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NOTICE. Th6 annual meeting of Stock
holders of Mllanvllle Ilrldee Company, for
lection of ofQeers, and other business, will
ke held at the office of T.J. Fromcr, on Mon
ay, Jan. 4th. 1909. ntfO o'clock a.m. ,
CHARLfes K. BKACH. Secretary.
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WANTED-1000 cords of Kxcelslor Wood,
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100 ACRKS KAKM Good buildincs-tor
sale or exchange for a house In llonesdale or
Uawlcy. JOS. STKHN11AUKR, Hawicy, Pa.
the estate of Clifford L. Chapman.
CHAPMAN. Administrator
hay frc
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FOR SALK-Lot and bulldlmr located at
1129 Main street. Knqulro or write C. h.
Gibbs, Honesdale, l'a. 37tf
HOLIDAY KUKNITUKK at BROWN'S,
Parlor Suits at Brown's,
Bedroom Suits at Brown's,
Couches at Brown's,
Fancy Chairs at Brown's,
UlnliiL' cane and wood Chairs at Brown's.
Chains. Lockets. Ijivclllercs, Brooches,
Fobs, Belt Pins, Veil Pins. Collar Sets, Back
Combs, Side- Combs, Scart Pins, Cuff Links
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LOCAL MENTION.
A matinee dance will be held in
Lyric Hall on New Year's afternoon.
Music will be furnished by the popular
Lyric Orchestra.
We ask our readers to carefully
peruse the Honesdale National Hank
advertisement which appears in The
Citizen, as it brings to light facta which
ofttimes escape the notice of the bank
depositor, and when thoroughly under
stood is a source of comfort to him.
The 100th anniversary of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln will be celebrated
throughout the country, and wherever
American colonies exist in foreign lands,
n the 12th of February next. Is Hones
dale intending to permit the centenary
anniversary to pass without a demon
stration of any kind ?
On Wednesday afternoon last, Louis
Bolinski was driving his team over
Crystal Lake, hauling a sleigh load of
props when the ice broke and both
horses and the front bob went through.
The driver managed to scramble over
the back of the load and save himself,
but both horses were drowned.
The Northeastern Pennsylvania Tel
ephone Co. now have long distance ser
vice from Waymart, to Binghamton, For
tst City, Pleasant Mount, Uniondale,
Jackson, New Milford, Harford, Susque
hanna and Montrose. Fifty cents a month
gives subscribers connection with 275
telephones using 150 miles of wire ; five
sents affords them a talk with Hones
dale and Carbondale, and ten cents
gives them Scranton.
A Herrick Center correspondent
says : Kddie Joyce, night operator at
Uniondale, took a cat from the farm of
his uncle, P. H. Flynn, Sunday, Dec.
6th. He took the 7:05 r. m., train that
night for the home of his parents in
Mast Hope. He arrived there with the
cat and left for his work Monday morn
ing leaving the cat at Mast Hope. When
Mr. Fly.nn went to the farm Wednesday
morning to do his chores, the cat had
come back none the worse for its hun
dred mile trip.
The State ol Pennsylvania will re
move its official protection from the
great American eagle if a bill in con
templation and having the backing of
the State Game Commission becomes a
law. Now the eagle is protected and
there is a fine of $50 for each and every
eagle killed. The State game officials
take the ground that the eagle is a bird
of prey and does more damage than
good. It has been ascertained that the
United States Government does not pro
tect the eagle, and the plan is to make
it legitimate game. But on second
thought, why exterminate the great
American bird which is so hard to find
even now after years of protection ?
No one can gainsay that it is any
thing but great pleasure to announce
the coming of Fanny Rice and her com
pany to the Lyric, New Year's Day, Fri
day, Jan. 1st. Miss Uice for a long
time has given her talent rather too ex
clusively to the big cities, but theatre
patrons who have once seen her hold in
pleasant memory the lady's fine work,
being one of the most versatile come
diennes of the stage to-day. Miss Rice
is at home in opera, comedy or drama,
in hoydenish or pathetic scenes. The
play for the coming engagement is call
ed "A Day Off" taken from the German
and has proved n pronounced success.
