The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-26

Ridge.
Tonight (Monday) at the Lyric
the American Play Company presents
the world wide sensation, within
the Law" by Bayard WELLER, the play
that started something. 1t has
played for two years in New York.
While trying to change spark
plugs in an automobile while the en-
gine was running, Martin Eadenson,
of Wilkes-Barre, twenty-one years
old, was cut over the left eye and
rendered unconscious for two hours.
The piston ring flew out and hit him
and three stitches were required to
close the gap in his forehead.
A jolly party is spending a cou-
pie of weeks at "Kro-nest," the pleas
ant cottage of Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad
Swingle on the south shore of Lake
Ariel. Those in the party are as
follows: Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Knapp,
Port Jervis; Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Ed
ards and daughter, Scranton; Mr..
and Mrs. j. N. Edwards and son Ar
den, and daughter, Beulah, of South
Canaan.
The Methodist society of Lake
Como will hold a picnic in Under
woods grove August 2Sth. The
days program will include music,
addresses, sports, ball games, etc.,
and an excellent chicken dinner at
IL m. At p. m. the Rev. H. j.
Rines of Binghamton, will give an il
lustrated lecture in the church ad-
joining the grove. His subject will
be "In His Steps"
-Honesdale friends were pleas
ed to learn of the marriage last week
of Edward Schuerholz, former
Honesdale boy and brother of Frank
w. Schuerholz, the cigar man, to
Miss Sophia Julia Zippel, daughter
of Mr., and Mrs, Jean Zippel, of
Englewood, N. ]. The marriage took
place at Englewood, N. j. Edward
Sehuerholz is an electrician in Eng
lewoed, where they will make their
future home.
The double header which was
won by Honesdale Saturday after
noon from Forest City, successfully
demonstrated the fact that the
"jinX' has left, and we hope has left
for good. The playing of the local
to a degree that old form. If they
be no question of the outcome of the
final game of the series between
Hawley and Honesdale.
The management of within the
Law" are receiving a number of let
ters protesting against the use of the
" Maxim Silencer as it opens up a
new method of deadly work for
crooks. The Police Department has
been asked to have the guns register
ed and the managers bonded to in
sure the public safety. The mana
gers wish to announce that the
"Silencers" used in the production
of Within the Law" were made
especially for the production and are
not manufactured for sale.
State Highway Commissioner E.
NJ. .Bigelow has appointed John T..
Gephart, lately in charge of State
road work in Clearfield, Center, In
diana and nearby counties, to be
assistant engineer of maintenance of
state highways. George H. Biles, of
Philadelphia, is the chief of mainten-
ance and in charge of 5000 miles of
highway. Wayne d. Myers, of Bel
lefonte, in charge of Center county
state roads, has been advanced to en-
gineer, and George Bennett, Belle
fonte, appointed to take charge of
Center roads.
The headquarters of the Scran-
ton delegation who will attend the
convention of the Spanish American
War Veterans at Buffalo, N. Y, next
month will be at the King Edward
hotel. Some of the delegates will
leave for Buffalo Saturday, August
80; the remainder on the Tuesday
following. The Scranton delegation
are confident of having Scranton
named for the 1914 convention.
They have the promise of assistance
from several southern New York
delegations, besides all the camps in
Pennsylvania.
Joseph Roszkovskie, aged twen-
ty-four years, of Carbondale, who
made his home with his brother on
Jefferson street, Simpson, was in
stantly killed in the Northwest mine
Wednesday afternoon by fall OF
roof coal. He was laborer, and the
day was to have been his last in the
mines, as he planned being among
his friends to bid them farewell as
he was going to return to Austria
Hungary to be a comfort to his aged
parents the remainder of their lives
He was popular young man among
his countrymen at Simpson, and his
death just as he was about to quit
the mines for good was a shock to
them.
George Curtiss, an employe OF
the Keystone National Powder COM
pany, and living on the place across
the creek from Emporium known as
the Bingham farm, committed sui
eide Sunday morning, Aug. II. Cur
tiss with his wife and other members
of his household were in Emporium
in the evening and had, it is said,
been drinking. They had trouble
while in town and were ordered to
go home. They did so and Curtiss
having had a previous dispute with