The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-07-26
CELEBRATE II E|R
GOLDEN W5JD|NG
Hartungs We're Married
in HOneSdaIe in 1861
CONGRATULATIONS POUR IN
FROM ALL SIDES; HALE AND
HEARTY STILL.

Marry on Monday, marry for
wealth;
Marry on Tuesday, marry for health;
Marry on Wednesday, the best day
of all;
Marry on Thursday, marry for losses;
Marry on Friday, marry for crosses;
Marry on Saturday, no day at all!
That's about the way the old cou-
plet runs. But Christian Hartung
and his wife Agnes, of SIS Court
street, believing that the better the
day the better the deed" got mar,
ried on Sunday, thereby gaining the
blessings of the forepart of the
week, and avoiding the near-curses
of the latter end.
All that is by way of introduction
to the fact that Mr.. and Mrs. Hart
ung celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary last Friday in their cosy
Court street fiat. That is, they spent
part of the day there, before and af-
ter a sumptuous dinner at the home
of their daughters family, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. ]. Rief, in honor of the
auspicious event.
1t was on a Sunday, in the STIR
ring year of our Lord, 1861, on the
twenty-first day of July that their
nuptials were celebrated in the old
'Honesdale German Evangelical Luz
theran church, shortly after the
morning service, by good old Pastor
Bower who has since gone to his
eternal reward.
Christian Hartung and Agnes
(Polle) his wife took a novel honey
moon trip. The following Monday,
July %, 1861, they left on a we'd
dino tho (fnr Mr
Hartung was running a boat on the
old Delaware and Hudson canal
them, spending week on the wa
ter.
In 1865 Mr.. Hartung quit boating,
and took charge of the Seelyville Ho-
tel. For twenty-five years he con-
Quoted that popular hostelry, rebuild
ing the place on larger scale, after
it was wiped out by fire.
Leaving Seelyville, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hartung went on a farm in Fortena,
where they stayed nineteen years.
Five years ago last April they moved
to the Maple City, where they have
resided ever since.
1--WE can't complain any" they
told Citizen reporter, who called to
congratulate them Friday morning.
We are feeling the same as usual,
only we are getting a little older. /
was only sick once since we are
married." continued Mr.. Hartung,
and my wife was only sick once
too. We are in good health, other
wise.
"My brother sent over to the
old country for me to come over.
When / struck Narrowsburg l only
had 81 in my pocket"
Boating in those days was
strenuous life. Fights were of COM
mon occurrence, in fact some OF the
boatmen were fighting pretty nearly
all the time.
Boats run day and night" said
Mr.. Hartung The Honesdale and
Hawley boats kind of worked against
one another like two political par
ties. We used to take coal to Round
out, N. Y, where it was loaded in
barges for New York"
Four daughters and two sons were
born to bless their union. Three
daughters remain and are living in
Honesdale, viz: Mrs. w. j. (Kather-
incl Reif; Mrs. William (Barbara)
Ferber; Mrs. William (Clara) Ret
| tew.'
Mr.. and Mrs. Hartung are hale and
hearty, despite their fifty years of
welded bliss, and bid fair to spend
many more happy years together.
Scores of friends called on them,
Friday, and others wrote them, con-
graduating them on their golden an
niversary. Some even went so far as
to predict that they would live to
celebrate their diamond anniversary,
in which hope The Citizen heartily
joins.