The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-03-14
HIS COUNTRY NEWSPAPER.
"Reminiscences Suggested TO an Old Bo
by the News of UnionviIIe.

"Reminiscences Suggested TO an Old Boy
by the News of UnionvilIe.
ut is fashion. l know, among city
folk to rldicule the country paper,r
says n reformed travelling man. "but
have been regular subscriber to the
Unionville Banner for over thirty
years. There's one evening In the week
that l look forward to with zest
That's Monday night, when l light my
old pipe, put on my slippers and lie
back in the battered rocker for mus
ing and dreaming over my copy Of
the Banner
Yes, there II is. Hasn't changed n
font of type, l guess, in forty years
Same old, queer job type. Same old
Washington press still grinds 1t out,
I'll bet, as 1t did when was freckled
boy and used to hang around the front
door of the tumbling rookery where
snowy-haired Editor Moore used to be
picking up the type or methodlcally
scratching down the fact that Miss
May Smith is visiting friends in our
neighboring burg or John LOTUS Is
preparing TO build n new barn. Most
of the lumber is already on the
ground
Il turn to the front page first. of
course. and here, in my Local News
l ascertain that Miss Ella Stuart has
quite class of music pupils here In
town and also conducts a class in Pat
tonsburg. Miss Stuart has good
quality of musical talent Why, dear
me, dear me; don't it beat all how
things do move! Why, I used to go TO
the high school in Unionville with
Ella Stuart's mother. And many n
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-
Gated 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 a new stock
of goods. Peter Figel is helping out In
The Emporium during Walters alb.
sence.' Well, it Is surprising how some
boys'll come up in the word in spite
of poverty and distress. Know who
that Walter Thomas is? Well, sir,
he's the grandson of old Pap Thomas,
as We used to call him, who used to
live away down there by the railroad
in that little hut of place, and had
cabbage patch all around the house.
Desolate a looking place as you ever
saw.
Pap was sort of half-witted and
had son who l should say was fully
three-quarters witted. A peaceable,
law-abiding well-digger lie came to be.
Married a real bright girl, really con-
siderably above the average, and here
their sons become the leading mer-
chant in Unionville! This Peter Figel
Is relation--son, maybe-of an old
foreigner who settled down in Union
vile and earned 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, l sup
pose now. Most of 'em come I'D since
l was boy. wonder who really has
made the truest success, the boys who
stayed at home or those who were 60
ing to conquer the great world out
side. There were my schoolmates 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
struck the city that 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 get little better and a
little better position until, first thing
l knew, Phil Kerns up and married
her and i was left. So, that's how II
is, and bless me IL l don't wonder
sometimes as muse over the old Ban
ner IL the boys who stayed Mt home
have made such miserable failure of
1t after all.
so, read along to ponder over the
memories that those quaint items in
the Local News call forth. Well. you
may poke fun at the country weeklies
as you will, but | fail to see why the
fact that "a resident of Unionville has
lately bought the place of another resi-
dent of Unionville, and intends to
move into it, may not be as we'll worth
chronicling in the local paper of Union
vile as the fact that the dog of fa-
nous actress died on the steamer is
worth two-column pictures and a
half-column description in city dailies.
Blamedf | can see much difference
in merit between poodle dog editorial
In city daily and "a big cabbage just
laid on the desk of ye editor of a coun-
try weekly. Boston correspondence
of tha Nav, Xo,.I C,rn