The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-25
Honesdale and
Greater HoneSdale

F. ]. To11ey is circulating a pc
| tition among the residents of East
street and East street extension ask
ing the borough to open East street
Trustee w. w. Wood will sell
the belongings of the Herald Press
Association, now in bankruptcy, on
| Wednesday, July 80, at 2 o'clock,
at the Herald office, Main street
There were SO applications for
Provisional certificates in the class
of pupils who took the teachers ex-
animation at Honesdale on Saturday
last. Among the number only three
were boys.
beginning July 1st, the Deposit
Office was, for the second time, made
a second class office. A year ago it
was put back to third class, because
the receipts failed to come up to the
required amount.
j. G. Young, of Liberty, and his
associates, have sold their $4,000
acre tract of timber land, in South
Carolina, to the U. S. government
for $162, 1000, for considerably more
than twice what they paid for it.
w. H. Varcoe, record keeper for
the local camp of Maccabees, paid
$500 to Mrs. George Thomas, of
Carbondale, this week, being the
amount of insurance her late hus-
band carried in this fraternal So
ciety.
Mrs. Joseph Fryer and daugh-
ter, Gertrude, of Honesdale, are
visiting Mrs. Flyers brother, Mr..
Edward Holden, Jr. They have been
touring the eastern part of Pennsyl-
vania by automobile, and came here
from Stroudsburg.- Jervis
Gazette.
The improvement society of
Texas No. has made arrangements
with the Honesdale Consolidated
Light, Heat and Power company to
extend it's line in that township and
furnish 26 additional Tungsten
lamps. The work of installment will
commence about September 1st.
1T is probable that the Rev. j.
r. Atkinson, of Newark, N. j., so
favorably known as speaker in
Honesdale, will be the preacher at
Grace Episcopal church at the 10:30
a. m. service Sunday, July 81. Even
ing service at 1880; Sunday school at
-. During the month of August the
services will be suspended.
"A freight car on an Erie west
bound train jumped the track at De-
posit early Monday morning and
blocked both tracks for several
hours. Trains Six, Seven and 4S
were delayed some time. The Sus-
quehanna wreckers were called to
the scene of the accident. The der
rick of the wreckers broke and this
further delayed the opening of the
tracks.
Deterioration of corn on a large
scale has occurred this month in the
great n-producing states of the
uthwest-Kansas, Nebraska, Mis-
souri,, and Oklahoma. Last year
these States yielded 735,00O,O00
bushels, or nearly one-fourth of the
countrys crop, under normal pre-
cipitation. Thus far into the season
rainfall has been reported as no
more than 72 per cent. or normal.
The huckleberry crop on the
Shawangunk mountains and also in
the Pocono, Pa, region is short this
season and pickers are obliged to
travel twice as far as in past years,
when the berries were plentiful A
party Of berry pickers are occupying
tents on the mountain near the Port
Jervis-Greenville state road and it
is said the berries are taken to Ellen
vile by automobile.
We would appreciate it if our
subscribers would promptly inform
us If The Citizen is delivered i'm
properly. Our carriers are instruct
ed to deliver the paper inside the
house wherever possible, and not to
roll it up and throw it on the porch
or in the yard. We also warn them
not to deliver it by proxy. If we are
notified by the subscriber of any i'm
proper delivery of this paper we will
take prompt measures to have it
corrected.
While swimming with a crowd
OF boys in the Susquehanna river,
near Lanesboro, Thomas Reed, aged
II years, was drowned at treacher-
GUS point known as Shuts Eddy,
the scene of many former drownings.
1t is believed that the youth was
seized with a cramp, for the other
boys, who were nearer the shore,
saw Reed disappear beneath the sur
race, seemingly unable to help him
self. Edward Lannon, who was
walking by at the time, swan out
to the Reed boy, but arrived too late.
Deceased is survived by his father
and his grandfather, Watson Reed,
with whom he resided.
The Davis bill providing for vot-
ing machines to be used at elections
in Pennsylvania was vetoed by Gov.
Tener. The bill was much debated
in the recent session and it was fin
ally arranged that counties could
have machines at their option. The
governor says: This bill is objec-
tionable for the reason that if such
innovation is to become part of the
election laws it should be general
in its scope and not made optional
with the various county commission
ers throughout the state. Such a
provision, in my judgment, would
utterly destroy the uniformity of
voting which is essential"