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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

ler's Bible class will hold a watch
night service at the home of their
president, Frank Evans, on Fifteenth
street, Wednesday evening.
Rev. Will H. Hitler cordially in
vites the public to attend the praise
and prayer service in the church par
lors of the Methodist church on We'd
nesday evening, December 81.
There will be a meeting of the
Cradle Roll department of the Meth
odist church Thursday afternoon
from to A o'clock in the parlors
when graduation and baptism will
take place. Parents are requested
to accompany their children.
Notes.
Count your opportunities as tai
ents. How many have you lost or
folded in a napkin during the past
year?
In looking back over 1918, have
you done all that you could for your
respective church?
If you are not regular attendant
at Sunday school start the new year
right by enrolling as a pupil.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
GREATER HONESDALE A POSI-
BILITY IN 1914.

One of the many things which we
hope to see before many years is
Greater Honesdale. A broadening
out or expansion of the borough
proper. Honesdale ought to take
some steps toward being misrepre-
sented at the time of taking the CEN
sus. We are now credited with hav-
ing a population of about 5000,
whereas in reality there are from
1000 to 5000 people living within
a radius of the central part of the
town proper. The town would weld
a greater influence, be in class of
a city and it would be better all the
way around. Let's all work for
Greater Honesdale. 1t is coming, but
so is next Christmas. By hard and
persistent work il besystematic way
it will not be I54g before we will
enjoy a bigger, buster and better
Honesdale.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

expected to return to the Regional
Banks and be Withdrawn from circu-
lation when the need for their use
passes. ,orL
None of the existing forms of pa
per currency will be disturbed by the
new law. Provision is made, how
ever, that the government two per
cent. bonds, upon which National
Banks now secure the issue of their
3" bank-notes," may be purchased by
the government at par, through the
Regional banks. This provision is
expected to result in the gradual re-
tirement of most of the national bank
currency.
The Federal Reserve Board will ex-
ercise final control over the entire
operation of the system. 1t can COM
pei one Regional Bank to loan to an
other in time of need; can authorize
banks to use the Treasury notes or
even national bank notes as part of
their legal reserves; can suspend all
restrictions surrounding the reserves
which Regional banks must hold i;
and can remove directors of Regional
Reserve banks whenever it is believ-
ed necessary.
"
the boards of the Regional Reserve
banks, their connection with the
Federal Reserve Board is only
through an Advisory Council, made
up of one representative from each
Federal Reserve district. This coun-
Gil will meet in Washington to confer
with the Federal Reserve Board "on
general business conditions" and to
make recommendations and sugges-
tions concerning discount rates, note
issues and reserve conditions.
An important change in national
banking methods, embraced in the
new law, will permit all national
banks except those in New York
Chicago and st. Louis, to make di-
rect loans on five-year farm mort.
cages, up to 25 per cent. of thei1
capital and surplus, or up to one.
third of their time deposits. Anoth-
er provision in the law permits ma
tional banks having a capital of ST..
100000 or more, to open foreign
branches. Similar authority is Civ.
en- to the Reginal Reserve Banks
the purpose being to facilitate the
development of American trade
abroad.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
THE CURRENCY BILL.

The new treasury notes, which are
to furnish the elastic element in
the currency system, and to add to
the country's circulating money in
time of need, will come into use in
the following way:
The notes will be printed by the
government, with a distinctive style
for each Regional Reserve bank. One
of the three directors named by the
Federal Reserve Board for each Re-
gional bank will be known as the
" Federal Reserve agent t" for that
bank, and supply of the notes will
be placed in his custody.
Should a Reginal Bank desire to
pay out more money than it's cash re-
sources will permit, the law provides
that it may put some of its redis-
counted commercial paper into the
hands of the Federal Reserve
Agent" and receive in return the new
treasury notes. For each note that it
puts out into circulation, the Re-
gional Reserve bank must set aside
in gold 40 per cent. of the value of
the note, as a guarantee for it's re-
demption. This gold with the COM
mercial paper held by the Federal
Reserve Agent" is the protection be-
hind the new money; but these notes
will also be guaranteed by the gov
ernment, and may be redeemed in
gold at the United States Treasury.
Each Regional bank, under the
act, must keep a reserve of 20 per
cent. of the deposits it has received,
besides the 40 per cent. gold reserve
hehind the Treasury notes it issues.
If the gold reserve behind the notes
falls below 40 per cent, heavy tax
is imposed on the bank, which in
turn adds the tax to the rate ii
charges member banks for redis-
counts. This was designed to stop
an over-expansion of currency. In
times of sudden stress, the Federal
Reserve Board can suspend these re-
serve provisions, in order to furnish
quick relief to any community.
One Regional bank can not again
pay out the notes of another, except
under heavy tax These notes are
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
OBITUARY..
Death of John w. Seaman.

