The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-02-28

interior OF Cnelr clOJnlHg SCOre new
ly painted and papered.
"A marriage license was issued
Wednesday to John E. Reed and
Miss Matilda X. Harder, both of
Honesdale.
Mrs. Albert Jones and her son,
Paul, of Matamoras, who have been
visiting relatives at Gravity, Pa, for
the past two weeks, have returned
home.
Mrs. Emma Secor and family
moved their household goods to-day
from West street to rooms in the
G. VIM. Sell property on Main
street.
The Citizen contains the finan-
cial statement of Wayne county in
to-day's issue. 1t occupies the whole
of page six and one column on the
seventh page.
Several employees of the Homes
dale Footwear Company have gone
to Binghamton where they have Sc
cured work. Among them are Geo.
Disch, John Rippel and Henry Miller
John J. McGraw, manager of
the New York Giants, had his life
insured last week for 100000. This
amount is now considered the most
valuable asset that the baseball club
has.
Among Honesdalers who were
in Scranton on Tuesday were T.
B. Clark, w. M. Fowler, F. G.. Ter
williger, w. H. Krantz, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. G. Mumford, G. P. Searle and r..
M. Salmon.
"A Bit of Scenery" written by
Miss Beulah Freeman, and the
"View from the Bridge" by Miss
jeanette Pohle, pupils of the High
school, were both descriptive articles
of beautiful Irving Cliff.
The revival meetings at the
Methodist church continue to draw
numbers of people. On Wednesday
evening Dr. Murdock, district super
intendent, preached an interesting
sermon after which the fourth quar-
terly conference was held.
St Johns Lutheran Mems Guild
has added about forty new members
to their list since starting their mem
bership contest about month ago.
Final returns of the contest will be
made by the captain Thursday even
ing when a meeting of the Guild will
be held
Two cases of typhoid fever were
recently reported to the county
health officers as being in White
Mills. The patients are Misses
Rodman of Hawley, is attending
them. The house in which they
live has been placed under quaran-
tine.
Eugene H. Cortright, the local
agent for the Buick automobile, who
formerly conducted the garage on
North Main street, expects to go to
Susquehanna in the near future
where he has secured the agency for
The Buick car for that county. Mr..
Cortright is an energetic and able
salesman and will undoubtedly do
considerable business in the new
field.
District State Horticulturist
William H. Bullock has just received
communication from Prof. H. A.
Surface, State Zoologist, that he will
be in Honesdale on March 81 to or
ganize the Wayne Horticultural AS
sociation in which Mr. Bullock and
other individuals are interested in
forming. This is exceedingly grati7
flying news. Prof. Surface informed
Mr.. Bullock that he would be glad to
come to Honesdale.
Charles NJ. Elmendorf, who
ran" the Hotel Wayne here for
about one year, went to Binghamton
to conduct the same business at the
Hotel Sterling, but his way of
management the police of that city
didn't like and consequently "The
Sterling" was raided on Saturday
night last. Charles went to the
Loomis House for shelter but was
soon found and arrested. He is un-
der $500 bail to appear in court on
Saturday, March 1. He is charged
with keeping a disorderly house and
violating the Raines law.
"A quiet marriage occurred on
Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at
the home of R. Duane Reed on East
street Extension when his son, John
Egbert Reed, and Miss Matilda Har-
der of Cherry Ridge were married by
Rev. w. H. Swift, d. D. The affair
was a quiet one and was attended
by only the immediate relatives.
Those who witnessed the nuptial
event were Mrs. Charles Harder of
Cherry Ridge, mother of the bride,
and R. D. Reed and daughter, Miss
Mabel, father and sister of the
bridegroom. Mr.. and Mrs. Reed will
reside at No. 1907 East Street Ex-
tension,
Rev. L. c. Murdock, district su-
perintendent of the Methodist church
of the Wyoming conference chose as
his text at Wednesday evening S
meeting, Every Man Having This
Hope Purifies Himself, Even as He
is Pure" 1t was an excellent sermon.
Among other things DR.. Murdoch
said concerning Billy" Sunday, the
evangelist, who is conducting meet
ings in Wilkes-Barre: Good people
who heard Billy Sunday knew that
he was doing good work and would
heartily commend him. 1t would
be a good thing for many a congre-
cation if the pastors would reproduce
Sundays sermons" Special revival
services this Thursday and Friday