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WANTED.
WANTED Competent girl for gen
eral house work. Mrs. C. T. Bent
ley, 1407 Main street, Honesdale. tf
WANTED Two or three girls at
Paper Box Factory. 8tf
von sale.
A SIX Octave, Chicago Cottage or
gan. Walnut case. High top and
mirror. Time conditions $30. Mc
Jntyre. 7eol2.
A $2,".00 sewing machine, all attach
ments. Used short time. Fully
warranted. Now $10. Mclntyre
AIjWAYS offering bargains. $51
value, yours for $20. $30 Edison
phonographs and GO records. Mc
lntyre. 7eoi2
FOU SALE Kelly & Steinman
brick factory building, including en
gine, boiler and shafting. Inquire of
J. B. Robinson. 50tf.
HONESDALE AND ENVIRONS.
If all goes well the rural mall car
riers will receive $1,000 a year af
ter July 1, Instead of $900. The
proposition to increase the salary
kas passed the House and will un
doubtedly become a law.
Judge A. T. Searle, of Wayne
eounty, visited the departments to
day. The Judge was formerly As
sistant United States District Attor-,
ev under Judce S. J. M. McCarrell.
(Tuesday's) Harrisburg Telc-f
graph.
George L. Waltz, Newfoundland,
spent Wednesday In tho Maple City.
At the Installation of the Hones
dale Heptasophs, Wednesday even
ing, these officers were Installed:
Archon, Theodore A. Schimmel;
treasurer, Do Brltt Mantle; finan
cier, Henry W. Rehbein; secretary,
Frederick J. Tolley.
Attorneys C. C. Donovan and W.
Biglin, Scranton, attended the in
Htallatlon ceremonies of the Hones
dale Heptasophs, Wednesday even
ing. Fred Butler, Philadelphia, exper
ienced engraver and watch repairer,
has secured a position with G. P.
Sommer on Main street.
P. H. Cole left for Port Jervis on
a business trip.
Attorney C. A. McCarty is in
BinEhamton, N. Y., on business.
Mrs. C. McArdle, of the National
Hotel, is ill with rheumatism.
Charles McMullen. proprietor of
tho Honesdale Garage, w.ho spent I
several days at Carbondale, return
ed home.
Michael J. Kelly', it)f tlte' flrm 'df
Kelly and Stelnman.v Deposit, N. Y.,
transacted business In town this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Bassett
epent Friday and Saturday In Scran
ton. Mrs. Homer Greene is visiting her
daughter, Miss Margaret, who is
attending school at Albany, N. Y.
Tho young men of St. Mary Mag
dalena's R. C. church, Monday even
ing organized a now club, called "G.
C. C." (German Catholic Club) at
the church, with a membership of
eighty-one. Initiation will be held
at the church, Sunday evening, Feb
ruary 12, at 7:30 o'clock. These of
ficers were elected: President, Frank
Vetter; vice-president, Frederick
Holl; recording secretary, J. B.
Stegner; financial secretary, Paul W.
Sonner; treasurer, Philip Murray,
Jr.; Marshall, Edward Murtha; di
rectors, Edward Sporer, Frank Wen
nlger, Frank X. Soete; orator, Wil
liam Kupferer.
D. B. Mantle is confined to the
house by a severe spell of sickness.
Hon. William H. Dimmick will
deliver the address at an open meet
ing In the High School Auditorium,
Friday evening, given by tho Seniors
to celebrate the centenary of the
anniversary of the birth of the
founder and famous editor of tho
New York Tribune, Horace Greeley.
Rev. Geo. S. Wendell will preach
at the Seelyvllle Chapel, Friday
evening at 7:30 o'clock.
John P. White, Oscaloosa, la., de
feated Tomas L. Lewis for the Pres
idency of the United Mine Workers
f America, according to the an
nouncement made by the official tel
lers who reported the result of the
recent referendum vote. White re
teived 98,934 votes and Lewis 72,
190. Installation services of Captain
Ham Post, No. 189, will be held on
Friday evening, Feb. 3, at tho Post
rooms. All veterans are requested
to attend.
