THE CITIZEN
at
70th YEAR. --NO. 101
HONESDALE, WAYNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1912.
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T.hc two gentlemen wero walking
nn tho tr.wlt nnil when near the rail-
sales yard, their attention was at
tracted by the sound of someone
snoring. They stopped, for It was
dark and foggy, and went in the di
rection of the noise. There they
found a young man whose body was
in the path between the main lino
and other tracks, while his head was
entirely over tne ran. Messrs. nei
tew and Crossley awoke the young
man from his 'heavy slumber, stood
him upon his feet and brought him
out on Main street.
When asked by Mr. Crossley
wneiner ne waiueu 10 cuiuuiu buiuuu
ho answered that he had no Inten
tions of doing so and concluded by
remarking that he guessed that he
must have been drunk. His rescuers
asked him where he was boarding
and he told them uptown. They
endeavored to lead him to his board
ing house, but he refused to go with
the gentlemen. He broke away from
them and again started for tho rail
road track, whereupon Councilman
Rettew told the intoxicated person
that ho would havo him arrested un
less he behaved himself in a proper
manner With that the young man,
who failed to give his name, started
down town
Had It not been for the timely ar
rival of Messrs. Rettow and Cross
lev the man. unless discovered by
Engineer Fritz, would undoubtedly
have been Killed.
Mr. Crossley and Mr. Rettew went
to East Honesdale to repair a ueiec
tive gasoline pump at the Atlantic
Refining company's tank at that
place. In returning they walked
home by tho way of the railroad
tracks, where they discovered the
unfortunate man.
STERLING.
Sterling, Dec. 19.
In our last Items we should havo
said that Mrs. It. A. Smith accom
panied the Doctor to Clearfield coun
ty to attend the State Grange and
they report that they had a most
enjoyable time.
Tho three skunk skins purchased
by Lewis Hyers should have been
three dozen.
Mrs. Addle Fruthy, of Traceyvllle
Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Har
riet Neville, who has been quite 111,
but is Improving. The same may be
said of Mrs. Sallio Stevens.
A fine monument has Just been
erected to the memory of Oscar Fer
guson, in the Sterling cemetery.
The township auditors spent two
days auditing tho account of the
townshln and now wo hope we
know where we're at.
Tho M. E. Sunday school Is mak
ing arrangements to hold forth on
tho night before Christmas Dec. 24.
For many months Mrs. Wm. J.
Phllo has been sadly afflicted and
last week at Dr. Burns' hospital in
Scranton she had one limb ampu
tated above tho knee.
J E. Cross has Just had his main
store room ceiled overhead with a
steel sheeting. F. E. Robacker and
son of South Sterling did the
work.
Last week county superintendent
Koehler visited tho schools in this
section and a number of tho dlrec
tors mustered up courage enough to
go In and seo what a living school
looks like.
We think tho Citizen and "sup
nlement published last week Is one
of the best things of its kind we
ever saw and will furnish reading
till after Christmas. In these days
of excellent and cheap literature no
one need go misinformed.
James L. Noble and wife, of Ar
lington, wero Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. G. I. Gilpin.
Our poor roads aro now iln the"
host condition they have been for a
year.
CHURCH NOTES.
ESCORT TO REAR ADMIRAL
PEARY
At Fourteenth Annual Dinner of
Pennsylvania Held In New York
Hon. H. It. Hanlenben?h Ono
of Twelve Escorts.
Tho box programme herewith giv
en for tho Fourteenth Annual Dinner
of tho Pennsylvania society held In
New York, has local interest becauso
of a townsman, tho Hon. E. 13. Har
denborgh, being ono of twelve repre
sentative Ponnsylvanians chosen by
the society who served as escorts.
Programme.
Guests of Honour and Escorts.
1 Danner of tho Society.
Bugler.
2 State Flag of Pennsylvania.
3. Stato Flag of Now York.
Fifes and Drums.
4 Flag of the United States.
5 Tho Union Jack.
1 The Right Hon. James Dryco and
President William A. Clark.
2 Hon. George W. Wickorsham and
Hon. Edwin S. Stuart.
3. Hon. John K. Tener and Dr. R.
C. Ottden.
4 Hon. William E. 'Borah and Hon.
Robert Mazet.
