The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, November 11, 1913, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4
PAGE FOUR THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1913. THE CITIZEN SemNAVeekly Founded 10 08; Weekly Foundod 1844. Published Tuesdays and Fridays by E. B. HAtlDENBEIlGH PRESIDENT M. C. VAN ALSTTNE and E. B. CALLAWAY MANAGING EDITORS FRANK P. WOODWARD ADVERTISING MANAGER AND FEATURE WRITER. L. J, DCBrUNOER, M. B. ALLEN, TERMS: ONE TEAR $1.50 THREE MONTHS Z&a BIX MONTHS 75-ONE MONTH '. 13o nemlt by Express Money Order, Draft, Postofflco Order or Registered letter. Address all communications to The Citizen, No. 803 Main street, Honesdale, Pa. AU notices of shows, or other entertainments held for the purpose of making money or any Items that contain advertising matter, will only be admitted to this aPer on payment UL repmr auTei usuia mico. nuuta Mt. v.. ....... ..s, n.u .hnrntina nr tnr rhnrltflhln nilmnsps Tvhftrft n. fefi Is Charced. Will DB DUD llrbed at half rates. Cards of thanks, BO or respect will De cnargeu tor ui uiu mwui application. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1013. TIIOUGIIT-'FOU TO-DAY. It does not take a great man to bo a Christian, -but it takes all there Is in him. The Evangel. The establishment of penny post age between the United States and Great Britain has been amply justi fied by results obtained. The British postoffice reports show a remark able increase In the number of let ters sent between tho two countries. There has been no decline from the high figures of 1909-10 when from an annual Increase of 5 per cent. In letters sent to America the figures jumped to 32 per cent.. In 1912-13 the increase was 7.5 per cent. The rate of increase on letters sent from tho United States was 29 per cent. In 1909-10, and in 1912-13 it was C.8 per cent. The experiment is a successful one. It will doubtless too followed in due time by half-penny or one-cent letter postage. WELCOME TO TEACHERS OP DEAR OLD WAYNE. Teachers of Wayne county, tho people of Honesdale ibid you wel come. During your stay among us tho coming week the town and its residents sincerely hope that you will enjoy the many privileges that will be afforded and that when tho forty-sixth annual session will havo closed that you will bo stronger In tellectually and sociologically for having come In our midst. Before leaving this historical town, where the first locomotive, the Stourbridge Lion, turned a wheel on the American continent, you are in vited to visit Tho Citizen office, where is installed a Mergenthaler linotype, a .type setting machine, which Is one of the modern inven tions of the ago. As a souvenir to every teacher visiting our plant dur ing Institute week Tho Citizen will give a metal slug with his or her name cast thereon. A HARD AVORKING SUPERIN TENDENT. Over two hundred Wayne county teachers are in Honesdale this week to attend the forty-sixth annual In stitute, which Is being held In the High school auditorium. - Professor J. J. Koehler, county superintendent, has spared neither time nor ex pense in getting the best talent ob tainable to instruct and entertain tho teachers during their stay here It Is safe to say that he has secured one of tho best corps of instructors and strongest line of entertainments n ever to attend a gathering of this character. It is, therefore, a fore gone conclusion that tho 1913 Wayne' County Teachers' Institute will be the best ever held in Honesdale. Professor Koehler is a hard-working superintendent and considers that the best is none too good for his large corps of teachers. To Superintendent Koehler great credit is due for the method of teaching spelling in Wayne county. Spelling until Superintendent Koeh ler's system was adopted, was con sidered as a neglected branch in the school's clrriculum. Ho conceived the plan of holding district spelling contests and issuing diplomas to the successful pupils who spelled correct ly a list of eighteen hundred words that had been compiled by a com mittee for this purpose. The win ners of the oral and written contests -were to spell at tho time of holding the teachers' institute and receive county diplomas. Tho plan worked out beautifully. To-day spelling is one of the leading studies In the dif ferent branches taught. Superin tendent Koehler's method of spelling has been adopted by other counties in this and other states. Well may Wayne bo flroud of its county super intendent, Professor J. J. Koehler. THE CARBONDALE -KIOT. It would bo weak as well as un wlse for any local newspaper to ignoro tho riot sensation that oc curred at Carbondalo on Friday night. There is a temptation to throw tho mantle of sllenco"and of non-observance over such affairs; but they are of too grave a nature to be passed over thus weakly or lightly. The Scranton Times deals with tho subject fairly and bravely, ac cording to facts as1 thus brought to the Citizen Publishing