchestra-Selected.
Glass Prophecy-Lowell Cross.
Grafton, Lawrence Uban-Thomas
jefferson.
Trio-Ethel Meyers, Beulah Cross
Myrtle Ammerman-"Rest Thee
on This Messy Pillow"
Glass Motto and Valedictory-Olive
Simons.
Address-Dr. l.. l.. Sprague.
Presentation of Diplomas, F. L
Hartford, Sec'y of School Board.
rchestra-Selected.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
500 REWARD, 500.

The readers OF this paper VIII be
pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that
science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Halls Catarrh Cure is the only posi-
tive cure now known to the medi-
cal fraternity. Catarrh being
constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the consti-
tuition and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. j. CHENEY & CO.,
Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
Fosters Weather Bulletin
Copyrighted 1918 By W. 7. FOSTER

WASHINGTON, D. c., May s.
The rains of the disturbance that
reaches the eastern section from the
west about the 18th will not cover
large sections but will be concentrat
ed and some heavy downpours may
be looked for. 1t is not possible now
to locate such rainfalls. A large
part of the country will remain dry
and will be robbed of moisture to
make up the heavy local rains. The
cool wave preceding this disturbance
will carry frOsts further south than
usual, but the cool wave following
will not bring very low temperatures.
The Second Disturbance.
Another disturbance will reach Pa
cific coast near May 13, cross Pacific
slope by close of IA, great central
valleys Is to II, eastern sections IS.
Warm wave will cross Pacific slope
about May 13, great central valleys
10, eastern sections II. Cool wave
will cross Pacific slope about Maybe,
great central valleys IS, eastern sec
tions 20.
This disturbance will be at its
greatest force on Pacific slope but is
not expected to be dangerous. Tenn
peratures will go very high and sec
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
BOROUGHS CAN'T
VOTE LOCAL OPTION.
Amendment to the Initiative and
Referendum Found to be Very
Carefully Made.

The Allen bill to confer the initia-
tive and referendum upon the 900 or
so boroughs of the State has been
found upon reprinting to contain an
interesting amendment, which eff
fectually prevents the referendum on
legislation for the regulation of the
sale of liquor. In other words, the
referendum can not be invoked on
local option.
The Allen bill has had an interest
ing history. 1t was presented on
February 10 and stayed in commit
tee until April 8. The chief amend
ments provide that mo provision of
this act shall extend the powers of
boroughs to legislate by referendum
petition or by initiative petition or
otherwise upon any matter unless at
the time the authority by expressly
granted to boroughs by general law
and provided, further, that none of
the provisions of this act shall be in
Voked for the purpose of regulating
the sale of liquors"
Other amendments provide that it
shall take ten instead of five per
cent. of voters to get a referendum
on ordinances and fifteen instead of
ten per cent to obtain the initiative.
Another amendment is that any part
of an ordinance may be referred.
The House last evening reconsid-
cred and passed the bill providing
that boroughs may name controllers
in place of auditors, a measure pre-
sented by Mr.. Haggerty, Lackawan-
ma.
The bill requires councils to ac-
cept the law before the change can
be made, thus doing away with any
ripper features and placing the con-
troll entirely within control of local
authorities.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR CITI-
ZEN READERS,

The belief of the proprietors of
this newspaper is that there is moth
ing too good for readers of The Citi-
zen. Having that belief, our policy
has been consistently along that
line. Several marked improve
ments in the paper itself have re-
Gently been inaugurated, but they
are really only the beginning OF
what it is our purpose to do. Our
course is conservative, and our
greatest effort shall be to make
The Citizen the local newspaper of
the common people of Wayne coun-
ty.
In order that some thing might
be learned that would help us pro-
duce the best paper in this part of
the State, we sent two representa-
tives to New York city on April
26th to look over the exhibition of
National Exposition Of printing and
advertising that held it's sessions in
the Grand Central Palace. They
went, and saw, and learned much.
They came home filled with the i'm
portance of the profession of which
they are members. The exhibition
had the same effect on them that
comes to a farmer who for the first
time gets away from his possessions
and gains broader view of the way
in which the spirit of the age is
working out the vast problems OF
which he has but a rudimentary
knowledge. OF course it is difficult
for one to put his finger definitely
on any special place where some
wonderful thing has been learned,
but the results are sure, and the
sending of Citizen representatives to
that National Exhibition is as sure
to help us make in the future bet
ter, brighter and stronger Citizen
newspaper as anything may be con-
sidered sure in this world.
Again we want to say that we be-
lieve there is nothing too good for
Citizen readers, and we shall do our
utmost to see that they ever get the
best.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06

