The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-04

- n0 pave quCoIlOh 10 bhC hhOS'
important. Remember that.
There will be open house at the
Golf club on the 4th. Refreshments
will be served in the afternoon.
The mercury registered 100 de-
grees in the shade at Jadwin's corn
er, Main street, Tuesday afternoon.
Spencer Bros. were awarded the
printing of the ballots for the special
election at half a cent apiece. Six
hundred were ordered.
At ST. Mary Magdalen's church,
masses will be at 8 o'clock and 10
o'clock Sunday mornings during the
months of July and August.
"A marriage license was is
sued to Newton Cromwell Fetter, Jr.,
of Ann Arbor, Mich, and Miss
Blanche Marie Westbrook, of Bloom
ing Grove on Tuesday.
In accordance with a resolu-
ton passed by the Honesdale Busi-
ness Mems association the stores will
be closed Monday evenings during
the months of July and August.
There will be some high class
vaudeville at the Lyric on Thursday
Friday and Saturday nights of this
week Joe Eckles with his five big
acts will be the feature. Special
matinee on Saturday afternoon.
Council John Erik was initiated
into the mysteries of the Grange last
Saturday night at Indian Orchard
Among those present were Council
Boyd, w. w. Baker, and j. j. Koch
man S. T. Ham, w. B. Lesher, T. Y
Ter.
Catherine E. Heb, formerly OF
Lake Huntington, N. Y, and Allen
R. Bodie, of Cherry Ridge, were
married Tuesday morning at the par
sonage of the Baptist church at sew
en- o'clock. Rev. George S. Wendell
performed the ceremony.
The Citizen went to press a few
hours earlier than usual on Thurs
day to enable some of our subscrib.
ers in the rural districts to receive
their paper before the end of the
week; also to enable some of its en-
ployees to take few days vacation
"A circus benefits almost every.
body. The merchant selling grain
hay, straw, meat and other articles
is directly benefited. 1t may be
u uo LudI ldl nc d"OuhJ VI llOuCy
may be taken out of place, but in
turn the people get their moneys
worth and have no kick coming.
Geo. B. Beckley, press agent
and general manager of Wyoming
Bills Historical Wild West show
was in town in the advance car or
Saturday and Sunday. While in towr
he met w. j. Silverstone, an ole
friend in the days when BILLY" wa!
| in the theatrical business in Homes
| dale.
Friday, July IL, promises to be
an eventful day in Honesdale. The
special election to vote on the pro
posed increased Indebtedness fol
pave falls upon that date, the polls
being open from a. m. until p
m. Owing to this election all liquor
licensed places will be closed
Wyoming Bills circus is scheduled
| to give two exhibitions here upor
that day. Take the day as a whole
there will be something doing.
AT the Lyric, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday of this week, Joe
Eckls presents an All-Star vaudeville
show of five acts and four reels o.
| is Mr.. Eckls' fifth visit to Honesdalt
| with different vaudeville companies
He has always offered good, clear
bills that have always made goot
with the people here and the per
formances given this week are up tt
the usual standard. There will be {
matinee on Saturday afternoon a
2:30.
Calling to his mother to sta.
back or he would blow her up as wei
as himself with stick of dynamite
which he carried, Floyd Tiffan!
| jumped over stone wall at his home
near Roscoe, N. Y, stretched him
self at full length on the explosive
and lighted the fuse. A few seconds
later the frenzied mother heard tht
crash of the explosion and saw hel
sons hat go flying into the air. There
was not much left of his body. Tif
fany had not been in good menta
health for some time.
After securing his release as al
inmate of the Binghamton State hos
pital but few hours before, H. LIE
Barr, of Hancock, a man of abou
60 years of age, deliberately threw
himself beneath a slowly moving
Erie engine at Binghamton on Sun
day afternoon and was ground int
an unrecognizable mass. The sui
eide occurred within the sight o
over two hundred people. He haC
been classed as suicide patient a
the institution where he had gon'
| voluntarily. He had been released
upon his own application Sunday.
There is a certain elemen
which claims that taxes will be ;
great deal higher if the people o
Honesdale vote for pave next Friday
However, this is not true. The in
crease, if any, will be very light ant
hardly worth falling ahOuT ThI