The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-25
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Charles llom are in attendance at the
convention of the United Sportsmen
of Pennsylvania which is in session
in Scranton this week.
Mrs. Charles w. Weston of Car
bondale, entertained a number OF
! friends from this place and Scran-
ton, at cards, Thursday afternoon,
in honor of Mrs. Spragel.
At Christ church, Indian Or
chard, the Rev. A. l.. Whitaker will
hold service on Sunday, July 27, at
2:30 p. m; Sunday school every
Sunday afternoon at 1870.
If the new county foot bridge
over the LackawaXen was completed
by August 21 it would accommodate
large number of people who will
attend the Chautauqua on the green
near the armory.
The following letters remain un-
called for at the Honesdale post Of
fee: A. M. Ashenfelter, VIM. T. Box,
Mrs. Ed Cavanaugh, Sallie Harrison,
Rome Kellam, Joseph Muffler, Miss
Jessie A. Pedlar, Howard Reithel,
Mrs. Barney ]. Toy.
Nearly every store and business
place in Honesdale was closed all
day on Wednesday on account of the
picnic of the Business Mems Associa-
ton at Lake Lodore. For this rea-
son the town was very quiet; even
the guardians of the peace were all
at the lake.
Railroad men in the United
States would weep with JOY if they
| were to look over the rate cards
of the Madagascar railroad. AL
though but 229 miles long, this road
charges 6.2 cents per mile for first
class passenger service, 81 cent for
second class, and 1.24 cents for
third. Baggage and express rates
are 81 cents per metric ton per mile,
and freight in five classes pays from
LIS to Is cents per ton per mile.
The funeral of William Herzog,
eight-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Herzog of Terrace street,
was held from the home Wednesday
morning and was largely attended.
Requiem high mass was celebrated by
DR.. j. w. Balta in st. Mary Magda-
lens church at ten o'clock. The
pallbearers were: John Schields,
Robert McGinnis, Francis Bales and
James Dix. The flower bearers were
Edward Kerl, Raymond Smith, Paul
Bales and James Quick.
| After being unconscious for
over three months, Milton Johnson
died at his home in Justus Tuesday.
Johnson was carpet weaver, and
while delivering some goods at that
place three months ago he was taken
i'll. He started to walk toward Peck
vile and was picked up unconscious
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brought to his home and although
heroic measures were resorted to,
he never regained consciousness. He
had resided in Justus for many years
and was we'll known. He is survived
by his wife.
The death of John A. Reith,
Pottsvilles heaviest man, Tuesday
aged 61, involved unusual funeral
problems He weighed 500 pounds
and the casket to hold his body was
so large that it was impossible to
take the corpse into st. John the
Baptist church, of which Reith was
a. member, neither was it possible to
take it out of either the doors or
windows of his home, so a part of
of the house was torn out for this
purpose. Because of his huge size
Reith has been unable to work for
the past IL years.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
passed a bill granting pensions of
five dollars a month to soldiers of
the Civil War who have served one
year or less, six dollars for one to
two years and seven dollars for more
than two years. Applicants for this
pension must have been a resident
of Pennsylvania at the time of en-
listment and for year prior to this
application. Persons must apply to
the Attorney General and pensions
will be paid quarterly beginning next
January. The bill awaits the sigma
ture of the Governor.
The bill giving Luzerne county
an additional law judge has been
signed by Governor Tener, who i'm
mediately after signing it appointed
Hon. Benjamin R. Jones, Judge to
serve till the first Monday of next
January. The principal reason that
Luzerne got another judge is because
of frequent deadlocks among the four
judges that were. They have been
deadlocked for eighteen months or
more on the appointment of a prison
board. Judge Jones served part of a
year four years ago by appoint
ment of the governor to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of Judge
Lynch.
Why is our great Secretary of
States plaintive request that he be
allowed to depart from his office at
the end of his term with his bank
roll intact so shifted at? Why do
his dignified utterances, in which
there is nothing maudlin, move the
man in the street to the ribald dag
nosis that "he must be full OF grape
juice?" Do not the pages of cele-
brated historian of the Japanese EN-
pire supply case exactly on all fours
with our good Secretary's? Does not
w. S. Gilbert linn for us a distin-
guished First Lord of the Treasury
who dined with middle class people
on reasonable terms and danced at
cheap suburban parties for a moder-