The leading character, Nancy Patch,
played by Miss Rice is broad in comedy
with touches of pathetic scenes. In the
prologue, Nancy, in her .humble home,
made dissatisfied by a friend, a gamb
ler's wife, finally finds access into the
wealthy homo of society, and in each of
the succeeding acts the complications
and situation wax strongly in humor
and comedy and the musical numbers
add additional interest. The mimic
stage protrayals of Miss Rice in her
original creation of various character
izations meets with hearty approval.
The scenery is new and bright and the
costumes in the best of taste which
again add much to a most perfect
whole.
The Honesdale National Bank will
bo Closed ,'o'n New Year's Day.
The various lodges of Eagles in this
State will have a new ritual after the
first of this year. This is the first change
made in the ritual sinco the order was
organized ten years ago.
Fred. O. Gclbert has sold his res
taurant business in Hawley to Louis
Geisler. Mr. Gelbert and wife will re
move to Honesdale, and in April occupy
the restaurant building on Seventh
street recently purchased by him.
- Oneonta had a $100,000 fire on Sun
day last, the Arlington hotel and seven
other buildings in the heart of the city
being destroyed. No lives were lost, but
many occupants of the hotel and of the
living apartments in the other buildings
had narrow escapes.
Candidates for nomination for bor
ough and township offices are beginning
to make themselves known. Russell T.
Whitney has announced himself as a
candidate for the nomination for Tax
Collector, for the borough of Honesdale,
subject to the decision of the Republican
caucus. Fred. Cory is also in the field
for the same position.
The Erie's new tunnel at Otisville,
N. Y.,'is now being used for freight
trains. Railroad men say the tunnel is
one of the finest in the world. It is one
mile 200 feet in length, so straight that
one may stand at cither end and look
clear through, and so high that a brake
man can stand on top of a box car and
pass through untouched.
"In Eugene Walter, Messrs. Wagen
hals and Kemper have made a 'find,'
perhaps the best 'find' of the season.
If he can do as well as this at his first
play, we can hope for much. And beg
gars can't be choosers. We are beg
gars." So writes Alan Dale in the
New York American. "Paid in Full"
will be seen at the Lyric on Thursday,
Dec. 31st.
The Susquehanna basket ball team
scored a rattling victory over the Hones
dale five on Saturday the 10th, at the
Railroad Y. M. C. A. rooms in the for
mer place. The score was fifty to eight.
The Honesdale players were Finerty,
1. f. ; Ross, r. f. ; Bader, center ; Bradcr,
1. g. ; Vetter, r. g. Time of halves,
twenty minutes.
Fell township in Lackawanna coun
ty, separated from Clinton in Wayne by
the Lackawanna river, has been divided
by the court into three election districts,
the portion cut off from the old second
district constituting a third. The new
boundaries of the second district which
will consist of that portion of the old
district lying on the southerly side of'tho
Lackawanna river, are as follows : On
tlw south by the' city line of the city of
Uaroondale ; on the east by the county
line dividing the counties of Wayne nnd
Lackawanna ; on the north and north
west by the Lackawanna river, extend
ing from the Wayne county line south
westerly to the Carbondale city line.
The town hall is designated as the poll
ing place.
In the coming of Fanny Rice to the
Lyric Theatre on New Year's Day, Fri
day, Jan. 1st, the amusement seekers
have a treat in store for them, not alone
in the fact of Miss Rice herself, but in
the opportunity the lady is given to por
tray her versatile art, as Nancy Patch,
the Shoemaker's wife, m "A Day Off."
The play is of the best class of musical
comedies, and a real story of interest
runs through the prologue and three
acts, abounding with comedy, pathos
and music, tine opportunity is given
in the last act for Miss Rice, who will
impersonate in midget mimic stage her
famous characterizations which alwavs
prove a delight to ladies and children.
With an excellent cast and complete
production, which is promised, anexcep
tional offering seems assured.
