niK C1TIZKN, WEDNESDAY, .JULY 20, 1010.
CENT A WORD COLUMN!
WE 1IAVK just receivetl another
car lond of light wngons. Come in
and see them. Over 100 styles to
select from. Murray Co., Hones
dale, Pa. 57t3.
1110 11ARGA1X Ten-room dwell
ing with Improvements, large gar
den, situate on Church street, Hones
dale, Pa., near the residence of H. Z.
Russell. Warren P. Schenck, Hones
dale, Pa. 57eol2
TOR SALE My residence on
Wood avenue, house containing
eight sleeping rooms, live living
rooms, three sun parlors, billiard
and bath rooms. Everything In
ilrst class condition. M. J. Kelly.
57tf.
RIDS FOR 8TUAM HEATIXG
The County Commissioners will re
celvo bids for steam heating court
house, jail and sheriff's house, ele
vated pipes, Spencer system prefer
able, no others barred. Dirts to be
on file in Commissioners' ofllce not
later than 10 a. ni. Tuesday, August
2, 1910. Right reserved to reject
any or all bids. Call at the ofllce
for further Information. 57t2
XEW POST CARDS of Hones
dale. 21 copyrighted. Xowvoch-
comes Lion, the first steam loconiO'
tive run in America, North, River
side and Central Parks, Main,
Church, Court, Ninth, Tenth and
Eleventh streets in which appear
autos, new state bridge nnd Hotel
Wayne, Carley Brook bridge, Union
Station, Golf Club House, Park Lake
and Dyberry river with boats, and
Irving Cliff. All copyrighted by J.
B. Nielsen. 51eoi3
HARDKR SILOS will pay for
themselves each year-. Every dairy'
man should have one. Come in and
we will talk it over. Murray Co.,
Honesdale, Pa. 57t3
TRUSTEE SALE On Wednes
day, July 20, at 3 p. in., of the goods
of Manuel Jacobson, Bankrupt, who
conducted the Boston Store, con
sisting of Men's and Boys' suits,
shoes, rubbers, hats, caps, shirts, un
derwear, white goods, notions, gro
ceries, also show cases, mirrors,
scales, coffee mill, cash register, and
other articles. Terms, cash. BUEL
DODGE, Trustee. 55t3.
HARNESS, collars and strap work
that please particular people can be
found at Murray Co's, Honesdale, Pa.
FOR SALE Kelly & Steinman
brick factory building, including en
glee, boiler and shafting. Inquire of
J. B. Robinson. 50tf.
KNIVES, GUARDS and Rake
Teeth for all machines at Murray
Co., Honesdale. 53t4.
DESIRABLE PROPERTY FOR
SALE Residence of the late H. C.
Hand, located at the corner of Church
and Eleventh streets; 76 feet on
Church street and 120 feet on Elev
enth street, together with house and
barn. For information concerning
above property, address W. H. Stone,
Court street, Honesdale, Pa. 43m2
REAPERS and grain cradles, at
Murray Co's, Honesdale, Pa. 57t3
COVER your buildings with Congo
Roofing. It is guaranteed for ten
years. Murray Co., Honesdale, Pa.
LOCAL MENTION.
If you know of an Item or a
piece of news, tell us about it. That's
what we want. Rut ft newspaper
ninii sometimes experiences more
difficulty in gathering news than one
would Imagine. This was tho case
when u reporter in a neighboring
town, who n few (lays ago was sent
to write up a fire in u residence.
Going to the door lie inquired for
the lady of the house. The inuiri
said she was out. "Are any of the
fumlly at home'.'" inquired the
scribe. "No, they are nil out," wos
the reply. "Well, wasn't there a fire
here last evening?" "Yes," said the
hired girl, "but that's out, too."
Strawberries are all in, but
then, huckleberry pie is nothing to
be sneezed at.
