THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST .1, 1010. it ti VALUABLE NEWS FROM NEIGHBORING TOWNS Important Happenings and Personal Items Contrib uted by THE CITIZEN'S Corps of Correspondents. BETHANY. Lam-onee's Orchestra Will Piny nt Cemetery Bencllt. George Unas of New York, after spending a week at the homo of Mrs. L. Pethlek, has returned to New York. Russell Starnes spent last week with the Honesdalo team touring Sullivan county, N. Y. Mrs. Edward Woodward and daughter, Noel, of New York came Tuesday to spend the rest of the summer at their homo here. Miss Cody Is home for a brief rest. Eva Hnrmes of Hawley is visit ing Ella Gammoll. Both were well entertained by Edna Dlake Satur day afternoon at supper. Mrs. James Johns returned Wed nesday from the seashore. Kev. J. B. Cody and family en tertained the Presbyterian trustees and their wives at dinner Friday, combining business and pleasure Russell Gauunell spent Sunday in Sernnton, visiting friends. Rev. W. B. Signor will preach at Beach Lake Sunday and Rev. Sey mour in the Methodist church here, The Presbyterian women will meet Wednesday 9.30 to clean the church. As haying Is about finished, the next thing In order is the Sunday school picnic. Maud Bennett of Tanners Falls is spending several days with Mrs. Gammell. Allan Lawrence and orchestra of Sernnton nre camping out at Third pond. They have consented to give a concert, followed by a box social, In Ihe Presbyterian church some evening the middle of the month for the help of the cemetery asso ciation in making necessary improve ments about the cemetery. All will be Interested In the affair and many will avail themselves of the oppor tunity to hear this clever orchestra. Mrs. Johns of Warren and daugh ter, Mrs. Gleason of Tanners Falls, spent Sunday at the" home of Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Many. Mrs. Montague Is visiting her sis ter, Mrs. Charles Pethlek. WHITE MILLS. Dig Tomato and Celery Business Other Village Notes. W. K. Hlttlnger Is making a business trip to Susquehanna. Adam Hellman of Dlllontown was a caller here Sunday and was very enthusiastic over the ball game played between White Mills and Honesdale. Thomas Gill and M. J. Hanlan made a trip to Goshen last week. Charles Wegge and Philip Dean and friends attended a picnic Saturday. Eugene Bellmen took a load to the tall and tried his usual method of kilting, but this was impossible, as the reptile was too largo and strong. With tho snake ready to give him a blow in the face, he rec ognized his Johnson. He dropped It and ran, pursued by the snake a short distance only, Mrs. Well Is entertaining at her pleasant snmnier home near East Lynne a woman visitor who arrived on Thursday from New ork. Mr. and Mrs. Vangorder, with their two boys, of Port Jervls, N. Y are paying a visit to her parents, Mr. nnd Mrs. John Martin of WI1 sonvllle. Miss Matter passed Wednesday afternoon with Bone Ridge friends. The Misses Eck have visiting with them a young girl cousin from New York. .Mrs. R. H. Ely Is making an ex tended sojourn with relatives In Massachusetts. Dr. R. T. Wall, who made a trip to Scranton during the week, was taken very sick while there with acute Indigestion. His father, T F. Wall, went there Thursday and found him recovering. The Baptist Sunday school pic nicked at Ladywood lane Wednesday The boating on the Pnupack by moonlight was fine. Myrtle James of Cherry Ridge was in town Tuesday to receive musical instruction from Verna Drake. Mr. and Mrs. Grumsen arrived from New York Wednesday to take charge of the Paupack river farm In the nbsence of his partner, H. DIffene, who, with his wife and lit tle child, accompanied by Mrs. R. Lucas and her sons, Walter and Harold, sailed Saturday for Ger many on the Kalserlne Augusta Vic toria of the Hamburg-American line to be absent about two months. A. K. Killam came from Scranton with his new automobile Saturday evening. The Methodist Sunday school will hold their annual picnic In the Maennerchor grove Aug. 11. The GIbbs glass works ' go to Stroudsburg the first of next week. .Mr. Glbbs will make the trip by auto. Mrs. Gibbs went by rail, accom panied by Mrs. Klrkham, Saturday morning. Mr. Klrkham goes to be Gibbs' dipper in the acid room. Miss Sarah