The Citizen from Honesdale, Pennsylvania • Page 5

TOT! CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1011. CENT A WORD COLUMN! WANTED A girl wanted for general housework. Apply to Mrs. C. H.

Dorflinger, White Mills, Pa. FOR RENT 7 rooms and bath, gas and furnace. C1G Church street. Inquire at house. FOR SALE Kelly Stelnmnn brick factory building, Including en-glue, boiler and shafting.

Inquire of J. 13. Robinson. 50tf. FOR SALE OK KENT One-story factory building 12 by 75 feet.

Covered with Century (lire proof) shingles. New steam heating plant. 200 feet of shafting and 2 motors. Apply the Herbeck-Demer Co. tf TWELVK muslin trespass notices for six for seventy-five cents.

Name of owner, township and law regarding trespassing printed thereon. CITIZEN office. LOCAL MENTION. Mr. and Mrs.

Leon Ross will en-! tertain at their home on East street this (Tuesday) evening. i J. Oscar Terrell, who has been the sick list for several weeks, is jonnrtnil 9 nllehMv Imnrovod. Coe Leminitzer, a Honesdalo hoy. who Is a student at Cornell, has keen taken down with typhoid fever.

District Superintendent Dr. L. C. Murdock will occupy the pulpit the Central M. E.

church next Sunday morning. Last Wednesday evening Dr. P. B. Peterson entertained the members of the Wayne County Medical society at his home on Main street.

The sympathy of this community go out to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Ward in the affliction which has tome to them In the Injury received fcy their son, Alfred.

Over 300 citizens have already signed a petition asking the court to appoint viewers to erect a footbridge across Park Lake between Court street and Dyberry Place. Reserved seats for the lecture by Dr. Amsbary on Thursday night are on sale at Chambers' drug store. Take your ticket with you when you go and get a reserved seat. Cards have been received from-Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Frederick Wright, Susquehanna, announcing the marriage of their daughter, Florence, to Dd. James Hutton Curts, on Thursday, January 5, at Susquehanna. On account of the revival meetings now in progress the lecture at the High school Thursday night will not commence until 8:35 o'clock. This will give people an opportunity to attend the church service and still not miss the lecture.

"More popular than Capt. Hob-son, Dr. Mclntyre or Col. Bain," is what a Chautauqua manager said of Dr. Amsbary, who is to lecture at the High School next Thursday night.

Reserved seats now on sale at Chambers' drug store, GO cents. If the people of Honcsdale do not take more interest in the High School Lyceum Course, the High school will lose about The auditorium seats over COO and it ought to be filled at the lecture, on Thursday night, by Dr. Amsbary. At the annual meeting of the Honesdalo National Bank held this (Tuesday) morning, these directors were elected: Henry Z. Russell, E.

F. Torrey, Horace T. Menuer, Louis J. Dorilinger, Andrew Thompson, Homer Greene, James C. Birdsall, Edmund B.

Hardenbergh, and Philip R. Murray. Mrs. Joseph A. Bodie entertained Thursday evening in compliment of Miss Besslo Ham, who is to bo married January 17, to Frank Hu-gus.

The Invited guests were Mes-dames Louise Suydam, Edith Hull, Rebecca Fuller, Eleanor Peterson, Mary Bentlcy and Misses Mary Men-ner and Grace Salmon. At the annual congregational meeting of, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church, held last Sunday, these officers were elected: President, Edward Welsh; treasurer, Conrad Roeschleu; secretary, Theodore Dreyer; trustees, William liaggerty, G. Wm. Pell, George Ripple and Ir-vln A.

Hartman. A new constitution was also adopted. The well diggers who aro sinking an artesian well for John Strong-map, New York, at his summer home In Bethany, had the misfortune to lose their drill. It became disconnected from the drill ropo and fell into tho well, a distance of 1G5 feet. Mr.

