CENT A WORD COLUMN SCHOOL TEACHERS If you liavo n few hours cacb day that you can spare from your work we will show you how to Inrreaco your enrnlncs. 1JoxC81, Honcsdale l'a. tt FARM FOR RALE.-Oneorthcbcstcqulpp-v ed farms lit Wayno Co, Situated about 3 miles from Honcsdale Everything up-to-dato Over $3,000 has been expended within the lost few years In buildings, tools and Im provements 15flneres,'75 acres of which are ffood hard wood timber Will bo sold reason ablyA bargain: for further particulars In quire of W. v. WOOO, Citizen Office. FARMS WANTEI.-Vlth stock preferred. Send all particulars to I'. O. l)ox216,Hawlcy, Pa. tl WANTED. To buy, rent or work on shares a 100 or moro ncre farm, complete with house, barn and stock. Citizen olUcc. HELP WANTED. All klnrts-now. Address-Employment ISurenu, 15 Clements St., Liberty, N. Y. 1017 WANTED In every Hamlet, Village, and Township, cncreetlc pcoplowho wllluscthelr spare tlmo for eood pay. Ilox 681. Honcsdale, Pa. tf PERSONAL. Another ono of those populardanecs with music- furntshed by the Lyric or chestra, will be held at Lyric Hall on Tuesday evening! Feb. Otli. These dances arc becoming bo popular that the young people look forward to them with great h) J. pleasure. Austin Lyons was a visitor in Haw- ley, last week. Edward Katz spent several days this I DO NOT CARE how bad the upholstery on your furniture, I will make samo as good as new. Will repair furniture so that It is as strong as new, havlnz learned my trade In Germany. Perfect satisfaction Is Guaranteed by the Wayne Upholsterer, Thco. Llsken, No. 830 Main street, llonesdnlc. FARM of 100 acres, 20 cows and tools If de sired. Easy drive tollonesdalc. Call at this olUcc for Information. 8tf HAIR MATTRESSES made over by the Wayne County Upholsterer, Thco. Ltskcn. 530 .Main street. FURNITURE REPAIRED and Upholster ed, ami all kinds of Cabinet Work, done Sroniptiy anu reasonably by Thco Llsken. 0 Main street. 711 FOR SALE. A Sawmill and Turbine Wheel,, complete; also Uristmlll and Tur blno Wheel. Hoover Lumber Co., Wilkes llarrc. Pa. "H AMOS WARD, Auctioneer. Ready to ne commodatcall comers, llethany, J'a. Mil) FARM of 182 acres for sale. Good house, a barn that will accommodate 40 cows, Shnrscs and 100 tons of hay. Farm well watered. New chicken house that will accommodate 200 chickens. Large silo. No better farm in Wayne county. Situated one-half mile from village. Inquire at The Citizen olllee. FOR SALE A good two-seated Slcteh. reasonable. Inquire Hotel Wayne. J5tt FOR SALE Hay house, on East Extension street. Larec lot with sixty feet front M.E. Simons. :i8roltt FURNITURE at RROWN'S. Parlor Suits at llrown's. Bedroom Suits at Hrown's, Couches at Hrown's. Fancy Chairs at Brown's. Dining cane and wood Chairs at llrown's. 32tf LOCAL MENTION The Honcsdale basket bull team will play in White Mills on Saturday even ing. The case against Dr. C. W. Trever ton has been continued in the Lacka wanna county courts for the third time, going over to next term in consequence of the absence from Scranton of one of his counsel. Letters uncalled for at the Hones dale post office : Mr. and Mrs. Brush, Mrs. Myra Coney, Mrs. Mary A. Dolan, Mrs. John Lozo, Floyd Montran, B. Simons, H. H. Sweeney. It often happens that the man who buys everything he can from the cheap Catalogue houses, like Sears Roebuck & Co., and Montgomery Ward, is the very fellow who, when he has a little misfortune in his home, is around with a paper asking the merchants with whom he ought to deal to help. him out a little The regular inspection of Company E was held at their hall, on Eighth street, Wednesday evening. Majors Clarke, of Williamsport, and Conrad, of Scranton, were in attendance. The local company is in very good condition; sixty eight answering to the roll-call. On March 2d, Company E, with Company I, of Easton, will go to Washington, to at tend the inauguration. The case of Joseph Ackerman vs Thomas Quinney was brought before Justice of the Peaco William H. Ham, on Thursday morning. Both parties claim the ownership ol a dog, the plain tiff alleging that his dog left him about a year ago, and returned to him last month. The defendant went to the plaintiff's place of business on Wednes- day, and took the animal, claiming that the dog belonged to him. The defend ant waB held in $100 bail for his appear ance at.court. District Superintendent Rev. M. D Fuller, of the Honesdale district of the Wyoming conference, will officiate at communion services at the following places: Sunday, February 7, Pleasant