Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1880-11-26
CRAWFORD COUNTY.

EDITOR. .JoURNAL:--As ithas been some
time since wrote you, wi II take up the
quill. The good and welcome JOURNAL
has not failed TO come TO me loaded with
good things and l assure you is always
read with delight, and many are the good
wishes for iis genial and good-natured edi.
tor, and for its many intelligent readers. j
have each week scanned its freighted col
umns with the hope of seeing something
from my old flame, Nina Wilkins" and
as often been disappointed, and l have
wondered what hns beiallen her, as well as
IS. ii. r." that Chinese lover; but it is
Just like him, his great big heart always
did go out for the own.trodden, and while
/ do not agree with his John Cbinaman +"
views, would like to read good long
letter from his pen. Go in, Bro. S. Ii. r. /,
Chapman has dropped out of the circle.
Wonder If Local" has gone off and got
married, that nothing appears from him
lately. 1t was our good fortune to meet
'Goodspeed in this neck o the woods.
He was on prospecting tour, and looked
hale and hearty. / expect ere this he Is
carving some anatomica subject at Column
bus Medical College, and II so l presume he
has forgotten his VOWS to the good old
JOURNAL.
1 see that "a llspice," that jolly ink
singer has done something ful," and
has skipped to Canada, hencelorth TO be a
" Kanuck," but OF course we will hear
from him soon, and do hope all the "em-
bassadors" wi return, and possibly the
editor will kill the fatted calf, or 'sulhin."
Politics in this Democratic stronghold is
decidedly quiet. The news appears not to
have been such as to elicit much merri
ment from that party. They revive their
dropping spirits, however, by rehearsing
that same old story, :" Well whoop it up
to them next time," and that they would
have did ii this time had 1t not been Tor
Barnum and John Kelly.
Notwithstanding the frequent warnings
given by the press every week about the
sharpers who are constantly on the road,
taking in for various sums unsuspecting
farmers, who either don't take a local pa
per, or else they think themselves sharp
er proof" They have been here-yes, are
gone, but not forgotten, at least by one
sharp aleck OF n farmer-One who always
said, they could not catch him on any OF
their thin bats" His name | withhold (;
but suffice it to say he was an honest and
industrious farmer, who was notified last!
week by the express agent at this place,
that his note OF $3.50 was due, with polite
intimation to whack up at once. The far
mer was sure he had never signed such
note, but when he seen it he had to ac-
knowledge his signature, and it was genu-
inc, but how it came there he ut first could
not tell, but later light soon dawncd upon
his vision. He remembered that some
time in early spring he was visited by GER
tain parties hniling from Detroit, and he
had purchased from them the right to sell
patent milk pail, and that he had signed
what he supposed to be contract TO that
end, without as much as reading the con-
tents of the paper, but he sees now that it
was his promise to pay $3.50 instead OF a
/ contract. And heno' has Ms souvenir OF
his sniartness milk pail thai >cost him
just $3.50. Yours, &C., ALI.
P. S. The pail was made of the cheap.
est variety of tin.
Oceola, o., Nov. 1s, 1880.