J. w. Seaman, one of Wayne coun-
tvs best known anu respected citi-
zens, slept away at his home on Will
low avenue Monday morning, aged sc
years. Mr.. Seaman has been afflict-
ed with valvular heart trouble for
sometime. He has also been a
patient sufferer from rheumatism
for several Years. Mr.. Seaman spent
Sunday with his family and appeared
unusually happy, in fact his health
was better than it had been in sew
eral years. He retired as usual and
no sound came from his bedroom
during the night. His son-in-law
Robert B. Brenneman went to the
room at 1880 to eXtinguish the night
lamp and as he did so he noticed
something unusual in his father-in-
laws appearance. He notified his
brother-in-law, George H. Seaman,
and Dr.. F. w. Powell was called, but
life had quietly gone out a few
hours before.
John w. Seaman had been a
resident of Honesdale for about 20
years, having moved from Berlin to
his late home on Willow avenue at
that time. He was born in Milford,
Pike county, February 10, 1928,
where his life was spent until he
came to Honesdale, where he has
since lived a retired life.
Mr.. Seaman was married to Mary
e. Stephens in 1865 and she died
July 2, 1891. The following chill
dren survive: Charles W., and AL
fred V. Seaman, of Carbondale; Geo.
H., at home; Charlotte NJ, wife of
Robert B. Brenneman, of Willow
avenue; also by twin sisters, Mar
tha Seaman, at home, and Mary
Seaman, who makes her home with
her nephew, A. V. Seaman, in Car
bondale.
The deceased was an attendant of
the Berlin Baptist church for sever
al years and had also contributed lib
orally toward its support. Mr.. Sea-
man was man exceptionally upright
In character and possessed many
friends who will be sorry to learn
of his death. He comes from along
lived family, whose members vary in
age from Sc to 101 years. Mr.. Sea-
mans father, Charles B. Seaman,
died when he was 92 years old; his
wife at SO years and a sister, Mrs.
Eleanor Smith, at 94 years.
The funeral will be held from the
house Wednesday morning, Rev. G.
5. Wendell, of the Baptist church Of
hclating. Interment will be made in
the Berlin Baptist church cemetery.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
"a BUNCH OF YARNS"

Sounds good, doesn't it? Well,
they say it is as good as it sounds.
And here is what sit" is: Mr. Stan
ton H. King, of Boston, has been Sc
cured as speaker at the Grace Church
Mems Supper, which will be held at
the Allen House on Tuesday evening,
February 8, at 7:45. Mr.. King is
superintendent of a Sailors Haven,
at Boston. He is an inimical speaker,
very forceful and humorous. He an
nounces for the subject of his talk,
"a Bunch of Yarns" and Judging
from the nature of his daily work
and the opportunities it affords him
to acquire knowledge of first-hand
experiences, all who hear him at the
Mems Supper will be glad ever after.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
LOOK INTO THE FUTURE.

To-day, December 80, is the last
issue of the seventy-first volume OF
The Citizen. Next Fridays paper
will appear fresh and bright in the
dawn of 1914. The management of
this journal has a number of sur
prises and good things in store for
it's readers. We hope to make The
Citizen brighter and more attractive
during 1914 than it was in the year
now closing. We have all enjoyed
most prosperous year, despite what
some calamity howlers have said.
Business has been good, the country
at large has remained peaceable and
we as a people have a great deal to
be thankful for.
All of Wayne county's various in
dustries have been busy, which is a
good criterion of prosperity. In fact,
the Honesdale manufacturing plants
have received more orders than they
could execute in a given time. The
scarcity of operators in a measure
has handicapped business to a GER
tain extent, but this will be overcome
in 1914. The Wayne County Rail-
way Company, which we have
every reason to believe will be built,
will have a tendency to bring addi-
tional help to the town and build up
the suburban districts. The coming
of new industries to locate in Wayne
county and near Honesdale, is assur-
ed. This also will rehabit dear old
Wayne and place this locality in a
position where it will be known
throughout the United States and in
foreign countries. The industrial
outlook is exceedingly bright. The
Greater Honesdale Board of Trade
is planning for a banner year, al
though it has done number of tell
ing things for the town during it's
short existence of about two years.
Honesdale has voted for a paved
Main and Park streets, preliminary
work upon same having already been
commenced. Besides this much need
ed thoroughfare for Honesdale,
which has been muddy since the
borough's Incorporation, four score
years ago, other improvements are
likely to be made. There is a pos
sibility of removing the poles and
placing the overhead wires on Main
street in conduits underneath the
pave.
By the cooperation of the Homes
dale Improvement Association the
planting of trees along either side of
the street to replace the poles would
add greatly to the streets appear
ance and tend to make Honesdale an
ideal Maple City.
An Act of Importance, which
was passed during the last Legisla-
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
One Life Lost i'm 100000.

