The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, July 30, 1909, Image 5
THE CITIZEN, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1000. LOOAIj MENTION. Scranton cats are afflicted with lockjaw. Happy Scranton. Ninety-two degrees In the shade, was the temperature record In this place and vicinity yesterday. The hay crop In this locality Is, we are Informed, excellent. The dry weather, evidently, did not harm that. Girls, Margaret Mlxter says that a good way to avoid wrinkles is to wash the face In spring water, and springs, about hero are plentiful. Don't forget the Ice-cream fes tival of the Ladies' improvement Society, Texas No. 4, at Bellevue Park, Saturday evening, July 31. Down at Stroudsburg, they catch eels four feet long and rattle snakes Ave feet and nine inches in length or else the Jeffersonian is a an economist of truth. As we go to press with The Citizen, the Old Home Week com mittee of arrangements is busily conferring over progress made and to be made. Will tell you about it. Any business man or other resident who opposes Old Home Week or any other celebration which will bring people to Honesdale, is no friend of the town. Remember that, fellow citizens. "Auxetophone" is the name of a new musical Instrument. The long word means "big noise." Queer name for a "musical" machine, but it is applicable to many already In vented. Director of Public Works Ter wllliger has informed the Mayor of Scranton, that a decision has been reached which will allow public bathing In Lake Lincoln on Sunday. That's surely sensible. If you own a bee and that bee goes over into your neighbor's yard and stings him, are you liable for damages? That's the query that is puzzling a Connecticut court, just nt npocont Wlint rln vnn tlitnlr? 1 On Saturday afternoon the Honesdale team will play White Mills at Athletic Park. The local team was recenty organized and is composed of a number of promising youngsters. The visitors will have their strongest line-up with them. Tbe Erie Railroad last week issued an order that all Inspectors along the line, car inspectors, etc., miibt take the eye and ear examina tion. Consequently there is an exodus of such employes to Jersey City. I The dead body of Sarah j Thomas, aged 17, was found tloat-1 lug in the reservoir at Wllkes-Unrre I on .Monday last. There were no marks of violence, to indicate foul play, yet there are suspicions that she did not drown herself. W. H. Hall, of Indian Orchard, will paint the llenwood bridge, the bottom and top girders of the .Main i street bridge, bottom of the Farn ham and the ends of the Herman bridges, all two coats, for $150. There was one other bid for the work at ?225. In answer to a query received by mail, we will say that the State Department will pay no bounties for killing wild-cats, foxes and other noxious animals, until the Legisla ture appropriates money with which to pay. The last session of Legisla ture failed to make any appropria tion for that purpose. Lee Pie, Honesdale's Chinese laundrymau, has bought an automo bile, whereat the Scranton Tribune uses half a column of its valuable space to shriek at the "outrage." The idea of a Chinaman owning a choo-choo! Wo are not an advocate of the Celestial breed, but it occurs to us that the Tribune's space might have been used to better advantage. The Wellsboro Agitator tells of a man in that locality who is the proprietor of a temperance hotel, who recently ejected from his stom ach a snake more than a foot in length. If it hadn't been that the "temperance house" was thrown in with that item well, one might have been a little "leary" about the fact as stated. The third of a series of in teresting articles on Western travel, written by our townsman, Mr. A. J. Rehbein, appears on the third page of this issue. Mr. Rehbein has the happy faculty of making the reader see what he describes. His refer ences to former Honesdale residents, 1 whom he found in the west, are also of local Interest. Montrose, capitol of Susque hanna county, and, heretofore, a resort for summer boarders, is said to be "dead" this season. Rev. Dr. Torrey, the evangelist, is blamed for this state of affairs, says a pub lication of that county, his labors having produced a "dampening ef fect" on tho gayety of that town. We think that is a libel. Montrose has always been the most perfectly perfect town as regards its social behavior that ever stood on a hill. Look elsewhere for the cause of the slump. The Narrowsburg Canoe Club registered at the Hotel Wayne for dinner Tuesday. It comprised tho following: Mrs. N. M. Hodges, New York; Mrs. S. H. Dyer, New York; Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McCllntock, New York; Lillian D. Allison, Hollis, L. I.; Ida A. Grover, Red Bank, N. J.; J. L. Chapman, Rutherford Park, N. J.; 0. Fisher, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Josephine B. Parrlngton, Hollis, L. I.; F. J. Conklln, Red Bank, N. J.; Master L. Van Slclen, Bayside, N. Y. These