The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-08

Thursday afternoon.
The Titus Mission Band of the
Presbyterian church will meet at the
home of Mrs. VIM. H. Seitz on East
street Tuesday evening, January Z,
at half-past seven o'clock.
THE open season for hunting
rabbits in this State closed on Dec.
l 8 and during the short open season
hunters of this place had consider
able success in bagging the cotton
tails.
Mrs. Friedewald gave the first
of series of readings on Saturday
afternoon in the high school. Her
subject was Maurice Maeterlincks S
"Sister Beatrice The reading was
we'll attended.
Mrs. Lizzie limerick, of Long
Eddy, a patient at the Middletown
Sanitarium, committed suicide Mon
day morning, by stuffing handker-
chief in her mouth. Her husband
was i'll at the time at the home of
friends in Middletown.
Among those from Wayne coun-
ty to attend the State school agri-
culture at State College last week
were: R. w. Hull, D. w. Hull, Way
mart; B. F. Kennedy, Pleasant
Mount; Foster Lovelass, Fallsdale;
F. M. Hitler, Seelyville; ]. E. Quin-
tin, Ariel.
The Teachers Institute for
Mount Pleasant township will be held
in the high school at Pleasant
Mount on Saturday morning, Jan.
II, beginning at ten o'clock. Special
attention will be given to the subject
of reading. Teachers are requested
to prepare to discuss it. H. Ken
nedy.
w. e. Perham, of Niagara, a
member of the state board of agri-
culture, and a director and treasur-
er of the Pennsylvania Dairy Union,
will attend a joint meeting of these
The meetings will open on January
Perham is also chairman of the
Wayne county farmers insti-
tutes and is one of her most pro-
gressive farmers.
The board of trustees of the
West Chester State Normal school
recently decided to sell the property
to the state of Pennsylvania under
the propositions of the school code
passed by the last legislature. If the
transaction goes through the state
will purchase 25S shares of stock at
the par value of $50. The bulk of
the stock is held by T. l.. Eyre,
Plumber B. Jeffries, Marshall F..
Way and Marshall H. Mattlock.
Following the reporting of an
other case of smallpox in Carbondale
Mayor James B. Murrin declared
Monday the case was contracted from
patient who came down with the
disease Dec. 3, but that the attend
ing physician failed to report. The
mayor refuses to give the name of
the physician who failed to make the
report. 1t is expected that other
cases will be reported as there have
been a number of contacts. The
case was reported Saturday by DR..
E. 7. Robinson.
Jacob Rose, of Greentown, Pa,
is recovering from a peculiar afflic-
ton which for a time threatened his
eyesight, an oat kernel having
lodged in one of his eyes and sprout-
ed. Soon after thrashing last fall
Mr.. Rose experienced trouble with
one of his eyes. 1t continued sever
al months and finally became so SER
ious that he consulted DR.. Decker,
of Newfoundland. The physician
extracted the oat kernel which had
swollen and commenced to sprout.
Mr.. Roses eye is now improving.
The Pennsylvania Dairy Union
will meet at Harrisburg on January
21-23, 1913. This meeting occurs
at the same time as the meeting of
the State Board of Agriculture, Hor-
ticultural Association and Live Stock
Breeders Association. Speakers of
note from various sections of the
country will discuss present day
problems and the meetings will be
of interest not only to the milk pro-
ducer and creamery man, but also to
the distributor and consumer. Prizes
will be offered for various classes of
milk products.
The Episcopal church at Dun
daft, Susquehanna county, receives
bequest of $500 by the will of the
late Robert w. Johnson, of New
Brunswick, N. j., member of the
chemical manufacturing firm of
Johnson & Johnson. He died Febru-
ary 7, 1910, leaving an estate valued
at $3,222,52O. Mr.. Johnson was a
native of Dundaff and was financially
interested at Crystal Lake, Wayne
county, where he spent many sum-
mers. The church at Dundaff is a
small one and is under the rectorate
of the Forest City church of which
Rev. E. G. White is rector.
Mrs. Charles White died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Benton
Lawrence, at Carbondale, on Mon
day night, December 80, death be-
ing due to pneumonia which she con-
tracted while visiting LenoXville
some time ago. Mrs. White was
born in Wayne county and was six
ty-three years of age. The greater
part of her life was spent in Car
bondale and Jermyn. She is sur
vived by four daughters-Mrs.L Law
renee, Mrs. Arthur Allen, of Read
ing, CAL; Mrs. Bert Ross, of Lenox-
vile; Mrs. Charles Briggs, of Star