Washington. - Approxim a Y
100000 passengers were carried for
every life lost on steam vessels in
the United States in the last year, ac-
cordlng to the annual report of Geo.
Uhler' Supervising Inspector General
OF the Federal Steamboat Inspection
Service. More than 1000, 900 per-
sons were carried on vessels required
to report, and of this number 436
lost their lives. OF the lives lost,
however, only 210 can be attributed,
the report says, to accident, explo-
sion, collision, or foundering of yes
sells, the remainder being due to sui
eide, accidental drowning, or similar
causes.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
TUESDAY, DE CEMBER 30, 1913.

ture, session 1918, was for the es-
tablishment and maintenance of
boards of health in boroughs and
townships of first class. True,
Honesdale has a Board of Health,
but we have been authenticity in
formed that it is not overly ambiti-
Gus, no meeting having been held
since the appointment of one new
member, which was six months ago.
This does not, however, signify that
the Board is not doing it's duty in the
community, but with the reorganiza-
ton of municipal affairs at the first
of the year new plans may be outlin-
ed for the Board of Health, work.
The new Act of Assembly grants
greater authority over the communk
ity than was given former boards.
With the advent of 1914 a num-
Der of changes are looked forward
to with considerable amount of in
terest. Honesdale's burgess-elect, G..
S. Wendell, is now given full power
and control over the police for the
enforcement of the borough ordin-
ances and for the discharge of their
respective duties. Although Burgess
elect Wendell has not made public
his platform, it is a foregone con-
clusion that he will perform his
duties with integrity and celebrity
and make Honesdale an ideal chief
executive.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
THOUGHT FOR TODAY.

"The most blessed of human
endeavors is service-the ser
vice that educates and builds, and
makes this old world better and
a happier place in which to live
and work. Service is the spirit of
the hour. 1t blesses him that
gives and him that receives; it
is the brotherhood of man in bus1-
ness; it is helping hand extend
ed unselfishly; it is bread cast
upon the waters; it is way of
helping ourselves by helping each
other. The best that can be said
of any man is this: He served
others that they might better
serve themselves"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
ELLA FLAGG YOUNG DEPosED.

Chicago's school board elected
John d. Schoop, who has been assist
ant superintendent, to be superin-
tendent of public schools in place of
Mrs, Ella Flagg Young, who for four
years has held the position. The de-
feat of Mrs. Young was followed by
the resignation of Peter Reinberg as
president of the board and Dean Wal
ter V. Summer as chairman of the
committee on school management.
For some time enemies of Mrs.
Young had been conducting a secret
campaign against her.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
Charged With Murder of His
Grandfather.

Charged with the murder of
grandfather, John e. Bush, Edw|
Smith, "a years old, of Harrisbu
is in Jail here.
Smith was arrested in the un'
depot at Pittsburg, by the police
that city. More than $4,000 in C;
part of the small fortune VIII
his grandfather had-was found
on his person. Smith said the my
ey had been given to him by
grandfather.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
Bill Posters Willing to Meet GOvern1
ment's Wishes Without Suit.

The so-called Bill Posters Trust /
is negotiating with the Government
to follow the example of the AmeriJ
can Telephone and Telegraph Com1
pany and dissolve, says a Chicago
dispatch. Suit against the alleged
combination was begun at Chicago
recently, but the association is said
to be willing to conform to every
wish of the Government without furl
ther procedure in court.
The Governments suit is a civil
one directed against Associated Bill
Posters and Distributors of the U. d
and Canada. In these two countrie
there are said to be. four big associf
tions of bill posters and distributorv
which are members of the defendant
association.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
Death of James RYAN.