Advertising is the same to busi-
ness that nitrogen is to plant life. 1t
is the thing that makes a business
grow. No business can become per-
manently successful without it.
My first admonitioh to people who
treat advertising lightly, and also
to business concerns who ought to
advertise but don't, is-DON'T BE-
LITTLE ADVERTISING.
Every advertisement in this news
paper is NEWS and every news ar
t'cle is an ADVERTISEMENT.
Press dispatches from Washing
ton advertise the achievements Of
some political party or individual
member of Congress. Reports of U.
S. troops on the Mexican border ad-
vertise the strength of our army to
the world.
All news is information affecting
the welfare OF the individual, corpor-
alton, state or nation. Literally it
is advertising.
But no news is so vital to all the
people as the advertisements. Let's
see how advertising news has in
creased your purchasing power.
A better suit of clothes can be
bought today for SIS than you could
buy for $25 a generation ago when
woolens were cheap and protective
tariff unknown.
The high-grade flour your grocer
sells could not be purchased twenty
years ago with wheat selling at half
(Go,+;o,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06

grees; and coldest day sixth, mean
29 degrees. Mean for the month
AGA degrees, is ga degrees above
April average of 43 degrees for As
years; from 35 degrees in 1874; to
sos degrees in 1878. Last year it
was 43.7 degrees.
Ten days were clear, eleven fair
and nine cloudy; average SO per cent
of sunshine to 29 last year. Prevail
ing winds northwest.
The month ended with a perfectly
clear day, with no cloud or haze in
sight of my station; and May begins
with the same record. Fields are
mostly green, and forests changing
colors.
THEODORE DAY.
Dyberry, Pa, May 1, 1913.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06

his sleeping master. Donovan has
refused good offers for the goose
and is satisfied that should he sell
it it would find its way back to his
home" We had scarcely recovered
from the shock occasioned by read
ing about this desirable goose when
we had another shock in the follow
ing from the same reliable news
paper: Mrs. Harry Horsey, wife Of
another Glendale farmer, has a
goose which for the last week has
been laying eggs with three yolks in
each"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
r. SNAPPY LITTLE BUSINESS STORIES. ~
This Space Every Tuesday.
"Heart to Heart Talks About Advertising"
By Roy B. Simpson.
copyrighted 1911 by r. B. Simpson,

present prices, simply because such
good flour couldn't be made. Yet
the best flour costs no more now than
the inferior product did then.
notwithstanding the high tariff
and the enormously increased price
of raw materials and high labor
cost, you can purchase most of the
things you eat, wear or use, of bet
ter grade than formerly at no in
crease in price. Very often you
pay less.
The manufacturer or dealer does
more in one year than his forefath-
ers did in ten. The old time mer-
chant and manufacturer realized so
to 100 per cent. profit and more
on each sale, but your modern mer-
chant is content, often with as little
as 3 to per cent. and makes more
money-by constantly turning his
capital.
Advertising has made this posi-
BILE. 1t creates a continuous demand
and increases consumption. 1t re-
duces the cost of manufacturing by
increasing the production. 1t makes
competition and keeps retail prices
down.
When you READ an advertise
ment just think of it as an import
ant piece of news published for your
exclusive benefit. When you WRITE
an advertisement put into it an in
teresting, truthful piece of NEWS.
Don't belittle advertising!
led Tuesday,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
NrMBROUs DEER TRACKS.

Travelling along the Promised
Land road few days ago numerous
deer tracks were seen and it is no
unusual sight to see several at one
time feeding in a meadow near
Lords Valley. Several pheasants
were seen along the road and they
appeared quite unconcerned.- Pike
County Press.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
HELEN KELLER.
Blind and Deaf Girl Who Has Learn.
to Speak to Audience.