Long, tho driller, has gone to East Stroudsburg for tackle to fish the drill out. Tho managers of the High School Lyceum course, have been unfortunate in the matter of w.eath-er for tho first two numbers of their course, and consequently havo had very small audiences. The next number will be given Thursday night, and it is desired that the auditorium be filled. Tickets for the three remaining numbers aro only 75 cents; for Thursday night, 40 cents. George A.

Glenn a Philadelphia contracting firm, having failed to complete its contract at the new State hospital for the criminal Insane, at Farviow, within tho specified tlmo, January 1, this year, the state commission that is supervising the work of construction has declared the contract forfeited and Is now getting ready to advertise- for bids for tho completion of the contract. Tho American Knitting Company on January 5, re-elected tho old board of directors, to wit: Wm. B. Holmes. G.

W. Sell, Philip Krantz, F. P. Kimble, John H. Weaver, John Kuhbach and Asa E.

Bryant. Aftor the election tho board organized, making William B. Holmes, president, Philip Krantz, vice-president and manager, and Asa E. Bryant secretary and treasurer. Tho report of the manager for the year ending December 31, 1910, showed the plant was well managed and in a prosper- oug condition.

Word has been received of a slight Improvement in the condition of Coo Lemnltzor. Tho Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church meets with Mrs. N.

I Holgnte, Thursday. i The Business Men's Association meets Wednesday evening at tho usual tlmo and place. Read the notlco about Veteran Bolkcom, and send htm a postal card with your greetings. It Is rumored that M. D.

Kelly and Clinton Doyle, Nicholson, will lease the Commercial Hotel. The annual meeting of tho Greater Honesdalo Board of Trade will bo held Friday evening. Wayne County Pomona Grange, Number 41, will meet with Hope Grange at South Canaan, Jan. 20. One day last week seven shares of Wayne County Bank stock, par value $100, wore sold for $050 each.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Gregory, River street, aro rejoicing over the advent last Monday of a baby daughter. The Honesdalo National Bank declared its usual dividend of 6 per cent, regular, and 2 per cent, extra. The Ladles' Aid of St.

John's Lutheran church will servo coffee and luncheon Thursday afternoon at tho church parlors. George LIghthlser, Friday evening fell at the corner of Dr. C. R. Brady's home and received a slight Injury of tho head.

Mrs. C. J. Weaver and family have leased rooms In the Doherty apartment on Eighth street and will occupy same immediately. A daughter has been born to Mr.

and Mrs. Alfred Schuller, of 134 Wlldwood avenue, Upper Montclalr, N. January 3, 1911. Both parents were former Honesdalians. County Detective N.

B. Spencer on Saturday quarantined the Van Steenberg homo In Texas No. 4, where their fourteen-year-old daughter, Alice, is suffering from typhoid fever. The annual meeting of the Honesdale branch of the W. C.

S. P. C. A. will be held Friday afternoon, January 13, at 2 o'clock at the City Hall.

All members are requested to be present. At the regular meeting Monday night, Honesdale Aerie, No. 1858, Fraternal Order of Eagles, installed their ofllcers for the ensuing year. After the meeting a progressive poln-chle contest was held followed by a sumptuous banquet. A $50 note struck off by the Confederate States of America, nearly GO years ago and which has been doing modern duty as bonaflde currency, has fallen into the hands of the Harrisburg police.

It is known positively that tho note changed hands half a dozen times within the past week, people receiving it in exchange for goods of value unsuspectingly. J. Freer, son of Oliver Freer, dislocated his shoulder last Thursday evening. He was coming down hill with a horse and buggy near Al-denville when tho wagon skidded on the Ice. Mr.

Freer put out his arm to make a brake of the wheel, when a sudden jerk pulled his shoulder out of joint. Dr. P. B. Peterson gavo him an anaesthetic and reduced tho dislocation.

Samuel Morrison, who for ten years was chief plumber with a plumbing houso in Philadelphia, and for the past sixteen years has held tho same position with O. M. Spet-tigue, of this place, resigned his position on Saturday and will in the near future open a shop hero for the manufacture of a patent boiler and steam apparatus. His successor has not yet been appointed. Leonard Sefing, representing tho Orphans' Home and the Home for the Aged at Germantown, Philadelphia, spent the week-end with Rev.

and Mrs. C. C. Miller. Mr.

