Show SHOES LAST THIRTY YEARS not nearly worn out says the proud owner darby pa shoemakers would starve if all shoes were like the pair that robert green of main street has abeen wearing tor 30 years and which be had made from the skin of a calf that he killed it was the finest calf I 1 had ever seen aa a butcher said green only nine weeks old and yet it weighed pounds harry F singles and I 1 associated in the butcher business at the time and when we bought the calf for 12 we determined to kill it and make two pairs of boots and two pairs of shoes each out of the hide which was the finest we had ever seen you coulden couldn t kill a calf 30 years ago in the morning and have the skin converted into shoes by nightfall for there were no chemical processes then as now the skin had to be oak tanned and it was 13 months before we got our skin from the tanner it weighed 35 pounds green and only 11 pounds tanned but it was a beauty we gave the skin to a boot maker and we each got a pair of boots and a pair of shoes out of his hide we were considered dandles with our calf eken boots and shoes in those days and we often boasted of having killed the original owner of the skin from we made our footwear 1 I wore out the boots but I 1 have been wearing the shoes now for 30 years not constantly but giving them good service and there Is many years service in them yet the shoe cost me four dollars to have made |