The Greeley tribune., 1906-07-05
ALWAYS new
THE NOTES FROM COUNTRY
CORRESPONDENTS
Though of Slight Importance to
the Average Reader to the
One Who Knows They
Are it

How many Jokes are sprung at
the expense of the country cores
pendent? Like the poor mothr-in-
law, he comes in for ridicule and
more or less SANDER, but he goes
right on as in the days OF the hand
press and heyday of the tourist typo
and is still with us just as good as
new.
You always read his items, because
no matter what your familiarity
or experience be in the rural districts
you find something of interest. That
John Brown has put up an addition
to his house and painted it red
sounds good to the reader who used
to know John Brown In Missouri
when his circumstances wouldn't
allow him to put an addition on his
hencoop. That Sarah Brown married
one of the wilkins boys may not in
terest you, but the folks back home
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 bug
gy. Look out, girls" informs you
that 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 So
cials and the plague of the spelling
school and debating society.
That "Bill Jones made final proof
for his farm last Saturday" is only
passing matter with us, but the
folks back in Dwa will be glad to
know Bill is the possessor of 100 acres
of good Oklahoma land. Upon read
ing this they may venture here to
speculate, as they have hardly done
as we'll as Bill, who left Iowa with
nothing but good health as his stock
in trade.
So it is. Those little seeming
important items furnish as much,
and possibly more, pleasure for the
subscriber of the country weekly as
the great aud all-absorbing topics
relating to Hyde, Lawson and the
Panama canal and other studies OF
great pith and moment.
Again at night when the work is
done, you pick up the country weekly
from the old home back east. You
look over the town news. scan the
blazing Ealfpage ads. and turn over
to the country correspondence. Not
that you were acquainted in every
neighborhood from 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 YOU sit there the recollection
brings back memories all but forgot
ten. You wander out on the big
roads through the valley and wood
land to tie big farm house. Then
hundred faces of boyhood companions
are all before you as you picture the
revival at the cross roads church or
the spelling bee at the old red school
house, and you wonder what has be-
come of all the boys and girls you
left when YOU started west.
The old tourist printer has been
relegated to the Junk pile by the
linotype, the city man takes ms
notes in shorthand, the editor die
tates his matter to the amanuensis,
and from the typewriter 1T goes down
the tube-the revolution is complete,
vet there is one good, old fashioned
feature holding over-the weekly
COPY from the country correspondent.
Nothing can take his place. May
he be with us forever, because the
paper needs him and the readers APP
preciatie him, and we want him.
though he hasn't improved lick In
spelling and punctuation. Perry,
(Okla. Republican,.
May Make Alcohol.