Sellng came here to look after the welfare of Mrs. Miller, sister of the lato Helcno Bodemar, and to make arrangements for her removal to the Home. This Institution is an institution of tho Lutheran church. The two cent club is a popular organization at Milton, there being five of these clubs In the town, which during the week distributed over 000 among their members. Each member begins with a deposit of two cents, and each Saturday two cents is added thus, two cents, four cents, six, eight, 'ten and so on until the fifty second payment is $1.04, which comes In handy about Christmas.

It Is an excellent plan to save money for tho holidays without any serious inconvenience. Paul M. Rainey, of West Hobok-en, who Is a son of Rev. Jas. Rainey, a former resident here, is inventor of a device for producing an electric spark In automobile engines which it is said will do away with the spark plug and its connecting wires and batteries.

If It proves as successful in practical service as it now appears, it should materially reduce not only tho cost of constructing automobiles, but trouble In running them. Mr. Rainey, in company with another young man, has applied for a patent on tho devico and will endeavor to put It on the market. Ho is also Inventor of an Improvement to telephone mechanism that commends ltself'to workers in that line. Tunk-hannock Republican and Now Age.

Tho father of the above named inventor, Rev. James Rainey, is now pastor of the Aldonvlllo Baptist church, in this county. PERSONAL MENTION. C. B.

Marshall transacted business in Scranton Monday. Dr. Harry B. Ely transacated bus! ness in Hawley Friday. Walter Whitney is spending a few days at MB homo here.

Peter Bishop, Hawley, was a busi ness man in town to-day. Mrs. W. J. Mclntyre and daugh ter, Bernlce, are visiting friends in Scranton.

Earl Rockwell, Lake Ariel, mer cantile appraiser of Wayne county, transacted business in town this week. Miss Knte O'Connor, Hawley, spent Saturday in this place. Edmond Flnnerty, Scrnnton, spent Monday with friends In town. Dr. F.

C. Frlsble, Equinunk, was a Monday visitor In Honesdale. Henry Hnrtung, a retired merchant, Is very 111 from pneumonia. Ed. Doutscher is transacting business in Syracuse, N.

this week. Constable M. M. Cobb, Gouldsboro, was a business caller In town, Monday. Postmaster M.

'B. Allen transacted business In New York tho first of the week. Miss Helen Beck has accepted a position of piano player at the Lyric. William Freund, who has been seriously ill of pneumonia, is convel-escing. Mrs.

Fannie Hlsted has returned from a visit with rolntlves in Car-bondale. Miss Lucy Russell returned to Dwight School, Englewood, N. Monday. J. A.

Loomls spent the week-end and Sunday in Cnrbondale and Scranton. W. L. Ferguson, Seelyvllle, is making a nice recovery from his injured hip. Attorney E.

A. Delaney, Carbon-dale, was a business caller In town Saturday. R. J. Bracey returned Sunday from a few days' recreation in the metropolis.

Banker W. G. Scurry, Carbondale, transacted business In town the first of tho week. Miss Marguerite Dolmetsch left last Wednesday for her school at Aurora, N. Y.

Miss Roos, Scranton, is vistlng at the homo of W. J. Katz on Church street. Mr. and Mrs.

James Sherwood, Equinunk, registered at the Allen House, Monday. E. Ray Carr, of Scranton, was a business caller in Honesdale and vicinity Thursday. John and Eugene Dorflinger, White Mills, called on Honesdale friends Saturday. F.

E. Burr, a well-known jeweler of Carbondale, transacted business In town, Monday. William Riefler left today to resume his studies at West Chester Military Academy. Joe Reese and Jos. Polt returned Saturday from New York where they passed the holidays.

Ralph and Ray Brown returned to their studies at Lafayette Col-lego last Wednesday. Mrs. Branning, of Wilkcs-Barre, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. N.