Company. E. B. nAUDENBEItall W. W. WOOD cents, memorial poetry and resolutions n u. wwu. uci woib u ' the surface. The Times says: There can be defense for the riot and disorder which oc curred at Carbondale last night, attending the speech of Robert Wilson in the Berean Baptist church. The destruction of property, the violence to perr sons Is inexcusable in a country governed by law and the author ties of our sister city should be held to stern account for not nipping the disturbance in the bud before it had assumed the proportions of a riot. Also it shou'd not bo difficult to find the leaders of the Tioters, and to inflict upon them the penalties of the law. In a decent, or 1 derly community such manifes tations are to be not only de plored but put down with tho strong hand. The Times further takes up the other sldo of tho case, and says that whilo the above is true " .... It does not les sen in the slightest degree the 'heavy responsibility of Detec tive Robert Wilson and the people who were responsible for last night's meeting. They understood fully tho menace to the peace that they incurred, for the meeting had been sched uled before and postponed for that very reason. It was gen erally understood that tho ad dress to be delivered by Wilson was the same that ho delivered to an audience in a Congrega tional church In North Scran ton a few weeks ago." As to the speech complained of, Tho Times says it has reason to be lieve that it is " . . . . unprintable, un speakable, almost unthinkable, It is a vile attack upon the Ca tholic clergy, the Catholic sis terhoods, Catholic organiza tions and Catholic laity. Its whole aim is to arouse rank prejudice of their Protestant neighbors against Catholic peo ple who are going their way, leading honest and respectable lives, respecting and not inter fering with the religious be lief of their neighbors." The Times further voices its seSti ments and concludes as- follows: "We are strong believers in tho constitutional right of "free dom of speech," but the consti tution also provides that tho speaker must be responsible for the abuse thereof, and Detec tive Robert Wilson should be held strictly responsible for the villainous slanders which he is dissamlnating in a cowardly manner behind closed doors, be fore audiences who ought to blush for shame becauso they sat and listened to such vile ness. "This is a polyglot nation in which people of all nations and all creeds aro thrown together in a melting pot to produce the American of tho future. Tho constitution of the United States guarantees to all of us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their conscience. We havo been living together as neighbors in peace and amity, and should continue so to live through all the years to come. The man who seeks to destroy that peace and amity by Infus ing the poison of religious bigotry and prejudice, and set ting up the spirit of antagonism and strife among people of dif ferent creeds, is a traitor to this republic and its institu- r tlons." To sum up the matter, it would seem that Mr. Wilson was unwise in making such addresses; that those who engaged in the act of wrecking a church building aro guilty of a great breach of the peace; that even If some people are unwise enough to make inflammatory speechos it is equally unwise for other people who agree or disagree with them to oven listen to such speeches or to congre gate about tho building where such utterances aro being made. As to the right to explain one's view or belief beforo a private au dience, opinions may differ. Here is how Rev. Charles Lee, D. D., of Car bondale, views that phase of the question: "Tho riot of Friday night was a disgrace to us in the eyes of tho state and the nation. It is something to cause every cit izen to think profoundly. I and some of the other clergy of the city were not taken into tho plans or those who Invited Mr. Wilson to speak in our city. But I believe ho was entirely within his legal rights in ut tering his convictions beforo a private audience. The wisdom of having him come is a matter which each jnust Judge for him self. The lawlessness, destruc tion of property and assault on persons should be strongly con demned by everyone." Others may differ -with Mr, Lee , on this subject, but tho view ho takes seems to be sound and In tho true spirit of tho nation In which wp live. DESTROY TAMMANY. " Tammany must be destroyed," is tho daily theme of the New York World. It has an historical pre cedent for this declaration in Roman history, when, as every school boy probably doesn't know,- Cato used to close his speeches in the Senate with the remark, "Et delanda est Carthago," (Carthage must be de stroyed). Well, Carthage finally was destroyed by the Romans, though several wars had to be fought before It was accomplished. So, too, Tam many will perish'' some day, but it is doubtful whether it will be In this day and generation. Tammany Is one of the strongest