Mount in the morning and Orson in the evening; February 14, Beech Lake in the morning and Narrowsburg in the even ing; February 21, Bethany in the moriv ine and Honcsdalo in the evening. The quarterly conference of the Honesdalo church will bo held Friday evening February 10, at which Rev. Fuller will be in attendance. Hon. George Moscrip, Bradford county's senior representative in the House, tn Wednesday of last week, in troduced a measure authorizing tho erec' tlon at Townnda of a monument com memorative of the late Hon. David Wil mot, author of the "Wilmot Proviso,' and one of Pennsylvania's most illustri ous sons, who was born in Bethany January 20, 1814, when that village was the county-seat of Wayne. His mother was a daughter of the pioneer James Carr, of Canaan township. It is eml ncntly proper that a monument to David Wilmot should be erected by tho State of Pennsylvania, which he served so well and honorably. But why not locate it in Bethany where lie first saw. the light and where he had his residence for the following twsnty ysan ? T. J. Canivan's chimney protector has been endorsed by all architects and builders between Carbondale andWilkes- Barre. Its utility is recognized wherc- ever it is shown, and tho patent bids fair to come into general use. Tho annual meeting ol the State School Directors' Association, composed of directors of cities and boroughs, also the City School and County Superinten dents Association commenced its ses sions in Harrisburg on Tuesday evening and will close to-day. Superintendent Koehlcr, and a number of our Wayne county school directors are in atten dance. Orson Camp of the Order of the Golden Seal held its public installation of officers in the M. E. church of that place on Tuesday evening last. Supreme officers B. B. Craft, of Schenectady, N. Y., Charles Handbury, of Roxbury, N. Y., and R. I). Bunnell, of Scranton, were present nnu a banquet was given in their honor. The Orson band made its first appearance on the occasion. On Tuesday morning last the Lack awanna station at Gouldsboro was burglarized. The safe was not locked, so the thieves had easy access to tho inner drawers, which were opened with keys, and a few dollars stolpn. A nunv ber of express packages of unknown alue were also taken, but the ticket case was not molested. There is no clue to the robbers. While- drawing ice Irom the Dela are river on Jridnv afternoon last the team's driver, Peter Randall, broke through, and he with the horses and sleigh were given an exceedingly cold bath. Fortunately tho stream was only four feet deep where the mishap occur red, and, although it required consider able time and trouble to get the outfit back to terra-firma, but little real dam age was done. Dr. J. C. Batcson, formerly of this county, now of Scranton, is a represen tative of tho American Medical Associa tion, and is now visiting local physicians in Harrisburg, seeking to impress upon them his theory that all who engage in the practice of the healing art should first be required to pursue a .uniform course of medical education and training, and that every physician thus qualified should be at perfect liberty to choose whatever remedy or plan of treatment he pleases, so long as it is for the relief of suffering humanity. A perfect avalanche q't appropria tion bills has already been introduced in the House at Harrisburg, among them the following in the interest of institu tions in this part of the State, mainly in Lackawanna county : Florence Critten ton home, $6,000 ; Pennsylvania Oral school, $78,000 ; Home for the Friend- less, $16,000 ; West Mountain Sanitarium, $20,000 ; Hahnemann Hospital, $77,759 ; Emergency hospital, Uarbondaie, ifroi, 750 ; Wyoming Valley Tuberculosis Socio ty, $5,000 ; Associated charities, $10,000, State Hospital for criminal insane, $500,- 000. Health Commissioner Darlington, of New York, has decided to offer two cows of fancy breed as prizes for the best two essays on the subject of "How Clean and Wholesome Milk May Be Produced at the Least Cost for the New York Mar ket." The competition is open to farm ers in all the States which contribute to the milk supply of ,Ncw York city, which includes a number of dairymen in Wayne county. Here is a chance for farmers Gammell, Norton, Perham and other capable writers of this county to add a couple of fine animals to their herds. The only condition imposed on competitors is that milk from their dairies is sold in the New York market. Com missioner Darlington says that he had fallen on this