Dr. Clarence J. Marshall, has been
Appointed State Veterinarian to suc
ceed Dr. S. H. Gilllland, Murlotta,
who resigned because of ill health,
ceed Dr. S. H. Gilllland, Marietta,
will be continued in office by Dr.
Marshall.
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David E. Hacker, Whites Valley,
transacted business in Honesdale,
Wednesday.
Eugene Canlvan, of 103 Willow
street, the well known blacksmith,
was kicked Tuesday by a vicious
liorse which he was shoeing.
B. R. Millard, Binghamton, N. Y.,
T. B. George, Carbondale, Philip
Coffey, Hawley, aro stopping at the
Commercial Hotel.
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FOIl KENT.
FOR KENT 7 rooms and bath, gas
and furnace. C1C Church street.
Inquire at house.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Silt. WINT, the piano tuner, will
be in Honesdale the week begin
ning February Gth. Leave orders at
Hotel Wayne. 2t.
COMINC3 Dr. B. Golden, "Opto
metrist" (eye-sight specialist) of
Carbondale, will be at the Allen
House, Honesdale, all day Thursday,
Feb. 9th, nt Gill's Hotel, White Mills,
on the morning of Friday, Feb. 10th,
and at the Park View Hotel, Hawley,
on the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 10.
All those having use for the services
of an expert Optometris't are invited
to call. 10t2
THE CITIZEN is prepared to do
high class printing at a moment's
notice. Linotype composition a
specialty. Write or 'phone for terms.
There will be a social Thursday
evening, at 7:30 p. m. In the Sun
day school rooms of the Grace Epis
copal church.
The funeral of the late Mrs. John
C. Metzgar, of Sixth street, took
place Tuesday afternoon at her late
home. Services were conducted by
Dr. W. H. Swift. Tho remains were
taken to German Lutheran cemetery.
Tho pallbearers were: M. J. Hanlan,
C. M. Harris, Frank Cornell, A. W.
Abrams, Charles Herrmann, Elmer
E Williams; flower carriers, F.
Carr, J. Broad, J. Condgon, Leon
Katz, B. Barmeik.
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Tho County Temperance Institute
will be held' in the court house on
Tuesday, February 7, under the aus
pices of the Pennsylvania Anti
Saloon League. There will be three
sessions, morning, afternoon and
evening. Following is the program:
Morning session, 10:30 Devotion
al exercises; "The Prohibition Par
ty," Rev. James Rainey, Aldenville;
"The W. C. T. U.," Mrs. Minnie E.
Coleman, Damascus; "The Attitude
of the Grange on the Temperance
Question," Rev. James B. Cody,
Bethany; general discussion.
Afternoon session, 1:30 Devo
tional exercises; "The Brooks High
License Law in Operation"; "Law
Enforcement," sMr. G. H. Knapp, Al
denville; "The Church and the Min
istry in the Temperance Work," Rev.
R. Clayton Burch, Waymart; "The
Anti-Saloon League," Rev. C. H.
Brandt, Wilkes-Barre, Supt. North
eastern district; "The Relation of the
Anti-Saloon League to Local Work,"
Rev. C. W. Carroll, D. D., Harris
burg, State Superintendent; "Ques
tion Box," Rev. C. W. Carroll, D.
D.; general discussion.
Evening Session, 7:15 General
mass meeting; devotional exorcises;
address, Rev. J. J. Curran, Wilkes
,Barre, .pastor of the Church of the
Holy So-vlour (Catholic).
Miss Olive Lockwood, Waymart,
is spending several days with -iones-dale
friends.
The Knights of St. Paul held an
important meeting Tuesday evening.
They made preparations for a social
to be held soon.
Mrs. M. E. Doolittle, New Haven,
Conn., is visiting Rev. A. L. Whit
taker, rector of the Grace Protestant
Episcopal church.
Will W. Jones, publisher of the
Olyphant Gazette, Olyphant, was a
Tuesday business caller In town.
Miss Clara O'Connell, Susque
hanna, is the guest of the Misses
Reirden, East street.
