Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-03-27
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
The Country CORRESPONDENT.
iEerry. Oklahoma nepublican.)

Uerry. Oklahoma, Republican,
How many Jokes are sprung at the
! expense OF the county correspondent.
Like the poor mother-in-law, he comes
| i'll for ridicule and more or less slander.
but he goes right on as in the days of
the hand press and heyday of the tour
| list typo and is still with US just as
good as new.
You always read his items because.
no matter what Your familiarity or cx-
pefichce DC Ill the rural districts. you
nili something OF interest. That John
Brown has put an addition to his
Rouse and painted it red sounds good
10 the reader who used to know John
IN Missouri when his circumstances
wouldn't allow him to put an addition
I" his loop-polc hen coop. That Saral,
Brown lnarred one of the Wilkins boys
may not interest you. but the folks
back nome who used to predict great
things for the Brown girls are pleased
To know Sarah got good husband.
The old, familiar ED Smith has new
buggy. LOOK out. girls" informs you
tiiat some fellow out on Black Bear is
prospering. while those who know Ed
are glad to learn that he is still the
same unmarried. jolly fellow that was
always the life Of the socials and the
plague of the spelling school and de-
batting society.
That "Bill Jones made final proof for
his farm last Saturday" is only a pass
ing matter with us, but the folks back
in Iowa will be glad to know Bill is the
pOSSGSsOr of lG0 acres of good Okla
ho1a land. Upon reading this they
venture here to Speculate, as they have
hardly done as well as Bill. who left
Iowa with nothing but good health as
his stock in trade.
SO it is. Those little seeming impor-
tant items furnish as much, and possi-
bly, more. pleasure for the subscriber of
the county weekly as the great and all
absorbing topics relating to Hyde,
Lawson and the Panama Canal and
other studies of great pith and mo-
mcnt.
Again, at night when the work is
done, you pick up the country weekly
from the old home back East. You look
over town news, scan the blazing half
pasc ads and turn over TO the country
correspondence. Not that you were ac-
ioe.hi'StA III SNCly HciSHUOIllOOu iloui
Pleasant Valley to Pumpkin Ridge, nor
do you know the present generation
spoken of in the news items. But here
and there is an old family name that
makes You think, and takes you back
to the good old days gone by. An item
about the old church or the school, and
as yCu sit there the recollection brings
back memories all but forgotten. You
wander out on the big road through the
valley and woodland to the big farm
house. Then 4 hundred faces of boy
hood companions are all before you as
You picture the revival at the cross
roads church or the spelling bee at the
old red schOolhouse, and you wonder
what has become of all the boys and
girls you left when you started West.
Tic Old tourist printer has been
relcSated to the Junk pile by the limo
type, the city man takes his notes in
shorthand, the editor dictates his mat
ter to amanuensis and from the type
whites ii goes down the tube-the
revolution is complete, yet there is one
good, old-fashiored feature holding
ovcr-the weekly copy from the coun-
try correspondent. Nothing can take
his place. May he be with US forever,
because the paper needs him and the
readers appreciate him and We want
him. though he hasn't improved a lick
in spelling and punctuation.