HIT A WORD COLUMN
WANTED. A competent elrl to do house
Irk. Mrs. M. H. Tracy. H07 Main street.
a
( MARK THE GRASS GHKEN use our
n Dresslncr on your lawn. Price 3 cts
r pound. MUHHAY CO. 22t4
FOR SALE. One lot on Church street.
: 100 feet. Price Iiaoo. II. llussen or
liner Greene. IWeltf
BUR odorless Lawn Dressing delivered to
lata cts. per pound, hukuai uu.
Z2li
CLOSING OUT.-iltare chance for bargains
I Geo. B. Kimble's store. Selllns out his
ISrfr nrpnnrnfarv tn nlllmnt? business.
frmers should not lose this opportunity,
ery thine at reduced prices. !atf
FOKSALK OR ltENT.-The dwelllnc house
11019 Court street. Enqulreol C. T. llent-
0.00 REWARD.-You can make even more
n this on sour roods by ecttlng me to do
ur selllne. Write for date. A. O. Ulako.
uciioneer, Jieuiany.
?OU HALE.-A house and lot. 1314 West
rcet. llonesdale. 16 rooms, with all con-
Inlences. Desirable for a boardlnc house.
I two families. Inquire on tue premise m
Ira. E. G. Sccor.-or of her attorney, A.T.
iarle.
Altfrrvrt f n .wnnt llnmM V i ! l.'IFP. find
iwnxhtn. enpra-t c dcodIc who will use their
gare lime iorcooui'ttJ'., , ,
urawera. jioiicaumc. i .
-ij a a i r-Thn wfll.kniiwn Murray Farm
i,nmi inciw.rrv 1! lil en townshl n. two nnd
p-hnir miles from llonesdale. Same dis-
Inrmtn llnillnv' StntlOIl Oil tllB KtU A
ryommc ranroaa. jnis ianu umaiaia ui
j acres, aumiruuiy nuaiucu iui diw ui
airy purposes, usual cuts over one hun
rcd tons of hay. besides a larce acreage of
Bhcr crops. Seven large barns : erancry. ice
ruse, suo ana mrce awuiiiiiuuuuscs. j uciv
nhi.nt t9 nn worth nf hardwood lumber, in
le tree. Stables with cement tloors for 40
Sws. Will sen lor one-mira casn, Daiance
i easy payments, or win exenange tor town
operty. .Murray jo.. iiuuesuuiu. ru.
Rnitnnr. TEACHERS If vou have a few
burs each day that you can spare from your
fork we will show you how to lncreaeo you.
IFOR 3 ALE Ray house, on East Extension
x T 1 .. . ! . I- .. 1 ... f . k I I."
reel, iirteiuv wnu i..fcjr ii:Mivii. '
sons. ooeuiu
HELP WANTED. All klnds-now. Ad-
ress Employment uureau, 10 uiementn oi.
berty. N. Y. 10t7
FARM of 1K2 acres for sale. Good house, a
am that will accommodate i cows, ouurses
hri lm t nf hnv. Knrm well watered.
I ew chicken house that will accommodate
r . t i T Vn linilnn fn m In
Payne county, situated one-half mile from
111.. T . . I . . . . 'till" ( iwilfPV 1 1 1 1 1 1 '11
Bliatte. iiiijuui; a i.e. v.. ....-. v.. .......
iTitoniJTAlCT SALE nv REAL ESTATE
nd Personal property. inere win ou oner
i tnT onip nn ttu nrpniises one mile
E est of Seelyvillc on TUESDAY. MARCH
.V. tfW n.niir.lnn n f in nVlikplf A M
Iloverlllll Farm, well known as the Whlt-
Sey place, consisting oi iui acres in ianu, mi
lt which Is a two story concrete dwelling.
pree Darns, larue ciiiukcii uuuai-, Kiuuaij-,
Fagon shed and Icehouse, large orchard of
Iraftedfruitand small frults.andgood spring
Fatcr In the house. Also at auction, at the
lime time: lour norses. one anvini: uuise
Eur years old, l cows, z iwo-year urns,
in hnir twn vnarllnt? bulla. 7 year-
Inff heifers, 4 pics, 60 chickens, 3 ueese, 3 sets
eavy harness, c sew uriiea, huui.
ntihi hnrnpis 4-horsfi rovered 'IIUS- 2 tOD
iuScles. open buecy, two heavy farm wagons.