The residenco of M. J. Kelly is
offered for sale. This house would
make an ideal clubhouse or hospi
tal. -On W. J. Mclntyro's lawn on
Main street Thursday evening Miss
Cora Build's Sunday school class of
the Methodist Sunday school held
an Ice cream sale and cleared $18.70
for missions.
Congressman A. Mitchell Pal
mer has at his disposal 1000 copies
of the famous cook book published
by the agricultural department of
tho government. Anyone having
need of such a volume can have it
If they will address a postal to the
Congressman asking for it.
Dairy and Food Commissioner
James Foust has ordered an inves
tigation Into the Ice cream cones
sold in Pennsylvania, to ascertain If
they contain any materials injurious
to health. Samples are being taken
In several cities.
New York has a now automo
bile law in effect Aug. 1. A series
of questions must bo answered by
owners of cars and applicants for a
chauffeur's license, which nro design
ed to identify tho machlno and
its owners and to show that drivers
are competent and experienced nnd
that the car will bo run with proper
regard for tho safety of patrons of
the highways.
George Grnham has Bold his
placo at Pleasant Mt. to R. W. Dcnlo
nnd In the fall will move to Hones
dale. He for Bome years was in
charge of tho Grange, a largo estate
near Dundaff.
Appllcnntlon has been made for
n charter by J. D. Weston, E. C.
Mumford, O. M. Spettlgue nnd A. L.
Bishop for tho purpose of establish
ing nn automobile line between
Mast Hope and the Forest Lnke club
house. Tho Pike County Press print
ing ofllce has been moved from the
Brown building in Mllford to Its
new home on Ann street and tho
paper will be Issued from that place.
The Citizen wishes Its interesting
exchnnge continued excellence In its
new home.
A lawn social under the nus
plces of the Y. M. B. C. of tho M. E.
Sunday school will be held on Dr.
Butler's lawn Thursday night. Ice
cream and cako will be sold. Should
the evening be stormy, the cream
will be served on the porches of the
neighbors. Music during the entire
evening. A good time is assured.
Congressman William S. Bennet,
for whom a gubernatorial boom was
formally launched a month ago, has
engaged Albert S. Falck to manage
a campaign to land the Republican
nomination for him. Mr. Fnlck is
supervisor of the census in the New
York district nnd Is a close personal
and political friend of .Mr. Bennet.
W. A. Sluman, who gives much
of his time to its affairs, is author
ity for the statement that the Fourth
of July picnic held by Texas Hose
company, No. 4, in Bellevue park,
cleared $10S.50 to be exact. This
will help pay off the mortgage on
the company's house. The past two
years ? 1,0 00 has been spent by the
company in this way.
The state highway department,
through Its superintendent, Joseph
W. Hunter, has agreed to pay three
fourths of the expense of oiling
state roads before the roads are ac
cepted by county commissions and
supervisors, the township and coun
ty in which the road is located, pay
ing one-eighth each. The cost of
oiling roads is $300 per mile.
A case of smallpox was reported
at Starrucca last week. The patient
is Edward Hobbs, of Endicott, N. Y.,
a. shoemaker, aged 24 years. He
was visiting at the home of his
father-in-law, Fred Stone, when
stricken. The case is a mild one
and It is thought that Hobbs con
tracted the disease before he went
to Starrucca.
The backwardness of the sea
son is blamed for driving at least
one summer hotel proprietor to the
wall. Mark J. French, proprietor of
the Wnrd house, Towanda, one of the
best known hotels in this part of the
state, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy, saying the dull and late sea
son forced him to it. French lists
his liabilities at $20,000 and his
assets at 12,000.
Lehigh county farmers are
alarmed about the ravages of a new
kind of corn pest. It is somewhat
like a cutworm, and some plants are
damaged so badly that they will not
yield. The time is a critical one,
as the plants are not strong enough
to withstand the ravages of the
worm, and It is too late to replant
corn. Samples of the worm have
been sent to Professor Surface, the
state zoologist, with requests for In
structions how to destroy the pest.