James Ryan, for 40 years a resi-
dent of Tanners Falls and later of
scranton, died at his home there on
saturday. He was a bachelor The
remains arrived on the 10 o'clock
Delaware and Hudson train and TAX
en- to st. Johns Roman. Catholic
church, from where the funeral was
held.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
WANTS APPOINTMENT OF PO
MASTER.

Emerson w. Gammell, secret
of the Wayne County Agricultu]
Society and late of Bethany, circul
ed a petition among the citizensj
Honesdale the latter part of the wd
for the office of postmaster of Y
borough.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

Damascus L; Lebanon 1; Mt. Pleas
ant 8; Palmyra 1 Sterling 8; Pred
ton L; Bethany 3; Salem 2. Wayn
county had a population at that tim =
of 1868.
The Baker family gave their frs
concerts in Honesdale at the BaptisE
church, Friday and Saturday evdR
nings, March 9th and 10th, 1844
The Family came from Salisbury, N
H., and comprised the following
gifted vocalists: John G. Baker an
wife, George e. Baker and wif&
Henry F. Baker and Jasper A. Bah&
er.
The highest points in Wayne cou4d
ty are Sugar Loaf and Ararat mouI
tains, in Preston township-2,451
and $500 feet respectively The lowa
est point is Damascus village, 76S
feet above tide.
Wayne county has more lake.
than any other county in Pennsylvs1
mia. They number nearly $50 in al
| Preston has 80.
Lucius Collins, father of L. s. CoN
Inns, county surveyor, was elected
sheriff in 1881 by a majority of 35'
The total vote in the county wal
| 1854; of which Collins received 301y
Martin Kellogg, 266, and Joseph Mill
Ter, 1877.
In 1881 oak wood sold in Philal
! delphia at $40 cord and hickory al
$14.
In the winter of 1872 there was
fine sleighing in this section for near.
ly four months without interruption
The snow was four feet deep in the
woods at the beginning of March.
During the week ending July %
1882, there were 933 interments o1
cholera victims in New ork city
Honesdale had one death from the
same disease on the Sth of the fol
lowing month-that of John Tall
madge. He was sick eight hours.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
REHRRGb,trc
Qlg 11otRe lll

Dr. John 7. Mcfarland, editor of
the Sunday School Literature of the
Methodist Episcopal church, passed
away Sunday night at Maplewood,
New Jersey. Since 1894 DR.. Nc
Farland had held position unex-
celled in Christendom for influencing
the lives and beliefs of growing
young Protestants. AS editor Of our
whole series of Sunday school lessons
and helps the fruits of his mind and
pen have been borne into more
homes and read by more young peo-
pie than that of any other religious
journalist.
"Go-to-Church Day. in Joliet, ILL.,,
following a three weeks campaign
urging church attendance on the part
of all the people, brought in 10000
persons, crowding every chruch to it's
capacity. Chicago is planning for a
similar campaign for February.
Rev. John G. Thomas, D. D., Con-
gregationalist, who is said to have
been the originator of the individual
communion service, died recently at
Lima, Ohio.
The Methodist Episcopal church
has in it's various mission fields 1882
missionaries and 975,4S1 church
members.
Rev. G. B. Papa, late of Clinton,
Ind, has been appointed to the Ital-
ian Mission work in Scranton and
Carbondale.
n f0r of I,a
Wyoming Conference, was ordained
to the Episcopal ministry the past
week.
Much can be accomplished by CO.
operation in business life. Why will
it not apply in church work? Help
support your pastors arms during
1914 by volunteering your services
in the church of your choice.
Pastors living in any part of
Wayne county are requested to send
church news to this department. 1t
will be published free and willingly
with the hopes of doing some one
good.
| New Years eve service at Grace
Episcopal church, Wednesday, Dec
81, l1:30 o'clock. After a brief ad-
dress the Holy Communion service
will be in progress at the opening of
the new year.
The cantata, Santa Claus and
Company" will be given in Grace
church Sunday school room on We'd
nesday New Years Eve, at 1880
o'clock. 1t has been very carefully
rehearsed under the direction of Miss
Dorothy Menner.
If the reader of this item happens
to be an ambassador of the, Lord he
is requested by the Religious Editor
of this department to use this col
umn as freely and often as he
chooses. Communications of a re-
ligious nature, that contain some
thing to make the shut-in's life hap
py and bright, are solicited. Make
this column a sunshine department.
Send to the Religious Editor of The
Citizen Publishing Company the
names, addresses and date of the next
birthdays of aged persons in your
parish who would rejoice at receiving g
a birthday card. Remember the sick,
send their names and addresses. All
names will gladly be printed in this
department so that they, too, may re-
ceive cards and words of encourage
ment from a large circle of Citizen
| readers.
blessings ever wait on virtuous
deeds,
And, though late, sure reward
succeeds. s."-Congreve.
Methodist Church.
The members of Mrs. w. T. But
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