tourists are summering at the West Point house at Narrowsburg. C. A. Locklln has been appoint- I ed assessor of Paupack township, ' vice Oliver Locklln resigned. ( All that Honesdale needs now, I to make it perfectly beautiful, is paved streets. And they will come. Garrett Berry, who was mur dered In Scranton last week by Amos Blakeslee, was formerly a resident of Gallllee, this county. He left, we understand, nn estate valued at about $22,000. The executive committee in charge or arrangements for Old Home Week feel quite encouraged. On Wednesday it secured $C00 to be added to tho amount already sub scribed. It is hoped that the amount will reach a total of at least $1,800. Regular services at the Metho dist church next Sunday. The pas tor will preach morning and even ing. Miss Tydwell Jones, of Scran ton, will sing nt the evening ser vice and there will be special music in the evening. PERSONAL. Mr. W. Hawkins, of Scranton, wns a visitor in town, yesterday. L. A. Helferch was a business caller in Scranton on Wednesday. Fred Xeary, of Scranton, was a visitor in town this week. Mr. David Berry, of Galilee, was a visitor in town yesterday. Miss Helen Ward has returned home, after a visit in Wllkes-Barre. Thomas Robinson, of Carbondale, is spending a few days at his nome at this place. Mrs. G. T. Rodman and children, of Hawley, arc the guests of Miss Ella Sharpsteln. Miss Mlgnon Green, of Wilkes Barre, is the guest of Miss Marie Ward, of Park street. Robt. A. Jadwin and family, of Carbondale, are guests of Hon. C. C. Jadwin in this place. Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Swingle, of Jubilee, were pleasant callers at the Citizen olllce yesterday. Miss Anna Ward, of Buffalo, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Ward, of Park street. Miss Mary Kelly will return to Baltimore to-day, after a two weeks' visit at the home of her par ents. Miss Florence Cassidy, of Bay onne, X. J., is tho guest of Miss Lottie Ilussa, of South Church street. Misses Marion Penticost and Grace Hughes, of Scranton, are spending their vacation at Beach Lake. Miss Margaret Bernstein, of Scranton, is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Rowland, of Ninth street. Mrs. G. Campbell and daughters. Marion and Lillian, are visiting at the home of Mrs. Sarah Robinson, of Ridge street. Thomas Finnerty lias returned, after a six weeks' southern trip, in the iteiest of the T. B. Clark Cut Glass Company. Miss Grace Patteiger has return ed to her home in Wilkes-Barre, after a visit with friends in this place and Bethany. Mrs. J. J. Finnerty and daughter, Grace, have returned to their home in Buffalo, after a three weeks' visit with Honesdale relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Twitmyer, of Wilmington, Del., who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Betz, of Church street, returned home to day. The following young men from this place are camping on the shores of Elk Lake: Daniel Coleman, Neal Hiller, George Foster, Frank Col- well, Ray Brown, and Austin Lyons. Funeral of .T. .1. Meighn. The funeral of J. J. Meighn, who died Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Briggs, was held yesterday morning. A mass was celebrated at St. John's Catholic church, at 10 o'clock. The funeral arrangement was in charge of the Knights of Columbus, and A. O. H. Interment was made in St. John's Catholic cemetery. The remains were at Brown's undertaking rooms, the past few days, pending the ar rival of relatives of the deceased. It was learned the early part of the week that Mr. Meighn had a son employed by an express company near Philadelphia, but no trace of him could be found. Harry Pullman Attempts Suicide. Harry Pullman, president of the National League of professional baseball clubs shot himself in the right temple at 9:30 o'clock on Wednesday In his room at the New York Athletic club in New York. The bullet passed entirely through his head from right to left cutting out both eyes. There is very little chance that he will recover. Protection's Purade nnd Picnic. Protection Fire company No. 3 will hold its annual parade and pic nic at Bellevue Park on Thursday, August Bth. The company will dis pense with their annual parade, as they propose to celebrate Fireman's Day during Old Home Week. Do your feet feel big and heavy? Are your eyelids prone to close Do you lean upon your rolltop? Is it work to blow your nose Is your daily labor irksome7 Is It toll to shave your mug Would you rather sleep than not to? Then you have tho lazy bug! Wayno County's Affected Cows. W.C. Norton, agent for the Penn sylvania Live Stock Sanitary Board, of Wayne county, made an invest!