The Red Cloud chief., 1901-03-15
HIS COUNTRY NE WseApeR.
Reminiscences Suggested To nv Old Boy
by the News of UnionvilIe.

by the news ut Unionvtlie.
at IL n fashion. I know, among city
folk to ridicule the country paper"
says a reformed travelling man. but
I have been a regular subscriber to the
Unionville Banner for over thirty
years. There's one evening In the week
that I look forward to with zest.
That's Monday night. when I light my
old pipe. put on my slippers and lie
back In the battered rocker for a mus
ing and n dreaming over my copy OF
the Banner.
Eyes, there II In. Hasn't changed a
font of type. ! guess, in forty years.
Same old. queer job type. Same old
Washington press 'still grinds II out,
I'll bet, as II did when I was n 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 methodically
scratching down the fact that Miss
May Smith Is visiting friends In our
neighboring burg or John Lotus Ia
preparing TO build a new barn. Most
Of the lumber IL already on the
ground .2tsS~-g.s
IL turn to the front page FIRST, Of
course, and here. In my Local News
I ascertain that Miss Ella Stuart has
quite n class Of music pupils here In
town and also conducts n class In Pat
tonsburg. Miss Stuart has a good
quality of musical talent Why. dear
snn Innt. s.n. .lnnft IL hAnt all l..,
things do move! Why, I used to go to
the high school In Unionville with
Ella Stuart's mother. And many n
time I hung May baskets with her and
then hung owe the old white paling
gate and held her hand until an omin-
u raising of an upper window indi.
Gated that a parent of Elias mother
desired the daughters presence with.
I'm. "-
"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, 1t 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,
rs We used to call him, who used to
live away down there by the railroad
In that little hut OF a place, and had a
cabbage patch all around the house.
Des0late a looking place as you ever
saw. So
Pap was sort Of half witted and
had a son who l should say was fully
three-Quarters witted. A peaceable.
~law-ablding well-digger ne came to be.
Married a real bright girl, really con.
siderably above the average. and here
their sons become the leading mcr-
chant in Unionville! This Peter Figel
IL a ~relation-son, maybe-Of an old
foreigner who settled down I'm 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, l sup
pose now. Most Of 'em come up since
! was n boy. ! wonder who really has
'''''N 'hN 'huNS' cut'NsN, II bolS WIN
stayed at home or those who were 60
ing to conquer the great world out
side. There were my schoolmatcs who
married and settled down I'm Union
vile, and their son and daughters are
to-day's young men and women. l was
going to do such big things when l
struck the city that I couldn't exactly
make up my mind to take time to
come back and court Susie Williams.
| kept putting II off and putting il off
until l should get a little better and a
little better position until, first thing
! knew. Phil Kerns up and married
her and war left. SO, that's how it
Is, and bless me II l don't wonder
sometimes as muse over the old Ban
ner If the boys who stayed at home
have made such n miserable failure of
II 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 weekJies
ms you Will, hut | fail In see why the
fact that "A resident of Uniongnle ans
lately bought the place OF another resi-
dent of unionville, AMI intends to
move into it, may not be lis Well worth
chronicling in the local paper Of Union
vile M the fact that the dog ca u Ia
nous actress died n the steamer IL
worth two-colnmn pictures anu a
h~alf-column description i'm city aailles.
Blamedf ! can sec muct difference
In merit between "A poodle dog editorial
in n city daily and y big cabbage Just
laid on the deskof yDeditOSrof couns
try weekly Boston correspondence
of the New York sun.
!, A. New scheme.
n new scheme to get people to tuy