5 Hon. Job E. Hedges and Hon. W.
U. Hensel.
C Flag of tho First Regiment,
1775.
7 Flag of tho Hanover Assocla
tors. 6 Mr. William S. Hawk and Mr. P.
15. Worrall.
S Flag of the Floating Batteries
7 Mr. Walter L. McCorklo and Mr.
Henry W. Shoemaker.
9 Flag of the City of Harris-
burg.
8 Prof. Howard Crosby Butler and
Mr. 0. C. Herlng.
10 Flag of the City of Reading.
9 Dr. Henry S. Drinker and Mr. Dan
iel C. Herr.
11 Flag of the Continental
Navy.
10 Rear-Admiral Peary and Hon. E.
B. Hardenbergh.
12 Flag of the City of New York
11 Hon. Henry Galbralth Ward and
Mr. William A. Glasgow, Jr.
13 Flag of the First City
Troop, Philadelphia.
12 Rt. Rev. James H. Darlington
and Mr. William Dulles.
14 Flag of the First Regiment
in tho Mexican War.
Toasts.
The Honourable William Andrews
Clark
President of the Society,
Presiding.
The Honourable George Woodward
Wlckersham
Attorney-General of the United
States,
Toastmaster.
Tho President of the United States,
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing,
Land -where my fathers died,
Land of tho Pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
The Constitution of tho United
States.
The Right Honourable James
Bryce, O. M.,
His Britannic Majesty's Ambas
sador Extraordinary and Mln
AFTER CORPORATION DODGERS
OF TAXES
McNIcliol Commission Will Itecom-' l'rogrnm For Itcdcdlcntlon of Ccn
REDEDICATION SERVICES
M, E. CHURCH
AT
MARRIAGE AND COURTSHIP WAS
SUBJECT
isterjplenlpotentiary.
Tho States - ler the Constitution,
The Honourable Job E. Hedges.
Tho United States.
The Honourable William E. Borah
Senator of the United States
from Idaho.
Grace Episcopal church, tho
Fourth Sunday In Advent, Dec. 22:
Morning Prayer and Sermon, "Tho
Way of tho Lord; an Inspiration for
Everyday Living," 10:30; Evening
Prayer and Sermon, "The Christian's
Expectation of the Day of Judg
ment," 7:30; Sunday school at 12 m.
Rev. A. L. Whlttaker will hold
service in White Mills Sunday, Dec.
22, at 3:15 p. m.
The annual Christmas Festival
will bo held In the basemont of
Christ church, Indian Orchard, Mon
day evening. This Sunday school
has now over CO members and 4s
prospering greatly.
Thero will he epeclnl Christmas
services In tho Presbyterian church
on Sunday morning and evening.
Special Christmas toubIc will bo ren
dered under tho direction of Frank
A. Jenkins. Tho program will bo as
follows:
Solo, A Christmas Song, Miss
Jano Hagaman.
Chorus, A Glad Now Song.
Soprano Obllgato, Miss Eda
Krantz.
Ladles' Trio, God Will Arise,
Misses Jano Hagaman, Eleaso
Krantz and Mao Robinson.
Chorus. "Crown Him."
Chorus, "As tho Mountains."
Miss Jessica Robinson, organist.
mend Laws Tlint Will Prcvcat
Further Evasions.
Corporations which dodgo taxes
will find tho net drawn tighter about
them if tho bills which the Joint
Commission to Inquire into tho tax
laws, of which Stato Senator James
P. McNIchol is chairman, will recom
mend at tho next session of tho Leg
islature; aro enacted.
Auditor-General A. E. Slsson re
ported within tho last fow days that
his department had with tho co
operation of Attornoy General John
C. Bell, forced tho payment of tax
claims in the Dauphin County Court
and by adjustments amounting to
$1, 500, 000.
Tho Bell Telephono Company,
which sottled for $40,500; the Cen
tral Printing and Telegraph Com
pany, a Bell company subsidiary,
$21,500; Wilkes-Barro Coal Com
pany, $79,000; Kingston Coal Com
pany, $5,000, and tho Southwest
Plpo Line Company, South Penn Oil
Company, and Southern Plpo Line
Company, for a total of $100,000
wero among tno corporations nameu
as having paid claims In dispute.