Eugene Coleman left Tuesday
morning on a business trip to the
metropolis.
Mrs. Arthur Bishop, Scranton, is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Thomas, Spring street.
Miss Grace McCarty is visiting
Honesdale relatives.
Roy Wood returned to his home
in Carbondale Monday, after ten
days' visit with L. A. Bishop and
family.
The financial statement of the
Poor District of Texas Township
and the Borough of Honesdale for
the year ending January 9, 1911,
was filed January 31, 1911. The
receipts for 1910 amounted to $9,
365.83 and the expenditures, includ
ing charges of $2,583,83 for patients
In insane asylum, and tobacco for
Inmates of $12.80, totaled $6,669.73,
leaving a balance on hand of $2,
696.10. Assets are placed at $5,
632.46. The auditors appointed by
tho Court to examine the accounts
aro Gustave Smith, L. S. Collins,
George Schweslnger. An Inventory
revealed real estate valued at $7,000,
and other Items, amounting In all
to $11,472.
The number of inmates at the
close of 1909 was 13. One was ad
mitted during 1910, three were dis
charged and one died, leaving the
average number 11 and 341-365.
Tho poor directors of the districts
mentioned are Thos. Gill, President;
W. A. Gaylord, Secretary; O. E. Bun
nell, Treasurer.
Dr. William T. Butler, the well
known dentist of Honesdale, Is suf
fering from a nervous breakdown,
and has been ordered by his physi
cians to take a long rest. Dr. and
Mrs. Butler left the first of the week
for a lenghty stay in the South,
where It is hoped the change of cli
mate may restore him to health.
During his absence, his son, Dr.
George C. Butler, Is looking after
his business Interests.
A reporter of THE CITIZEN spent
' an interesting quarter of an hour,
one afternoon this week at the Coun
ty Commissioners' ofllce, whore gen
eral appeals from the assessment of
1911 are being heard. Some of the
pleas offered for a reduced rating
ran like this:
"I'm way up high on that. Mr. A's,
my next-door neighbor's house was
bought for $1200. I don't see why I
should bo put down for $1500. I'm
willing to do what's a square deal.
His house was bought for $1200. I'd
sell mine for that too. The houses
compare- pretty well. They're only
half-lots too. Well, yes, it is a 25
foot lot. But it's altogether too
much for that lot. They're all 25
foot lots down there."
A second man came in to appeal
from his "occupation" assessment.
"There," he exclaimed, "you got
me assessed at $100! I ain't "retir
ed." I'm retired because I'm sick."
"Retired men," broke In Commis
sioner's Clerk George P. Ross, "are
those that have thousands of dollars
to live on, you know."
The reporter laughingly inquired
".what his taxes would be for 1911?"
"They ought to assess Editors $2,
000," answered one of the Commis
sioners. We'll give you all we
can!"
Enter another "appealer." "$50?
This Is pretty high too. I think
mine's a little overreached."
Mr. Ross reads the law on reduc
tion of property assessments which is
substantially as follows: "The Com
missioners have no right to reduce
property valuations this year or next,
if the property remains intact."
"Next year we won't be here," re
gretfully remarked one of the Com
missioners. And still the appealers came! "I
am assessed more on the house, than
I paid for the house," said the next
citizen. "I am assesed more in pro
portion than the rest of my neigh
bors are assessed."
"We'll look into that," obligingly
spoke up one of the Commissioners,
"and see if we can do anything for
you."
"Anyway," continued the irate cit
izen, "this Is assessed more than it's
worth. I don't want to kick. I want
to do what's right."
"We'll see what we can do with
that," smilingly answered a Commis
sioner, as the citizen hopefully left
the ofllce.
Having a moment's rest "between
appeals," the reporter again "wanted
to know" how much his taxes would
be this year. "They would be $5, If
you lived in Bethany!" was the con
solation given him. One of the Com
missioners finally relented, and told
the inquisitive newspaper man, that
as he lived in Honesdale, they would
only be $3 this year.
