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On Thanksgiving Day we decided
to go out to eat. We never remem-
ber having anything else for dinner
on Thanksgiving Day except turkey.
Aren't we the lucky dogs? With
only three of us home now it is
a task for our wife to prepare a
large dinner with all the trimmings,
so for the past few years we have
dined at a restaurant. We do miss
the left over pumpkin pie or part
of the cold bird for days after the
holiday, but that is not what we
want to write about. What we
want to tell you is that this year,
in dining out, we found something
else for which to be thankful.
It has been our custom, as it
has been yours, to tell each other
what we are thankful for, We were
thankful this year that we had at
least three of us home; we were
thankful for our health and that
we could still enjoy a good turkey
dinner whether it was at home or
at a restaurant; we were thankful
that all our kids were alive and
although not all with us were hav-
ing a good time with kids of their
own; we were thankful that we
have a good job and so far are
almost able to pay our debts; we
were thankful for many things too
personal to mention here, but this
year we overlooked one thing and
that was brought forcibly to our
attention as we passed the site of
Daniel Meeker’s former garage at
Beaumont when we were on our
way to Tunkhannock to dine,
You know that Mr. Meeker’s
home and place of business was
burned to the ground recently. No
insurance. Not anything execpt he
and his family and the plot of
ground where his home formerly
stood ‘was left, On the way to
Tunkhannock we noticed that quite
a croud was working at his place
with pick and shovel. We marvelled
at it, but were more interested in
our dinner so we continued on; but
on the way back we stopped and
inquired from Mr, Meeker as to
why all these persons were working
on Thanksgiving Day.
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You sit at your desk and write your checks; the
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At The Kingston National Bank the small
checking account is treated just as courteously, and
handled just as efficiently as the largest.
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“I don’t know,” replied Meeker,
“I just came out and started to
dig a ditch for a foundation toward
rebuilding my home and garage
and the first thing I knew one of
the neighbors came along with a
shovel and then more came and so
here are twenty-two of them help-
ing out—count ‘em, twenty-two.
We did.
Some were with picks, digging a
foundation ditch and they had to
hustle as two feet behind them
others were laying stones in the
fresh made mortor that others were
pouring into the ditch. One was
looking through a surveyor’s instru-
ment to see that the wall went
up straight. Two were holding a
string along the wall to help the
stone layer. The job seemed to have
no boss, everyone knew exactly
what to do. Just then a truck back-
ed in and dumped a load of sand.
“That’s twenty-three helping
you,” we remarked to Mr, Meeker.
“Yeh,” he answered, “twenty-
three or twenty-four, maybe you'll
see some more if you'll stick around
long enough, ‘scuse me, I have to
get to work.” 4
“Just one more question,” we
begged ‘Are you hiring these
people or did they volunteer their
services,”
“Money ?” asked Mr. Meeker.
“Yes,” we replied.
“Money! why you don’t under-
stand, some of my neighbors offered
me help in cash, but I'd rather have
it this way. Wouldn't your friends
help you out if you were in the
same fix?”
“Well, I guess they would, where
we live now,” we said, “but in
New York, where we came from,
if we were digging a ditch to re-
build our garage and home our
next door neighbor mayn’t even
know it was ours.”
“Gosh,” said Mr. Meeker as he
went back to work.
We turned to his son, the young
fellow from Kunkle, and remarked
what a wonderful thing it was
that neighbors helped out like this.
“Yeh,” said young Meeker.
«1d like to get their names,” we
said.
“What fcr?” he murmered.
“To print them in the paper,’
replied.
“Maybe they wouldn't like that,”
said young Meeker, “Just say that
everybody in Beaumont helped.”
We got in our car and left know-
ing we had one more thing to be
thankful for.
Thank you, God, we prayed, we
are thankful that we live in the
Back Mountain District among
neighborly friends like those good
people in Beaumont,
we
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greatest number of people.