Air. Brown, while ungrudgingly
conceding that tho Audltor-Goneral
had. at comparatively small expense,
substantially added to the yearly
Income of tho State, asserted tnax
tho diligence shown by State offi
cials In "bringing corporations to
time did not amount to more tnan
scratching of the surface." One
trouble is that tho Auditor-General's
department has not the experts nec
essary to deal effectively with cor
porations and Individuals or large
means," ho declared.
The revenues or xne btate
amount to something ovor $30,000,-
000. but I believe that it Is a con
servative assertion that the annual
income of the Commonwealth snouid
bo from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000
larger. Our commission has shown
that at least one of the big financial
Institutions of Philadelphia evaded
certain of its tax-paying responsi
bility to the State and no man can
say how many other operations have
done likewise.
The State employs one or two
clerks at Harrlsburg at $3,500 each
and nays several deputies on the
samo scale In the Auditor uenerai s
dpnartment to match wits with the
corporations of this Commonwealth
who have the services or nigniy paid
lawyers. It Is not necessary to al
lege that either corporation officials,
or their retained lawyers, resort to
dishonest methods, but tho fact re
mains that It Is not the business of
hicr mrnnrntions to Tiav taxes that
they can avoid paying. It Is only
trnl .Methodist Episcopal Church,
Will II. Illllcr, Pastor, Sun
day, December 11-.
Morning Worship, l().:t() O'clock.
Organ Prelude, "Le Dolugo"....
Saint Saens
Mrs. Nelson Sponcer.
Hymn, No. CGI.
Apostle's Creed.
Prayer.
Anthem, "Thy Hallowed Presence"
Carter
Choir.
Responslvo Scripture Reading, Tho
Psalter, Pago 79.
Male Chorus Glco Club
Scripture Lesson, Matthew 16:13-19
Offertory.
Solo, "Holy Night" Harden
Miss Charlotte Bullock.
Hymn, No. GGG.
Sermon, "Jesus Salvator Homlnum"
Rev. Will H. Illllcr
Solo, "Fear Not Ye, O Israel"...
Buck
C. J. Dibble.
Doxology.
Postlude.
Afternoon Worship, it O'clock.
Prelude, Pastorale ...Arthur Footo
Miss Mabel Broad.
Hymn, No. 559.
Prayer Rev. W. H. Swift, D. D.
Anthem, "Hark. Hark. My Soul"
Shelly
Choir.
Scripture Lesson, Psalter, Pago 1
Offertory, "Avo Maria" Raff
Mrs. Nelson Spencer,
Address Rev. C. C. Miller
Trl, "Hear Us, O Father"
Owen
Mrs. Rockwell, Messrs. Dibble and
Rubin.
Address ..Rev. W. II. Swift, D. D.
Hymn, No. 383.
Address Rev. A. L. Whlttaker
Solo, "Rock of Ages" Bischoff
Robert Lees.
Address Rev. G. S. Wendell
Address .Rev. L. C. Murdock, D. D.
Solo, "Christ at the Door". . .Evans
Mrs. James Miller.
Benediction.
Evening Worship, 7:!tO O'clock.
Prelude, "Night Song" Jensen
Mrs. Spencer.
Hymn, No. 208.
Prayer.
Anthem, "Radiant Morn" .Woodward
Choir.
Scripture Lesson, Isaiah G2.
Trio, "Father, Lead Me".Butterfleld
Mrs. 'Bullock, Miss Jones and Mr.
Lees.
Scripture Lesson, Romans 12:1-5.
Male Chorus Glee Club
Offertory.
Solo, Selected. . .Miss Flossie Bryant
Hymn. No. 325
Of Sermon Ity Dr. Swift Sunday
Night Gave Advice to Young
.Men and Women Advised
Them to Marry Young.
In his sermon from tho pulpit
Sunday evening, Dr. W. H. Swift
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
ITEMS
Homer Greene spent Thursday in
Wllkes-Barre.
Mrs. C. M. Harris, who has been
Hi, is improving.
Mrs. Jael Arnold Is n guest of her
mother In Wllkes-Barre.
A ii rv . f - 1 l n
took for his subject "Courtship and cal,c'r town on Tuesday
Marrlago" or "Getting Ready for c Unin , ? ,? m,5.' n wn
, .,., , ,, ,; ..,. ' liorn, to .Mr. and Mrs. Bert W1I-
tlZ nfi8- i LI L m 1 Ha, of White Mills, a daughter.
