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Show oo HITCHING PCST IS FAST FADING AWAY You ask what has become of the i hitching post, the carriage stepi-lnc I stone In front of the big while farmhouse, farm-house, the livery stable and the black ! smith shop They're sone the srag of the good old days." the spinning " wheel the .mdirous and the bootjack The motor car has relegated them , to the dav of fond memory days we Isometimes like to recall, bul days we A could neer think of going back to In place of the hitching pot and Hie carriage stepping stone has come J SH the gasoline flllinK station. In place , I of the liver stable has come the mod , I ,mi -.uage. and the old-fashioned II roadside smithy has been turned into b modern automobile repair shop. I i He motor car has brought man' I Changes, bul with the changes has come prosperity. The foundrv that SgJ once turned out ornamental hitching po i with a horses head or a little iron negro Jockey patiently waiting to hold old Dobbin s reins, is manu- WM racturlng automobile part3. Where one molder was employed making hiichiug posts a hundred are now mold hi k crank cases and rear axle jJH housings The pattern maker who once designed Iron hitching post Jock g eys with forms that would shame e nus de Mllo is now making differcn gJH Hals transmission gears or 'rank shafts. The liveryman who sold bis old IH broken down nags and started a gar- age la making more money than h ever dreamed was In the livery bus! H |