Phillips is sojourning at Stroudsburg and Delaware Water Gap. Mrs. A. K. Killam entertained the women of the Order of the Eastern Star on her lawn Wednesdny after noon. Tho numerous Hawley friends of Dr. Frederick Lobb, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. .1. Lobb of this place, now on the staff of the Harrlsburg hos pital, were pleased to hear that he i was nnn of the 345 M. D S who Bellevuo took tne state medical board examl- ' oJ Inn r cii niouof ill 1 v nnaQ IlilllUit lJ ou. iv J'"""" The Methodist church choir will hold a festival on the lawn of the evening. The WAYNE CO TRADE BOARD GETTING BUSY (Continued From Pago One). JUDGE FULLER DECIDES SIX PONDS IN LEBANON TOWN SHIP BELONG TO WAYNE STORAGE AND WATER-POWER COMPANY. NOT TO HEIFLEH up with the facetious suggestion thnt the borough of Honesdalo might, make, application to be an nexed to Texas. That was tho meet ing nt which William A, Sluman, COMPANY, WHO BROUGHT tne Politician, tax collector, fireman SUIT OF EJECTMENT. Judge Henry A. Fuller of Lu zerne has decided that White Oak, Swamp nnd Long ponds and Hnnklns, Miller, nnd Belmont reservoirs belong to the Wnyno Stornge and Waterpower company, nnd general all-around good fellow of Texas, held down the chair. Mr. Sluman did not attend Friday night's meeting. "Most of the people In Texas," said McCarty, "want to como In. The political part of tho question Is not material. Honesdalo generally Superintendent J. J. Kochler was Introduced. to talk about the schools. He said consolidation of schools was needed to secure the highest pitch of efllclcncy. Isolated schools, ho declnred, work at a great dis advantage. Tho territory taken in to Greater Honesdalo will get the most benefit when It comes to tho schools. "I don't like to think," said the Superintendent "that right close peg Into a round hole, for It won't go In. Just see what nature has done for you and In that way fix upon the mentis to solve tho prob lem. ."I have lived 50 years In this beautiful town and I know of but one thing for which Honesdalo Is fitted. We have no free coal, as they have In Scranton and tho val ley towns, to boost us, but wo have all those noble lakes that In days to tho borough wo have little tin-1 gone by used to belong to the Dela Relfler & Sons, Inc., clnlmed own- hoa a nepubllcan majority, while ersnip unuer tneir aeen nnu nciton Texns, I bellove, Is ordinarily Dent ui Lilian i no Mi j t 1009. Judge Fuller says: "Tito plaintiff hnB not established Its rights to recover In this action Big pond Sunday. Daniel Driscoll of Alton, 111., has , Iinrnn pri,iaV returned home after visiting friends oschman orchestra will be present in White Mills. an,j c0 creani, cake and other M. J. Hanlan of Honesdale will i tooulson,e edibles will be for sale. be one of the speakers at tne wmte verna Bennett passed Sunday Mills school picnic Saturday. her frjena. Miss Mabel Shook, John Haggerty of White Mills is very sick. How about the Wayne county fair? Are you getting your chick ens ready? There will be some high class birds to compete with this year. George Rogers of Honesdale was calling on friends Sunday. Irvin Henshaw met with the school board Wednesday. Joseph Atkinson has had his house newly painted. Ho has about 1,000 tomato plants set to supply the town with tomatoes, also 2,000 celery plants. Lester Christiana is getting his house painted. HAWLEY. at Wilsonville. A new firm started In business Monday under the name of Blgart & Rose, Charles W. Rose having nurchased an Interest In the busi ness conducted by Homer Blgart in the Odd Fellows building on Main avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rose and chil dren of East Hawley spent Sunday at Big pond. Frank Major of the East side has moved his family to Deposit, N. Y., where he will work at glass cutting. of ejectment, and therefore Judg ment should be entered In favor of J the defendant, subject to exceptions i in the manner provided by tho act of assembly under which this ense has been submitted to the court." Elsewhere Judge Fuller observes: "In the submission of this enso and of the interesting question which It Involves, we have hnd the benefit of exceptionally able argu ment on both sides, and we are not entirely satisfied with tho correct