Helen Keller has overcome so
many obstacles in her career and has
accomplished so many wonderful
achievements, that her having learn
ed to speak seems but a natural
crowning of her years of labor. This
has been her greatest task, however,
and has been only the result of years
of unparalleled patience and effort.
1t is said by great aural surgeons to
be the greatest individual achieve
ment in the whole history of educa-
ton.
Being able to give voice to the
thoughts of her active brain, Helen
Keller brings a message that Is full
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Anna Tenbus, of Berlin, to Law
renee Tenbus, of same, land in Ber-
lin township; consideration $500.
John Varcoe, of Clinton, to Har-
yer j. Little, of same place, land in
Clinton township; consideration 81.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06

to 25th. Let's keep our weather
eye on these dates and see if Foster
is right.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
Observation-Disclosures.
SOME THINGS To THINK ABOUT

Observation-Disclosures
FOREST FIRES have been men
acing various parts of Wayne coun-
ty, and the great amount of damage
done by them emphasizes the fact
that the State is to be commended
for it's endeavors to control, and pre-
vent as far as possible the vast waste
that is wrought annually by this
agent of destruction. These great
fires also emphasize the fact that
most people are too careless about
handling matches. Men light their
pipes and fling blazing matches care
lessly away to ignite dry leaves or
other rubbish. Railroads, too,
should be held more in check by the
State, and should especially be held
responsible for the great damage re-
sulting from the fires they defiantly
kindle along their lines. During fire
seasons there should be some means
enacted to oblige every locomotive
engine to be equipped with an eff
cient spark arrester. Until some
such provision is made the destruc-
tion by forest fires will go right on.
Copious rains extinguished the fires
throughout Wayne county, and vege-
tation is so far advanced following
the soaking by rain, that fires won't
run to any alarming extent from
now on till autumn.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06

DO SWALLOWS ever make mis-
takes? There are signs and signs,
and again there are sure things with
no sign" or guess work about them.
In the Spring of the year when the
peppers" are heard for the first
time, people put the brake on fine
weather optimists by reminding them
ominously that 1.-The peppers must
freeze up three times" Then, as
the days go by and the robins and
blue birds have begun active busi-
ness along housekeeping lines, and
your optimism has been checked with
seventeen different kinds of winter
weather, you awake some morning,
(this year it was Sunday, April 27)
and you note that the time has come
when the swallows homeward fly"
for they are dipping and diving
through the air all about you, and
you wonder if they ever make mis-
takes, and if the cold, wintry blasts
are really over. Now, again comes
the fellow with the brake, reminding
you that lone swallow does not
make Summer" And you get
even with him by replying, But 1
am not talking about swallow,
am talking about a lot of swallows,
for 10! the air is filled with them !!
Do they ever make mistakes, that is
do so many of them make the same
mistake at the same timer
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06

THE UPS AND DOWNS of jour-
nalism are brought very vividly to
the forefront just now by the fact
that the Public Ledger, the grand
and reliable old newspaper that Geo.
w. Childs, the Philadelphia philan-
thropist, conducted for more than a
generation, after an experience un-
der the Ochs for several years as a
one cent paper, has gone back to the
two cent class under the direction
of it's new proprietor, Cyrus X. Cur
tbs. Mr.. Curtis fixes the price at two
cents because he says the high cost
of producing newspaper precludes
the publishing of it at profit at one
cent. Furthermore he proposes to
use better grade of paper, to in
crease its size, and allow news agents
better profit for handling it.
While the Public Ledger thus goes
up, Golfers Weekly, one of the best
and most successful of the weekly
magazines of the world, after being
published for more than ten years at
$3.50 year, has been reduced ex-
actly $500 a year, and the price is
set at $3.50 a year, beginning with
the issue for May 8. It's just like
the elevator in big city building
while one goes up, another goes
down.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06
THE POULTRY BUSINESS