Former Editor Nelson J. Spen
cer, who was raised at Damascus!
and sowed and reaped in that part
of Wayne county when he was a boy,
went up there last week to help out
In the family haying. Ho wishes
now that he had stayed quietly in
Honesdale. While pitching on tho
cart Mr. Spencer thrust a tine of a
hayhook into his left hand. He
came back to Honesdale with a sore
hand and a bandage, but he went to
work when he got here. The hand
does not bother him a great deal.
Seaman, Irwin nnd Brenneman
had a cave-In on the Dyberry state
road just beyond the fair grounds
Thursday that will set them back
some, though tho firm at onco put
all their men at that point and got
the ditch boxed up and a pump
started. The cave-in extended near
ly 100 feet along tho road and was
caused by a thin streak of quick
sand the contractors did not know
about until the other dny. The
whole Job Is to be 9500 feet. Thirty-three
hundred, or about 40 per
cent, is down. It is still hard to
get tho needed help and tho con
tractors are taking on every suit
able man they can get. They would
llko CO, but the force seldom goes
to 40. The meanest part of the Job
is tho part they aro on now.
Folks down town in tho busi
ness quarter may or may not know
it, but there Is a whole lot of naked
bathing in tho pools of tho Dyberry,
not far enough from tho road for
tho swimmers to bo wholly hidden
from view by tho trees; and, what Is
worso, a good many girls yes, and
young women, for that matter hang
around to seo tho boys on tho banks
as well as In tho water. Four or
five well-dressed damsels, evidently
girls who were raised well and who
doubtless know better than to act
so, wore timed Friday afternoon by
a man who thought ho would find
out how long they could sit there
and watch such n sight. They put
In 40 minutes by tho watch and wore
In excellent spirits all tho time,
though from their actions It could
bo guessed that they mistrusted they
wero being "watched" in ono way if
not in another. There were 20 boys
In tho water.
Cnrbondnlo's uniformed Wood
men of the World will picnic nt
Lake Lodore Tuesday, Aug. 2, prob
ably going down In a special train.
The Midnight Sons' dnnce prov
ed a great success Friday evening.
On Saturday a daughter was
born to Mr. nnd Mrs. Richard Hart
nett Hon. William Stiles Bennet ar
rived in town last night, nnd will
romnln hero over Sundny with his
family and relntlves. Port Jervis
Gazette. Mrs. Bennet nnd the chil
dren will stay all summer. The
Bonnets left Washington July 1.
Another change is clue in Dela
ware and Hudson ngencles. C. M.
Miller goes back to Jermyn, L. Ed
wards goes to Mnyfleld, and Layton
Jenkins goes bnck to the agency at
Peckvlllo. In tho clerk line E. G.
Miller, now nt Peckvllie, goes to
Jermyn.
William Stewart of Atco died
in the Deorpark sanitarium Friday
of peritonitis after a short sickness.
Ho wns 18 years old. A prlvnto ser
vice was held In the chapel of C. I.
Terwilllger & Son, and tho Inter
ment was In Laurel Grove cemetery.
Ten steel passenger conches
have been ordered from the Pull
mnn company by the Lackawanna
railroad. The order calls for deliv
ery by October 1. Other roads
have found the steel coach to have
an advantage over the wooden car
nun me L.noKawannn will mnKe a
test.
The huckleberry season is un
der full sway and ench day large
quantities of the delicious blueber
ries are taken to the local markets
by a big army of pickers. Those
who are qualified to speak say the
crop this year will be a fairly good
one, although it will not be a
bumper crop by any means.
A committee in charge of Car
bondale's Merchants' day at Lake
Lodore is making elaborate prepara
tions for the big outing, which will
be held Wednesday, Aug. 3. Sever
al athletic events are being arrang
ed and some valuable prizes are to
reward the winners. The merchants
of Honesdale will Join the Carbon
dale merchants this year.