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"YOUR HEALTH
There is a condition known as
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There are neurological, physio-
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The routine of monotony, the
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concentration.
These are followed by headache,
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The treatment of chronic house-
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Rest must be both physical and
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Prescribing rest depends on the
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From Five to Ten”, have given us
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Taking mother out to dinner
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4x, Barnyard Notes
There ain’t much happened since the last writin’.
: Except I am sittin’ at the kitchen table Monday night eatin’ a
late snack and listenin’ to the sleet on the tin roof, when in walks
Myra in her stockin’ feet holdin’ a handkerchief to her nose like
she has another nose bleed and makes preparations to close up for
the night. *
She gathers up the evenin’ paper, puts the cat out and is all the
time holdin’ her breath and not sayin’ a word, serious like, when
I says: “Gee, you're havin’ too many of those lately,” her havin’
a nose bleed Sunday mornin’.
“I have no nose bleed,” says she sharp like, “it’s that Limburg
cheese you're eatin’. I can step in it,” she says, “but I can’t eat
3%”
That retort sorta makes me feel humble,
folks’ sensitive nostrils.
A while back when we had kittens in the cellar—against my
wishes, because the old cat will persist in usin’ the fresh loam in
the greenhouse benches for her own private purposes, I could've
kept the cheese in the cellar with no one of the women folks bein”
Ever since Dewey Edwards took his horses out of the
barn and the Auction has taken over, that is a poor domicile for d !
cheese cause it does need a bit of sweat and ammonia to hide it |
any wiser.
from sniffers geared to Chanel No. 5.
For a while I thought the skunk might be some help; but he has
gone where ‘the woodbine twineth since we bought the last batch
of cheese from Ralph Dixon.
So I says, defendin’ my position, “Limburger cheese is very good
for the stomach—you needn’t hold your nose—and has medicinal
properties and probably would be a lot better for you than those
last hundred vitamin pills you bought from Shel Evans for $4.86.”
And to prove I'm right about the proper name for this delightful
food, I goes into the front room and looks up “Lim” then “burg” in
the dictionary and for the love of heaven Webster has it—Myra’s
way—and Funk & Wagnalls
neglect
they not bein’ gourmets.
Most folks that don’t like Limburg have never tasted it and won't
because they have very nasty minds and their imaginations wouldn’t
let them enjoy it if they did eat it; but people with wholesome minds
or no minds at all can eat it and enjoy it.
Still Myra continues to carry on with that handkerchief up to
her nose and complains about the awful smell in the kitchen perforce
expectin’ me to go out on the back steps and eat in the sleet. “Why,
“This ain’t Limburg
cheese,” I says, “It's Limburger—just look in your dictionary, you
bein’ an old school maam.” She and her mother are always makin’
cracks about one of man’s most delicious foods which in our house
is kept in winter in an old sugar can on the back porch and in
summer mostly in the barn or elsewhere out of range of the women-
to mention
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it altogether
even the dog won't eat it,” says she with a final fling of her kimona. “.
And there is “Buck” sittin’ right beside me;
some—and he relishes it.
“Buck does too, eat it,” says I givin’ him a very friendly and com-
fortable pat on the head.
“Yes, association will do a lot.
So you can’t win.
a tightly closed tin can.
CONFIDENTIAL NOTE TO HUSBANDS
A woman, good sirs, doesn’t ask for a lot
Or expect to be always adored,
But she wants at the least to be noticed, and not,
As soon as she’s marnied, ignored.
It isn’t your face, or your flatness of purse,
That leaves her, in time, disenchanted.
She knows she was taken for better or worse,
But she will not be taken for granted!
so I hands
He's sunk to your level.”
Where can a man eat Limburg in the winter
time without bein’ insulted. The flavor is ruined when it's kept in
Maybe it could be buried in the garden
without some one complainin’, but then there’s the frést to bother;
and diggin’ for cheese in the winter does seem a little bit undignified!
him
po
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Richard Armour
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