Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-11-24
In q Country Town.

Is dluS lHtSiSSuh vi aSSOuht III ioihS
that come back home. Some O. US
kin git by tn Fourth O. July or fair
week or even Christmas an New
Years, but some how theirs somethin'
bout Thanksgi' in day that kind o
makes us want Z be back home. Then,
too, one nice long dull Thanksgivin'
afternoon in B fiat town is enough
Z make us all satisfied Z stay away
fer another whole year.
Our town looks real cosmopolitan
like t'day, as Tell Binkley would say.
On ever corner you kin see little
clumps O. fellers that haint met in
years holdin' reunions an talkin'
about ole times Some o. 'em look
like they had lots Z be thankful fer
an some o. 'eTn look like tn place
they come from ought Z be thankful,
while still others look like our town
ought + be thankful that Thanks
givin' only comes once a year.
Sam Bud, who traded his farm here
fer Floridy orange grove some years
ago, came in from tn north this morn
in. He says this is tn first time that
he's ever had clothes an money enough
at tn same time Z git back.
Halle Mopps, who's been gone about
ten years, is home from Coshocton, o.
He says he's lied so long about tn
size O. his fathers farm here that he
hardly recognized it when he got back.
Crayson Mapes wuz about tn first
Teller that showed up fer Thanks
givin'. His folks have been dead fer
thirty years an he never knowed it.
Bout tn last thing anybuddy ever
heerd O. him wuz in 1876, when he
sent his mother a Centennial edition
o. tn Philadelphy Ledger. He come
over from Jacksonville on parole but
nobuddy knowed him.
Joe Apple is back in town shakin'
hands, too. His whiskers have been
driven back an his step haint quite
as springy as it WIZ before he traded
his hardware store fer some rice land
in Arkansas. He's just plain SHOW
eler now somewhere's in Michigan
He says that while tn work is a little
harder than bein' in business, Their
haint no books T keep an Their aint
nothing invested an you kin lay of
when it rains.
Laurel Spray, who sold his farm
here two years ago an invested in a
gold mine out West, is in town wearin'
straw hat. He says he's been so
busy gittin' home that tn weather
never occurred + him. He NAV stay
here n'go back in tn band if he kin
trade his mimi stock fer a clarinet.
But ups an downs er mo ups an
downs, Teller is still purity rich that's
got a good mother an father + %
back to. Their haint no mashed p'ta-
toes an roast turkey an mince pie
anywhere else on earth that kin touch
your mothers. Her coffee is pener-
ally purity bad, but we won't saw any,
thing about that. don't care how
any Teller is gittin' along, whether
he's single or tied down, he feels a
whole lot better if he knows he's eot
an ole homie T go back to. o. course
your father haint as gushy as mother
but even il you did leave tn farm
jest at time when he needed you TIL
most, he's proud O. you lest as lone
as you don't ask father fer any money
either directly er thro' mother, he's
proud o. you.
But mother is tn one She believes
everything you tell her. She knows
you have + hurry away an that where
you've been workin' has had + close
down till You git back. YOU'RE her
boy an things can't git along withou,
you.