Advertised Letters Iti'iimiiiiiig In
Honesdale I'ostoffice, Week End
ing Jiiimnry 30:
Mrs. Charles Bullard, Francis L.
Jones, Katie Scott.
First Baptist church, corner
Twelfth and Church streets, Geo. S.
Wendell, Minister. Public services
at 10:30 a. in. and 7:30 p. m., with
sermons by the pastor. The Lord's
Supper will be celebrated at the
morning service. The sessions of the
Bible school will be held at 11:45
o'clock, young People's Meeting at
0:30 p. m., subject, "Why do you be
lieve in Christian Endeavor?" The
leader will be Earl Mitchell. A cor
dial welcome to all theso services.
All regular services will be re
sumed in the First Presbyterian
church next Sunday. In the morn
ing, the pastor. Rev. W. H. Swift,
D. D., will speak upon "Thirst," and
in the evening on "Cramped Lives."
In St. John's Evangelical Luther
an church, the pastor, Rev. C. C.
Miller, will preach Sunday morning
on "Das Unkraut Unter Den Weiz
'en," and in the evening, his subject
will be "As A Man Thinketh."
The Reverend C. C. Miller, A. M.,
will deliver a pre-lenten lecture,
Thursday evening, February 10, at
8 o'clock, in the parlors of St. John's
Lutheran church entitled, "The Suf
fering One Of Isaiah 53, Who Is
He?"
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State Commissioner of Fisheries
William E. Meehan has announced
a number of proposed changes in
the 1909 fish code, which will bo
presented to the present legislature.
The minimum sizo of black bass is
to be increased from 8 to 10 in
ches, and hooks used in fishing for
trout with bait must be seven-sixteenths
of an inch from the shank to
the point of the barb. Sun fish, riv
er chub and fallfish are to be made
game iishes and a license of $10 per
capita per annum is to bo Imposed
on all unnaturalized foreigners be
fore they can fish legally.
The Judicial contest in Wayne
county is assuming a strenuous as
pect, according to the People's Daily
Advocate, (Towanda). There are at
present four candidates in the field:
Hon. A. T. Searle, the present in
cumbent, E. C. Mumford, Hon. F. P.
Kimble, and C. A. McCarty. Judge
Searle is a Republican and holds the
office by appointment, having been
appointed to succeed the late Judge
Purdy, deceased. E. C. Mumford is
the- other Republican candidate.
Both are making an active canvass,
and the friends of each are confident
of success. On the Democratic side,
Hon. F. P. Kimble seems at present
to be in the lead, and his friends are
hoping that he may profit by the
contest between Judge Searle, and
Mr. Mumford. Mr. McCarty, the
other Democratic candidate, Is only
recently in the field, and Is yet an
unknown quantity, so far as strength
is concerned.
"When the church is what it ought
to be, the world will want to be
there," said a prominent clergyman
to a representative of THE CITI
ZEN, In discussing the meagre re
sults of the recent three weeks'
"united campaign for souls' in
Honesdale. "That's not the point,"
continued the venerable clergyman.
"We'd be justified if only ONE soul
was saved. Wo are Judged by our
purposes and not by results,"
There will be a donation at the
Presbyterian Manse, Bethany, Fri
day night, February 10, for Rev. J.
B. Cody. "
Edw. D. Katz is on a short busi
ness trip to Scranton and Wllkes
Barre. William Fround, who is suffering
from pleuro-pneumonla, is slowly re
covering Homer McCarty, Carbondale, pass
ed Sunday at the home of Charles A.
McCarty, on Wood avenue.
A local convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor societies of tho
Honesdale district will be held at
the Seelyvllle Chapel, Sunday even
ing, February 5, at 7:30 o'clock.
Addresses will bo delivered by a
number of prominent speakers, and
an interesting program rendered.
Erwln C. Bodie, president of the
County C. E. Societies, will preside.
On Thursday and Friday of this
week the Roman Catholic churches
will observe Candelmas day (Purifi
cation of B. V. Mary) and St. Blase's
day, two of the important feasts of
the church, and each having its own
significance in the church ritual.
