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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
nm HE oldest inhabitant of Haw-

w1zw HE oldest inhabitant of Haw
ley never knew quite such
Winter as is now begin
ming to flirt with giddy and
breezy young Springtime. There
have been winters with less snow,
but there was more ice in the rivers.
There has never been winter when
there was so little ice, and yet, the
storage places are all comfortably
filled with solid chunks of water.
Up to the first of February the Mid
die Creek was an iceless stream.
When ice began to form it was only
on the edge of the stream, just like
you have noticed bowl of new pork
gravy whiten up around the edge of
the vessel as the pancake dressing
begins to grow cold. The two edges
of ice did not join in the centre ex-
cepting in certain parts of the stream
where the waters flowed very slow
ly. The result is that the ice is so
nearly gone that there is scarcely
enough left in chunks along the
banks of that stream to freeze the
cream for good sized firemen's pic
mic in August.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
COCHECTON.
Cochecton, n

Cochecton, March 5.
Miss Carrie Webster is confined to
her home with severe attack of
tonsilitis.
The ice passed out of the Delaware
very quietly Saturday morning.
Mr., Fifield is a business caller in
town.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Der
mody, a son.
Anthony Keesler and wife spent
Sunday at Lake Huntington.
j. L. Kopp was business caller at
Fosterdale Saturday.
Mrs. David Decker and Mrs. Fred
erick Theis were callers at Callicoon
on Saturday.
Fred Gardner, of Port Jervis, spent
a few days with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Gardner.
The Erie railroad has a large force
of men installing electric signals.
Miss Olive Horton visited Miss
Ruth Burr, of this place.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
Katz Brothers About to
Open Branch in HaWIey.

Reliable parties told the writer
that the well known manufacturing
firm of Katz Brothers, of Honesdale,
have bought two lots on Spring
street on which they will build
branch of their Honesdale manu-
factory of underwear. This news
will be of special Importance to the
girls and women of Hawley, as it
will give them work at good remun-
GRAFTON. The lots are in a splendid
location, in a direct line SOUTH from
the Lutheran church. The Katz
Brothers have the reputation of be-
ing long sighted, and this new move
is. significant for Hawley.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
All! That Type Writer Concern
Wants to Come to HaWIey,

At Tuesday nights meeting of
Council a letter was read from a
Scranton concern stating that a large
firm in New York, capitalized at a
million, wants to settle down in
some good place like Hawley. What
has the town to offer? Why, it can
offer almost anything with the ex-
ception of cash. But, if they really
mean business, and think they can't
get along without a taste of Middle
Creek water, why we might be able
to - there! Our pencil point just
broke!
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
GRAVITY.

Miss Jennie Shaffer spent last
week as the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Herbert Reed, of Winners.
Mrs. Ella Baird was in Scranton
last week.
Mrs. e. w. Shaffer, Mrs. A. w.
Shaffer, e. w. zimmerman and II.
". Butler attended Pomona grange,
leld at Honesdale Tuesday, Feb. %,
Mrs. Frank Names and children,
Edward and Marjorie, are visiting
klrs. G. S. Butler of Dunmore.
4 Mrs. George zimmerman returned
Friday from Shickshinny, having
3pent ten days with her parents, Rev.
Thomas Hooper and wife.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
What Happened at the
Meeting of Council.

At the regular meeting of the
council on Tuesday night little was
done save regular routine business.
The most important act was the
resignation of Richard Reichardt as
a member of that body. The vacancy
was filled by the selection of Charles
Rose, the merchant, to fill out the
uneXpired term.
Immediately upon the resignation
of Mr.. Reichardt he was appointed
Street Commissioner. There is no
salary attached to this position, but
for every day he works he receives
$1.75.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
Some Things About the
Fire Department,


Fire Department.
THE fire fighters of Hawley are
planning for an extra good time at
their annual ball that is to be held
on Easter Monday night, March "a.
This is the annual event, and Haw-
ley people take pleasure in patroniz-
ing it. The boys assure a good time
to all who go, and visitors from
Honesdale and neighboring towns
will be well taken care Of
AS to Hawley's fire department,
it is but just to say that it is COM
prised of the leading citizens of the
town. Special officer Ed. Richard
son kindly showed the writer
through the rooms and gave him a
glimpse at the apparatus on Wednes-
day On the walls hangs a large and
well made picture of the department
made a few years ago. Several of
those represented on the picture are
now on the other side of the Great
Divide; but the picture is a fine one.
The apparatus is comprised of two
hose carts and about 1900 feet of
hose. There is also hook and lad
der wagon, fully equipped. The
water pressure in the town is about
sixty pounds to the square inch
sufficient to throw a stream over
any structure that has as yet been
built on "the flats"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
McDOnough Brothers Also
Are to Do Some Building.

