The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-07-01
Petty NibbIing.

After repeated requests from numerous
grocers, we have finally consented to show
to certain parents the practices Of their chill
dren and desire that the children be warned
against the practices Of which they are guilty
Yesterday afternoon prominent citizen hap
pened to be standing on East Market street,
near the Empire House, when his attention
was attracted to three girls, none over 10 or IA
years Of age, who passed into Charley Bon
stedt's grocery asked trivial question and
coming out pioughed their hands into a rack
of strawberries standing at the door. Passing
TO Houghton's rack OF raspberries was simi-
larly treated and still further along John Cook
had to stand his share of the contribution.
The gentleman who noticed them heppsned
to have business on Howard Street a short
time after and what was his surprise at see
ing the girls 60 in at DusseIs and look at
tentively around in hopes Of finding some
thing there that would suit their palates.
The case is but one in a thousand. When
going to and coming from school, merchants
and grocers are obliged to watch children al
closely as though they were felons They
seem to have a plan on which they work thell
passage into the stores, and are generally sue
cessful in their attempts, as they first watch
carefully to see that the proprietor and hi
clerks are busy with customers, and then seiz'
the favorable opportunity to plunge thell
| finger into whatever is nearest. Parents
should admonish their children to keep away
from the stores, OF there may be sequel t
| the Collett q Carr fruit stealing case, witt
the slight difference that the offenders Will b.
/ older and therefore more amenable to the law
And now, while this question is being agi
tated, it should be said that this petty nibblinl
/ ing does not extend to children alone, but t
| crown folks, and there is something exceed
| ingly modest in the action Of that class o
| customers who make themselves sat home
in grocery.
With the most frigid complacence, Mr., A
raises the cheese box and rasps off a slice o
cheese.
Mr.. B., whistling perhaps, stretches hiDsel
over the counter and fishes up handful o
crackers.
Mr.. c., while i'll earnest conversation wit
| the grocer, takes occasion to whack of a fnge
length OF bologna
Mr., D., puts his fist into barrel of fiue aI
pies, 81 .25 per bushel, and hauls up one of tn
choicest, which he composedly demolishes IL
the presence of the owner, without "note Q
comment"
Mr.. E., enters the grocery with the cher,
| salutation of 81 say, Charley, and then make
a gouge into the strip Of mackeral hanging Oh
the wall.
Now although such work may make tn
grocer as mad as q wet hen, he is Obliged I
Keep his lips closed and appear perfectly col
tented, or loose custom. Should he Whlspt
to friend D., that "those apples cost money
the said customer, in all human probability
would "get up on his ear" to use yqlgal
though significant expression, and blandly Il
form Mr. Grocer that he will thereafter de-
with somebody else"-a crushing remark
Mr.. Grocer, considering the said DIR. fgur'
largely on his books as "Dr." And so 1t goe
The poor victim of robbery by detail mu
"grin and bear it." like little man, or be TO
ever deprived of the patronage Of his ''frends
Akron Beacon.
The experience of merchants is the sam
everywhere, and as the Beacon has so well
lustrsted the matter, we transfer it, - an az
meniien heyeabeuts,