mr nn:i vv 111111 nii'iim. umr imut utius, liul
bxes,Vscords"of wood;quantlty ot hayv oat
raw ann rye straw, m dusucis ruiuuimus.
rcastiiTifv tnncn nR ann D iner. iaiiiiiiii imu
rn sheller, sulky plow, 3 cultivators, a
tnnt Mnnvf plprator. t wo dos nowers.
rfltpi.'2hflv rlirfflnirs. hursehav
TK, nay lors carrier, rupea uuu imiicjo,
TMHMS Th farm and all of theBtock
nrl nthornprsmnl nrnnertv if sold to&rether.
irill be at such price and terms as may be
An Vttit- If !- norcnnnl nrnnprtw la
old by the pece, all sums under $10 will be
layamein casu; un sums ui iu oiiu uvn,
redlt for ten months on Judgment notes
Uh approveu secumy . TJrtTJTMCrtM
Fortenla, March 18, 1909. 23t3el
LOCAL MENTION.
-Letters uncalled for at the Hones-
Kale post office :
H. C. Frev. Miss Emma Ferger, Mrs.
Maria Kelly, Philip Martin, H.P. Wilson.
A new gasoline lamp has been placed
hear the rienwooa Dnage, on -norm
lain street.
-The old students of Wyoming Semi
nary, from Wyoming to recKvuie, win
lanquet this evening in the dining room
f the M. E. church in Carbondale. Dr.
L. Sprague, principal of the Semi-
lary at Kingston, will give a little talk
lo the former students, and an enjoyable
program generally will be carried out.
uSdward Clarkson and Pierce Butler, of
3arbondale, are rated as the two oldest
living members of the Seminary family,
mt there are two or three old-timers on
this side of the Moosic who might well
contest that distinction with them.
A bill has been introduced in the
House at Harrisburg, providing that
after Juno 1, 1909, 2,240 pounds shall
constitute a legal ton of coal, and making
lit a misdemeanor to sell less than that
weight to a ton, or in that proportion in
quantities less than a ton. This law, if
passed, would have no effect on Hones-
Idale sales. Coal is never sold hero at
(retail by the ton, but by the pound. An
order for a ton is always filled at 2,000
Ipounds, as the purchaser will find on
Iconsulting his bill. The same rule ap
Iplies to smaller quantities. So the $200
I fine and one year imprisonment provided
I in the act for its violation would have no
I terrors for local dealers.
-A bill was introduced by IJepresenta
Itive Fuerth, in the lower house, onTues
day evening last, appropriating $10,000
I for the construction of a hospital in
I llonesdale. At the last session, the sum
I of $5,000 was appropriated for the same
purpose, but the money has, never been
I withdrawn from the state treasury. The
Fuerth bill provides thatinasmuch as the
$5,000 will revert to the state on June 1,
this year, the state shall appropriate
$10,000 for the same purpose. In re
ality the sum asked for is $5,000. The
I bill further provides that no part of the
appropriation shall be drawn from the
ctate until the Wayne County Hospital
association shall first raise a sum equal
to that provided for in the bill.
An appropriation of $5,000 has been
asked of the Legislature for a dike in
the Delaware river at Lacka waxen; $30,-
000 for experiments with shale in Pike
county, and $20,000 for a dike at Mata
moras, Pike county.
Kid Cunningham, of this placo, who
advertises his fighting weight at 114
pounds, offers to accept the challenge of
Pete Sharonis, of Forest City, for a pugi
listic encounter, before any club offering
suitable purse, barring the Peerless
. C, of Wilkes-Divrre.
Horace Dexter, of Girdland, was
brought before Justice of the Peace, R.
A. Smith, on Wednesday afternoon,
charged with threatening to kill J. W.
Mills, and also assault and battery. An-.
other charge of cruelty to animals was
brought against him ; it being claimed
that he does not feed his cattle, and has
turned them out of the barn and has re
fused to shelter them. He was held in
$200 bail for a hearing Thursday after
noon.
At a special meeting of Alert Firo
Co., of East llonesdale, on Tuesday
evening, March 16th, a relief association
was organized, with the following tem
porary officers : R. W. Pen warden,
president ; Ed. F. Short, vice president;
Itay J. Brown, secretary ; Henry Rhode,
treasurer. A meeting of the association
will be held on Tuesday evening next,
at which time every member of Alert
Co. is requested to be present for the
purpose of making arrangements for an
entertainment to be given on Easter
Wednesday evening, April 14th, 1909.