ness of our conclusions, but we think the fair preponderance of ar gument leads to the proposition which controls the case, that the clause contained In the company's deed in 1S57 created more than a mere easement, terminable with the use of tho canal, and left In the company and Its assigns full posses sion and right of possession, and perhaps absolute ownership of the very land itself which Is claimed In this ejectment. "The precise contention of tho plaintiff, upon which depends Its right to recover, Is that the clause created merely the easement of stor ing upon land which the company conveyed, water to supply Its cor porate purposes In the maintenance of the canal, and that the discon tinuance of the latter consequently extinguished the easement servient thereto. There can be no doubt that If the deed did create an ease ment, and if the easement was re stricted to that particular purpose, It has terminated and the plaintiff may recover." The Judge concludes, as a matter of law, that the controverted clauFe In the company's deed constituted an exception from the grant and not a mere reservation of an easement. Even If It did constitute a mere reservation of an easement for reservoirs, such easement was not affected by the abandonment of the canal, nor by non uses for corporate purposes of the company, but was alienable to Its assignees, In whom It continues while the reservoirs are maintained. It was in 1S51 that the D. & H sold a large tract of land to Lord & Tracy, In Lebanon township, em bracing within its bounds Upper and Lower Woods ponds. In this deed the company expressly except ed and reserved the absolute and tin qualified right to occupy as much of the land as they may consider necessary for a reservoir or reser voirs, and "to construct a dam- or dams for said reservoir purposes and to overflow all the land that they may require for said purposes." This land was used by the company for reservoirs from 1851 to 1898, when they ceased to operate the canal. Officials of the company said to day that any party wishing to buy the property for any project to benefit Honesdale can have it at the cost of the Investment. ocrntlc, so fcthat, politically consld- creu, me proposition is wen uni- anced." Mr. McCarty talked easily and without any notes, although ho had a date or two on a slip to refresh his recollection of the acts effecting boroughs. When he finished Pres ident Smith thanked htm for his very clear and Interesting analysis of the legal points Involved. Mr. Simons Makes Good Points. Then the president said the meet ing wanted to hear from Mr. Sim ons. ' The district attorney said he didn't know until that night that he was on this Greater Honesdale committee. He thought, he said, that the committee on bylaws was to be the extent of his service. Ho agreed, however, with Mr. McCarty that the benefits of taking a part of Texas would be considerable, This Is no new movement to unite Honesdale and Texas," said Mr. Simons, who made a very tem perate and conservative speech. "I think I must hnvo heard about it for 20 years. Politically It wouldn't do any harm to put them together. Honesdale will stay on the map, no matter whether the Rciitbllcans or the Democrats are In power. It would do no harm, probably. If Honesdale should now and then go Democratic. It would do no harm, either, if Texas should occasionally flop over and go Republican. A change sometimes is good and poll- tics ought not to count. Go Repub lican, go Democratic, Greater Hones dale would live anyhow." Mr. Simons agreed with McCarty on another point. He said people prefer to live In a larger place and that a known population of G000 to 8000, not of 2800 or 2900, would have an appreciable effect on busi ness. "You can't skip the argument of sentiment," said Mr. Simons. "It has to be reckoned with. The aver age man wants to live in a place that's citified and provided with the advantages of modern life." He warned the meeting, though, that complications must be expect ed when the Greater Honesdale movement gets fairly going and the effort to annex territory com mences. "If I lived in the- part of Texas that Is close to the borough," he said, "I'd favor being taken Into Honesdale, but If I lived away out In the country end of the