-, gatlon Wednesday of the charges i made in a letter from a Dundaff resident to Mayor A. L. Sahm, of 1 Carbondale, Monday night. The writer alleged that cows affected i with tubercolosls were on a certain j farm of Clifford which furnishes part of the city's milk supply, that several had died from the disease i and others were dying, and that one of the affected cattle was sold j to a Dundaff butcher, recently, and the carcass returned by the butcher, because of the offensive odor of it. The letter received by the mayor has been turned over to Sanitary Officer M. J. Gallagher, and he was preparing to wire a report of the charges to Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, of Ardmore, health commissioner of the state, when Agent Norton reported to him that he Intended making a complete investigation of the allega tions. Until the report of this agent is received nothing further will be done in this case. If the allegations are found ( to have any foundation, stringent steps will be taken immediately by the agent to have the diseased cows killed and the farm placed under a strict quarantine for some time. The letter has caused much of a stir at Carbondale and people who are patrons of the milkmen who re ceive their supply from Dundaff have quit getting milk from them until the state authorities report on the case. llurglury In Duryca. Burglars operated in Duryea Wednesday night, getting away with 1,000 cigars, a number of razors and many pairs of shoes, this loot being secured from the general store of Edsall & Clausen, located near the Old Forge line, in the northern part of the borough. They worked without being detected, and got away safely. It is the belief of the authorities that the burglars had a wagon with which to carry away their plunder. Twenty boxes of cigars and a num ber of razors and pairs of shoes could not very well be carried with out the men being seen, unless there was a wagon used, the authorities say. Has it Tackled You? When the alarm clock bangs out its unwelcome summons in the morn ing, do you turn over and catch a few more winks? When your work is piled up in front of you and you ought, in all fairness to the boss, to be breaking all eight-hour-a-day records, do your wandering thoughts drift to baseball fields and cool retreats where the trout don't bite but the mosquitoes do? Would you rather lie in the ham mock than mow the lawn? in fact, would you rather loaf than work, and do you feel like fall ing asleep at the switch? If so your case is plain. The diag nosis is simple. The uncinariasis has claimed you for its own. Catch that uncinariasis? Rather like the sound of that, but it is too hard to spell, so henceforth it will be called by the name the medical sharps in the army have dubbed It the hook worm, or to be more explicit and show that there are no hard feel ings, the "lazy bug." List to the tidings from Washing ton: "The hook worm, or 'lazy bug,' as it has been shown to exist in the southern states, according to in vestigations of the physical condi tion of army recruits, will form an interesting chapter in the forthcom ing report of the surgeon general of the army, and probably will lead to a widespread effort on the part of boards of health in the southern states to eradicate this disease, which a few years ago was brought prominently to the attention of the world in connection with the Porto Ricans. "Following this investigation of recruits it was discovered that un cinariasis was a common disease throughout the southern states. It is estimated by army surgeons that 50 per cent, of the recruits in the army to-day from the rural districts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Ala bama and Louisiana will show hook worm Infection. "It has been estimated that the campaign waged by the army against the hook worm In Porto Rico resulted in the saving of more than 5,000 lives annually. The sur geon general may suggest the pos sibility of instituting some cam paign against the disease in the south, but under present conditions it is said but little can be done ex cept through the agency of state governments." Now please go away and let us sleep. Olyphant Pollceinnn Kills Prisoner. Wednesday, just as Chief of Po lice Michael J. Hastings, of Oly phant, fired a random shot to fright en John Sherman, who had escaped from tho officer's hands after he had been placed under arrest, Sherman leaped Into the air to clear a cellar opening, and Intercepted the bullet. The ball pierced the prisoner's neck, and lodged In the base of the brain. Sherman died Wednesday night at 11:30 at the State hospital. Sherman was twenty-three years old, and lived In Jamison City, Co lumbia county. Iluve The Citizen in yonr home. The Commissioners and the Com panies. Representatives of the Hillside Coal & iron Co., the Erie, the Penn Coal Co., and the D. & H., met with the commissioners on Tuesday to make some agreement in the mat ter of the appeals to court from the triennial assessment of 1907. The companies made a proposition to the commissioners which was de clined. The Commissioners then made propositions which were taken under consideration and the parties will meet again next Wednesday. Cause ot Unpcs in Chicks. Prof. H. A. Surface, the State Zoologist, Is daily in receipt of