Next Monday will begin the second
half of the Lenten Season, and the eyes
of young people especially will bo turn
ed toward the brightness of the Easter,
rather than retrospectively at the peni-
titential days of the fast. But it must
not be forgotten that Lent means more
than the annual period of repentance
for sins. It means a breathing spell in
festivities, a season of repair to clothes
and body and nerves and a time for
thought on matters that are crowded
out of mind during the other days of the
year. There are but two churches which
prescribe a season of repentance, but
all churches celebrate the close of it, for
Easter Sunday marks the beginning of
spring, tne olucial beginning, it you
please. Strictly speaking, repentance
should not be hoarded np for Lent
forty days of good deeds will not atone
foi more than 303 days of wickedness.
But since the poor receive a little con'
Bideration on those days, and Lent is
supposed to stimulate simplicity and
good sense, nobody 'believes it is a super
fluous custom even after the question of
religion htis been disposed of. S ome-
thing is needed to call a halt on late
hours, over-feeding and too much ex
citement. We do not take our pleasures
in moderation, sandwiching them in so
that hours of rest are not seriously dis
turbed. Wo do not alternate periods of
excitement with intervals of relaxation
if we did there would be no necessity
for long rests and a complete change of
habit.
One of the largest public sales held
in Wayne county in many a day will
take place on what has been for years
popularly known as "The Whitney
Farm," nearFortenia, on Tuesday Mar.
30th. The sale will include the farm
an,d the rare supply of live, stock, vehi
cles and agricultural implements on the
premises, which are mentioned in some
detail in an advertisement in another
column. Very liberal terms of payment
are offered, and doubtless the salo will
attract a large crowd of buyers.
The Third Brigade of the Pennsyl
vania National Uuard, which includes
the Thirteenth Regiment, to which Co.
E, of llonesdale belongs, will, it is prob
able again hold its annual encampment
at Mt. Gretna, although the site has not
as yet been definitely selected. The
Cornwall and Lebanon railroad, which
runs its track along the edge of the en
campment site, has made a generous
offer to the state this summer and the
offer has been regarded as so un
usually liberal that the First Brigade will
also probably go there for its annual en
campment. It has" not been decided as
to whether the two brig ades shall en
camp the same week at Gretna, or
whether the First Brigade shall take up
the site the week following the encamp
ment of the Third Brigade.
It seems quite like meeting a friend,
when taking a trip skyward in a New
York hotel, apartment house or office
building, to see "National Elevator and
Machine Co., llonesdale, Pa.," smiling
at you from the side of the lift. Among
the prominent structures which our local
manufactory is now supplying with
elevators are the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
of New York, and the Jersey City court
house.
J. B. Fitzsimmons, a resident of
Farview, narrowly escaped serious in
jury on Wednesday afternoon. He was
returning home from Carbondale, and
was driving across the D. & II. tracks,
at No. 11, below the Farview depot, just
as the afternoon train, which arrives in
llonesdale at 4:10, left the station. En
gineer Yandermark saw the old man's
peril and blew the whistle, to which
warning Fitzsimmons seemed to pay no
attention. The engine crashed into and
made kindling wood of the wagon ; the
horse was whirled to one side, and the
driver thrown in the air, landing on the
pilot of the engine when he came down,
where, after a search under the train
for his mangled remains, be was found,
suffering, apparently, from only a Blight
' scalp wound.
PERSONAL.
A linen shower, in honor of Miss
Maud Murray, was held at the home of
Mrs. John McKenna, on Ridge street,
on Tuesday evening.
Rev. II. P. Blunt, of Chester, Pa.,
will occupy the Baptist pulpit next Sun
day morning and evening, with view to
tho pastorate.
Frank Burke, of Scranton, was a
visitor in town, on Wednesday last.
Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Katz return
ed to llonesdale on Tuesday evening,
after a two weeks' wedding trip spent
principally in the S011U1.
Charles T. Bellamy, of Green Ridge;
was a business visitor in llonesdale on
Wednesday last.
Thomas Thirsk isrencwingacquaint-
ances with Honesdale friends after an
extended trip in the south and south
west.
W. W. Wood, manager of Tub Citi
zen has been spending the week in New
York on business connected with the
office.
Mrs. Bert Walker, of Matamoras,
Pike county, is visiting relatives at Lake
Clemo.