Telephonic communication has been
established between the Farview hospi
tal site and Honesdale and Carbondale
A very commodious ofiice for the use of
the superintendent of construction has
been made out of one of the buildings
formerly located on the picnic grounds
It was removed from there to a site di
rectly opposite the proposed buildings
Tho stone to be used for the foundation
walls is being delivered on the grounds.
It is native mountain stone which is
quarried near the site of tho buildings.
William Work, superintendent for the
contractors, is said to be one of the best
qualified men in the entire State. Ho
was at one time employed in the me
chanical department of tho Delaware &
Hudson company on the New York di
vision and has had charge of some of
the finest buildings in this and adjoining
states.
PERSONAL.
A. J. M. Scott, or "Dink," is visiting
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Scott,
in Goshen, N. Y,
Willis P. Sweatnain, the noted actor
spent Christmas in Honesdale as the
guest of O. L. Rowland.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Vandenburg
are passing the holidays with tho parents
of the latter, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Drake
Tho health of Charles Meyers, the
well-known proprietor of the Texas
House, on Willow Avenue, is much im
paired.
Elwin S. Norton, of the University
of Pennsylvania, is spending his holi
day vacation at his home in Clinton
township.
Mrs. Julia McGarry, and son, Jos.,
of Scranton, paid Honesdale relatives a
holiday visit.
Edmund Finnerty, of this place, at
tended tho recent Century Club dance
in Port Jervis.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Warner and
sons, of Old Forge, spent Christmas with
Lake Ariel friends.
Miss May Campbell is suffering from
an attack of typhoid fever, at her home
in East Honesdale.
Horace Lyons, of Olyphant, spent
Christmas with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Lyons, here.
Miss Irene Boner, of Port Jervis, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Iva Ycrgy,
wifd of Rev. Lewis Yergy, at Hollister
villc. .Mrs. Win. H. MacMillan, of West
Pittston, is visiting at the home of her
mother, Mrs. Margaret Ball, of Park
street.
Mrs. Fred. Wood, formerly proprie
tor of Tho Gale, will occupy the apart
ments in tho Powell building, Main
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Dimmick, of
Scranton, were guests over Sunday of
tho former's father, Hon. William H.
Dimmick.
Harley Woodward, formerly editor
of the Hawley Times, and later of the
East Stroudsburg News, was in town on
Christmas day.
Three cases of diphtheria are report
ed in Carbondale, one of the children
affected being Duane, eon of Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Pethick.
Mr. and Mrs. Win. H. Hawken and
daughter, Laceta, of East street, left on
Monday for a few days' visit with rela
tives in the Lackawanna Valley.
JKev. t.t. Uibus, formerly a resi
dent of Bethany, is now pleasantly lo
cated as pastor of the Methodist Epis
copal church in Delano, Michigan.
Peter States, of Carbondale, called
at The Citizen office to renew his sub
scription on Saturday last. Mr. States
one of the paper's oldest and most
valued patrons.
Miss Anna, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred. C. White, of Hawley, a stu
dent at Knox School, Lakewood, N. J.,
is spending the holidays with her parents.
John L. Wolf, foreman of the lino
type department of the Scranton Repub
lican, spent the week end with his
Honesdale relatives. Mrs. Wolf was a
visitor with him.
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Thompson
and two little daughters, of Andovcr.
Mass., are guests of Mr. Thompson's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Thomp
son, of Park street.
Charles Fisher, for tho pact three
years in the employ of the Grand Union
Tea Co. here, has been transferred to
Hancock to take charge of a route for
the same company there.
Barnet Golden, tho optician, for
merly of this place, but now located in
Carbondale, has been confined to his
bed for several days with a severe at
tack of bronchitis nnd grip. He is now
improving.
Announcement is made of tho en
gagement of Miss Josephine C. Dittrich,
of South Main street, and Franklin H.
Neuberger, of Madison, N. J. Mr.
Neuberger is a divinity student at Drew
Theological Seminary.