Win-nacott, of Main street. N. J. Spencer returned Saturday from a week's business trip through the Lackawanna Valley. John H.

Weaver Is visiting his son's family, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Weaver, at Towanda. L.

A. Patterson, a prominent groceryman and cattle dealer of Car bondale, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Brown and daughter, Florence, of Scranton, are visiting relatives in Honesdale.

Messrs. E. B. Hardenbergh and C. H.

Dorflinger spent the week-end In New York at the Hotel Wolcott. Stephen Newfeld returned to his homo in Buffalo Tuesday, after a two weeks' visit with friends here. Miss Anna Ross, stenographer of the T. B. Clark Company, is spend ing a week vacation in Carbondale.

F. A. Jenkins and J. A. Bodie, aro spending a few days with friends in New York and lied Bank, N.

J. Charles W. Deln left the first of tho week on a business trip to New York City. His son, Louis, accom panied him. John O'Neill returned to his work in Philadelphia Sunday nfter passing two weeks with his mother on Erie street.

Mrs. William Hauser and Harold Hooker, Bethany, aro recovering from a siege of the grip, also Mrs. Patrick Fives. Miss Pearl Griffiths, who has been a guest at the Miller home on East street, returned to her home in Car bondale last Friday. Mrs.

William McKenna, Wilkcs- Barre, returned home last Saturday from a few days' visit with her sister, Mrs. Harry Richards. W. L. Cody has returned to his homo after a week's trip with the state civil engineers, who are making a map survey of the county.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fasshauer and son, Robert, havo returned from Carbondale, whoro they spent the New Year holidays with Mrs. Fass hauer parents. Miss Grace Meyers, of Nyack on the Hudson, who is visiting at her former home here, is spending a few days in Carbondale at tho homo of her sister, Mrs.

Howard Fitch. Mrs. Farrington Suydam and son, Durland, have returned to their homo In Hawley, after a several days' visit at the home of the former's mother, Mrs. Coo Durland. Earl Williams, who for the past several months has been employed by tho D.

H. in Its auditing department, has completed his work and Is at his homo on Eighth street. H. Bregstein, brother of our Honesdale merchants, tartin and August, left today for New York city after a few days' visit with his parents. Mr.

Bregstein is proprietor of a department store In Canton, O. NEWSPAPER MAN MAllltlED. Wns Wedded to Miss Cutlmriuo M. Cross, nt Sterling, nt 10 O'clock Wednesday Morning, Stroudsburg, Pa. A homo wedding took place nt Sterling at 10 o'clock last Wednesday morning when Nelson A.

Frantz, manager of the Monroe Publishing Company, of this borough, and Miss Catharine M. Cross, plighted their solemn troth at hymen's altar. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride's parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. E.

Cross, at Sterling, and was witnessed by only tho members" of the respective families. There was no attendants and tho officiating clergyman was Rev. W. E. Webster, pastor of the Sterling M.

E. church. Following tho ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Frantz left on a brief wedding trip after which they will tnko up housekeeping at 333 Main street, this place.

Tho home was very prettily decor ated for tho occasion and the bride was the recipient of many very handsome and useful gifts and both aro receiving tho hearty congratulations of all and tho wish that they may havo a very joyous wedded life. Mr. and Mrs. Frantz aro very popular young people and havo a largo circle of friends. The bridegroom was graduated from the East Stroudsburg State Normal School in the class of 1901 and thereafter taught in tho public schools of Gouldsboro, whence he came here and took up work in the local schools until he was chosen manager of the Publishing Company.

His undo Is a charming young lady and Is also a graduate of the Normal School of the class of 1905. She taught school a couple of years. A hearty reception awaits the newly-wedded couple on the occasion of their return to this place to take up their permanent abode. Poultry And Pigeon Association Holds Annual Meeting Anil Elects Ofllcers. At the annual meeting of the Wayne County Pigeon and Poultry Association, held Saturday evening in tho Court House, these ofllcers were elected: President, E.