In this county the Republican
insurgent movement has taken no
hold, says a political writer In the
Scranton Truth. John K. Tener is
greatly admired in Lackawanna and
his associates on the state ticket are
recognized also as men of high char
acter, who command the respect of
the voters of the state. They will
receive a large vote in this county.
T. H. Leach, the nineteenth
station agent for the Delaware &
Hudson at Peckvllie in six months,
has disappeared, and with his dis
appearance Auditors Brown and
Connck of the Albany headquarters
have been making an examination of
the books. No official announce'
jnent of the, result has yet been giv
en, but an effort is being made to
find Leach to give him a chance to
clear himself of grave charges.
Leach was formerly station agent
for the Erie at Unlondale.
That friend of everybody's,
Harold D. Cooper, who has been em
ployed in the Northern Electric sta
tion in Clark's Summit since the sta
tion was built, 'has accepted a posi
tion with the Consolidated Telephone
company in Scranton nnd will leave
his present employment the first of
tho coming month. Though his
many friends dislike to lose him,
they all wish him success in his new
position and hope Glen Capwell,
who has been hired to fill his place,
will prove as Jovial as Mr. Cooper
did.
A crazy woman claiming Scran
ton as her home showed up in Cen
tral park Friday night and proceed
ed to scare or disgust decent peo
ple by performing a skirt dance near
the fountain. County Detective
Nick Spencer, who was sent for, saw
at once that the woman, who owned
up to being 08 years old, was not
mentally sound, so he locked her up
over night and Saturday noon
bought her a ticket to Scranton and
put hor on the 12.25 train, first noti
fying the conductor and brakemau
as to tho nature of their passenger's
peculiarities. The woman made lit
tle fuss when it came time for tho
officer to put her on tho train, but
she was somewhat argumentative
and disputatious when taken into
custody. She told Mr. Spencer she
wouldn't go to tho coop except in
tho patrol wagon. Ho told her the
Honesdale patrol was out of order
and the trip to a cell was mado on
foot.
At Williams' pond tho bass
fishing is going to be something im
mense Just so soon as a few rains
ralso tho water. Th6 fish simply
will not blto on hot, dusty days, and
Honesdale fishermen who went out
thero Friday and Saturday came
home with clean hooks and empty
baskets. "But tho flBh, tho big
mouthed bass, aro thore all right,"
eaid a South Main street expert who
admitted he hung around the pond
all day Friday without getting any
thing. "Many of thorn aro big, run
ning from four to seven pounds.
Fish of that bIzo aro gamo nnd it
takes a man of some strength to
stay with them (tho man talking is
tho big fellow who wanted to bet
$10,000 ho could put Jack Johnson
out of tho placo) when they weigh a
matter of six pounds." Ho is going
to Williams' pond Just tho mlnuto
tho first good rain gets settled, and
then ho expects to havo tho bass out
of tho water, hand over hand nnd
basket after baskot, until ho gets
fish enough to give his friends a
feast.
Tho Archbald Hose company
hnd an outing nt Lake Lodore today.
The Kntz Underwenr company
will resume work on Monday nfter n
two weeks' vacation.
Rev. A. L. Whlttnker will hold
service In White Mills Sundny nt 3
P. m.
E. Deltzer has taken the agency
for the Regal shoes for Wayne
county.
Advertised letters: Willlnm F.
Heller, Dr. Hnrry V. Logan, Mrs. G.
B. Wheeler.
At Grnce Episcopal church Sun
day there will be services at 10.30
a. m. nnd 7.30 p. m.
Ticket Agent Transuo sold 1C9
tlcketB to Whlto Mills Sunday. Tho
ball game crowd was big.
Poor Director Del Gaylord and
Mrs. John Burcher took Mary Glb
ney to Danville asylum Saturday.
Kxtrn cars will be nlnced on
the 12.25 train Friday to convey
the Grnce church parish picnic to
Lake Lodore.
