The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-09-19

Ana Dig CAKES OF Ice are ruSnlnB,
Do you think that then these self-same
Would say with voice, or say with pen,
Let's dam the Middle Creek?
To dam things seems quite human,
1t tempts both man and woman;
But here's our say, our earnest say,
Twill never, never, never pay
To dam the Middle Creek.
1.-TWO weeks ago P. A. Barrett,
the Scranton manager of
Rcs5ss the Elmira Telegram, came
tsGSAj to Hawley on little jaunt
of pleasure and looked over
the town. This is not the first visit
Mr.. Barrett has made to Hawley, and
on his return he has generally said
some mighty nice things about us;
but on this last visit he evidently
missed finding at home the genial
spirits who have hitherto escorted
him to the more particular points of
interest, and, quite naturally, in
poking around on his own hook he
ran across some things we don't gen
orally show everybody. All towns,
all cities and all families have rooms
for the hired man, you know, as well
as for the summer boarder and the
invited guest.
Well, this time when editor Bar
rett reached home he handed us out
in the next Telegram as fine a speci-
men of roasting" as the most par
ticular person in the world would
care to see, or not to see. Every
body knows that the Middle Creek is
extremely low this year. Probably it
was never lower. In fact it looks
quite like a Giants Causeway of
rocks, and cans, and other debris;
but it doesn't look half as bad as does
the Lackawanna not half mile from
where the Telegram man lives, for
what water there is in the Middle
Creek is clear and clean and doesn't
look as if it needed washing, as does
the yellow, soap suds looking stuff
that trickles over almost every
thing imaginable from beer kegs to
well, every traveller knows what
the Lackawanna looks like from For
est City to CampbelPs Ledge.
Especially did the scraps of paper
reposing in the little eddies seem to
worry the Telegram man, and he
began handing us out advice. He
wants us to burn our paper. He
wants us to put in a sewer system
llShJ away. anu, lOl dColuCLlC pun
poses, he wants us to build series
of dams in the Middle Creek
Why don't they dam the Lacka-
wanna?
The damming idea seems to have
caught on, and some of our people
believe it would be a good thing. In
talking with Hawley people who
have considered the idea in all it's
bearings, and they admit that a few
sleepy mill ponds would be nice to
look at in the summer, for they
would hide the rocks in the bottom
of the creek, and they would also
be all right to skate on in the win
ter; but when the spring freshets
came they would be a source of much
damage. why" said one citizen,
"the Middle Creek is like the noun
tain torrents of the Great West. l
have marked stones in the creeks |
bed, rocks that would weigh at least
two tons, and after a Spring freshet, |
with its awful rush of water and its
grinding torrents of ice, had sub
sided, they could not be found. At
forwards they were found away out
in the LackawaXen, beyond the rail-
road bridge. No, SIR" he continued, |
ait would never do to dam the Mid
die Creek"
Then, too, there is the mosquito
side of the proposition. Don't those
pests breed in still water?
The writer doesn't want to be
classed among those who are always
knocking, and if anybody can show
that the damming of Middle Creek is
feasible or safe, then he will hold up
both hands for the project In the
meantime he is from Missouri.
0DD
Happy Lot of Folks Say
+" FAREWELL" to Roy Johnson.
On last Saturday evening a fare
well social was held in honor of Roy
Johnson, telegraph operator at the
Wangum tower of the Erie's Wyo-
ming division. The social was held
at Mrs. Eckbeck's home in Hawley
where operator Johnson boards. Mr..
Johnson has accepted "a similar posi-
tion on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Those who attended the social were
Pearl and Edith Skinner, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Rouse, Mrs. Eckbeck, Min
ME and Ida Eckbeck, Jennie Rob-
erts, Maud Swingle, Mr.. and Mrs.
Gus Lintner, Cal Crane, Mr.. and
Mrs. Martin May, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Compton, Reginald and Eugene
Kuhn, Edward Finan and Michael
Butler.
WN
New Western Union Operator
In the Hawley Office.
The Western Union Office at Haw-
ley is now in charge of Miss Viola
Harding, who takes the place of
Charles Moody who recently accept
cd similar position in New York
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