E. Kinsman, Cherry Ridge. First Vice-President, F. B. Lord, Honesdalo.

Second Vice-President, G. W. Swartz, Ariel. Secretary, Edward Lindsay, Honesdale. Treasurer, Geo.

Erk, Seelyvllle. Executive Committee: Henry Mer man, Honesdalo; R. F. Martin, Haw ley; C. D.

Fortman, Tyler Hill: Frank Schuerholz, Honesdale; W. H. Karslake, Niagara. Between twenty-five and thirty fanciers attended the meeting. Rev.

J. B. Cody, who resigned as presi dent, on account of his professional duties taking up so much of his time, was elected an honorary life member. A committee was also appointed to meet with the Fair Committee at the Allen House, Tuesday morn ing, at 11 o'clock, with instructions to see if better quarters could not be had for poultry exhibits at the Fair. Last year, several valuable birds caught cold, on account of being 'showed' In a tent, and died.

Scranton Poultry Show. Scranton, January 10. With an entry list of over 3,000 chickens, rabbits, pigeons, cats and bantams rand special features of country-wide prominence, me sixtn annual quality poultry show, of the Scranton Poultry and Pet Stock association, which opens a week from Tuesday In Town Hall, gives every promise of rivaling tho Philadelphia and Madison Square Garden exhibitions. Approximately $5,000 In trophy cups and cash sums are offered as prizes to the winners of tho various classes. The show will be most representative of the poultry and pet-stock raising Industries of Lackawanna, Wayne, Wyoming, Susquehanna and Luzerne counties.

The holding of the show in Town Hall means that the society will be able to give an exhibition that will bo the talk of this part of the state. DIED AT AGE OF 117. Lancaster Colored Woman Had Lived Under Every President. Lancaster, Pa. Mrs.

Hettio Jen-kin, colored, who claimed to be 117 years old, is dead. Sho was born in Mississippi a slave of parents brought from Africa as slaves, and sho had lived under every President the United States has had. When tho Civil War began her owners moved to Charlestown, S. where she resided until five years ago, when she camo hero to llvo with her son, Samuel J. Ferguson, 53 years old.

She outlived three husbands, twenty-four children, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Three great-great-grandchildren survive. Until lately her physi cal condition was remarkably good HOW'S THIS? Wo offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J.

CHENEY Toledo, O. We, tho undersigned, havo known F. J. Cheney for tho last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable In all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. Waldlng, Kinnan Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.

Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Prlco 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggsts. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.

Uniom (Continued from Pago Ono.) Mr. Caufled: "We really can't tell whether a channel benefits or not. Several years ago tho Council spent $700 or $800, money just thrown away, to fix tho dam so we could draw it down. It was a damage if anything. These freshets and washouts come.

They come to railroads where they have tho best of engineers." "You'll hear so many people ask, "Why don't you rebuild the Torrey Dam?" That's easy to talk. But how are you going to build a dam on some ono else's property." "Everything that has been given to the town has been given by the Torrey family, except half of the public square given by tho D. H. Every place the Torrey family had anything to do It was laid out In good order. Only the Torrey family ever gave a foot of land to tho borough." Bills.

The following bills were presented and on motion ordered to be paid: J. B. Robinson ($2,000 insurance for 3 years on City Hall) $29.00 Erk Bros 9.66 B. F. Haines (election notice Fire Dep't adv't) 2.00 Chas.

E. Gibbs .35 Graham Watts 2.20 Kraft Conger (coal) 29.15 Telephone Co 3.40 Farnham (Insurance) 29.00 Fred Maucr (street work) 3.00 John Ashby (street work) 14.86 H. Knapp (street work) 2.86 T. Sweeney (street work) .68 L. Weldner (street work) 37.56 John Lyons (chief engineer) 25.00 J.

F. Carroll (assistant) 12.50 Chas. Trescott (stoker) 6.25 J. J. Canlvan (police duty) 45.00 Levi Degroat (police service) 50.00 Light bill 301.47 W.

