The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-08-30
HAWLEY.
Especial to The Citizen. !

eral of Mrs. Alex Correll that was
held at her home on Saturday.
George Lobb will have when fin
ished one of the finest residences on
Maple Avenue. 1t will contain all
modern improvements from garret
to cellar.
Miss Harriet McAndrew is visit
ing in the metropolis.
James Runyon has sold his house
and lot to Edward Terwilliger. Mr..
Runyon will move his family to
Binghamton, N. Y, where they have
secured work.
Several from this place attended
the wedding anniversary of Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Chamberlain on Sat
urday at their home at Lackawaxen.
They were: Mrs. A. ]. Lobb, Mrs. V.
A. Decker, Mrs. Fred Schalm, Mrs.
Augusta Buck and others.
George Kohlmann and Delbert
Branning attended the Orange
county races on the Goshen race
track last week.
About o'clock p. m. on Sunday
for some special exhibition better
known to themselves, hundreds of
sparrows gathered in the naples on
Penn Avenue and their united chirp-
ing was Qea1enlnS.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. zimmerman
are entertaining at their home at
the Eddy their son, Ray, his wife
and daughter, of Wilkes-Barre.
Philip Brennon, Ashley, was in
town on Saturday.
John Male, Cherry Ridge, who is
a candidate for the nomination of
County Commissioner on the Repub-
lican ticket, was calling on friends
at Hawley on Saturday. Mr.. Male
is a brother of our townsman, Isaac
Male. L. Fuerth, Honesdale, was
also in town on Saturday.
G. T. Smith, Wilkes-Barre, regis
tered at Park View Hotel on Satur-
day. ,lst
Mrs. Robert ]. Wheeler and two
children are visiting Mrs. Wheeler's S
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Geary, at the Eddy. Mr. Wheeler
was raised at Hawley and for a time
was a Wayne county teacher He
is now living at Allentown and is
editor of the Socialist Herald, pa
per published in the interest of that
party in Pennsylvania. He is also
one of the staff of speakers who
will cover the district and deliver
speeches in all the cities of the
state. He is to speak at Scranton
sometime this Fall.
Buel Dodge is spending some
time in town.
d. Cooter, who formerly lived
here and was an employe of the
Erie company, but is now living in
New York City, is visiting his cous-
in, Mrs. A. Wetzel, on Keystone
street.
Levy Lord and daughter, Mary E.,
have been visiting Samuel Geary at
the Eddy. Mr.. Lord is one of Pike
countys Oldest residents and has
always lived at Lords Valley. In
conversation he said his father,
Simeon Lord, with his mother, came
from England in 1917 to New York
City where his father worked at
his trade, that of shoemaker, for
two years, and in 1919 bought a
tract of land in the woods of Pike
county afterwards called Lord S
Valley. 1t was a wild county at
that time and the nearest neighbor
was three miles from his fathers
log hut. In speaking of the Lacka-
waxen river, which has been nearly
dry, he said that it didn't look much
like it did years ago when he used
to raft on that stream. In 1857 was
the greatest freshet ever known
That year he made several trips with
Micajah Wise, now living at Beaver
Brook, and claiming to be 1O2 years
old, as the stearsman, and Jonah
Pennell, who lived at Purdytown
and myself, oarsmen, and on goins
through Baisden's Glen our oars
h.Yk hxr e1yf frrI ag1Va.gl a9Vai
we got to the Delaware all right
| Micajah Wise is the oldest living
Civil war pensioner mention of the
fact has lately been published in {
New York paper. Ponah Pennel
he and Micajah lived neighbors fol
so years.
Ira r. Ritch is very sick at hi
home on the East side.
Mrs. Samuel James and son, Har
old, are spending a week with rela
tives at Lakeville.
The funeral of Mrs. Rosalie En-
slim, wife of Alexander Correll, wa
held Saturday morning at her lat
residence ON Wayne Avenue. Tn
services, which were largely attend
ed, were conducted by the Rev.. R
G. H. Catterall, of Berwick, assist
ed by Rev. G. F. Smalley and Rev
w. S. Peterson of this place. A NAL
quartette sang very effectively thre
hymns. There were many beautiful
floral tributes. The remains wer
taken on the 1920 train to Gravit
and were conveyed from thence t
the South Canaan cemetery for in
terment. The deceased was a mem
ber of the order of the Easterl
Star, who had charge of the buria
service. Thus passeth to the Grea
Beyond a noble Christian character
whose sudden death is deeply la
mented by the community who sym
pathize with the sorrowing rela
tives.
/ Erwin Buck, the efficient an