THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1913. PAGE FiyE FOR SALE. LATEST SHEET MUSIC ALL kinds 10c per copy at M. A. Igo's. 101 tf., IT CAME BACK. DOES A PIANO with $100.00 paid on It Interest you? Mclntyre has one. 3t2 FOR. THE FINEST LINE OF sleighs at bottom prices call on E. T. Smith, Honesdale. 97eltf MISCELLANEOUS. YOU ARE REQUESTED BY SPEC-' lal request to attend the ".uy-Ke-quest" dance at the armory Wednes day evening, January 1'5. Admis sion 25c. Special music. Refresh ments. It SKATING RINK FOR RENT FOR balls, parties, bazaars, fairs, etc. Seo N. B. Spencer, Manager, 'for terms. leoltf. LOST OR STOLEN ALL PER sons are hereby cautioned against receiving or negotiating Interest de partment bank book No. 179 Issued by the Honesdale National Bank to Mrs. M. J. Swoyer. As said book has teen lost or stolen payment has been stopped and I have made application for the Issue of a new book. MRS. M. J. SWOYER. Honesdale, Pa., Dec. 24, 1012. 102el3 WANTED A POSITION AS STEN ographer and book-keeper In of fice. Address 12 07 East street. FIFTY CENTS A WEEK FOR A few weeks and the sewing machine Is yours. Let Mclntyre bring the machine. 3t2. WE PAY 10 CENTS PER POUND for trimmed green hides. Dunn's Meat Market, Honesdale, Pa. lOOellOt WANTED 50 GIRLS TO' LEARN. glass cutting. Wages $6 per week to start. Krantz-Smith & Co. THE "BY-REQUEST" DANCE promises to be the most popular given this season. It will bo held on Wednesday evening of next week at the armory. It LOCAL NEWS Company E will be inspected by a regular U. S. A. officer Tuesday night. The Business Men's Association will meet at the city hall Wednes day evening, January S, at 8 o'clock to transact important 'business. The season for fishing through the ice closed last Tuesday and be fore that date some good catches were reported by Honesdale anglers. The free library in the High school building was opened for the public Nov. 19. At the close of De cember there were 394 borrowers who had taken out 1300 books. County auditors W. O. Avery, of Bethany; F. L. Gilpin, of Sterling, and E. C. Bodie, of Prompton, met at the court house and began the auditing of all county 'property Monday. Easter will fall on March 23d this year. Not since IS 18 has It arrived any earlier. Then It arrived on March 22d. It will bo the year 2000 when it comes so early again. Ash Wednesday comes on Feb. 5th. Dr. J. W. Balta of St. Mary Magdalen's church gave a smoker Sunday afternoon In the basement of the church to about two hundred men of the congregation. Music was furnished and a social time was had. Refreshments were served. Moses K. Burchell, of Ararat township, has been adjudged a vol untary bankrupt In the United States court at Scranton. His liabilities are placed at $5,500 and his re sources are $4,500. F. M. Gardiner, Esq., of Forest City, was appointed receiver by Judge Wltmer. Norman Bodie recently made a trip to Springfield, Mass., on his In dian motorcycle, having traveled the distance of 242 miles in twelve hours. He left town Sunday morn ing at seven o'clock and arrived In Springfield at 7 o'clock that even ing. The American Knitting Mill company has Just closed a very suc cessful year. The directors and of ficers were elected on Monday as fol lows: President, W. B. Holmes; Philip Krantz, vice-president and general 'manager; Asa E. Bryant, secretary and treasurer; directors, F. P. Kimble, John Weaver, G. Wil liam Sell. It is rumored that this company, owing to an increase of business expects soon to enlarge their present large three-story building at Industrial Point. The committee to secure prizes for tho annual euchro and dance of St. John's congregation have decided not to ask tho 'merchants of the town for contributions for the euchre to be held Jan. 22 at the Armory. This will mean that any merchant or manufacturer who do nate any article will be doing so freely and without being solicited. Any prizes received in this manner will be appreciated more by the members of the congregation than If they had been solicited and a better feeling of loyalty to tho home mer chants Is sure to exist. Everything Indicates that the affair will be a suc cess. One of the peculiar