H. Stone (insurance; 29.00 Galvln Theobald (range, etc.) 22.66 $623.06 Bank Note G00.00 $1223.06 Street Commissioner Weldner referred to manure piles at Mennors, roads pretty near blocked over. "1 went up and spoke to Brooks. He never stopped. He never gave me any answer." It Was claimed that the Fire Department can't get past with an engine.

It was decided that tho secretary write a letter, tolling of complaints from Flro Department, and that the manure be removed at once. The place spoken of Is on Sixteenth street right across from Rei ner's. The matter of asking the Electric Light Company to keep the lights burning longer in the mornings was considered. "It is as dark in the morning at o'clock as at mid night, said one of the members. It was decided that the Electric Light Company be asked to con tinue to keep the arc lights burning until 6:30 a.

during December, January and February. The Fire Department again came up for discussion. Mr. Stocker: "You might as well try to Infere with tho President of con ME FARMERS and mechanics bank The Bank flos- $1 starts an account. Are you with us? Courteous Treatment Assured COMPARATIVE GROWTH DEPOSITS June 1st, 1907 $24,398.54 Nov.

7th, 1910 $266,465.61 OFFICERS: M. E. SIMONS, Pres. J. K.

TIFFANY, Vice PreB. C. A. EMERY, Cashier. DIRECTORS: M.

II. Allen, Gcorire C. Abraham, J. Sam llrown, Oscar E. Bunnell Wm.

II. Dunn, W. M. Fowler. W.

11. Gulnnlp, John K. Krantz, Fred. W. Kreitner, John Kuhbach.

G. Wm. Sell, M. E. Simons, Fred.

Stevens.lGeoree W. Tlsdell. J. K. Tiffany, John Weaver.

eetings, Jan. 9-29 Music the U. It's such a delicate mat-tor. Principal Oday runs things." It was brought out that no returns of tho election of the Flro Chief had been made by tho Burgess, llvo days after the election, as tho borough ordinance requires. Adjournment was made at 9:30 p.

m. VETERANS AND FRIENDS I Lafayette Bolkcom, Civil War veteran, of Spangle, Spokane county, Washington, R. D. No. 2, Is to have a POST CARD SHOWER to commemorate hl3 85th birthday on January 23, 1911.

Let everybody join in remembering him. It takes a week for Eastern mall to reach him, but send your card at any time. Bo sure to send. 3t4. Marriage License Record.

Raymond W. Albert- Honesdale. Margaret Benson Cnrliondalo. WYOMING CONFERENCE. Bishop Mclntyro Will Preside Over Session at Oivego.

Bishop Robert Mclntyre of St. Paul, has been appointed to preside over the annual Wyoming Conference to be held at the Methodist Episcopal church In Owego next March. The appointment was made at the recent meeting of the Board of Bishops held in Washington. Tho conference will open Wednesday, March 29, and adjournment will probably occur on the following Monday, April 3. The day preceding the convening of the conference, the young men In the conferenco studies will be examined by the board of examiners.

The session of the conference of 1911 will probably be one of tho most notable in its history. It will not only mark the sixtieth year of the conference since It was formed from tho old Oneida Conference, but also the fortieth year since the dedication of the Owego church edifice. of a most Interesting nature will be presented of the first year's work under the four district plan adopted last Spring at Blng-hamton. It Is expected these reports will show a high Water mark in all departments of conference activities. Bishop Mclntyre Is recognized as one of the most eloquent men in the church, his reputation, both as a preacher and lecturer having become national before his election to the episcopacy, which occurred at tho last session of tho general conference at Baltimore in 1908.

At the time of his election he was pastor of the First Church, Los Angeles, Cal. Bishop Mclntyre Is of Scotch birth his early training was in tho Presbyterian church. At one period of his life he was inclined to bo a skeptic. A most remarkable religious experience, however, prepared the way for his entry Into tho ministry. At the time of his election as bishop It was said of him that he had never yet found a building to contain the audiences that flocked to hear him.

Union revival meetings all week In first Baptist church. See first page for standing of Bermuda contestants. Ml Classes.