Show centennial NEWS THE CALF PATH one day through the primeval I 1 wood A calf walked home as good calves should B but ut in made a de a trail all bent askew A crooked trail as all calves do since then three hundred years have fled and I 1 infer the calf is dead but still he be left behind his trail and thereby hangs my moral tale the trail was taken up next day by EL a lone dog that passed that way and then a wise bell we welder aler sheep pursued the trail oer vale and ste steep e p and drew the flock behind hini him too As goodwell good well always do and from that lay day oer hill and glade through those old woods a path was made and many men wound in and out and dodged and turned and bent about and ut uttered words of righteous wrath because such a crooked path but still they followed do not laugh the first mig migrations rations of that calf and through this winding wood way stalked because he wobbled when he be walked this forest path became a lane that bent and turned and turned again this choked lane became a road where many a poor horse with his load toiled on beneath the burning sun and travelled some three miles in one and thus a century centary and a half they trod the footsteps of that calf the years passed on in swiftness fleet th the road became a street and this before men were aware A cites crowded thoroughfare and soon the central street was this of a renowned ned metropolis and men two centuries and a half trod in the footsteps of that calf each day a hundred thousand rout followed this zigzag zig zag calf about and oer his choked journey went the traffic of a continent A hundred thousand men were I 1 led ed by one calf near three centuries dead they followed still his crooked way and lost one hundred years a day for thus such reverence is lent to well established precedent precede nL A moral lesson lesso n this might teach were I 1 ordained and called to preach for or men are prone pron e to go i it t b blind li n d along the calf pat paths hs olgo of the th e n mind i n d and work away from sun to sun to do what other men have done don they follow in the beaten track trac k and out and in an and d forehand fort forth hand and back and still their devious course pursue to keep the path that others do but how the wise old wood gods laugh who saw the first primeval calf ah many things this tale might teach but I 1 am not ordained to preach this poetic narrative was written by sam walter foss and is ex preside of all of us in our efforts to progress if it does nothing more than awaken us to the fact that everything we do requires careful thought consideration and long range planning then it has accomplished its purpose our new years resolutions should include a resolution to cleanup clean up paint up and fix up our surroundings so that our neighbors will follow our example and their neighbors will then fall in line and in no time there will be a marked improvement in our community this centennial year promises to brint bring thousands of visitors into our state remember morgan county is one of the first that the visitors from the east will pass through lets try to make a lasting and final impression upon the trev ellers who pass through morgan by having our town and community cleaned up painted up and fixed up |