Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1913-12-17
Extends Thanks,

MR.. EDlTOR:-
May | through your columns ex-
tend thanks TO the friends OF Cere-
do and vicinity who have gwen US
such heartsome and royal welcome?
We have been entertained in so
many homes and kindly invited To
many more beyond what We had IN.
time TO accept, though our hearts
responded TO them.
IL has been a great pleasure to
recall incidents of the years when
we lived among them.
A country doctor has a hard life
In many ways, and In the long rides.
through cold and storm, when half
frozen, wet through and 70 tired.
1t could have foreseen row i'm old
age should come upon this happy
vi 1t, | should have taken on fresh
courage tor the future.
am often asked my opinion as
TO the growth and Improvement in
Ceredo. But few are better able to
Judge of 1t than |, who have known
1t from it's infancy and no one could
be more proud Of all 1t has accom-
pllshed. Its pavements, streets
and tine lighting, water system
and the handsome houses all made
so comfortable by those Injuries.
AS we recall the old days, no rail
roads, no street cars, no side walks,
no street lights, few wells
and the water for general use
hauled iii barrels, Que mail a day
carried in buggy from Guyando,te
TO Ca;lettsburg, one school, the
teacher paid by private subscrlp
ton. 1t was held in what is known
now as the old Baptist church
Then 1T was on the site of the town
pumping station and used for all
public gatherings, besides church
services by all denominations. 1t
was reached by pIodding through
the mud, among slumps and stakes
indicating town los. A lady's es-
cort must scrape off the mud from
her shoes at the door and perhaps
tish her overshoes ont of a puddle.
Now your schoolbuildings, equip
ment and corps Of teachers, stand
first among the states tho yours is
half century younger than any of
them.
Some complain that men and bows
must seek employment else here,
but II there were manufacturers and
industries here enough to furnish so
much work, then the ideal, quiet,
law-abiding home life would be
destroyed.
We are proud to note how many
OF Ceredo's children have proved
capable of filing positions of honor
and responsibility and should we be
spared to make another visit we
hope to find the Improvement going
on. Why should not we live to see
public library? | know some
steps bad been taken before the
flood, but 1t should not be dropped.
NO one can measure the good II
would do the young people and the
pleasure 1T would give older ones.
IL can be done with less trouble than
you at first think when once started.
he gift of few books or money
from each family and | believe the
place to put 1t might be found in
the same way. Also | think that
some state appropriation might be
secured by proper application for
it.
1t has been pleasure to see the
handsome new homes occupied by
old friends and we wish that we
might have seen the lawns and
gardens In all the beauty of summer
flowers and shrubs; but the happy
faces and hearty welcome of old
friends were better than flowers and
80 with thanks to you for the space
given us In your valued paper we
bid good bye to you all and 90 on
our journey farther south.
DR. and Mrs. WHARToN.