political organi zations In the world and several years ago they were wiped out simi lar to their more recent defeat, but during those, Intervening years the old tiger was not asleep In Its lair, but was steadily and silently build ing up what had been pulled down of Its political strongholds. Now, as before, it will only have the work to do over again and that will come ultimately unless the Democrats op posed to Tammany Hall are stronger In the city of New York than they give evidence to-day. FORTY-THREE YEARS IN SERVICE OF THE ERIE. Conductor Charles Lord of the Honesdale Erie passenger train, cele brated his forty-third year in the service of the Erie company on Sun day. Mr. Lord started in as a brakeman on tho Jefferson division of this road, his first run being from Susquehanna to Carbondale. The conductor of that train is now in the west where he holds the posi tion of president of a bank of a rap idly growing city. Mr. Lord, by at tending strictly to business, was soon promoted and became conduc tor of coal and freight trains which operated on the Delaware and Wyo ming divisions. Mr. Lord for nearly fifteen years has been con ductor of passenger trains for the Erie. For the past six years he has been in charge of the Honesdale Erie train which operates daily be tween Port Jervis and this place and Lackav-axen. During the forty-three years that Conductor Lord Jias been in the Erie's servlco he has never missed tho pay car any month. This ,is an unusual record and one that few em ployees of any railroad have ex perienced. SOME CITIZEN COMMENT ttntttntttttttttnrttttttttfflttttntffltttnnttt Robinson Crusoe experiences ' In this age are so rare that they at tract unversal notice. The last to claim attention is that of a party of Esquimaux numbering, it is said, ten persons, who were rescued from an island in the mouth of Hudson's Bay, upon which they had been ma rooned for a period of ten years. The Esquimaux were caught off shore, on drift ice and carried, after long weeks of hardship, to the is land upon which they were found.' This island has been steadfastly avoided toy passing vessels because of reefs and magnetic disturbances which affected ships' compasses. It is over 100 ml'es off the mainland. The Esquimaux had lived during all the period of their forced stay on fish and seal meat. Several children were born during the decade of their imprisonment, and some of the party had died. And this Incident occur red right on our Western continent, right directly north from Wayne county, but quite somo distance north. A. j Woman Suffrage,' or, more prop erly speaking, the Woman Suffrage subject, has now been put up to the Pope by a large number of leading prelates of tho Catholic church for a definite expression of the church's attitude on the question of woman's suffrage. The general supposition Is that that matter had been settled by the head of that church long ago; but it has never been really settled, It appears, hence the action of the prelates as stated above. High church officials who have discussed the subject with the Pope state that his ruling would unquestionably bo against the suffragettes. It is ex pected that his decision in tho mat ter will take tho form of an encycli cal letter to prelates in all parts of the world. While this Is their an ticipation, they may 'find themselves mistaken when the encyclical letter Is published. There are many dignl !vrles of that church that have been and are' openly in favor of woman being given the right to vote and assist in making the laws under which she must live, and be punish ed if she torcaks them. Among those favorable to tho movement are Car .dlnal Bourne of London, and the late Cardinal Moran, of Australia. Wnyno County Teachers have pos session of Honesdale this weok, and they are surely as attractive a lot of Wayne Counteans as possibly could be found in many a day's Journey. The first County Institute the writer hereof ever attended was held in Prompton. The late p. G. Allen was the County Superintend ent, and Earl Sherwood was Secre tary. At that Institute Secretary Sherwood made an .impromptu ad dress that brought down universal applause. Two or three years later there was something in tho nature of a clash during Institute week. Honesdale had a literary society called the Franklin Lyceum, and Theodore Tilton's lecture came dur ing Institute week. Tho Lyceum managers wanted Sup't Allen to. change the hour of the Institute's en tertainment that came on tho night of Tilton's lecture. They wanted the teachers to hear Theodore; but Al len couldn't see it that way, and in his speech of refusal he said that ho wouldn't change the program not to hear Theodore Tilton's or any other man's "free lovo lecture," The teachers applauded the speech; but there was . a chilly air towards the Institute from certain Honesdale sec tions during the rest of the week. "Red Shadow," the real story of the Wyoming Valley, written by Hon. John