Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-18
GEORGE HAW SR.
TELLS OF ENGLAND
INTERESTING PAPER READ BE.
FORE THE BROTHERHOOD OF
ST. PAUL
Enjoyable Evening Passed at Home
of DR.. and Mrs. c. M. Work-Pro-
gram Most Delightful and Instruct
I've One.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Among the most enjoyable Of recent
events in social or religious circles
was the meeting of the Brotherhood of
ST. Paul of the First Methodist Episco-
pal church held last evening at the
home Of DR.. and Mrs. G. M. Work, Ill
East Court street.
With the Work home filled with
members of the organization, very
interesting and entertaining evening
was passed by the large number pres
ant. The fore part of the evening was
devoted to the business of the broth
erhood, after which very interesting
paper was read by George Haw, ST.,
and refreshments were served. Mr..
Haw took for his subict, England, AS
Seen by a Layman Sixty Years Ago
and Now" Mr. Haw, accompanied by
his family is late from trip to the
continent and England where he was
visiting this summer.
In his paper, Mr.. Haw said in part
as follows:
"My father and mother left England
with their family of five children in
1874 and came to Wisconsin, then a
territory which included within its
bounds what is now the state of Iowa.
Il was born in October, 1886, and
was nearly years of age when we
reached our new home. While had
never been more than twenty miles
away from the little village where I
was born, until we started for the new
world. as it was regarded, and had seen
but little of England, still the events
that followed our leaving the old home
made impressions upon my boyish
mind, that are clear and distinct today
as they were when first made.
Family Leaves England.
t'The farewells to home and the
friends that we never expected to see
again, the drive of twenty miles to the
railway station, our first sight of and
ride upon railway, the great city OF
Liverpool, boarding the ship and the
voyage Of nine weeks upon the Allan
tic the landing at New York, the cross
ing Of New York state on the Erie
canal to Buffalo, the trips around the
lakes to what is now Kenosha, thirty
miles south of Milwaukee, and then
the journey across the state in wagons
to our new home, are all memories
that have come back to me over anc
over again during the past summer
and will always be with me.
Some of the changes that have
come to England in the past sixty-twt
wears, have in some respects beef
as great as the changes that have
come to this country during tina
period: while in other respects Their
has been practically none. The hedge
and stone walls that surround the III
Al dc iI1c
they have been for generations pas
The beautiful roads that wind thei
serpentine way among the little farm
and over gentle hills, We're many Q
them located by the Romans, and on
layer of macadam upon another ma
been put upon them until they are
solid as it is possible to make Their
and are in their present location for a
time to come.
Native Village the Same.
"My native village, like all tn
small villages round about it, is exac
ly as we left 1t. The houses are a
either stone or brick and neve
change or burn down. Perhaps thre
or four new houses have been built
our village since we left, while tn
population is rather less than more.
II spent very quiet Fourth of Jul
wandering about the village an
through the beautiful fields and mea
ows which surround it, while II
events of sixty odd years passe
through my mind like dream.
"While these conditions prevail 9
over England, in small villages and II
country about them, there has bee
vast changes in the country in 9th
respects. The tendency there, as her
is for the people to drift to the gre
cities and the large manufacture
towns, and many of these centers
population have grown as rapidly dt
ing the last fifty years, as have o
own great cities and are crowded
suffocation.
when we left England, railroa
we're in their infancy. Now two i
mense railway systems traverse t
country from one end to the other, o
on the east and one on the we
coast, with branches to every tmpo
ant Town In the interior The methQ