1t is current on the streets that
the John Rominger property has been
purchased by McDonough Brothers.
1t is also current that they will soon
build large and up-to-date stable.
If the reports are correct, and we
had no occasion to verify them, the
McDonoughs may be depended on to
do something for the town that will
be worth while.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
"Sermons i'm Stones,
Books in Running BrOOks."

Talking about the Middle Creek
reminds the writer of how an Incl
dent on it's wild waves" enforced
a Scripture statement on his mind.
He didn't know much about Scrip
ture at the time of the incident, and,
as certainty, is not an encyclopedia
on the subject at the present time.
The incident was brought to his
mind one day when he went into the
drug store of J. G. Bone, (now J. G..
Bone e SOM, in Dunmore. Mr..
Bone had the habit of pinning up on
the end of his mystery screen, (the
screen that hides the druggist from
sight while he is compounding pres
criptions), such articles from the
daily papers as appealed to his fancy
md he wanted to scrutinize again.
[ ne day he had pinned among other
clippings the following statement
from the business mans portion of
Scripture, the book of Proverbs
There is a way that seemeth
right unto man, but the end there
of are the ways of death"
Now, it is not the intention of the
writer to preach sermon or to
point a moral" He desires to say
wording, set him to thinking. Ere
long a Middle Creek picture came
before his mental vision. He saw
himself in company with Frank c..
Brown, (now the Hoadleys merchant
and postmaster), when they were
boys and went swimming seven time
a day in "the good old Summer
time" and wore only patched pants,
oh II, &c hnfhnrnI fn
after they got 'em off, and straw
hats full of holes. We used to play
"going down the river" We took
and-down saw slowly made, placed
a tier of them round side down in
the water, crossed them with edg-
more slabs fiat side down, and were
Creek is full of rocks, and just about
the time we had begun to glide
"O'er the glad waters of the dark,
blue sea,
Our souls as boundless and our
hearts as free"
upon one of these water covered
rocks our raft would float, and then
comes the point l am trying to make.
Just about as. quickly as you could
wink when the raft struck the rock
it would stop dead still, and 10!
everything had suddenly changed.
1t seemed as though we were rushing
UP STREAM at tremendous rate.
We seemed to be actually flying up
the stream. We could have sworn
that our raft was going up stream;
but in time we got used to the con-
dition and derstood-understo
that if we did not get off the rock
our raft would go to pieces and there
would be disaster, and, if the water
was deep and swift enough, death.
That's ALL Much might be written
on the subject, but the writer pre-
fers to let you, like himself, do your
own thinking. The lesson was forced
home upon us that there are many
things in life that "seem to be right"
but are positively wrong. 1t makes
a fellow go a little slower, think a
little more carefully, but to pay
special and particular heed to Davy
Crockett's advice, first be SURE
you are right; then go ahead"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
School Board Grants
Five Day Easter Vacation.

At the meeting of the school board
on Monday night it was decided to
close the schools during the Easter
period. The vacation begins on
Thursday, March goth. This allows
the teachers ample time to visit
their homes and enjoy the holiday
period in full. Outside of the vaca-
tion decision there was nothing
transpired excepting routine business
and the payment of bills
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
What Matter Il Sons
Are Going to Do.

1t is said that Matter e Sons have
purchased from Schlager & Welsh
the corner property known as the
Bishop property, on which rumor
has it that they will build on their
newly acquired possession a large
building to be used as a combined
livery stable and feed store.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07
Mrs. Wallinger Taken to
Scranton State Hospital.

On Tuesday morning Mrs. Angus
tus Wallinger was taken to Scranton
where, at the State hospital, she will
undergo surgical operation for the
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-03-07

removal of a humorous growth. Mrs.
Wallinger is the wife of the Main
street shoe maker.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-11-28
Lyceun.
Continued next week..