Caleb Decker, long tho Erio agent
at Kimbles, on tho Branch, has resign
ed his position.
-The Harriaburg correspondent of
the Scranton Times gives our member
of tho Legislature the following compli
mentary notice: "Mr. Fuerth is a staunch
Democrat, and one of the most popular
members in the 'Amen Corner.' He
seldom makes a very extended speech
on the floor of the House, but when he
does ho is always given close attention
and his Democratic colleagues invariably
vote as he asks them to." '
Dr. Smith, of Scranton, assisted by
Drs. Nielsen and Powell, of Honesdale,
visited Laurella yesterday morning and
operated for appendicitis on Mrs. As-
bury Hicks of that place.
Miss Lydia Gregory, who has been
employed at the home of F. 8. Steinman,
was taken to a Scranton hospital on
Wednesday, where she will undergo an
operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bond, who has been
staying with her daughter, Mrs. Geo. S,
Spettigue, of Wilkes-Barre, and under
went a. serious operation while there,
was able to be brought to Honesdale
yesterday. She was accompanied home
by her daughter, Mrs. Emma J. Martin,
of, Marion, Ohio, who has been with her
the" past few weeks. Mrs. Bond intends
making her home-with her daughter,
Mrs. Charles L. Bassett, of East street.
Augustus B. Grambs, of Scranton
came to Honesdale on Tuesday last, for
a visit with Honesdale relatives. He has
finally entirely recovered from a desper
ate case of anthrax poisoning, with
which ho became inoculated through
shaking hands, while he was in business
in North Dakota, with a Russian, who
contracted the disease by handling in
fected hides. Mr. Grambs made a heroic
fight for his life, undergoing many tor
turous operations of cutting, burning and
Xraying, some them involving extensive
skin-grafting to his right arm from other
parts of his body; and his triumph is re
garded as so remarkable in the surgical
profession as to be quoted as one of the
rarest exceptions if not the only one, to
the recognized fatal termination of the
terrible disease.
Judge R. W. Archbald, of Scranton
is being strongly mentioned as a prob-1
able successor, to Georgo M. Dallas,
of Philadelphia, judge of the third judi
cial circuit court of the United States,
who resigned on Monday last.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E.
Cole, of 1216 Main street, on March 13th,
a nine pound son.
Prof. Georgo P. Bible, former prin
cipal of the East Stroudsburg State Nor
mal School, who is now lecturing in
Oklahoma, is said to be steadily going
blind, the sight of the left eye being
gone completely and the right one nearly
so.
Mrs. Charles H. Dorflingerand Mrs.
A. T. Searle are guests at "The Wol
cott," New York city.
Dr. S. P. Longstreet, of Scranton,
has been appointed one of the consult
ing surgeons at the Taylor hospital in
that city. He has served a term as
coroner of the county.
Dr. If. C. White has been appoint
ed health officer of South Canaau town
ship to succeed Dr. A. B. Stevens, who
has moved to Scranton.
Mrs. S. T. Smith, of Sherman, this
county, is suffering from a broken bone
in one shoulder and a dislocation of the
other, the injuries resulting from a fall
through a trap-door.
Mrs. Charles J. Jay, of Pleasant
Mt., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Wes
ley Deming, and Miss Jessie Jay, at
Scranton, this week.
By Telephone to The Citizen.
Charlottesville, N. C, March 18.
The fat Florida limited of the Atlantic
Coast Lino, jumped the track at Pikes
ville, a flag station near Wilmington, to
day; killing tho engineer, fireman and
brakeman. The conductor and a num
ber of passengers were injured, but not
fatally.
Dr. C. It. BRADY, Dentist llonesdale. Pa.
OrricE IlooBS-o a. m. to 5 p. m.
Any evenlne by appointment.
Citizens' phone, 33, ltesldence, No. X.
THE MISSING LINK
A Valuable Hint to Wayne
County Fruit Growers.
APPLES THAT WILL KEEP A YEAR.
Nor liP!istem-Tle.r Farmers aro
Given Some Valuable Practl
cal Advice in the Matter of
Fruit Growing.