Francis Murtha, driver for the
Wclls-Fargo express, has been Indis
posed the pnst few dnys. Walter
Bailey has been substituting for him.
Dr. B. Golden, "Optometrist"
(Eye sight Specialist) of Carbondale
will bo at tho Allen House, Hones
dale, all day Thursday, at Park
view hotel, Hawley, nil day Friday
of this week. Adv.
Earl Mann sang a solo nt the
Presbyterian church last Sunday.
The name of the selection was "Just
for Today." Next Sunday Miss Tyd
vil Jones of Scranton will sing at
both morning and evening services.
John H. Weaver, John Kuh
bach and J. Sam Brown went to
Towanda Sunday and on Monday
paid a visit to tho Wayne Cut Glass
company's shop, in which all three
aro interested and where there are
at present 52 men at work.
Ham post is taking good care of
Adam Pride, the old soldier stricken
blind 10 days ago. A comrade and
a nurse are with Mr. Pride all the
time. For the present. Judge Wil
son, the commander of the post, says,
Mr. Pride will not be sent to the
soldiers' home.
The Ladies' Aid society of the
Baptist church will hold an Ice
cream social the afternoon and even
ing of Friday next. Tables will be
arranged in the chapel and on the
lawn. This is a postponement of
one day on account of the W. C. T.
U. picnic Thursday.
The excursion of the Mooslc and
Langcllff Presbyterian Sunday
schools Thursday to Lake Lodore
promises to be one of the largest
ever run by the schools. Music will
be furnished by a llrst-class band.
The feature of the day will be a
game of ball between Mooslc and
Avoca.
Percy L. Cole, who has been
negotiating for the drug store of F.
W. Relchenbacker, did not take pos
session Monday, a reported, but he
will today. Mr. Cole Is a thorough
pharmacist. He worked for C. C.
Jadwln 19 yenrs and after he left
that job he decided to take a rest.
Mr. Relchenbacker has no particular
plans for the present, but he, too,
will recreate for a time.
Former Sheriff Cortright and his
auto were going to take Wayne
Kimble, Mike Bregstein and John
Crogan to the Stroudsburg Old Home
week this morning, but the machine
broke down just as the passengers
were getting in in front of the Jad
win building and had to be taken
to the gnrage for repairs. An axle
was found to be twisted. The Cort-right-Kimble-Bregstein-Crogan
party
may get another axle and start
for Stroudsburg before tho day Is
For the benefit of those who ab
hor printers' ink as u prime factor
to tho advancement of their inter
ests, wo should state that Samson
tho strong party wns tho first man
to advertise. Ho took two solid i
columns to demonstrate Ills strength, !
und several thousand people j
"tumbled" to tho scheme. Ho
brought down the house.
PERSONAL MENTION
Edmund Finnerty of Scranton was
caller In town Saturday.
William Mathoy of Scranton speut
Sunday nt his homo here.
Lester Knnpp of Scranton was a
Honesdale visitor Sunday.
Morris Fox of Eagle Pass, Tex.,
ia visiting Honesdnle relatives.
Miss Margaret Rellly has returned
from a week's visit In Now York.
Mrs. William Spettlgue of Hones
dale Is visiting her people in Jermyn. i
Mnrcy Ely left Tuesday for Scran
ton for n brlof visit with relntives.
Mrs. Ella Schwartz of Scranton 1
spent Saturdny with Honesdale rel
atives. .
Harry G. Young of Scranton was
a business caller In town the first i
of tho week.
Walter Ofempboll of Scranton
visited his Jnrents nt East Hones
dnle Sundnyf
Miss Mario Judgo of Franklin
street, Carbondale, Is spending a
week nt Waymart.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Baker and
daughter, Edna, returned this weok
from nn outing at Elk Lako.
Benjamin II. DIttrlch, who Is sum
mering at Laurel Lako, was In town
on business Saturday.
Miss Agues Havoy returned from
Scranton Friday evening, nfter a
visit of several days.