Whether Memphis has dyspeptic
| population is not generally known, but
it is fact that the majority Of its thea
tre-going folks like o,laugh, and that
accounts for the s. r. o. sign being
hung up at the Lyceum Theatre We'd
nesday night when All G. Field and bis
Ministries came around again for the
| twenty-sixth time since its organization
AL Field has long held record for
introducing something new in the burnt
cork line, but thle season be has brought
to Memphis what majority of his
friends believe to be his very best show.
Replete with beautiful scenery, elec-
trical effects and new acts, Field has
gotten away from much Of the old
minstrel show, but mixed with it are
artists who are really funny.
While Bert Swor is not the whole
show, he gets most Of the laughs by pro-
ducing the greatest amount OF fun.
His aviation. meet is the funniest act
and in the character OF Eclat, a negro
barber hired to make an aviation flight
in place Of the professional, he is a
scream.
Billy Clark is side partner to Swor
in part known as In Panama." In
this thirty minutes the audience is shown
a volcano in eruption. bird 's-eye view
OF Panama, street ia that town and
the first dreadnaught passing through
the great canal. Besides these scenes.
there is a bull fight Swor in the char
acter Of moving picture operator kills
the bull, and when asked why he did it
replied that fellow operating a moving
picture show bad TO shoot the bull
For the first part there is camp
scene OF United States soldiers at Pana-
ma, and assembled with them are SOL
diers from al nations in regulation uni
form.
Some Of the songs are 4Old Maids
Ball, = sung by West Avery; .Iill
Change the Shadows to Sunshine
Walter Sherwood; II / Knew Your
Heart Was Mine, " Billy Argail; He
Blew His Bugle-e-ee,n 2 Billy Clark
When It's Springtime in Virginia,
Jack McShane; Across the Mason Dix
on Line, Bert Swor When It's APP
pie Blossom Time ID Normandy, Jack |
Richards One Of the big features of
the show is Thos. p. Roper,s orchestra.
- Memphis News-Scimitar.
Fields Minstrels will appear al Rey-
nolds Theatre Friday night, Dec. 8.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-11-28
~ and the other filed with water. It

dry and the other filed with water. II
was not until two O'Clock in the after
noon that the French had filed these
bitches with bundles Of wood and fagots,
The Maid as usual took the lead. She
bore her standard through the deep, dry
moat, crossed the intervening space,
and under the continuous firing Of the
enemy plumbed the water moat with
her lance. She kept her place at the
fosse, calling upon the townspeople. to
surrender. Early in the struggle she
was shot through the leg by an arrow,
but she did not weaken. Long after
nightfall her voice rang out clear as q
bell calling her men to the charge. But,
alasl what army could take as well forti-
fed city as Paris was at that time by
merely standing on the opposite side OF
the moat and summoning it TO surren-
derl No boats or portable bridges we're
brought up in time to make success.
ful assault.
On September 10 the King ordered
the retreat, and by September q he
was back again at his beloved Gien-sur-
Loire.
Continued next week..
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-11-28
NEW DEPOT.
Railroad Commission Orders New
Depot at Union City.

Depot at Union N1tys
| The Tennessee Railroad Commission
| Thursday ordered the erection OF am
entirely new depot at Union City, the
enlargement of the station at Hollow
Rock junction, and the immediate
building Of new depot at Clinton in
accordance with municipal requirements
as TO the fire limits. These questions
have been hanging fire for some time,
but the orders do not come as d sur
prise TO those well posted in conditions,
as the commission went in body to
each Of the three places mentioned and
personally inspected the present terminal
facilities after hearing both sides of the
cases argued at the commissions Nash
willie offices. The orders affect the Sonth-
ern, the Mobile & Ohio and the N, @.
& St. l.. railroads.
The orders OF the commission in the
Union City case were given after long
deliberation, and after a body Of promi-
nent citizens OF Union City had gone
to Nashville, headed by Mayor j. A.
Coble, to protest against the present
depot. Following this the commission
made a personal inspection trip early
in the week.
The Union City orders follow:
After full hearing and personal
investigation, il appears that the pres
ent passenger depot facilities at Union
City are inadequate for the proper ac-
commQdation Of the travelling public,
that being junction point, a county
seat and city OF approximately 5000
inhabitants with splendid future pros
poets.
1t is ordered that the M. & o. Rail-
road Company and the N, C. & st. i.
Railway Company submit to this COM
mission, within thirty days from date,
plans for a modern passenger depot at
Union City 50 drawn as to properly
provide for the present and probable
future needs Of passenger accommoda-
ton at that point.
The secretary will forward copies Of
this order to the proper officials 81 the
two railroad companies mentioned.
This Goth day Of November, 1913. 7
In the Clinton case the commission
had previously ordered new depot,
but the Southern Railroad Company
and the municipal authorities have been
engaged in controversy as to the ma
terial Of which the new depot should
be constructed. The railroad is given
instructions to build the
depot in accordance with the municipal
Instructions ID regard to the FIRE limits
and by the plans previously submitted
10 the commission.
The Nashville, Chattanooga & ST.
Louis Railway is ordered to submit
plans within the next thirty days for
additions TO both the white and the col
ored waiting rooms at the Hollow Rock
junction depot, and providing for mod
'rn conyenieDces generally about the
iepot.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-11-28
PART FIVE.
THE LOIRE CAMPAIGN THE RIDE TO
RHEIMs-THE CORONATION.