plan with the hope that it would furnish an incentive to dairy far mers to take a greater interest in milk producing from an economical as well as a sanitary viewpoint. H. E. Simons, of Scranton, is spend ing a few days in this place. Miss Jennie Touhey is tho new op erator at the consolidated Telephone of fice. Mr. and Mrs, Georgo Tunian, of Scranton, are visiting relatives at this place. Mrs. James Lindsay and daughter, Mrs. Vina Wetherby, spent Monday at Keene. F. W. Tibbitts, of the firm of F. W. Tibbitts & Co., of Philadelphia, is in town on business. John Stegncr, Andrew Murtha and John O'Connell attended a dance in Hawley, last evening. Mrs. W. II . Millspaugh and daugh ter Ruth, of Port Jervis, are guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith, of West, street. Mayor J. Benjamin Dimmick, of Scranton, has formally withdrawn his name from further consideration as a candidate for United States Senator. Russell T. Whitney has bought the good will, horses, wagons and general equipment of the Honesdale Ice Co., with which he has been connected as manager for somo years. Rev. W. F. Hopp, Ph. D., is the way to write it since the Iowa Christian College has conferred tho honor of Doc tor of Philosophy on tho popular pastor of the St. John's Ev. Lutheran church. Frank P. Smith, a notice of whose death appears in another column, will be remembered as the young man who suffered so severely from hemorrhages at the residence of Mrs. W. II. Briggs, lltli street, about four years ago. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gaylord and Mrs. J. J. Curtis went to Philadelphia, yesterday morning, for a visit with their Bons, Albert B. Gaylord and Judson J Curtis, who are successful business men in the City of Brotherly Love. Carlton S. Brooks and Miss Elsie L Wetiber, both of Beach Lake, were mar ried at the Episcopal rectory, Thursday afternoon, the ceremony being perform ed bv Rev. A. L. Whittakcr. The couple were attended by Miss Jessie White, of Honesdale, and Charles E. Webber, of Beach Lake. 'Mrf and Mrs. Brooks left on the Erie irairr- for a wedding trip to New York and other cities. Dr. William T. Bull, the famous New York surgeon, whose condition from cancerous complications long seemed hopeless, had sufficiently improved in strength to permit of his removal to Sa vannah, Georgia, on Friday last. Before his illness he weighed 255 pounds, but is now reduced to 145. Dr. Bull was for a long time professionally associated with the late Dr. D. B. St. John Roosa. OBITUARY. Frank Smith died at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Smith, of Indian Orchard, on Tuesday morning, Feb. 2d. Deceased was twenty-eight years of age. He was born in White Mills. Besides his parents he is sur vived by tho following brothers, John, Joseph and August; also a step-sister, Mrs. Stephen Bauer, of Hawley, and a step-brother, Jacob Dcctsch, of Honcs dale. The funeral will be held. Saturday morning, at 9:30 o'clock. Homer Davenport. John Finnigan died in the Port Jervis Hospital on Tuesday last from a fractur ed skull and severe shock received on the previous Saturday while at work in a stone quarry at Long Eddy. Ho was struck on tho head by a large stone, and never recovered consciousness after the accident. Ho was born in Ulster coun ty, N. Y., and learned the trado of stone cutting at West Hawley. For the past ten years he had been in the employ of the Kennoy Brothers at 'Long Eddy. Ho leaves a wife, three sisters and three brothers, among tho latter being Philip Finnigan, of Equinunk, Mrs.. Maggie Alexander Gollwyne, daughter of Robert Alexander, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, died at her homo in Now York on Wednesday of last week, aged 42 years. Her remains wcro brought to her childhood homo for burial on Satur day last. A short servico was held in the Methodist Episcopal church, Pleas ant Mt. Interment in tho cemetery. Her father and mother arc both living, and reside at Endicott, N. Y. ; also Ave sisters, Mrs. W. Tiffany and Mrs. G Coles, at Endicott; Mrs. John Lang, at Waymart ; Mrs. Fred. Reynolds, in So attle, Wash.; Josephine, ot home, and one brother, Charles, at Newburgh, N, Y He- went over to England nnd was lionized to death. Whistler, the impos sible, fell in love with him. Phil May sat at his feet. Gladstone said he was the one American ho over saw who was the kind ot man all-Americans tried to pretend 'to be. Lord Salisbury put off o trip abroad to meet him and hear him tell stories of the days when his ono ambition