Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-05-20
HIS COUNTRY NEWSPAPER,


by the News of UuionvilIe.
''It is n fashion, l know. among city
folk to ridicule the country paper"
says n reformed travelling man. but
l have been a regular subscriber to the
unionville Banner for over thirty
years. There's one evening in the week
chat 1 look forward to with zest.
That's Monday night, when | light my
old pipe, put on my slippers and lie
back in the battered rocker for mus
ipg and a dreaming over NV copy OF
the Banner
Yes, there 1t IS. Easn't changed a
font Of type, l guess. in forty years.
Same old, queer job type. Same old
Washington press still grinds it out.
I'll het, rs it did when l was a freckled
boy and used to hang around the front
door OF the tumbling ro0kery where
sEoWy-haired Editor Moore used TO be
picking up the type or methodically
scratching down the fact that Miss
May Smith is visiting friends in our
neiShboring burg or John LOTUS is
preparing to build new barn. Most
OF the lumber is already on the
ground
u turn to the front page first, of
course, ana here, n my Local News
ascertain that Miss Ella Stuart has
quite class of music pupils here in
town and also conducts class in Pat
tonsburg. Miss Stuart has Il good
quality of musical talent Why, dear
me, GEAR me; don't it beat all how
thlnss DO move! Why, used TO go to
the hlgh school in Unionville with
Ella Stuart's mother. And many a
time | hung May baskets with her and
then hung over the old white paling
gate and held her hand until an omin-
Gus raising OF an upper window indi-
cated that a parent of Elias mother
desired the daughters presence with
in.
And. let's see! Why, here's some
thing: Walter Thomas has been TO the
city this week, laying in new stock
of goods. Peter Figel is helping out in
The Emporium during Walters alb
sence. Well, it is surprising how some
Doys'l come up in the word il spite
OF poverty and distress. Know who
that Walter Thomas is? Well, sir,
hes the grandson of old Pap Thomas,
as We used to call him, VINO used to
live away down there by the railroad
in that little hut of place, and had a
cabbage patch all around the house.
Desoiate looking place as you ever
saw.
Pap was sort OF half-witted and
had son who l should say was fully
three-quarters Wltted. 4 peaceable,
law-abidins well-digger lie came to be.
Married a real bright girl, really con-
siderably above the average, and here
their sons become the leading mcr-
chant in UniOnyille! This Peter Fieel
is relation-son, maybe--of an old
foreigner who settled down in Union
vile and earned a living at cobbling.
Said to be OF noble birth he was, and
mysterious generally.
Il shouldn't know the faces that
would greet me on Main street, 1 sup
pose now. Most of 'em come up since
| was a boy. | wonder who really has
made the truest success, the boys who
stayed at home or those VINO were 60
ing to conquer the great world out
side. There were my schooimates who
married and settled down in Union
vile, and their sons and daughters are
to-day's young men and women. was
going to do such big things when 1
struck the city that 1 couldn't exactly
make up my mind to take time to
come back and court Susie Williams.
! kept putting it off and putting It off
until [ should got n little better and a
little better position until, first thing