town ship I'd fight the other part being taken In. I tell you frankly that I don't think it would be feasible now to take In the whole of Texas, nor do I think It would be feasible to take In all the country that lies between here and White Mills. How much of Texas to take In would be' graded country schools and a mini her of two-room schoolhouses. But It's true." Ten years from now, he said, Texas taxes will be higher than thoy are today, for the graded school must como In Texas very soon. If Texas voted" on that proposition to morrow, graded schools would win. They lost by only two votes before. When you close a rural school and send the children to n graded school, you must cart them there without .1. .1. KOEHLEIC, Superintendent of tho Wayne Coun ty Schools. JIuiil Fight wltli Snake Glass Men to StrotitKliuru Picnics. It Is a well-known fact that for such a sparsely settled place as is the country surrounding Hemlock Hollow and Long pond there dwells an unusual number of hunters, trappers and ilshernien. But not everyone knows that among them Is a snake fancier, a young man by tho namo of Urven Daniels, who since childhood has made snake hunting his main sport. With sev eral of them concealed about his person, ho would often go to tho house and give them their freedom In a room full of company, finding the keenest delight In the terror of his friends. When a small boy he tackled one that would have gotten the best of him had It not been for a smaller brother at hand with a knlfo with which ho cut Its throat. This ono had wound Itself around his body. His usual manner of kill ing a snake is to grab him by the tall and give a quick Jerk, which breaks his neck. Ho has always been tho winner in his battles with the serpent until the recent haying season. While nt work In the Held ho went up to a rock to lay a scythe stone on It and something unseen struck him on tho anklo. Ho very soon spied a huge blacksnake and then began a fight between tho champion and the big black follow. Ho was bitten several times in tho fray. Once tho snako struck at his body and drew from tho pocket his handkerchief. He finally seized It by LINE DISPUTE IN CLINTON. charge to them or else let them go where they please. If a part of Seelyvllle (the Flats) comes In, the school expenses there will rise and the taxes will exceed Honesdale's. He went on to tell about the advantages of a commercial de partment and In this connection said that when visiting schools in other counties he felt ashamed to have to answer In the negative when asked whether Honesdale had a commercial department. "It may be well to teach lan guages," said he, "but figures and penmanship are the vital, practical things the ones that really count. If we had one district for the 000 people of Greater Honesdale, wo could put In the commercial de partment and not be obliged to send our boys and girls away to Scran ton or New York or Poughkeepsle to get the elements of a business education. Seelyvllle High school costs 85 or $90 a year and Texas the same. Take that $180 and I will give you a commercial depart ment in Honesdale High school that will keep the boys and girls here while they're getting that business training. "There will come a time when Texas will build a central graded school and high school. And Texas must, In time, employ a truant ofll- cer to run down the delinquent boys and girls and take them to school. One such officer could do that work for Honesdale and Texas at the same time. ware & Hudson Cannl company and which gnve the city of New York all the life and power and energy that put her to the front of Ameri can cities. Now Judge Fuller of Luzerne has decided that tho Wayne Storage Power company owns these lake3 that are worth a million of dollars, but Honesdale must be mado a place of 20,000 souls before Honesdale can use all this power In tho Lackawaxen and the Dyberry. "How can it be done? Lot the Wayne Storage Power Co. guarantee $50,000 in bonds to replace that hotel that used to stand on the cliff and then everything will be chang ed. Then wo can do as well as Stroudsburg, where the best hotel gets $10 a day and tho worst one $3. Let tho Greater Honesdale Board of Trade go to tho Storage Power company and get $50,000 In bonds thnt will