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Show "I REMEMBER"! BY THE OLD TIMERS From Mrs. Bertha Steward Ladd, Terre Haute, Indiana: Many, I am sure remember the song about "Grandfather's Clock" bought on the morn of the day he was born, etc. My grandfather, the late LaFay-ette LaFay-ette Steward, resided In Sullivan and owned one of these clocks; there was another clock In the Masonic Hall (of which he was a charter member) and he had another an-other identical clock in his home, which was "to large for the shelf." Each of the three clocks were identically alike and truthfully stopped in the three places "when the old man died." It is a walnut Seth Thomas clock, with big dials, rollers on the face, one showing the month, another the day of the week and around the face figures showing the day of the month. This song, "Grandfather's Clock" always had a fascination for me, in my youth, and my rral grandfather grand-father prized these clocks, as I am now passing it on to my great, great grandchildren, hoping it will furnish them a personal reason for cherishing the song as it did for me. I still have the clock which my grandfather had in his own home ... no money could buy it, for it is truly a relic of bygone days. From Mrs. George B. Brown, Tyman, Texas: I remember when we bought fresh meat from a peddler ped-dler who butchered it himself and sold it door-to-door. He used a buggy or a wagon. In those days, people expected to live their lifetime with their own teeth and all of their "innards." The diseases were measles, whooping whoop-ing cough, pelegra, and typhoid. (Send contribution to thli column to Th Old Timer, Community Presi Service, Serv-ice, Bex UK, Frtokfort, Kentucky.) |