let ters requesting information in re gard to Insect pests and the diseases of plant life. These letters come to his office In Harrisburg from every part of the state and are upon many topics. It was not surprising, therefore, that he received one in reference to that common affliction of poultry, known as gapes. The correspondent asked for the best relief for chicks suffering with gapes, and wanted to know how to prevent the trouble. Prof. Surface replied that "Gapes in little chickens are caused by the eating of earth-worms. There are parasites in the earth-worms which find their way into the windpipe of the chickens and lodge there, where they take the form of little red worms. The best preventive is to keep the chickens from the surface of the ground; or use salt or strong salt water on the soil, so as to kill the earth-worms; or strew strong lime or something of the kind on the ground, so that the chicks will not get hold of the worms to eat them. "After the chicks have been at tacked with gapes, however, you can dislodge the worms by making a very small loop in a twisted horse hair, draw out the tongue of the chick slightly, insert the horse hair loop in the windpipe opening, which will be seen between the forks at the base of the tongue, and, twisting the hair around, withdraw it. The worms are likely to be found with in the loop, or some of them will have been thus removed, and the operation can be repeated. "Another remedy is to dip the tip of a soft feather into kerosene and insert it in the windpipe open ing to dislodge and kill the worms. Such treatment, although severe, is better than letting the worms re main undisturbed, to severely an noy the fowls and even kill them. "Mixing turpentine or other sub stances in the food of the young poultry has not proven satisfactory as a remedy for gapes." Jt Wns a Grand Idea. An angular man, whose chief characteristics were a wild eye and a rusty frock coat, entered, we are told, the olllce of a prominent local investment concern. Through some 11 like on the part of the office boy he gained admittance to the private office of the president. "I wish to present an idea," the visitor said without parley, that will revolutionize the great dairy indus try of this country." "What is it?" asked the financier, but even as he spoke he touched the button on his desk marked "alarm." "You are doubtless aware that down on the Amazon there is a tree whose sap consists of a fine grade of milk." "I have heard of that nature fak ing tree," said the financier. "Well, my idea is to transplant this milk tree from the peaceful val ley of the Amazon up to the south ern coast of America, where hurri canes and cyclones continually shake the tree." "What then?" "This churning would produce a fine grade of butter! Now, the Na tional Churn company (Incorporat ed), capitalized at 55,000,000" Just then the clerks rushed In and led the discoverer away. State Zoological Bulletin Ant Hills in Grass Plots. The Superintendent of a cemetery in Pottsvllle wrote to the Pennsyl vania State College in regard to the trouble that was being experienced by some of the lot holders in that cemetery through ants building hills on the lots and destroying the grass. The letter was referred to Prof. Surface, State Zoologist, Harris burg, who gave the following infor mation: "You can get rid of these pests with certainty, and very easily, by making holes in the ant hills to a depth of a foot or a foot and one half, and pouring in a liquid known as carbon bisufide or bisulfide of carbon. Use about one-half teacup ful of this to each hill, making the holes two or three feet apart, in ac cordance with the size of the ant hill and the porosity of the ground. For a heavy clay soil, they must be nearer, but for a light, sandy soil, they can be nearly three feet apart. These holes can be made with a sharpened stick. A broom handle, pointed at the end, will answer the purpose. After the liquid has been poured in, close the holes with earth, and also keep the mound covered with a wet blanket for nn hour or two. The carbon bisulfide will not injure vegetation, but it wil Iklll the ants." A Bore. "So he's a bore! Does he tell old Jokes?" "Oh, worse than that. He tells orig inal ones." New York Life. ' Tired Girls' Suicide Club. A club composed of disheartened Cleveland factory employes, advocat ing suicide as the only means with in their reach of attaining the peace of mind they crave, and to escape the torments of their daily grind, Is believed to exist there. This fact was advanced by the parents of Miss Rebecca Bosechek, eighteen years old, who was found dead In Gordon Park Tuesday. Af ter clearing every circumstance sur rounding her death this is the only theory evolved. In addition to this the relatives believe another girl, a companion of Miss Bosechek, will end her life within the next few days. The mother of the second girl says she overheard her daughter and Miss Bosechek planning to kill them