soon add $250,000 to the value of their own property Then we shall see Greater Hones dale grow the way she ought to grow." President Smith looked at his watch and saw it was 9.30. He put the balance of the committee re ports over to the next meeting, to bo held one week later. Chairman Leopold Blummenthal of the press committee handed In a resolution thanking the Honesdale papers for boosting the Board, both newswlse and editorially. Secretary Callaway read it and It went through. Then the meeting adjourned. There were four lawyers and two doctors present, and the rest were business men. The officers and mem bers of the Board feel encouraged. The secretary Is corresponding with two concerns that are looking for a new location, but he and Mr. Blum enthal, the boss of the publicity bureau, If you can call It that, of tho Board are not yet ready to talk about this matter. Mrs. Thomas Key and daughter. Bessie, of WIlkes-Barre arrived In Honesdale Monday evening to be the guests of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Hawken of North Main street. Mr. Key will join the family circle Saturday to spend his vacation here. Black and White and Scotch. Mrs. Blank, wlfo of a prominent minister near Boston, had In her em ploy a recently engaged colored cook as black as the proverbial ace of spades. One day Mrs. Blank said to her: "Matilda, I wish that you would have oatmeal quite often for break fast. My husband is very fond of it. Ho is Scotch, and you know that tho Scotch eat a great deal of oat meal." "Oh, he's Scotch, is he?" said Ma tilda. "Well, now, , do you knew, I was thlnkln' all along dat he wasn't des like us." Woman's Home Companion. tnt cininvlntonilotlt nrtlllrl linnflln a question, then, and there might th(j schools Qf the enUre commun. John F. Croghan, a likeable young clerk In the pharmacy of C. C. Jad wln at Honesdale, drove down from that borough Friday night to 'call on some Hawley friends. Mr. Cro ghan until recently was tho treas urer of tho Skat club, an organiza tion of Honesdale young men that is to hold a picnic somewhere, some time, probably during the month of August. He said the time and place were now being pondered by a com mittee named at a recent meeting of the Skat club; also that tho picnic would bo a purely private affair, like all tho functions of tho club, and no newspapermen wjll bo per mitted to eat the chowder or see tho ball game. The now vice-president of the Skats la Leopold Blumenthnl, affectionately known as "Bloomy" to his multitude of Wayne and Sul livan county friends. Col. Michael Galvin and Miss Cora Scars of Honesdalo called on friends in town Sunday afternoon. Flt7f-Mills Suit Before Three Hones dale Arbitrators. Before Arbitrators J. Adam Kraft, Buel Dodge and F. W. Bunnell Fri day morning and afternoon tho boundary line dispute of Albert A. Fltze and John T. Mills was thresh ed out. About 25 witnesses, most of them from Clinton township, where the litigating parties llvo, and an equal number of spectators packed the grand jury room nt tho courthouse. The evidence was all In that day and Wednesday tho argu ments will be made by Frank P. Kimble for tho plaintiff and E. C. Mumford and O. L. Rowland for the defendant. Abuses ami Threatens Wife and Children. Henry Kiegler of River street Thursday night took too much liq uor and commenced to abuse and threaten his wlfo and eight chll dren. Detective Spencer, who was sent for In a hurry, arrested Kiegler and took him to the lockup. Justice Smith Friday morning held Kiegler In $200 ball for the August term of court. He wont to Jail. Emll Selba of Hawley was a vis itor In town Saturday and Sunday Dr. Arthur Davis la spending a few days with bis wife's father, Charles Spettlguo of East street. be some conservative people In Honesdale who'd object to taking In Texas at all. They might argue that we have high taxes now and that wo pay a lot of money for our beautiful Main street." "And tho outsiders have the use of it now," put in Mr. McCarty, sitting six feet away from Mr. Sim ons. Everybody laughed. "At the same time," continued the spenker, "Honesdalo and Texas have arranged to take care of their poor together and Honesdale and Texas might as well be partners In schools and streets as in the sup port of