THE LOIRE CAMPAIGN THE RIDE TC
RHEIMs-THE CORONATION.
After the taking OF the ToureIles the
English retired to the surrounding
towns Suffolk to Jargeau; Scales, Tai.
bot and others to Meun, Beaugency and
other Loire towns near the city. On the
tenth Of May, Jeanne with most Of the
other leaders proceeded to the Dauphin,
who was then at Tours. Here she was
cordially welcomed by the Prince, who
sent the tidings OF her success to all the
loyal towns. Her renown spread far
and WIDE This victory was the begin
ming Of the end OF the English domin-
ion in France. The Maids spirit and
example had given new courage and
vigor to the French armies. National
spirit and enthusiasm had not died out
in France, but, As in all ages and epochs
OF history where such conditions exist,
there had been need OF some diyinely
inspired person to be the very embodi-
ment of the feelings OF the people and
to lead them to the accomplishment of
their desires; Jeanne dare was to the
French what Moses was to the Isreal-
ties, what Mohammed was % the Arab
ians. what Luther was to the Germans.
While at Tours the Maid plead with
the Dauphin again and again to pro-
ceed at once to Rheims and be crowned.
but il spite Of her many exhortations
he still delayed in the city.
Convinced that no progress toward the
coronation could be made at that time,
the Maid determined to drive the Eng
Iish from their strong positions on the
Loire. and accordingly, with d'Alencon
in command Of the troops. she entered
Orleans las basis for this campaign)
on the 9th Of June. The inhabitants
gladly provided supplies and ammu-
nition.
Jeanne occupied the suburbs Of Jar
geau on the 18th Of June. On the 10Th.
after severe struggle, the town was
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-11-28
THE LIFE OF JEANNE D'ARG
By r N. NAYIoR.
CONTINUED from last week.

kOOIAliuutQ HUN ldSl NcCksy
Eearly in the morning of May Z, after
Jeanne had heard mass, the attack be-
gan. Each company was arrayed under
its captains standard and the assault
on the boulevard was made from every
conceivable point of vantage. Hard
fighting was done by the English on
this day. With bowshot, gunshot, axes,
lances, maces, and even with their fists
they repulsed again and again the as
saults Of the besiegers.
In the very beginningof tine struggle
Jeanne was wounded by an arrow which
penetrated both her armor and her body.
The English thought they bad spoiled
her witchcraft" by this wound-they
did not know the Maid Dunois, dis
couraged, had already caused the recall
to be sounded when the Maid asked him
to wait little while. She went into a
vineyard near by and prayed. We re-
member George Washington at Valley
Forge; we remember Jesus Christ at
Gethsemanel
For fear that the retreat may end in
disaster, the standard Of the Maid is car
ried to the wall by her equerry and an
other brave person whose name we know
not. Jeanne waits until the flag touches
the wall, then, above the noise Of the
tumuIt, her voice rang OUT Amysl
Amysl Ayez bon coarage! Susl Susl
lis sont tous nostresl" Friendsl
Friends Be OF good couragel For
wardl Forward They are all oursl')
The English were forced to cross the
drawbridge to the stone fort Of the Tour
relies.
In the meantime the people in the
city had not been idle. They had con-
structed fire-ship, and, loading it with
everything that was greasy and inflamT
mable, they towed it under the bridge,
which was soon enyeloped in flames.
The greater part Of the English man
aged to rush across in time, only to be
confronted by the people Of Orleans who
had bridged the gap and we're attacking
the Tourelies from the opposide side.
The English were thus attacked on both
sides, and not man OF them escaped.
Both Jeanne and the knights wept over
the result Of the struggle--the knights
over the large ransoms they had lost,
Jeanne over the heaps Of the enemy's
slain. Glorious, thisl Within a week
Of her first day under fire, La Pucelle
de dix-sept ans (the little eseyenteen-year-
old girD had done what Wolfe did on
the heights OF Abraham, what Bruce
lid at Bannockburn; she had gained
one Of the fifteen decisive battles OF
the world. /"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-11-28