Ih ?, Lvn W. J. Broughton, of Scranton,
, , dJ.b ,eei .S wn a business caller in town on
JVU1D IUI A.fV.l.U. 1 , ( 1 1 11 LUC. OCUUICU I it.,BflJnw
nnln him t.i,f n fr.n, f- , 1, lUKSUUy,
l.lltir llt.il C. J " UUJ O, IUI iiiu ;
love he had to her.
fair to say, too, that the Auditor! Sermon . ..Rev. L. C. Murdock, D. D.
General's assistants are capable men
but thero Is a limit to that which
ono or two men can do.
The State should employ experts
at from $5,000 to $10,000 each, or
even more, to investigate more
rigorously the returns made by cor
porations to the State, and It would
be money well spent, as the salaries
of the experts would bo gotten back
In tho form of collected taxes many
times over,"
INDIAN ORCHARD.
Indian Orchard, Dec. 19.
J. G. Swartz. who is balling hay
at Cherry Ridge, spent Sunday with
his family at Red Ridge farm.
Charles Spry, of Beachlake, and
Neal Marshall, of this place, Jour
neyed over to Mllanvllle on Saturday
last where they succeeded m cap
turing some fine white rabbits.
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Fonda, o
Swamp Brook, wero callers at the
homo of Mrs. R. Ham on Sunday
last.
Mrs. Gertrude Ham and Mrs. Rosa
Marshall were the guests of W. H
Colwell and family of Torrey on
Sunday last.
Leslie Decker and friend from
Honesdale wero recent guests of Mr,
and Mrs. W. J. Spry.
Albert Jay, of Mllanvllle, was
tho guest of his aged grandparents
on Sunday last.
Several who reside at tho lake aro
doing business in New York City.
Wo aro having fine weather and
good times down hero, everybody is
on tho movo, getting ready for
Xmas.
Down at Christ church they havo
been doing something of late. At
their bazaar they netted $82.55 and
at tho box social held on Saturday
evening last they cleared tho nice
sum of $17.05.
Indian Orchard Is becoming a
great business and social center. It
boasts of having two saw mills, two
hotels, two halls for social gather
ings, an up-to-dato church, one of
tho leading granges in the county,
and wo expect to soon bo able to
tell you about our trolley road.
Mr. Saunders, who attended State
Grange, returned homo on Saturday
last.
Our school was visited by the
county superintendent recently.
Albert Swartz, of East Honesdale,
was the guest of his mother at Red
Ridge farm on Sunday last.
ST. JOnX'S CADETS WON.
Tho St. John's Cadets of this place
easily defeated the White Mills
Juniors at the High school gymnas
ium Monday evening by tho score of
39 to 21. The lineup
Whito Mills. Cadets
T. Strasser. f. J. May.
Nlomeyer. f C. Mangan, f
P. Kelsh, c P. O'Neill, c
LaVine, g F. Igo, g
P. Bassney, g P. May, g
Baskets: Cadets O'Neill 10, Man
gan 4. J. May 3, P. May 2, and 1
foul; White Mills: Nelmoyer 3, La-
Vine 4, Strasser 3, Kelsh ono foul.
The Cadets aro jady to meet any
team In
pounds.
the cov'.y averaging 110
CHRISTMAS EDITIONS.
Tho Liberty Register greeted Its
subscribers and exchanges on JJe
comber 12 in gala colors. A beauti
ful cover graced tho paper. The
edition contained numerous ads that
were well displayed, reflecting much
credit upon tho publishers. Many
interesting stories on Christmastldo
wero found.
Among tho successful entries
from Honesdale at tho Plttston poul
try show this wook was a Single
White Comb Orpington cock enter
ed by Daniel Pell, Jr. He received
second prlzo in that class. Frank
W. Schuerholz had two entries. Ho
won second, third and fifth with hs
Sliver Camplne cock and first and
fifth with his Silver Camplno pullet.
BEACH LAKE.
Beach Lake. Dec. 19.
It Is apt all pleasuro to seo tho
years pasmiP quickly. I presumo we
all notlco Wpblder wo get tho quick
er they seem to pass and wo got in
tho superannuated list boforo wo aro
aware of It.
