Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-03
The Editor Goes to Town.
From the Galveston News.

HAoui S10 1dINc6IOu views.
The editor was going to the city. II
was something OF an event, for whert
h Weekly Roughrider was printee
people seldom went to the city.
1t had been noised about for a week
that the editor contemplated going t.
the city, and friends and constituents
sat up nights to see what use they
could make Of him.
Up to the morning Of his departure
he a contracted to attend to numer
GUS things for numerous people. Hi
had agreed to try to put a loan OF slA
through the Second National bank foi
n man. For another he had agreed to
ask the extension cf 60 days on a little
bill of dry goods amounting to $S7.55
For a third he was to buy and brinA
out three gallons of linseed oil. adver.
tised at S cents a gallon less han a,
save freight.
Also he had contracted to attend tt
the trimming of a hat for Mrs. Wads.
wood; to buy a sanitary glass bottle
with a rubber tube In It for Mrs. Grim.
mel's baby: to get samples of wal!
Skippoe Single mill in person and seh
if he couldn't get a better price on min
work for the Davis house: to investi-
gate the proposition to buy a church
organ on time for the new church. to
purchase a roll of stair carpet for Ezra
w SIbA W 1oOh dP sam NNOotlc
nephew and tell him how the folks
were.
incidentally he had to buy some type
for himself. n had figured on spend
ing the day in town leaving that night.
Therefore his soul was sorry within
scribers and advertisers in a town
where people seldom go to the city and
he had smilingly agreed to attend t.,
these matters.
Il was time to depart. The editor
clapped on his hat and with a final
slipped down h bac stairway. hop
ing to reach the depot without meet
ing friends.
Blu as he turned the corner Of the
building a voice hailed him:
Hey, Ed! Come here a minute!" The
a leading advertiser. Then he reluc.
family approached the back door from
which the voice came.
You know. Ed" said the leading adj
vertiser. Il Amt a drinkin' man; but ]
X to keep a little whisky in tn house
TOT sickness. Now. at the United Dis
tilleries' ONCE they're sellin' eight gall
Ions Of four-year-old stuff for $40. You
bring me eight gallons and I'll give you
q check for 1t when you get back
But how" began the unhappy editor,
thinking Of the stair carpet and the
JULIE! INNINGS. Inc OIner p0Sned MN
gently out.
Youth miss the train" ne said. Don't
forget now-United Distilleries." Then
the editor ran. Voices called to himl
eager, clutching hands strove to arrest
his progress. but ne did not halt.
And at the depot the postmaster-ha
whom all editors must respect-met
him gladly.
ed" he said, them twins o. mine
has a birthday Sunday. l want you IL
get two baby cheers-the high kind
you know, with wooden trays in front
understand? One OF 'em wants TO b.
blue and t'other red. Don't pay morn
a dollar apiece for 'em-some store o,
other sells EN- for a dollar, and don't
forget. I'll pay when you get back
! amt got any change"
Then the editor sadly entered the
train. which had pulled in. An excited
hand rarned on the coach window. and
an excited voice shouted to him:
Say. Ed" shrieked the voice. the
owner OF 1t running alongside IL NOV
Ing train. will you get me-
NO. I won't said the editor, and
sank back into the hot. red, plush seat
and sighed with a sigh that came from
near the appendix.