selves. According to those who know of the habits of Miss Bosechek, the club consisted of six girls, four young men and a man and his wife. Most of them are employed in cloak factories. After the death of Miss Boeschek became known several young men and women called at the Bosechek home to obtain books and newspa per clippings which the girl had In her room and which she would not let her parents see. The girl is known to have met with these young people at meetings held at various places. They are known to have read morbid literature and discuss ed death as the only relief for their woes. Advertised Letters. The following addressed letters remain unclaimed for in the Hones dale postoffice: Mr. Ferri, Mrs. .las. Gallagher, Mrs. J. D. Keesler, Bet tie Lee, Mrs. .Margaret Rlchart, Mrs. Louise Smitzer, Mrs. Annie Taylor. Bowling Contest. A bowling team from this place went to Beach Lake Uednesday evening and was defeated by a bowling team, composed of summer boarders. The games were rolled at Ives' bowling alleys. After the contest the local team was enter tained by the Beach Lake team. The score of tho game follows: BEACH LAKE. Payne 14G 14C Kimble 1G4 1G4 LaGrange 13S 155 Jay 101 US Schegel 1G9 194 77S 777 HONESDALE. Hartman lilt! 133 Finerty 155 101 Tolley 135 140 Bunnell 114 Deemer 132 Rettew 123 14S 600 ill He Hns Our Vote. The Stroudsburg Jeffersonian, without the quiver of an eyelid, flings this upon the unsuspecting public: Several days ago, Albert Seese, who conducts tho farm of John T. Palmer in Smlthfield township, dis covered a hen sitting on the bough of a tree about twenty feet above the ground where she had laid her eggs and hatched out a brood of chicks. They all thrived well and were perhaps a week old when dis covered in their novel nest. When it comes to balloting for the editor who "never told a He," let us vote for this Jeffersonian democrat. .JOB WORK AT THE CITIZEN. MID-SUMMER - Saratoga Springs and Lake George The Deleware & Hudson Co. has arranged a low rate 12-DAY VACATION TRIP SATURDAY, JULY 31st Adults, $5.00 Children, $2.50 Tickets good going on special and regular trains July 31st. leavine Wilkes-Barre. Scranton. Carbondale. I 12:15 A. M. 1:00 A. M. 1:50 A. M. 7:10 A. M. 7:55 A. M. 8:40 A. M. 3:00 P. M. 3:50 P. M. 4:35 P. M. Stopping at Intermediate stations. Returning on any regular train within 12 days. Ticket also includes a trip through Lake George 80 miles of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Henry Snyder & Son. 602 &604 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton, Pa. PAY HIGHEST MARKET PRICES FOR Poultry ,(Egs, Butter, Lambs, Calves and Livestock. AppIesJIn Season A SQUARE DEAL FOR THE FARMER. Old Phone 088 II New Phono 1123 555 5 School Children Enrolled In Wayno County. There are B55B school children between the ages of 6 and 16 en rolled in Wayne county for the year 1909, of whom 2794 are boys and 27G1 are girls. The reports of tho registration assessors are as fol lows: District ' Male Female Berlin 123 107 Bethany 13 12 Buckingham 89 80 Canaan 27 32 South Canaan 110 107 Cherry Ridge 73 74 Clinton 102 130 Damascus 204 19G Dreher C2 58 Dyberry G4 56 Hawley 189 180 Honesdale 195 204 Lake 121 146 Lebanon 47 45 Lehigh 42 52 Manchester 94 84 Mount Pleasant 150 146 Oregon 41 32 Palmyra 77 55 Paupack 34 34 Preston 14u 137 Prompton 23 22 Salem 103 106 Scott 78 74 Seelyville, Ind 45 54 Starrucca 35 39 Sterling 57 59 Texas 309 296 White Mills, Ind 110 100 Waymart 37 39 2794 2761 Carbondale Hurglary. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Reed B. Fowler, of Robinson avenue, was burglarized during their stay at Lake Idlewild. They returned home Monday afternoon and discov ered that during their absence they have been relieved of many things by a supposed band of juvenile thieves. Chief Bell is new working on the case. The intruders ransacked tho house from the cellar to the garret. Everything of any value was taken. They gained an entrance by prying open a side window with a jimmy. On the first floor tho dining room and parlor resembled a store room after a rummage sale. The burglars got silverware, two small banks con taining a sum of money, two gold rings, several valuable trophies and other things in the jewelry line, some of which although of ordi nary value could not be purchased they being life treasures. A Pica. At the season's hats I shall not rail, Nor call them grotesque nor strange; My optimism shall still prevail, Next season tlte styles may change. I do not mind fifteen yards of lace, Twelve feathers, and one big wreath; But, oh, 1 dread to see the face That perhaps may lie hid be neath! I've seen brave hats of a noble size, That rested on shoulders square; And I hoped the wearer had roguish eyes, And curly golden hair. And when I looked well, never mind that! But this boon I would fain be seech: Pray, Fashion, ordain that tho peach-basket hat Shall only be worn by a peach! Carlyn Wells, in Harper s Weekly. 1 VACATION TUP TO