Miss Olga Pohlo has been In Arch
bnld for a Bhort visit.
Misses Kathryn and Verna Drake
of Hawley were callers in town Sat
urday. Percy Thomas of Scranton attend
ed the dnnce nt Lyric hall Friday
evening.
Ray Brown is home from Lafayette
collego summer school to spend the
vacntlon.
Pnrk Schoonovcr of Jersey City,
N. J., passed Saturday nnd Sundny
with Honesdale relatives.
E. D. Ames of Dunmore wn3 call
ed to Hawley Friday by the death of
his brother, W. C. Amos.
Manngcr E. B. Callaway of tho
Herald and Mrs. Cntlaway passed a
restful Sunday at Dunmore.
Miss Evn Houck and Mls3 Anna
Pohlo are being entertained by Miss
Eleanor Duffy of Carbondale.
William H. Kaln of Brooklyn. N.
Y., wns In town last week and made
a trip to Scranton on legal business.
Miss Olive Rellly returned Mondny
from a two weeks' visit with rela
tlvcs in Brooklyn and Connecticut.
Misses Sadie Connelly and Louise
Wolf left Monday morning for New
York, where they will remain one
' week.
I Samuel Freeman and family left
Sunday for their home In Now York
after a pleasant visit with relatives
here.
.Mr. and .Mrs. Jacob Demer and
Misses Vera and RItn Murray are
spending two weeks with Cochecton
relatives.
Miss Tydvll Jones of New York
greatly pleased two large congrega
tions at Grace church Sunday with
her vocal solos.
Dr. H. E. Jones, E. G. Lloyd, II.
B. Bush and M. D. Fretz have re
turned to Olyphnnt from a fishing
trip to Lake Ariel.
J. W. Hause, the Citizen's cor
respondent at Dreher, was in Hones
dale on Friday, motoring aroufid
among his many friends. !
Misses Mame and Mollle Denier'
left Saturday on a two weeks' vaca-!
Hon. They will visit at Scranton,
Binghamton and Lake Cayuga.
Florence Rlef, who has charge of
the ladies' and children's department
in the Rief shoe store, Is spending a
few weeks at Asbury Park, N. J.
Solomon Jones of Lake Ariel, who
has been visiting his son. Alhsrt
Jones, and wife on Avenue D, Mat-'
auiuiua, i. i., me pasi weeK, uas
returned.
Giles Greene, who is spending the
summer at Lake Ariel, and his
friend, Mr. Rodenlack, a classmate
at Yale, passed the week's-end in the
-Maple City.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence M. Bush
nell, two daughters, Edwlna and
Carolyn, of Tyler Hill, and son Clar
ence of Buffalo, N. Y., are at Mag
nolia, Mass.
Julius Freund, who has been em
ployed in a Nevada gold mine, is
home to spend the summer. While
enroute East he witnessed the Jeffries-Johnson
fight at Reno, Nev.
B. R. Geroy, D. F. Young, R. J.
Stewart, J. C. Parker, C. S. Shaw
and J. F. Nearing, all Liberty, N. Y.,
men, motored to Honesdale Sunday
and ate supper at the Commercial.
Mrs. M. E. Dunning and grand
daughter, Adelaide, left Saturday for
Stroudsburg, where they will spend a
month with the former's son. npnreo
Dunning. They were in time for'
Old Home week.
Miss Catherine Yntes of Corn
wall, N. Y., left for home Monday,
after a brief visit with her school
friend, Miss Dorothy Menner. Sat-'
urday evening Miss Menner enter
tained at the golf grounds l'n honor
of Miss Yates.
Mr. and Mrs. George Hendrickson,
who came to Honesdale on their
wedding trip July 1 and have been
looking over Wayne county's scen
ery with a great deal of satisfaction,
havo returned to Brooklyn, N. Y.,
whero tho groom Is an insuranco
man. Most of the time they stopped
at the Commercial, Landlord Charles
J. Weaver of that house being a dis
tant relative of the bride.
