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Job Hadsell Has Operated Store
In Same Location For 51 Years
When you run a country store
long enough in a rural community,
you know the best and the worst
of everybody. If you grow more and
more tolerant with folks, instead of
becoming annoyed with their vag-
aries, you become eventually the
heart of the community, with its
joys and sorrows brought to your
doorstep.
That's the way it is with Job
Hadsell. For fifty-one years he has
been in the general store business
in Beaumont, with two years ad-
ditional in LaGrange when he was a
young man, fresh from two years of
school teaching.
The school teaching experience
brought up some reminiscenses
which have a bearing upon present.
day modes of thought and trends
in education.
Mr. Hadsell cut a wedge of black
skinned cheese and laid it on the
scales, while he pursued his train
of thought. Then he wrapped it and
marked 65 cents on the paper, but
not before we had broken off a
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crumb and eaten it hungrily. Mr.
Hadsell has the best black-skinned
cheese anywhere hereabouts, or
maybe it just tastes better because
he cuts it and wraps it. Same way
with his eggs. Maybe they are no
larger or browner than anybody
else's eggs, but they always seem
a bit fresher, their mat surface a
little rosier, their yolks a little
richer.
Mr. Hadsell agreed that it was
pretty good cheese. Then he went
on to say that he sometimes
thought children nowadays didn’t
leave school as well prepared for
real life as they used to when they
graduated from the one-room school
house.
After all, he said, it is the
teachers who make the school,and
a teacher who can inspire a child
will inspire it, whether the instruct-
ion is given in a one-room school, a
twenty-room school or on a stump
in the pine woods.
We quoted the current thought
that it was bad for children not to
be kept in their own age group.
That, said Mr. Hadsall, always
struck him as an odd conclusion.
Children, he went on, are normally
in a mixed age group. A normal
family does not consist entirely of
four-year olds, or ten-year olds, or
eighteen year olds. If it did, nobody
would ever learn anything. You
have to have something to reach
for if you are to grow.
In the old schools, he reflected,
the younger students absorbed
something from the older ones,
not because they particularly
wanted to, but because recitations
were. going on all about them.
When a child reached the age where
he studied fractions, fractions were
no mystery to him because he had
been exposed to them subcon-
sciously ever since he read his first
primer. :
Sometimes , he said, the schools
had rough characters in them, big
boys who were not going to learn
anything and dared the teacher to
teach them. He recalls that one of
these kept a ‘“chaw” of tobacco in
his cheek,and when he got too full
for words, he would spit on the
floor. The teacher warned him, and
the next time he disciplined him,
and from that time forward there
was no more tobacco and no more
trouble. The smaller children took
mental notes, and it was a very
peaceful year with everybody buck-
ling down to business and turning
in good examinations.
Mr. Hadsall carries on his Justice
of the Peace activities from the
same roll-top desk where he makes
out his invoices and renders his
bills. He has been a Justice for
more than twenty years,but he
always tries to talk people out of
going to law if it is possible, show-
ing them that nobody gains by a
lawsuit. When it is a question of a
traffic violation, he has no choice.
The offender has to be fined, or
jailed, or both, and a report sent
to Harrisburg.
He has had a good many public
offices, so many in fact that he has
lost track of them. They include
Town Clerk, County Commissioner,
and Treasurer of Monroe Township.
And he was Superintendent of the
Union Sunday School in Beaumont
for a long time, resigning the post
ten years ago.
Mr. Hadsall has a big apple
orchard on the old homestead
where his wife, the former Emma
Richards, was born and raised.
There are about a thousand trees,
some going, some coming, some
maturing, and it looks like a pretty
fair crop this year. Mr. Hadsall’s
son Wayne handles the orchard
from spraying to marketing. There
are some dairy cows, too, with milk
going to Harter’s Dairy through
Butch Smith.
How about bugs? Are they worse
now than. they used to be? We
wanted to know.
Well, they are and they aren’t,
was the answer to that.
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THE POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1951
Over in LeGrange, where young
Hadsall was brought up and where
Uncle Ben Hall had an apple or-
chard, there used to be a plague of
green measuring worms that moved
into the riverside orchards every
spring at high-water time and made
lacework of every leaf on the trees
unless discouraged with Paris
Green. You don’t see those worms
anymore, he said, but you have to
spray several times a year for
other things.
An apple orchard, he says, just
about supports itself, and the farm
pays its own expenses, but that is
about all you can expect these days.
Mrs. Hadsall has always been as
much interested in the store as
her husband. Sometimes it is Mrs.
Hadsell who weighs out bananas
and the black-skin cheese and
counts out the brown eggs while
Mr. Hadsell estimates a customer’s
size in trems of blue denim over-
alls, or passes the time of day with
himself.
Gale Clark, a neighboring farmer
who knows as much about prices
in the store as Mr. Hadsell does
And young Mrs. Wayne Hadsall,
attractive mother of six small chil-
dren ,opens the case to weigh out a
pound of sliced ham. The store is
a family affair as well as the heart
of the neighborhood.
The store was not always in its
present location. When Mr. Hadsell
and his young wife first came to
Beaumont, the store was in Sol Mc
Connell’s place, with the Grand
Army of the Republic Hall on the
second floor. Sol was an old soldier,
veteran of the Civil War. Mr, Had-
sall remembers a big pole raising
there, with flag raising ceremonies.
This building burned down, its
cellar walls are still visible. The
present building had been vacant
for perhaps a year when Mr. Had-
took it over, but it had been used
as a store long before, under man-
agement of Alpha Cook.James Sco-
ville had also had a general store
business there.
Since 1910 it has been Hadsall’s
place. The editor of The Dallas Post
holds as one of his pleasant mem-
ories making the rounds of the
country stores with his father,
Walter Risley, who sold drygoods
and notions all over northeastern
Pennsylvania. It was Job Hadsall’s
store where he particularly enjoyed
stopping recognizing in this mild
mannered and courteously spoken
man a depth of strength and integ-
rity which is the heritage of Amer-
ica.
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