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HEfif L y JOURNAL OF CHEERFUL COMMENT
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, MAY 26. 1911
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THE LITTLE WEEKLY PAPER
FROM THE OLD HOME TOWN
Wtfi fie Writer's Best Wishes for "Deacon" David P. Dobyns,
for Nearly Forty Years Editor of The Sentinel at Oregon, Mo.
It's just like getting a letter from home,
This little old sheet from the town I was
born in ;
A message of cheer wherever I roam
That says to me weekly "Th' top o th
mornin' !"
It brings to vision a picture complete
Of streets and of nooks and of cool, shady
places ; -From
out of its pages it seems that I meet
The smile and the cheer of the old friendly
faces.
It's not a journal of national fame,
This six-column sheet from the town of my
boyhood;
But week after week I long, just the same,
To have it bring back to me scenes of youth's
joyhood.
Right there is the name of of an old school chum
Who with me has wandered the miles without
number.
Ah, where are the others? Some lips are long
dumb, '
'And under the blossoms of springtime they
slumber.
Those friends of boyhood like me they've
grown old,
And like me have wandered the earth's further
places. ll
And wouldn't we give of silver and gold
To smile once again into each other's faces?
Each time I get it and scan every line
It seems when I'm done like I'd just spent a
week in
The presence of those dear old friends of mine,
The chums of my boyhood, and Tom and the
"Deacon." . :
I hear once again the clang of the press,
And memory brings back the days long de
parted; Days when I knew naught of sorrow and stress
A boy in the old town, carefree and light
hearted. -
-.-.: v,;-"..: - ; -; . I
They may have bigger, and better, perhaps,.
Than -these little sheets from the towns we
were born in;
But none of them pleases us wandering chaps
Like papers from home with their "Top o' th'
mornin' !" - -"' - '.
And week after week we eagerly look
For names of the friends of the days long be
hind us
An hour a week in some cool, quiet nook.:
With the welcome old sheet to of old days re
mind us.
-From The Commoner.
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