THE POULTRY BUSINESS is
looking up, even right here in
Wayne county. Henry Jennings of
Beech Grove, reported the other
day that he has twenty-four hens,
and one day recently he gathered 26
eggs. He wouldn't put price on
sitting" Cor shall we say "set-
ting?") of them. Neither did he
seem anxious to sell any of the two
dozen layers. Since Henry called
we have learned that there are
others in the Wonderful line of
poultry, for instance, there is Jas.
Donovan, a farmer, who lives at
Glendale, near Wilmington, Della
ware, who "has a pet goose which
is a wonder. 1t is as attached to
him as a dog to its master. Dono-
van is in the habit of taking maps
during the warm weather under his
large shade trees, and the goose
stands beside him picking off flies
and mosquitoes as they alight on
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-06

NEVER KICK A BANANA skin
when it is down on the sidewalk in
the city of Brooklyn. If you do, it
may cost you a dollar, besides the
discomfort and inconvenience Incl
dent to arrest. That is, what it act
tually cost a we'll meaning man there
one day last week. He saw the skin
on the sidewalk, knew it was danger
GUS to allow it to remain, for hu-
name reasons kicked it into the gut
ter, and felt real good and virtuous
because of the deed; but it was af-
ter a. m, and no sidewalk may be
swept after that hour as the street
garbage wagons are gone with loads
by that time, and those who violate
the city ordinance are fined a dollar.
The man gave up his dollar under
protest; but he smiled as he saw his
neighbor fined dollar because he
had failed to sweep off his sidewalk
before the magic hour of a. M,
which is also BROOKLYN ordinance.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-10-11
SHERIFF SALE
GEORGE PROVOST
vs..
ALFRED SPENCER EFT AIS

state Of Louisiana, t'llsN ~ ''''"
18Th Jud DIST. Court.
1.,,oo, !, horebv given that 10y virtue
a., ,r,;, 81 Fisri Fncias, emarat'uE FROM
ua above entitled and numbered cause
lirooted. |. George Henderson,
shorin Through Frank J MestaYer. DHp
usy Sheriff. hav" seized ana wiz o"' .n ~,
soi. md will sell ~ Public Auction FOX
CASH TO the last and highes' p'oap' ~
the Court House, VI the city OF Ne" i'''
ia. f,oni.iara between legaI shle ue"'S -
ON SATURDAY, OCToiEh ~ 1913
the following described prop"r'E' w. ""
A cert ain lot of ground WIN ~ NV
buildings aud improvements lhe'p"n VIZ
thereunto belonging, situated W '"e Wy
If New iberia, Parish OF thers' ''''
measuring sixty two feet front on Mahlsou
Street by depth at ONE hnnure" a'u
TWENTY-FIVE aud han feet ana houN"'"
north by Leleu. south by Spencer east ny
Olivier and west by Madison Street; he
inc the one half OF the property purchased
NV Frances Spencer from Z. >. olVl''
and beins OF records in Book OF Convey
auee. No. Is at folio 2S5 of iberia PARISH
Louisiana e..
To nav and satisfy the sum of sixty we
dollars debit with interest at per cent
nor Annum from October 2l-t, 1903, IN
til paid: the further sum of three hundred
dollars with per cent interest per snn-
nm from June oath 1905, until pad, to-
setber with ten per cent attorneys ices
upon the aggregate amount of principal
and interest and all costs of these pro
ceedings
Given officially this 9th day of Sept 1913.
GEORGE HENDERSON, Sheriff,
par Frank J Mestayer by. Sheriff
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-10-11
LEGAL NOTICE.

