Show OLD LANDMARK fARK L INSTITUTIONS PASS An n institution that seems to hav have vanished from D Delta Ita andall and andall all other small towns is the Uthe sit around the stove club the gr great t indoor amusement of spit and argue Back in all little primitive towns in their beginning the groc grocery ry had a stove in it a cracker box a broken down chair and a little circle of lazy talkative loungers nightly who ared argued ar- ar gued ed weighty problems with great gusto but little brains Every Every Ev- Ev ery topic was considered no matter how hefty and opinions given as as easily as the editor of the New York York- Sun would have written them Today they are gone Were We're moving too fast We haven't the time there was in those old days when evenings evenings even even- ings were given for chatter only Now there is too much demand demand de- de mand on our time The evenings are full the days are full there are the movies for amusement parties for entertainment and som something thing going on all the time But in the beginning of the little towns there was a woeful dearth of interesting things for one to occupy with and hence the real need of the spit and argue club The old time gatherings of a half generation ago in such towns as Delta were in the nature of an open forum a c clearing clear clear- earing ear ear- ing house for all kinds of g gossip news and tales Many a jury trial rehearsed and evIdence again weighed and presented to an eager audience maybe a court decision was reversed in which case the person with so much acumen clothed himself with a great air of superiority in those nightly meetings The I 1 told you so club recruited another mem- mem ber were generally made with a deal of emphasis sis on absentees and sometimes with language punctuated with a precision of aim of a jet of tobacco juice that was un- un canny In the words of Herbert Spencer it betokened an ill ill- spent youth to arrive at such proficiency The failure of any body quickly received attention with much Now Id I'd a done Community progress was received with many a jolting knock with the usual complaint a litle clique is things Nothing was hit but the spit box I |