Michael Tigue, the Scranton drum
mer, often heard here with Bauer's
band, was a member of the orchestra at
the Herald Square theatre, New York,
when the building was destroyed by fire
and the music was continueduntil every
person except the orchestra had made
a safe escape from the structure. He
lost all his personal effects in the fire.
James u linen, who was born in
Carbondale, and became a noted mem
ber of the Pinkerton Detective agency,
died in the Wilkes-Barre city hospital,
on Wednesday of last week; aged 02
years. After ho loft tho Pinkerton force
he was employed by the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company, and was in the serv
ice of that corporation when Paymaster
McClure and stable foreman Flannaghan
were held up on the Wilkes-Barre moun
tain and robbed by "Red Nose Mike,"
whom he eventually captured.
We are indebted to William Wallace
Ham, who was a member of the Press
Committee of tho great banquet given
by "The Friars" in honor of Oscar Ham
merstein, at Hotel Astor, New York, on
Sunday night of last week, for copies of
tho elaborato menu and "The Star," a
beautifully illustrated dramatic periodi
cal, which gives two wonderful flash
light pictures of the six hundred guests
seated at the feast. Among the portraits
thoso of Mr. Ham and Lieut. Robert T.
Menner, both from Honesdale, are easily
distinguishable.
James J. O'Neill, of Carbondale,
who read law in Honesdale, and was
elected additional law judge of Lacka
wanna county at the November election,
took the oath of ofiice before Judge
Newcombe, in chambers, last week.
Judge O'Neill will take his seat at the
left of President Judge Edwards, Mon
day next, January 4, and succeeds Judge
J. W. Carpenter. There will be no
ceremony connected with the new judge's
taking his seat. He will be introduced
to the members of the bar in the court
roomby President Judge H. M. Edwards,
and his first official act will be to charge
the grana jury, which convenes the same
day. He will also probably preside for
the week in equity court.
Major Edgar Jadwin, who was in
jured, It was first feare'd very seriously
by a fall from his horse at Gntun Canal
Zone, is, we are pleased to say, making
a very favorable recovery, and with, the
aid of crutches, is already able to visit
his office.
J. M. Romick, of Prompton, who
went to tho Isthmus of Panama to ac
cept employment under Major Jadwin
at Culebra, and was continued there
after the latter's transfer to another
point, is visiting his family and friends
on a furlough, which gives him leave of
absence until February 1st, but which
will necessitate his starting from here on
his return trip, January 10th, next. Mr.
Romick is in fine health and spirits, but
his experience in tho tropics has already
made him peculiarly sensitive to our
northern climate at this season of the
year.
In our last issue we mentioned as
something extraordinary in the way of
longevity, tho George Baker family of
Dybcrry, the combined ages of husband,
wife and brother being 250 years. This
is doubtless a remarkable record, but as
an instanco of individual vigor at an ad
vanced age, B. R. Child, ofWestcolang,
Pike Co., is perhaps entitled to the
medal. A letter to C. M. Betz has been
shown us, written by him at the age of
IX) in which the penmanship would do
credit to a high school graduate, the
spelling without an error, and the lan
guage fully up-to-date, and this from a
nonogenarian, who is nearly blind in one
eye.
The first number of the Wayne Co.
Herald, established in 1832, contained a
poem entitled "The Living and the
Dead." Eliza Stott, of Carbondalp,
was so favorably impressed by the verses
that she copied them, and her nephew,
William S. Birdsall, of Seelyville, has
her original manuscript, still as legible
as when written more thon three-quarters
of a century ago, and a model of
dainty chirography. Wanting space for
a reproduction of the entire poem, we
give the last verse :
The crave for the dead 1 How short the
stage
Allotted to man for his pilgrimage.
For to-day he Is, and to-morrow he's gone.
Like the tlower of spring, which the sun
shines on,
But should chilling frosts assail It ever
It falls. It withers, and urlses never.
