Milford chronicle., 1937-07-09
NEW WRITER FOR THIS PAPER
THIS 20 SERRA-WH0 Is HEl
10, HIMSELF, TELLS US

The Chronicle with this issue be-
gins publication of brand new
weekly feature, "The Low Down
from Hickory Grove" by 10 Sierra.
We have been looking 10 over the
last few weeks and like the way he
says things and believe our readers
will thank us for the privilege of
reading JOS homely philosophy, even
If they might not always agree with
him.
We asked JO to tell us something
about his own history or record or
whatever he might call it, and he
sent us the following:
1.-The boss says to me, 10, he says,
maybe somebody will happen to
have a little time on their hands.
and will pick up the paper and may
be read one of your writings so it
might not be a bad idea If we told
'em something about where you
come from and who you are and
why, and etc. So says sure. I'll tell
you everything. l like to please peo-
pie, so If the boss or anybody else
wants to read what I'm goin' to say,
why, doggone, I'll feel good about it..
81 reckon, I'd ought to kinda
start in and tell you where | vas
born, so I'll tell you. l was raised
there on a farm in lllinois-wore
boots and waded mud to Hickory
Grove school in the winter time and
had a slick time all summer gOin'
barefooted.
"Anj thep when / got up around
Is or so, my father and mother.
they says, maybe we'd better get
this here sapling into town and get
him used to the street cars. And they
did. But gee whiz, you don't learn
anything listenin' to street cars AMI
never will, so all I know now is what
7 learned before I was Is.
well, after awhile l mosied out
there through Texas and California
and then to Kansas. and before |
woke I'D, | was married to one of
those gals out there in Topeka. Then
7 had to'really go to work. You know
though. | gotta admit that l wouldn't
even have got to first base If 1t
hadn't been for this here gal. Here's
how II happened. I got to scribblin'
stuff around on the backs of enve-
Iopes and places, and one day the
Mrs. she picked up one of these
goofy things AMI didn't have any
thing else to do. so she run 'er off
on the typewriter. Mrs. 10 is slick
typist. and also a slick cook, too.
"WeII. this stuff she copied got
printed some place. somehow or
other and then she hunted up an
other old envelope with my writin'
on, and copied II too. That's how this
stuff got started. So. any headway
I've made. well, the credit belongs |
TO this here Kansas gal. Any guy |
that wants to write. all he's gotta do,
is lust get himself wife who's
steno and can read writin' that you
can't read yourself after it's cold,
and you are all set.
"Now, since you all know every
hing about me. I'd be plumb tick!ed
10 have you all write and tell me
about yourself too. just like / been
.eIIin' everything about my own self.
But before I finish up, want to tell
you about my politics. My mother
,he was one of these here Republi-
,ans Just like my grandfather, and
nv father he was from Indiana, SO
II course he was a hurnt-in-the-cork
Then. this gal that I mar
led out there in Topeka, and 1 still
lave her. and two boys too and
Iaughter-in-law. this gal was a Pop
list.
$50 I'm kind of a merger or
omething or a blend maybe-kind
Z a Observation-Disclosures
ybrid, as you might say. So II any ,
4 you can figure out what my poli-
les might be, I wish you'd write me |
bout that too. cause I'm kinda up
tree myself.
"Yours, with the low-down,
40 SIERRA"
P. S.-If our readers enjoy Jos" '
'ritings, we would appreciate their '
Editor. ,