The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-07-05
SENTIMENTAL
CYRUS GREEK
Former Crawford County Man, Broth
er Of Mrs. John Carey, Writes
Letter to MapIeton Press.
NOW LIVING At GENOA, NEH
Advises Boys to Stay in Native Land,
But If They Must Move to
Come to Genoa.
Genoa, Neb., June %, 1910.

Genoa, Neb., June %, 1910.
Dear Mr.. Editor: l received your
card notifying me that if I got in
under the Wire June Oath, l would
receive one dollar and fifty cents
worth of Mapleton Press for one dol
lar. If you have the subscription list
of this paper thirty years ago, and
read along down you will see that Cy
Greek has been doing this same thing
for many years. l firmly believe that
the man who cheats the printer out of
single cent will never reach the
Heavenly Land where Old Elijah went.
Hell, hel--He will have to drink the
cup of sorrow and regret and have to
Jump around right smart with cussed
ness, you bet.
"Mr Editor, here is the dollar. 1t
! is quite dry out here, but not so dry
that we can't take such deals as that.
| We have watched the Press for 80
years, and while we are aware that
prices nuctuate some, yet we believe
| the Press has always been worth the
price to any person that could read,
and we have heard many democrats
say it was we'll worth the money!
and was a splendid paper.
"Our country here is quite dry, but
winter wheat, of which we raise as
many acres as we do corn, is good.
Corn is doing fine; oats and potatoes
are needing rain, but we never raise
many of either, only for our own use.
Alfalfa is good. Prairie hay needs
rain. Harvest is here, and hundreds
of harvesters will start Monday if
the weather is fit. We went east of
Genoa six miles yesterday afternoon
and counted seventeen teams blowing
corn in one field
eve would like very much to read
over the names of those who read
your paper twenty-five years ago.
believe at that time twenty-five and
thirty years ago, nine out of every
ten of us were just boys, under thirty
years old. East Mapleton was settled
by the boys and girls. Very few men
and women forty years old lived in
East Mapleton twenty-five years ago,
and ] believe that those are there to-
day, that were there from 1880 to 1890,
will look back with pleasure and with
much pride. If memory could be
helped to recall the names and faces
of those girls and boys (for that is all
that they were) the editors of this
paper at that time not excepted, l
would like to trace here every name
on paper; my mind would run back
while 1 stopped to trace the look of
that face But my hair has grown
grey, boys, and my memory has faded.
If could see those names in print
it would help.
Il mo, l did not move back that is
bodily, but give me my lowly matched
cottage again. has many times passed
through my mind, and l have many
times thought of the 'fatted calf 1t
would have tasted good more than
once. Don't move away from Maple
ton, boys. Though the fields are just
as green and the sun shines just as
brightly, it is not your own native
home. Now, boys and girls, if you
! won't take my advice and stay in
Mapleton, come here. Come one, come
all. l will here say own cool shade,
with nice green grass covered lawn,
and river banks enough for every man,
woman and child in Mapleton, and
they won't be crowded, either and
they are open to all.
"Truly yours,
ICY Greek"