For Convenience Sake
Your home, your office
should no longer be without
Bell Telephone Seirvice
Defies distance, time and
weather. Anyone can reach
you anytime. You can reach
anyone anywhere.
Use the Bell
The Bell Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania
e. m. Mccracken, Agent
Honesdale, Pa.
Walter Whitney has returned from
n business trip through New York
stntc.
Mrs. Susie Budd of Peckvllie pass
ed through Honesdnle Monday on hor
way homo from Beach Lake.
Daniel Coleman of Scranton la
spending n two weeks' vacation at
his home here.
Roynl Relchenbncker returned
.Mondny evening from a visit with
relatives In New York.
Miss Marie Graham of Carbondalo
spent tho early part of the week
with Honesdale friends.
Mr. and .Airs. E. B. Jermyn of
Scranton spent the week-end as tho
guests of Mr. nnd Mrs. Rollo G.
Jermyn nt Lake Ariel.
Miss Mary Sleheckcr of Scranton,
who has been spending a week with
her uncle, B. II. DIttrlch, at Laurel
Lake, returned home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Penwarden,
Mrs. Albert Bryant and Mrs. L. F.
Whittlng left today for a ten days'
outing nt Asbury Park, N. .1.
OBITUARY.
WOODMANSEE Horace Wood
mansee died at his home in Lake
Como, July 9, aged 78 years, 2
months, 9 dnys. Deceased was born
In Preston township. His father,
James Woodmansee, was a native of
Rhode Island nnd a soldier of tho
Revolution, for which services he
drew a pension. He was among the
early settlers of Preston township.
The subject of our sketch was a
staunch Democrat and had been
honored with most of the local of
fices in Preston, Buckingham and
Starucca. He was an active mem
ber of Lake Como lodge, No. 9C5,
I. O. O. F. Deceased Is survived by
two sons, Samuel B., of Lake Como
and John of Starucca, and a married
daughter, a resident of New York.
FARNHAM Henry Gibson Farn
ham died at his home In Bingham
ton, N. Y., July 15, aged 08 years, 10
months. He was a son of Gen. Alex
ander H. Farnham, for many years
prominent in the militia of this sec
tion of the state, and was born in
Honesdale. He was a bright stu
dent and graduated with high hon
ors from the Honesdale high school,
under the principalshlp of John
Proctor and Charles N. Todd. For
a time he was employed in this bor
ough, and then he became a resi
dent of Binghamton, where he filled
a number of important positions
with great credit to himself. He
never married. A few years ago he
was stricken with paralysis, which
incapacitated him for any further
work. His body was brought to
Honesdale Saturday evening and
placed in the vault in Glen Dyberry.
The interment was Sunday afternoon
in the family plot, Rev. A. L. Whit
taker officiating and only the Im
mediate relatives being present.
KILLED A PORCUPINE.
MncTnvish Climbed Tree With No
Fear of Xeedles and Shook Ani
inal Off.
Duncan MncTavish, senior and
junior, John Matthews and Thomas
Lewis went to ride Sunday. They
journeyed to Bethany and came back
over the Dyberry road. About a
mile from home they spied a porcu
pine crossing the road ahead of
them.
"I'll get him," said the elder Mr.
MacTavish, and ho got out of the
buggy and started. The animal
climbed a tree and the man with n
club climbed right after the prickly
fellow and tried to shake him to the
ground, but the porcupine dropped
to a lower limb. With a knife
they cut the limb off, and then the
animal was clubbed to death.
Tho animal was brought to
Honesdale and exhibited to tho
friends of the three men Monday.
It weighs about 25 pounds and Is
a hnrdlooklng customer, with plenty
of needles. Porcupines nre rare In
tho Pennsylvania woods.
The porcupine may be stuffed and
kept for a souvenir of the trip, but
its f turo had not been decided upon
yesterday.