Rev. F. M. Turrentine, a pastor
well-known in tho northern townships
of Wayne, while preaching at Irvington
recently, exercised a presence of mind
which doubtless saved many lives. While
speaking he became aware that a fire
was raging under the floor beneath the
pulpit, and at once seeing the risk of a
panic, in an ordinary tone of voice re
quested the congregation to move out
slowly, as there was no immediate dan
ger; in proof of which he would be the
last to leave the building. When the
entire audience had passsd out in an or
derly manner, tho preacher followed,
and almost immediately afterward the
flames burst through the flooring. The
building was entirely destroyed, involv
ing a loss of $30,000.
No wonder Hon. Leopold Fuerth
declined with thanks Seat No. 13 as
signed him in the next House. He had
just read tho experience of Captain W.
Lauer, of the schooner Willis A. Holden,
of Port Washington. Lauer never be
lieved that there was anything wrong
connected with tho number thirteen. He
laughed at the idea that some people did
not care to be included among thirteen
at tabic. But it is different now. He
has just completed his thirteenth voyage,
and he has become convinced that the
number is the worst hoodoo that was
ever inflicted on mortal man. From the
time that he sailed the skipper was pur
sued by calamities. He lost his sails, his
cargo shifted and a part of it was lost at
sea, his rudder and steering gear were
damaged, and two sailors were badly
injured by tho dropping of a boom. Now
he is a linn convert to the superstitious
idea, and he will never again laugh at
people who shy room thirteen or disap
pear when thirteen are found sitting at
table.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
On Friday evening, Jan. 1st, 1009, the
Odd Fellows of Pleasant Mount will hold
their winter ball. Good music and abun
dant refreshments. The public are cor
dially invited.
Rev. R. D. Minch supplied tho Bap
tist pulpit last Sunday, morning and
evening. Tho Sunday school has been
reorganized and is preparing for effici
ent work. Tho regular Wednesday night
meetings are being held and a speciol
meeting is called for this, Wednesday,
night for business and the consideration
of settling a pastor.
The Christmas festival of Grace Epis
copal Sunday school will be held in the
Sunday school rooms on Wednesday
evening at seven o'clock.
There will be a New Year's Watch
night service at Grace Episcopal church,
Thursday evening commencing at 11:30.
The regular Wednesday evening pray
er meeting will be omitted at the Meth
odist church this week and a Watch
night service will be held on Thursday
evening beginning at 8 o'clock. Tho
choir will furnish special music. Several
laymen will give short addresses. The
sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be
administered. There will be a brief
sermon and the old time prayer and tes
timony service. A cordial invitation is
extended' to all to attend.
"Santa ClauB Surprise Party" will be
held, at the Presbyterian Chapel, Thurs
day evening, Dec. 31, 1008, at 6:45 sharp,
Don't be late.
FANNY RICE AT THE LYRIC NEW YEAR'S NIGHT.
JANUARY SALE
OF LADIES' AND HISSES'
SUITS
Ladies' Misses' g Children's
Winter Coats
SeparSeSKJRTS
and WAISTS
BEAUTIFUL
FURS
KIMONAS and
HOUSE GOWNS
Our Entire Stock of
Readv-made Garments
to be closed out from i-3 to 1-2 be
low regular prices.
KATZ BROS
GREAT
Clearance Sale
The entire Stock of J. N. C.
Bader, consisting of Mens',
Youth's Boys' and Children's
Suits, Overcoats, Ulsters, Hats,
Caps, Shirts, Waists, Under
wear Sweaters, Gloves, Neck
wear, Collars, Suspenders and
Overalls
MUST BE SOLD AT ONCE
REGARDLESS OF COST.
A. HELFERICH
Successor to J. N. C. BADER.
Pat Faith an' phwat is this foot and
mouth disease ?
Mike-Why, that's the thing that kilt
the Dimmycratic party.
DIt.C. R. Bit ADY. Dentist Honesdale, Pa.
Office Hoobs-8 a. m. to 6 p. m.
Any evening by appointment.
Cltltensrphone. 8J. Residence. No. 88 X.
Advertise in THE CITIZEN.
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