Thursday is Candlemas day at which
time the year's supply of candles, for
church and home use is blessed in
special service. St. Blase's day oc
curs on Friday, and it is on this day
that tho Catholics observe tho ser
vice of throat blessing, long prac
ticed in their churches. The usual
Sacred Heart devotion will be held
on that day, it also being the first
Friday of the month.
On account of the Anti-Saloon
League meeting at the Court House,
Tuesday, the Mothers Reception of
the W. C. T. U. will be held at Mrs.
Augustus Rehbein's, East street,
Monday evening, February 6. Mu
sic, Recitations, Reading, and re
freshments are part of the program.
All mothers are invited, whether
temperance workers or not. Every
body come.
The condition of the Most Rev.
Patrick John Ryan, archbishop of
Philadelphia, is extremely critical
and ho may pass away at any mo
ment. One of the most important meas
ures introduced in the Legislature,
Monday, was that relating to the is
suance of marriage licenses. This
came from Senator Powell, of Alle
gheny, and provides:
"No license to marry shall be is
sued where either of the contracting
parties is an imbecile, epileptic, of
unsound mind or under guardianship
as a person of unsound mind, nor to
any male person who is or has been
within five years an inmate of any
county asylum or home for indigent
persons, unless it satisfactorily ap
pears that the cause of such condi
tions has been removed and that
such male applicant is able to sup
port a family and likely to so con
tinue; nor shall any license issue
when either of the contracting par
ties is afflicted with a transmissable
disease, or at the time of making
application is under the influence of
intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug.
"If persons residing in this state
go to another State with the intent
qf avoiding the provision above
quoted and there have their marriage
solemnized the marriage shall be
void If the parties return to Penn
sylvania to reside."
"I predict we'll have more Win
ter in March than any time yet,"
said Peter H. Cole, assessor for
Manchester Township, Number 2,
who came to Honesdale, Monday to
attend the tax appeal hearings bo
fore the County Commissioners at
the Court House this week, to a re
porter for THE CITIZEN. "We had
a cold enough November and Decem
ber." Mr. Cole grew quite reminiscent
as he talked to the newspaper man.
"I'm a "buckwheat farmer" of
Wayne county. If I live until next
Summer 111 be 67. I'll be good
for this pension. "Joe" Cannon put
it through the House, but I'm afraid
the Senate won't pass it. I've liv
ed in Wayne county thirty-two
years first off, so I'm pretty near a
resident of Wayne county. I am a
Republican and a veteran of the
Civil War. I could tell a soldier as
far as I seen him just by looking at
him.
"I'm hero to attend the appeals
from my town," continued Mr. Cole,
who has been an assessor of Man
chester Number 2 for thirteen years,
judge of election, registration as
sessor, and other township offices too
numerous to mention.
"My grandfather was a Justice of
the Peace. I was a boy probably
about fourteen or sixteen years old,
and I can always remember hearing
a man swear before ray grandfather.
"There was six weeks good sleighing
in March, and I think that's what
we'll have this year.
When asked as to whether his
hens were laying, he replied,
"They're getting out some," but he
remarked regretfully, "they got down
to two cents a piece last week from
forty-five cents a dozen.
"It's been a pretty hard winter
on grass," he resumed. "Tho prop
er place for a young man Is on tho
farm, if he tends to his business.
There's more money in that than in
the town.
"Wo raise some stock and take
the milk to the creamery at Look
out. We used to get $1.55 for a
forty-quart can, now we only get
$1.45. A can of skimmed milk costs
ten cents, if we want to get It back."
Tho cigars were lighted, the
"Good Nights" were spoken and the
little group of interested listeners
separated, the reporter strolling
back to Park Row, dreaming of the
old folks at home and longing for a
drink of real cream fresh from one
of Mr. Cole's blooded Jersey cows.
The Misses Olive Reilly and Jen
nie McLauglln returned, Tuesday
evening, from a several days' visit
with Scranton relatives.