E. Barrett, has been published in book form by the Colonial Press, of Scranton. It Is a hand some book, well printed and substantially bound. A representation of Red Shadow, the Mohawk war rior, on the front cover Is striking as well as beautiful. Tho story itself is history told as a tale, and the volume Is worthy a place in every library in the land. Indeed, were the book used to a certain ex tent as a historical reader in our common schools It would serve a useful purpose. Hero In Honesdale and Wayne county, where the au thor of "Red Shadow" is so well and favorably known, the book should find a ready sale. The Citizen hopes to see It on sale at our various book stores, and were somo bright can vasser to make a tour of the Maple City and vicinity many copies would undoubtedly be readily sold. The price is $1.25, which is low con sidering the fact that the printing is high class In every respect, the stock used is of the best and the binding is most ex cellent. The Citizen sug gests that the Honesdale Chapter of the D. A. R take up tho matter and soli' "Red Shadow," whose au thor also composed the State song of that worthy organization, "Pennsylva nia." STARRUCCA BOROUGH NOT SATISFIED WITH VERDICT. Attorneys Muinfoi'd and Greene Move for New Trial on Grounds That Amount of Verdict Was Excessive. E. C. Mumford and Homer Greene, attorneys for the Borough of Star rucca, who is defendant in a suit brought by Luta Jane Mead and George L. Mead, to recover damages amounting to $7,000, motioned the Court on Monday for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted in the case. Tho suit was tried during tho Oc tober term of court and the jury in the case gave Mrs. Mead a verdict of ?G45 and Mr. Mead $100. Tho rule was granted to have the evidence and the charge of tho Court transcribed. They gave as their reasons for ask ing for a new trial the following: That tho evidence iof witnesses familiar with the bridge, that In their opinion it was unsafe for ordinary travel, should have been admitted. That tho verdict was against tho charge of tho Court. That the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. That the amount of the verdict was grossly in excess of any amount of damages shown to have been suf fered by tho plaintiffs. Tho defendants reserve the right to file additional reasons Tvithln twenty days. The rule asked for was granted. Death of Mrs. D.J). Jones. Mrs. D. D. Jones, widow of D. D. Jones, tho well-known undertaker who died five years ago, died at her homo, 1731 North Main avenue, Fri day morning at half-past ten o'clock from pneumonia, being HI only a few days. Deceased was sixty-three years old and had been a resident of Providenco for tho past forty-six years. She was well known and her sudden death will be heard by many with regret. She is survived by one son, D. L. Jones; John Corwln, a brother; Mrs. Lottie Graham, a sister, and two grandchildren. The funeral services wero held at the home Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Interment was made in Dunmoro cemetery. Providence Register. TEACHERS, AVHILE IN HONESDALE, THERE IS .THE FARMERS BANK. ITTTIA'YNE county school teachers VV I will find Institute week a splendid time to get ac quainted at the Fanners & Mechanics toank, and in "getting acquainted" they can find no better means of introduction than by opening a savings account. This savings account need not be large. They will start an account for you with a deposit as low as Ono Dol lar In this popular bank. That dol lar begins to draw interest at once, and it is up to you then to add as rapidly as your incomo and circum stances will permit. You are a teach er. You now tho astonishing re sults of compound interest . Well, your savings deposits in the Farm ers bank draws compound Interest. In other words, in January and July interest is computed and added to principal. Thus you draw interest on your original deposits and the in terest on same as It accrues. I VIA KEPHART VICTOR OVER GRIM FOR SUPERIOR COURT. Claims Plurality of 20,000 oii Re turns $50,000,000 Road Loan Defeated 107,105 ttf 174,054. Returns from sixty-one out of tho sixty-seven counties in tho State, in cluding Philadelphia and Allegheny, Indicate the election of John W. Kep hart, of Cambria county, for Superior Court Judge over Webster Grim, Bucks county, by a plurality of 13, 131. As Kephart 1b a Western man and as live of the six missing coun ties are in the western part of the State, complete returns are expected to increase his lead. Tho missing counties are Westmoreland, Mercer, McKean, Beaver, Clearfield and Tioga. Mr. Kephart at his home at Ebens burg claimed his election by more than 20,000 plurality over Grim. John J. Henderson, of Crawford county, received the highest vote of any of the four candidates for the Superior Court Judgeship, his mar gin over Kephart on the face of re turns at hand being 14,958, while Grim leads Alcorn by 36,755 votes. The total