Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-01-02
to the light q the oess people N manD
places east and west other than Rome.

"oh. Harlan's all right" repeated
Arne. and 80 are these other people
Indian over on the Square-he's
marking the spot where something
once happened. In Earlville they're
laughing at U row over SIN Creek.
Every time q freshet comes. what
happens? Some Of our prominent
citizens wake up in the morning and
socks and busted s%tovepipes and brass
collar buttons that Sin Creek a
swept down on us from the garbage
heaps of Earlville. Then they roar
and talk creek diversion. but nothing
was ever done until they. made 1t q
getting the rake-off; Then. being
regular. the best families agreed to
Sinsinawa had been a scandal inn
memorially. everybody knew. But
then everybody loved Sinsinawa, and
down 8 dozen channels from the bluff
would not have been Rome. One
could put up with a vulgar collar but
ton washed down now and then from
the alleys OF Barlvule.
Wiloy Curran sighed ~ he watched
the copper Indian across the square.
Chief Winnesaqua. who ruled the land
when squirrels gambeled over the site
Of Rome. They were still gamboling
over the old town, While Earlville had
built Its Hotel Metropole with English
steeplechase scenes around the dining
room wainscOt. Rome had had Miss
Ameli Parsons. of the Parsons house.
and her l o'clock Sunday dinner. with
chicken. since 1856. Earlville had ito
Elk's club done with a brownstona
front. Rome had its Shakespeare club
which met Thursdays at the ladies'
homes. Earlville had its syndicate the
ater in e brick; Rome had its
opera house sheathed in tin imitation
OF sandstone-and peeltng on. Earl
vtlle-but why reaearse? There is the
Carneeie library. the Young Mems
ing. the paid fire department.. the In
terurban. the home Of Congressman
Hall. which, like all tho homes Of great
men In the west, was spiked with the
militant decoration of q German cake
the east addition. and tho factory dis
trict.
Rome had mono Of these. In lieu Of
town plats it had an imperial isola-
ton. When the Earlville boosters. in
train. went up the valley. to serenade
other communities and parade In silk
hats and white flannel trousers. Rome
was usually entertaining district dele
gates to the Baptist Young Peoples
660OC1AI1OuS AxlU WI0Ai u klIx 8uOW
struck Earfville. direct from 200 nights
in Chicago. Rome's tin opera house va
invariably given over to Flint, the hyp-
notist, the Swiss Bell Ringers. or
the c~hautauQua quartet.
MI. Curran accepted tickets to these
on advertising and sat glpomily all
through. After all, MI. Curran was q
loyal citizen. Even though he did print
the story of the drummer who related
Miss Amelia Parsons. Of the Par
sons house. insisted ON his sleeping
with brown papers under his ears. lest
the pillows become s0iled too 300 af-
ter the Saturday change.
OF course he lost advertising. But
Mr.. Curran had an unhappy mania for
printing things that lost advertising.
now. Miss Vance. looking with
patient yes at the threerHarlan. fair
skinned. resolute. serious. his largo
boned frame carrying. at 81. q mans
dignity: her, brother Arne. soil burned.
Indian checked. nervous. lean. q LIN
colnian awkwardness about his clothes:
and then Wiley with his young-old
eyes. the close brown beard. lending
him. in Rome, an unacceptable foreign
Mr.. Curran's perennial failure.
At IS. when she taught her first
school. h supposed that Wiley would
ask her to marry him. but he had gone
off on footless wanderings. Twelve
years later he came back. q trifle stout
er. a bit sad. still mischievous. tho
sided friend. but NJ tho lover.
She had gone on to q successful and
widening career; she had developed \
personality. made q place: but Wiley
well. Wiley had become "Curran OF tho
News" Even now Harlan Van Hart,
many years the younger. was fitting
himself o his fathers honored foot
steps; Arne was enthusiastically put
ting In his great schemes FOR soil sweet