storms of the season struck Honesdale Friday evening between six and seven o'clock. It was a regular blizzard and Saturday morning no signs of tho storm remained. Many of the electric light wires were crossed and broken and service was stopped in many places throughout the day, Friday noon the wind carried with it part of the south wall In tho wing of tho new elevator works In course of construction on South Main street Tho wall was about a story and a half high and had no supports. None of the workmen -were Injured. Tho tolophono lines along the valley were put out ot commission and poles and wires were torn down In many places. At Fallsdale, L. A. Lybolt had a barn badly damaged Many trees were blown down. The remains of the late Clair D. Short, of Carbondalo, wero brought to Keen for interment on Saturday. Tho annual variety show of tho Amity club will bo held on Tuesday evening, April 8, at the Lyric theatre. Robert A. Smith, Jr., of Hones dale, who was here with the en gineering corps engaged in surveying tho state roads, recently killed a rattlesnake at Stroudsburg that 'measured four feet ten and ono half inches in length. Postmaster A. C. Stewart, of Endlcott, formerly of Honesdale, has been critically ill at his homo suf fering from a severe attack of hic coughs. Mr. Stewart's many Hones dale friends are gratified to learn that he Is improving. The Delaware & Hudson station at Farvlew, is receiving a coat of varnish inside. It will be formerly opened on January 15. The station will heated by steam, lighted by elec tricity and will have separate wait ing rooms for gentlemen and ladles. A new plank walk connects It with the Stato hospital for the Insane. An order has been Issued by the New Jersey Public Utility Commis sion compelling tho Erie Railroad company to furnish drinking water of proper quality and in eufllcient quantity on all passenger cars. The Erie railroad has only a small part of its tracks in New Jersey, but its terminal being there 'gives the State Commission jurisdiction. Don't kick because you have to button your wife's waist. Be glad your wife has a waist and doubly glad you have a wife to button a waist for. Somo men's wives have no 'waists to button. Some men's wives waists have no buttons on to button. Some men's wlve3 who have waists with buttons on to buttom don't care a continental whether they are buttoned or not. The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Ball, whose obituary 'appeared in our last Issue., was hold Sunday af ternoon at 2 o'clock from the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Z. Russell. Rev. A.? L, W'hlttaker conducted the ser vices. Interment was made at In dian Orchard. The bearers were Hon. A. T. Searle, Hon. E. B. Har denbergh, O. M. Spettigue, Dr. F. W. Powell, J. 1m. Welch and F. I. Keen. In decrees handed down Mon day afternoon tho Dauphin county court directed that Mike Gruber and Stoyisha Bozich, two foreigners who had been undergoing long terms In the Eastern Penitentiary to be re moved to the new State Lunatic Hospital for the criminal insane at Farvlew, Wayne county, and these are the first prisoners from Dauphin county to be removed to the now in stitution. Eugene Cro3s, a Liberty game inspector, was 'found guilty at Calli- coon Thursday on a charge of using a dealer's licenso on his auto illeg ally. He was fined $40 by Justice Starck. Cross was arrested after ho had made H. D. Darling of Calll- coon pay a fine of $30 for not hav ing his hunting licenso with him as he had left it at homo in some other clothes when he went out to hunt. Darling then had Cross arrested. A system of co-operative stores for the sale of provisions was dis cussed by the Housekeepers' League of Philadelphia recently at a meet ing in tho city hall. Mrs. William B. Derr, who conducted the crusade for cheap eggs, presided. She de clared that she has had countless of fers from producers in all parts of the east to supply provisions at rates that would mean a consider able lessening of the cost of living in that city. Names of over 1,500 notaries public will be sent to the next Sen ate for confirmation by the Gover nor's office shortly after that body meets for organization