The currency bill was signed by
President Wilson December 23. 1t
NAV result in "23" for some of the
banks of our nation.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30
In Days Gone BY
TAKEN FROM THE CITIZEN


Wayne county has had five hang
ings. Peter Allen for the murder of
Solomon Tice, in Bethany, October
18th, 1908; Cornelius Jones for the
murder of his stepfather, George
Roswell on the George G. Robertson
farm, Dyberry, February, 1917;
Freeman Mariners, for the murder
of Colonel Jonathan Brooks, in Mt.
Pleasant township, June oath, 1928;
Harris Bell, for the murder of Mrs.
Gershom Williams, in Scott township,
August 1st, 1S47, and James P. Nc
Cabe for the murder of Michael
Reilly, in Preston township, Decem-
Der 80, 1885. Tice was stabbed to
death; Roswell poisoned with arsenic
in cider; Brooks skull was smashed
with a stone and his throat cut; Mrs.
Williams was outraged and stran-
gled, and Reilly cut down with an
axe Allen, Jones and Marthers were
hung in Bethany by Sheriffs Abisha
Woodward, Solomon Jones and Jos.
Miller; and Bell and McCabe in
Honesdale, by Sheriffs William F.
Wood and Thomas Medland. Jones
was arrested on information furnish
ed by his mother, and convicted
mainly on her testimony.
The first telegraph line connecting
Honesdale with the outside world
opened an office in the second story
of the Hand & Kirkland building,
now occupied by Henry Freund, and
commenced business March 18th,
1849. Charles S. Minor was the first
superintendent.
The Weston Pottery, located on the
site of the present Katz Underwear
factory on 9Th street, was started
March 18th, 1S49, by William At
kins, who died six weeks ago, in the
9th year of his age.
The Foster building, corner Main
and Ninth streets, was the first brick
building erected in Honesdale. 1t
was completed in June, 1S46.
In 1882, Dyberry township, in
Guiding the borough of Honesdale
had 10 mercantile firms: Canaan 3;
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

Damascus 1; Lebanon 1; Mt. PLEAD
ant .; Palmyra l.; Sterling 3; Pred
ton 1; Bethany 3; Salem 2. Waynl
county had population at that tim|
of 1868.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

In 1882, Dyberry township, in
Guiding the borough of Honesdale,
had 10 mercantile firms: Canaan 3;
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

In the winter of 1872 there wa
fine sleighing in this section for near
ly four months without interruption
The snow was four feet deep in thu
woods at the beginning of March.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

In 1881 oak wood sold in Phila
delphia at $40 cord and hickory a
$14.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

Wayne county has more lake
than any other county in Pennsylv3
mia. They number nearly $50 in all
Preston has 80.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

The Foster building, corner Main
and Ninth streets, was the first brick
building erected in Honesdale. 1t
was completed in June, 1916.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

"Go-to-Church Day" in Joliet, ILL.,
following a three weeks campaign
urging church attendance on the par
of all the people, brought in 10000
persons, crowding every chruch to it!
capacity. Chicago is planning for 6
similar campaign for February.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

New Years eve service at Grace
Episcopal church, Wednesday, Dec.
81, I1:30 o'clock. After a brief ad-
dress the Holy Communion service
will be in progress at the opening of
the new year.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-30

The cantata, Santa Claus and
Company" will be given in Grace
church Sunday school room on We'd
nesday, New Years Eve, at 1880
o'clock. 1t has been very carefully
rehearsed under the direction of Miss
Dorothy Menner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-11

~ Mr.. Comstock's organ recital this
evening in Trinity Episcopal Church
Miss Marguerite Harbers will play
canto AMBROSE by MschS Ehman for
violin.