B. M. Stone writes The Citizen, un
der date of March 15, 1909, from Stall,
Pa. :"
A few years ago while attending
Fnirs and Farmers' Institutes, hero in
Northeastern Pennsylvania, I tried to get
the farmers interested in raising long
keeping apples for profit. Many of them
wanted me to experiment and report
later. Herewith I send you my report,
and the only way to get it before the
farmer is by tho press in tho territory ;
hence I am asking you to lay it before
your readers. If tho farmers will look
after the matter they will be much bet
ter off in the not very distant future :
To tho farmers of Luzerne, Lacka
wanna, Susquehanna, ouuivan, Wayne
and Wyoming counties :
'Six or seven years ago I tried to get
tho farmers of these counties interested
in the Missing Link apple, on account
of its long-keeping qualities, as it would
keep twelve months in an ordinary cel
lar, and was both a good eating and
cooking apple. But very few became
interested, and those on a very small
scale. But they said, "You try it. You
experiment and we will see how it comes
out." Well, gentlemen, I have experi-
manted with it, and find it all right.
The quality is good, and the keeping
qualities cannot be surpassed by any
apple known. They bear every year and
hang on the trees. My trees commenced
to bear the next year after planting, and
have borne every year since. I have
had fresh apples in my cellar every day
for the past six years, and some times
two crops at a time. The fourth year
from planting I had four bushels and
sold them for three dollars per bushel
That year we had a heavy wind storm
on September 30th and October 1st
which blew all my apples to the ground
except the Missing Link and Ben Davis.
The leaves were blown off the Missing
Link trees, but not an apple was found
on the ground after the storm. That
year apples were a drug in Wilkes-Barre
and Scranton markets in the fall, in
many cases not paying the expenses. I
shipped eleven barrels of apples to a
wholesale, houso in Wilkes-Barre, and
after two'months received a check for
$2.50 not as much money as one bush
el of the Missing Link brought. The
cext spring, apples brought from $1 to
$1.50 per bushel in the same markets.
It is the apple that keeps through the
winter that brings the price.
'In 1907 I had twenty-five bushels of
Missing Links. I sold them f. o. b. here
at one dollar and fifty cents per bushel,
all but the culls. These I kept, and
when any person called at my house I
gave him a cull Missing Link of 1907
crop, with a request that ho sample it
now, and every person who sampled
them said they were good. The last one
I had I gave to two gentlemen on Sept.
15, 1908, with the same request. They
said they were a right good apple.
My other varieties of apples Bold that
year on December 1st for fifty cents per
bushel at the cellar. My crop of Missing
Link apples for 1908 was forty-eight
bushels. Tho dry weather caused all
apples to drop from the trees two weeks
before the time to pick them. My apples
were all off the trees before Oct. 1st.
The Missing Links hung to the tree and
were picked Oct. loth. The apple buyers
were offering from fifteen cents to thirty
cents per bushel for apples ; sixty cents
per one hundred pounds, delivered to
the car, which is about twenty-seven
cents per bushel for hand-picked apples.
My Missing Link apples I put in my
cellar, and am holding them for the
May and June market of 1909. Tho year
before I planted the Missing Link I
planted other long-keeping varieties that
are not bearing yet. The Missing Link
apple trees have produced apples enough
to pay for the trees before the other trees
have commenced to bear. The Ben Da
vis, the tlano, the Stark, tho Rowels
Jenett are all long-keeping apples, that
will keep until spring. The Rowels
Jenett is a good apple and a good bear
er. It keeps until June, but is very
small, which is against it.
'Thero is no doubt that any of you
farmers who have apples that will keep
until April or May will bo able to get
from one dollar to one dollar and fifty
cents per bushel for them at that time.
You farmers have a homo market in the
Lackawanna and Wyoming valleys, with
a half a million consumers who aro not
producers, that would take all tho
apples you can raiso on your farms, if
tho delivery of them were spread out
over the whole twelve months in tho
year, instead of being forced upon them
in largo quantities in the fall. Hucksters
commence scouring tho couutry for ap
ples the last of July, and continuo as
long as they can find an applo. The
only reason that you are not visited every
day in the year by these men is that you
have not planted and rained long-keeping
apples. 'Most farmers have moro sum
mer and fall apples than tbey can dis
pose of at a fair price, but have no ap
ples' to put on the market in April and
May. There Bhould bo a chango here.
Plant more long-keeping apples, aod be
prepared to furnish your customers with
fresh apples every day in the year, the
same as you do with your other produce.
Tho sooner you plant them, the sooner
yon will reap the harvest.
xour truly,
B. M. Stone.'"
White IDJIs.