their poor. I believe this union of Honesdale and Texas can como by agitation and suggestion, but there Is bound to bo some fric tion over Honesdalo's $20,000 hop ough debt and $50,000 school dobt. Texas, I believe, Is free from debt." "They've got money In the bank," volunteered Mr. McCarty. Texas, Mr. Simons said, will want to know right oft who Is to pay this tho old or tho now borough. All Tho land behind this little suit la 82 squaro rods, or about ono fifth 1 this must bo settled before Texas nf nn acre. Mr. Fltze bought tho ' comes into iiouesuaio, or. mure Odell farm two years ago and Mr. strictly speaking, before we know Mills bought tho LoomlB place, whether Toxas Is willing to come which loins It, 17 years ago. At and whether Honesdalo is willing iii timn Mr. Fltzo boucht thero to have her come wnB n dtsmito about tho lino and "In regard to taxation," Mr. thn nnrtios solllnc to him deducted Simons continued, "1 believe the $100 on this account and ho took the title. Now tho plaintiff says he wants tho lino run according to nn old fence lino and the defendant claims the lino should bo according to tho deeda conveying both plates to their present owners. There is a question ns to the ex istence of a former fence. Aa to tho fence line either sldo had five or six witnesses. There wasn't any spicy testimony and the spectators thinned out before tho afternoon session ended. Tho land in dispute Is not very vnluable. Mrs. I. J. Roos; and daughter, Selma, left Tuesday for their homo in Scranton, after a brief visit with relatives here. borough of Honesdalo pays more taxes than sho gets vnluo received. I met a man on tho street tho other day who said ho paid $69, or two per cent, of tho purchase price of hia house and lot. Ho told mo i ho thought that was outrageous, My own taxes have been raiseu about 100 per cent in eight years and yet I can see llttlo more bone fit coming to me than formerly. The tax on account of the now school- houso Is not tho solo cauBO of this state of affairs. Wo ought, I feel to look up tho taxes of other places In this state that havo equal pop ulatlon and the same Improvements and see how thoy compare." Mr. Kochler On Schools. Mr. Simons was thanked by President Smith, and then County Ity. It Is no use trying to make one man superintendent and teach er at the same time. They havo as good teachers out In the country as we have here, but one superin tendent over all can give better results than are obtained under the present arrangement. "Some folks may say the com mercial department Is a failure, but In Scranton, where tho technical high school costs as much as the central high, the technical some times reaches a higher per centage. The majority of boys and girls don't go Into the professions. They go Into busi ness, and the business training should bo given prominence. I think I really should have made this talk in Toxas, but I was called on to come here and talk and I came. Wo must look forward to tho benefit of the next generation tho men and women that are to take our places and for that rea son wo need the best schools for Greater Honesdale." President Smith said tho Board was in favor or uotter scnoois as well as In favor of more business. Ho thanked Supt. Koehler for his talk. Dlmiulck Proposes a Remedy. Col. W. H. Dlmmlck was called on to toll what ho know about former efforts to mako Greater Honesdale. "Gentlemen," said the Colonel, "thore was a time when I ran for mayor on a Greater 'Honesdalo plat form. And I remember that when election day came I was snowed under as deep as any man over could be. Thoy burled mo deep. I could hardly find standing room tho day after election. My Repub lican friends said to mo 'Dlmmlck, you'ro trying to mako a Democratic Honesdalo and they voted against mo on tho strength of that. "But Honesdalo can bo mado Greater Honesdalo without moro territory, without any change in the form of government. Wo havo tho natural advantages tho environ ment, tho scenery, tho physical beau ty to build tho town up. But you don't want to try to drive a squaro The Calaveras Skull. In a recent bulletin from the Uni versity of California is given a sum mary of tlw evidence prepared by Professor J. D. 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