Show Help Fight T TB Buy Christmas Seals The Old An unidentified old timer who signs himself as the Old slipped the following column under our door If you enjoy his jottings forth do let us know that we may beable be be- beable beable able to contact him and let him know that we want more of the same Dear Mr Editor As our town Is on new new- and added responsibilities with been Id I'd like to help new folks movin In with Us I Ithem Ithem Ithem them folks git better acquainted with us and our town and to re refresh refresh re- re fresh the tie minds of them that has been around with us for tor aspell a ill aspell spell and then there is a oa few ofus of ofus ofus us us' been here hare 40 years or more yeah even some that corned corn com ed here In 1881 or shortly after like W W. R. R McConkle McConkie at the bank and Glen Carlson Carison a new comer corner So Im I'm hopin you can find room In your Our paper for my Jetter letter let Jet etter ter and df you think It lt ud be red redI I mean read re-ad i 1 could send Lend you one one- maybe each week Id I'd like It tobe tobe to tobe be sorta I 1 I remember r when Ie let let let- ter Folks sure do like to td toreo re- re when about other folks I 1 that there aint many that can remember a when we- we used our main street for horse racing Yes siree and the folks could sit under them there grand old trees that used to line these hese here same streets from the Hurley corner just north of ferns fern's Cafe to the school Gee whiz them trees made a regular tunnel all th way Now them same streets is lined with cars ars' ars arsand and more cars From such places as Texas Colorado Colo Cob rado California Oklahoma Nebraska Ne Ne- braska Lake City and land there just l aint no place to sit what's sh shady dy course you Ou wont won't remember them th things Mr Editor ca cause use your new here but I can remember a when there was wasa a a bakery and a beauty shop In the Che Peterson Please Please Turn to Page Five FIve FIve- The The Old From Page 1 where now we have trucks bring bring- In In bread engineers lawyers and mining equipment people n In them 1 i also hav hay hered the other day V we are golno to o git a new store the in the other soon then I loan can remember when all we hadin had hac hadIn In n the store line was the Co Coop op Petersons and Cooper Martins Cooper Martins now we got 4 little neighborhood stores and a big new one built on Center st. st and Fears and Edgars Edgar's and Mrs Petersons Some body wa war tellin me we got 4 churches here the Baptists the Seventh Day ay Adventists and th the Catholic of churches 1 I red red in a paper aper that all the stores tn to a little town down south some wheres res in Tex had Jon on the doors doOl'S Go to church Sund Sunday y cause that's where there you all aN b belong long Most of us folks is C E church churchgoers churchgoers goers pers Christmas and Easter I aim adm to git out on Christmas Remember Remember when there was only one school house fur the kids now there is 2 and a abig hall fui fut the shop kids and the library Y where some some kids have hav to study and they say that kids have hav e to o attend some classes in th the e kitchen halls and the like guess guess we will hav hay a ne new w school t. t lg ti il only go goone goone got tn t one literary club its sur n on In years 56 to be and there Is 56 or more more members II I recollect there aint ro po need fu fur r another literary club dub just I jest cant say that them th the e good old days c cause use these here her days are party good fur fu most of our folks falks here It aln ain affected me one ways or another fit only when i got to go o down dow downtown downtown n town Im I'm durne-d durne If I aint a aE E manger tanger in our town but I fu fur furone furl r one am all the folks from other countries amongst ur and hope hop that you like Ike us and lIf if you dont dent like dike what we do or do just lust gut gilt in touch with the Chamber of Commerce and tell them cause one o otheir ol of f their jobs or tell the church folks or the clubs or the city cHy dads orthe or orthe orthe the Lions club or me when you youse se see me on the st and we will git behind you and the suggestion suggest ion that you have and make m-ake our town one to b be looked crooked up to cause you folks is a apart part of of us now and our town bs your town I recollect that God is lookin on and sayin to all aU is well in inthe n the land of Moab I 1 better be gitten on Mr Editor and If you want me I can stop by next week and 0 O 1 forgot to say I remember when we had 2 weakly papers here The Grand Valley Times and the Independent Independent In dependent but but things got so bad hat Chat one bot hot out the other and hats Chats Where we got the Times Independent Independent but 1 J always al al- always ways figured it aughta been the Times Independent so long The Old |