taken and Suffolk himself was captured.
Meun and Beaugency we're evacuated
on the 18th, and on this day, too, the
Maid put to flight a large force of Eng
lish near Pathay. After this victory
she returned to Orleans.
After waiting impatiently while he
held many wearisome councils at Glen,
the Maid finally induced the Dauphin
to set out for Rheims, which he did on
June %.
The most important Burgundian
stronghold between Glen and Rheims
was the city of Troyes. The inhabi-
tants swore never to admit the Dauphin,
but the army although without supplies
and nearly a hundred miles from its
base of operations (Gien), surrounded
the town. A council Of war was held,
and the leaders we're on the point OF
leaving the town behind undisturbed-
which would have been a fatal mistake
when Jeanne promised them Jargeau
il they would wait two days. Having
obtained their consent, she made such
formidable preparations for conducting
an extensive siege that the obstinate
townspeople were almost frightened out
of their wits and forthwith rendered their
submission and obedience.
1t seems certain that had Troyes been
left behind untaken the Dauphin would
have experienced great difficulty in gain
ing admittance, for the attitude toward
the Dauphin of the people Of Rheims
depended almost entirely on the result
OF Troyes. AS il was, however, the
Archbishop Of Rheims wroteto his peo-
pie advising them to submit to the
Prince. deputation, therefore, waited
upon the Dauphin at Sept-Saulx and
probably accompanied him on his march
into the city.
TIE coronation took place on the
morning Of July H. 1430. The oath
was administered by the Archbishop of
Rheims. Needless to say, Jeanne was
at the Dauphin's side during the whole
ceremony, and, when it was finished,
her eyes brimming with tears, her loyal
little heart beating high with gladness,
she embraced the knees Of Charles VII,
King Of France, whom she chose to call
the noblest OF all Christians. y
Jeanne dare had attained her sec
ond goal.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1913-11-28

@%N SN~~e
THE FAILURE AT PARIS--THE AUTUMN CAM
PAIGN-JEANNE' Is GETHsEMANE-TR
1t had been intended that the King
should march against Paris on July IS.
The attack --or farce Of an attack really
took place on September s. The re-
mainder Of July was consumed il maxi
ing expeditions around Rheims. On the
29th OF July, Chateau Thierry, some
forty or fifty miles from. Rheims, was
taken. At this place, on July 81, the
King, in recognition OF the Maids
achievements, granted remission OF tax
alton to the twin villages OF Domremy
and Greux, boon which endured into
the reign OF Louis XIV.
The first half of August was spent in
going from town to town on the eastern
border OF the Isle OF France. On the
18th of August the King received the
submissionof Of Compiegne, an important
city on the Disc. A long delay was made
here, and on August % Charles involved
himself in secret truces with the Duke
Of Burgundy.
On August %, Jeanne, accompanied
by d'Alencon and fair company Of
men-at-arms, left the King at Com
piegne and on the 26th enteredSt. Denis,
which she had chosen as her headquar-
ters for the attack on Paris. The King
left Compiegne soon afterwards.
Jeanne had already contended that
France could be saved only at the point
of the lance. The King, however,
thought otherwise and was continually
to buy off the Duke Of Bur-
gundy from his alliance with the Eng |
ishs He even offered TO turn Com
Diegne over to bim, but the Inhabitants
II that city absolutely refused to be sold. |
vi OStObci 10, 1flOs tub LUKE VI
was appointed Lieutenant Of
Paris BY Henry VI. After August 2s,
l4S0. Charles recognized Burgundy as
loIding Paris against Jeanne; never
heless the Maid was permitted to at-
ack the city. This all goes to show
hat tha attack on Paris was neither seri-.
'us nor supported. The King had no
Intention Of carrying out the Maid =
'lan Of taking the city by armed assault,
'ut, on the other hand. he merely pur-
'osed to iniure Paris BY creating dis
urbance within the walls.
AT tSo'clock on the morning oi Sep
ember 8 the French began their oper-
tions. The walls Of the city we're sur
ounded BY two trenches, one 81 them