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The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1898
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on May 7, 2018
During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper.
One result of that correspondence from the year 1898 is reported below:
LETTER FROM MICHIGAN
EDITOR: Enclosed find remittance for renewal of my subscription to the Register, the best newspaper in the upper end of Dauphin County.
The weather is fine here now and our farmers are busy sowing wheat. Corn is all cut, and the crop was excellent, as was the case with all our cereals. The peach crop, however, was not good, but apples, grapes, plums and other fruit are very plentiful. Potatoes are plenty and sell at 30 cents a bushel by the wagon load. Melons are a drug on the market and wagons of them go to waste, as Mrs. Nelson Enders and her daughter, Miss Della Enders, of Harrisburg, who were spending several weeks with us, can testify to.
We are glad to know that our visitors reached home safely. Emma was home over Sunday. Don’t forget, Della, that the National Encampment will take place in Philadelphia next year.
Wonder if your western and southern mossbacks will soon let us hear from them through the columns of the Register. We like to read their letters.
Mr. Rock Creek, Kansas, wake up, sell a few of those fat steers and come up here and pay us a visit. We will use you well and feed you well.
DANIEL PAUL
Constantine, Michigan, 19 September 1898.
Lykens Register, 22 September 1898.
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News articles from Newspapers.com. This series will continue up through the death of Daniel Paul, which occurred in Lykens in 1911.
Special thanks to Debby Rabold, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for discovering these articles about her relative.
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