The Citizen's Christmas number
or 1912 was brimful of interest. It
really was threo papors. We think
now tho editors and staff should
have a rest Christmas weok ani not
send out any paper for ono week.
Quito a number aro complaining
about being laid up with rhouina
tlsra. viz. John Rhelning. Amcsa
Keyes, Mrs. Van Wirt. A number
havo bad the chlckenpox but are
thankful to say the smallpox scaro
Is over.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunn visited rola
tlves at Hawloy Sunday.
Christmas exercises in tho M. E
church Christmas ovo.
There was a beo on Tuesday to
reshinglo tho parsonage. It was an
nounced for last week but tho in
cloinant weather provented.
Mrs. Amelia Troverton spent Sun
day with her daughter, Mrs. Gavltt,
at Farvlew.
Win. Gavltt spent Sunday hero.
Ho Is working at Farvlew.
Tho band mot Saturday evening
for practlco with Horaco Budd,
west Shoro House.
Merry Christmas to all is tho wish
of your correspondent.
Hymn, No. 40.
Benediction.
WILL DEDICATE NEW ORGAN
SUNDAY.
Specinl Services Will Ho neld Sun
day Morning and Evening; Io
Afternoon Service inscription
of New Organ.
Sunday morning at tho Gorman
Lutheran church tho consecration of
tho new pipe organ will take place.
Services will be held morning and
afternoon. Tho new organ which
has been the talk of that congrega
tion for several months, is now al
most completely installed. By
Thursday evening it Is thought the
finishing touches will havo been
completed.
Tho morning service (In German)
will begin at 10:30 o'clock with a
sermon by tho pastor. Rev. C. C
Miller. His subject will be "Orgel
welho." Tho sermon will bo follow.
ed by tho consecration of tho new
two-manual pipe organ. Miss Mar
garet Eberhardt will bo tho organist.
The musical program has not yet
been arranged.
Thero will bo no afternoon ser
vice, it having been postponed ow
ing to tho reopening services at the
Methodist church.
In tho evening, services will begin
at half past seven. Tho subject of
Rev. Miller s sermon will bo "Music
of the Soul." There will bo special
music at both services.
Tho new organ stands In tho
southeast transcopt of tho church,
surrounded with a case of light oak
and surmounted by display pipes in
gold leaf. Tho organ is remarkable
for its delicacy and purity of tono
and for majesty and power of vol
ume.
Mr. Moller, the builder of tho or
gan, has recently built a magnifi
cent 3-manual organ with echo for
the United States government for
use in tho chapel of tho West Point
Military Academy.
Death of Michael Corcoran.
Michael Corcoran, aged seventy
two years, died at his home, Hawloy,
Wednesday morning. Ho was a
prominent man of tho town and held
several offices In Palmyra township
Ho was a director of tho Hawloy
Bank and conducted a grocery storo
thero for many years. Ho Is sur
vlved by two daughters, Mary and
Dorothy, and four sons, Daniel, John
Thomas and Peter.
Tho funeral services will bo hold
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock In
St. Phllomona's Catholic church, Itev
Henry Burko, assisted by Rev, John
McHalo, olllclatlng.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Reihin, of
White Mills, aro tho proud parents
of a daughter born to them recently.
Mrs. Ella Snyder.
Mrs. Ella Snyder of Damascus
who was visiting relatives in Brook
lyn, died In that city Thursday, Doc
5, 1912. Tho funeral was held Sun
day afternoon from hor lato homo
in Damascus.
II. G. Rowland, of this place, and
Mrs. G. W. Swartz, of Ariel, Avere
numbered among Wayne county peo
plo to receive prizes for birds dls
played at the Plttston poultry show
this week.
Dr. Swift gave some good advice
to young men and women, who aro
about to enter into the married stato
which we think should bo published
In part.
Ho said that tho gallantry, the
devotion and the unchanging love
Jacob bore for Rachael redeemed
very much in his life that we cannot
approve. Tho honesty and Intensity
of Jacob's affection was declared not
nlono by the proposal of a seven
years' term of servitude a long
period of waiting but also by the
spirit in which he served his future
bride. Many as tho days were that
intervened before he obtained pos
session of her, they were rendered
happy by tho sweet society of
Racheal and they seemed unto him
but a few days for the love he had
for her.
