The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-04-18
HIs couNTRY NEMsPAPEa.
"Reminiscences suggested TO an old Boy
by the News Of Unionvilie.

by the news oi Lntonfille.
1T is a fashion. / know. amons city
folk to ridicule the country payer,
says a reformed travelling man, -but
/ have been a regular subscriber to the
| Unionville Banner for over thirty
years. There's one evening ia the week
that ] 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 a mus
ing and a dreaming over my copy of
the Banner
"Yes, there it is. Hasn't changed a
font Of type. ] guess, in forty years
Same old, queer job type. Same old
Washington press still grinds it out
I'm bet. as it did when / was a freckled
boy and used 20 hang around the front
door Of the tunbling rookery where
snowy-haired Editor Moore used 10 be
picking up the type or meth0dically
scratching down the fact that Miss
May Smith is visiting friends IN our
neighboring burg. or John LOTUS is
preparing TO build a 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,
/ ascertain that Miss Ella Stuart has
quite a class OF music pupils here IN
town and also conducts a class In Pat
tonsburg Miss Stuart has a good
quality Of musical talent Why dear
me. dear me. don't It beat an how
things do novel Why. I used to go to
the high school ia Unionyllit with
Ella Stuarts mother And many
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 seel Why, here's some
thing Walter Thomas has been 10 the
city this week. laying IN a new stock
Of goods Peter Figel is helping out In
The Emporium during Walters alb
sence.' Wen, Il Is surprising how some
boys'll come up in the word ia spite
Of poverty and distress. Know who
that Walter Thomas isg 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 a place. and had n
cabbage patch all around the house
Desolate a looking place as you ever
saw
Pap was sort OF half-witted ana
had son who / should say was fully
threcquarters witted A peaceable
law-ablding well-digger re came to be.
Married real bright girl. really con
siderably above the average. and here
their sons become the leading mer-
chant In Unionvillel This Peter Figel |
is relatlon-son, maybe-of an old !
foreigner who settled down in Union
VILE and earned q living at cobbling.
Said TO be Of noble birth be was. and
mysterious generally.
Il shouldn't know the faces that |
would greet me on Main street. / sup
pose now. Most of 'em come up since
/ was a boy. l 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
and settled down ia Union
fille, and their sons and daughters are
o-day's young men and women. l was
going to do such big things when l
struck the city that l couldn't exactly
make up my mind TO take time to
come back and court Susie williams
kept putting It off and putting il of
until should get a little better and
little better position until. first thing
knew, Phil Kerns up and married
Der and I was left SO. that's how It
S, and bless me If 1 don't wonder
sometimes as l muse over the old Ban.
ler IL the boys who stayed at home
lave made such a miserable failure Of
I after all.
So, ! read along to ponder over the
that those quaint items in
he Local News call forth Well, You
nay poke fun at the country weeklies
IS you VIII, but / fan 20 see why the
act that "a resident Of Unionville has
ately bought the place Of another resi-
lent Of Unionville. and intends to
move into H. may not be as well worth
In the local paper Of Union
lille as the fact that the dog Of a IA
nous actress died on the steamer Is
worth two-column pictures and
description in city dailics.
! can see much difference
n merit between a poodle dog editorial
n a city daily and "a big cabbage Just
aid on the desk Of We editor Of a coun-
ry weekly. Boston correspondence
# the New York sun.
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