this week. These nominations include the men named since the adjournment of the Senate in the session called 1911 and are about 150 greater in number than the list sent to tho last Legis lature. The notaires have been named from every county in the state the two large countries of Philadel phia and Allegheny having the great est number. Max Kreksohmer, the thlrteen-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus tave Kreksohmer, of Texas town ship, died Sunday of pneumonia. They are German immigrants and left Germany about two months ago. At Ellis Island they wero de tained, their little son having been declared to have pneumonia. When they were discharged from there last week, they came to Texas township. The funeral was held in the German Lutheran church Tuesday morning, Rev. C. C. Miller officiating. Inter ment was made In the German Luth eran cemetery. Mrs. Mary Joseph, mother of Mrs. Louis A. Howell of this place, died very suddenly at her homo In Scranton Thursday evening last. Mrs. Joseph had been in poor health for some time. She had 'been a resident of Scranton for many years. She is survived by one son, Emry Joseph, and six daughters, Mrs. William II. Raub, Mrs. Louis 'A. Howell, Mrs. Lily Keller, Mrs. David Johns, Miss Anna Joseph and Miss Mary Joseph. The funeral which was private, was held at her late homo In Scranton on Monday at tho convenience of the family. The services were conducted by Rev. Joseph Odoll, D. D. Tho month of December, 1912, was ono of the warmest since tho weather bureau was established in 1901. Thirty-six degrees was the mean temperature for the month, and the only tlmo tho record was exceeded was in December, 1911, when the mean temperature was two degrees higher. The normal for the month is 29.7 degrees. Snowfall during tho month totalled 5.7 inches, of which four inches fell December 24, tho day before Christmas. The total precipitation was 4.07 Inches, a high record, tho normal being 2. CI. There wero only two clear days, twelve partly cloudy and seven teen cloudy. Tho total movement of tho wind was 0.127 miles. Tho high est temperature was recorded Dec. G, when the thermometer registered sixty-five degrees and the lowest twenty-seven degrees. Miss Harriet Rockwell gave a1 card party for the benefit of the Im provement Society, at her home last Thursday afternoon. ' The Titus Mission Band of the Presbyterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. Wm. H, Seitz on East street Tuesday evening, January 7, at half-paBt seven o'clock. Tho open season for hunting rabbits in this Stato closed on Dec. 15 and during the short open season hunters of this place had consider able success in bagging tho cotton tails. Mrs. Frledowald gave tho first of a series of readings on Saturday afternoon in the high school. Her subject was Maurice Maeterlinck's "Sister Beatrice." The reading was well attended. Mrs. Lizzie Emerick, of Long Eddy, a patient at the Mlddletown Sanitarium, committed suicide Mon day 'morning, by stuffing a handker chief in her 'mouth. Her husband was ill at the time at the home of friends in Mlddletown. Among thoso from Wayne coun ty to attend the State school agri culture at Stato College last week were: R. W. Hull, D. W. Hull, Way mart; B. F. Kennedy, Pleasant Mount; Foster Lovelass, Fallsdale; F. M. Hiller, Seelyvlllo; J. E. Quin tin, Ariel. The Teachers' Institute for Mount Pleasant township will be held In the high school at Pleasant Mount on Saturday morning, Jan. 11, beginning at ten o'clock. Special attention will be given to the subject of reading. Teachers are requested to prepare to discuss it. J. H. Ken nedy. W. E. Perham, of Niagara, a member of the state board of agri culture, and a director and 'treasur er of the Pennsylvania Dairy Union, will attend a joint meeting of these two organizations in Harrisburg. The meetings will open on January 20 and continue for one week. Mr. Perham Is also chairman of the Wayne county farmers' insti tutes and Is one of her most pro gressive farmers. The board of trustees of the West Chester State Normal school recently decided to sell the property to the state of Pennsylvania under the propositions of the school code passed by the last legislature. If the transaction goes through the state will purchase 258 shares of stock at the par value of $50. The bulk of the stock is held by T. L. Eyre, Plumber B. Jeffries, Marshall F. Way and Marshall H. Mattlock. 