He said that thero Is a great deal
of fool advlco given young people In
our day. He cited an Incident where
the past week, the advice of a weal
thy New York lady, a suffragette, of
course, given to working girls. She
advised them not to marry till 25
years of age, then keep on working
In the shops, hiring a servant to do
tho housework. There are
so many influences at work to un
dermlno and destroy the homo al
together, Instead of reigning as
queen In your own home, loving
and training the souls for useful
ness here and hereafter, you are ask
ed to abdicate the throne, take the
crown of motherhood from your
heads, close the door of your hearts
to your children and live a life in
which tho blessing of God can never
rest.
Marriage should not bo entered
upon hastily or thoughlessly. For
much Is at stake a home Is to be
made or marred, and If unhappily
mated disaster is sure to follow.
God designed that Jacob and
Rachael should first come to know
each other through the period of
wooing, a courtship the period of
preparation for tho making of a
home an experience, as sacred, al
most, as marriage itself.
Thero are many tnings a young
man should know about the habits,
the disposition, tho heart and life
of a young woman before entering
Into a life relationship with her. He
should see her unexpectedly In her
own home, when she has not on her
company manners or dress. Is she
always neat? Is she a house-keeper?
A home-maker? Can she make
good, sweet bread? Is she an un
selfish daughter, sharing the moth
er, as tho years come and go and as
tho burdens grow heavy? Is she
a loving sister, seeking tne weirare
of brothers and sisters? Or does
she always want the best for her
self? Does she live for pleasure
and will she have It at any cost? Is
she extravagant and careless with
money? Is sho a helper or a bur
den? Will sho gladly share the life
burden, do her part In getting, and
paying for and keeping a home? Is
sho a Christian, and does the Church
of that Christ, who brought woman
that largo liberty she enjoys today,
make its appeal to her so success
fully that It claims a part of her lov
ing service? These aro a few of the
questions Dr. Swift asks the young
man to find out about his life part
ner before proposing marriage. The
loving, thoughtful, helpful, unsel
fish daughter, he says, will make a
loving, thoughtful, helpful and un
selfish wife for tho man who de
serves her.
The man on his part must match
hor lovo with love her unselfish
ness with unselfishness and treat
her with chlvalric devotion.
On tho other hand ho asks the
young lady to detormino what hab
its he has formed. Ho advises her
not to marry a rogue to reform or
savo him but to marry one whoso
manhood Is universally recognized.
a manly man who Is a gentleman, al
ways, In her presence even when
alone with hor. Is ho a happy-go
lucky fellow? Does ho llvo beyond
his means 7 Is ho extravagant.'
Does ho touch tho wlno cup till roa-
son is dethroned? Does ho prefer
tho club to your charms? Is ho sel
fish, looking for a wlfo who shall bo
a servant, and not a companion?
Say no, a thousand times no, rather
than bind yourself to a brute, or an
apology of a man. Toll hard If you
must, but bo your own mistress
rather than tho slavo of any man.
It Is well to marry young, If tho
homo has been provided. Not a
largo, well-furnished homo, but
small ono large enough for two.
Money paid for ront ought to be
paid on a homo of your own.
In speaking of tho happiness of
tho married stato ho said that If the
courtship has beon sacred, tho mar
ried llfo can never bo unhappy
Courting, In tho true sense of the
word, tho man seeking, if not Ben
in g, like Jacob, seven years, for tho
object of his affection. Thon he will
stick to hor and sho to him through
llfo. Thero wero some old fashions
that havo not beon improved upon
and ono of them is tho old way of
courting.
Judgo Bell, of Blair county, do
clarod that the vulgar custom of
serenading newly-married couples is
a "snocleB of riot," which should bo
suppressed. This denunciation was
called forth by a caso in court arls-
nig from the operations of a crowd
of Callthunplans who Indulged in
H. S. Salmon went to Now York
Tuesday on business expecting to
remain a fow days.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory B. Cook, of
Texas township, are happy over the
arrival of a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Rutledgc,
of Rutledgedale, are the parents of a
daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Falk, of
White Mills, aro the parents of a
son born recently.
E. A. Lindsay and F. W. Schuer
holz attended tho poultry show In
Plttston on Wednesday.
