Smyrna times., 1929-11-20
FORMER SMYRN|AN ENJOYS
WEEKLY VISIT OF times"
PROF. CLYDE S. HOLLAND is
NEVER TOO BUSY TO READ 1T
Home News Welcome Though He
Has Been Away 16 Years
Agrees With Native OhiOan


Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Holland, of this
town, who left Delaware 16 years
ago for Ohio and for the past six
years has been a member of the
faculty of Ohio State University is
complimentary to The Smyrna
Times in that it gives him the
home news for which he antici-
pates it's weekly visit. In renew
ing his subscription, he says: I am
enclosing a clipping from the Co.
lumbus Dispatch chat seems to me
to be self explanatory. The writer
Fugh Fullerton, seems to have
come from Highland County, Ohio,
and to be referring to Hillsboro,
Ohio paper. 1t fits my case and !.
am sure it fits many Smyrna
Times readers who have left Smyr-
ma and are living in cities. ] have
been away from home sixte !.
years, but I share Mr.. Fullerton's
enjoyment of the hometown news.
l have been on the faculty of the
Ohio State University for the last
six years. Mr.. Fullerton in his
published article says: ''Everytime
the old hometown paper arrives,
tie slippers are dragged out and l
/ sit down for two hours of happi-
ness and contentment. The fam
! lily laughs at me and wonders what
can find to read in the homely
sheet. I don't mind; I'm visiting
my old friends and neighbors, their
children and their children'S chill
dren, gossiping with them and
learning all the news of the coun-
ty. City bred folks cannot under
stand it. I haven't lived down
there in the hills for thirty-fve
years. The majority of those who
live there now are strangers to me,
but it is home, and the old News
Herald is like weekly letter filled
with the news about the home
folks. There isn't anything else
like real country newspaper. The
alleged sophisticates and the high
brows, may think it all crude, but
we who never have become city
broke know. I read it all, ads and
everything, and when 1 find that
/ Spencer is selling ladies' jersey
bloomers for As cents that the city
stores sell for a dollar and quart
er, just grin. Things that city
fn1ly rxyn,11I,,,t inf A,,,r
thrill me. For instance, it is sig
nificent when I read that two
hundred were present at the Union
church at East Danville, because
I know the church and can Wis
ualize two-hundred honest, plain
American men, women and chill
dren who never have learned to
scott at God or religion. The or
chestra from Pricetown may hit a
sour note once in a while, but there
is spirit and friendliness there
that you cannot find in a city. The
Farm Bureau of Liberty township
met and Florence Vinegar read a
paper on THE Use of Leisure
Time" I'd like to hear that. I'd
like to know what a farmers wife
and daughters do with their leisure
time after cooking, baking, clean
ing, washing, helping with the
house and often with the cattle
ard the crops. Uric Smart got a
license to marry Bernice Stanforth
now there's neWsi I'll bet they
make go of it, and bring up a
family that will honor the county.
Right in the next column is For
ty Years Ago"-Doggone it, Has
4 it been forty years since Johnny
/ Dragoo married Ida Caldwallader ?
| wouldn't have guessed twenty
five. And is it twenty-five years
since Doc Mcbride slipped over to
Indianapolis and got himself mar
ried Remember when Doc brought
his bride back-Peach, too, and the
boys all guyed Doc. There was a
wiener roast out at Maggie Swiss
helms house near New Petersburg.
/ The whole Domestic Science crowd
went and good time was had by
all. These city folk always are
wondering what people in the
country do to entertain themselves.
Why there is more going on than
they ever would guess. The New
Petersburg correspondent reports
that forty of the neighbors, all
masked and in costumes, gave a
surprise to Dwight Cope on his
birthday. Imagine forty city folk
remembering anyone's birthday,
and coming to pay honors to him
1 get quite kick out of reading
from Plainview that Charlie New
man and Virginia Rhoads, and
Clyde Losey and Marcenia Hopkins
stole a march on their friends
went over into Kentucky and got
married. If that happened in a
city they'd have big headlines and
something about Daring Double
Elopement" and a lot of rot about
them. Lynchburg reports that c
w. Terrill is the champion corr
grower of the county, that Alvs
Gall and his wife went to the
| vaudeville show in Cincinnati, anc
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