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

"A marriage license has been is
sued to. Floyd, Dayton, of Milan
vile, andgMiss Dorothy Schmert, of
New York.
The Factoryville News, a week.
ly newspaper, has gone out of busi-
ness. The merchants would not ad-
vertise, and therefore the paper stop
ped publication.
Edward P. Varcoe received a
painful injury to a finger of his hand
on Thursday while initiating a bicycle
tire. The finger caught y in the
spokes of the wheel, tearing off the
nail. DR.. McConvill treated the in
jured digit.
An inter-county conference of
the Prohibitions of Monroe, LuZerne,
Wyoming, Wayne, Susquehanna and
Lackawanna counties will be held in
Scranton on Labor Day. The Hon.
Virgil G. Hinshaw, national chair
man of the Prohibition party, will
be present and in the afternoon will
speak at Nay Aug park.
Tuesday, August 26, is the last
day for filing petitions for nomina-
tions at the coming primaries. Up
to today over one hundred and fifty
petitions have been filed with the
county commissioners. The office
has been flooded with petitions for
the past week putting on a great
deal of extra work for the clerks of
the office.
Judge Searle on Wednesday of
last week made an order fixing the
time for holding court during Sep
tember. The first court will be held
on Saturday morning, September G.,
at 10 o'clock and any matters which
cannot be disposed of at that time,
which were fixed for argument or
September, will be continued until
the third Monday at 2 o'clock when
court will be held.
Resolutions urging the county
commissioners of Carbon and
Schuylkill counties, to comply with
the requirements of the recently en-
acted mothers pension law were
adopted last week at Wilkes-Barre
by the delegates to the Miners con-
Vention. They also decided to make
a thorough investigation of the
charge that many explosions in CASE
Gus mines have been due to sparks
from electrical machinery.
The state headquarters of the
Pennsylvania Sportsmen's association
have been established in Scranton.
They are located in the office of
lnx xri1 Drtn nt I n O1y ~ raY q
avenue. Mr.. Prichard is president
of the state association. 1t was
thought that the removal of the state
headquarters from Harrisburg to
Scranton, the home of the president,
would facilitate the business of the
association, and so it was done.
Julius Kaliage, a resident of
North Main street, Taylor, was seri-
ously burned Thursday morning at
the Archibald mine, where he is en-
ployed as miner. He was prepar-
ing powder for a blast, when in some
manner it became ignited, and set
fire to his clothing, which was COM
pletely burned from his body. The
injured man was conveyed to the
Moses Taylor hospital where little
hopes are entertained for his recov-
cry.
"A comedy of the first order
given by capable company will in
troduce Charley Grapewin's funny
play, "Sweethearts and Wives" to
local theatregoers. "Sweethearts
and Wives" is simply riot of nat
ural fun, a complication of homely
and mirth provoking incidents which
make their laughing impression upon
everybody, male and female, be-
cause the same things are so familiar
to us in our home and domestic life.
A carload of special scenery is car
ried.
On Thursday evening, Aug. 21,
the Father Witty Society, of Scran-
ton, celebrated it's Twenty-Seventh
Anniversary. The committee in
charge left nothing undone to make
this the greatest social event in the
history of the society. Among the
speakers were: Rev. DR.. J. V. Moy-
Ian, of Nanticoke, our old Spiritual
Director, also Rev. J. ]. ,O'Toole OF
Honesdale, and Prof. M. ]. Costello
of the Scranton Technical High
school. Together with this there
was musical and literary entertain
ment of unusual merit. Also ice
cream, cake and cigars.
Plans have been completed foI
the unveiling of the monument to
the memory of Lieutenant William
f. McAndrew, of Carbondale, on La
Dor Day, September 1. The memor-
ial committee has announced the
program of exercises which will COM
mence at 10 o'clock and which will
include an address by Hon. T. "
Powderly, of Washington, D. c., and
Mayor James B. Murrin. The monu.
ment will be placed on Sixth avenue
side of the city hall plaza. The
monument and bronze tablet was Sc.
cured at the monumental works oi
Martin Caufield of Honesdale.
When you look toward the
south in the early evening now you
see one star shining forth with sur.
passing splendor. This is the planet
Jupiter. The word planet means
"wanderer"; the ancients gave the