March 15th. In continuation of my
communication on March 5th, on poul
try raising, in which I stated that no
grain was a proper exclusive food, let
me tell you what I have found to bo the
cheapest and best way to feed for eggs
in winter. Each morning, feed a mash
composed of four parts bran, two parts
middlings, and six parts cornmeal, with
the proper amountof meat-meal or beef
scrap, (llie8e prepared meats aro sent
out with directions). Mix by taking
enough boiling water to make the re
quired amount ; add a teaspoonful of
salt for each thirty hens; then stir in the
bran first, afterwards the shorts and
meal. Let it stand till cool enough to
feed. Feed warm as the hens can eat it
without burning. Give about two-thirds
as much as the hens would eat if they
could get it ; which you can ascertain
by giving them one morning as much as
they will eat without leaving the feed
trough. Test them for amount, a few
mornings after beginning this feed. The
idea is to have them somewhat hungry
after eating the mash. Now scatter
wheat in litter for them lo scratch out,
just enoughof wheat to keep them hunt
ing. At noon put a little more wheat
in the litter, and thus keep them at
work all day. But be sure that your
hens do not get very hungry at anytime;
it pays to feed liberally. Then just be
fore they are ready to go to roost, feed
whole corn on a clean, dry place, all
they will eat. Warm this corn well on
cold evenings. Cut green bone is a good
feed, but not indispensible. It is queer
that nearly all the great results of feed-
'ng green bone are told by men who are
interested in the sale of bone cutters. I
found several brands of prepared meat
meal just as good and much cheaper,
cost and labor both considered. The
"cracklings" left after pressing out lard
aro the best meat-food I ever used in
cold weather. They are a great stimu
lant to egg production. Cut them fine
and feed warm noon or evening. Fowls
need some kind of animal food every
day to do their best. They are half
carnivorous by nature and it pays well
to pander to their natural desires. Green
food is more essential than any other
onn kind. It is needed more in the early
autumn than most poultrymen suppose,
even when fowls are still on the range,
after hard frosts".
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Mallett, of Port
Jervis, visited the former's mother, Mrs.
Jane Mallett, on Friday and Saturday.
Andrew B. Joy received two weeks'
disability loan from the Keystone Guard.
Mrs. George Box, of Seelyville, with
drew from White Mills Guard, No. 36,
to be admitted in Honesdale Guard.
John Brock, our ice man, has just
filled his ice house this week.
It is intimated that the wedding bells
will soon be ringing on the corner of
Elizabeth street.
O. R. Yohe, of Wilkes-Barre, was a
caller in town last week, but failed to
find any new applications in sight.
Ham & Hittinger have, gobbled up all
the insurance in sight just now. Will
talks about going into the chicken busi
ness this summer as a side line.
I .U
I
THERE IS NO PLACE IN AMERICA WHERE ALL
WOOL MADE-TO-MEASURE 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 LINEJ i
L. A. HELFERICH
SK'SM?. HONESDALE. PA.
The White Mills Central Republican
Club will hold their regular meeting on
March 27th.
F. J. Hittinger and son, Alfred, of
Philadelphia, called on his brother, Wm.
Hittinger on Tuesday. Ho is just re
covering from an operation that was
performed last January.
Wm. J. Butler has his incubator run
ning over time, and from the results of
the first test he expects a good hatch.
Wm. Hertel, Arthur Firmstone, Wes
ley Toms, Wm. Butler, M. Decker, Geo.
Tuman, Patrick Gill, Wm. Ham, John
Hensey, Jr., and Charles Burger expect
to hold a meeting in the near future to
organize a poultry association.
PRIZE ESSAYS.
The approaching completion of the
High School buildings will soon neces
sitate the grading and arrangement of
the school property grounds. No one is
more interested in having this work
properly done than the pupils who are
to use them, and no landscape gardener
should attempt tho task without con
sulting them. In order to stimulate
suggestion on this point The Citizen
offers the scholars of the Public School
two prizes of $1.00 each for the best two
essays on "The Best Way to Arrange
the New School House Grounds," ithe
competition to close April 15th. The ar
ticles, which' must not exceed four hun
dred words in length, are not to be
signed, but the name of the writer must
be written on a separate slip, and en
closed in an envelope with the essay.
The contributions will be numbered and
submitted to competent judges who will
decide on their respective merits. The
winning essays with the names of the
authors will appear in the first number
of The Citizen following the award.
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