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The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1900
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on May 16, 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.
Two results of that correspondence from the year 1900 are reported below:
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Daniel Paul, of Enders, is spending a [sic] days at home.
“Elizabethville,” Lykens Register, 27 September 1900
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Constantine, Michigan, 10 December 1900
EDITOR OF REGISTER:
As I have not written you since you are proprietor of the Register, having just got it and read it, at a glace I saw there was something wrong. But reading a few minutes I found what bad luck you had. We feel sorry. The paper is always welcome. We get it on Saturday night, but last Saturday it did not come – got it Monday night. Well, I have taken it 26 years and can’t keep house without it, because I used to know everybody in Lykens, Wiconisco, and Williamstown. I helped to build the Williamstown breaker in sixty-four and the two big stone chimneys in the Gap, and also worked in the coal mines inside. The last time I saw those chimneys was when the National Encampment was at Washington, D. C. We had very good crops here this year – the largest corn crop we ever had since I have been in Michigan, and I came here in sixty-seven. We had lots of rain all summer and too much this fall. Well, I will give you some market prices of our produce: Wheat, 72c; corn, 25c; potatoes, 30c; eggs, 20c; butter, 18c; hay $9 and $10 and straw $4 per ton. So you see the prices are quite different between Michigan and Pennsylvania. Enclosed find money order for the Register for another year. Success to the REGISTER and Bill McKinley.
DANIEL PAUL
Lykens Register, 21 December 1900.
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The “bad luck” referred to was the fire that was reported here in the post entitled: Fire Destroys the Lykens Register, 1900.
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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