was to be a circus clown. Henry Irving said he was tho best story teller ho'd ever heard. He was dined and wined and run after, and his one grievance was that theso great men 'sh6uld so plainly show that they were weak in somo way by making such a fuss ovor a nobody like himself. He's so simple that he's the most complicated man I ever knew. Ambition, vanity, love of power he has heard tho names of these things he doesn't know what they mean. If he hadn't been a famous'cartoonist ho'd have been a famous animal painter. Or ho would have been a famous singer he has a baritone of gold or ho'd hare been a famous sculptor or a famous speaker. He's a genius his pictures are only one way of showing it. 'lho great secret of his marvelous influence isn't in hia pictures it's in tho man. Winked Black, in the Denver Post. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Thero will be a Choral Service, Sun day, at 7:30 r. m., at Grace Episcopal church. Rev. A. L. Whittaker will hold ser vice in White Mills, on Sunday, at 3 P. M. There will bo a reception of now mem bers at the Baptist church next Sunday morning, preceding the Lord's Supper. During January To Close out all our Sample S-U-I-T-S Mrs. Celia McCormtck, wife of Wm. Dunn, died at her home in Mount Pleas ant on Friday evening last, January 26, 1909. The following circumstances con nected with her death are furnished by a correspondent : "About six weeks ago she gave birth to twin boys. The mother and babes were doing finely, and she had gotten up and was doing her own work. On Wednesday evening the house caught fire from the chimney and the shock from it left her in such weak ened condition that she died on Friday." She is survived by her husband and four children, the oldest a boy six years old, a girl four years old and the twin babies ; also two brothers and. four sis ters and her mother, Mrs. John McCor- mick. Her sisters are Mrs. C. Moylan, of. Waymart ; Mrs. John Lestrange, of Povntelle : Mary, at Coudersport, and Margaret, at home. The .funeral ser vices were held at Hill Top, Rev. Father D. W. McCarthy officiating. Interment in Hill Top cemetery. Henry O. Silkman, owner of the beau tiful Lake Henry estate at Maplewood, Lake township this county, between Scranton and Lake Ariel, died on Mon day last, February 1st, 1909. He was 78 years of age, and is survived by his wife and two sisters. For several years he hadsuffered from rheumatic troubles, though up to two months ago he was able to be about most of the time. Mr, Silkman was born in Katonah, West Chester Co., N. Y. When but a child his parents moved to Dunmore, where they lived for a few years, later taking up their residence in what is now North Scranton. There the father opened an iron foundry and his sons Henry O. and Frank B., became associated with him the enterprise. Twenty-five years Steene. Feb. 1st. Being laid up for repairs and amendments Inst week, the bobo link is again on duty. The tax payers of the borough of Prompton have at last awakened to the realization that they have been "hoodo ed" and hood-winked for a number of vears bv a certain clique, residents of said borough, but taxable to no extent, who, when they name their ticket at the regular caucus will see to it that they are nominated and elected by fair or by foul means ; but having been caught at tho last recular caucus at their trick ery, a special meeting of the citizens later the foundry was destroyed by fire and tax navers was called toeether Fri- and lienry u. siiKmanwent to uerwicK, day eveninc, Jan. 29, on which occasion remaining there for a short time, later the school was filled to its utmost ca- moving to Maplewood, where ho owned Some time ago in one of "his reminis cent articles the writer recalled the fact that when he was a little lad, and when most of The Citizen readers were still "the cocoon of futurity," 'Squire Bid- well was advertising false curls, and nostrums for making hair grow luxuri ously on bald pates, and face powders and lotions, and all tho other appliances for beautifying young people and mak ing old folks young. This to show that there was plenty of artificiality in the human make-up thrce-scoro and ten long years ago as well as now. But what shall wo say of seventy centuries iiiBtead of seventy years, as furnishing evidence that, although, according to the old Latin proverb, "tho times change and we chango with them," if we look at the matter comprehensively, there hasn't been such a revolution in our per sonal fads and fancies since tho accept