The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-05-31


life I ever been noren ten mi" from
homo and then went to Grafton.
| am what is known az on" Of III"
crlck boys because liv" up the TyGartS
Vayllcy river and amt never been o1cn
the banks OF the old crirk since ! WAS
born, some ~ or 70 years ago . amt "X-
actly shore which. amt never been tn
no city before cNCCNiin M"HtSN'I'e
which don't Count none being il Is 80
riost horrr But went yesterday To
Grafton.
Now | got a putty fair taste for purity
hobs and nlo"ISh!n" nhk"r. hut when II
comes 1" ellie don't know any NOR"
about them than Il Il. & Q. brakeman
knows about silk shirts. am n"
judge attal Eut after seeing Grafton
| know more wat Il purity city should
not look Xix" than | GIl before. Ia al
ways said that Grafton WAS c"rkinS
good city. he WAS there onrt fifteen
year ago. and guess it was a corkinG
place then. bu, since the prohibition !c.-
lerS have made them quit selling !'kk'r
| don't guess II is quite SO CorkinG.
All that Noise
Weir the first thiuH | done when |
got ofrcn the train was I" look all
around and see whcrr all that n"iS" waS
coming from and never did 50" s."
many engines in all my born days as
was setting around doing nothing bIt
make y lot OF SMOKE IN an unE"HIN "t
rt noise. II pears to me that they SET
these engines right in front Of IN" sta
ton Ia max" tho people think thnt
Graf l"n is n terribl" busy place. hit
somebody told me- that was not IN"
reason attal hut the engines were k"p'
there 20 make so much noise that the
head clerk and tho healed stcn"gr'phcr
in the offices over the station c"uid not
carry on an an day conversation. |
knowAd 1t must 10 for some such roaS-
on like that tnr | went back several
lines during tho day and the engines
were setting right where they wcr" and
Just making as much noise as ever.
Grafton as soon found out - one
Of them IN and down towns. Tho Kind
YOU walk up and look down and then
wolk down ana look w. II &c the all
tircdc>t Stcrprst town | ever heard 81
and if AL cities are like that | lhInk
will IL, satisfied tn stay the rrSt at INV
days uI on the crtrH. When LETT
home 10 20 ~ Grafton !. was bright
SunShny day and not a cloud in tho
sky. but when got out Of TN" train AT
Cratic Il half hour Iatetr I'll He burned
If the biggest black cloud ] ever seen
In my days had not come up and re2red
like / would rain in bucket ful& IN
very few minutes 81 | went an bought
n big umbrcl!rr and Cartrd Il around
with mo the rest OF tho day hut y
never rain"d n drop. found on, later
II WIS no; cloud | seen but was moth
ing hut smoke from the engines set
ting on the track doing their durnrd"St
to break up the pore little Stenograph-
ser's conversation.
All the Birds arc Black
As I say don't know nothing about
big cities like Grafton. hut IL they are
an as dirty as Grafton I don't want 10
know. Why ] never seen so much soOt
and smoke since ia burned out the chm
ney seven years ago. You cant touch
nothing much without getting II hand
full Of SCOT and I wrrnt in the town
m"r"n fifteen minutes before was
black as the acc Of spades. I began 70
understand why all the birds In Graf
ton ure blackhI-ds. although they range
in size from the p"ny English sparr"r
10 the proud and hAuty pigeon, but they
are all blackbIrdS in Grafton.
Why il is 81 smoky and sootv that
the girls carry two powder puffs. one
10 rub tho dirt in and tho other :" cover
II up with powder; how in Sam ii'l
they get II out at night ! don't know
you soc ] left on the evening trnin. But
one Of the Grafton fellcrS SAID that I
Student mind the smoke and SCOT and
that i; WAS what mad" tn" money for
Ora fton and that money made tho marc
GO. hut thinks | If was that mar" II
would taxi tarnation little money {"
make me go from there and m awful
lot to get me hack unless they could
find some way TO do away without IN"
smoke and SCOT. and | guess there are
ways if they would only use them.
Vito or Housefeeper
After I had wandered around over the
city looking at the many wonderful
sights including the beautiful streets
with all the nice little humps in them
and watching the daily street ear pass
through and had picked some forty
seven cinders out of my good cy'. |
dTifted into the ncwSpa per office Ia ro-
new pas subscription. While vs.
setting there gaSS!nc with i tUrri6l"
nice Teller some old bird about ittynInc
year old como N and wanted TO leave an
rtiScmcnt. tie wanted Il wife ar u
houSekcepcr and he wanted hor bad. h"
| said. looked him over purity careful
and he seemed abcut worn out and not
! much good attal and ! though. thinks !,
| that wife or h"uS~kccp"r would hc all
the sam" 10 him. He sod that h. had n
good house. was Of Il tender and n0ur.%h
Ing disposition and had Il good job and
making lots nf money. When he come
to nay the bill for The advertisement.
no was told l. would 10 20 cents for
one day or $3.50 for Il week. He S"rt"r
, kicked about the price but finally pad
the 90 cents for one day.
| don't know nothing Il bout Inatrl-