'Following the reporting of an other case of smallpox in Carbondale Mayor James B. Murrin declared Monday the case was contracted from a patient who came down with the disease Dec. 3, but that the attend ing physician failed to report. The 'mayor refuses to give the name of the physician who failed to make the report. It is expected that other cases will be reported as there have been a number of contacts. The case was reported Saturday by Dr. E. T. Robinson. . Jacob Rose, of Greentown, Pa., is recovering from a peculiar afflic tion which for a time threatened his eyesight, an oat kernel having lodged in one of his eyes and sprout- ea. Soon after thrashing last fall Mr. Rose experienced trouble with one of his eyes. It continued sever al months and Anally became so ser ious that he consulted Dr. Decker, of Newfoundland. The physician extracted the oat kernel which had swollen and commenced to sprout. Mr. Rose's eye is now improving. The Pennsylvania Dairy Union will meet at Harrisburg on January 21-23, 1913. This meeting occurs at the same time as the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, Hor ticultural Association and Live Stock Breeders' Association. Speakers of note from various sections of the country will discuss present day problems and the meetings will he of Interest not only to tho milk pro ducer and creamery man, but also to the distributor and consumer. Prizes will be offered for various classes of milk products. The Episcopal church at Dun daff, Susquehanna county, receives a bequest of $500 by the will of the lato Robert W. Johnson, of New Brunswick, N. J., member of the chemical manufacturing firm of Johnson & Johnson. Ho died Febru ary 7, 1910, leaving an estate valued at $3,222,520. Mr. Johnson was a native of Dundaff and was financially Interested at Crystal Lake, Wayne county, where he epent many sum mers. The church at Dundaff is a small one and is under the rectorate of the Forest City church of which Rev. E. G. White is rector. Mrs. Charles White died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Benton Lawrence, at Carbondale, on Mon day night, December 30, death be ing due to pneumonia which she con tracted while visiting Lenoxville some time ago. Mrs. White was born in Wayne county and was sixty-three years of age. The greater part of her life was spent In Car bondale and Jermyn. She is sur vived by four daughters Mrs. Law rence, Mrs. Arthur Allen, of Read ing, Cal.; Mrs. Bert Ross, of Lenox ville; Mrs. Charles Briggs, of Star light, this county; two sons, William of Canaan, and Harry Whito, of Jermyn. The death early Friday morning of James R. Keene, of New York, removes a figure long familiar In financial and sporting circles not only In this country 'but abroad. Mr. Keene died In a private hospital, fol lowing an operation. Mr. Keene had two passions his son Foxhall ex cepted operations on the bear side of the stock market and horse rac ing. At both he made millions. He was born In London, England, In 1838. Tutored by private teachers young Keeno went to Trinity college, Dublin, to complete his education, but a day or so after ho entered his father went broke. Believing his field limited tho elder Keene recalled his boy and they came to this coun try, going West. At Fort Riley, young Keene got a job as a hostler, sticking to that job only long enough to outfit himself as a miner. He passed several years mining, freight ing and editing a country newspaper and 'fighting. Mr. Lewis A. Howell has been appointed a director of tho Hones dale National Bank to fill tho va cancy caused by the death of E. F. Torrey. Tho Honesdale National Bank has declared a regular semi-annual dividend of 6 and an extra divid end of 2 from the earnings of the past six months, payable on de mand. Delegates to tho Farmers' In stitute at Stato College were told that the one best way to bring about a reduction in the cost of eggs is to protect the hen from tho winter , weather. j At the Hancock Methodist par-! sonage, Dec. 26th, Fred Fisher of Wlnterdale, Pa., and Mrs. Augusta , Gill of Seelyville, Pa., were united in 1 marriage by Rev. J. C. Coddlngton. Hancock Herald. Word has been received by Mrs. J. D. Weston and Mrs. F. B. Whit ney that their aunt, Mrs. W. H. Ban croft, died on Saturday in Salt Lake City, Utah. Deceased was G2 years of age and is survived by her hus band. Buildings for State fish hatcher ies should be of fire proof construc tion says Commissioner N. R. Bul ler, who will ask for appropriations to rebuild parts of the plants at Torresdale, Bellefonte, Pleasant Mount and Corry, at which estab lishments the builders are old and In bad shape. Mr. Buller plans struc tures of concrete and steel which will cost $10,000 or $12,000 each. He says it would be economy In tho end. A 'barn belonging to Lafayette Nelson near Rlley.vllle was destroy ed by the high wind on Friday of last week. Mr. Nelson also escaped Injury as he had just stepped out of the barn when It was picked up by the wind and carried several rods, scattering timber over the sur rounding field. The barn was 58x72 feet and was completely torn to pieces. Other damage was done in the vicinity of Rileyville to chimneys and farm buildings. Tho State Insurance Commis sioner has been authorized to take charge of the affairs of the Ameri can Fraternal Association. It is said that the company has assets of about $17,000. The foregoing statement appeared in a Plttston paper of Dec. 31. It is known that somo action of the kind has been taken in the Dalphln county courts but just what Is not known. Nor is it known what effect It will have on the suit now pending In the courts of Wayne county against the American Frater nal Association. Dr. John J. Gllbride, formerly of Hawley, who has a wide acquaint ance throughout Northeastern Penn sylvania, has been appointed to the position of lecturer on surgery at the Medico-Chirurgical college and assis tant surgeon at tho Medico-Chirurgl-cal hospital in Philadelphia. He has been for ten years instructor in dis eases of the stomach and Intestines at the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, and has also held the position of as sistant demonstrator in anatomy at Med-Chi during the same period. The food crusaders in New York started recently to break the high price of apples. With a car load on hand and "unlimited" sup piles behind them, they began sell- ing Baldwins at five cents a quarl, apples as good, they declared as the local retailers had been asking from 12 to 15 cents a quart for. The sale was conducted at the Queen's bor ough bridge market by Mrs. John Heath, president of the Housewives' League of America. Other sales of other produce are promised. The cold storage egg crusade, begun some days ago, continues, the prices In some parts of the city are as low as 22 to 25 cents a dozen. A survey or the rivers and creeks of Pennsylvania will be made during this spring by wardens of the State Department of Fisheries with a view to ascertaining the quantity and character of pollution of streams. This work has just been outlined by Commissioner N. R. Bul ler and will be the systematic effort to ascertain just how much matter deleterious to fish life is turned into tho waters. It is probable that the data obtained will be used to in augurate a campaign for the removal of pollution which has already been started by a number of tanneries and' other plants in the upper portion of the State. Tho wardens will bo in structed to name and describe every manufacturing plant and its location on the streams of tho districts they cover to tell the character of the refuse drained Into streams and the quantity. Where it Is found that the pollution Is so great that fish will not stay In the neighborhood, steps to secure filtration will 'be taken and when the waters are cleared up they will bo stocked with fish. Emory C. Stadler, who gave his residence as Paterson, was arrested last week In Liberty, N. Y., charged with having entered the store of Charles Harmon at Mlddletown Sat urday night about 2 a. m and steal ing therefrom a number of small ar ticles. Stadler was arraigned and