A number of Honesdale people will
attend tho Carbondale Cycle Club's
danco in the Pioneer City this (Fri
day) evening,
Mrs. James Ward attended tho
funeral of a relative In Wilkes
Barre, Wednesday,
The Bachelors dance Tuesday
evening, was ono of the most suc
cessful of the series. Among the
out-of-town .guests were Miss Meyer,
Andover, N. J.; Miss Grace McNaely,
Scranton, nnd Kerlln Garrlngton,
Carbondale.
Edw. Deltzer was a business caller
in Northern Wayne this week.
C. P. Searle,' Esq., Returned last
evening from a business trip to the
metropolis.
Mrs. A. A. Oehlert and daughter
are on an extended visit with tho
former's parents at Bloomsburg.
William M. Brown, local manager
of tho Scranton Truth, resigned his
position Saturday to accept a posi
tion with the Erie Railroad Com
pany at Passaic, N. J.
Judge Searle of Wayne county, has
decided that the word of one woman
is not better than the word of two
men. Brother Searlo seems to be a
very practical jurist. (Bradford
Reporter-Journal.)
The recent announcement that
every Bell telephone is a telegraph
station and that Bell subscribers, ly
saying "TELEGRAM" to the opera
tor, may be connected with a West
ern Union receiving office which will
record their Telegrams, Night Let
ters and Cablegrams for transmis
sion, has been supplemented as fol
lows: Arrangements have been so per
fected that telegram charges will be
Included on the regular monthly bill
rendered by the Telephone Company,
instead of on a separate bill as first
announced.
At night, on Sundays or holidays,
when the local telegraph office may
be closed, the regular charge for
telegrams will be made. The Bell
Company will connect Its subscribers
with an open Western Union office
without additional charge.
Telegrams, Night Letters and Ca
blegrams may be sent and paid for
from public telephones. Public
telephone agents In charge will ad
vise as to the method of payment.
T. B. Gillett, Ledgedale, transact
ed business in the Maple City, Thurs
day. G. F. Phillips, Sterling, was a
Thursday business caller In Hones
dale. if
Edward Geisheimer, Jr., Port
Jervis, N. Y., was in town on busi
ness Monday and Tuesday.
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We have been preparing for weeks to make
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in Honesdale.
KATZ BRO'S Inc.
Miss Meyer leaves this morning
for New York after an extended
visit at tho home of her school
friend, Miss Constance Kimble,
The House of Representatives
favors 'Frisco as tho place for hold
ing an exposition to celebrate the
opening of the Panama Canal In
1915.
Grace Protestant Episcopal
church, Sunday, February 5: Holy
Communlpn and sermon nt 10:30 a.
m.j evening prayer and sermon at
7:30 o'clock; Sunday school at 12 M.
All are Invited.
The Horace Greeley Memorial
Committee Is appealing for funds
for a monument in honor of the editor-statesman,
in sums of $1 each.
Donors will have their names placed
in sealed boxes In the crypt when the
corner stone is laid on February 3d,
and a century later their heirs will
be reminded of the fact. The monu
ment is to bo at Chappaqua, N. Y.,
home of the editor. Greeley was a
familiar figure in Plko county in
the forties. He wns a great man and
his memory should be perpetuated.
Jacob Erllch, 40 West 20th street,
New York City, Is treasurer of the
fund.
The Five Hundred Club was en.
tertalned at the home of Miss Elease
Krantz on Thursday evening last.
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Dr. Vance R. Lidstone lost his
valuable driving horse on Sunday
morning.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Murtha of River street
on Wednesday last.
Re.v. A. L. Whittaker will hold
services in White Mills Sunday, Feb
ruary 5, at 3 p. m. All are cordial
ly Invited.
The seventh annual ball of the
American Federation of Labor Local
union No. 10,746, will be held at
Krantz's hall, Union Hill, Tuesday
evening, February 14.
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TO THE CITIZEN.
I desire to extend my
tluuiks to the subscribers, -f
- also iny friends who showed -f
-f their kindness in lii'lpiiif; mo -f
to win the diamond ring in
the I term udu Contest. -f
ALICE WARD,
Bethany, Pa.
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