The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-07-22

Day.
An important meeting of the
Honesdale Business Mems Associa-
| ton will be held on Tuesday even
| ing of this week. Every member is
urgently requested to be present as
final matters pertaining to the an
nual picnic will be discussed.
Rev. George Lees, of Wilkes
Barre, occupied Rev. Will H. Hill
| ler's pulpit in the Central Methodist
| Episcopal church Sunday morning
| and preached an excellent sermon
| from the text, And we know that
all things work together for good to
them that love God"
William H. Krantz was suddenly
seized with fainting spell and be-
came unconscious while sitting on
the porch of his home on Main street
| Sunday evening. The attack was due
! to stomach trouble. DR.. E. w.
Burns was called in attendance and
to-day Mr.. Krantz has regained to
some extent his former good health.
Misses Mabel Goddard, Anas-
tasia Barrett and Marguerite Kelley
returned to Scranton Sunday even
ing, after a very delightful vacation
spent at Elk Lake, where they camp
ed two weeks in company with
Misses Marie Bracey, Helen Oakes,
Margaret Donnelly, Lillian Barberi,
Hortense McKenna and their chap
eron, Miss Name Igo, all Of this
place. Miss Vera Tuman, of Scran-
ton, another camper, is visiting rela-
tives in Honesdale and White Mills.
The new High school building,
which is being erected at Beachlake,
| in Berlin township, at the cost of
about $4,000, is nearly completed
and the school directors of that town
| ship expect to have everything in
readiness for the opening of the High
school for students about September
on the beginning of the fall term Of
school. When the new building is
put to use it will do away with at
least five of the old school houses,
| thereby saving considerable money
| to the taxpayers of Berlin.
Mrs. Maria Brown-Smither, aged
| 70 years, died at her home in Oil
| City, last Monday morning, following
an illness from cancer of the stom-
ach. She was twice married, her
first husband having been H. w.
| Brown who died a number of years
| ago. Besides her husband, j. J..
| Smither, she is survived by two sons
and two daughters. Funeral SER
vices were held last Wednesday
morning. Interment made in Grove
| Hill cemetery. Deceased was an
aunt of the Misses Brown, Park
| street.
Bert Cox, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Cox, of Williamsport, receiv-
ed a shock from $4,000 volts of
electricity while working on a pole
about ten miles from Bloomsbury
| Friday, and died that evening about
Z o'clock. Cox was working on a
pole and just above his head ran
high tension wire carrying $4,000
volts. While at his work his ham
mer slipped and he fell backward,
| his head coming in contact with the
high tension wire. When contact
was made a flame Is feet high shot
from the unfortunate mans head
and he dropped from the pole. He
was aged % years and leaves a wife
and two children.
Albert Fisher, a private in Co.
D, Twelfth Regiment Infantry, Will
Transport, in camp at Selinsgrove,
was drowned in the Susquehanna
river, two miles from the camp
ground, Thursday. The body was
found at noon and from appearances
had been in water IL hours. Fish
er's rife was found not far from
where the body was discovered.
Fisher had been a member of Com
pany D, for number of years. He
had been rolling stone with no fix
ed habitation. He has a brother in
Lock Haven and a sister in Harris
burg it is said. He has been employ
ed from time to time about various
hotels in Williamsport.
The people of Forest City had
the opportunity of hearing the splen-
did new pipe organ in the Sacred
Heart church on Monday evening
when a recital was given. An ex-
cellent program was rendered un-
der the direction of Miss Rooms, of
Wilkes-Barre, a musician of great
ability. The instrument is a product
of the famous Kimble company and
is one of the finest in that section.
1t cost $4,000, Andrew Carnegie
giving $1,250 and the balance be-
ing donated by friends of the enter
| prising pastor, Rev. ]. E. Gryczka.
The organ contains 775 pipes and oc-
cupies nearly all of the spacious
choir loft of the church.