vote for the Blxty-one counties was: John J. Henderson, Crawford county, 199,153. John W. Kephart, Cambria"county, 184,195. Webster Grim, Bucks county, 171, 064. James Alcorn, Philadelphia, 134, 309. Returns from more than two thlrds of the counties In the State show that tho proposed $50,000,000 bond issue to be used in road Im provement, has been defeated by a substantial plurality. The vote In forty-eight counties, including Phila delphia and Allegheny, on the loan was: Yes, 167,195; No, 174,052. N. B. Spencer was a business call er In Carbondale on Friday. Evening Entertainments of County Teachers' Institute At tho Honesdale High School Audi torium. Doors Open at 7:30. Monday, Nov. 10th, at 8:15. Wayne County High School Literary Contest. Admission, 25c. Reserved seats, 10c extra. s Tuesday, Nov. 11th, at 8:15. Character Studies from Life, toy John B. Ratto, impersonator and humorist. Admission, 35c; reserved seats, 40c and 50c. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at 8:15. Instrumental and Vocal Music and Readings, by The Maurer Sis ters' Quartet. Admission, 35c; re served seats, 40c and 50c. Thursday, Nov. 13, at 8:15. "A Sample Case of Humor," by Strickland W. Gillilan, America's Foremost Humorist. Admission, 25c. No reserved seats. ' Diagram open at Chambers' Drug Store every morning at 8 o'clock. BBBBBBBEBBEBEBBBEBBBBBBBflBBEBBBflBBBEBBBBBBEflflEBBBBEEB Friday and Saturday Evenings, Nov. 14-15 The Gorgeous Musical Fantasia M I ft 300 PEOPLE T IF Auspices Honesdale Improvement Society H M I Admission: 25-35-50-75 a S Board opens for both performances at Lyric Theatre Wed, morning Nov. 1 2, at 1 0 5 BBBBEBBBBQEHEBBBEBBBEBBBBEflBEBBBBEBBBEEBEEflflBEBBBflBBH SCRANTON NOW HAS AN EATING PLACE THAT'S "DIFFERENT" Different because the cooking is dif ferent, different because the service is different, different because the sur roundings are different, and last but not least, different because it's clean THE DELAWAN 511 Lackawanna Avenue DEER SEASON OPENED MONDAY. The deer season, which opened on Monday, November 10, promises' to be asuccossrul ono in this region. Already hunters from eastern cities' are commencing to arrive and es tablish their camps In tho Poconos and Pike county. A party of seven Scranton hunters, members of thd Pennsylvania Game and Fishing as sociation, went to Stroudsburg Sat urday morning and left for DutcH Flats, Pike county. The headquart--era of the association Is at DunmorOi Black Diamond camp, which for" five years has been one of the most favous deer haunts in tho Poconos, will be established this year. The New Jersey season is already is progress, and across the river from Shawnee, Belvldere hunters got a fine two-year-old buck on Wed nesday. At North Water Gap re cently, a farmer ran across a herd of five deer, grazing but a few rods away from him. Two of them wero bucks. The state released a herd of eight on the Poconos last Spring. They were evenly mated. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THK WAYNE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK HONESDAIjE, WAYNE CO., PA. at the close of business, Nov. 1, 1913. RESOURCES Reserve fund Cash, specie and notes, $17,399 00 Due from approved re serve agents 118.33G 32 Legal securities at par... 40,000 00-205,735 32" Nlckelsnnd cents 30 08 Checks and cash Items 3,053 62 Due from Hanks and Trust Co's, not reserve 5.925 46 Securities pledged for Special deposits 5,000 00 Bills discounted : Upon one name $ 40.881 60 Upon two or more names 323.GS0 10 Time loans with collateral 50,142 37 IJbanson call with " 158.478 89 Loans on call upon one name 2,375 00 Loans on call upon two or more names 92,075 G9 Loans secured by bonds and mortgages 20.437 89-691,071 41 Honds. Stocks, etc.. Schedule I.... 1,M,900 00 Mortgages and Judgments of rec ord. Schedule D-2 ' . . . . 308,723 77 Otllce Hulldlng and Lot 27,000 00 Other Ileal Kstate 6.000 00 Furniture and Fixtures 2,000 00 Overdrafts 39 44 Miscellaneous Assets 400 00 $3,063,223 73 LIABILITIES Capital Stock, paid m $ 200,000 00 Surplus Fund 325,000 00 Undivided Profits, less expenses and taxes paid 53,521 70 Individual deposits sub ject to check $150,331 30 Individual Deposlt.Time2,312,bti7 35 Time certificates of de posit 238 78 , Deposits, Common wealth of Peimsylva'a 10,000 00 Deposits U. S. Postal.... Savings 223 7fi Certified Checks 162 76 Cashier's check outst'e 315 15-2,171,142 10 Due to banks andTrustCos. not re serve 5,559 93 $3,0(15,223 73 State of Pennsylvania, County of Wayne, ss. I, II. Scott Salmon. Cashier of the above named Company, do solemnly swear that tho above statement Is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief, (Signed) 11. S. SALMON. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to beforo me this 7th day of Nov. 1913. (Signed) HOBKltT A. SMITH, N, P. Notarial Seal.l Correct Attest: A T. Searlc. ) K. W. Oam.mkll. Directors. .7. V. Farley, I LYRIC THEATRE S ON THE STAGE IB I 8 m H