Miss Henrietta Walters has re
turned to this place after a visit at
her old homo In Stroudsburg.
The pupils of the Honesdale.
schools will enjoy a week's vacation
between Christmas and New Year's.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Kimble of
West Springfield, Mass., expect to
spend the Christmas holidays with
Carley Brook relatives.
It Is a pleasure to note that
Mrs. Friedewald will begin her Sat
urday afternoon readings here at tho
High school, Jan. 4, 1913.
Eugene Martin, of New York city,
a barber of wide experience in tho
business, has taken charge of the
shop adjoining the Lewis Marton
fruit store, South Main street.
Miss Eva Wilson will entertain
several of her friends at dinner at
Mrs. Briggs on Friday evening. Cov
ers will be laid for twenty guests.
The Keystone Cut Glass Com
pany of Hawley are laying off their
help and expect to close on Saturday
for a Christmas vacation.
Harry Tamblyn, who Is attending
Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.,
Is expected home by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Tamblyn, of Carley
Brook, to spend the Christmas va
cation. Miss Hazel Malta, of Hawley,
was tendered a very enjoyable sur
prise party on Wednesday evening
when several of her friends came in
for a good time. Delicious refresh
ments were served.
Miss Ruth Kurtz, of Goulds
boro, and George E. Von Fell, of tho
same place, were united in marriage
on Saturday last In the parsonage of
the St. Paul's Methodist church in
Scranton, by Rev. J. S. Custard, pas
tor. It is reported that the Baptist
church and the church of tho Dis
ciples of Boyds Mills section are con
sidering the advisability of joining
forces. A meeting of this nature
was held In the Calkins Union church
Tuesday afternoon.
Reuben French was arrested
Wednesday on Information sworn to
by Erie Detective G. Ralph, for tak
ing coal from the Erie railroad. Ho
was arraigned before 'Squire R. A.
Smith Wednesday afternoon and giv
en a hearing. He pled guilty to tho
charges and on payment of the coal
taken and on promise not to do It
again he was released.
Taking a fright at a passing
covered wagon, the horse on the de
livery wagon of Marsh & Fish ran
away Wednesday morning. When
it started the end or the thill caugnt
between tho spokes of the other
wagon and broke off. The cracking
of the wood had a tendency to en
courage tho horse to run faster. It
turned tho corner at Ninth and .Main
steets. where It fell and was caught.
Tho horso was not injured, but was
badly frightened. Outside of break
ing the shaft and tho harness In a
few places, no further damage was
done.
riotous proceedings In front oT a
houso where a wedding ceremony
was in progress. It should be a
glad, Joyous occasion. The festi
vities should not be barred out, or
tho old shoe, tho white ribbon, tho
rlco and confetti, but tho young man
or woman should be sent to jail who
try to kidnap the bride or Interrero
In anyway with tho dignity and
grace of a newly-wedded couple who
aro bidding good byo to tho old
homo and aro going out in searcu oi
Paradise. Dr. Swift spoko very
scatchlngly of tho growing custom
of making a farco of a wedding.
Everything that partaKes or tno na
ture of horso play at such a tlmo Is
thoroughly out of place. Tho wed
ding should be sacred and tho mem
ories of it only pleasant, and never
should that sacrednesB bo marred by
tho thoughtless actions of those who
Indulgo In buffonory.
This Is the ago of elopments. lou
wring tho heart of your mother and
father, you mako light of sacred
things when ignoring tho propriety.
You aro secretly married. If you aro
ashamed to bo married puniiciy, uo
not entor Into this rolatlon at all.
If thero aro reasons why those who
lovo you object to alliances you
would form, live down their reasons
and convince them that they aro
mistaken, but for no reason let your
names Hguro In an olopement. Tho
hot-headed young men who aro not
well balanced may lead you Into,
recklessness. Pxesorvo your eolf
respoct and lot tho church or tho
homo glvo to you its blessing. Lot
tho benedict of Him who was pres
ent at tho marrlago In Canaan, of
Gallloo bo Invoked and with tho
lovo, tho best wishes, tho congratu
lations of relatives and friends, go
out from tho old nest, to make one
for youraolves.
5IAURIAGE LICENSES.
Floyd R. Brock Honesdale
Ora May Evans Honesdalo
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