discharged. As he was leaving the court room, he told the Recorder that he wished to remain in custody as ho was a deserter from tho U. S. Army, and tho officers had wired to ascertain the truth of his story. He was turned over to Chief McCoach. He told Officer Dayton on Sunday that ho had deserted tho army having been arrested and confined In tho guard house on the Isthmus of Panama. He was then ordered to report at Fort Jay, on Governor's Island, New York harbor, and was sent on his honor from Panama. On arriving in New York city, on Nov, 22, last, he deserted, and now wish ed to go back and finish his term, which was but seven days more. Stadlor said that his homo was formerly at Narrowsburg, Sullivan county. The stockholders of the Cream ery Company at Prompton will meet In annual session, Tuesday, Janu ary 14th, 1913, at 1 p. m at Bodle's Hall, for the purpose of electing of ficers and transacting such other business aB may come before tho meeting. H. P. Curtis, Secretary. Advertisement. Wood Cutting and Ice Cutting arc both hard work but good tools will make it much easier. We have the good kind. Slmmond's cross cut saws, all styles and sizes, White's steel polo axes, Keen Kutter doublo bit axes, Mann's all steel axes, Whlto's mauls and Wedges, Peavics and cant hooks. Chains of all kinds. Atkins' ice saws. Genuine Boston Ico tongs. Come in and seo our assortment. Ion-ay Everything For tho Farm. A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY We will now The closing of a magnificent holiday business finds us with many broken sizes. These short lots are the best and most de sirable styles we've had during the season. We've not all sizes in all styles but we've all sizes in some styles. For Quick Clearance -- We Make Tremendous Sacrifice. DON'T WAIT-BEST BARGAINS GO FIRST Read the lines below and sae the splendid and unusual inducements we offer Men's and Young Men's $25 Overcoats $10.00 Men's and Young Men's $22 Overcoats $15.00 Men's and Young Men's $20 Overcoats $11.00 Men's and Young Men's $15 Overcoats $10.50 Men's and Young Men's $12 Overcoats $8.00 Men's and Young Men's" $10 Overcoats 57.50 Don't let your money lay idle in your pocket with an opportunity like this confronting you. Enterprise Clothing House, Honesdale, Pa. Epter's illfSllli RAINCOATS. $12 value, $8.90. $9 value, $5.90. $7 value, $3,90. $3 value, $1.98. UMBUETjIiAS. Pure silk, with covers, gold handles. $5 value, $2.90. $3 value, $1.98. $2 value, $1.49. $1.50 value, $.98. SEPARATE $3 Skirts, $1.75. $5 Skirt, $2.98. CORSETS. Special bargain on corsets, made In Jackson, Mich. We handle corsets from slender to stout figures. They are tho .best corsets In the market. This cut represents tho practical up-to-date corset. The newest ideas in design are brought out In "J. C. C. Suberb Form." $4 Corsot, $3.00. $3 Corset, $2.50. $1.50 Corset $1.00. $ .75 Corset, $.50. Wo cannot mention all of our bargains In this Clearance Sale, owing to lack of space. Como to our store, inspect our stock and get other bar gains. We also carry a lino of Evening Dresses and Klmonas. FRANK 1 1 27 North Main Next Honesdale, Pa. FOR THE MONEY SAVER inaugurate our Men's and Young Men's $8 Overcoats $5.50 Men's and Young Men's $G Overcoats $1.50 $10 Boys Overcoats $7.00 $S Boys' Overcoats $5.50 $G Boys' Overcoats 3.05 $4 Boys' Overcoats $2.ir Children's overcoats in nil tho lending styles that sold for $5, $4 and $!$, now $3.25, $2.25 ami $1.08. January We offer great bargains in High Grade ready made apparels in La dles' and Misses' Coats, Skirts, Suits, Dresses, Silk Waists, Fur Muffs, and sets, Marabou Scarfs and sets, Rain Coats, Umbrellas, Silk Petticoats and Corsets. Our garments are of the best make and the latest styles. Wo sell direct from the manufacturer. $35 Suits, blue and brown, two tone diagonal, $22. $25 and $18 Suits at $12.50. $1G Suits at $8. Alterations Mnilo Free. $35 Astrikhan Coat $22. $22 blue, gray and black Chin chilla Coats, $1G. $1G Coat, $8.00. $28 Chiffon Broadcloth for stout figures, $18. $25 Coat, i$15. IN FUR. $35 black, near lynx, $16. $40 Natural 'fox, $18. $25 Marabou, black and natural sets, $18 and $1G. SKIHTS. EPTER to Rowland's Jewelery Store