The Judgement in favour Of The j.. +.
Hays Company and against Mike Arrigo,
duly rendered in the 18th judicial Dis
tret Court OF La, sitting il and for the
Parish Of iberia, No. 5g43, duly entered
and docketed in She Office Of the Clerk OF
Iberia Parish, for the full and true sum
OF S4g6 %, together with the legal inter
eat thereon from October 7. 1912, until
paid, and all costs of said suit, will be
sold at public vendue to the last highest
responsible bidder, ct the principal door
Of the Court House, in New Iberia, La,
between the hours prescribed for judicial
sales, on
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER LIST, 1913.
By order of
POWERS ADJUSTMENT 60.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-10-11

1MeeessiOn Safe.
Succession Sale.
SUCCnSSToN OF MRS ANAiST VIATOR
DECBASRp WIDOW OF ADRIEN
DOMINIQUE.
18th Judicial District Court of Louisiana
Parish of Iberia

BY virtue of commission issued unto me.
the undersigned Admins TRAITOR, out of the above
said Court, under an order granted the 26
day of September 1913.
There Will be sold by the undersigned Admins
traitor or a duly authorized Public Auctioneer,
FOR CASH for the purpose Of realizing funds
to pay debts OF the above said Succession) nj
Public Auction, TO the last and Highest bidder on
SATURDAY the 9th DAY of NOVEMBER 1919
between legal sae hours, at the late residence of
the deceased In the City at New iberia the
property belonging to the above said Succession,
and described as follows to wit:
certain lot of ground with all the buildings
and Improvements thereon and thereunto stunt
ed, aud all appurteDauces thereof, situated
within the corporate limits of the City Of New
Iberia In the Parish Of Iberia, Louisiana
measuring fifty 800 feet 'front.' on the East side
of first or st. CHARLES Street by depth between
parallel lines of one hundred aud ninety six and
half feet (le8tsl bounded in front BY said
street in the rear by property OF Mrs. Mathildn
knight bourd or assigns, above by lot No. IL
and below by Lot No. Ia; being hot No. - of
Block 20 of boutd's extension to Ns~ Iberia
plan OF which is on file In the office of T. l.,
Renouht, Notary Public.
"Ali the movable effects consisting of House.
hold furniture and kitchen utensils fully
enumerated In the Inventary taken In above
ORNILLE DOMINIQUE,
>. IL DAVis. $50, Administrators
Attorney.
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-10-11

hNihoNi Az mpbIihh AMI H. ", HAChbE
State of Louisiana. Parish Of iberia 10Th Judi
siai District Court.
Notice Is hereby given that by virtue Of and II
obedience TO writ of Fieri Facias eman stins
from the above entitled and numbered cause apt
TO me directed, l. George Henderson, Sheriff
ssized and will offer for sale and will sell al
Public Auction FOR CASH to the last and high
est bidder at the Court House in the City of New
iberia, Louisiana, between legal sale hours on
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER =, 1919.
the following described property, te wit:
certain los OF ground together with all tbs
buildings AMI improvements thereon and there
unto belonging and rights, ways and appurte
nanees thereof, situated In the City of New rbe
ria. Parish OF iberia, State of Louisiana hav ine
front on the UAAt side of st Peter Street oi
One HsndseA feet, by n depth between parable
lines OF One Hundred and Fifty feet, bounded
North or above by Corinne Street, South by
property o. Caldwell or assigns East by property
OF walter [. broussavd and West by ST Peter st
To pay aud satisfy the sum of Zone Thousand
Nine Hundred and Fifty Dollars debt less a cred
u of Two Hundred and Eighty Six Dollars and
thirty -Four cents. together with interest on said
Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Dollars at 8 pc,
cent per annum from June LIST 1912 until date
Of Judicial demand, add on the said amount less
said credit, that - Sixteen Hundred and Sixty
Three Dsllars asd Sixty Six cents from Judicial
demand until paid further 10 per eens on the
amount claimed on the principal and interest %,
attorneys ices; farther the sum of Thirteen Dol
lars and twenty Bve cents ms premiums OF fnsur
snce aud Thirteen Dollars aud Fifty Cents ss
fines and pe1alties
Given officially this 9th day Of September A
ID. 1913. GEORGE HENDERSON, Sheriff
Per Frank J. Mestayer, by. Sheriff
New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1913-10-11
SEED OATS FOR SALE.

The old reliable Southern Dat. | have
planted these Oats for thirty five years
and have never had them rust or winter
killed. Seed l am Offering are from a
crop that made M high as rs bushels per
acre. Price rs cents PER bushel.
TX you expect tog get into the progressive
band wagon" you will have to diversity
your farming, raise more stock and live
at home.
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