The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-03

Z The dance at the new armory
New Years eve was well attended.
The old year was danced out and
the new ushered in.
Texas No. fire company held
dance at their hall on New Years
night for their members and friends.
There was a large attendance.
New Years eve was observed
quietly without any features, start
ling, sensational or otherwise. Many
people remained awake to see the
close of the old and beginning of the
new year.
Cards have been received by
friends here announcing the mar
riage of Miss Eva l.. Wilson to Mr..
Chester A. CARAT, both of this
place. The ceremony was perform
ed by Rev. Wilson Treble, an uncle
of the bride at Dallas, Pa.
The members of Protection
Engine Company No, 8, began the
New Year in the right manner by
having a dance and social time for
their wives and families Wednes-
day evening. The dance was held in
their ball hall and during the even
ing delicious refreshments were
served. There was a large number
present.
While clearing out the cellar
of Centennial Hall in Pottsville, oc-
cupied by several business places
and vaudeville house, a box was
taken from the debris which con-
tanned about $4,000 in gold and
bills. 1t had been hidden by Henry
P. Slater, an eccentric character and
owner of the building, who died last
week.
The remains of Sarah Gerew,
who died in Virginia, arrived here
Wednesday afternoon on the 1880
Erie train. Undertaken J. Samuel
Brown had charge of the burial.
The remains were inferred in Glen
Dyberry cemetery Wednesday af-
ternoon. Deceased was sixty-four
years of age and had few relatives
in this vicinity.
THE oldest Baptist minister in
this part of the state, Rev. w. B.
Grow, died at the home of a rela-
tive in Clifford Tuesday night at the
age of ninety-seven years. Rev.
Grow had been retired for the past
ten years, that is since 1902, when
he suffered injuries from fall. He
was pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle
in Carbondale from 1S76-7S. He
was well known in Wayne county.
-Alonzo Hoyle, of South Canaan,
is exhibiting large fox skin, which
he declares is a silver grey and
values it in the neighborhood of
$500. Mr.. Hoyle said he shot the
animal a week ago ahead of a
hound belonging to James Bernard,
with whom he was out hunting. Re-
Gently he took the skin to Scranton
and it was there pronounced by
friends to be a silver gray for skin.
Theodore Day, the venerable
weather man of Dyberry, was a
pleasant caller in town Thursday and
while here paid a visit to The Citi-
zen office and brought in the weather
report for December which will ap-
pear in another edition. He brought
in two apples which he picked up
near his weather station January 1.
They had laid on the ground since
fall and were not even frozen. The
apples were remarkably preserved
and solid.
w. H. Marshall installed
Beech Grove Grange officers on
Wednesday night as follows: Mas
ter, Russell Gammell; overseer,
George Myers; lecturer, Mrs. Rus
sell Gammell; steward, Herbert
Amy; assistant steward, George
Maddaford; chaplain, Mrs. R. e.
Ransom; treasurer, f. w. Stephens;
secretary, R. E. Ransom; gatekeep-
er, Harry Blake; pomona, Mrs. N.
Sergeant; flora, Mrs. Herbert Amy;
ceres, Mrs. Charles o. Blake; lady
assistant steward, Mrs. Emma
Knapp; pianist, Mrs. A. w. Emo;
chorister, Mrs. David Mills. The
meeting closed with an oyster sup
per. An excellent time was had.
The grand opening of the State
Hospital for the Criminal Insane at
Farview will take place Friday when
superintendent Fitzsimmons will
receive eighty-nine patients from
the asylums and hospitals of Norris
town and Danville. Besides the
sheriff and deputies from the vari-
Gus counties having a representative
to be transferred to Farview a num-
Der of newspaper men from Phila-
delphia and other places will ac-
company the excursion. 1t will be
no small task to receive the patients
as formal transfer receipts must be
made out and signed for each of
them to each sheriff and deputy
The order for transferring patients
to the hospital at Farview is given
by the State Board of Lunacy which
is the supreme power in the state in
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