The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-31

In the Wilds of Colquitt county,
Georgia, when Louis Roobin was only
a peddler--and strip of a lad at
that with absolutely no knowledge of
the English language, lived a Chris
tian woman, true as the nobility of
any land, In the heart of Louis Roo
bin, the successful merchant and bus
mess man of the present day in Cor
dele is Warm and loyal apprecia-
ton of this woman, for she was to him
everything that mother could be.
While his real mother sat anxious
nights in her home in far off Poland
thinking Of. her child of tender years,
that same boy found shelter and com,
fort and the real joys of home life
with this kind woman, a Mrs. Wiley
: Vickers. who lived 8 miles west of
Lenox, Ga, between the Warrior and
Little rivers.
Louis Roobin when he first earned
something in this country for himself,
had to be a peddler hoy with a pack
too heavy for a full-sized man. His
brother, A. Roobin, sent him into the
southern counties adjoining this com
munity to- sell goods. In Colquitt coun-
ty out few miles from the little town
of I.ehox on the Georgia Southern &
Florida Railway, when he was tired
and broken, to desperation from going
days without seeing a person to whom
he could speak a word. he fell in with
Sam Morris, a Jewish resident of Ber-
rien countyse then marshal at Moul-
trie, and was referred to the home of
this American God-mother and for
a year shefcared for him as for her
own children, and she had IL boys
and girls Of her own.
He went and came and learned as he
worked, going to country schools in
the morning and selling in the after
noon, until soon he could converse in
English, and Louis Roobin was to the
very letter, one Of the children in the
Vickers family. Mother yickers, a
dear good! woman. would have it no
other way. and she would never allow
her new charge TO pay her for IA
courage, worked and learned enough
of the ways of the people of his new
associations soon to become a sue
cessful business man. How he did
this is better told in a sketch taken
from the weekly Rambler of Decem-
Der 20, 1910.
Each year for many seasons Mother
Vickers has gotten a present from her
adopted son, Louis Roobin. He has
kept up a faithful correspondence in
which he has always expressed a dsep
appreciation of the kindness shown
him. Only recently he gets no answer
from his letters and he has planned to
make trip back over the old boy
hood peddling grounds to pay visit
to the family and to see what delays
lilC IisoNSi ~ HIS iCAtNl0s " liAAS ll'N
motor of yhis big (Ford) touring car
huns along the splendid highway that
has superseded the old sand banks OF
his boyhood. haunts, viii be ever re
membered his heavy pack and the hot
summer days and the tramp, tramp
tramp of Theology peddler Of yesterday!
The Rambler sketch follows:
The subject of this sketch, Mr.. L.
J. Roobin sor Louis as his friends call
him, was born in Bailystoek, Russian
Poland, on the Fifteenth day of May,
1875. His father, grain and cattle
dealer died when Louis was only six
months old, leaving five children, the
oldest of whom was girl OF fifteen
ears.
~. Roobin, the father, though he
6a been a man of wealth at the time
d is death, sdfati credited out large
sums which his widow was never able,
3 spliect.. consequently Louis was
aDeA boy Nsrs. r~9bigps who.