The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-02-14

| Burton Hutchins, at Waymart.
The ladies of the Baptist church
cleared about $25 from their supper
Tuesday evening.
Mrs. A. Arnold, of Waymart, at
tended the annual reunion of the
Kizer family held at Hotel Jermyn
Wednesday evening.
1t is reported that the ice on
Lake Lodore has been sold to a
Scranton concern. 1t is ten inches
thick and of extraordinary quality.
Richard j. Hartnett has been
awarded the contract to furnish and
erect two electric light standards,
each standard to contain five lamps,
for st. Mary Magdalen's church
Reuben French, a drayman, met
with an accident Wednesday after
noon which resulted in the break
ing of an axle on his wagon. A
farmers sleigh collided with Mr..
French's wagon.
Martin Gotlock, aged twenty
six, of Gouldsboro, was arrested last
evening by Patrolman Orson Hal
lock charged with breaking the win
dow in a lunch room at Adams ave-
nue. and Railroad alley, Scranton.
AT a business meeting of the
Presbyterian church held last We'd
nesday evening the following were
reelected trustees for a term of
three years: Hon. A. T. Searle, W..
H. Stone and j. e. Richmond
Lincoln Day was fittingly OBJ
served with exercises at the State
Hospital for Criminal Insane at Far
view Wednesday. Several of the
inmates proved to be excellent mu-
sicians and number of vocal and
instrumental selections were enjoy
ed.
"A large force of men are cutting
ice on Keens lake for the Lodore
Improvement company. Several car
loads have already been shipped
down the Lackawanna valley. Ice
has also been shipped to Farview,
Prompton and Honesdale. Work up
on filling the large ice houses whose
capacity is 10000 tons, will COM
mence next week.
Two young students of o. E.
Williams aviation school made two
flights in Wyoming, Pa, one of them,
though, being marred by an accident
in which the machine was somewhat
damaged and a man named Lindner,
was bruised about the head and legs
by the fall. The machine was up in
the air about fifty feet when sud
den gust of wind tipped the machine
sideways and in making the hasty de-
scent, both Lindner and his passen-
ger were thrown to the ground. The
passenger, however, was'not hurt.
The high cost of living" judg
ing from figures issued recently by
the Department of Agriculture, ap
parently is solving itself as the re-
suit of lower prices for agricultural
products. On February l the prices
paid for staple crops averaged nearly
20 per cent. lower than on the same
date last year, 6 per cent. lower than
in 1911 and nearly 19 per cent. be-
low 1910. Corn, wheat, potatoes
and eggs are lower, although chick
ems are higher. The increase eX-
tends virtually to all meats-pork,
beef, veal, mutton and lamb all COM
higher prices. The prices
of staple vegetables have fallen.
The will of the late Frederick
Horst was admitted to probate We'd
nesday in the office of the Register
of Wills. The chief beneficiary un-
der the will is Margaret Horst, who
receives the use and income from all
his personal and real estate during
her natural life. After her demise
the eXecutriX is instructed to convert
all property into cash. Miss Pauline
NJ. Horst was named eXecutrix. She
was bequeathed $500. The children,
Joseph, Henry, John, Barbara Welsh
and Pauline will share and share
alike after the etsate is disposed of.
The witnesses to the will were Eta
Nielsen, w. H. Stone and A. T.
Searle.
Thomas A. Edison was sixty-six
years old Tuesday. His wife, after
much urging, succeeded in eXacting
a promise from the inventor that he
would leave his beloved laboratory
that evening, climb into a boiled
shirt" which he hates, and partici-
pate in a little birthday party she
had arranged. After giving his re-
luctant consent to this arrangement
and sending out word to the report
ers that he "felt like twenty-five and
was too busy to be interviewed"
Edison plunged into his laboratory
and resumed his labor on his talk
ing-motion picture device, the kline
tophone. Edison's employees observ-
ed the day by wearing buttons and
pins bearing the numerals "66."
We extend congratulations to
The Wayne Independent and its
hustling and genial editor and pro-
prietor, B. F. Haines, upon his in
a new Goss Perfecting Web
press. The Independent of Wednes-
day was printed upon this machine.
The paper came out with a clean new
dress and is now a seven column
folio instead of six. The Independ-
ent was brimful of news in it's initia-
tive number of the thirty-siXth vol
ume and its editor promises the
readers that it will be better. The
Independents editor is progressive
and never does anything by halves.
He secured the first typesetting ma
chine that came into Wayne county