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Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Nov 1921, p. 6

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THE mm SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER U, 1921 FOUND HOME PAPER IN HEART OF THE ROCKIES And Through It Peddler Learned That Family Ht Had Known for Flf- teen Years Were Hlo Relatives. "Publishing a country newspaper re- minds me of tossing a pebble into the ocean. We never know how far the circles which It sets in motion will reach," said WUlltson Manley, publish- er of The Plaindealer of Canton, N. Y., the other day, in speaking of "Sub- scribe for Your Home Town Paper Week," which is to be observed the country over the week of November 7-12. "I had a good reminder of this not long ago," he went on. "One day there appeared in the Plaindealer office a short, stubby, ro- bust man of probably sixty. I knew the minute I saw him that he had ^corae in from the big outdoors in some section. He told me that he had taken _ the paper for muny years, probab forty, ever since he had left Canton, where he was born. He told me where I would find the paper going, and I found it. His post office was In a little town way out In the Hockles. He said he had come back to the old town to live. He paid what he owed and a year over for good measure, and then ho sat down and I knew something was coming. * Forty Yeara In the Mountains. •••Say,' said he, 'newspapers are great things. You can never tell what they are going to do for you. I have been u peddler out in the mountains for forty years, making my trips, me and the little burro, about once in six months. There were a lot of lonn jumps between bouses. For fifteen years I had been going out of my trail, about five miles to one side, to sell to a family that had moved In. You get rather well acquainted w people/ifyou see them once in months for that long, so when I got there one afternoon and didn't find anyone homeâ€"Just the door unlocked. as all doors were thereâ€"I went in and made myself comfortable, and when supper time came I didn't hesitate about hunting around for grub. And while I was doing it I found a copy of the Plaindealer on the kitchen shelf, and one or two" more around the houseâ€"the Plaindealer, mind you, the paper I was taking right from the old home town! And I wondered who these fifteen-year-old friends of mine were. I suddenly realized we hud never talked over our pedigrees any. "'When the family tfot home that evening I asked questions, and what â€"doâ€"you â€"Hrtnk?â€"that wife was a-sort of grandnlece of mine. She hadn't heard of her old uncle off stubbing around in the rocks of the Rockies, and I hadn't ever heard that any- one related to me had ever mar rled and was out there living under another name. Your paper Introduced us to each other. I just thought yoi might like to know about it.'" Mqjestic Underinotind Gaitaa^Meceivar mm \ inmai «â-  a* g« t» ta. h OAIBAGI RECEIVE* rV fW J; ur UB MOW YOU Angert Wire and Iron Works Pbone Enf lewood 7498 6024-32 Grove Avenu* â€"=r.' CHICAGO Our Toy Department- is now displaying its Christmas Lineâ€"including practically r every kind of toy that may be procured on the American market. This Department has been greatly enlarged and now occupies much larger floor space than ever before. Visit this largest toy store between Chicago and Mllwau- ^^eir^nd see this interesting and complete displayâ€"and shop early. Dolls Games Of every kindâ€"doll beds and other furniture, doll clothes and other doll accessories. This department is as complete as we can make it. "Quarter- back" and other popular games Winding Toys The very newest mechanical toys and novelties of all sorts. ~ Wooden Toys We are displaying an interesting variety including many brand new wooden toysâ€"all of the highest grade manufactured. are here as well as the old favor- ites including crokinole and other game boards. Wagons tricycles, bicycles, kiddie kars, auto wagons and dozens of other wheeled toysâ€"the largest line we have ever had. Sleds And skates, skids and other win- ter toys. Also sweaters and caps for boys and girls. Toys Other Toys Drums,Jiorns^Dianos and other minature musical instruments. â- â- ""wr**!.. Tinkertoys, Chemchraft, Shoo- flies, blackboards, sewiifg mach- ines, electric trains and a large jist of other toys*â€" -â€"-â€" ^ -------------------------E v -â€"-------------------------------:--------------------------------------------------:---------------------------------------' • . '. â-  ' ' * Do your Christmas shopping now and you will avoid the rush and will get what you want.

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