ed days of Adam' and Eve after all? It is now an established fact that falso hair was worn extensively as long agos five thousand years before the Christian era and that excavations in Egypt havo es tablished not only that the Ancients used false teeth, gold filled, but that the ladies of the period were accustomed to rouge and otherwise "make up" just as some do nowadays. There is nothing new under the sun. pacity. After discussion, a Citizens' ticket was nominated and elected and the result sent to the Commissioners' of fice in due form, and in the hope that no serious errors have occurred in send ing in names not indorsed at the meet ing. Mrs. Charles Dryer, who has been in attendance on her father, David Won nacott, for thelast three months, return ed to her homo at White Plains, N. Y., on Saturday. Samuel Found is confined to his home with a slight attack of pneumonia. Jacob Wayman still lies very low at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Charles Dennic. On account of tho recent thaw the Lake Lodoro Ie Co. was at a standstill all of last week. February 16th nil tax-payers of tho borough should look after their own in terests by voting a straightCitizons tick et. Tho weather being favorable, the Lake Lodore Ice Co, will resume operations this week. Galen Perrv, of Carbondale, visited friends in this section Sunday. Mrs. Oliver Chapman, of Carbondale, is visiting this week at tho home of Mr, and Mrs. Arthur Snediker, at Prompton Mrs. Emily Blake, of Honesdale, is spending a few days with her brother, David Wonnacott at Steene. Norman Arnold and family havemov ed from Carbondale and located in his father's house here. Mrs. William Cole, who has been ser iously ill, is slowly improving. Mrs. Vanbuskirk, who has been quite ill, is able to be around again. Rev. Mr. Lees, of Prompton, is talk ing of telling hii pacer. She is a dandy, a large tract of land. When the Erie and Wyoming Valley railroad passed through his land he was given import ant concessions for the right of way For over thirty years, Mr. Silkman lived at Maplewood, where he owned large timber tracts and a line water power plant. For a number of years lie oper ated a saw-mill and aciiair factory. Mr, Silkman was also the owner of Lake Henry and the land between the lake and the Erie tracks. This stretch was covered with tho finest timber and was one ofMr.Silkraan'sraost highly prized possessions. He made it into a beauti ful park, which he improved with path ways and rustic bridges and in which he erected laree navilions and other buildings necessary for a picnic ground The park was used for a couple of sea sons, but owing to the fact that the rail road company would not furnish train accommodations it had to be abandoned for nil but private uses. Lake Henry was mado famous as a fishing ground when Mr. Silkman stocked the waters with pickerel, perch and catfish. Thou sands of anglers went to the lake each season and many of them built cottages along the shore. Mr. Silkman was also interested in tho large ice houses at the outlet of the lake, in which many tons of ice for the uso of the people of Scran ton and other places, was stored each winter. AT- Menner & Go's. Stores. Ladies', Misses' and Junior Suits. Evening Coats, Opera Cloaks, Long Newmarkets. Separate Skirts, Silk, Voile and Cloth. Girls' School and Best Long Coats. Children's and Infants' Warm "Winter Coats. Silk and Net Waists, long and short sleeves. Cloth Capes sold very low- prices to close out stock. MENNER & CO. (raw ySfliffSmk THERE IS NO PLACE IN AMERICA WHERE ALL WOOL MADE-TOrMEASURE CLOTHES CAN BE HAD AT A LOWER PRICE THAN HERE. AND THERE IS NO PLACE IN AMERICA WHERE THE QUALITY IS HIGHER OR THE WORKMANSHIP SO FINE. ASK FOR THE INTERNATIONAL ALL WOOL LINE. L. A. HELFERICH, Honesdale. 5.uSfSRDETR. HONESDALE, PA. Investigation Needed. Away down in Colon within the dieting xone They wandered In the gloaming wltbooi a chaperon. Be klised her, and aome etranger wrote this os u a jest: "Another Panama eeandal, more eerioui than the rest." at. Lout n.publU. Telephone Announcement This company is preparing to do extensive construction work in the Honesdale Exchange District which will greatly improve tho service and enlarge the system. Patronize the Independent Telephone Company which reduced telephone rates, anddo not contract for any other service without conferring with our Contract Department Tel. No. 300. CONSOLIDATED TELEPHONE CO. of PENNSYLVANIA! Poster Bufldtag.
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