Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-09-14

COUSIN JARBB bad BEEN TO
GRIGGgvILlE.

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Ing him in dressing gown n slippers
Il Thought / would sit up for you,
dear. she said. Il was so anxious 70
h oar all about it. Did you give MIN q
good time? | suppose this one day
will supply him with something 10
talk about for the rest of his lie.
lust wish | could have been with you.
shelmit grinned, rather ruefully. 4
wish YOU could nave been" he sald.
lust think exclaimed Mrs. Shell
nit. After living 80 years away oue
in that little corner of the worlu "
come ND here and plunge headlohs IN
~ all the whirl and wonders oil the
city. l can just imagiD nov ne io'A
ed"
"You can't" said Shelmit.
"Indeed I can. | know how he telt'
ton I can remember m first visit 10
town when | was a little child. l was
. crazy with the excitement OF IT..
) "Iared wasn't said her husaDnu.
mo. he doesn't look excitable, put
] he must have been impressed. g,
r mot a particle" said Shelmit'
o had an idea that he would be myself
= Int YOU see Jared has been to Grlggs-
Vile four times Once he stayeu 'neAe
a week.. He's blase, is Jared.
= Shelmit, having united MS shoes
Z. and taken off his coat, threw hlmseh
I'd into a willow rocker and signed
I'd "Where in the world is Griggsvilie!
asked Mrs. Shelmit. And what mas
Griggsville got to do with it?'
"~Griggsville," said Shelmit, is Just
about the liveliest little burg in the
RS limited states. It's thec county seat Oh
on Hopkins and Hopkins logical center.
M "where did O take him.?
=. "showed him around downtown
:. State street reminded him oil Grisss
Vile on a Saturday afternoon. iol
70 take 1t when all the farmers are a
at to do their trading on Saturday am
at things hum. We've got a normal POP
its ulation of clost on to 5000 anyway.
"Did YOU take him up the elevate
in the Masonic temple? You know
asked you to-" =,
certainly, but they've got an Ell
re- vator that runs by city water pow
'at- in the Jones house in GriggsViii
There's a slap-up hotel tne 'on
to house."
the 1.-THE ideal" 80
tor "The federal building looks q go'
deal like the courthouse IN uriss
Vile. It's got a coopilow on II a go'
S. deal the same, only the Griggsvi
DON. structure is composed of brickIr
,ing brick. Cost a little more mar $40
would have, but when
starts to do a thing 1t Toes II
Ada brown. regardless OF expense
rth's "uow perfectly ridiculous you al
He didn't say all that
,her- He said a good deal more ou,
,ence can't recoiiec' though T
~" hest he could do was to tell me an
tho Limestone ridge and he had
was admit hat there wasn't a river on
,hell. ~ that. We went through the tun
rr;ss IN the way to Lincoln park.
100 thought we ought to be getting aro'
TO electric cars. They nave eiec
s re- cars in Griggsville-four OF tn
vaca- Tbev run from Higgins dairy farm
E. the normal school. He thought
Davis Newberry library might be al II
Sun when they got the oach p"i'
to it."
- "Did he like the parkY
why. yes, it was right pre
There's quite a park in the city
souare in Griggsville. Fountain T
g m in the middle of it and a grand 81
of its hover oou' Me- MT n
- around in that park. venln y
ris'ian oreat Mace for the boys and girl
popu walk around in. When the band
the VAIN .vhodv turns ont.
s looks gay, | tell you. The AMI
III were sort of interestin You 0
-" To have seen the menagerie Dlhsa
"A iai brought to Griggsville. There
most every animal you could thin
Tho seals were trained-these
u,,4h ain,t. are they? Mrs. Levi Gaines
saor,n bankers wife in Griggsvilie' na'
.oa4ha, one of these conservatorles-n
~ IN by steam in the winter.
.aIl hole was .neae
. about Griggsville?' -,
= IL "We1l. no-not what you mlgn
o~on,fort a lake, but Bob Tracy has got
~ 80, pond that's no SLOUGH, l tell
. ~ Stocked it up with German car
~ and wanted to take him out 10 the
yards, but when he told me az
100 Warmers abattoir and colds
- plant out by the cattle pens {
p. d. & w. side track | h
would be an old story to lin.
even had a strike at Griggsvill
the hands in the sugar-beet !
- went out and two of 'em lamm
" Town marshal in a rumpus tina
ha swhy. ! thought he would ,
delighted with everything ne
- Pm sure I don't want to take b
tomorrow if he's going to act Tx
: kind Didn't he ever like the play
econ theater?"
Il think he did. He said he
- fact. but there was a show
mana hO,ca in GriggSVille that